Imagine this with me: You are at ringside watching an unevenly matched boxing match. Manny Pacquiao is facing a far less able and far less conditioned opponent. He throws his first punch and it fails to land on his opponent. He then removes his gloves and throws them down to the floor and starts to walk away saying, “I guess it is not God’s will for me to win this match and defeat my opponent.”
Can you imagine how outrageous this scene is? If this is his attitude, he won’t win a single match even if he is many times superior to his opponents.
Of course, this isn’t his attitude when he fights. But a lot of times, THIS IS our attitude when WE do. What am I referring to? None other than our attitude when we pray.
When the Enemy throws sickness, disease, lack, etc. our way, after we pray once or twice and we don’t see immediate results, we are quick to raise our hands in surrender and say that it might not be God’s will for us to win. Worse, we think that it is God’s will for this to happen to us.
When we pray and nothing happens immediately, we are to continue to pray until we see victory. That’s why it’s called spiritual warfare. The Devil won’t go without putting up a fight but we need to understand that this fight we are in is not a fight to win. It is a fight because we have already won. The cross of Christ has already disarmed the Enemy and made a public spectacle of him. That is why we are enforcing the Kingdom of God and evicting the Enemy that squats in our lives, in our families and in our communities.
Jesus has already won the victory and the Victor is now living in all who have put their faith in Him. And it was not just sin and death that Christ defeated on the cross but also the results of sin such as sickness and disease.
“When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
‘He took up our infirmities
and bore our diseases.’“
Matthew 8:16-17
“Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.“
Isaiah 53:4-5
We recently had a healing seminar in our church. This was three Sundays ago since the writing of this blogpost. Since then, we have seen the most number of healing miracles we have seen in our entire lives so far. In just about a week’s time after that training, I’ve estimated more than thirty healing miracles to have occurred all in all. Right now, I’m not even able to keep track of all that is happening.
We’ve seen shorter legs grow in length to match the longer ones. We’ve seen backs straightened and healed from scoliosis and even from a slipped disc. We’ve seen people grow taller and noses readjusting in shape. We’ve seen a lady attend a worship service with a crutch and later go home carrying the crutch over her head in victory!
In some cases the healing was complete and totally instantaneous. In some cases, we didn’t see any visible results at all. In some cases we saw accelerated healing where the injury that would normally take a week to heal get healed in just a day.
In most cases so far, we see zero to little, but sometimes significant, improvement after the first time we commanded healing and then continuous significant and visible changes as we continued to heal them in Jesus’ Name. After some time, the sickness would be completely healed or be almost completely healed.
Whereas before, we would rarely observe instant results, the past weeks we would often see immediate change.
One major factor I guess is that before, we never expected immediate change such that we never even asked people we prayed for if they felt anything during or after the prayer. We would pray for healing and for comfort, yes, but we would never ask them immediately if they felt an immediate change and we would never follow up on prayer immediately if we didn’t see any change. It was like the hypothetical Pacquiao fight I mentioned above.
What changed? We learned that Christ already paid for our healing when His body was broken for us. We learned that He promised us to do the same things He did when He healed the sick and cast out demons. Therefore, we learned to expect immediate results. And as a result, we ask the people prayed for if there were immediate results. And if there weren’t any, we learned to pray again and again and again and again until we did see results.
I’d like to encourage the readers to never give up because in Christ, by His grace, we don’t fight to win. We fight because we have already won. You are determined to keep on fighting not in order to attain the victory. You are inspired to keep on fighting because you know that the victory is already yours!
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