What Does It Mean To Have Faith For Healing?
Supernatural, Part 5
This is the last week of our series on the Supernatural,
We’ve looked in past weeks at the topics of
spiritual warfare, how we’re part of a battle
that goes on all around us,
between God’s kingdom,
and the kingdom of darkness.
We don’t see this battle,
because our perception of spiritual things is very poor,
we need to have our spiritual eyes opened,
but this battle actually affects every part of our lives.
We looked the second week at the Holy Spirit,
how he fills us,
and guides, encourages and empowers us.
The third and fourth weeks we looked at demons and angels,
and the part they play in spiritual warfare,
and how they affect our lives today.
This week we’re going to zero in on
one of the most important areas to our daily lives,
but it also can be one of the most controversial,
it’s the whole subject of healing:
Does God still heal people today,
am I wasting my time when I pray for somebody to be healed,
and if not, if God does heal,
then how do I get in on that,
how can I grow in faith,
so I can see people around me, or myself, healed.
There was a story in Christianity Today a few years ago.
A father named David Gilmore
told about his 15-month old son’s illness.
His little boy named Dustin came down with a sickness
that appeared to be like a flu.
At the time they went to a church
that believed that
faith alone heals any disease
and if you look elsewhere for help,
in other words if you go to medical doctors,
that shows that you lack faith in God.
David and his wife took the little boy to the church
and the pastor prayed for him.
Over the next few weeks they continued praying for him at home,
but Dustin’s temperature kept climbing,
so they started fasting as well.
Then they noticed that after a few weeks
Dustin was no longer responding to sound,
and a few days later little Dustin went blind.
One morning, the day after their pastor preached an
especially inspirational sermon about faith,
the Gilmore’s went into their son’s room
and found that their little boy’s body had turned blue,
and little Dustin Gilmore, age 16 months, had died.
Well again, they prayed
and the church believed that little Dustin
was going to be raised from the dead.
But he wasn’t, he stayed dead.
The autopsy revealed that
Dustin died from a form of meningitis
that could have been easily treated.
Does that story describe what real faith for healing looks like?
Most of us would say,
no way, that wasn’t faith,
that was stupidity!
So what does faith for healing look like?
The Bible has a huge amount to say
about the importance of faith.
One of the most quoted scriptures is
Mark 11:22-24
“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will happen, it will be done for you. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Now, that sounds pretty clear.
If you just believe,
if you just have enough faith,
you can ask for and get whatever you want.
But that’s not the only thing the bible says about prayer,
and we can’t just pick and choose the verses we like,
and ignore the rest.
We need to take into account all that the Bible says,
to really understand prayer.
In fact, if faith and prayer always did work like that,
and we had power over everything,
if we just simply believed, then its done,
if it really worked that way,
and we could literally get anything we wanted.
it would turn into a bunch of little monsters
As self-centered and prideful as people are,
even most believers,
This world would be a wreck,
if we could have that kind of power,
and get anything we wanted.
So we get a balancing scripture in
1 John 5:14-15
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
That is still an amazing promise,
but we realize here that
our faith has to be in line with God’s will.
Its not anything I want,
its what God wants
that determines power in prayer.
Now, here’s the problem with faith.
On the one hand
we have preachers on TV and in churches all over this country,
essentially saying to people,
“If you have enough faith you will always be healed.
You will always be prosperous.”
Its just a matter of your faith.
That’s a teaching that has led to disaster
for so many people.
From the story about the little boy that I started with,
where people refuse medical treatment
that could help them,
to the people who run up financial debts
believing God will bail them out
if they just have enough faith,
I don’t need to use wisdom
and careful budgeting
and live within my means,
I just need more faith.
Many people have walked away from God
after discovering that
faith doesn’t work
the way the guy on tv said it would.
So that’s a problem,
yet, on the other hand,
scripture is very clear,
that our faith does play a part,
in receiving a healing from God.
Jesus tells a bunch of different people,
your faith has healed you,
it definitely is important.
