WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE?
THE DOCTOR’S REPORT or THE REPORT OF THE LORD?


(Testimony of Roy Hearthern – a world renowned pastor.)

I HAD CANCER

The day after Christmas last year was one of the darkest days of my life.

When I was admitted to the hospital (50 day stay), I learned I had cancer of the stomach. It had advanced so rapidly that my lymph nodes were affected and my kidneys were destroyed.
“You will never use your kidneys again,” the doctor warned. “And you will have to take dialysis treatments four hours each day for at: least three days every week for the rest of your life. When you add the time it takes to travel to and from the clinic and the time it takes to set up for each treatment, you can count on twenty hours every week.”

I HAD NO FUTURE
I was devastated. There was nothing else to live for. My ministry had come to an end. I couldn’t travel and all I could think of was Paul’s statement in Romans 7:25, “0 wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” He was referring to an ancient custom when cruel tyrants would chain dead bodies to living people until the decaying, rotting flesh would destroy the living person.

MY DECISION
What was I to do? I could not deny my sickness. I had the doctor’s report. That was reality. But reality does not have to be finality. I decided to believe the report of the Lord.

ISAIAH 53
For over fifty years I have preached that healing was in the Atonement. Now I had to prove it in my own experience.
I read-every-verse in Isaiah 53-over and over and studied the meaning of each word in the original Hebrew. Verse one reads, “Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?” God gave me so many revelations and truths during the many weeks I was in the hospital — not only revelation of Isaiah 53, but revelation that affected my life, my finances, my ministry, my family and other individuals.

REPORT TO REVELATION
The first lesson God taught me was that Isaiah 53 must become more than a report. It must become a revelation to me personally’. After more than fifty years of ministry, God showed me that the Bible was something that I had reported. I could tell you what the Bible said about most subjects. I was a pretty good Bible reporter. But God said that the truth must be something more than a report; it must become a revelation to me and within me.

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