Healing the Bitter Pool | Clip 2

• And again, the Lord dealt with me about that. I told you how I was reading the Bible through underlining and blue everything to do with healing, health, physical strength, and long line. And I just couldn’t believe what I was reading because with my background in Europe and in the Anglican church in England particularly and I have to say that basically the European attitude to Christianity is it’s a kind of outmoded relic from primitive days.
• Uh it’s estimated less than 3% of people in Britain regularly attend any kind of church at all. For people in Europe, by and large, Christianity is a historical relic. It left a lot of churches and abbies and cathedrals. People go there with a guide and pay so much and there’s a little box somewhere that says, “Please help us keep this building going. Your gifts are needed.
• ” But the average European has no concept that Christianity has got anything relevant to say to us today. And I didn’t realize it, but a good deal of that attitude was already in me. My attitude was, well, there are some people who are Christians, but really it’s the kind of people who couldn’t succeed in life anyhow, and this is their consolation for failure.
• That’s what I I thought a Christian was. And I was pretty confident that I was going to succeed, and I didn’t need a consolation for failure in those days. Let me say so when I read all these remarkable promises of especially in the book of proverbs wisdom length of days is in her right hand uh prosperity is in her left you will not stumble you live to be a good old age it’ll be health to your marrow strength to your bones you’ll have abundance you break forth on the right hand and the left I thought to myself, you know, I can’t be
• understanding that right cuz it looks as though God really wants me to be happy, successful, and prosperous. I thought, you know, that isn’t the way religion is. That isn’t what religion is. So, after I’d been struggling with this for quite a while, sitting there in the bed, the Lord one time spoke to me in audibly but very clearly.