Luke 4:31-37

I was asked the day before this scripture came into my study, "wonder why we don't see the miraculous healings like we see in the Bible anymore?"  We had a very good discusion on it with answers ranging from the idea that miracles of healing was one of the first ways Christ and the disciples spread the Word of Christ, people now days trust too much in modern medicines and not on God for healing, or that the miracle is the modern medicines.  Then, the very next morning, I read these scriptures and the thought hit me, Jesus, in all His healings, "spoke with authority."  Today, too many times when we pray for healing, it is always, "if it be your will God, please heal this person" as though we were begging for something to happen and not really believing it would.  But, when Jesus healed, He demanded it!  He knew He had God's power with Him and told the ailment what to do and BAM! healing.  I think that's what we are missing...God's power!  If we were filled with the power God gives over sickness, we would know we could do anything!!  And, we would be so intuned with God that we would KNOW when it was His will to heal physically and His will to let be.  I will end with this story in my husband's testimony:

My husband, Adam, had vertigo, a condition that makes you very dizzy beyond the point of standing and has no cure.  His doctors gave him medicine when he had spells, but was told to stay at home in bed any time he felt this way until the episode passed.  He suffered from this for about 8 years.  Then, one day he had an episode and was with a close friend and mentor when it occured.  The man, I will not state his name because I am unable to get his permission, laid his hands on Adam and, as he remembers, "told me that when this episode of vertigo ended, I wouldn't have another episode; it would be my last."  He has not had vertigo since.  After reading these scriptures, I asked him if the man's prayer was asking God's will in healing or how it was worded.  He answered, no, he just told Adam he wouldn't have another episode and he hasn't.  There was no prayer of begging God to heal, the man just said he'd be healed and he was. 

When we are so in tuned with God that we have His power within us, we CAN do great miracles like we read about in Bible times.  The trick is a relationship with God so deep that we know His will for situations and act upon it!