John,
I had a good experience today that I’d like to share. It concerns healing, and it was encouraging to my faith.
Today I had a cup of coffee that went cold, and I had micro-waved it to heat it up. I put it on the counter and forgot about it for a minute. Later I reached over to take a sip (from the straw I had in the cup top), and when I swallowed a mouth full of it, I did not know that it was still going to be scalding hot. I mean SCALDING hot, like boiling water.
I panicked, and by instinct to get it out of my mouth, even though it was too late, I ran to spit it out in the sink. As I was spitting, I felt the words, “if they drink and deadly thing it shall NOT harm them” come up out of me, before I could even think about what I was saying inside, I raised my hands and felt the Spirit shake me. I felt right then that I was not going to be burned, even though at any other time, that amount of boiling liquid for that long would have left me with burn boils all over the roof of my mouth and elsewhere. In less than a minute though, my mouth just cooled down, and has been fine and no burns or boils.
And on a side note, after I thought about it, I wondered why I did feel to say “if they drink any deadly poison it shall not harm them”, because that’s what I thought I remembered that verse to say. So I looked it up later, and it says: “and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them” (even though it probably means a poison), but the fact that it came out as it did, and it was really in there as it came out, blessed my faith again.
I’m thankful to have no burns at all in my mouth, and was grateful for the experience.
Gary