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:
Definition taken from Network: Participants Manual, p. 82.