1. Spirit Healing Begins in Your Weakest Moments
Spirit healing often begins when we least expect it, when our bodies are tired, our souls are discouraged, and our expectations are low.
I came into worship at the national conference last week with tired eyes and an even more tired body. I was late, which is unlike me. I didn’t come because I wanted to. I came because I was supposed to. I leaned against the wall with my hands in my pockets and my heart somewhere far away.
Then the worship leader said something unexpected. “There are pastors here who feel lonely. I want to ask you to be brave and raise your hand so we can pray for you.” That hit something raw in me. I felt a wave rise, but I shoved it down. I told myself, Sure, every pastor feels lonely. A flicker of cynicism surfaced. I stayed silent. Stayed hidden.
But the Holy Spirit had other plans.
2. Spirit Healing Seeks the Lonely
Worship continued. Then a new song began. I didn’t know the lyrics, but the melody carried something sacred. The lyrics spoke of lifting God high, and before I knew it, I was no longer leaning against the wall.
I was face-down on the floor, bent in half, unable to lift my head.
It wasn’t emotion. It was glory. Tangible, weighty, holy glory. Honestly, when the Spirit hits me it looks different almost every time.
In that moment, spirit healing was more than a concept, it was a presence. The Spirit of God had come to meet me not in strength, but in honesty. Not in loudness, but in my humbling.
Little did I know…it was just beginning.
3. Spirit Healing Breaks Through Cynicism
As I lay there, I felt a poke in my ribs.
It was so unexpected I almost laughed, until a tiny hand rested gently on my back.
Instantly, power began to ripple through my entire body. I began to weep…uncontrollable sobs. The Spirit moved through that tiny hand like fire through dry leaves.
I didn’t see the child. I couldn’t lift my head. But I knew something holy was happening, and it had broken through all my cynicism and doubts…because that is what the Spirit does.
4. Spirit Healing Brings Forgotten Pain Into the Light
As the child’s hand stayed on my back, I was taken back to the night before Father’s Day. The night before this conference. My house was dark, my heart heavier. I was in bed, weeping under the weight of decisions I didn’t want to make.
New job. New state. No local friends. Old wounds. Deep fatigue.
I believed I was utterly alone. And I thought it had to stay that way. That was the cost of leading. That was the cost of following God. It will always be this way.
I think when we are broken, the enemies voice can sound so very noble…
As I wept feeling like I was in two places at the same time
God spoke: “I had to send a small child to you so you would believe you are not alone.”
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5. Spirit Healing Humbles Us
Believe it our not, I had been so very arrogant. I believed that I understood what it took. It being leadership. That what IT took was my lonliness, my isolation, my separation. And it would always be that way. So Jesus had to remind me what faith looked like through a child. To get around my cynacism and my doubt and my fear, and my weariness.
If he can do that for me…he can do that for you. It Begins…with the Spirit
BACK to the story. God whispered, “You weren’t alone then, and you’re not alone now.”
And then I heard this child’s voice. “Why is this man crying?”
Her mother could have intervened, pulled her away, but instead she gently explained and taught how to minister and how to prayer.
What a picture of Spirit healing, compassion, teaching, and presence all in one holy moment.
What was amazing to me was that while she was teaching, that didn’t diminish the powerful work that was happening to me. God was now healing and bringing a sense of belonging and hope to me. Renforcing this sense of community. Allowing me to heal and be fulfilled. It was one of the most meaningful moments of the last couple of years.
6. Spirit Healing Can Come Through a Child
That encounter wasn’t just touching. It was theological.
In a world where we often marginalize children, overlook women, and sideline the emotionally vulnerable, God used them to preach the purest sermon of the night.
The child became a vessel for Spirit healing. Her mother became a teacher in real time. And I, supposedly the one there who was a professional minister, became the recipient of grace.
If you’ve ever felt overlooked, discounted, or too broken to be used, let that moment be your reminder: the Spirit chooses vessels the world overlooks.
7. Spirit Healing Restores Belonging
When that moment ended, I sat up. I didn’t see the family. My heart was lighter. My shoulders felt different.
Days later, I got to speak to the family on zoom well after the conference was over and connect about the other side of the story. How this little girl, Charity, had seen me from rows away, been moved by the Spirit, to pray, and demanded repeatedly of her mother to come and pray from me. How their obedience resulted in my healing. It was a beautiful reminder that the future of the church of Jesus is in good, and for now, tiny hands.
Spirit healing is real. It is for the marginalized. It is for the tired, the jaded, the hidden, and the lonely.
Spirit Healing Through Worship
One of the most powerful moments that night was a song playing in the background, “We Lift You Up” by Kyle Howard. It was the song that played that started this whole encounter.
