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A miracle happened and it happened to you: Jesus was passing by and made you whole. All those wonderful stories you had heard about present-day healings when cripples received deliverance, the blind saw, the cancerous tumour disappeared and you had not known at that time, whether to believe them or not - and now, God's supernatural power reached to your street, the shadow of Jesus fell on your own doorstep, and the virtues of heaven surged through your body.

While still in thrill and wonderment, your first thought that emerges amidst the jubilation is the question: "Is this really for good? Can I keep it forever? Is there some kind of instruction book in the parcel which would usually accompany all expensive items bought in shops? How long is the guarantee for and what are the conditions?"

I could offer you a set of general instructions. They are all good and very scriptural, though not very specific and to churchgoers they appear somewhat threadbare:

"Resist the devil,

Abide in Jesus,

Stand on the Word of God,

Do not live by sight but by faith,

Pray without ceasing, praise God,

Proclaim your testimony. " Etc., etc.

All these phrases express true principles of victory and are all basic ingredients for the life of a believer; but by much usage, they sound like platitudes to our ears. No doubt, the fault lies in our human nature that, if left to its own, soon develops a resistance, a kind of immunity against often heard exhortations. So rather than use the common approach, let us highlight the crucial points from different angles and spell out plainly the rules of-shall we say-"spiritual maintenance" of received miracles. Life and death, joy and agony, victory and tragedy are in the balance. So our objective must be decisive and our commitment absolute.

Rule No. 1:

Practice The Idea Of Permanency.

To understand the Full Gospel, one must know the enduring nature of God's salvation. And then, closely linked with this, we must know that although God's gifts are intended for permanent keeping, they remain conditional right through until the Day of the Lord. How can the permanent be possibly not permanent? This seems to be a paradox. Let us look at the greatest event: our salvation. We are not saved unconditionally but so long as we remain on the straight and narrow road, we are saved eternally. Now as regards to healing this principle is similar. Our healing is not guaranteed unconditionally, but so long as we remain in the faith which was initially present and caused the Lord to accept our person and heal us, our deliverance stays assured and lasts to the end of our life.

There is a significant, small point we must not overlook. The Bible says we are saved by faith. Every Christian knows this. What many Christians may overlook is this verse: "For we are saved by hope. . . " (Romans 8:24).Both Bible statements, of course, are correct - although they may seem contradictory. Faith is an action of the spirit in the now but hope is directed towards tomorrow. We reach out by faith and possess the promises right this very moment. Today is ours, tomorrow belongs to God; we cannot obtain things for tomorrow if the future is not given over to us. Yet we know very well that the Lord of today will remain faithful and will not change regardless of how many millions of years will pass.

What exactly should we hope for? We hope, that is, look forward patiently to our final redemption out of this corruption. Our hope mainly should concentrate on God's continued willingness to protect us and to save us from the devil and from our former self. God is not a machine; He is a wonderful Person but cannot be taken for granted. There is a certain well-defined code of conduct to be observed, and this obligation does not allow us to relapse into slothfulness. Our faith for the present and our hope for the future keep us in a state of readiness. This is a kind of wholesome fear, a refreshing godly fear that keeps us on our tiptoes of alertness and gives the extra incentive to maintain our spiritual armoury in sparkling condition.

In the sporting season during the time of competitions, all keen participants stay in constant fitness with carefully planned training programs. The worst thing they can do is to go away for a long-term vacation where lazy habits arise and their bodies soon lose fitness to win races. To believe the doctrine "once saved - always saved" is like going away on an extended vacation from duties and responsibilities. To believe that irrespective of our conduct, our place in heaven is secured, lulls a person into a state of false security where he becomes an easy target to the Tempter. Similarly, to think that once healed a person will always stay healed whether or not the life of faith is being cultivated and carefully maintained, is like saying good-bye in mid-term to all obligations and basking in the sunshine on an island of the South Pacific Ocean. This can never work out well in the life of the Spirit. If we "sow to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, " (Gal. 6:8).

It may never even come as far as the reaping time. Anything can happen when we continue to slumber and sleep and when we let down our guard. In the recent tragic events on the island of Grenada some holiday makers found themselves in an inferno of burning buildings and exploding shells coming from the Cuban bunkers and from the United States fighter planes and helicopters.

