Experiencing God’s Healing Power Through the Holy Spirit

Summary

This article explores the healing power of the Holy Spirit given to believers in Christ. God heals relationships, memories, emotional distress, physical and spiritual sickness, and destructive habits. Through biblical examples and divine visions, God shows His desire to restore individuals and churches. As believers praise God and live transformed lives, they become powerful witnesses, walking advertisements, drawing others to faith and healing in Christ.

Experiencing God’s Healing Power

Christians are experiencing God's healing power when they receive the Holy Spirit in His fullness when they receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit and in God’s healing.

Healing That Leads Others to Christ

Acts 9:32-35 describes a man paralyzed for eight years whom Peter healed. As a result, all who lived at Lydda and Sharon turned to the Lord. Let us consider five types of healing in their order of importance. How many of them have you experienced?

God’s Priority: Healing Relationships and Memories

1.     God heals relationships. They should be affirming, building, happy, and exalting. God wants to restore your relationships that are less than ideal.

2.     God heals memories. Others have injured you and vice versa. These memories can make you limp through life. You need the Lord’s healing hand to finish your race— free from their crippling domination.

Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Healing

3.     God heals emotional distress. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people all over the world experienced increased fear, anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide. You need the Lord’s healing hand to cope. Cast your cares on Him because He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7).

4.     God heals physical and spiritual sickness. Peter raised Tabitha from the dead in Joppa. As a result, many believed in the Lord (Acts 9:42). Destructive relationships, unhealed memories, and emotional distress caused as much as 80% of physical problems.

5.     God heals destructive habits. You must tap God’s healing power if your willpower cannot overcome them.

Visions, Unity, and Healing the Church

God sometimes sends visions to lead people in His ways. In Acts 10, God gave a vision to a Gentile named Cornelius. He told him to send men to Joppa to call for Simon Peter.

Meanwhile, God used another vision to prepare Peter for these visitors. These visions prepared Jewish Christians to accept Gentile Christians as their equals.

God heals sick churches. Imagine your church is packed out every worship service. Members minister to the hurting, lead people to Christ, and help new converts grow spiritually.

The sweet smell of agape love perfumes the air. God’s power can make that vision a reality.

Living as God’s Walking Advertisement

God reveals His power when you praise Him. People close to you pay attention to what you praise.

You influence them to use your brand of toothpaste by praising it. When you praise God in others’ presence, they are more likely to worship Him.

You are God’s walking, talking commercial. Make it the absolute best you can!

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