A Faith Challenge- A big one

[Sam21]

I wrote what I saw and experienced, I saw a man ask the holy spirit to heal people. He took no credit for it, and gave all credit to Jesus. I can hear better today I know that for sure.

I absolutely believe in the healing power of God through faith in Christ,I have been healed several times, and some people do have the gift of healing, however I have never heard of a christian asking the Holy Spirit to heal, also I do not believe that is in the bible. We ask God to heal in the name of Jesus and practice faith.

 

[Chris]

That's cool brother, I'm not calling you out. Just wondering why this man has anymore connection to Christ than any other believer. Why did you have to go to him for this? Couldn't you just go to Christ yourself?

I think for some it is their calling. Think of Billy Graham why would you choose to take a potential believer to one of his crusades instead of someone else? People who have a gift and are called to it, do those things well. I can honestly say I have never seen the things I saw on Sunday night. not everyone gets healed, as it is the lord who decides. however healed or not many like myself were overcome with something. there was something that came on us and it wasn't from him it was the holy spirit.


Also you must not forget at an event like this there is hours of prayer by many people leading up to it. Before it started the church was about a third full of people praying together for miracles.

 

[Theofilus]

That's cool brother, I'm not calling you out. Just wondering why this man has anymore connection to Christ than any other believer. Why did you have to go to him for this? Couldn't you just go to Christ yourself?

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. (I Cor. 12:4-11 KJV)​

Different people have different gifts and different ministries. Someone who has the gift and ministry of teaching can pray for you and God may answer your prayer and heal you, but why not go to the guy that has recieved the gift and ministry of healing from God?

 

[Danus]

I think for some it is their calling. Think of Billy Graham why would you choose to take a potential believer to one of his crusades instead of someone else? People who have a gift and are called to it, do those things well. I can honestly say I have never seen the things I saw on Sunday night. not everyone gets healed, as it is the lord who decides. however healed or not many like myself were overcome with something. there was something that came on us and it wasn't from him it was the holy spirit.


Also you must not forget at an event like this there is hours of prayer by many people leading up to it. Before it started the church was about a third full of people praying together for miracles.

Well I suppose so. Again, glad your doing better. I don't discount the Holly Spirit, works to be differently, but that's OK too.

 

[Danny63]

Chris I am so glad to hear you are doing better now. Praise God.

I do have a question if you don't mind, I only ask this because I have seen some faith healers at work and I am not saying they do not have a gift to allow God to heal someone through them, but I question the sincerity of some.

At anytime did this healer ask for a seed for healing? Also did they say that if you do not get your healing it is a lack of faith or it could be sin in your life?

I am not trying to mock him I am just curious of how he conducted himself with the congregation.

Also I do have a bit of a problem with people calling themselves "Faith Healers" to me that seems like they are saying they are the Healer, instead of maybe a Faith Minister for God's healing" longer title I know but just seems to me calling oneself a faith healer puts the healing in his hands and not God's.

 

[Chris]

Chris I am so glad to hear you are doing better now. Praise God.

I do have a question if you don't mind, I only ask this because I have seen some faith healers at work and I am not saying they do not have a gift to allow God to heal someone through them, but I question the sincerity of some.

At anytime did this healer ask for a seed for healing? Also did they say that if you do not get your healing it is a lack of faith or it could be sin in your life?

I am not trying to mock him I am just curious of how he conducted himself with the congregation.

Also I do have a bit of a problem with people calling themselves "Faith Healers" to me that seems like they are saying they are the Healer, instead of maybe a Faith Minister for God's healing" longer title I know but just seems to me calling oneself a faith healer puts the healing in his hands and not God's.

Sure they are good questions. what he did was a sermon to begin with and anecdotes of healings he had been involved with. we read from the bible in acts and later discussed reasons a person might not be healed. One reason he said was not being in a relationship with Jesus seemed to be a big barrier to some along with unrepentant or unconfessed sin. He said he has had some success healing non believers but much more success with believers in Jesus ( Christians)
At no point did he say he had the ability, all credit was pointed to the one who was making the healing happen, Jesus/Holy spirit. He was very interested in the conversion of unbelieving members of the audience to make a commitment or those believers who needed refreshment to recommit. time was taken to personally meet with those new converts first before any physical healing began.

there was prayer first though I cant remember it all it was along the lines of asking for miracles and expecting it.

he also said these things happen when god is more intensely present than normal times. althogh god is omnipresent there are times when there is a presence in a room in worship. Do you know what I mean when it is like static or something and everyone feels it.

It was made clear not all would benefit from healing as it is up to the discretion of God who he heals and doesn't. It sounded structurally sound to me, although hopeful I was also keeping an open mind to suspicious stuff too and didn't see any.

I would love to know why we all had to be caught and what that thing that came on us was that made my knees go weak, I was trying hard to resist it but couldn't.

A part of me would love to experience that again, I have been on a high since all I could think about yesterday was god and how I didn't have to get everyone to repeat themselves in conversation because I couldnt hear them. You have no idea how good I feel.

Yesterday I felt god want me to do something in town so I went. On the way I went to the bus stop the next bus would be 25 minutes. I prayed to god could a cab come now. within 10 seconds one was slowing down in front of me which I signaled. The thing i felt god want me to do I realized later was wrong. I think he was showing me that if I pray that my prayers don't fall on deaf ears they do work, and that he wanted me to pray for something difficult to occur so I did.

 

[Danny63]

Thanks Chris, God bless ya and I am so happy to hear you had a healing. I am glad you watched out for false teaching, that is smart. Sounds like it was a wonderful experience.

I wont lie, I still am a bit skeptical of these faith healers,, maybe because of my upbringing, but what I am not skeptical about is God can and does Heal, and that is what you experienced. Praise God.