Healing and Compassion

Would you like to see more “supermarket aisle” healings?  I would.  I’ve had the privilege to lay hands on some people individually in such public settings, but I’ve missed out on some good opportunities, too.  I believe that as we are more moved with compassion as Jesus was (see God’s Mercy and Compassion), we will see more miracles.  Jesus was moved with compassion, not with a desire to make His ministry more notable, and we need to be moved the same way.

If you see a sick person, it is easy to just say, “Glad that’s his problem, not mine!”  But God’s compassion welling up in you can negate that fleshly attitude and help you see that person through God’s compassionate eyes.  The Holy Spirit can help you realize that you have the ANSWER to that illness in the name of Jesus, so you can do something about it rather than just watch that person suffer.

Now I’m not saying that you should just go up to every sick person at the store and ask to lay hands on him because if people don’t know you, they can just dismiss you as a kook.  But if you can strike up a conversation and make the person feel more comfortable around you, you may able to work in the fact that Jesus paid for all of us to be completely well, just as you may be able to bring up the new birth.

I’m not going to preach this as doctrine, but I have times when God’s compassion for a sick person rises up so big in me that I just start bawling while I’m laying hands on the person.  Every time that has ever happened to me, the person was completely healed.  It wasn’t something I worked up; it was God’s divine compassion flowing through me.  I got to experience briefly just HOW MUCH God loves the person and HOW MUCH God wants that person to be completely well – HOW MUCH God is “touched” by that person’s infirmities with the same compassion that caused Him to sacrifice His only Son so that everyone could be forgiven and healed.