Will You Begin?

If you have a desire and a calling from God to be involved in ministry to needy, hurting people, seek out practical instruction in praying for the needs of others in specific ways. Learn to pray for the sick—for their salvation and deliverance from curses and demonic oppression. Learn how to work within a sound model for healing so that you will be less likely to go astray in the midst of ministry.

The Holy Spirit Himself is our wonderful teacher, and He has a desire to help anyone who is willing. With His guidance, we can become a channel for the love of God to flow into others we are ministering to so that all are blessed. When we learn how to hear God's voice and follow the leading of His Spirit, our lives will become effective and powerful for the advancement of God's kingdom.

Scripture is clear that there can be an impartation of spiritual gifting through prayer and the laying on of hands (1 Tim. 4:14). I recommend that clergy and laity alike receive prayer for impartation whenever practicable. There may be special opportunities for such impartation at crusades or when a healing evangelist visits your church.

There is more power, more passion, more purpose and more pleasure in God—and also more fruit from the ministry of the Holy Spirit—working through our broken clay vessels. As we learn to walk in the supernatural and awaken to the knowledge that God's great power to heal is available for us today, we will find ourselves in a place where the heavens open and the power of evil is confronted and limited. The gifts will come forth, we will see healings, and the lost will be saved.

God tells us in His Word that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" (Hab. 2:14). Learn to walk in the supernatural, and you will see the floodgates of heaven open and the King of glory come in!

Randy Clark is the author of 30 books, including Healing Energy: Whose Is It? He is the founder of Global Awakening, an international ministry headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Learn more at globalawakening.com.

Should we only pray for a person to be healed when we're led by the Holy Spirit? Randy Clark answers that question at healing.charismamag.com

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