from Ron Rose
September 8, 2008

Preparation

Brian’s infant son, Corbin, had been barely hanging on to life for weeks. The church had rallied around the family and the hospital staff.

People who had never met Corbin were praying for his healing, but through it all God had remained silent. He had Corbin’s failing heart in his hands; he wanted Brian’s heart too.

After bargaining, arguing, and begging, Brian told me, “I finally retreated to the hospital chapel and had a one-on-one with God. For the first time I prayed, ‘God you know I want Corbin to be healed; I want to love him and raise him for you, but if it’s your desire to give him the ultimate healing that’s OK with me.’”

God got Brian’s heart and Corbin got two healings… a little more time at home with family and then the ultimate healing—Heaven. In the process, God healed hundreds of hardened and hesitant hearts. It was a holy unveiling.

I was one of the hesitant ones, praying for healing, but always adding, “if it’s your will.” I think I always wanted to give my faith an out. If healing didn’t happen, the fault was not with my faith, it was God’s fault—it was his will, not mine.

I was raised in a fellowship that would pray for the hands that “minister unto” sick person, but would never pray for healing. We were trapped in a bubble of disbelief. Since we refused to ask for healing, God was unable to heal. Yes, that is exactly what I mean to say… our disbelief limited God. It happened while Jesus walked this earth, too. The unbelief astounded him then and it still does.

Now I pray for healing and hearts and unveilings. I pray that God will work a miracle and that we will have a story to tell.

The gentle Healer is still visiting our towns and healing our sick. I know, He has healed me; He has revived and rebuilt my heart. I am living today in the middle of a healing.

Inspiration

Several years ago one of Peter’s dearest friends was told she was HIV. She had contracted the virus years before, when a man who abused her as a child had raped her. She was raised by a coven and overwhelmed with demonic spirits. Peter had trouble believing in all that, till he personally encountered the demons and witnessed the power of Jesus to drive them out. “It wasn’t subtle or vague,” Peter remembers. “It was extremely dramatic.”

But she still had HIV. For years she took the meds and finally made Peter promise to come and hold her when she was about to die.

Then she began feeling better and asked her doctor to give her another HIV test. Peter’s group had been praying for healing, and she had taken herself off her meds. The test found no HIV; her surprised doctor said, “I think you’re healed.”

She’s been off meds now for several years and feels great.

Peter now wants answers; he wants to know when she was healed… Was it when the demons were cast out? Was it when he prayed? Was it when she prayed privately to God asking for healing? Peter wants the details so he can know what to do for others, but God is silent.

Finally Peter confesses, “I think the thing that amazes me most of all, in all the years of praying for my friend from the coven, is how utterly concerned our Lord is with her heart. Being healed of HIV just didn’t seem to be a big thing to God: no visions, no words of knowledge, no shaking—it just happened. For God, healing bodies, casting our demons, and signs and wonders just seems remarkably easy. I kept wondering why we had to pray all night chasing some demon?

From out of nowhere Peter hears the words…. “But then you wouldn’t have spent all those hours caring for the heart of my hurting child.”

Motivation

We don’t have to know when or why or how, but we do have to ask for healing; we have to ask with expectation.

God needs your heart first. He wants to work through you. Are you ready for a holy invasion?

Stop worrying about the details. You can miss the moment by trying to figure out the when or how or why. Just do your part. He won’t do his part, if you’ve not done your part.

So, pray with understanding. Expect specific healing, surrendered hearts, and unveiled secrets. When you work with God in this venture, there is always a surprise gift at the end.

Do you know what I mean?