Gifts Of Healing (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you so much for joining us today on this daily devotional. This week, we're continuing our journey learning about personal evangelism. We are specifically looking this week at the empowering of the Holy Spirit upon us as believers in the practice of personal evangelism. We stated that the Holy Spirit empowers us through His gifts which basically are expressions of the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Spirit are not complicated, they're really the Holy Spirit expressing Himself through us as He chooses and as we make ourselves available. One of the gifts that He releases or expresses Himself through us by are called the gifts of healings. That is the Holy Spirit releases supernatural healings through us, to touch other people for their good but it's a way for them to encounter the person of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit always glorifies Jesus, the Holy Spirit always speaks about Jesus, the Holy Spirit always points people to Jesus. So, even in His expressions and manifestations, He will point people to Jesus. One of that is through the gifts of healing. So, what we see in the book of Acts, over and over again, that as the apostles bore witness to Jesus Christ, one of the things that happened was supernatural healing. And the same Holy Spirit who moved through the book of Acts is still moving through us today, bringing supernatural healing to people. Now it can happen in so many different ways. We see in Acts chapter 3, as Peter and John were going into the temple, there was a lame man there who've been born lame and Peter reached out and said, ‘silver and gold I don't have but what I have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.’ And because of that healing of that one man, 5,000 people believed. Sometimes, it could be a healing that takes place in the home of somebody. In the end of the book of Acts, it says when Paul was shipwrecked along with lots of other people on the island of Malta, they come into the house of a man named Publius who was a leader of that place, a governor and there was somebody who had dysentery and Paul prayed for them, that man was healed and then they brought other people on the island to be healed. So, through those healings many people came to Jesus Christ. Jesus said that He'll do the same thing through you and me. So, as we share Jesus with people, we pray for their healings if they are not well physically, emotionally; we pray for them and the Holy Spirit releasing His power through us will heal them and they will encounter Jesus. The healing part is the work of the Holy Spirit. The praying part, the message sharing part and praying part is our responsibility. Through those gifts of healings, people will experience Jesus and come to faith in Christ but we are channels through which the Holy Spirit does that. Let's be open to it. Let's pray, dear Father, we ask that as we share the message of Jesus with people, we'll be open to the empowering of the Holy Spirit to release gifts of healings, to heal people in their bodies and their minds and the places where they are hurting so they can experience the touch of Jesus and encounter Jesus personally. Help us to do this, in Jesus' name, Amen. Thank you for tuning in to Living Supernaturally, for more resources to strengthen your spiritual walk, please visit apcwo.org.