Medications had helped, but migraines persisted. One night I prayed for a young relative who had been getting migraines. Often, a ‘hunch’ turned out to be a ‘leading’. Note that “It is the Spirit who gives life the flesh profits nothing” (John 6:63) and that “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Cor. Listening more for the leading of God’s Spirit helped me enormously. God’s Spirit speaks his word into our hearts and lives. The more I read about Jesus and his followers the more my faith grew. You can still pray in faith, knowing God hears and will answer in his way and in his time. What if you have no leading on how to pray? That happens at times. But we can persist, just as we do with medical treatments. Healing does not always happen, or it may be slow in coming. We all experience disappointment sometimes when we pray for healing. But we can all pray for healing, even if we don’t have healing gifts. There are many gifts of healings (1 Corinthians 12:9), and some people have a gift of faith for healing – they just expect it. I began saying, “We’ll keep on trusting God for more healing, however it may come.” As we persisted in faith, there seemed to be more healing, more often. What if the person is not healed? That is a common blockage because sometimes there is no evidence of immediate healing. If you wait till you’re perfect, you’ll be in heaven! Confess sin quickly and gratefully move on, because the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, goes on cleansing us from all sin (1 John 1:7). “No one is good but One, that is, God” (Mark 10:18). We think we’re not good enough for God to work in and through us. Many blockages in my thinking stopped me from praying with authority. A simple way to check is to ask, “How much pain do you have on a scale of 10 to 1?” When we persisted, we often saw improvement right there and then. If some pain remained, I was often led to pray for them again, sometimes more than once more.Īs first I was reluctant to ask how the person felt, in case there was little or no improvement! Then, gradually I realized that asking how they felt actually gave me more opportunity to pray more if that was needed. So then I realized that it helped to ask the person being prayed for how they felt. Increasingly I found more people reported that pain had gone or that they felt significantly improved. Sometimes (not automatically, and not always) I was led to pray something like “ Infirmity, get out in Jesus’ name.“ Increasingly I found myself led to pray, “ Be healed, in Jesus’ name.“Īs I persisted, the Holy Spirit quietly prompted me to take authority over attacks against the person. I began listening more to the still, small voice in my mind and heart, and found I was praying with more authority, in Jesus’ name. That gradually opened new horizons for me. Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth, and we have authority as we serve him and pray in his name, on his behalf. Instead of praying the same old way, “Please God, heal that sick person,” I began praying the way I was led by the Spirit.Īs I read about Jesus and his disciples, I realized that they rarely or never prayed this way, “Please God heal that sick person.” Mostly they commanded healing, and Jesus’ followers always did so in Jesus’ name. So my journey in praying for others, including praying for the sick, began to change as I allowed the Holy Spirit to guide me more fully. We all need to ask, seek and knock, and Jesus promises that we will receive, find and have the door opened (Matthew 7:7-8). Jesus told us to seek this: “ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13). Then I discovered intimacy with God and the power of his Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, in new ways. Amen.” Generally the people we prayed for seemed to improve and sometimes we saw rapid improvement. When I was young, we prayed for the sick in general terms, such as “Please God, heal Mr or Mrs So-and-so. The tide changed and waves of healing blessings flowed more fully. Gradually my faith grew as I persisted in faith, believing that God answers prayer and that God heals. I know that God answers prayer, but we don’t always know how. I found it produced results after persisting in hope and faith. This article is a result of my search for effective ways of praying for the sick. Copy and share this link on your media, eg Facebook, Instagram, Emails:įREE RENEWAL JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION: for updates, new Blogs & free offers
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