I Still Need Healing in My Own Body, So How Can I Lay Hands on Someone Else for Healing?

Well, you find a sick person and you put your hands on him!  That’s how.

I know that the question is how you can minister healing when you still need healing yourself without looking like a hypocrite.  So let’s apply The SAVED Test.  I am sure that you are not walking in sinless perfection.  I’m not either, and neither is anyone else.  Does this stop you from sharing Jesus with sinners?  Does this prevent you from telling people that Jesus gives you power over sin so that it doesn’t have to dominate you anymore?  I hope not!  Are you a hypocrite because you tell others that Jesus gives us power over sin, but you still sin?  I don’t think that God sees it that way.  You’re only a hypocrite if you sin without caring about whether you sin or not while you tell others that Jesus gives us power over sin.

If the fact that you still sin would not stop you from sharing that Jesus delivered us from sin by His finished work, the fact that you still need healing should not stop you from sharing that Jesus delivered us from sickness by His finished work.

A well-known faith teacher started out teaching prosperity while he had holes in his shoes.  He was preaching the WORD, as we are supposed to do, not his personal experience.  His personal experience changed to line up with the Word; the Word did not water itself down to match his experience.

It is ALWAYS right to share what the Word says with people, regardless of our current level of personal success applying it.  We don’t preach ourselves or our experience – we preach Jesus!  Sometimes you will get more revelation of the Word yourself as you share it with others.

Don’t let the devil try to beat you up over some healing need in your body.  Just about everyone has something he could believe God to be healed of.  That should not stop us from ministering healing to others.  Paul preached with scars on his body.  If other people point out something wrong with you, just see it as another opportunity to prove that the Word is true in your own life rather than feeling disqualified to minister healing.

Job was sick as a dog when he prayed for his friends, and he was healed himself when he did it (Job 42:10)!  Dare to minister healing to others even if you feel rotten yourself!

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I Have an Engagement to Preach Healing Somewhere, But I’m Really Sick Myself!  What Should I Do?