Whose faith is it, then?
We have seen up to this point, multiple ways by which God heals. In some instances, the process is initiated by men, and in others, it is dependent on the gifts of the Holy Spirit working through others. A common…
Tag Healing Theology
How Healing Comes – Avenue #14
In Jesus’ day, invalids would wait at the Pool of Bethesda, near the Sheep Gate, for the ‘stirring of the waters’. John describes this in John 5:1-4, 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which…
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…
A Church’s Practical Path to Healing (Part 4)
When it comes to healing, I’m the most gregarious person in the world. I’ll talk to anyone about it, I’ll ask anyone I respect to pray for me or for others, and I can be like the four friends who…
A Church’s Practical Path to Healing (Part 2)
For a church that makes a commitment to become a Healing Church, the truth is that everything will change. First, it will probably lose members. Every church I know of that made this commitment has gone through the process. “Such…
A Church’s Practical Path to Healing (Part 1)
I recall sitting in a large church meeting that was once again, dismissed without an altar call. Having attended the church for a while, I was fairly confident there were more than a few new faces in attendance. Most of…
An Individual’s Practical Path to Healing (Concluded)
John Lake, the founder of the Healing Rooms at the turn of the 20th century, had an interesting test for believers who wanted to become healing room workers. They assigned you a sick person and if that person was healed,…
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…