Practicing Healing

Too often Christians who pray for healing and do not see any improvement get discouraged, lose faith, or even stop praying altogether. We have only to look at the secular medical field to realize this is not the attitude we should promote. Doctors are said to "practice medicine" because it is a discipline of theory and experimentation, trial and error, and learning and adaptation. For instance, there is no medical cure for cancer, only treatment. Does this mean people simply accept cancer as an incurable disease? On the contrary, billions of dollars are poured into cancer research so that one day no one will suffer from this terrible disease. We will never give up!

Nature reflects our propensity to perservere and survive

I believe it is acceptable for Christians to "practice healing". Even if we do not experience immediate success in our prayers, we have faith because Scripture tells us that our prayers are powerful and effective. We study and seek deeper intimacy because revelation is in the realm of mystery. We invest our time, energy, and resources to become better healers because we love people. We persevere because we serve a God of the impossible. On this Good Friday, may Jesus be our reminder that we only endure suffering for the joy set before us. Let us press in to see greater breakthroughs of the Kingdom overcoming sickness and disease!

"We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed." II Corinthians 4:8,9