Moving on in Luke, Chapter 11:14, the author tells us that Jesus was in the process of driving out demons from a man who was struck dumb and one of the religious “spies”, equated the power of Jesus to that of Satan.
Firstly, how many times have you and I come into contact with physically challenged people in our daily lives, and thought of praying over them to drive out the demon(s) causing the affliction. If you were to openly speak of driving out such demons, people would think you mad at the very least. I’m not talking about doing this in a shopping mall, try doing it at your church next Sunday, the pastor would probably ask you to leave!
We have sanitized our faith to the point that we fail to follow the example of Jesus in the Bible. I’m preaching to myself here and this revelation is unfolding before my eyes as I write. We, as Christians want to leave the wisdom, religious knowledge and direct healing in the hands of the professionals. It should be noted that they are more than willing to take that leadership and have you send them money for doing the healing on television. We have and apparently will continue to abdicate religious authority to a clergy who makes it up as they go along.
Back in Chapter 10:9, Jesus tells His disciples (you and me) to heal the sick. That is a pretty straight forward command if you ask me. Now, for those of you who feel that I have gone off of the deep end (it happens all of the time, just ask my wife), consider that a part of Christian belief is that the Bible is the true word of God and that Jesus is God and we are to follow His example.
Based on that knowledge, I will pray for healing with the very next impaired person that I meet and I will expect healing in the name of Jesus Christ.
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