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This is a short excerpt from a quote on Challies Dot Com <\/a>which Tim says is entirely consistent with a cessationist perspective. It sure doesn\u2019t sound like the cessationism I love to caricaturise!<\/p>\n

\u201c. . . My friend knelt down in the middle of a circle of elders. We anointed him with oil, laid lands on him, and began to pray. Since I had started the process, I was appointed to offer the closing prayer.<\/p>\n

As soon as we began to pray, I had an overwhelming sense that God was, at the moment, healing my friend. My arms felt what I can only describe as bolts of fire pushing through them. As I grasped my friend\u2019s shoulder, heat and energy burned my hand. I felt that my one hand could lift all of his 230 pounds to the ceiling or push him through the floor if I wished.<\/p>\n

I knew God was healing him. I wanted to shout, \u2018We must stop praying that God will heal John and start praising God that He has healed him.\u2019 But I was too astonished, too ensure of my sensations, to say a word to anyone that night. For four days, I kept my experience to myself.<\/p>\n

Four days later, after church, my friend beckoned me with a wild grin, \u2018Dan, watch this.\u2019 At once, he dashed up a flight of steps. I dashed after him and met him at the top. He smiled, \u2018And I\u2019m not even breathing hard.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I knew it,\u2019 I exclaimed, and told him what I had felt a few nights earlier. And he told me, \u2018I knew it too . . . .\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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