List/Grid Yearly Archives: 2008
Another Ode to Doctors
I remember a humorous story told by a pastor who was very sick with malaria. Very seriously sick. He stood on faith for his healing but did not make a…
Thank God for doctors..
“Yes”, he said, “it’s broken all right”. The wrist surgeon took another look at the MRI against the bright light overhead and nodded, “you’ll need surgery for this.” I sighed,…
Parking Lot Healings (I know, not in church…)
I carved away at my steak as I simultaneously made conversation with a new friend at a restaurant. As we chatted about this and that, I noticed she would shift…
Forgiveness precedes healing
I looked at the earnest face in front of me as I prepared for my second case for the night. A regular evening at the Healing Rooms. The gentleman was…
Healing is hard…(Part 2)
In my last post, I declared: “healing is hard”. This may have caused a furrowed brow or two among a few hardy Christian brethren, but I promised I’d do my…
Healing is hard…(Part 1)
“Healing is hard“, I once told a friend of mine. “What do you mean?“, he asked. “If it was easy, every one would be doing it,” I countered. Instead, one…
Thoughts on the Florida Outpouring
Every few decades, in response to the hunger of praying men and women, revival arrives in a part of the world – Azusa in 1906, the Welsh Revival in 1904,…
Healing in an instant of time…
“Hi, how are you?” came the voice over the telephone. A few seconds back, I’d been sitting at my computer, trying to write a complex computer program and quite oblivious…
Are Anecdote + Experience = Theology?
I wanted to stay on the theme of God’s will in healing for a moment. There’s a great example in Mark and an Luke 5:12. It goes as follows:
(Mark 1:40-41 NIV) A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” {41} Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”
For me, God’s willingness seems quite clear, as in the other 25 instances of individual healings in the New Testament. Jesus said “I
The Will of God Revisited
Imagine that one day I came by your house and gave you a discount card for your local supermarket. “Use that whenever you shop,” I say. “I’d like you to get discounts when doing your groceries.” The first time you came around and asked me, “Can I use the discount card today?”, I’d be amused and puzzled, but reply “Of course, that’s what I said, go ahead and use it.”
The second time you came to my home and asked the same question, I’d be slightly irritated, and say “Listen, I told you I wanted you to
A list of Jesus’ Healings
Below is a list of Jesus’ healings in the Gospels, all 26 of them. It comes from a study I began during a time of ministry. Enjoy it.
- The Nobleman’s Son (Jn 4:46).
- The Man with an Unclean Spirit ( Mk 1:21, Lu 4:31).
- Simon Peter’s Mother-in-Law (Matt 8:14, Mk 1:29, Lu 4:38).
- The Healing of the Leper (Matt 8:1, Mk 1:40, Lu 5:12).
- The Healing of the Paralytic
Is it God’s will to heal?
You really have to wonder sometimes…if God was not interested in healing, if He didn’t have the willingness to heal today, someone forgot to tell Jesus.
(Acts 10:38 NIV) how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
Someone also forgot to tell the apostles, because they just continued doing what Jesus did. One interesting thing is that I count 26 times where Jesus healed individuals in the gospels
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