So the question we’re looking at today, is
How do you have this kind of faith for healing,
How do you pray for healing
in the 21st century
without becoming flat-out weird,
and hurting people.
We’re going to read a story from Mark 5:22 (page 687, pew bible)
In this story,
two people come to Jesus for healing,
and they are like absolute opposites
when it comes to wealth and status in that society.
First we have a man named Jairus,
Verse 22
Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live." So Jesus went with him.
Jairus had status.
He was a leader in the synagogue.
respected in the Jewish community,
at the top of the social scale,
probably wealthy.
And he’s not sick, but his daughter is,
in fact, she’s dying,
so he’s desperate,
and comes to Jesus begging for help.
But then in verse 25
as Jesus is following Jairus through the crowd,
this story gets a second character,
a woman.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
This woman is the very opposite of Jairus.
First, she’s a woman
in a male-dominated society.
You notice, Jairus is named,
but she is nameless.
He’s a leader in the community,
but she really has nothing special about her.
The only thing it tells us is that,
she’s suffered a lot,
and now she has nothing, she’s poor.
Mark 5:25-26
She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.
We don’t know exactly what the condition was.
It appears to be bleeding
from the womb or uterine,
But we know its been 12 years of suffering,
and none of the doctors had a clue how to help her.
She is like people today
who have one of these conditions
that doctors can’t quite figure out;
things like chronic fatigue syndrome,
or an auto-immune disease.
You go from doctor to another
getting a variety of opinions;
going through dozens of tests –
you know something is wrong
but no one can tell you exactly what,
so meanwhile, you suffer.
This woman is not only been suffering
physically and financially,
She is also socially isolated.
Under Jewish law,
Her type of bleeding made her ritually unclean.
You can read all about this in Leviticus 15,
if you need something to put you to sleep at night,
But, to be unclean meant
you couldn’t enter the Temple or synagogue,
which is the center of Jewish worship and social life.
And anyone who touched you
also became ritually unclean
or if they touched anything that you sat on
or laid down on, they’re unclean,
which meant,
they couldn’t go into the Temple or synagogue either.
So there is no way anyone is going to
come into her house,
they can’t touch her, or give her a hug,
So her particular illness
would have caused her to be ostracized,
alone and miserable,
poor and physically suffering.
Its no wonder
she snuck up to Jesus in a crowd,
and touched the edge of his robe,
hoping no one would notice.
You see, under Jewish law,
the moment she touched his robe,
it should have made Jesus unclean.
But instead, it worked the opposite.
She touched the robe,
and Jesus didn’t become unclean,
instead, she became clean and pure
for the first time in 12 years,
She was instantly healed.
What a great picture.
We can come to Jesus with all our filth,
our impure motivations,
and half-hearted commitment,
all our broken relationships,
and mistakes,
and lack of faith,
we come with all our junk,
and throw it on Jesus,
but instead of it making Jesus unclean,
instead, he heals us,
He washes our guilt away,
and purifies our hearts,
and gives us a new, clean start.
Just like this woman got.
This is such a great story:
Jairus is the synagogue ruler;
this woman is banned from the synagogue.
He’s the social leader, the insider.
She’s the ultimate outsider,
completely cut off from other people.
But the cool thing is,
Jesus treats her
with just as much respect and dignity,
as the rich respected guy,
and in fact Jesus stops going with Jairus,
so he can talk to her, the poor outcast,
and she gets healed first,
before the rich guys daughter.
I love that about Jesus,
He doesn’t care who you are
or what you have
or what you’ve done.
He doesn’t care if you’re the religious insider,
or the church leader,
or if it’s the first time you’ve ever set foot in a church,
No matter who you are
or what you’ve done,
He loves you as much as he loves anyone on earth.
He wants to heal you, just as much as he wants to heal anyone on earth.
Do you believe that?
There’s a lot of differences
between these 2 people
that came to Jesus for healing,
but there’s also
some similarities.
