Lately, my wife-to-be has been ridiculed by someone close to her for believing in the gift of healing. While I try not to respond to such things because arguing is generally pointless, I do formulate responses in my head. Here is my response...
It is not I who lives but Christ within me (Galatians 2:20). Jesus healed people, cast out demons, raised the dead, loved sinners, and really pissed off religious people. Hmm...
If Jesus did this stuff in the Bible, lives through us today, and is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8), shouldn't these things be happening in our lives? I think so. My point is that Jesus can heal people through us, and He wants to heal people spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically by our hands. The apostle Paul understood this and lived it out.
"Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them among the Gentiles."
- Acts 15:12
"Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul"
- Acts 19:11
"And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God."
- 1 Corinthians 2:4-5
I think it's rather interesting that Acts 19:11 uses the word unusual to describe the works God was doing at the hands of Paul. To me, healing is not that unusual. What might these works have been? I have some ideas, but I'll keep those to myself.
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