“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7)

I remember the days before I started to see people healed.  The thought of praying for someone for healing was a completely overwhelming thought for me.  I used to believe that if they did not get healed when I prayed for them that I was at fault.

This was not a healthy way for me to think.  It actually stopped me time and time again from praying for people.

I don’t know where I learned it, but through the years I have received much training on praying for the sick.  What I came to learn was that I am not responsible for healing anyone but simply to pray and if I keep on praying eventually someone will get healed.

I remember hearing stories about Smith Wigglesworth who prayed for many people before they were healed, and really this has been the experience of any person who has engaged in such a ministry.

Not everybody that I pray for gets healed even now, but surprisingly more and more people do get healed.  So I continue to pray.

I have been around men and women of God who have strong healing gifts and the thing that I have noticed about them is that they do not give up.  Even when it doesn’t look like a person is completely healed, they celebrate a partial healing.  They even celebrate the peace they see in the person’s heart.

In the past few years I have seen some tremendous healings.  There are people that define my ministry as both prophetic and healing, which kind of makes me laugh because I never really thought of myself as a healer, but I kept praying and because I did, eventually I began to see people touched by God in this way.

The key is to keep praying.  You will see people die of cancer, but if you don’t pray for someone with cancer. you will never see them healed.  You must pray even when they continue to die.

I remember one man that I prayed for about three years ago.  He came into the church with 18 of his family members.  I prayed for him to be healed of cancer.  He got touched by Holy Spirit that night in a real way, and although he died later, he gave his heart to the Lord that night and kept talking about the experience he had at our church until he died.  His whole family saw him touched by God in a real way.  They heard him testify of God’s goodness even in the face of his terminal disease.

Had I decided that night not to pray for him that testimony may not have reached the ears of his family and he certainly may not have had the peace that he had on his deathbed.  They would not have heard of the goodness of the Lord and he may not have made it to heaven.

And so some will be healed and some won’t be, but you should not judge the merit of your prayer.  Only God knows what that prayer really accomplished. Therefore, keep on praying and keep on asking and eventually the door of healing prayer will be opened up to you.

Dear DWOD friend, my prayer for you today is that you will step out past your boundaries.  Perhaps many people have prophesied over you that you have a healing gift.  The only way that gift will arise is if you exercise it and that takes faith.  I pray that kind of faith will overtake you today as you advance towards your destiny.