I believe along with many others in healing ministry that Jesus always answers our prayers in 3 ways. Jesus may say “yes” and heal you immediately body, mind, soul and spirit, or “no not yet” as He heals you in the areas of your life that need attention and develops your faith along the journey or He says “maybe” as He works with you to see the blessing and lessons of the heart and fruits of the Spirit like patience as He works though the Holy Spirit to fully develop your faith. As a coach, I work with my clients on learning how to trust the Lord for His perfect timing in their healing.
As a Catholic, I have witnessed numerous people heal from debilitating cancers and many other debilitating diseases be healed from receiving Jesus in the Sacrament of the Eucharist during a Catholic Healing Mass. I have seen others healed at a healing service in Christian Churches. I have been an instrument of healing while asking a stranger on the street looking sad if I can pray for them. I have witnessed instant miracles and I have seen many physical healings come in layers or waves. I believe this happens so that Jesus can heal them in other areas of their life. Jesus ultimately wants us to live the life He desires and if we need physical healing it is likely the disease started in our mind, emotions or spirit. Jesus loves us so much He does not want you to just be healed of your physical ailment, Jesus wants you to be healed body, mind, soul and spirit. This is why I believe deeply in coaching clients through the healing process. I find, if we heal our mind, we open up ourselves to be healed physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Healing of our emotions happen when we manage our mind. Our mind is a powerful place where both God and darkness exist. Our thoughts cause our emotions and our emotions always come from the thoughts we are thinking. Our minds can cause disease. Our minds can cause us a lot of unnecessary pain and heartache but Jesus can heal us of every negative thought and feeling so our body can release any physical or emotional effect that our mind has caused to our body.
Scientists and doctors are looking to see if there is a place into our brain where we have a connection hardwired to our Creator, God. Through a brain spec scan, they have witnessed the right side of our brain light up as a patient prays, meditates, reads the bible or communicates to God. It is as though the brain has a direct pipeline to God. A place in our mind where we can live, breathe and grow in the spirit and develop our relationship fully with Our Father. Unfortunately, the left side of the brain lights up when the patient is exposed to things that are darker, like negativity and fear from news stories, horror movies and through creating other negative emotions. A place in the left side of the brain where depression exists and is allowed to grow.
My experience as a mindset coach, prayer warrior and brain health coach, shows there is a place in your brain that can lead you to a negative spin and where you feel like you are in a pit or stuck. Since the mind is also a place where the evil one can reside, it is so important to learn to manage our mind so that we learn how to feed the part of the brain that keeps us in the will of Our God and in relationship with Him. I have seen that when it comes to healing, if the person’s mind is negative, does not line up or willing to line up with the belief that they can be healed or deserve to be healed, they block their own healing with those negative thoughts. If they are healed, negative thoughts can attract the disease back in from the spirit world. That is why developing a person’s belief that Jesus can, not only heal them but that they are worthy of His Healing Love is important to the healing process.
When Jesus wills their healing, the person’s life is never the same. Jesus loves you and He wants you healed! I believe that faith, that belief that Jesus could and would heal them was the key difference to those who I witnessed that received a mighty miracle and those who did not. Their mind aligned with their emotions and their spirit received the healing touch for their bodies through the Power of the Holy Spirit.
Now just a disclaimer, I have seen and been a part of praying over a faith filled person who did not get a physical healing even though they truly believed Jesus could and would heal them. Why they did not receive the mighty miracle I can’t answer for God. But this is what I do know, a faith filled person understands that God loves them and wants the best for them and their family. God knows our future and God has the sick person’s life in the Palm of His Hand throughout the illness and knows when it is the perfect time to heal and the time to go. Whatever He wills is what happens, and I have found through my faith and the Holy Spirit, dying is the greatest miracle one can received especially for a person who has been suffering for a long time.
Dying and going to heaven is the only true total healing of body, mind, soul and spirit. Even though that was not the person’s plan, and likely not the family and friends plan, we all die one day and that day is all part of Gods plan for our life. We must understand that those who have gone before us, have been waiting patiently for this glorious day when their loved one comes back to their eternal home. I have seen many miracles come from a faith filled person going through their illness and death process. I have seen people come to the faith, be converted and be healed mentally, emotionally and at times spiritually. I have seen the loved one who died live on in the lives of those who loved them.
I have also seen many miracles come from attending funerals. I was honored to be a part of a ministry that served at funerals. I witnessed family and friends that hadn’t spoke to each other in years be reconciled. I have seen the first miracle from the prayers of the person who died. I know my mother who died on November 22, 2019 helps my family and I more now that she is with our Lord. So miracles come in may sizes and how we think about healing and death will affect the journey. In the mean time, we learn to develop the side of the brain where God exists and grow our relationship with Him so when we come to the day when God says it’s time it is an easy transition from this world to the next.