I healed someone? (Part 1)

We had just finished our job for the day- painting the house. (Well this has actually been our job for about a week now and today we finally finished.)  I wanted to just sit back and relax for the afternoon and as I was deciding which movie to watch I suddenly noticed I wasn’t alone… Depression, my old friend, had snuck up on me and was settling in.  I sat back and just closed my eyes and started talking to God: “I adore you Father, and I know I haven’t had some intentional time with you in a while, and I know that’s why I’m getting depressed.  I just wish that meeting with you wasn’t such a chore and a burden.  I know you are with me all the time, I feel you all the time and I pray all the time, that stuff is easy.  But when I don’t sit down every day and get in the Word I just feel myself slipping into depression and I hate it. I hate it. God I just want to feel you this afternoon and spend time with You without having to try. I love You.�

I opened my eyes, sighed, stood up to walk across the room and immediately fell against a wall and cried out in pain.  This horrible pain shot through my ankle like I had twisted it or something and I couldn’t put any weight on it.  I was really confused- there was no reason my ankle should be hurting, I didn’t trip, I hadn’t been sitting funny and I have no history of ankle problems… then this phrase popped into my head:

words or knowledge.

Ok so about a month ago I had no idea what that meant and I am still not completely sure but I’ll try and explain what I know (most of this information comes from the Finger of God: Everything Else documentary.) Gifts of knowledge are one of the ways that God speaks to people so that His life, His healing and His knowledge can come to us. Basically the Holy Spirit reveals to a person something that they could not have figured out on their own- like a personal struggle that someone else is going through or something from their past they have never revealed, for instance.  It isn’t deduction and it isn’t intuition it is a revelation of the Holy Spirit.  We know that God’s power is made perfect in our weakness, not through our strengths.

Now this isn’t about you, it is about God and His glory. But what does this have to do with my ankle? Well the other form of words of knowledge doesn’t actually involve any words or any thoughts popping into your head but it is rather something physical.  You get a random pain somewhere you don’t usually ever have pain and that is God’s way of getting your attention that there is someone around you that needs to be healed. That is what popped into my head as I was leaning up against the wall holding my ankle and breathing through my teeth. I nervously hobbled over to some of my teammates and asked if their ankles hurt. They looked at me like I was crazy and said “no, why�? I asked if they knew about this “words of knowledge� thing and they just gave me confused looks and blank stares. I felt like a crazy person.
 
I got a little angry at myself for being so foolish and went and plopped down in front of my computer to watch a movie, but I couldn’t do it. I pushed aside my fear and my frustration and I walked up to my last teammate, Shaun.  I finally worked up the courage to ask if his ankle hurt and to my great relief, shock and surprise he answered: “well, yeah actually, it does. Why?�
 
(To be continued)