We are living today, in the wonderful age of the Holy Spirit who restores us to the new life in which we look on God as our loving Father and the Risen Christ as Lord of our lives. (Romans 8: 14-17) Without the power of the Holy Spirit helping us we would not know God as the Father He really is. The twin aspects of the Fatherhood of God and the Lordship of Christ are both essential for healing, and are exclusively the work and gift of the Holy Spirit so that we can truly say it is the Spirit who heals. In order to be open to healing and reconciliation we need to pray, and again this if the gift of the Holy Spirit. When we do not know what to say in prayer then in the Holy Spirit we will leave it to the Spirit and rest in his living presence. "The Spirit too comes to help in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea that could never be put into words and God, who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means. " (Romans 8: 26,27) The quality of our ministry of healing and reconciliation should be judged by the periods of silence in which we listen to what the Spirit is saying to us. Our prayer in the Spirit expresses our relationship with God in whom we trust in faith that He wants our healing and ministry to be done in a special way in which we and those we pray for are healed. The healers and the healed are members of the family of God who heals them both.
We should, therefore, pray and ask God our Father for a child-like faith in him knowing he wants to have an intimate involvement in our lives.
