Sid: My guest by way of telephone at his office in Blaine, Washington is Don Gossett. Don has spent 50 years being mentored or knowing some of the top healing evangelists on the face of this earth. People like William Branham, Jack Cole, TL Osborn, Kathryn Kuhlman, William Freeman, and he’s learned a lot two ways one from the word of God and what these people have taught; he has also learned from his own experiences where he has been healed and where the rubber has meet the word and what you preach isn’t what you teach if it doesn’t work in your own life. Now Don I know that faith grows as I’m reading your book; I mean I read EW Kenyon a couple of years ago and you took the best writings and of EW Kenyon and your own writings together in this book called “The Power of Your Words.” And I have to tell you I understand these principals but it’s just causing them… you forget.
Don: Well, I’d just like to have a special prayer of faith together that faith is a fruit of humility; the Bible says God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. And I’d like to share just briefly one of the most challenging and triumphant experiences involved with it a relationship with true humility and the confession of God’s word for healing. I was impressed with a very painful headaches at one period of my life from the top of my head to the back of my neck the pain was more than I could stand. Now I had received miraculous healings from both an enlarged heart and the cancerous growth as from speaking God’s word but somehow speaking God’s word repeatedly did not prevail the headaches were unrelenting. I visited my family physician he assured me that he could give me a prescription that would take care of the headaches; but he was sincerely mistaken because the pain medication didn’t help at all. Weeks and weeks passed by and the headaches remained my primary concern; I was going through my daily assignments as a minister, but frankly my focus was upon my intense pain in my head. I couldn’t concentrate on anything else. And finally I reached the place when I was overseas in a mission and after I preached that night depression hit me like a blast of dynamite. I tumbled into bed with these morbid words I said to my wife I said to my wife “I don’t think I want to live another day; I’m going to pray now; I’m going to pray Oh God I die in my sleep tonight these pains are so miserable I can’t stand them.” Well my wife was not impressed at all by my negativity after a fitful night I wakened with the awareness that my prayer was not answered I was still alive. So I announced to my wife that I was going to the prayer closet in our friend’s home and I wasn’t going to come out till I heard from the Lord about the wretched condition. When I arrived at that prayer closet I locked the door from the inside so that no one could disturb me. The words of Psalm 34:16 came to me forcibly; “This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.” I felt I was that desperate man and I stretched myself out on that carpet in that room and I cried out with tears “Lord, why has not my healing not been manifested. I’ve confessed your healing word, I’ve prayed Your Name; I’ve searched my heart; I’ve prayed and fasted Lord; why haven’t I received my healing?” The Holy Spirit responded to my request to Him to search my heart and reveal the hindrance to my healing. He made known to me that I had developed a spirit of pride that was preventing the manifestation of healing for those excruciating headaches. And I began to quickly go through scriptures in the Bible about how God resists the proud; how He has shown thee oh man what is good and what does the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thou God. The Lord spoke to me by the Holy Spirit that any time you’re proud the Lord must resist you. And I found that this was a high price…
Sid: Well, wait that’s most believers because most believers are proud.
Don: I know that what I learned at that particular time in my I mean it was a crisis time in my life when I realized that I…now if you’d ask me that if you think that you have a spirit of pride I would have probably said no, no. But the Lord showed me that it was not so much a matter of arrogance or egotism it was rather an attitude of self-sufficiency. I was dependent on the Lord but on upon medication and upon other things. While I was not decrying the importance of medication as an anti-faith action it was just a part of my ugly spirit of pride that I had to deal with.
Sid: Now when God spoke to you was it just an impression or was it actually a voice.
Don: It was a voice that was in; it was a voice that is so priceless to any sincere Christian. And for 45 minutes I waited for there in God’s presence but I was grateful that He had revealed to me that there was a spirit of pride that was my hindrance. As I was there just rejoicing in His ministry in my life, then I had an unusual experience I only say this because this is what happened in my life. As I continued to speak the word there I mean for 45 minutes the word flowed through my heart and my mouth and I looked up at and I saw a man sitting in the room. Well, I quickly looked to see that the door was still locked and it was. And this stranger moved slowly towards me as I lay on the floor he reached down and laid his hand on my head and the sensation of His touch was like warm penetrating oil; though there was no oil at all it was like the sensation of it. And the man after touching my head stepped back because the pain all instantly left. I wanted the stranger to identify himself. Now sometimes the spiritual matters we can be rather well a little dumb. And I said “Sir, are you the Apostle Paul?”
Sid: (Laughing)
Don: I don’t know why I asked that question but I just knew that it was a part of something that was tremendously supernatural and the man replied these words, “I’m an angel of the Lord sent to minister to you who is an heir of salvation.” That’s what exactly Hebrew 1:14 says that “Angels are ministering spirits sent to minister to them that are heirs of salvation.” And after he spoke those words the angel vanished from my sight and I never saw him again. I sat there very simply amazed that an angel of the Lord had visited me and I developed a power-point “Be humble or you’ll tumble.” I tell you I learned the importance of humility before the Lord. Well equally I learned the importance of humility before the Lord. Well equally important to this awesome fact is that I never had a headache since that long ago day on a faraway island. And I praise God for that miracle it’s been a very real miracle.
Sid: Don there are many people listening to us right now and they say “Well, I praise God for Don Gossett’s miracle but what about me I am struggling with cancer, with heart trouble; with diabetes with psoriasis of the liver; with arthritis; with migraines; with all of these various problems.” Would Don pray for me right now and I would agree?
Don: Let’s agree right now in the Name of the Lord, Father we come to You humbly as we know how with gratitude dependent upon your wonderful promise Lord grateful for your reality. Father I pray for every listening friend who is oppressed with sickness, disease, infirmity the foul work of cancer, diabetes, heart trouble, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, arthritis. In the Name of Jesus we stand in agreement for these dear ones; spirit of infirmity we command you in the Name of Jesus to loose your hold on these bodies, minds and we speak release of healing virtue to permeate and flow in now in Jesus mighty Name and we thank you Lord that your power is present to heal. That you sent your word to heal each one; and you’ve given them your release by the power of Jesus Name. Amen.
Sid: I’ll tell you Don that there was such a presence of God on that prayer I believe many people getting healed. I even see people getting healed in their necks and their backs right now. And people with hip pains if they’ll just start walking they’ll see that the pain is healed; anyone can be healed of anything but I’ll tell you the healing anointing is just flowing like a river. And that same healing anointing Don flows in your book. Now many of our listeners are familiar with you because we’ve had you on all week. Tell us just briefly about EW Kenyan. We have the best writings of EW Kenyan in your book from EW Kenyan “The Power of Your Words.”
Don: Oh Dr. Kenyan was a man who God raised up to do a work of evangelism of healing and his main distinction was being a teacher of the word that marked him in a very special way. And he put in book form a number of books and I was so blessed that his daughter Ruth gave me permission to combine the best of Dr. Kenyan’s writings with the best of my writings and put together the book “The Power of Your Words.” I believe that God has chosen to use this book to revolutionize the lives of multitudes. We’ve received many testimonies of the great results and to God be the glory. I believe that He’ll do the same with any listening friend.
Sid: The majority of the people listening to us are not functioning in the truth of God’s word in references to the promises of God’s Word. There is on every page and every line of this book it’s so anointed; it’s mostly scripture. And the part that isn’t scripture is explaining the teaching of the scripture; but it’s 99% scripture this book. And it’s an understanding of the scripture that this generation has yet to learn.
