Healing

I started praying physical healing over people when I started to believe that it still happens. That was some time in August 2014, especially after a piece of glass disappeared from the inside of my foot after prayer. Though no healing actually occurred as I prayed, I truly believed that it would if God wills. So I kept it up, like much of my other spiritual gifts, I just leapt out in faith and sought to see where God would lead me. Ultimately, I wanted to be obedient, to learn, to love, and to learn to love.

I prayed consistently for various people including myself, as I am quite prone to injuries, and while flus, colds and headaches going away can easily be explained, I had always thanked God and kept faithful in trying and believing, and I guess it pays off in two ways: (i) God coming in and showing me how it's done, and (ii) I've gained courage and experience in this matter.

My first super obvious self heal occurred when my friend told me that tongues are very useful for healing, so just out of curiosity, I tried it over some bad persistent fungal growth just before I applied my ointment, and halfway in-between my wish and my doubts, the dry, rough skin disappeared from right under my fingers and were replaced with new, smooth and healthy skin. Wow! That was pretty amazing, I quickly continued praying for everything I could think of, but despite all the other injuries that I had, only the skin healed. Still, I was thrilled, because that had been such an annoying issue for such a long time!

So after this, I persisted in continuing to pray for people, and had double the confidence in praying healing over myself. I've heard testimonies that seem to say that you cannot do both healing on yourself and on others, but I don't know if that's Biblical, all I know is: We pray, God heals. So I kept trying for about 8 months, and then finally, during this healing service, Tom Jones came with his team to visit and they had words of knowledge for everyone. I went for prayer about this painful toothache that had the same symptoms of my previous bad tooth that resulted in a root canal surgery, and a fake tooth. The woman who I went to had a word about an abscess in the right cheek, and that was pretty close. So we prayed, and there wasn't immediate healing, but I know well enough that one healing doesn't affect another, so I turned around and prayed for the next guy, who had hurt his neck while working out that morning. After the first prayer, nothing happened, but I wanted to keep praying and just make it happen. So we went through 6 rounds, and slowly, he regained movement from his limited 10% to 80% movement restored. It was awesome! Now that is some good education and encouragement.

Later during the week, I was meeting up with a friend who had been a Christian back in high school, but had opted to be agnostic now in his adult life. Halfway through this meeting, he was flexing his knee a bit, and instinctively, I asked him to stretch out his legs. Surely as I suspected, he had one short and one long leg, just a small difference of a centimetre. Still, a difference is a difference, and it means that if God chooses to come in, He surely will. I prayed a short quiet prayer as I held his feet: "Dear Jesus, thank you for your love for _______. I just pray that you grow this leg back out. Right now. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Amen." And between the two "Thank you"s, his feet aligned! I pushed his shoes up towards his feet to see if it was just the shoes that had moved, but no, they were even now. I was so psych'd! He got up and walked around, but didn't feel much difference, but who knows just what God is going to do with this. I am beside myself, thrilled, to be used for healing. Just so thrilled.