Nowhere in the Bible can you find where Jesus rejected someone. Oh, there were those who rejected Him. Nowhere in the Bible can you say He refused someone. Well, wait a minute. What about the Syrophoenician woman that He refused? Well, just read the rest of the Scripture. When she worshiped Him, He said, “Woman, great is your faith. So be it done unto you.” And her little demon-possessed daughter was healed.
Never in the Bible can you find where He refused. Oh, you can find instances of people refusing Him. Never can you find where Jesus did not receive someone. Oh, you can find people who didn’t receive Him, but Jesus is in the receiving business. He receives us just like we are. He loves us just like we are, but He loves us even more than that, to help us not to stay the way we are but to get better in His name.
He was moved with compassion and He healed their sick. That’s why we’re on television with Something Good Tonight The Hour Of Healing, because it’s your hour, it’s your hour of healing. Lindsay honey, where are you? Come back here and join me, sweetheart. You and I have made a commitment to God that we are going to pray for the sick every night Monday through Friday night.
LR: That’s right.
RR: on live television.
LR: Did you live to the testimony of that man that was talking about seeing that little placard that said I Am The Healed Of The Lord?
RR: Oh, yeah. I saw that little placard right there. Do you remember how that placard came about?
LR: That placard came about several years ago by a young ORU student, a girl that we had known from New Orleans, Louisiana, watched her grow up from really a little child in Charles Green’s church. Her hope and dream was to come to ORU. Came to ORU, was one of our chaplains. Everything was really quite glorious in her life until one day she started having a strange, irregular heartbeat, and then her heart would stop altogether. And then it would start up.
And they took her to doctor after doctor, and they finally just said basically, “She needs open-heart surgery, needs to fly to Houston,” and one story after another. Well, as it turns out, her parents were brought here. This whole thing was emergency. And I didn’t I was able to run down, track down her mom while her mom was racing in between one hospital visit and another. We kept missing each other.
So I went to the hotel where she was staying, and I just wrote her a little note. And I said, “Don’t call her by her first name anymore. Don’t call her Amy” and her whole name. I said, “Call her Amy comma, the healed of the Lord.” And I said, “From this moment on, you never refer to her anymore as Amy without saying she is Amy, the healed of the Lord.” And that’s how that began.