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• Healing ministry should have the
19Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. —John 5:19-20 (NIV)
― Ministry requires total
― Ministry is doing what we
― Sometimes we receive
― Other times we simply commit ourselves to doing what we have seen the Father do
36 … For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. —John 5:36 (ESV)
― Healing is anfrom the Father, bearing witness to Jesus’ identity and mission. 1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” —John 3:1-2 (NIV)
3 … This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. 4God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. —Hebrews 2:3-4 (NIV)
― Healing the sick and ministering in the power of the Spirit is part of the
37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father. —John 10:37-38 (ESV)