Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity.
As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer.
It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
(Alexis Carrel)
As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer.
It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
(Alexis Carrel)
The Challenge With Healing A Child
All healing is a form of spiritual warfare. What this means is that the healing minister is one who steps in between the individual and the evil that is trying to overwhelm him. Which is not to say that a person is showing his “guilt” when he is sick or disabled in other ways. It is clear that when Jesus and his followers healed those who presented themselves to them that the illness that was being addressed was illusory: it could be reversed or dispelled altogether. In spiritual warfare, all battles are not with unseen forms...
read moreWhen The Body Resists Healing
A few years ago, I began another course of chemotherapy. It began in mid-August. It wasn’t until the following mid-May that I could get up in the morning and stay conscious all day. It left me very weak. I could be active for a day, but then have to rest the next two or three days before I could be active again. After a few months of this semi-disabled state, I decided, as I have before in my life, to take my own healing into my own hands. And so I did. I tried this. And I tried that. After a year of going it on my own, I was...
read moreLiturgy And Healing
I realize that I am the only person in the world to want to find myself a very sturdy soapbox, step up on it, and proclaim my belief that the church is lopsided. And that this is a very serious matter. In my opinion, that is. Here’s my metaphor for the church (that I’ve probably shared before): The church is like a tree with two branches. The trunk is God, the Father. And the branches are Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Now the church nods reverentially to a nominal degree towards God, the Father. The bulk of the attention at...
read moreYour Support Team
You are not alone when you sit down with someone to pray for him. Not by a long shot. You have a vast multitude of spirits behind you. Literally. Which is not to say that you do not have provide certain very real things when you enter a Christian healing prayer session. There is willingness, openness, patience, stillness, and, most of all, love. These are all on you. It is your responsibility to listen to what is being said, and to what is not being said, and to follow it the best you can. Once an agreement has been reached between you and...
read moreMiracles In Healing Prayer
Miracles can happen during healing prayer. Healing is not necessarily a product of a miracle, but it can be. A miracle is a very specific phenomenon in the realm of God. The first thing to know are the elements of prayer. They are: God the pray-er time We will work with the mechanics of prayer in another post. But, for now, let’s say that a person is praying in a functional way. This means that God hears the prayer and that it is a prayer that he can respond to. So we have a prayer that is being worked on, is being applied, is...
read moreThe Two Paths In Physical Healing
There is something most important to keep in your heart and mind when you are working with someone: God loves us when we are in body just as much as when we are not in body. To God, it doesn’t matter if we are alive or dead. Either way, we are with him. And he is with us. God put us here on Earth for a reason. One day we may all figure out exactly what that reason is. But, until then, we are here. When the time comes, we die. So when someone comes to you and pleads for you to pray for their dying aunt, STOP. The fact of the matter is...
read moreLearning To Distrust Yourself
Listening is a critical skill that needs to be learned over time, and with much practice. You must learn to listen to the person you are serving. This means that you have to learn to still your mind, and control yourself from entering into a conversation with the pray-ee as though this were a counseling session. It’s not. It’s a session of listening. So the pray-ee first. Then you must learn to listen to your own thoughts as the prayer is going along to hear if the Holy Spirit has given you a word of wisdom. An insight into...
read moreThe Illusion Of Illness
Do you believe that healing can just happen like it does in the Bible when Jesus touches someone and his brokenness has been made whole? Well, do you? Or does it feel like a nice dream to think about, and perhaps nod about now and then when it’s mentioned? And, yet, healing happens every second of the day. In your house. At your job. Even at your church. Watching your child’s sore stop bleeding, scab over, and ultimately disappear forever (leaving behind perhaps a little memory of the accident) doesn’t take your breath...
read moreThe Ground Of Healing
There are a few fundamentals about Christian healing prayer that have to be both established and accepted as fact. Otherwise, healing prayer becomes something like a fairy tale or wishful thinking. So I guess this is the first fact: Christian healing prayer is real. It is, itself, a fact. But how can this be? Really. We live on Earth. We get up in the morning. Our stomachs ache. That’s just life. Isn’t it? Well, yes. And, no. So let’s begin with some facts about the fact of healing prayer. First, we are creations of...
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