The fifth and sixth gifts of God are the gifts of healings and the working of miracles. We’ll cover them together because all healings are miracles but not all miracles are are about healing. God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. In biblical times we know God supernaturally healed many people as documented in the Bible. Since God is unchanging He can and does heal people today in response to prayer if it’s His will. God can heal anyone of sickness and disease if asked and God can also heal others on your behalf based on your prayers and the prayers of other saints. Some healing is done on a case by cases basis and some people are anointed to lay hands on other people and heal them.
God doesn’t publicize His miracles but they are real nonetheless. Let me give you a personal example. A few years ago my son was struck be a vehicle going 50 mph and he was thrown 40 feet. At the hospital the doctors gave my son no chance to live. Word went out to his church and all the church elders arrived at the ER to hold hands and pray for my son’s life. My son’s condition immediately started improving. My son had 19 broken bones and spent a month in ICU but he did fully recover which is a miracle that few people realize. Miracles happen every day around us and go unnoticed except to those who receive them based on their prayers and the prayers of others. How many times does God have to say it before you believe it?
James 5:14-15 – Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint his head with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
James 4:2 – You do not have because you do not ask.
Mark 11:24 – Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Luke 11:9 – So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
1 John 5:15 – And if we know that He hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him.