Bring that Boy to Me!

In Mark 9:14-29, Jesus is confronted with a father and his son who was possessed by an evil spirit. His disciples had been unable to handle the situation, and so Jesus simply said, "Bring the boy to me"" (v. 19). This one little directive from Jesus – “Bring the boy to me” – made all the difference, for Jesus continues to say the same thing today. Today He says, “Bring that man to me,” or “Bring that woman to me,” or “Bring that child to me.”

In his autobiography entitled The Call, Oral Roberts says that in 1947 when he first began praying about healing, “The sick, the crippled, the afflicted seldom darkened the door of our church and little happened when they did.” Perhaps the one announcement that is missing in so many churches today is, "Bring the sick to us, for God still is in the business of healing the afflicted." As I thought about this, I realized that we need to make every opportunity for people to be prayed for in order to be healed. We must keep saying, "Bring that boy to me!

Oral Roberts has written that as he extended his faith and called people forward at his first healing meeting, “An old German woman with a withered hand was one of the first to reach me. I grabbed her hand and prayed, ‘In the name Jesus Christ of Nazareth be healed!’ Her arm shot up in the air, she screamed and began opening and closing her hand. It electrified the whole house.” How this is needed today! How we need to see a restoration of the miraculous in our midst.