When I teach people how to heal the sick I tell them to take on the role of a mid-wife. A mid-wife has a unique role in the birth of a child. The mid-wife didn't conceive the child, nor will he raise the child. His or her sole role is to bless - to encourage through the power of the Spirit - the person who is giving birth, right then and there, underneath the midwife's capable supervision.
Now God is birthing things all over the place - not only under the hand of the healing minister. People everywhere are birthing dreams, wrestling with God, and struggling to overcome life-long demons. You can find them at HEB, on the RTD, and even homeless in the streets. Everywhere you go, God is doing something in the people surrounding you.
Think of that.
Add to that your role and ministry of the mid-wife -- the one who blesses, who encourages, who loves others through their unique birthings in the power and grace of the Holy Spirit and you have an instant ministry that looks a lot like the ministry of Jesus.
Our healing teams have been taught to bless and birth. Alright, fair enough (and they do a magnificant job of it as well!). Yet, what would happen if we took that same role of blessing and birth into the streets, into the places where people need it the most?
Here's the challenge: As you relate to others - howbeit a waiter at Ruthie's or someone standing in line with you at Ritz's Camera - think of yourself as being a mid-wife THERE, with THEM, open to any opportunity the Lord may give to do those same beautiful things we do in the church, right there, in the world, with them, there and them.
In so doing you will bless others and glorify Jesus in real tangeble ways.
