Archive for November, 2008

A significant healing occurred in Bethsaida (Bethesda) during Jesus ministry. A blind man was brought to Jesus to be healed and what followed was a unique account of healing dissimilar to any other account of Jesus’ healings in the gospels. Here it is in Mark 8,
22 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a [...]

I feel like the last post left some thoughts unexpressed, so I will continue along those lines and try to tie up some loose ends. We know presumption is not faith, nor is faith the throwing away of medicines that regulate a condition. Actually, it is in insisting your doctor does another diagnostics test, even [...]

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 his glasses into little pieces and threw them into the trash. Suffice to say, he [...]

I’m reminded of a documentary I once watched about wild dogs in Africa. The adults would go out, hunt, kill their prey and feed. Completely full, they would return to where the puppies were being communally looked after by a couple of adults.
The next scene was amazing – the pups followed the returning adults [...]

There is a way to obtain Biblical healing that we can call ‘impetuous action’. The woman with the issue of blood was not prayed for, she simply forced her way in and touched the hem of Jesus garment. Reading the account in Mark 5:25-30, we see,
25 And a woman was there who had been subject [...]