Psalms 35:13-14 “But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart. (14) I paced about as though he were my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.”
We look at the life of our Lord Jesus in the gospel accounts and we see Him being used of God to perform many miracles and healings, and even though we know that He walked this earth as a man, we think that somehow He could do what He did because He was special. Well He was special, for our Lord Jesus walked this life in the flesh without ever once committing any sin. But what we fail to realize is that Jesus had to walk this life as we do, for scripture tells us that our Lord had to be made in all things just like us (Hebrews 2:17). The point that I need you to see here is that the anointing that was manifested through Jesus when He walked the earth was not because of Him being the Son of God. The account in the Psalms that I have quoted above is an account of the private prayer life of our Lord Jesus when He walked in the flesh. More specifically, we see how our Lord interceded to the Father on behalf of the sick so that He would be used of God to heal them through His ministry. In this account we see that not only did our Lord pray for the sick, but He also humbled Himself in fasting for them. And so it was because of our Lord’s intercessory prayer life that God the Father anointed Jesus with the degree of healing power that He walked in. Our Lord Jesus said that we would do the same works that He did, and even greater works because He was going to the Father (John 14:12). If we are going to experience similar results as our Lord Jesus when we lay hands on people, then we need to follow His example in every way, including our prayer lives. Prayer and fasting has the effect of increasing the anointing in our lives. In the same manner, lack of prayer and fasting will diminish the anointing in our lives.
Michael E.B. Maher
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