Potential Barriers to Healing
When people that matter to us become ill, we always want them to get well. We want them to be healed or cured of whatever ails them, and as quickly as possible so they can be restored to us. For believers, we will naturally turn to God for his help in the situation, but sometimes …
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Doctor stuff – Why is it so?
From my observations these days, when a Christian goes forward for healing prayer, it seems that they go with the desire of leaving the altar leaping and shouting for joy because they have been fully restored, as if by magic. If that doesn’t happen, they seem to walk away disappointed, despondent or discouraged. In contrast,…
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Ask before praying
Once upon a time, one of the treasured elderly ladies at church became ill, and ended up being hospitalised. She was a faithful, humble, gentle woman that had helped to shepherd me through my early days as a believer, and I was very fond of her. Naturally, most of the church had automatically gone full-steam…
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Oh dear, I feel a peeve coming on…..
One of those things I find irritating is the verbiage commonly adopted by many Christians, because when speaking to others that are not part of, or involved with any institutional church, these expressions basically make little sense. I understand that any group of people regularly spending time together for whatever reason will develop a vocabulary…
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Options & Expectations
The post explores the interplay between medical intervention and faith-based healing, suggesting that modern society’s reliance on medicine can diminish one’s ability to fully embrace divine healing. It argues that believers should shift their mindset from expecting sickness to realizing their inheritance of health in Christ, emphasizing proactive faith over reactive healing.
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Life, Death & Healing: Then and Now
From time to time I have pondered how it is that so many believers from generations past appeared to receive a healing more easily, when people of this day and age so often do not. Even in these modern times, believers in countries we label ‘third world’ appear to have a better capacity to receive…
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No One Gets Out Alive
This is the second post in my Life, Death & Healing series. You can find the first one here if you missed it. We live in a world where for most people, getting sick or feeling unwell means a trip to the doctor – and we do this for a few reasons. One, being sick…
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Life, Death and Healing – an introduction
Healing always seems to be such a popular, yet controversial topic amongst Christians. Well, that and tithing. But ever since I was baptised with the Spirit of God and read through the New Testament, the phrase “and they were all healed” kept jumping out at me. Consequently, healing is something I’ve given a great deal…
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Ah, to be in the bush!
Stepping from the noise of my vehicle and the Creedence Clearwater Revival tune that had been playing, I am greeted by the noisy quiet of the bush; by birdsong and the sound of the breeze as it plays through the shrubs and graceful eucalypts. I marvel that even though so many things are in motion…
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Tradition. Again.
Reaching a point of absolute exasperation with the Jews he was speaking to in Corinth, Paul gave up trying to persuade them to see and accept what was plainly written about the Messiah in the scriptures, and how all of it pointed to Jesus being that Messiah. I can imagine Paul’s exasperation level rising until…
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Tradition….tradition!
So I don’t know about you, but most of the time when I hear ‘tradition’ like that, I tend to hear the whole cast of Fiddler on the Roof in my head belting out the song from the movie. And the topic today echoes one of the main themes of that musical production – that…
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Follow me….
Have you ever noticed the way some drivers will slow down as they drive past the scene of an accident? You can see them rubber-necking, as if hoping to catch a glimpse of blood or tragedy – because for them, the spectacle is little more than entertainment. Even if they give a moments care, or…
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