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How Jesus Healed
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 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’…
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 best to explain in this post. Maybe it’s just me,…
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
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