Just before this time, a similar war with horrible blood-bath had erupted on another favoured vacation resort, on the opposite side of the globe. In Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, many tourists, mostly British, were booked in the luxury hotels and spent their days lazily on the resplendent seashores. All at once, violence flared up around them and many were killed and injured, others were thrown into refugee camps with starving, poverty-stricken natives. These tourists, living for their pleasures, became totally oblivious to the gathering storm of the civil war.

Life teaches us to remain alert and vigilant in all circumstances. Having understood this important point, we can now practice the thought of God's enduring promises. His mercies endure forever, His Word endures forever, His love endures forever, His promises are in Christ Jesus, yea and amen! God's gifts are for permanent keeping. Jesus is not - what people call - "Indian giver" who gives and then takes back again. Permanency is the result of faith in God's unchanging character. To develop such faith one must take time to meditate on the unshakable and unchangeable facts of God's promises. By faith we are anchored to the Rock of our salvation, to the fixed point in this shifting world, and to the foundation of an everlasting happiness. We are also offered an abundant earthly life with an unfailing divine health as a free gift if we can believe enough to receive it.

Rule No. 2:

Instead of negative anticipation, believe for more.

It was only yesterday when you were saved, just a day ago you received your healing or were freed from tormenting demons. Yesterday you were still a sinner living in Satan's dark domain; you lived in fear, were racked by pain and were ignorant of the atoning blood of God's Son, Jesus Christ. A man of God, filled with the Holy Ghost has transmitted healing virtue to your body or perhaps the church elders prayed for you and then suddenly you were delivered. You were dancing and shouting praises to God. The bells of heaven were ringing in your heart and even the flowers became brighter coloured and the sky appeared of deeper hue. But now it is another day and you are asking yourself, is this dream-like condition going to continue or will the stark realities of the grey morning light burst the euphoria asunder?

HOLD FAST, says the Bible (Heb. 10:23) and the happiness is going to continue. You are going to get even more thrill, more strength, more liberty. You will know more as God's marvelous light shall illuminate more truths of His Kingdom until you will not only be a recipient but a dispenser of God's power. Yes, the Lord wants more for us than only to experience His supernatural strength in our body. He wants all His children to become ministers of His gifts thereby extending His healing virtues to the needy.

Not only are we to avoid negative thoughts and fearful imaginations of impending troubles, but we have to turn our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and expect more power, more knowledge, and more efficiency in our witness. "Let us hold fast the confession of our faith without wavering: (for he is faithful that promised,-". This verse can mean only one thing: the continuation of a healthy Christian life and a constant demonstration of the power of God in our earthly walk. We are looking forward, not to the shrinkage but to the increase of power, not to the setting but to the rising of the Sun of Righteousness. What we receive by faith from the Lord Jesus, we should joyfully demonstrate in our life; moreover we should not merely use it but pass it on to others. "These signs shall follow them that believe . . . they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. " (Mk. 16:16).

Do not imagine yourself like a circus artist under the "big top" walking on a tight rope above the gazing crowd: - Now I am on, now I may be off. Do not treat your miraculous healing as if you were a balancing acrobat, precariously swaying on the tight rope of your health: now I am still holding on, my old deafness has still not come back, my crippling arthritis is still not playing up, it seems that my cancerous tumour has not yet reappeared, how long can I go without having to take insulin for my sugar diabetes, how long before my symptoms of asthma will return?

This analogy with the tight-rope act is not quite complete in so far as no balancing artist would ever look downward and anticipate a fall; when such a man walks on a tight rope he looks steadily ahead but carefully avoids looking below. Let me repeat the lesson with a changed analogy: do not offend the Holy Spirit by treating the work of God like a badly repaired motorcar that goes for a few miles before the old trouble reappears. The fear of losing our healing is not often recognized. To make our subconscious attitude right, we must spiritually "wash" ourselves constantly with the written promises of God: "by washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. " (Titus 3:5). The living Word of God penetrates deep and creates the right attitude of the heart, namely childlike trust, confidence, and boldness.

"Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. "(Ps. 42:7). God's Spirit communicates with our spirit as the "healing waters" of the Word of God run through our thinking. His judgments and corrections have buried our old sinful nature.

Rule No. 3

Know Your Enemy - It is called: Fear.

