The Month of Miracles, Part 2

March 13, 2025

From Yesterday

Several leaders I am associated with have conducted three Healing Summits over the past few months, two of them live and streamed online, one of them only online. We have received reports of many people being healed. The next Healing Summit will be April 4, at The Oasis in Middletown, Ohio, led by my brother, Tim Sheets. Why April? The month of Nisan (March 30-April 28 on our calendar) is considered by the Jews as “the month of miracles.” Please join us, either in person or online.

We are certainly doing these healing summits because we want to see people healed, but there is another very important reason. We believe God wants to use these gatherings, and the agreement in prayer surrounding them, to birth a new season of signs and wonders in the earth. This would include the release of gifts of healing and miracles worldwide. Obviously, this means we are not thinking of them as one night events, but as catalytic prayer gatherings to birth something larger and long-term. In no way are they designed to promote our ministries, or to imply that associated healings have to occur then and there. We are some of many contending for miracles. We are encouraging as many churches and ministries as possible to conduct a service in April to pray for healings. (Link to yesterday’s post, The Month of Miracles)

Testimonies of Healing

The healing reports we have received from the summits are related to many disorders. Some have actually testified to medically confirmed healings of terminal illnesses. No one can honestly say that everyone they pray for is healed; nonetheless, we’re experiencing numerous healings at these gatherings. 

I receive many communications from GH15 listeners, including prayer requests, testimonies, and “thank yous.” I rarely mention them because I can’t comment on all of them, and don’t want the others to feel unappreciated. Please know that we appreciate all of them. However, I want to mention a testimony I received a few weeks back that is relevant to today’s post and moved me to tears. It referenced and thanked me for a post released on January 17 of this year entitled Don’t Give Up On Your Miracle.

Without going into detail, the report was from the mother of a four-year-old boy who has a very debilitating condition. They attended the Healing Summit in August of last year to have the young boy prayed for. Though this young child did not receive an instant miracle, they continued to believe and stated that he began to recover from that point. To date, the transformation has been tremendous. I am praying and believing with them for the child’s complete recovery. 

Progressive Healings

The teaching in the January 17th post encouraged believers not to give up when they don’t receive an instant miracle. I want to reshare a portion of it today:

“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Acts 10:38; KJV). The word healing in this verse comes from the Greek word iaomai. In Greek history this word often has the meaning of a healing that occurs progressively, over time. We typically assume that when people were healed through Jesus or the disciples, it was always instant. This word tells us that wasn’t necessarily the case. It can mean that the healing or cure began at that moment and continued until the person had fully recovered. 

I was fascinated and motivated to learn more about this word, and did so in an article by Greek scholar Rick Renner. After sharing the testimony of a profound but progressive miracle, Renner said he inquired of the Lord for more insight. Holy Spirit led him to Acts 10:38 and a study of this Greek word for “healing,” iaomai. Renner says:

“This word iaomai is a very ancient word for “healing” — so ancient that it was even used in Homer’s time. It mostly denoted healing that came to pass over a period of time. It is for this reason that the word iaomai is often translated throughout Greek history as a treatment or cure or remedy. Thus, it depicts a sickness that has been progressively healed rather than instantaneously healed…

“It unmistakably tells us that there are many people who, from the moment they are touched by God’s power, begin to mend or be cured. In other words, this means that all healings are not instantaneous; certain people are progressively restored to health over a period of time. They become better and better until ultimately they are completely cured. Although this type of healing is not instantaneous, it is nonetheless miraculous.

“The picture of iaomai is similar to a physician who gives medicine to a sick patient and expects the medication to do its invisible, internal work to produce a remedy for a physical problem — but with supernatural results. When this type of healing power is at work, the person praying for the sick may not see immediate results. But that person can be confident that because he has prayed in faith, healing power has been imparted. The complete manifestation of healing may take time. But if God’s power has been imparted and received by the person’s faith, that healing power has started its invisible, internal work to reverse the sick person’s condition and bring him or her back to a healthy state of being.”(1)

Though the meaning of this word was new to me, the truth behind it was not. I have observed several divine healings that were progressive, and have personally experienced some. 

When a person is prayed for and an instant miracle doesn’t occur, their disappointment at times can almost be felt tangibly. When encouraged to continue believing God has honored the prayer and that the answer will come, they often find it difficult not to give up. Believe me when I say I understand this. Repeated failures to receive instant healings have caused some to become disillusioned regarding supernatural healing altogether.  

Persevere in Your Faith

Please don’t give up on your healing! Progressive healing is often how God works, even having done so through Jesus and the early apostles! “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:35-36 KJV). 

The Passion Translation words this verse as follows: “So don’t lose your bold, courageous faith, for you are destined for a great reward! You need the strength of endurance to reveal the poetry of God’s will and then you receive the promise in full” ‭‭(Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭35‬-‭36‬ TPT‬‬).

If you have been prayed for and did not receive your healing instantly, this DOES NOT mean that you, or the person praying for you, didn’t have faith! And it doesn’t indicate that nothing was imparted. It means that for you, God wants to do it a different way! DON’T THROW AWAY YOUR FAITH, YOUR CONFIDENCE! 

Hebrews 6:12 is another verse that tells us not to give up on our faith: “So don’t allow your hearts to grow dull or lose your enthusiasm, but follow the example of those who fully received what God has promised because of their strong faith and patient endurance” (Hebrews‬ ‭6‬:‭12‬ TPT‬‬).

This teaching is important for many. Receive it. Declare your faith everyday: “By the stripes of Jesus I am healed!” (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24) Do it multiple times a day, just as you might take medicine several times each day. Let’s stand together now for the iaomai of “the Lord our Healer” (Exodus 15:26) to be released. 

Pray with me:

Father, we stand in agreement with those who are believing for their healings. We appreciate doctors who work to see people recover, but many need supernatural healings. Miracles. We ask that any and all “hope deferred” be broken off them. You said truth makes us free (John 8:32); we embrace the truth of today’s word. Cause it to now restore and energize their faith. We stand with our brothers and sisters now, believing that through faith and patience they will receive their complete healing. 

We also continue to ask for a fresh outpouring of signs and wonders, and that gifts of the Spirit be released to believers, equipping them to release healings and miracles. We believe You are launching another movement of the miraculous around the world, and we agree in prayer for this today. In Jesus’ name we ask for it. Amen. 

Our decree:

We decree that supernatural healings will manifest FULLY in the minds and bodies of individuals as they stand in faith.

Watch the full video:

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1. https://renner.org/article/healing/