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Take time to establish a bridge of trust before attempting to minister to strangers. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
6
Motives for Healing
I T’S POSSIBLE TO DO THE right thing for the wrong reason. Healing, which in itself is a good thing, can be done out of questionable motives. I’ve had to check my motives more often than I’d like. When I began this life of healing, it was at the prompting of God. He kept after this reluctant, unbelieving skeptic until I finally got in the flow and saw people healed. I’m glad He was more persistent than I was. As time went on, I stepped out and laid hands on the sick more often because it was finally working. People were actually being healed.
There came a day when I began to feel a bit guilty because no one had been healed and I was making my way to bed. I began to wonder if I was becoming lazy. Two days went by and I failed to lay hands on a single person. I began to wonder if God was disappointed with me. After a week of kicking back on my “no healing vacation” I wondered to myself, “If I laid hands on someone, would they actually be healed?”
My guilty conscience got the best of me and I went back to praying with people in stores again. And they were still being healed.
I decided to kick it into high gear for a while and started looking for people to heal literally everywhere I went. My wife began to get a little irritated. She could no longer have a normal conversation with me at a restaurant because I was always looking for someone who needed healing. It became a kind of obsession. I was turning into a healing machine with no “off” switch.
I had a talk with Jessie Campbell one night about my situation. Jessie operates powerfully in healing and teaches others as well. She lives in Australia, so we talked over Skype. I shared my concerns about having a guilty conscience over not healing people, then becoming compulsive about it. She told me she’d been through the same struggles. We talked for a long time about healing and the motives we have for doing it. I came away from that discussion with a clearer perspective. I’d like to share a few observations about our motives for healing.
Some of us are “doers” by nature. We love to keep busy, doing things to help others out. (I’m one of those types.) Healing lends itself well to this type of personality. But healing, like any form of ministry is supposed to be done out of compassion, not compulsion. The gospels often note that Jesus healed the multitudes because He saw them and had compassion on them, not because He had to heal 50 people a day to earn favor with His Father.
Jesus was a man who lived a balanced life. He was passionate about the things He did, but He operated in a great diversity of gifts. He was just as adept at healing and casting out demons as He was at teaching children. He preached in the synagogue one day and the next day He couldn’t be found, having retired to the solitude of the mountains. He was just as comfortable in a fishing boat as He was with the nobles or the prostitutes. He shared the mysteries of the kingdom with thousands if they’d listen, but He was equally delighted in sharing with His three closest friends; Peter, James and John. He was and is a man for all occasions who meets the needs of everyone. Healing is neither the exclusive, nor the primary need of most people. The needs of the world are many and healing is only one of them.
I love healing. It gives me a thrill to see the power of God fix what the enemy has broken. The Church has been locked up in her tower long enough. I’m glad to see us hitting the streets and doing the things Jesus did. We ought to be healing the sick. But doing healing every day, all day long will eventually put you in a straight-jacket. There is more to life than healing. You don’t need to look very far to find people whose lives have been ruined by the cruel taskmaster of
Take time to establish a bridge of trust before attempting to minister to strangers. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
6
Motives for Healing
I T’S POSSIBLE TO DO THE right thing for the wrong reason. Healing, which in itself is a good thing, can be done out of questionable motives. I’ve had to check my motives more often than I’d like. When I began this life of healing, it was at the prompting of God. He kept after this reluctant, unbelieving skeptic until I finally got in the flow and saw people healed. I’m glad He was more persistent than I was. As time went on, I stepped out and laid hands on the sick more often because it was finally working. People were actually being healed.
There came a day when I began to feel a bit guilty because no one had been healed and I was making my way to bed. I began to wonder if I was becoming lazy. Two days went by and I failed to lay hands on a single person. I began to wonder if God was disappointed with me. After a week of kicking back on my “no healing vacation” I wondered to myself, “If I laid hands on someone, would they actually be healed?”
My guilty conscience got the best of me and I went back to praying with people in stores again. And they were still being healed.
I decided to kick it into high gear for a while and started looking for people to heal literally everywhere I went. My wife began to get a little irritated. She could no longer have a normal conversation with me at a restaurant because I was always looking for someone who needed healing. It became a kind of obsession. I was turning into a healing machine with no “off” switch.
I had a talk with Jessie Campbell one night about my situation. Jessie operates powerfully in healing and teaches others as well. She lives in Australia, so we talked over Skype. I shared my concerns about having a guilty conscience over not healing people, then becoming compulsive about it. She told me she’d been through the same struggles. We talked for a long time about healing and the motives we have for doing it. I came away from that discussion with a clearer perspective. I’d like to share a few observations about our motives for healing.
Some of us are “doers” by nature. We love to keep busy, doing things to help others out. (I’m one of those types.) Healing lends itself well to this type of personality. But healing, like any form of ministry is supposed to be done out of compassion, not compulsion. The gospels often note that Jesus healed the multitudes because He saw them and had compassion on them, not because He had to heal 50 people a day to earn favor with His Father.
Jesus was a man who lived a balanced life. He was passionate about the things He did, but He operated in a great diversity of gifts. He was just as adept at healing and casting out demons as He was at teaching children. He preached in the synagogue one day and the next day He couldn’t be found, having retired to the solitude of the mountains. He was just as comfortable in a fishing boat as He was with the nobles or the prostitutes. He shared the mysteries of the kingdom with thousands if they’d listen, but He was equally delighted in sharing with His three closest friends; Peter, James and John. He was and is a man for all occasions who meets the needs of everyone. Healing is neither the exclusive, nor the primary need of most people. The needs of the world are many and healing is only one of them.
I love healing. It gives me a thrill to see the power of God fix what the enemy has broken. The Church has been locked up in her tower long enough. I’m glad to see us hitting the streets and doing the things Jesus did. We ought to be healing the sick. But doing healing every day, all day long will eventually put you in a straight-jacket. There is more to life than healing. You don’t need to look very far to find people whose lives have been ruined by the cruel taskmaster of
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