Whose Power Is It?

Acts 3:12:
And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

YOU do not have to generate the power to heal the sick!  You simply need to be a channel of GOD’S power that heals the sick.  It’s HIS power…flowing through YOU.  That is why you don’t have to FEEL like you have all kinds of power inside you when you have an opportunity to lay hands on a sick person.  God’s power manifests when you exercise the AUTHORITY that you have in Christ to lay hands on the sick.

Some people have gotten all caught up in what THEY have to do to build spiritual power.  Hmmm…maybe if they went on a long fast, they would receive more spiritual power.  No, that’s unbiblical.  You do not FAST to get power – you FAST to keep your flesh under so that your flesh doesn’t get in the way of exercising the Holy Spirit’s power.  You receive spiritual power by being baptized with the Holy Spirit!  If you’re already baptized with the Holy Spirit, you already HAVE power (Acts 1:8).  The question is what you do with it.

Let’s see what the Bible says about our father in the faith, Abraham:

Romans 4:21:
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Abraham was fully persuaded that what GOD has promised, GOD was able to perform.

This verse does NOT say that Abraham was fully persuaded that what GOD had promised, ABRAHAM was able to perform.

It is clear that Abraham was NOT able to perform the needed miracle – it took God’s power to do that.  This was not power that Abraham worked up.  Abraham simply placed his faith in God that God would back His word with His power.

You should do the same.  When you lay hands on a sick person, believe that God will back His Word with HIS power.  That’s a whole lot better than trying to “work up” power yourself to do something that only God can do.