I have never been the “type” of Christian that jumps up to pray for physical healing. Its not that I don’t believe it can happen. I know that God heals people all the time. I have seen it with my own eyes on various occasions. The problem is that I have always thought that this type of prayer was for someone else. Someone “more spiritual” or more gifted in this area. I put myself in a box, and in reality, I put God in a box by assuming that I didn’t carry the authority to call on His name to physically heal. I have been walking in the belief that I have the capability to bring emotional healing to others since the Lord has been teaching me that He can use me in this way. But to be quite honest, I have always strayed away from moments when someone needs healing in the physical sense. To be frank, I have even viewed some of these moments as over exaggerations. But the point of this blog is to admit that my thinking was totally wrong. God can use ANYONE for ANYTHING. Period. I am now a true witness of this because He was able to take a girl that didn’t think she had it in her, and use her to heal a complete stranger in a random church service in Bulgaria. This is what happened:
This month, we have been traveling with our contact to churches around Bulgaria that he is in association with and it has been a blessing to say the least! We were asked to pray over the people of a congregation at the end of service and The Holy Spirit began to move in great power throughout all of us. I noticed that Grace and Rayna were praying for a woman as she suddenly fell on the ground in tears. She was completely overwhelmed by the touch of The Spirit (I know the feeling). I felt a gentle whisper telling me to pray for her also. The moment that I got down on my knees and touched her, the words started flowing out and I was suddenly led to pray for the healing of her bones. As we prayed, her knees began to shake. We laid our hands on her knees and I began rattling off things that I never really thought I would say with such conviction, things like, “In Jesus name I ask for healing in her body.” And then I declared that there would be peace in her bones and rest in her knees and the shaking immediately calmed and she relaxed. And then I started to cry because I realized that she was just released from a pain that she wasn’t meant to carry. Later we realized that God used every member of our team at the same time to bring healing to this woman. We were all praying in one accord for her, because He wanted to use all of us, not just one. Not only will I now believe that God will use me to heal, I also believe that He wants to use my whole team to do amazing things as a community of sisters devoted and in tune with The Holy Spirit.
