Two Dimensions of Healing

James 5:16

Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.

The subject of healing is probably one of the oldest and hottest in the bible. Right after the creation of the world when Adam and Eve first sin, from that very moment, humanity was in need of healing. Healing is very important because without it no one can live a healthy life. The poor and the rich need healing. The tall and the short need healing. To put it short, every living being on earth needs healing at one point or the other.

The passage above talks about two kinds of healing that are very important: intra personal healing and interpersonal healing.

Intra personal healing is the healing that is tied to an individual and it is this individual that has the key to unlocking the abundance of healing that has been locked within.

Interpersonal healing on the other hand is two way. If flows in to an individual from another person and also flows out of you to that same person. It is an exchange between two persons who desperately need each other to survive.

From the forgoing, healing is tied to you first then to that other person. You as an individual need healing so that you can now be in a position to heal somebody. The funny thing is that most of the time, individuals feel they are fine and needs no healing while in the real sense they need wholesome healing. It is one thing to be fine and another to be healthy. But healing is the will of God for his children. If you can key into the passage above, you will receive healing.