We are to bring forth fruit that glorifies GOD and HIS Kingdom on earth!
This fruit is not intended to be self-serving, but to lead people unto salvation and healing.
FATHER has already determined to do certain things. Our job is to find out what those things are and how we are to partner with HIM, co-laboring in a place of surrender to bring them into reality here on earth.
If something doesn’t happen, HE is not the problem… we are! We can’t use the “Sovereignty” excuse because FATHER is not willing that any should perish yet they are every day. We must take seriously the assignment we have been given while on planet earth.
More people have faith in the return of Christ than they do in the power of The Gospel. It is easier to have an expectation of something happening in the unspecified future than it is to expect something supernatural in the here and now. Christians are hoping that Jesus will come back and fix things when He actually gave us the Gospel that repairs, restores, heals, empowers, enables us to bring forth Heaven to earth now.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 18:
18 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whatever you bind [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on earth shall have [already] been bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose [permit, declare lawful] on earth shall have [already] been loosed in Heaven.
19 “Again I say to you, that if two believers on earth agree [that is, are of one mind, in harmony] about anything that they ask [within the Will of God], it will be done for them by My Father in Heaven. [
20 For where two or three are gathered in My Name [meeting together as My followers], I am there among them.” AMP
To bind or loose requires us to know FATHER’S Will. HE is not obligated to respond to any request outside HIS Will. You and I don’t have the luxury of changing our assignments to conform to what we naturally do well. The Words of Jesus are emphatic by nature.
FATHER is not obligated to keep us in our individual comfort zones. Often, HE won’t. Generally, our tests are meant to bring us out of that comfort zone we prefer to stay in.
Jesus commanded us to heal the sick; He didn’t say pray for the sick. To review, Peter understood this command when he prayed for the lame man.
As Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 3:
3 So when the lame man saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking [them] for coins.
4 But Peter, along with John, stared at him intently and said, “Look at us!”
5 And the man began to pay attention to them, eagerly expecting to receive something from them.
6 But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have; but what I do have I give to you: In the Name (authority, power) of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—[begin now to] walk and go on walking!”
7 Then he seized the man’s right hand with a firm grip and raised him up. And at once his feet and ankles became strong and steady,
8 and with a leap he stood up and began to walk; and he went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
Did Peter pray some lengthy prayer begging GOD to heal the lame man? No! Peter took the Words of Jesus literally and the Kingdom of GOD came to the lame man resulting in restoration of his legs to complete health and use. Shouldn’t we do the same as Peter? After all, Jesus spent forty days teaching Peter and the other disciples the principles of the Kingdom of GOD and how to walk accordingly.