Acts 19: 11God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them
Paul became so single minded about spreading the word of Christ, that he became almost fanatical. However, God used Paul to spread the word about Jesus more than anyone else on earth probably. We read in chapter 20:
Eutychus Raised From the Dead at Troas
7On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. 8There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. 9Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. 10Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!” 11Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. 12The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.
Paul was so close to God that even the clothes that had touched him were used to heal the sick in places where Paul had not even gone. God blesses our faithfulness and when we immerse ourselves in Christ, we learn to walk in power. But power comes only with complete submission to the will and word of God.
In the above account Paul simply goes to pray for this young man who had fallen to his death and he embraced the young mans body and he came to life. Paul was not that surprised as he had confidence in the Lord.
The challenge for me is to be able to walk so close to God that I am able to take authority often enough to start to have the confidence that when I place myself in a position of do or die, I know God will come through. My mouth needs to confess what my heart believes while I read the scriptures, even though the cares of life try to spring up and choke the word in me. My eyes start to see in the physical and I start to doubt myself and the word in me, because the physical does not always match the spiritual. But this is where my mouth must start to confess on a regular basis what the word of God says.