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 lowered their paralyzed friend down through the roof to be healed by Jesus. It is [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Posted on December 27th, 2008 in Featured, Healing Ministry, Healing Theology, Ways People are Healed
The role of intercession has always been critical in church history. Webster’s Dictionary describes intercession as “prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of another”. Pentecost was ushered in through prayer and intercession (Acts 2); Paul and Barnabas were also selected and sent off the same way, with fasting (Acts 13). Intercession is selfless [...]
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 foolishness” members will grumble as they leave. “Why raise people’s hopes falsely?” they will add, [...]
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 us would have felt the same frustration, I’m sure. In my own 10-year experience ministering, [...]
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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, you were in. If not, you stayed out. They took things seriously in those days.
It [...]