If Nobody Prays, Nobody Gets Healed
After seeing no healings over a long period of time, you are convinced
that you must not have the gift of healing. So you decide to stop praying
for people. What you don't know is: That is your sweet spot. That's the perfect time to pray for one more person.
That's when you will start seeing results. This is where healing begins.
Think about this: Who wants you to stop praying for people to be healed? Is it the devil or the Lord?
God is Saying to Many, "Give Me a Chance to Touch Others Through You."
I was in Lowe's walking around
and I overheard a lady telling someone how sick she was with a sinus infection. As I kept walking the Lord spoke to me to go and pray for her. I said, "Lord, I'm not used to praying for people in public."
The Lord said, "I am. Most of My ministry of healing and deliverance was
in public, not in the temple. Another thing, it's not about you but about Me.
I just want you to be a channel to give Me a chance to touch her. If she doesn't get healed it won't be your fault. And if she does get healed, it
won't be because of you either. I just want you to give Me a chance to
heal her."
I stepped out and asked her if I could pray for her. She said, "Yes, I have had this
sinus infection for many years and have had two surgeries and
it still comes back often." I prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to come upon her and I took authority over this infirmity to leave her. I felt the Lord's presence. She appeared to not feel anything, so I told her, "Sometimes God heals immediately and other times gradually."
As I walked away, I felt a healing witness go through my
own body. Perhaps being a channel for Him opens us up to be touched as well as others. I said, "Lord, what does that witness mean that ran through me
in spite of no evidence of that lady's healing?" He said, "That's the dam
of healing building up inside of you for the next person."
We're Just Conduits that God Wants to Flow
Through
On the way to minister at a church awhile back, I sensed the Lord saying,
"I want to heal someone at the very start of your message." I thought, That is strange for me in my meetings, for I didn't think I had a healing ministry at the time. As I sat down right before the service, I heard people around me talking about their physical
problems, medicines they were taking, and doctor reports that concerned them.
I kept thinking, which was my downfall, If I get up and say that God wants to heal someone before I speak, and if I didn't hear correctly, and no one gets healed, it will be a terrible way to begin these two nights of meetings.
I am ashamed to tell you that I didn't go with it. I started my
message and played it safe.
At the end of the service, as always, I invite people forward for special prayer. One woman came before me with her body shaking. She said,
"I just got out of the hospital. I had a stroke and my heart is so weak the doctor said there is nothing more they can do. I could die any minute." When she spoke those words, any faith I had left me. I felt so
helpless
for her. I anointed her with oil and laid my faithless hands on her head.
I know I prayed in unbelief, hoping she wouldn't die with my hand on her head. I was just glad to see her still alive as she left the meeting later.
The next morning I got a phone call from a pastor who was in the service. He said, "Brother Bill, the woman you
prayed for with the bad heart called me this morning. She said she woke up feeling fine. Her heart feels great, her blood pressure and sugar diabetes numbers are normal. I said, "That
is awesome!" I didn't tell him, but I know something: I had nothing to do with that healing. It was all God. I then realized since I had nothing to do with it, I am going to step out more because it's not about me. We're just conduits that God wants to flow
through. I am learning if nobody prays, nobody gets healed.
*** My new book: Handfuls of Purpose / Prophetic Gleanings from the Fields of Life, will be coming out very soon. Please pray. It's in the birth canal.
