Don’t Blame God
The scenario is a common one. A sickness occurs among friends or loved ones, we fire up the prayer network, we gather round in a large group and pray for the person, but nothing happens. We do it again for…
Category Obstacles to Healing
An Individual’s Practical Path to Healing (Part 4)
In the last 3 posts, we have examined the preamble to either self-ministry by a sick person or ministry by a person or team to a seeker. We have established what a person believes, plus possible obstacles to healing and…
An Individual’s Practical Path to Healing (Part 3)
The last two posts laid out a foundation for an individual path to healing. To recap, they looked at healing as a lifestyle and the desirability of storing up the Word relating to God’s promises in this area on a…
An Individual’s Practical Path to Healing (continued)
In my last post, I asserted that healing is best viewed as a lifestyle, not just an event. This is especially so if God has called you into the healing ministry. Jesus would often wake up early in the morning…
An Individual’s Practical Path to Healing
So then, what is this practical path to healing for an individual? The first important point is that healing is not best seen as an event. It is a lifestyle. Many Christians couldn’t give you a couple scriptures on healing,…
Positional Truths versus a Practical Path
One of the most frustrating things in our Christian walk is when we are presented with positional truths by Bible teachers with no accompanying practical paths to live these truths. So we hear such positional truths as: I have given…
Telling Me Your Condition is Not a Lack of Faith
I want to revisit the healing of the blind man in Bethsaida (Bethesda) during Jesus ministry. This healing is described in Mark 8, 22 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch…
Other Reasons to Keep on Asking
In talking about persistence in prayer, the impression can often be given that we are trying to cajole an unwilling God to part with our healing. Nothing could be further away from the truth. If we would fall over ourselves…
What True Faith Is and Is Not
I know a man who, years ago, attended a healing meeting. Faith was very high in this meeting and he received prayer for myopia or shortsightedness, as he wore glasses. As a sign of faith, later that week, he broke…
How Healing Comes – Avenue #5 (continued)
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,…
Misconceptions about Paul’s Thorn
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,…
Sunday Sermons and Healing
Frequently, I like to ask my friends or people I meet the question: “when was the last time you heard a complete sermon on healing, miracles, or gifts of the Holy Spirit?”. If you’re mulling over your response right now,…