Just as God gave you natural abilities, He can also give you supernatural ones. “Now there are distinctive varieties and distributions of endowments (gifts, extraordinary powers)… To one is given through the [Holy] Spirit … the extraordinary powers of healing…” (1 Corinthians 12:4,8,9 AMP).
The reason that God doesn’t give the gift of the power of healing to very many people is that there are few who can walk in this gift with humility. When we think of ourselves as anything more than a fork or spoon in the hands of God, then pride sets in.
We think too highly of ourselves and too little of God. “Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us” (Romans 12:3 NLT).
We think that having spiritual powers will make us more useful to God, but we are wrong. We can only be useful to God when we humbly allow Him to pour out His power through us. We don’t have the power, He is the power, and we are just the utensil.
God does not ask us to do our best, but to let Him do His best through us. “Glory belongs to God, whose power is at work in us. By this power he can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20 GW).
The spiritual gift of healing must be accompanied by the ministry of deliverance. There is some healing, which is a natural problem needing spiritual healing. But there is often a spiritual darkness that requires spiritual light in order to free the person of what ails them.
Sometimes diseases stay because nobody has commanded them to leave. “Standing at her bedside, he rebuked the fever, and it left her…” (Luke 4:39 NLT).
There may be times when God will let us have the gift of healing towards those who are around us. It is a blessed gift, as those who need healing are forever grateful when they receive it. Thank God for whenever He lets you flow in this spiritual gift.
We can pray for any condition, knowing Jesus can bring the cure. “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages…healing every sickness and every disease among the people” (Matthew 9:35 NKJV).
Beware declaring you walk in this spiritual gift when you really do not. You may gain the approval of man, but God will most certainly punish you. It’s more important that you are lower before God than others think you are higher than you really are.
The greatest obstacle between you and God is your pride. “Though the Lord is on high, yet He regards the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar” (Psalm 138:6 NKJV).
The healing power of God is not limited by the natural limits in this world. There was no illness or injury beyond what Jesus could heal, and if His life reigns in your life, the same power is available through you.
There are some things broken in our lives that only God can heal. “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [healing their pain and comforting their sorrow]” (Psalm 147:3 AMP).
God allows healing when the healing is part of His plan. The same is true when God allows suffering and when He allows people to die. We must trust Him with one decision with the same faithfulness as we do with His other decisions.
Have faith that Jesus can heal and keep your faith even when He doesn’t. “Praise Yahweh, my soul, and never forget all the good he has done: He is the one who forgives all your sins, the one who heals all your diseases” (Psalm 103:2-3 NOG).
Praise God that all healing is only temporary so that we will someday go to heaven. Yet we are so blessed when He allows healing such that we can continue to serve Him for a little while longer here on earth. Always make your healing worthy.
Praise God that He will not always heal us, that we would perish and go to heaven. “For this world is not our home; we are looking forward to our everlasting home in heaven” (Hebrews 13:14 TLB).
Some healing is for illness and some for injuries. But healing goes so much deeper than that. Our minds need healing, and our hearts need to be sewn back together. But even more than that, we need to be healed of the spiritual darkness that lives within us.
I don’t need to prove my prayers can bring healing, but I only have faith that His power can. “If you have faith when you pray for sick people, they will get well. The Lord will heal them, and if they have sinned, he will forgive them.” (James 5:15 CEV).
If you’re called to walk in the gift of healing, trust the Lord with who you are meant to help. Not everyone is helped by healing, as the Lord accomplishes much in our suffering. Trust the Lord, and you will never go wrong.
The same Holy Spirit that dwelt in Peter dwells in you. “…they even carried their sick out into the streets and put them on cots and sleeping pads, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them [with healing power]” (Acts 5:15 NKJV).
Beware of desiring any spiritual gift more than you desire to please God. Your willingness to be nothing for Him is of far greater value than anything you could accomplish with His power. God’s best servants never know they are His best servants.
Most Christians who desire a spiritual gift want it to be seen by others more than to be used by God. “In the same way, since you’re eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in them so that you help the church grow” (1 Corinthians 14:12 NOG).
If you desire this gift, make sure it is to serve God and not yourself. Be sure that spiritual gifts are never distributed based on what we want but on how God wants to use us. It matters more that He can use you than in what way He may choose to do so.
We are but utensils in the Hands of God, and we argue about whether we are a spoon or a fork. “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all” (1 Corinthians 12:4-6 NKJV).
Here are some other things below that the Holy Spirit was pouring into me this morning. Child of God, there is more power and majesty in the words of Holy Scripture than we have yet to put our arms around and that we have yet to even begin to take hold of.
The spiritual gift of healing is not meant just for the physical healing but also for spiritual healing. You can heal a body temporarily, but when there is spiritual healing, it will last into eternity. Jesus healed the spiritual before the physical when he forgave the sins of the paralyzed man before healing him of his paralysis (see Matthew 9:1-8).
We have to realize that there is so much more to a spiritual gift than the natural we see. Something much higher, much greater, and much more powerful. We have a limited view of God from our vantage point because we are standing on the perch of our own flesh and blood. But when the Holy Spirit teaches us and shows us the truth from the perch of heaven, we can see something far greater, far deeper, far more magnificent.
Don’t think that spiritual gifts only have natural outcomes. These gifts are from heaven and are meant to bring about the eternal purposes of God in the lives of those around you.
Don’t you dare exercise a gift for your own glory, for if you do, then God will surely not bless you in your ministry. It is only as a spiritual pauper that you can properly receive a spiritual gift and use it in a way that brings all glory to your Father in heaven.
There are some men and women that God gave very visible healing ministries, like Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, William J. Seymour in the Azusa Street Revival, Kathryn Kuhlman, and William Branham. These servants of God had mighty healing ministries, and that was good for them, but they were not the great healers. They got a lot of their accolades here on earth. The great healers are the ones you never heard of. You don’t even know that they exist, but they are here on this earth.
God says He gives spiritual gifts to all of us. Can you imagine if someone had the gift of healing and didn’t exercise it? What gift do you have? It says in Scripture that we all have one. If you don’t know what gift you have, then you need to pray about it. You can’t walk in your gift until you are first filled with His power. It takes the power of God in the spiritual gift He has for you to accomplish His plan through you here on this earth.
Blessings to you always,
Paul Balius
Thank you Paul!
You’re most welcome!