Contending for your own healing
God has given us gifts of healing to share with others but sometimes we see people healed by our prayer in the very area the we are in need of healing. After 15 years on the field and especially the last 5 years I became worn out and it manifested in my body with joint swelling, muscle aches, and numbness. I have gone to the healing rooms at Bethel Church and have had prayer many times. It has taken about 6 months for the recover process. Last fall I would be tired just going up the stairs. When I wake up in the mornings I would have numb arms and my hands were swollen. I tried a better bed and a healthy diet but nothing seem to help. For the last two months I have had an earache off and on. Nothing seems to help it and I have not had the money to see a doctor about it. I just continue to pray and have had prayer many times. I was just in a service where over 20 people received a miracle in their ears. I also prayed for a lady that had an immediate change in her swollen hands and sore knees.
There is a difference between how the Lord will minister to us. Sometimes he uses our own body healing abilities, other times he will use diet and exercise to help our body, other times he will us a doctor with medicine, sometimes he requires us to walk in faith and prayer through a process of trusting him and sometimes he uses a gift of healing or miracle. No matter what he uses we continue to glorify him in the process no matter if the healing is immediate, it is a recover process, or if we go into eternity trusting him as some did in the hall of faith of Hebrews 11.
In these days God is breaking through hundreds of years of bad doctrine on healing. He is showing himself as the same Jesus whom is Savior, Healer, Provider, Deliverer. God is teaching us to walk by faith for our own healing and to bring gifts of healing and miracles to others. All of this is to glorify Jesus. If we are to continue to walk in victory then we can not take the glory due to Jesus.
One mistake that ministers of healing have made in the past is to not teach people how to maintain their healing. A good analogy would be a person goes to the doctor and gets relief from high blood pressure by taking medication. The person never makes a change in their diet and exercise or only does for a while. They return to the doctor with the same or worst problem. The doctor may have told them what they should do to keep their pressure down but did not do what it takes to help them make a life style change. This is true also in healing. We must continue to walk by faith and prayer under the Presence of God. Jesus said to the man healed at the pool of Bethesda, “… go and sin no more lest a worst thing come upon you” (John 5:14). Jesus is not saying that if you are sick it means you are sinning nor is he saying that if you are sick this means you are in sin. He is just showing a Kingdom principle that sickness can come back when Jesus heals you and that we should continue to live our life for Him to walk in victory.
It seems that those that have learned to walk in the power of Jesus Christ are also required to walk in faith and christian character for our own healing. Sometimes we do get a miracle like those that we pray for. It is more often that we are to walk in faith and prayer as we continue to contend for our healing. It is very important that we include all of our fellow believers in our struggle as we pray and believe together to see God glorified. As we are contending we continue to give to others from our gift because their testimony of healing becomes part of our testimony as we believe God for a breakthrough. In weakness He becomes strong through us.
What I have shared has been an area of stumbling for many Christians. Why stumble over this? Why not believe the Word is true regardless of our own struggle. Why not believe that in our own weakness God is showing His strength to others? Then when we get a breakthrough it becomes even a stronger testimony as we pray for others. Jesus is awesome! He heals today just like He always has!
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