Be Bold with Your Healing Testimony

A healing testimony is a wonderful way to attract attention to the gospel and draw sinners to Jesus!  In the Bible, there were cases where large groups of people were saved because of a single testimony.  (See It Might Only Take One.)  Perhaps yours will be such a catalyst to others getting saved.

So when you receive your healing, let people know about it!  This will help demonstrate to others the goodness of God that leads men to repentance (Romans 2:4).

I’d have to say that if there’s been any “bane of my existence” in healing ministry, it’s when people selfishly go off with their healing, don’t tell others, don’t bring others to be healed the way that they were healed, and nothing more becomes of it.

Why wouldn’t someone want to be bold about sharing what Jesus did?  In a word, fear.

Some people have more faith in the devil than they do in God, so they FEAR that if they share their testimony, Satan might attack them and ruin their healing testimony.  Such people need to spend more time in the Word so that their faith is in God’s Word, not in Satan’s lies.  God has a perfect track record of being trustworthy.  Satan has a track record of habitual lying.

Some people are like the Jews in the Bible who didn’t want to confess Jesus openly, lest they be kicked out of the synagogue.  God just called that for what it was – they loved the praises of men more than the praises of God (John 12:42-43)!  Some churches don’t allow divine healing to be taught and actively oppose it, calling those who teach it evil cultists.  If you were to share a healing testimony in such a church, the church would throw you out!  (They would actually be doing you a favor.)  A woman who received multiple healings through our ministry kept them quiet at her home church because she “couldn’t” share them at her church without risking being thrown out.  She should have shared what Jesus did anyway!  Being kicked out of such a church could have been the best thing that ever happened to her so that she could become a member of a church that preaches the full gospel!  If you’re more concerned about what your friends think of you than what God thinks of you, you could stand to get some new and better friends who are more concerned about what God thinks!

Some people just aren’t very bold, but there’s a cure for that – praying for boldness, as they did in Acts 4:29-33!  God answered their prayers for boldness, and He will answer yours.

Now there ARE cases where sharing your healing testimony is casting pearls before swine.  Jesus warned some people NOT to tell their testimonies in certain towns.  The towns were apparently full of unbelief.  Sharing a testimony there would only have invited doubters to talk the healed person out of the idea that he was really healed.  But not EVERY place is like that, so surely you can find people whom you can tell about how Jesus healed you so that you can glorify Him!

Now if you’re on the ministry side of this, don’t go into shock if only 10% of the people come back after they’re healed and actually do something to advance the kingdom by glorifying God.  Ten lepers were cleansed in Luke 17:12-19 and only one them (10%) came back to even give thanks; the rest just disappeared into a black hole somewhere as far as the kingdom was concerned.