God healed a stranger through my six-year-old

The Sunday before we left for Honduras, I was sitting in church when I had a vision of a field full of angels. And the Lord put two words in my spirit: creative miracles.

So that became my prayer. Lord, let us see things we never even expected You to do.

I just didn’t expect how He’d answer it. Because the answer wasn’t mainly about what He would do through me. It was about what He would do through everybody I handed the ministry to.

When we got there, it turned out I was the one on the team with the most experience praying for healing. So my job quietly became equipping. I trained our whole team, and then I trained their church: here’s how you pray for the sick, here’s how you listen for a word of knowledge, and no, you don’t need a title for any of it. I told my team, “Pray that the Lord gives you a word of knowledge. Then come up on stage and deliver it.”

One of the young girls on our team, about twelve, got a word about pain in someone’s knee. She delivered it. The woman was right there. And as that twelve-year-old prayed, they heard and felt an audible pop, and the knee was completely healed.

Then it got closer to home.

My six-year-old daughter came on the trip with us. The night of the crusade, as we’re getting ready, she says, “Mommy, my knee hurts really bad. I need help putting on my sock.” I asked if she fell. She said no. And something in me went, wait. That might not be her pain at all.

“Which knee, baby?”

“My right knee.”

“Okay. Why don’t we deliver that word at the crusade tonight?”

So I’m wrapping up the healing message in front of about seven hundred people, we start giving words of knowledge, and my six-year-old gets up and gives hers. Someone here has pain in their right knee. A woman in the first row raises her hand. And my daughter walks off that stage, lays her little hands on a stranger’s knee, prays, and the woman is completely healed.

God gave the word to the six-year-old, not the preacher.

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Here’s the part I really want you to see. At that same crusade, after I preached and prayed, I called forward everyone who still needed healing. And the team went to work. Some of them had never prayed for a sick person before that week.

And I just took a step back and watched.

They’re the ones praying. They’re the ones seeing blind eyes open and deaf ears open and people set free. At one point two of the girls were praying for a man who had come on crutches, and mid-prayer they turned around and asked me, “Rachel, what do I do?” I said, “You’re praying. Is it working? Is he getting better?” “Yes.” “Then keep praying.” He walked out carrying his crutches.

I stood there having a proud mama moment. Look at them. They’re all doing it.

Now here’s my confession, because there is one. The old version of me would have done every bit of that myself. In my business I spent years as the one whose hands had to be on everything, because if I did it, it got done right. I called it responsibility. It was really just a ceiling with my name on it. And I have watched so many capable Christian women do exactly the same thing, in their businesses and in their ministries. We hold the gift tight and call it stewardship.

But watch the math of that week. If I had personally prayed for every person, we would have reached a fraction of the people, and my team would have gone home spectators. Instead the gift multiplied. A twelve-year-old is delivering words of knowledge. A six-year-old is delivering a word God gave her over a stranger’s knee. Women who had never prayed for the sick are watching God heal through their own hands. That doesn’t happen because the leader is impressive. It happens becuase the leader lets go.

The measure of a leader is not what happens through her hands. It is what happens through the hands she trained when she steps back.

Scripture has always worked this way.

“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.” (2 Timothy 2:2)

Four generations in one verse. Paul, Timothy, reliable people, others. Multiplication was never the advanced course. It was always the assignment.

Multiplication is not a growth strategy. It is what love does with a gift.

And this is exactly true in your business, not just on a mission field. The offer you refuse to let anyone else deliver. The task only you can do right. The client work you grip becuase handing it over feels like losing control of the quality. Every one of those is a place where the gift stops with you. The pattern that freed me, in ministry and in business, is embarrassingly simple: do it, let them shadow you, then hand them the work and watch what God does through them.

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So here’s this week’s assignment. Pick one thing you do well, one thing people would say is “your” thing. Then pick one person, a team member, a student, even your kid. Let them shadow you once. Then put it in their hands and stand behind them the way I stood behind those girls, close enough to answer “what do I do,” far enough that the hands on the work are theirs.

And if you get to have your own proud mama moment, or if you already know exactly what you’ve been gripping too tight to hand over, hit reply and tell me. One line is enough. I read every one.

With you, Rachel

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