REFLECTING ON KATHRYN KUHLMAN, I’m feeling blessed to say that I believe I “get it”! I understand why most of her many, many healings – amazing healings that numbered in the thousands, maybe even millions – were reversed.

In a word, the recipients were not changed inwardly and they couldn’t support their own healings. They needed to grow inwardly with a 180 degree shift away from almost everything they believed for years and years and years in order for the disease to keep from coming back!

I don’t say that they needed a lot of time to get to the point of thinking as a healed person and they certainly didn’t need any mental gymnastics to get there but they did need to know the one who healed them, e.g., God, intimately and very, very personally because that’s the normal thing for one who has been so touched by Him to want to do.

Of course if these people who had traveled hundreds of miles to meet Kathryn had managed to make their own physical needs secondary to acquiring an intimate relationship with God, they would have received what they sought and their healing would have slipped in there too as a natural result. And it would have lasted.

We should never have another person do our work for us. We can ask for counsel and guidance but we need to do our own soul searching and develop the spiritual discipline required to effect the miracles we’d like to see happen.