THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: Power Gifts: The Gifts of Healing - 2

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Beloved, healing is part and parcel of our salvation, paid for in full by Jesus Christ our Lord. I’m fully convinced that it is in the atonement. Jesus called healing – “the children’s bread”. 

In Matthew 15 there is the story of this woman from Canaan who wanted healing for her daughter and came calling Jesus by His Messianic title “Son of David”, trying to sound Jewish hoping that would impress Jesus and get Him to respond to her favorably…she was that desperate… but to her amazement and perhaps a little disappointment, Jesus ignored her and when He finally responded, His response implied that healing is the children’s bread and since she wasn't Jewish, though she acted like she was, she wasn't included. She came clean and continued persisting for her daughter’s healing and eventually Jesus granted her request. 

Now I’m sure there is a teaching about being real with God or something along those lines in there somewhere…but that’s not the scope of what I’m sharing in this installment – healing as the children’s bread is... Anyway I digress…

As a Child of God, healing is your right and privilege, remember you have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ and that’s not the result of anything we have done but it’s because of everything Jesus has already done for us. Let us now get to the practical side of things as far as the Gifts of Healing go.

You see, the Holy Spirit’s commentary through Matthew, quoting from Isaiah, settles the matter of our healing being included in our redemption, Jesus took our sicknesses and infirmities – all of them:

¹⁶ When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:

¹⁷ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. – Matthew 8:16-17 KJV

How to Flow in the Gifts of Healing

Again, this gift operates as the Holy Spirit wills; we cannot operate in it at will. We are to be open to the Holy Spirit and should He choose to manifest this gift to bless others through us, we respond in love and obedience to His promptings.

Many times when this gift is in operation, it will be in tandem with the other gifts, such as the Word of Knowledge, Faith, Discerning of Spirits etc.

Today we can minister healing through the Gifts of Healing or through the word of faith. We have God’s sure word of healing and so we can minister on the authority of His Word. I've personally ministered healing this way countless times. The Word of God says:

¹⁷ And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; ¹⁸ they^[b] will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” – Mark16:17-18 NKJV (emphasis added)

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Every believer can minister healing to those who are sick by simply standing on the authority of this Scripture in Mark 16. That’s what I call healing by the word of faith or prayer of faith. Since you believe in Jesus, you can lay your hands on the sick and expect them to recover. That’s acting out your faith, you believe the Word and you express your belief by doing exactly what the Word says. And James reminds us that faith without works is dead, so there!

Then there is healing through the operation of the Gifts of Healing...

TO BE CONTINUED>>>