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HEALING
Description:
The
gift of Healing is the divine enablement to be God’s means for restoring people
to wholeness.
Destinctives: People with this gift...
- Demonstrate the power of God
- Bring restoration to the sick and diseased
- Authenticate a message from God through healing
- Use it as an opportunity to communicate a biblical truth and to see God
glorified
- Pray, touch, or speak words that miraculously bring healing to one’s body
Traits:
- Compassionate
- Trusts in God
- Prayerful
- Full of faith
- Humble
- Responsive
- Obedient
Cautions: People with this gift...
- Need to remember that it is not always their faith or the faith of the sick
that determines a healing, but God who determines it
- Need to realize that God does not promise to heal everyone who asks or is
prayed for
- Should remember that Jesus did not heal everyone who was sick or suffering
while he was on the earth
References:
1 Cor. 12:9, 28, 30
Acts 3:1-16
Mark 2:1-12
Definition taken from Network: Participants Manual, p. 82.
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