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Description: The gift of Healing is the divine enablement to be God’s means for restoring people to wholeness.
Destinctives: People with this gift
*Demonstrate the power of God
*Bring restoration to the sick and diseased
*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
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:
1 Cor. 12:9, 28, 30
Acts 3:1-16
Mark 2:1-12
Definition taken from Network: Participants Manual, p. 82.
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