First, both came in humility
Now, you’d expect that of the poor, suffering woman.
But not necessarily from the religious leader, Jairus.
Most of the religious leaders didn’t like Jesus.
He was threatening to the establishment.
But Jairus is desperate, for his daughters life.
so at that point
he doesn’t care about religion,
he doesn’t care what the other leaders think,
he only cares about one thing.
Jesus has the power to heal.
That’s all that matters.
So it says,
Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him.
How easy is it to fall at someone’s feet
and beg them?
Is that easy if you’re wealthy?
Like all of us in the United States are.
Is that easy if you’re successful, or popular?
“What are my friends going to think?
What if the people at work knew that
I was trusting God for healing…
What if somebody saw me
kneeling at an altar, and weeping –
what about my image?
No, I’m not gonna go there,
that’s not something we respectable people do.
Have you ever thought about
coming up for prayer after church,
but then you had those kind of thoughts?
What are others going to think.
They’ll think I’m weak.
They’ll think I’m needy.
Jairus came to Jesus in humility.
Another similarity:
Both these people came with faith
Verse 27
When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
"You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'
But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.
Why did Jesus publicly call this woman out?
Was he upset with her?
No, it wasn’t to shame her.
Jesus’ motive was to heal her entirely.
He wanted to heal not just her body,
but her emotions and her spirit.
He wants her to receive his blessing,
in every area.
Mark 5:33
Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
So Jesus praises her faith,
he says your faith has healed you,
and he gives her his blessing,
Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.
Then in Verse 35,
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?” Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.”
He says, just believe, just have faith…
Sounds easy right?
Why doesn’t it seem that easy
when we pray for healing today?
And what does it really mean
to have faith for healing?
Well, if you look around the church in our world today,
you’ll see four different ideas,
when it comes to healing.
If you’re taking notes, this is on your outline.
The first view is that:
Divine healing no longer happens
There was a brilliant Christian man,
who taught theology at Princeton University
back at the turn of the last century.
His name was Benjamin Warfield.
Benjamin Warfield was passionately in love
with a beautiful woman, who became his wife,
but sadly, shortly after their wedding day,
she was struck by lightning and permanently paralyzed.
Benjamin Warfield, this brilliant theology professor,
prayed for his wife for healing for 20 years,
but she was never healed.
And he was so hurt and disappointed,
that he used his theological brilliance
to write a book called Counterfeit Miracles
claiming that God no longer heals
and that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit
were taken away from the church.
Warfield’s teaching and book were so influential,
that many churches across America
started believing in what is now called, Cessationism.
These churches believe that God doesn’t heal today,
except through doctors,
so you might as well not even pray for healing,
you’re better off using your energy to find a really good doctor.
The problem is,
its impossible to read the bible,
and come away with that conclusion,
unless you just reject a bunch of the bible.
The second view you see in the church today, is that:
2. Divine healing can occur in extraordinary circumstances
This is a very common view in the church.
People would say,
Yes, I believe that God could heal.
After all, he created the universe,
He can do anything he wants.
But mainly what God wants to do
is to use sickness
to improve our character.
And only in the rarest circumstance
would he allow the world to actually see his power,
and know there’s still a God,
And it’s so uncommon
that its like hitting the lottery,
nobody actually expects to win the lottery,
but if you do win something,
its like, wow, whoopee,
I hit the jackpot, I got healed.
Now, the problem with this view is,
again its hard to read the bible,
and hold onto this idea.
Because this is not how the bible tells us
to act in faith,
or to pray in faith.
So either the bible is wrong,
or there’s something more to it.
Now, the third position is common
among TV evangelists
and popular faith teachers:
Divine healing always happens if there is faith
They take verses like Mark 11:23
if you say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will happen, it will be done for you.
And they teach that
if you just believe it, and say it,
you can have it.
And if you don’t get it,
if you don’t get healed,
or you don’t get that Mercedes Benz that you asked for,
well, you just didn’t have enough faith.
