Last night we had a friend come by who os in town for a few days. We had supper and she was telling us about the journey Abba has her on and it has been pretty cool. She brought up something she sent out on a group post a couple of weeks ago that I had commented on and wanted to discuss it further. So some time, way to early this morning, Abba started talking to me about it again. Essentially what had happened is she was at a cafe or something and the owners were there the guy has an amputated leg and felt like Abba prompted her to pray for their business and restoration of the limb. (I would be lying if I said seeing Abba grow a limb out wasn't on my bucket list). So when she felt rhe timing was right she approached them and they welcomed her prayers. She had an expectation that the limb was going to immediately grow out and felt bad that it didn't and was a bit frustrated. I explained that healings and instant right now miracles are always the same thing. That sometimes when you pray for healing you don't know where you are in their process and that sometimes there ends up being words of wisdom of something else that might need to be done for the healing to be completed. Some examples would be in John 9:6-7 "Then Jesus spat on the ground and made some clay with his saliva. Then he anointed the blind man’s eyes with the clay. And he said to the blind man, “Now go and wash the clay from your eyes in the ritual pool of Siloam.” So he went and washed his face and as he came back, he could see for the first time in his life!" There are other times too like when He told people to get up and walk, etc.. Also I have seen many times when there is healing that has to happen in the spirit man or the soul before physical healing will manifest.
So in our conversation I also said that Jesus told us to heal the sick, not pray for them (see Matthew 10 and Mark 16). That many times we get caught in trying to say the right thing or conjure something up many times to stir emotion etc. Don't get me wrong sometimes what we pray will help build our faith and the person we are praying for faith, but we we should only say what the Holy Spirit is telling us. As Abba was going over this with me this morning He said "there is no reason to put spit shine and show on what He is doing. Do we really think that we can improve on the presence of the All Powerful and the All Glorious?" An example of this is a while back I was at a conference and after the service part was over there was a group of about 6 people gathered around a lady "praying" for her leg to grow out (one was obviously shorter than the other) I walked by them and went to talk to a friend on the other side of the venue I came back about 20 minutes later to get my stuff and they were still praying. Something inside of me got super frustrated and I stopped to ask what was going on. They told me they were praying for her leg ro grow out and I said you don't need to pray for it. Then I said in Jesus name leg come out and immediately it was equal to the other. Abba immediately touched her leg, I kept walking and the 6 sat there like what just happened.
Some things I have learned along the way is that being prayed up (the whole pray without ceasing thing) before we get into situations where Abba wants us to heal, prophecy or whatever. That we need to be quickly obedient (delayed obedience is disobedience). That we need to say or do exactly what He tells us, no more no less. We don't need to try and make Him look good He's already beautiful. And we need to always show His love because that's what it's all about.
