Chapter Seven – Staying On the Rails
Healing Ministry can be difficult and/or messy because Holy Spirit empowered ministries are often difficult and/or messy. Paul struggled with the congregation in Corinth because they were too enamored of their spiritual gifts and the church has had difficulties with its Spirit-led members ever since. We will not create problems for the leaders of our […]
Chapter Six – What Do We Do With Failure?
Not everyone we pray for will be immediately, miraculously healed. Not even half of them. I don’t keep count of my own success/failure ratio, but as I said in an earlier chapter, I don’t think my batting average would get me into the major leagues. Randy Clark, the most important of my mentors/teachers in healing […]
Chapter Five – The Five Step Method
In the preceding chapters I have tried to lay out the kind of foundation for healing prayer that I wish I’d had when I first came to this ministry. It is a bit of this and a bit of that from different ministries with which I’ve been affiliated to one degree or another over my […]
Chapter Four – Things That Help and Things That Hinder
Faith It is beyond question that Faith plays a role in bringing healing to a person, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. Jesus is very clear that having faith for healing brought it about for some people. While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My […]
Chapter Two – “Why do we do healing?”
I think that the first question I need to address is, “Why would we want to pray for miraculous healing?” After all, we are modern people and we have excellent physicians. It’s true that many of the things we will wind up praying for will be things that a doctor could cure, so why pray? […]
Chapter One – What Happened to Healing?
I’m still astonished that there is so little emphasis on healing ministry in most of the churches that I know or have been involved in. Apart from the Passion Narrative itself or Jesus’ longer discourses like the Sermon on the Mount or the High Priestly Prayer, it’s difficult to read more than a few pages […]
Introduction
Many years ago, when I was working as an ophthalmic assistant, one of my co-workers called me at home. She knew I was also a volunteer prison chaplain, and she wanted me to pray for her daughter. Her daughter and husband had been in a bad auto accident, and her daughter was in the ICU […]
Chapter Three – Some Introductory Questions
Where does healing come from? This question is different from “Who does the healing?” I’ll talk about that in the next section. But before we discuss that topic, I’d like to deal with the origins of healing. That is, where does the Bible understand it to originate? In the Garden, there was no need for […]
