Secondary Healing

After my husband died, I had an opportunity to return to college to finish up my degree. It was 1996 and I was an alternative student (that's what they call old people when they go back to school) at Lubbock Christian University. I had been having weekly Bible studies with college kids at my house and every Saturday, I fed them breakfast while they used my washer and dryer to do ltheir aundry. Sometimes, I made 100 pancakes and cooked 2 dozen eggs. We spent the morning singing and talking about God. It was wonderful! I developed some very close relationships with many of these kids. Some were baptized, some later came to visit with their boyfriends or girlfriends and after studying together were able to witness their baptism. They came at all hours of the day and night. When they were in need of someone to talk to and their parents and grandparents were far away, they knocked on my door. My boys stopped being surprised to wake up to a college kid or two sleeping on the floor, in the guest room or on the couch. (We were very blessed and in the three years I went to LCU, we joyously witnessed around 32 young college students put on the Lord in baptism. It was amazing!
If you have ever led someone to the Lord, you know what it feels like. You know that you tremble as you stand beside them, witnessing their confession. You know that once you see the flicker of spiritual recognition in their eyes, your heart begins to pound. And by the time they say they want to be baptized, it takes everything in your power to not jump up and down and scream, "Praise the Lord" so loudly that you scare them and the neighbors. You know that days later you are still feeling spiritually high and are still so excited you can barely sleep. You know that you can think about nothing else but bringing another to the Lord. It is truly the best feeling in the world!
I am very grateful for a Father who allows us to be His messengers, who allows us to witness the joyous new birth over and over again, who allows us to feel like we live on the top of the world. There are few things better than being instrumental in bringing someone spiritual healing. To watch the Word restore sight to one spiritually blind, to watch the Gospel of Love make a dead heart beat again, to watch one be completely healed from the sickness of satan is a feeling one will never, ever forget. The eternal impact on the soul once lost is awe-inspiring. But, the newly saved person is not the only one spiritually impacted. Yes, they are healed and they are reborn. But, when you have led them to Christ, when you have shared with them the Gospel of Encouragement, when you have plunged them into the waters of baptism and been the first to welcome them to new life in Christ, when you have done that, my friend, something happens to you, too. You experience a secondary healing of sorts.
No longer is courage lacking. No longer do we wonder about our purpose. No longer do we listen to the father of lies telling us we cannot save the world, because they are too far gone. No longer are we "too busy" to evangelize. " No longer are we content to live uninspired, unmotivated, unevangelistic, pew-sitting, merry go round riding, lives. We are also healed and with that healing comes the insipiration to go out and save the world-----one soul at a time!! And that is both addicting and awesome!!

Peace
Neva