SPIRITUAL GIFTS CLASS - Healing of the Spirit Ministries

DEFINITION
HEALING (Gifts of)
A person with this gift is given power to serve as an instrument through whom God can facilitate the
ministry of healing-physical, mental, psychological, spiritual, or relational. Also there comes with the
gift, the spirit or bringing wholeness of body and spirit into being.
CHARACTERISTICS
1. Desire to see God alleviate spiritual, emotional or physical problems in people and the
willingness to be used by God to do so.
Healing of: (1) Spirit, (2) emotions, memories, wounds (3) from evil spirits, (4) the physical
body
2. An unusual ability to sense the power of God present for healing.
3. Often comes in conduction with the gift of word or knowledge.
4. The principle of contagion probably applies here. People who are around people who are seeing
healing occur regularly, particularly with accompanying gifts involving word of knowledge, are
very likely to sense that God is pointing out this gift in their lives.
5. Usually requires faith on the part of the one being healed.
6. May be associated with the one to be healed doing something.
7. Recipients of this gift sometimes feel heat or electric type sensations flowing from the person
praying into their body.
Examples
John 5:2-13 -Healed man by pool of Bethesda
Luke 5:17 -Healing power permeated a whole area
Acts 5:15 -Healing power associated with Peter’s shadow
Mark 5:30 -At times this healing power flowed out
Luke 6:19, 8:46 -From the body of Jesus through contact.
SCRIPTURES
I Cor. 12:9, 28
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