I WAS SO GREEN, SO OBVIOUSLY THE NEWCOMER. He had a wealth of experience. So I listened and said little as my friend illumined the common ground close to both our hearts: prayer-based healing patterned on the example of Christ Jesus. Along the way he addressed the issue of roadblocks to healing. He felt there were really only two: 1) the belief that the patient has to get something 2) the belief that the patient has to get rid of something. I found that insight so unexpected—and so brief—that it stuck with me long after everything else we said faded away. Today, as I endeavor to practice Christian healing more consistently, I still return to those two points.
Of course, the goal isn't just to identify roadblocks to healing. It is to remove them. And that's where it helps if I pay attention to how I perceive God. And to how I think of man—of all men, women, and children. Holding to the true, spiritual perception of everyone's identity makes disposing of a false belief occur naturally.
A verse from the Bible applies. "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it" (Eccl 3:14). That tells me something huge about God. He got it right the first time. There's nothing to put to it, nothing that needs to be taken from it. Nothing to get, nothing to get rid of. Just completeness to acknowledge. The completeness of His expression. And He expresses each of us—each one perfect—as His exact likeness. For there to be a deficiency or an excess in anyone, there would first have to be a deficiency or excess in God. And that's not about to happen.
