“Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” (John 5:19)

“For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.” (John 12:49)

Have you ever noticed that Jesus did not heal people with the same condition the same way every time?

For example, when He encountered those who were deaf…

In one instance He drove out the deaf and dumb spirit that was responsible. (Mark 9:25).

With another deaf man, “Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue.” (Mark 7:33)

Similarly, when it came to healing the blind…

He simply touched the eyes of two blind men. (Matthew 20:34)

He “spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.” (John 9:6)

The blind man in Mark 8:23 did not get the mud plaster spa treatment, he simply got a spit ball 🙂

With blind Bartimaeus, there was no touch, no spitting on eyes or on ground, no mud therapy.

“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” (Mark 10:52)

Why such variations in technique in different situations with the same condition?

Jesus provides the key in both the verses quoted from John 5 & 12 at the beginning of this post.

He waited to see what the Father was doing. Then He simply followed suit.

He waited to hear what the Father was saying. Then He simply repeated it.

Pretty simple, wouldn’t you say?

The key to ministering as Jesus did clearly does not lie in slavishly imitating His techniques.

Instead, it is all about being in an intimate relationship with the Father as He was.

Two Sundays ago, as we were worshipping at Morgan’s Point United, the Lord indicated to me that He wanted to heal those who had problems in the soles of their feet.

Not exactly a common condition that we would normally pray for.

What was even more unusual about this word was that He wanted me to instruct those with that condition to bang their feet loudly on the floor.

It did not sound like a commonsensical idea at the time. Why would you try to relieve pain by doing something that would result in more pain?

Yet, that is what I sensed. That is what I heard. So I simply relayed the message.

Since our floor is carpeted, I cannot say that I heard the loud stomping of feet.

The following Sunday though, we all heard a testimony from a woman named Mary.

She reported that she had followed through with what was suggested. She noticed a slight change right away.

It kept on increasing during the week until the condition which had been present for years in her feet completely disappeared. Praise God!

You may have realized as you read this account that there is no case recorded in Scripture of someone with pain in the soles of their feet being healed.

To look for a technique to heal this condition in the Bible would have been futile.

But, praise God that the key to ministering as Jesus would is not about imitating a technique.

It is about becoming more and more intimate with the Father.

It is in times such as this that we realize how much John 5:19 and 12:49 are just as applicable to followers of Jesus now as they were to Him way back then.

Have you had a similar experience? Would you please share it with the rest of your DWOD family?