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God is Our Health

here was a real atmosphere of excitement and anticipation at this church called Living
TFaith when we first began attending there. The praise and worship was fresh and
heartfelt, and the teaching and preaching was challenging. There was an expectation that
God was going to lead the body into ever increasing experiences of His presence, and into
the blessings that come to those who walk by faith.
There was one minister at this body who received all of his financial support from the
church, and there were a couple others who were bi-vocational, receiving a limited support
for their ministry. There was much talk among them about walking by faith, and my hopes
were exceedingly high that this church would succeed where the last one had failed.
The ministers would go off once a year with their wives to a cabin in the mountains
of North Georgia to have a time of fellowship, prayer and sharing about God’s vision for the
body. My family and I had been attending here for about six months when the ministers
went off on one of their annual retreats. They asked me to preach while they were gone, and
they had asked some of the young people to lead in the praise and worship.
The Spirit gave me as the subject of my first message at this church the matter of
stepping out in faith, and I used the Scripture of the priests placing their feet in the water’s
of the Jordan as my basic text. The time of praise and worship preceded the message, and
the last song the youth led the congregation of believers in was “Step Into the Water.” This
was not arranged between us, for we had not spoken to one another prior to this gathering,
but it was a witness to me of God’s desire for this message to be preached, and for the
people to walk in the reality of it.
When the ministers arrived back from their retreat they shared with me that the Spirit
had revealed to them that I was to be ordained as a minister among them. As I shared
previously, they also agreed to pay me $100 a week, and it was at this time that God
indicated He would heal my son, and that I was to cancel all his government SSI benefits.
I did not realize it at the time, but God had arranged for my first act as a minister at this
body to be stepping into the waters myself, and to thereby provide an example of faith for
other’s to follow.
God’s voice was rich to me at this time, and He revealed that He wanted to lead the
body of Christ into their inheritance. As I have already shared, He revealed that His names
described the inheritance of the saints, for He is that good land of promise that is set before
us. David understood this, and he wrote of it in one of his Psalms of praise and worship to
Yahweh.

Psalms 16:5-6
Yawheh is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot. The lines
have fallen to me in pleasant places; indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

David used an allegory that looked back to the time that the Israelites cast lots to see
which tribe would receive the various portions of the land that had been surveyed. The lines
had already been drawn up and a map made, and all that remained was to cast the lot to see
what portion each family would receive. David, of course, had not been born when this
event occurred, for it was hundreds of years earlier. Using a poetic allusion to this event, he
said that when the lot was cast for him to receive his portion, that God supported his lot and