How God HEALS...

I attended the 'Moving in the Spirit' Workshop at Hope annual Church camp, and didn't regret my choice at all!!

First of all, i was greatly encouraged that i or we/most of the people could seek & hear/got a vision from God and prophecied over one another during a practise session at the beginning of the session. Albeit fears and uncertainties whether what's seen/impressed is accurate or really from God. But by faith and sincerely seeking God, we shared/prayed for the other person we randomly partnered with (someone you don't really know).

After that, we quickly feedbacked whether what was shared was applicable to each other!! haha. lack of experience/faith. And thank God, amazingly, what we prophesied and encouraged one another was pretty accurate! Phew.. Was greatly encouraged by this! As usually had difficulty doing so due to not seeking God enough/recognizing His voice. Oh, initially I thought i heard from God to pray for healing for a girl in red, but couldn't find any in sight.

This aside, we were given a 'Knowing Your Power Gift Mix' survey form with 9 'Power' spiritual gift and to rate it from 1-10 on how much we think we have this gift.

Most of my rating were low, 5 and below. Rank myself 5 for Prophecy, 4 for Healing & Faith. (not sure how accurate myself, coz had some experience with them but not much or not so consistent in it).

At the end of the session, Michael one of the workshop instructors asked who ranked highest for Gift of healing. Then who ranked 2nd highest. And i raised up my hand while telling my fren beside me (er..but my score is very low leh..)

And he asked who is sick and needed healing. I soon to realized after my blurness that there were only 3 people standing in the end, 1 of which is a girl/sister who needed healing, and there's left me and another bro standing. Uh oh.. i thought. Also thinking how come so few people. And they asked the whole class to stand up and unite in prayer, with us both praying for her. I was arrowed to lead the prayer. Mild gasp, or rather a loud in my heart. So I mustered up my courage to pray for this sister in faith. Or rather how i would usually pray for other people. I first asked her name, and then to ask her to clarify what kind of pain exactly she had. (trying to get more info & buy time). And i prayed a prayer for God to heal her pain in Jesus's name, and it was rather short. Right after that Michael asked if she was healed. She said no.. and a while later twisting her hand/trying to feel it more, she said she felt bit better. And Michael asked us all to pray again!

I didn't know we could do this! thought once prayer is done it's done. (So something new learnt)! to persevere in prayer till it happens!! Basically he said another sister with bad back pain was healed after they prayed for her a few times.

This time, i was scared/or rather lacked the faith to pray any more, and quickly passed the arrow to invite/give a chance to the other bro to pray.
And this time i held her hand (finding where exactly the pain was), placing my hand over hers, as i believe in touch-healing as well.
Cause i held my head and prayed before and i was immediately relieved of my headache. So did happened to my Shepherd.

Hence we prayed again, the brother lead a much longer prayer than me (which in my mind i thought lots of the words wasn't really necessary).

After praying, Michael asked her again how was it.

I heard her say 'it's sealed'.
probably referring to God's promises mentioned by the bro in the prayer.

But people's reaction seemed to differ, and I asked my neighbour again what she actually said. And she says that the girl said ' it's HEALED!'

oh my goodness.. i was in an unbelief state. Wow, I was amazed. But later ciding my own lack of faith/hard to belief that she was instantly healed.

It was amazing and I thank God for letting me witness and experiencing this healing session. It was an eye-opener, and an encouragement to use this gift more..I am/wasn't really sure whether she was partially healed throgh my gift of healing? or through the touch as while praying as well. Or the brother with higher ranking of this gift or greater faith/better prayer?? And more likely the unity of prayer by the rest of the believers as well.
So what's the factor that determines? - If you know the answer pls let me know. :)

Need to reflect and learn more about this gift. Just as how the 'Heroes' people started discovering their abilities and how to best use it.

For the amazing thing about God is, Healing can occur when people Praise & worship God too!
Other lessons learnt:
God can heal when
1) Believers unite in prayer
2) We persevere in prayer
3) Gift of healing is utilized (and there could be specific gift for specific diseases, and it could be expanded as we faithfully use it more. For myself, still discovering. Had prayed for stomach ache, flu (fever & sorethroat)that God healed instantly or over half to 1 day.
and UTMOST,
4) We need to have Compassion for the people that
we pray for (just as Jesus had/have).
(thinking to find biblical verses to match the above..)

Why i had trouble/lack of faith to believe that the sickness will be healed immediately? I usually put a disclaimer to ask God to heal someone in His timing more nowadays. This as i reflected is due to the healings that did not occur immediately after after i prayed for people or myself,or yet. Especially during the beginning of the workshop where i prayed for the sister who had flu/sorethroat but didn't see any immediate healing.

And for my own illnesses, have been praying/asking God to heal me. Think i'll pray more/persevere. :)