Fear comes from the pit. This is the number one enemy in the case of losing God's deliverance. By discerning the spiritual ingredients of fear, by knowing its devilish chemistry, we can exterminate it out of our system. Fear in reality is faith - not in God but in Satan. Fear of the recurrence of a cancerous tumour, for instance, means to believe in the ultimate victory of the cancer; such a person fears - whether knowingly or just not admitting it - that the inevitable killer would sooner or later emerge from the background into which he was temporarily driven by God's power.

I have not read in a book what I share with you. The Lord revealed to me and commanded me that after I successfully prayed for a terminal disease such as cancer, I should spend time to deliver the victims from the spirit of fear. This is not always possible because of lack of faith either in me, the minister, or in the sick, or in both of us; I cannot tell for certain.

Sometimes, as if the sick person were under an hypnosis of fear, even if my prayer resulted in an instant end to all pains, the cancer would come back the moment my back is turned, so to speak. It is very sad when, in spite of all the forceful preaching and repeated admonition, the sick person still views himself as having a stamp of that mortal disease on him, for by this he seals his own doom. This fear, which is like a drug that makes the victim numb, is easily discernible by the Holy Spirit and unless the person yields to the measure of divine faith that is placed in all of us, no man or angel can help him. It is not even advisable to force the matter in such cases because if we attempt to spiritually force-feed the fearful in our fleshly zeal, we often end up worse. God's blessing soon leaves and we "dry up" thus depriving others, who would be more receptive to the outflow of God's healing virtues had we retained His anointing. The rules of God's covenant cannot be changed.

Although the fearful would never admit it, fear is an inner testimony of the devil's superiority over Jesus. "Granted," says the coward in his heart "Jesus seems to help for the moment but that which was determined by Beelzebub would happen just the same." Fear magnetizes us and draws us irrevocably into the jaw of disaster.

The Stages By Which Fear Works:

A characteristic way in which we can see the downward spiral of the spirit of fear is shown in Isaiah 24:17: ..."Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee..." We notice here a sequence: first fear, next the pit and lastly the snare from which there is no return. This is the order in which the life of a doubter begins and ends. The tailspinning into the belching furnace of hell begins with loss of trust and the increase of the cares and anxieties of life. After this, fear rapidly grows into a strong bondage. In this stage the entities of "the pit" become more and more recognizable. Fearing people becomes agoraphobia, fearing opposition can develop into a persecution mania, hatred into murder, lust into perverseness, etc.

In the last stage the oppression of the special varieties of demons reaches a point of no reversal. In this final phase the utter yieldingness to the devil passes the point of no return and in the end the fearful becomes an inhabitant of hell. The description refers to a person who out of fear for the possible reproach of the truth denies God and is ultimately ensnared by hell. The sickness of a Christian cannot do this but the tragedy is still great and the stages that lead to it are very similar. In this case it is the body only which gets overpowered by the spirit of death.

It all starts with losing the fear of God and gaining the fear of the world. Proverbs 29:25 says: "The fear of man bringeth a snare: but who so putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. " One may fear his employer, the man who, as wrongly assumed, has power to employ or dismiss the believer. To fear the loss of a job, the loss of food, shelter or security can be traced to the fear of man from whom it is assumed all these things depend.

There are many kinds of fear. The pagan fears to break an idol but in fact he fears the spirit behind the idol. We may fear something impersonal and do not realize that we fear a demon linked with it. Some may fear fire in an unnatural way. This can happen when a demon attaches himself to his victim and generates in the fearful a subconscious expectancy of a force pushing him into the fire.

Others might have an intensified fear of height when again some evil entities had access to their mind and exerted fear-generating influences upon them. What can we do in such cases? Run into the arms of Jesus, of course!

