It’s not uncommon to think of gratitude as something that comes after healing, and undoubtedly it does. Yet, I’ve come to see that gratitude is a great aid to bringing healing, too. It’s a helpful tool that anyone should be able to easily grab out of their healer’s toolbox.
If we think we should wait to express gratitude until after we see or feel the results of prayer, then we fall into the tendency of perpetually expecting a healing to come “tomorrow.” But putting off the power of the healing Christ in our lives to sometime later—never now—delays our natural right to experience God’s present love at once.
When Christ Jesus healed, he did so immediately. According to one dictionary, the word immediate actually means without an intervening medium—at once, without delay. So how did Jesus do this?
