A deaf lady was miraculously healed by the power of God in one of our meetings. She came up the platform to testify and everybody rejoiced with her. But she had to wait a while before I could pray for her because there were many more who also came up to testify. She became angry that she had to wait and her two ears got blocked again.
Let me explain what happened: Under the anointing of God’s Spirit, the spirit of deafness had to leave her, but the spirit of anger and bitterness with which she had been living still dominated her. Her wrong attitude brought the deafness back. Anyway, I rebuked the devils again and her ears opened and she went away hearing. Several days later, she was in another meeting, and I observed her hearing was impaired again - she had continued to let anger and bitterness rule her.
Sin and sickness are linked together. Sin is a spiritual condition that produces sickness. Actually, sickness is sin revealed in the human body. Therefore, if you’ve been toying with sin, you’ve only opened the door of your life to demons and all sorts of diseases.
Anger causes ulcers and bitterness causes cancer. When you allow anger persist in your life it gives way to bitterness. Soon your body becomes a suitable accommodation for cancer, and the more the cancer grows, the more your body dies. When Jesus healed a man who had suffered for thirty-eight years, He said to him, “…Now you are well; don’t sin as you did before, or something even worse may happen to you” (John 5:14 TLB). This is why someone may be healed of a particular disease today, only to lose the healing tomorrow. Yes! The sickness can come back if you don’t detach yourself from its original cause - sin. It’s dangerous to tolerate sin; it destroys. When God heals you, you must enter into the liberty of Christ and remain there through His Word.
