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 her position every few seconds, it seemed. After some time,…
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 in some discomfort as he spoke and explained his ailment.…
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,…
“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 has to search far and wide to find churches where…
“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 to the world. Now the voice of a friend of…
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
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.