The Theology of Healing.
What would you think of a commander who sent his army into battle with water pistols while their tanks and artillery stayed at home? I’m guessing you wouldn’t think very highly of him or her. I often cannot help but…
ln 1st Corinthians, 12, Paul discusses spiritual gifts. He says: 1 Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led…
In the last post, I talked about receiving and ministering healing through the Prayer of Agreement. In the new spiritual math, one plus one is not equal to two. I read in Leviticus 26: 7 You will pursue your enemies,…
The next avenue to receive healing is underused by Christians in my opinion. It is the Prayer of Agreement. In Matthew 18:19, Jesus describes the Prayer of Agreement in this way: 19“Again, I tell you that if two of you…
Jesus used this approach to healing as much as any other-the laying on of hands. The last chapter in the Book of Mark gives us the Great Commission, in Mark 16: 15 He said to them, “Go into all the…
The power of words, or declaration, is one of the most effective means of obtaining healing. It is not surprising since Jesus Himself is the Living Word. In John 1:1 it states: In the beginning was the Word, and the…
Earlier, I said there were 16 avenues of divine healing found in the Word. The third avenue of healing found in the Bible is through “declaration’: This can be found in mark 11:24: “I tell you the truth, if anyone…
I’ll continue to the second avenue by which God heals today. This is by anointing with oil by believing elders of the church. James 5:14-16 says: 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the…
I’d like to continue in the vein of the last post for a little longer. I have seen over many years in prayer and healing ministry the tendency of most people towards skepticism of the unseen. Let me explain. We…
In the next few weeks, I’d like to move from obstacles to healing and accounts of healing to the ways that God heals. Based on a careful reading of the Word, there are, in my count, 16 different ways that…
In many churches I have visited in the United States, we seem to be specialists in church socialization. From ‘pizza nights’ to ‘game nights’ to ‘movie nights’, we don’t hold back from opportunities to stay amused. Call an ‘all-intercession night’…
I was sitting with a few friends in a restaurant a few years ago, when one of them leaned over and whispered, with what might been a touch of pride to me, “You know, I think I’ve got a thorn,…