As a team we decided we wanted to go to the hospital and pray over the patients there. We went with Asetu, a member from the congregation. She prays almost daily for the patients, and we wanted to join her on her mission from God to heal the sick. Our team prayed for supernatural healing (immediate healing) from their ailments.
Let’s talk about supernatural healing….Can God still heal people supernaturally like He did in the Bible? Can He make a blind man see, and a lame man walk? The question isn’t if he CAN but does He still provide such healings and miracles to happen? That is the question I ask myself a lot. I want to believe He does. I want to believe He can do the impossible today. But I still have my doubts. Do I doubt because I was never taught about supernatural healings growing up? Do I doubt because I’ve never experienced such healing? I don’t want to witness a healing to believe, because God doesn’t work that way.
Jesus calls His disciples in Matthew chapter 10 to “Proclaim as you go, saying ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons.” Jesus called His disciples to a life of bringing health to the sick, raising the dead, touch the untouchables, and kick out demons. Am I one of Jesus’ disciples? Yes. A disciple is…… So if I am a disciple, Jesus calls me to do these things. How? Why? When? The questions and doubt are boggling my mind.
Back to our hospital trip. The first few rooms we went into, I was super uncomfortable and nervous. I’ve never prayed over patients in a hospital before. I started to feel myself saying the same prayer over and over again in each room. Praying for the same thing for each person: healing, being comfortable, blessing the doctors, giving peace to the family, and filling them with God’s love. My prayers didn’t change until we walked into a room and Asetu says “this man accepted Jesus the other day when I was here. And I feel like God wanted me to introduce him to you all, and you can pray for him.” Asetu, knew God. She is a powerful Godly woman, who listens to God’s voice, and prays powerful prayers. I wanted that. I wanted to pray powerful prayers. I wanted to ask for healing whether immediate or through medicine and the hands of the doctors. I wanted to speak words that weren’t just rolling off of my tongue.
The next room we went to had four women in it. When I walked in, I felt different. The women’s attitudes were positive and hopeful. Asetu asked if they would like prayer and one replied “we need all the prayer”. When I prayed, I wasn’t just speaking, I was listening, waiting for the words to come out. God’s presence and power was in that room, and He wanted us to share His love and healing power with those women. The prayer I prayed was probably one of the most powerful prayers I’ve ever prayed. This was a shiver moment (a moment where I get chills throughout my whole body, because of God’s presence and power. Most of the time it happens during prayer or worship) This was a moment that changed my way of praying. A moment I will remember my whole race.
“Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree (previous verses Jesus cursed it and it withered), but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” ~Matthew 21:21-22
