I recently heard a very interesting story that a preacher relayed in the church I attend. The preacher was telling us that God wants to use nobodies. His point was that we as Christians often look to the pastor or great evangelists as THE ONES God has chosen to see healings and other miracles. We often see ourselves as nobodies.

The story was as follows; A man who didn't believe in God one day decided he would test the idea of God's existence. He told God that he would believe in Him, if God would somehow prove to the man that He existed. This man had been reading how Jesus had healed people in the Bible. So, he decided he would go to the hospital to test God's existence. He chose the cancer ward for his test. He walked into a room that had several cancer patients literally laying on their death beds. He walked up to the first bed and ask the patient, "Do you want to be healed?" The patient's response was not very clear, but the man continued. He said "then by the power of God, jump out of bed." Nothing happened. So the man moved on to the next patient and did the same thing. The second time nothing happened. The man continued with his experiment on third patient. He asked if the patient wanted to be healed and said "by the power of God, jump out of bed". This time the patient jumped out of bed and screamed "I'm healed!" Then he saw the first two patients also jump out of their beds screaming "I'm healed!" The man excitedly shouted to God "I believe!!!" He then proceeded to walk through every ward in the hospital practicing the same procedure until the hospital was empty!

My head spins and I get so excited when I hear stories like these. Questions begin to fill my mind. If a man that didn't believe can see God's miracles in such a radical way, why can't I? What stops us as Christians from being so radical for God? What are we afraid of? This man was persistent. He tested his theory three times not giving up. Are we to quick to give up on seeing God's power move in our daily lives? This man at the beginning of his experiment didn't even believe in God, he was going on a theory. We know God, we love God and we want to see others healed spiritually and physically. So what is holding us back from this kind of radical faith????

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