Healing Is Simple

Many healings in few days.

Hotel bellboy was healed completely. He asked, "When did you find out you have this ability?" I said, "It's Jesus who spoke to me and healed you. We are believers. Every believer can hear God's voice and heal the sick."

The Gospel cannot be reduced to men's ability and gifts. It has to be Jesus and His finished work.

Healing is simple. If you believe, you receive. If you don't believe, you don't receive.

While it should be the minister who stands in faith for the sick to be healed (James 5:14-15), healing works when either side of the party believes: either the minister (Matt 8:14-15; Mark 7:33-35) or the sick (Matt 9:29; Mark 5:34). As such, the minister should not think (or take credit) that it is him who gets the sick well. 

Note: Of course, we know that Jesus is the One who heals ultimately.

If we think that it is always the minister who gets the sick well, we reduce the simple message of the Gospel to men's ability and gifts. We look to the minister instead of Jesus. In this case, minister gets the glory instead of Jesus.

Thus, I love the fact that healing works even if the minister doesn't believe like Christ does. Believing is simply seeing what Christ sees. While the minister may not see what Christ sees when ministering healing, the sick can still believe and receive healing. It's the sick who gets himself healed. The minister acts as a mere instrument. I love this because it shows how simple the Gospel is. Simply believe.

We may wonder how the sick believes and receives healing when it's actually the minister who prays.

Romans 10:17 says that faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of Christ. The sick can hear the Gospel preached/shared by the minister, respond in faith and receive healing. The minister has nothing to do with the healing except to deliver the message and pray. Jesus gets the glory. But more often than not, we give the minister glory instead of Jesus. Because we use physical eyes to see: minister prays and the sick is healed. If we use spiritual eyes to see, we will know that it's not always the minister who believes.

In the first Kingdom Invasion in Singapore, a minister released many word of knowledge but saw little results of healing. He then realised that he forgot to share with the participants how to receive healing when a word of knowledge is released. He shared that when God releases a specific word of knowledge, He wants the person healed. So the person should respond and receive on the spot. After that sharing, he again released many word of knowledge and the results of healing were tremendous as compared to the previous session. The minister wasn't the one who got the sick healed. It was the sick who got themselves healed after hearing and understanding the message.

One healing minister shared that this is the reason why you can give fake word of knowledge from the pulpit and people will still get healed, because it isn't the minister's faith. It's the sick who responded in faith.

I believe that this is the same reason why a minister can pray for the sick in the first world country and the third world country and see different results. It's not always the minister who sees what Christ sees.

This is actually good because everyone gets to participate in appropriating the benefits of the Gospel. Jesus gets the glory. Yay God!

I was meditating on Ephesians 4:12-14 today. I wonder why we are taking a long time to reach the unity of the faith. Because the five-fold offices are supposed to equip the saints to DO the WORK of ministry. If every believer is equipped to do the work of the ministry, the church will be edified and come to the place of unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God. Because when you do the work and experience Him, it will alter your theology to align with the Gospel truth. When we share the same truth, we will represent the same Christ.

But the more we don't equip the believers to do it, the more we will look to the 'pulpit' minister. That perhaps results in different denominations and doctrines, with some thinking that Jesus doesn't always heal and with some thinking that healing is a spiritual gift that not all believers have. Healing is just one of the examples.

This is one reason why I stop ministering in a group setting where believers are present. We should get every believer to participate and do the work of ministry. That stops one-man show. And that awakens the true identity in every believer. #lifestylechristianity101 #collectingpayment #equipping #simpleGospel #healingissimple #anyonecandoit #donotlooktominister #looktoJesusinyou