The Lord has had me do a number of different things for Him. One of the most interesting and incredible was a Christian healing ministry that He had me serve in for about five years. You see a lot of incredible things the Lord does in that ministry and more importantly He teaches you a lot in it! I easily learned more in those five years than I learned in any other ten years with Him.
I think the most important thing I learn was the connections between our getting healing and the relationship we have with the Lord!!!
It shouldn't be surprising if we read the Scriptures, but it was for me and I believe is one of the least understood things in Christianity. That connection is sooo important that I stopped trying to focus on getting people healed and concentrated on just getting them hook up with the Lord, because I saw that the relationship would get them healed!!
Let me just go over a couple of verses that show this:
Ex 15:26 And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your god, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statues, I will put none of these diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, and your healer
Jn 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life
So, based upon the verses above it is God who heals them provided they "earnestly heed" His voice, and His words that are spoken to them are spirit and are life. Thus when people came in for healing I would get them seeking the voice of the Lord and trying to listen to Him. That is; I would get them into a personal relationship with Him. That became my goal, because if what was written is correct, they would get healing and life by listening to Him!!!
I think the most important thing I learn was the connections between our getting healing and the relationship we have with the Lord!!!
It shouldn't be surprising if we read the Scriptures, but it was for me and I believe is one of the least understood things in Christianity. That connection is sooo important that I stopped trying to focus on getting people healed and concentrated on just getting them hook up with the Lord, because I saw that the relationship would get them healed!!
Let me just go over a couple of verses that show this:
Ex 15:26 And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your god, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statues, I will put none of these diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, and your healer
Jn 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life
So, based upon the verses above it is God who heals them provided they "earnestly heed" His voice, and His words that are spoken to them are spirit and are life. Thus when people came in for healing I would get them seeking the voice of the Lord and trying to listen to Him. That is; I would get them into a personal relationship with Him. That became my goal, because if what was written is correct, they would get healing and life by listening to Him!!!