My wife walked out of the airport restroom. She looked as if she was going to
throw up. We were about to go through the airport checkpoint when we paused.
"I feel awful. It came on suddenly. I don't know if I should go," she said.
We were going on an overnight trip to meet with a marketplace ministry about a
possible joint venture project. It was important for me to have her there. But
she was feeling so badly and would probably be miserable traveling in her
condition.
"You may be right. Perhaps you should not go."
We were both disappointed. We began to transfer my clothing into my bag. We
prayed together and I proceeded to the gate. I was disappointed, perplexed, and
a bit angry.
"Lord, I don't know about this. If this is not of Your hand, I pray against it
in Jesus' name. I pray for Angie's healing right now and I bind this spirit of
infirmity."
I got to the gate about ten minutes later. As I was waiting to check in, I
looked up and there was Angie.
"I'm going. I kept asking if I should go and a voice said, 'No.' I changed my
mind three times. But I finally decided that I am not dead and I should be going
on this trip."
We got on the plane and within a few minutes, the symptoms of illness were
completely gone. The symptoms were a counterfeit. She was fine the rest of the
trip. It was critical for her to participate with me because it became a major
turning point in my own spiritual pilgrimage. She needed to experience what I
was going to experience.
There is the spiritual and there is the physical. The spiritual involves two
forces. One is good. One is evil. We must realize that the spiritual is more
real than the physical. Satan has his agents in the world to thwart God's
purposes. We need to recognize when these are at work. Pray that you might have
spiritual eyes and ears to discern these forces today in your work.
Excerpted with permission from the book TGIF Today God Is First, by Os Hillman,
copyright 2000, Destiny Image Publishers, Reprinted by permission. For free
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