Sometimes people ask you to pray for someone's healing.
Now if someone asked you to meet with someone to try to get him or her saved, you couldn't just get them saved by praying a prayer for them, could you - no matter how much faith you have that praying for salvation works. The unsaved person himself needs to exercise faith before you can see him get saved.
Or if you meet someone who hasn't yet been baptised with the Holy Spirit, you can't just get him filled with the Spirit using your own faith alone without any co-operation from him. He's got to come to the place of receiving-faith himself, and then you can see him receive the Holy Spirit.
Same with healing, isn't it? If they aren't already there, often we have to help the person get to the place of having receiving-faith before we can actually minister healing to him.
Some people are already there when they come to us. But many aren't.
Our job is to help them believe they receive.
Then we can minister healing.
Now if someone asked you to meet with someone to try to get him or her saved, you couldn't just get them saved by praying a prayer for them, could you - no matter how much faith you have that praying for salvation works. The unsaved person himself needs to exercise faith before you can see him get saved.
Or if you meet someone who hasn't yet been baptised with the Holy Spirit, you can't just get him filled with the Spirit using your own faith alone without any co-operation from him. He's got to come to the place of receiving-faith himself, and then you can see him receive the Holy Spirit.
Same with healing, isn't it? If they aren't already there, often we have to help the person get to the place of having receiving-faith before we can actually minister healing to him.
Some people are already there when they come to us. But many aren't.
Our job is to help them believe they receive.
Then we can minister healing.
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