Reinhard Bonnke
When Jesus healed the sick it was not just sheer voltage power He wielded, but the power of His conquering love. He healed the sick by His stripes – that was the secret wonder of His anointing. He healed a withered arm, although it provoked men to plot against His life. He risked everything, and would go to any lengths, even the Cross, for the sake of the suffering. Pain and the ministry of healing are strangely linked. When some of us are willing to know ‘the fellowship of His sufferings’, and feel the same anointing of love, as Jesus had, and the same heart‑breaking pity that forgets self, and that will make any sacrifice for the afflicted, as Jesus did, and become so identified with the sufferer that we would share suffering to ease others’ pain, as Jesus did, and are ‘touched with the feeling of their infirmity’, ‘afflicted in all their affliction’, as Jesus was, then perhaps fewer people would go home unhealed. I know of no profanity worse than healing the sick in Jesus’ name in order to get rich, or to make a name for oneself, or for the gratification of wielding power.