I John 4:18 tells us: "There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. " He who fears God, fears no man and no devil. The right kind of fear swallows up the wrong kind of fear. For myself, it may sound humorous but it is true, I fear fear. I know that fear is dangerous and I run away from it and "rejoice with trembling" that my Jesus who lives within my heart is the "Lion of the tribe of Judah." I fear fear and I run into courage. I have no choice if I want to stay in the right side of eternity. Revelation says: "He that overcometh shall inherit all things ... But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. " (21:7-8). The list of the damned starts with the FEARFUL as if to say that this is the gateway to Hell and the slippery first step to all the abominations that follow. The last final phase of fear could be summed up by this verse: "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. "

Let us learn to recognize these three stages of deterioration also in regards of losing our God-given healing. Since all spiritual truths run parallel, it is fear, too, that starts the sad process of forfeiting God's gift of health. By losing our keenness in the Word of God and growing careless and casual with the rules that guide divine health, we become exposed to satanic attacks. Even if we do not become sick in this stage, we begin to sense that our shield of faith is lost and feel increasingly insecure. Increasingly we turn to human means to bolster up our defenses. We think of good doctors, good medical insurance and take at first only a little medicine, "Just in case." Oh, it is okay "to help nature," you reason, on your way to the herbalist to buy some harmless looking tablets. Indeed, the Lord does not rebuke us to go for medical check-ups or to seek as many doctors as we wish. There is no harm in taking precaution as such; the harm is in the subtle fear and anxiety which may motivate these acts. What makes one, for instance, start a sugar and salt diet, when one has been healed of high blood pressure? Healthy people never think of going on special anti-high blood pressure diets, at least, so long as they do not expect the sickness in their system.

Are these human measures taken to help God to keep you from the recurrence of the disease? Has the person decided to be "wise" and "prudent" upon the advice of sincere but maybe sincerely wrong people? What lies behind these little acts - otherwise, so insignificant and so innocent? Bluntly speaking: a child of God has committed treason against the spirit of a childlike trust of the Kingdom of God. The traitor attempts to cover up his unfaithfulness by weaving a web of worldly explanations to justify his infidelity and fear. - By now the next stage is inevitably on the way.

The reliance upon worldly help soon develops into a bondage. The devil enjoys a little game first with his victims, like the cat with the mouse she has caught. More medical check-ups follow and then comes the different specialist. Of course, one must find the best and usually the costliest ones in the country. One examination gives way to the other, one specialist sends the believer to another friend of his. All of these men must be paid from money which could have saved sinners, if wisely invested.

The little bit of grudgingly given information from the doctors become more and more dominating in the mind of the sick, like red-letter words written across the sky. The Word of God and the joyful realities of salvation no longer fill the heart and make the topic of conversation. All communications are filled with reference to doctors, to hospitals, to x-ray plates or to the merits of old and new treatments.

Yet there is still time to stop and think. Still there are moments when one can clearly think it through and return to the former point when the miraculous happened; to reflect that God is good and Jesus paid for our sicknesses and by His stripes we can be instantly healed, just as it happened before. All too soon the last opportunities for returning to our first love and original faith pass and the demons get in full control. The rapids of tormenting fears drift the canoe over the chasm and the life terminates. This time it is not eternal damnation that follows, but premature death. The believer comes to a point under the treatments of different medicines and painkillers, when he loses his reasoning abilities and becomes like a zombie unable to fully regain his power of concentration and the ability to make any decision. The control over his life imperceptibly passed from him.

In the case of wealthy people, the moment of bitterness comes when his eager relatives with the help of clever lawyers deprive him of his legal rights for his own money on account of diminished responsibility. The "poor" bedridden hospital patient suddenly has no authority over his own property and has to live the last phase of his life helplessly and often resentfully pining in an indifferent environment. The sick person may receive very little attention and comfort from his own folk, who now in possession of his fortune, are not so anxious to visit him as frequently as before. A member of our fellowship, a nurse, who cares for the wealthy patients of a special hospital in Dallas, describes vividly the agonies of these very rich people in her charge whose mental tortures are often greater than that of the physical.

Rich or poor, young or old, the bondage and the oppression upon soul and body can imperceptibly become final. Death may not come for a long time but the fate is sealed and another Christian life has been curtailed, another potential witness for Jesus has been rendered useless; all because of unbelief, fear, compromise, backsliding and ignorance. "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep (prematurely die). For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. "(I. Cor. 11:30-31 ).

Even Job found himself sucked into satanic power by ignorance and lack of trust: "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. " (3:24).

Rule No. 4

Get Used To The Idea Of Large Place And Solid Foundation.

