The Minister Called Out My Condition, but Someone Else Already Went Up for It.  Should I Stay in My Seat?

NO!  Get down there, the sooner, the better!

First, you have no idea if that other person even has your condition.  Maybe he’s going up for the wrong reason or he misunderstood the minister.  Maybe he has some other condition and just wanted to go up there for healing, even though doing so knowingly is completely out of order.

Second, if the anointing is present to heal that condition, no one says that multiple people can’t get healed at the same time.  Sometimes many people with the same condition all get healed when they come forward in response to a specific call.  There were multiple healings of the same condition in the Bible.  Two blind men were healed at once (Matthew 9:27-30 and Matthew 20:30-34) and ten lepers were cleansed at once (Luke 17:12-19).  Many paralyzed and lame people were healed in Samaria through Philip’s ministry (Acts 8:5-8).  Don’t assume that a special anointing is just for one person and that you miss out if you’re not the first one prayed over.  I saw a miraculous string of back healings once when a minister called out anyone with a back problem.  Then he went down the line and all the people with back problems were healed instantly.  (I was the man’s translator and he touched me by accident.  The anointing on him was so strong the ushers had to carry me around horizontally and hold a microphone up to my mouth so that I could keep translating!)

In some cases, it seems that there is one person in particular whom the Holy Spirit was singling out, but if others with that same condition go down for prayer, they can get in on the same anointing and get healed, too.  Sometimes it just seems to “spill over” onto the other people in line.  If YOU have the condition, get down there – YOU may be the one person in particular whom the Holy Spirit was singling out!  Even if you aren’t, you were still being obedient to go down front and you should expect God to honor that.