Healing: Spiritual Gifts Definitions, Scriptures, and Ways to Serve

[If you have not already done so, please take a moment now to take this free spiritual gifts assessment. Once you have your results, come back to this and the corresponding 22 blog posts for a detailed description of each of the gifts, focusing on your own as well as becoming familiar with all of them so you can spot and call them out in others.]

 

Healing

The gift of Healing follows the pattern we see in the life and ministry of Jesus where healing was physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual. Often in Scripture healing is used by God to pour grace upon someone while simultaneously authenticating a message or a ministry. Always it is to show God’s mercy and power. Sometimes healing is instant and sometimes it happens over time. Our God is a God of restoration and wholeness, and healing is one way in which we see Him reach deeply into individual lives.

 

Scriptures that reference Healing or show someone exhibiting these gifts:

Mark 2; Mark 10; Luke 5 (Jesus); Luke 10 (72); Luke 22 (Jesus); Acts 3 (Peter and John); Acts 5 (the apostles); 1 Corinthians 12. 

 

Questions on the assessment that pertain to Healing/Miracles:

  • When I see people who are sick, I have a strong desire to pray for their healing.

  • I have seen God heal someone in connection with a prayer I have prayed or by my laying on of hands.

  • I am drawn to participate in ministries like “inner healing prayer” or “spiritual deliverance healing.”

 

Some words that describe people with these gifts:

  • Restorer

  • Responsive

  • Intercessor

  • Compassionate

  • Spirit-led

  • Alert

 

Potential negatives to this gift:

  • Temptation to focus on the gift and not the Giver of the gift.

  • Pride in ability to heal.

  • Fail to remember that healing is up to God and may at times be meant to authenticate a ministry or a message and may not “work” every time it is called upon.

 

Some possible ways to serve using this gift:

  • Healing prayer team

  • Prayer team

  • Prayer for individuals as God leads

 

Shirley Giles Davis, author of the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, DIOS. DONES. TÚ.: Tu llamado y diseño único (Spanish Edition), and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with hundreds of faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and executive leaders in a diversity of fields for four decades. She currently serves as Catalyst for Equipping at her church.

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