HF spoke last Sunday about healing and especially what to do when we do not see results. At the Friday night leaders meeting we heard a man speak of persevering intercession. He said that in his studies the leaders who prayed for their life group over 6 times a week had a much higher experience of people coming to Christ than those who prayed once or less a week.
If we do not see results right away do we give up? Do we try to find someone or something to blame?
Healing prayer and intercession are important to the body of Christ. It helps bring unity.
Let me go back to healing prayer. That is what the Sunday sermon was about. Healing prayer is important. It brings us together. The one asking for prayer must humble himself. He must also know that their might not be results. So he is taking a big risk.
The one praying also has to be humble enough to know that there may not be obvious results. It take a certain bravery, which is born of faith, on both sides.
God sometimes brings immediate healing, this is cause for rejoicing. He has his reasons when he does not immediately heal. It is not that God cannot heal or that he does not want to. I think it is mystery why often we do not see immediate results. One thing though if we always did see results no one would ever die. It is God's plan that we eventually die and go back to him. That may seem obvious but somehow that seems important.
Still I think prayer works. We need to be persistent in prayer whether or not we see results we can measure or show off. I think God answers all prayer in his own way. I also think it brings the church together in very important ways. God is more interested in unity than he is in all our aches and pains. But he is interested in both.
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