List/Grid Tag Archives: Healing
How Healing Comes – Avenue #1 (continued)
I’d like to continue in the vein of the last post for a little longer. I have seen over many years in prayer and healing ministry the tendency of most…
What Healing Ministry Should Look Like
It must be obvious to even the casual reader that I have more than a passing interest in the matter of divine healing. It occupies a lot of my waking…
We do what we believe…
I shared a little while back one of the reasons we have a marked lack of healings in our churches. There are many actually, but I want to focus on…
Parking Lot Healings (I know, not in church…)
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…
Healing is hard…(Part 1)
“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…
Healing in an instant of time…
“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…
Are Anecdote + Experience = Theology?
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
The Will of God Revisited
Imagine that one day I came by your house and gave you a discount card for your local supermarket. “Use that whenever you shop,” I say. “I’d like you to get discounts when doing your groceries.” The first time you came around and asked me, “Can I use the discount card today?”, I’d be amused and puzzled, but reply “Of course, that’s what I said, go ahead and use it.”
The second time you came to my home and asked the same question, I’d be slightly irritated, and say “Listen, I told you I wanted you to
A list of Jesus’ Healings
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.
- The Nobleman’s Son (Jn 4:46).
- The Man with an Unclean Spirit ( Mk 1:21, Lu 4:31).
- Simon Peter’s Mother-in-Law (Matt 8:14, Mk 1:29, Lu 4:38).
- The Healing of the Leper (Matt 8:1, Mk 1:40, Lu 5:12).
- The Healing of the Paralytic
Recent Comments