I’ve been wresting with some thoughts lately. World Race training camp was such an eye opening experience for me…..It opened my eyes to the Presence and the Power of the Holy Spirit. Like I said in previous Blogs I had never experienced the Holy Spirit like I did at camp. I actually FELT the Holy Spirit come upon me when Adventure in Missions leader Mike Hindes prayed the Spirit over us. I prophesied over my teammates and was prophesied over by them. I was spoken over by several people with words given to them by the Holy Spirit. These are things that I would not have believed before going through training camp down in Georgia. But after experiencing them, there is no way I can deny what happened…what I Felt. I can’t deny these experiences happend, but I can still Doubt. I can doubt that I can experience the Holy Spirit like I did at camp, back here at home. That I have to be in a setting of believers who are on fire for God for the Holy Spirit to come down upon me. I can doubt that I can pray healing over someone and they will be healed. I can doubt that the Holy Spirit will come down upon me and give me words to speak and Prophesy over someone when I step out in faith and do so.
I guess it’s just human nature to doubt, and that is what bothers me. I KNOW what happened at camp is true. I KNOW I felt the Holy Spirit. I KNOW He can bring Healing and Truth through prayer…..but I am constantly doubting. What if I pray healing over someone and they are not healed? Does that mean my faith is not strong enough to provide healing through the Holy Spirit? If I pray healing over someone and they are not immediately healed, do I continue to pray healing over them during my daily prayer time, or do I believe in faith that God has or will heal them?
These are just a few of the things I have been pondering in my head since training camp. Fortunately our God is an amazing God and was able to give me some comfort and understanding through scripture during my devotional time, as well as insight from some great Christian Friends. I spoke to a friend about healings in the spirit the other day, and he was able to give me some insight. At his church they have weekly Healing Services where they pray healing over people. So I brought up with him my reservations about praying healing over people….what if they are not healed etc… He said that while not everyone is miraculously healed during these prayer service(although that does happen!) God is ALWAYS at work. God does everything in HIS time. So if He chooses to heal someone through the prayer of others, He will do it. But sometimes He won’t, and this is also God working. God’s plans for our lives are perfect, and if that means that whatever ailment that is being prayed over to be healed is not healed, then it is because God makes it so. Maybe the trial of the wound(physical, emotional etc..) that is being prayed over will bring us to a place we cannot see, but God can. Maybe through the trial we will become closer to God or glorify Him in a way we could not imagine. Just as Jesus healed the blind man in John Chapter 9:
2. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this
man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3. “Neither this man nor his parnets sinned,” said
Jesus, “But this happened so that the works of God
might be displayed in him.”
Sometimes we will go through trials wondering why God would allow such things come to pass, but sometimes these things happen to bring us closer to Christ and to ultimately Glorify Him! So as for us praying healing over people. Our Job is to step out in Faith and to pour God’s healing spirit out over those in this world that need it, believing that God’s will will be done and that the person wil be healed, and God’s Job is to choose how to administer that healing,
Mark 16:17-18 – “And these
signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands onsick people, and they will get well.”
signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands onsick people, and they will get well.”