I didn’t know the lyrics. I barely had strength to sing. But that song became a turning point. Take a listen.
👉 Click here to listen to We Lift You Up by Kyle Howard
Sometimes Spirit healing begins with surrender. Other times it begins with a song.
8. Spirit Healing Reminds Us: You Are Not Alone
Maybe this is you right now.
Maybe you’re tired of showing up to church, ministry, or even your own family with a brave face, while your soul is gasping for breath. Maybe you’ve poured yourself out for others so often that you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be poured into. Maybe you’ve learned how to survive, but not how to be seen. Not how to be healed.
You’re not weak. You’re not failing. You’re human.
Spirit healing is for people like you, the spiritually dry, the emotionally exhausted, the quietly grieving. It’s for those who carry the trauma of rejection, the weight of expectations, and the ache of being misunderstood.
It’s for those who still believe, but barely. For those who don’t know how to ask for help anymore.
And here’s what you need to hear: You are not alone.
The Lie of Isolation
One of the enemy’s most effective strategies is isolation. Not physical separation alone, but emotional and spiritual detachment, the slow, subtle belief that no one sees you, no one understands you, and worse, that no one would care if they did.
You can be surrounded by people and still feel invisible.
Even in the church.
Even in leadership.
Especially in leadership.
Spirit healing breaks that lie. It doesn’t erase the pain overnight, but it reminds you of truth, that you are deeply known, seen, and loved by the One who created you.
Spirit Healing Starts With Surrender
You don’t have to earn healing. You don’t have to prove your worth to the Holy Spirit. You don’t have to craft the perfect prayer or quote the right verse.
Spirit healing begins when we stop performing and start receiving.
It begins when we allow ourselves to fall face-down in the presence of God, not out of ritual, but out of reality. When we stop running from our pain and invite the Spirit to sit with us in it.
Sometimes that healing comes through a sermon. Sometimes through a song. Sometimes through the small hand of a child. Always through grace.
There Is No Shame in Being Wounded
If Jesus came for the sick, the weary, the brokenhearted, then why do we hide our wounds in His presence?
You don’t need to get it all together before approaching God. You need only come.
That’s what I learned on the floor of that sanctuary. Spirit healing didn’t require me to be strong. It required me to be honest.
And the same is true for you.
You Belong in the Family of God
This is a call back to community. Back to connection. Back to vulnerability. Because spirit healing doesn’t just change our hearts. It restores our place.
We are not just healed. We are held. And then, we are sent.
You don’t have to carry your trauma alone. You don’t have to lead from an empty cup. You don’t have to be the strong one all the time.
Let the Spirit lift you up.
And if you need someone to remind you that you matter, that your story matters, I hope this blog has done just that.
You are not invisible.
You are not forgotten.
You are not alone.
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Final Thoughts: What If It Begins With You?
Galatians 3:3 (NASB 2020)
“Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?”
Paul’s words to the Galatians cut through the noise then—and they still do now. It’s as if he’s saying, “Did you forget how this started? Did you forget where the healing came from?”
That verse wrecked me. Because for all my theological training, for all the sermons I’ve preached and the prayers I’ve led, I had fallen into the same trap. I started with the Spirit, but somewhere along the way, I tried to finish it in my own strength.
I believed that healing would come if I just worked harder, stayed more hidden, or toughed it out longer. I believed that loneliness was part of the cost of ministry. That silence was spiritual. That exhaustion was noble.
But Paul reminds us—it begins in the Spirit.
Not in effort. Not in intellect. Not in burnout that we spiritualize as obedience.
Spirit healing doesn’t arrive through control. It comes through surrender. It doesn’t show up when we’ve figured it all out. It shows up when we collapse under the weight of what we never could carry.
And it may look different for each of us.
For me, it looked like being face-down on a sanctuary floor.
It looked like being poked in the ribs by a child I didn’t know.
It sounded like the quiet voice of a little girl asking, “Why is this man crying?”
It felt like the fire of the Spirit moving through a hand that didn’t know it was doing something divine.
It looked like God orchestrating a moment so intimate, so unlikely, that I could no longer believe the lie that I was alone.
So let me ask: What if Spirit healing begins with you?
What if it starts in the moment you stop trying to be the strong one?
What if today is the day you stop striving and simply let God meet you where you are: tired, confused, wounded, cynical, or dry?
The healing you’re desperate for may not come the way you expect. It may come quietly. It may come through someone smaller than you. It may come through surrender, not strategy.
But when it comes, it will be undeniable.
Because it begins in the Spirit.
And the Spirit is already reaching for you.
Let Him reach for you too.
If you’ve ever felt like your soul has flatlined, you’re not alone.
👉 Read “God Moved First: 7 Life-Changing Truths for When You’ve Spiritually Flatlined”
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