HEALING (SUPPORT GIFTS)

The God-given special ability to serve and strengthen the body of Christ by healing and restoring to health, beyond traditional and natural means, those who are sick, hurting, and suffering.

People with this gift:

• Pray specifically to be used by God to heal others.
• Demonstrate the power of God.
• Bring restoration to the sick and diseased.
• Fully realize that healing occurs only by God’s divine permission.
• 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.
• View medicine as a means God may choose for healing.
• Embrace their gift as from the hand of God, and as a specific way to bring him glory.

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:  I Cor. 12:9, 28, 30, Acts 3:1-16, Mark 2:1-12