Featured question: “If healing is a spiritual gift according to 1 Cor 12, does this mean that some people can heal the sick and some cannot?”
Answer: The question is loaded with error.
See sections 5-9 of the DHT manual. We heal the sick by faith, power and authority; we do not wait on a gift.
1 Cor 12:1—the word “gifts” is NOT in the original text; this verse should be interpreted as “concerning spiritual things…” Here we cannot use “gifts” to gauge our spiritual maturity.
1 Cor 12:30—It means when the church comes together, everybody does not operate in healing; this verse does not mean healing is only for some people.
Mark 16—there is no mention of the gift of healing here. Jesus sent the disciples out to operate in power and authority.
Luke 9—no mention of gifts. The disciples were to operate in power and authority.
Luke 10:19—Jesus did not give the disciples spiritual gifts; they operated in power and authority.
Matthew 10:1—“…authority over all kinds of diseases and demons…”
Matthew 10:5-8—no mention of gifts. We don’t operate in gifts. Jesus operated as a Son in the dominion of God.
Matthew 17:19—“…because of your unbelief.” Here Jesus did not rebuke the disciples for their lack of gifts, but their unbelief.
Paul did not talk about spiritual gifts with the mature churches such as Ephesian and Colossian churches; he only did so with the Corinthian church, the carnal one.
We should not seek gifts; instead, we should seek to meet the needs of the person standing in front of us. It takes faith to operate in the gifts.
Luke 4:40—no mention of gifts here.
Acts 5:14—no mention of gifts. It was the name of Jesus and faith in that name. We should operate by faith and dominion.
Acts 9:39-40—Peter put them all out because he watched Jesus do so. Peter operated in power and dominion.
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