This week’s session in our ongoing healing series is entitled “Contending in Prayer for the Miraculous.” We explore the need to be persistent in prayer for healing. Why do we sometimes have to “knock” in prayer? We should pray for the miraculous like the Early Church – and not accept the normality of powerlessness.

Class notes are available here as a PDF.

For a fuller version, including a time of prayer and ministry after the teaching, you can watch on my YouTube channel.

EXCERPT: Don’t accept the normality of powerlessness.We’ve talked before about Paul telling Timothy to stir up the gift that was within him. We said that it was up to Timothy to stir up what God had given him.

In a similar way, if you want to see healings and miracles in your life, you will need to stir yourself up. You will have to stir yourself up to pray for the miraculous. The Apostle James, of course, gave us that simple principle, “…ye have not, because ye ask not” (James 4:2b). To get started, just begin praying for the miraculous. Ask God that He would do these things, and that He would use you to do them. Keep meditating on the passages we’ve been sharing, and ask God to release the Gifts of the Spirit.

But we need to stir ourselves up another way. We need to have something in our spirit that will not accept business as usual. Thank God, we believe God has lost none of His power. Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever. But any Christian can face the temptation to accept the normality of powerlessness. Don’t accept the normality of powerlessness. Let your spirit be stirred up with zeal and compassion, and refuse to accept a lack of power as normal Christianity.

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