The Lord has done a good job of you and your healing is foolproof; you are not only a conqueror but MORE than a conqueror (Rom. 8:37). This means that with some reserves of strength still left in us we can win, we need not get over desperate, we need not just manage to win by the last drop of sweat upon our brow. We can "kill the bull" elegantly, with white gloves and graceful movements, like a toreador would do it.

David says in Psalm 31:8: "thou has set my feet in a LARGE ROOM. " This picturesque language expresses the thought of generous provision, ample reserves, and overflow of abundance. Practice this thought in respect to your healing. If your heart disease was healed, for instance, do not continue to be overcautious with your movements. Do not stay away from the normal activities of life to avoid putting strain on the heart. Do you think the Lord has healed you just enough that by living still and quiet like an Egyptian mummy, you may last out for a few more years? Be "very careful" lest you become "too careful" and break the rules of faith and open up yourself to the heart disease once more.

We are given a gift of God and that not by a miserly individual. Upon our healing we may exercise a little caution in using our limbs or lungs; we do not exert our hitherto sick organs. We

rightly give them time to get used to the requirement of a fully lived-out existence. But then let us occupy the whole area of deliverance. Let the person who was healed of stomach ulcer eat normally like anyone else, let the one healed of tuberculosis begin to jog longer and longer distances, and let the formerly broken back bend and lift and stretch according to how the happy believer goes about his work whether he digs, loads his truck or climbs. Endeavour to keep a longer and longer distance from your past sickness. Do not think back on the problems, forget the memories associated with your former ailments.

Apostle Paul exhorts us in this manner: "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before." He says: "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. "(Phil. 4:13-14).

Walk and exercise yourself spiritually as well as physically on the God-given large place, meaning both his grace and earthly space. Shout, praise the Lord, go out swimming and yell praises to your Creator, make a long walk into the woods and have the noisiest prayer meeting of your life. Teach your spirit to respond generously to the emotions of happiness or to the sorrows of compassion. Simultaneously, discipline your body to respond to the quickening of the Holy Spirit, and to increase its capabilities, rejuvenate its faculties. This is not mind over matter but the Holy Ghost quickening over His temple which is the believer's body. This is not faith-healing either, but rather "Jesus healing." If the Lord would not be willing, our faith could not overcome the devil nor create a single miracle. We however, firmly believe in Jesus and have faith that He heals us, which He always does, because we keep to the spiritual laws of liberty. "I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a LARGE PLACE. "(Ps. 118:5). ..."Now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a LARGE PLACE. " (Hos. 4:16).

You have asked in faith, received in faith - stay in faith upon God's large place of saving and keeping power. "For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. " (James 1:6-8). This book of James also tells us that "Blessed is the man that

endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. " We have an enduring gift of life and also an enduring gift of health received from the Lord whose mercy "endureth forever."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Hungary, the son of a Director of the Railways, Don Odon graduated from the Military Academy as a Lieutenant of the Tank Corps. After many miraculous escapes in WWII, he became a student of the University of Goettingen in the postwar Germany. There, in a philosophical debate he heard the Bible quoted; this ultimately caused his conversion. Without anybody ever explaining to him the plan of salvation, only by God's direct audible voice, he was convinced and made to surrender to Christ. At this time he also saw a clear vision of God's wing folding over him nd for the following three days he could not eat nor drink.

In his ministerial career he has pioneered churches, ministered internationally and founded the present Worldwide Missions, Inc. Don Odon has written several books, all of them are used for study manuals by churches and ministers and were translated into other languages. "School of the Prophets," "Full Gospel, Half Gospel, Quarter Gospel," "A to Z Faith Clinic," and "Bible Numerics Strengthen Miracle Ministry" are waiting for republishing together with the manuscript "Power in Biblenumerics."

With great personal risk, Don Odon managed to minister extensively behind the "Iron Curtain," holding clandestine meetings in many villages and towns. He was arrested in Hungary and in Russia and was on the "wanted" list of the Rumanian and Czechoslovakian police, but God wonderfully intervened. Blind eyes were opened—once an eyeball was created in an empty eye socket—goiters disappeared and the lame leapt as the Lord confirmed the deliverance ministry with thousands of conversions and many signs. These results were repeated also in India, Africa and Japan.

During his visits to the U.S.A. because of the exceptional operation of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit during a CBN Television program, the station extended the broadcasting for a full hour on two occasions.

Brother Odon has gone on to be with the Lord