Healing

Two weeks ago today, I was with friends praying and having a great time in the Spirit. One of the men had gout. He had not had it very long, but it was causing him a lot of pain. He was also having a lot of pain in his right shoulder. Several of us gathered around him and began to pray, releasing the Kingdom into his foot. Almost instantly the pain in his shoulder disappeared. He was thrilled. We all were. God is so good. We weren't finished. He was not experiencing any breakthrough with his foot. A few minutes later, we stopped praying. Nothing happened with his foot, but we were pretty excited about his shoulder being instantly healed. We continued to have a great time in fellowship with each other and God.

One week ago today, we were all together again having a great time with God, and this man had a great testimony of how God healed his foot. The Tuesday after we were all together, he was hanging out with a friend. Suddenly, he felt a burning in his foot. He knew in that moment that God healed him. There has been no sign of gout since then.

I don't know if our prayers were the reason his foot was healed, but I do know that God did an awesome thing. The healing of his shoulder is equally as amazing. God is amazing!

God is always doing great things. He is always at work. People are always getting saved, healed, encouraged, etc. No follower of Jesus will deny it. I think God wants to do even more, but He is waiting for us to cooperate with Him. I believe it is God's will to heal far more often than we believe. Frankly, I think it is always God's will to heal, but I recognize that many Christians would not agree with this view. My point is that God never said, "If I want someone to be healed, I'll do it. Just don't get people's hopes up." Sometimes we live as if this is what He said. What Jesus did say is this: "These are the signs that will follow those who believe, in My name...they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." I don't know about you, but I believe Jesus. We have no reason to fear laying our hands on people and praying for their healing. It's one of the marks of a believer.

God is so good and does awesome things. He wants to do even more awesome things through His kids (This is certainly not limited to healing). Hopefully this stirs your faith a bit. It stirs mine.