I need a paradigm shift

I know in my heart that God desires to heal and set people free. So many of the stories we read about Jesus’ life surrounded healing. There is something we are not tapping into, a level of faith or power that only comes from the Father.

I prayed for a girl at IHOP yesterday who was blind in one eye. I did everything I have been taught to do, laid hands on her eyes, spoke directly to the problem with her retina and had her test out her eye. Nothing happened. She is still blind in one eye. Something that hit me while praying was that a few people seemed to be praying at her, real loud and in tongues. It threw me off and made it hard to tap into what God wanted to do.

We are so far from understanding how to go for healing. I am so clueless on what it looks like to see people consistently healed through my prayers. I am hungry to dive in and will not just settle for “oh well”. There is something key to persistence and commitment. Jesus honors us when we communicate our level of sacrifice to see people walk in freedom.

I think I am going to join the healing room teams. I am stirred to see people healed and what better way to go for it then to pray for lots of sick people. Whenever I get the chance I am going to pray for the sick. I want God to break in and move. As I run after Him, I want to start to look like Him. Healing was who Jesus was and I have to tap into that. I can not just pursue intimacy with Him and not desire to be like Him in life.

A few weeks ago my heart ached as I watched a mother and father pray for a man in a wheel chair, as their son was the center of a healing service because he had brain cancer. They moved out of their situation to pray for someone else who needed freedom. That is sacrifice and selflessness. If my heart was moved by that, how much more was Gods’? There has to be more then just accepting the death of a 27-year-old who loved Jesus and believed that he was to be healed.

Jesus teach us Your ways...for we grow weary without Your touch.