Dr. Lillian Barbara Yoemans, a renowned doctor, born in Montreal, Quebec in 1861, specialized in women’s and children’s health issues. She was surrounded by the problems of the poor, often treating prostitutes, drug addicts and the unemployed. Because she was a doctor, she had easy access to drugs and became a drug addict herself. She knew it was wrong but thought she had it under control until one day she realized drugs were her master and she was their slave. She was taking 50 times more than prescribed by an adult male.
She tried to quit the deadly habit countless times; with at least 57 attempts. It seemed no matter what she did; she could not kick the habit until she was bedridden and placed in a healing home in Chicago in 1898 at 37 years of age. In her many hours of loneliness, she turned to the Word of God and began to see that throughout the entire Bible, healing was a part of every section. As she spent time in the Word of God, one day, she realized she had been delivered from drugs and was fully healed and never did touch them again.
Soon after her healing, she quit doctoring and went to be a missionary to the Cree in the northern part of our nation. Her life was a living testimony of the healing power of God and everywhere she went, she prayed for the sick and taught on healing.
In her book, “Healing from Heaven,” Lillian tells of a missionary who went to China who contracted small pox. At that time, small pox had no known cure so everyone was just left to die. She was destitute, quarantined and dying in a foreign country. So, since she didn’t know what else to do, she began to seek the Lord for what to do. The Lord gave her a vision of two baskets: one contained the test and trial (the smallpox). This basket was full. The other one contained her praise. That basket was only half full. The Lord told her that her praise basket needed to outweigh her test and trial basket and when the praise basket was full, she would receive her healing.
Day and night, she praised and worshiped the Lord. Others in her building thought she was delirious. But she continued to praise God. She praised and praised and praised. She thanked Him for all He’d ever done for her. She lifted up praises for His faithfulness to His Word, for her healing, for His greatness. After several days of heartfelt praise, Jesus showed her that her praise basket was full and she walked out of her quarantined room with no smallpox scars or marks on her body. She had taken what she called “the praise cure.”
C. S. Lewis penned, “Joy is the serious business of heaven.” As I mentioned last week, King David encouraged himself in the Lord. Once he set his mind on praising God, the answer came for the problem he was facing. That makes me think of the saying “Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.”
We need to open our mouth and start praising God in the midst of the storm. When you’re praising, God is taking care of things! Things you are facing right now can vanish and leave without a trace when you put the praise cure into effect. No matter what situation you are facing: COVID -19, unemployment, fear, depression, or lack... begin to praise and you’ll rise above every evil plan for your life!
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