(From a journal entry, 1-12-18)
Healings are a gift from God. God is that Spirit in the phrase “gifts of the Spirit.” Or we could say, “The Spirit’s gifts to us.” One of them is the gift of healing. It is God giving health to a person. It is a miracle-gift from the Father to a human being.
We usually envision God, the Spirit in heaven, shining down this gift upon mankind. But we must ask, Where is the Spirit when He gives the gift of healing to someone? The Spirit is in us, His body. He is in us, flowing through us on out to the sick by the laying on of His hands–our hands now being His hands. That is the way it goes down.
For the gift of healing to flow, we must realize that we are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God. We must see that He lives in us in the form of His Holy Spirit, which is the Father. The Father resides in us!
A Call to Oneness–One, One, One
We must get past the “us and Him” duality and begin walking in the Oneness that Christ prayed for. “Neither pray I for these alone [the twelve disciples], but for them also which shall believe on me through their word [that is us!]; that they all may be one [That includes us!]; as you, Father, are in me and I in you that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that you have sent me, and the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one” (John 17:20-22). Christ has already given to us the glory that the Father bestowed upon Christ. In His thinking, it has already happened.
We must have the sensation that it is the Father, the Spirit, looking out through our eyes with compassion and love upon the sick. This is the reason why we must Get a clear picture of the godhead. It is not us running around, being still in the picture, laying our hands on the sick. It must be His love, His mercy, His Spirit, His compassion, moving through His hands that are laid upon the sick. This is the gift. The gift is Him! Soundness and wellness are anywhere He is.
Just ask the poor demoniac who was naked and tearing himself, torturing himself, crying out for someone to help him. After Christ gave him the gift of healing, he sat there in utter tranquility at the feet of his Savior in his right mind.
Someone will ask, Why aren’t more real healings being done by Christians today? The answer has to do with not seeing ourselves as God sees us. Most Christians see themselves as recipients of God’s blessings, instead of channels. They think that God is up there; we’re down here, and we need that blessing.
But that’s not the way God’s apostles saw us. They saw us as “more than conquerors through Christ.” They saw us the way that God sees us–spiritual powerhouses that by faith in Christ can move the mountains of doubt. And through His Spirit, our eyes will witness the crushing of the kingdoms of this world. And by His Spirit, He will establish His righteousness throughout the earth.
God sees us having overcome all things; He sees us having secured a seat upon His very throne (Rev. 3:21). That’s His faith that He has given us. With that gift we will be used to bring healing to the nations (Rev. 22:2).
However, there is a growth involved in being used by the Father to heal others. Many sincerely long for this power, with less than apostolic results. That’s okay. But before miracles can come through us, we must grow spiritually. It takes time and much patience as we “purge out the old leaven” of false concepts of Christ and His work in the earth. The “healing” is done by the Father’s presence in us. We then must realize that He is the Spirit of truth. We cannot fully have the truth in the form of the Spirit of truth, until the Father makes His abode in us. We must surrender ourselves as a “living sacrifice.” We must decrease; He must increase in us (John 3:30).
Christ makes it plain about how the Father makes us His dwelling. “If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him” (John 14:23). This is a major tenet in my soon-coming book, The Abiding.
Kenneth Wayne Hancock
Immortality Road 
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Amen 🙏❤
Great Post.
Our lives are mapped by one Hopes. The map is long, but it leads somewhere.
Thank you, Willie, for sharing. God bless you and yours.
God Bless You Brother
“For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given;
And the government rests upon His shoulder, He is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 9:6)
Yes, this uniquely begotten Son, graciously given, is known also as the Everlasting Father. It is not uncommon for a son in the natural realm to bear his father’s name. Although they share the same name, it is evident that they are distinct individuals. Likewise, in the supernal realm, Christ the Son and God the Father are not the same Persons.
Recently, this revelation of name-sharing and nature sharing including that of healer, was intensely impressed in my spirit by the Spirit of truth as I was quietly sitting at Jesus’ feet worshiping our Father with Him, reinforcing that which I had heretofore known and was shown.
The Father richly revels and rejoices in calling the Son of His love by His Name, and the Son, our safe Saviour and sure Sanctifier is most highly honored to be called by His Father’s Name! The saying “like father, like son” holds true in the case of our heavenly Father and His Son, infinitely so. He who has seen the Son has seen the Father as they are one in thought, purpose, passion and action. The likeness Son shares of and with His Father is the exact expression and infinite impression of the Father by Whose Name as Everlasting Father He is called and conformed.
“Although He was a Son [who had never been disobedient to the Father], He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered.” Heb. 5:8 AMP Selah
wonderful post and God bless you for sharing…Robin
Thank you,, Robin.