The exact same thing with the disciples. They couldn’t cast out a demon out of a little boy (Matt 17:14-20, Mark 9:14-29) and Jesus rebuked them for unbelief. 

So if I’m on the streets and the person I’m ministering to doesn’t get better on the spot, I usually just tell them to keep checking it because it should get better. Sometimes we short circuit our own faith by walking by sight and say, “oh they didn’t get healed” just because we didn’t see any immediately change. 

I don’t say “they didn’t get healed”, I say, “I didn’t see any change”. 

It’s just like how a lot of people have been saying lately, faith doesn’t ignore physical circumstances, it just overrides it. It’s not shaken by what it sees because it doesn’t live by what it sees, it lives by what it believes. 

In ministering to people on the streets, the goal is not to get people healed, the goal is to love the person. I don’t want people to feel like a project to ‘get them healed’, I want people to understand I genuinely care about them, not just their healing. 

I’m not ministering to their broken arm. I’m ministering to them. When you start seeing people instead of their sickness, you’ll start serving them instead of just their sickness.

It’s definitely taken me a while for me to learn and grow in that, but it’s a very important distinction. Don’t know why I’m adding all that.