What’s the problem with this perspective?
We have numerous examples in the Bible
of people who were not healed
despite someone’s great faith.
For example,
Paul does some of the greatest miracles and healings
in the bible,
but in 2 Timothy 4:20:
He says,
…and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus.
Now, obviously Paul prayed for Trophimus,
but for some reason he didn’t get healed.
1 Timothy 5:23:
Paul tells Timothy,
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
The apostle Paul doesn’t say,
Timothy, what is your problem.
Where’s your faith, buddy?
Just claim your healing.
You can have whatever you say and believe.
No, Paul doesn’t say that.
Now, maybe you’d ask,
why doesn’t God heal everyone that prays in faith.
This goes back to what we were talking about 2 weeks ago,
when I gave you a little theology lesson
on the kingdom of God.
We said that, the kingdom of God
came into this world with Jesus,
and has been expanding ever since,
God’s kingdom rule and reign over earth
and over the people of earth,
has been growing and expanding,
but its not complete,
there’s still a spiritual war on,
there’s still a clash of two kingdoms,
the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness.
One day when Jesus returns,
that war will end,
and there will be no more sickness or disease,
but right now the war is still going,
so not everybody is going to get healed,
no matter how much faith you have.
And that leads to the 4th view on healing,
which is the one we believe at the Vineyard:
Divine healing is an ordinary way that God works, but is not guaranteed
It’s ordinary, in other words
it should be going on all the time,
in little and big ways all around us,
at least once in a while
if you’re praying for people on a regular basis,
and if you have any faith at all,
you will see them get healed,
and if you’re not seeing any evidence at all of healing,
in anybody around you,
then you just haven’t been praying,
or haven’t been praying enough,
because it should be fairly ordinary.
But yet its not guaranteed.
Why?
Because there’s still a spiritual war on
that keeps God’s will from being done
everywhere on earth.
So then,
What does it mean,
to have faith for healing?
What is faith, really?
Let me start by sharing
what faith is not.
1. Faith for healing is not faith in my faith
The problem of some of the faith teaching you hear on tv,
is that instead of focusing on Jesus,
and his love and mercy and power,
the faith teaching gets people to focus on
their own faith.
We’re tempted to focus on ourselves
and begin to ask,
“Do I really have enough faith?
Do I feel full of faith?
As if it all depends on me.
The truth is,
Instead of focusing on myself and my faith,
I need to fix my eyes on Jesus.
and focus on what he’s doing.
2. Faith for healing is not my knowledge of God’s timing
Jairus had faith that Jesus could heal his daughter,
but he had to wait for his daughters healing,
because Jesus was interrupted
by this woman with the flow of blood.
Even if you have complete faith
that Jesus wants to heal,
that doesn’t necessarily mean
that you’ve heard from Christ
when he will heal.
Now, occasionally, God will give you the faith
to see instant healing.
The first person I ever prayed for
was instantly healed,
of rheumatic fever.
And I’ve received instant healing a couple times.
One time a few years ago
a lady was just standing here on Sunday morning,
while we were singing during worship time,
and she was instantly healed of deafness in one ear,
that she had had for most of her life.
She got so excited that she started jumping up and down,
then ran up front and told everyone about it.
But its not all that common
to see instant healing.
Even people who have ministries in divine healing
and have been used powerfully by God in this area,
don’t see instant healing that much.
Francis McNutt,
has had a great ministry of divine healing
for over 40 years
and written a number of books on it,
And he’s said that at his meetings
his experience is that about 5% of people
or one in 20,
receive immediate complete healing.
Now, that’s a great track record,
from somebody whose been used powerfully by God.
But that means the other 19 out of 20
don’t receive instant complete healing.
However he says that
a much larger percentage
receive some help.
Maybe your back isn’t completely healed instantly,
but it hurts less than it did,
before the prayer.
