The Release of Healing
Healing refers to restoration of the body, the emotions or the memory.
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Personal example: A roommate of mine at Virginia Tech injured his back while
lifting weights and went to a group of charismatic Christians for help.
They prayed for the Lord to heal him in the same way the apostles prayed:
by placing their hands on him and asking in faith. My friend reported that
not only was his back healed, but in the process they could
actually feel his back shifting, being reconstructed during the prayer. (It
must have been quite a "moving" event for him because one
of the individuals praying with him was the girl he ended up marrying—nice bonus.)
Notes:
- Healing Body and Soul. Often we have faith Jesus can forgive our sins, but not that he will heal our bodies—yet he tied the two together when confronting the disbelieving Pharisees: "what is easier, for me to forgive sins or to heal this man?"
- Believing Over Seeing. When Jesus refused to heal the main reason was usually a lack of faith. The same is true today. At a healing service a friend once witnessed a lady's short leg actually extend out, but she later said to me, "Even though I saw it grow with my own eyes, for some reason I still struggle with believing. I think faith has more to do with believing than with seeing."
- What if I Don't Get a Healing? Of course, God chooses the means and timing. Frequently He uses doctors, diet, sleep, exercise and common sense—all His instruments. And sometimes He makes us wait, because He's working a greater good (e.g, trust, perseverance). However, it's much more common that we don't expect the supernatural. Personally, I'm suprised how often God offers the miraculous. If Christ is in you, what should you expect?
- A Healing Kingdom. ABC's Peter Jennings interviewed John Wimber (of the Christian Vineyard denomination) and asked him "What made you get involved in the healing ministry after your conversion?" He responded, "When I was in Satan's kingdom I got to do everything Satan does; now that I'm in Jesus' Kingdom, I want to do everything Jesus does!"
- The Real Deal. Certainly some counterfeit the gift of healing and others who think they've been healed, but the existence of abuses implies the genuine. Ignore the excuses and expect Christ to heal in you and through you. Jesus said (John 14:12) "Anyone who believes in me will also do the works that I do, and will do greater works than these because I am going to the Father (and will send you the Spirit)." At least 1/3 of Jesus' ministry was healing.
It is the ministry of Christ. When praying for healing a good
rule-of-thumb is:
Assume God will heal until He clearly indicates
otherwise.
Come for your healing—submit to My love and you can live for others without hurts, where you'll have divine capacity to do great things on a small scale. I am a powerful, almighty God and I equip My people for freedom to love and to be loved. My plan never involves your oppression. I tell you to press in and draw near to Me.
Praise Me. At times, enact warfare prayer against the forces of the enemy that hold you and this world down. Prayer and fasting will put your focus back upon Me.
You are My vessels created by Me for honor and to share My glory. Amidst sorrow, in Me you'll find joy; in fear, I am your protection; in loneliness, I am your ever-loving companion and friend; in confusion, I am your wisdom; in pain, your healing balm who comforts.