VIVINA is one of the students in the DTS class. We had just completed teaching the first step of pulling ourselves out of depression and adversity from Philippians 4:4 (rejoice in the Lord always). When I invited all the students to stand and practice rejoicing, she remained seated. When I went back to her to challenge her, I saw that her feet were resting on a chair in front of her. She said she did not stand because her legs hurt.

I told her of the woman in the Surabaya DTS that had remained seated during worship because she was tired, and how when she was obedient and stood, she had been restored. I asked her if she would like to try to stand in obedience to the Word of God in Philippians 4:4, and she said she would. Long story short, as she started to rejoice with all the class, she was healed, and bounced up and down with joy, rejoicing not just in obedience but she was really free. Later that afternoon she said she wanted to share the testimony with the class. I told her there would be time for testimony the next morning.

The next morning, as we were having testimonies, I noticed that Vivina was not there. They said the sickness had come on her again. Long story short, they went down and brought her up, and essentially the same routine was repeated. She decided to rejoice, and as she rejoiced, she was healed. This time she not only bounced up on her toes but she jumped. The next day, she testified that this was the first time in her whole life that she had jumped! Now she was truly healed and she knew it!

All this occurred in the context of our teaching about seeing the unseen and appropriating the unseen promises of God (see teaching in JESUS the WORD blog), in this case the promise of healing. God had provided the demonstration of the teaching!