And Francis McNutt tells us,
Continue to pray for those people
who see a little improvement,
because if someone gets like 10% better
after one prayer,
then he’s discovered that
they’ll continue to improve
after the second prayer session
and after the third, and fourth.
It can be progressive.
So if you go to your small group this week,
and pray for somebody to be healed,
and they’re not instantly completely healed,
don’t worry about it,
People with huge faith may only see 1 in 20,
so you’ve got nineteen times to go,
before you can start getting frustrated.
But definitely ask the person,
did you feel any improvement,
did you feel anything happening,
because if they did,
then that’s encouragement for them
to continue to seek healing,
it may be that God is going to heal them progressively.
Here at the Vineyard,
we have prayer after every service,
and we say to people,
hey, even if you come up for prayer,
and don’t get instant total healing,
keep coming up,
because God does progressive healings too.
For example, if you have cancer,
hey, do what the doctor says,
go in for your chemo;
go in for your radiation;
but we want to treat you also,
with the progressive prayer treatment
of the Holy Spirit.
We want to pray repeatedly
for your arthritis,
or your depression,
or whatever it is that chronically afflicts you.
Don’t give up after the first time you ask for prayer,
because faith for healing
doesn’t assume we know God’s timing.
Faith for healing is not a technique
Have you ever noticed that,
every healing Jesus did,
he did it a different way?
The woman was healed
by grabbing the edge of his robe.
Jairus’ daughter was healed
when Jesus leaned over the little girl
and took her by the hand
and said, “Talitha koum”.
One time Jesus told a blind man
to put mud on his eyes
and then go wash.
Another time Jesus took some of his saliva
and put it on a mute man’s mouth
and he began to speak.
Sometimes Jesus would just speak a word.
Why all the different ways?
I think Jesus was making sure
that nobody could find some technique or formula,
for how to always do it.
We human beings love technique,
but its Jesus who heals,
not a technique.
So we need to keep listening to the Spirit,
and keep focusing on him,
because faith for healing is not a technique.
Faith for healing is not necessarily found in the sick person
The tv preachers tell you,
if you have enough faith,
you’ll always be healed.
And it almost feels like
they’re blaming the sick person
who doesn’t get well
for their lack of faith.
But in this story, the little girl was dead,
so she had no faith,
But she still got healed.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say
that the sick person must have faith
in order to be healed
Now don’t get me wrong,
there is a connection,
and there’s no doubt that having strong faith helps
when it comes to healing prayer,
there’s no doubt, it does help.
But many times in the bible
it was the person praying,
who had the faith,
not the sick person.
So here at the Vineyard,
we would never tell someone who hasn’t gotten healed,
“Well, guess you just don’t have enough faith”
Because that might not be the case at all.
Okay, so I’ve covered 4 things that faith isn’t.
What is faith for healing?
I love Francis McNutt’s definition:
When it comes to praying for healing, he says:
Faith for healing is chutzpah!
Some of you are going, Ken,
what are you talking about?
Are you speaking in tongues now?
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word;
it means brassiness,
it means audacity;
it means someone who goes for it;
who won’t take no for an answer.
I’ll give you an example of Chutzpah.
There’s an old joke about a man who killed his father and mother and then pleaded with the judge for mercy saying, “After all, Judge, I’m an orphan.”
That’s Chutzpah.
There’s another story about a client who asks a lawyer:
what do you charge for your services?
The lawyer says, “$10,000 bucks to answer three questions.”
The client says, “Doesn’t that seem like a lot of money?”
The lawyer said, Yes. “What’s your third question?”
Chutzpah.
Chutzpah is this woman with the flow of blood.
She has to fight through so many problems
and discouragement
and rejection
shame,
social isolation,
12 years dealing with all that year after year,
and spending everything that she had,
But she refuses to give up.
she refuses to give in.
And she pushes through that crowd
she gets to Jesus
and grabs his robe,
because maybe, just maybe,
this time, she’ll be set free.
Let me ask you,
Do you have chutzpah?
audacity, boldness, risk-taking,
who cares what anybody else thinks?
Do you have chutzpah to go for it
when you or someone you love
needs to be healed.
Jairus had it too.
Lets read the rest of his story. Verse 35
While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. "Your daughter is dead," they said. "Why bother the teacher anymore?" Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, "Don't be afraid; just believe."
He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly. He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep." But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum!" (which means "Little girl, I say to you, get up!"). Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
Jairus was doing a risky thing,
coming to this Jesus,
who all the other religious leaders hate,
But he doesn’t care.
His daughter is dying,
he’s not gonna let anything stop him,
from getting her help.
And then he hears the devastating news
that his daughter has actually died.
But Jesus says, just believe.
So Jairus had to push through;
He needed chutzpah
to ignore the crowd,
and ignore the mocking and laughter
after Jesus said,
“Don’t worry, she’s not dead she’s just sleeping.”
Faith is Chutzpah, boldness, taking a risk.
Lets apply this to us.
When someone in your family is sick,
even if its just a cold or headache,
or maybe someone at work,
or maybe it is serious,
maybe its cancer and you’re thinking,
no way do I have that much faith,
to pray for that,
faith, chutzpah, is saying,
I don’t care if nothing happens
I don’t care if I look foolish,
I’m gonna pray for you to be healed anyway.
Because if I don’t,
I can be sure nothing will happen.
GREG: STORY
Now, we’re going to close in about three minutes,
but I know that some of you
still think of healing,
as something that’s only practiced
by a few special anointed ones,
pastors and elders maybe,
but not by ordinary Christians.
And maybe you’d come up front after church
and have our prayer teams pray for you,
but no way do you feel capable
of doing that yourself,
with someone in your family,
or someone at work.
Well, if you want to change that,
and see healing become somewhat ordinary,
not guaranteed, but not out of the ordinary,
in your life,
there’s a couple things you can do.
#1, simply
Practice healing
Just try it out.
You don’t even have to know what you’re doing.
The first time I every prayed for someone,
I was like 16 years old,
had no clue what I was doing,
but my best friends sister was sick,
she had a chronic illness,
rheumatic fever,
so we went and started praying for her,
and amazingly, God showed up,
and it was an instant complete healing
I’m going, whoh, what happened,
that was pretty cool.
But you see, we don’t try that,
because we assume God won’t do anything.
But that’s a bad assumption.
He often works more powerfully,
when you don’t know what you’re doing.
I think he just wants to surprise us or something.
So whenever you get a chance,
if somebody in your family has a headache,
if they get a cold,
if their back is hurting,
whatever it is, just go for it,
Tell them, hey, I’m gonna practice on you.
This guy McNutt thinks he’s an expert,
he’s doing 1 out of 20,
I think I can do one out of 10.
That’s Chutzpah.
Practice healing,
Its been said,
The only way to get a hit
is to take lots of swings at the ball.
And then second, to see healing become ordinary,
2. Risk healing
One of the biggest obstacles to healing
is that nobody wants to look bad.
If I pray for a sick person
and they don’t get well,
I’m going to look bad,
or at least God is going to look bad.
I’ll tell you what,
God can take care of himself,
so don’t worry about if he looks bad.
Just take a little risk.
It doesn’t work the first time,
try it again.
Take some risk.
And finally,
here’s the secret of healing
according to the apostle John.
3. The secret of healing: See what God is doing
John 5:19-20
Do you know why Jesus could always heal,
and never failed at it?
The answer is right here.
Jesus said:
…the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
Jesus could always see
just what His Father was doing.
That means, if you want to pray for someone to be healed,
the first step is to take a minute, and pray,
You can ask,
God what are you doing in this person’s life?
Is this about something more than just
these certain symptoms,
or this illness.
Is there something else you want to do God?
How do you want me to pray?
Ask him to give you insight,
and see if he gives you any leading.
Because we cannot do
what God is not doing.
Let’s stand for prayer.
