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Exploring the Transformative Power of Healing Prayer in Modern Faith

This reflection delves into the significance of healing prayer within the contemporary church, questioning its effectiveness and place in our spiritual lives. It traces our history with healing, from early expectations to modern practices, emphasizing the balance between faith and compassion. By addressing issues such as faith-filled versus faithful prayers, the sacredness of healing in the New Testament, and the importance of creating a supportive environment for healing, we seek to reclaim the transformative nature of prayer. Are we ready to fight for a faith that works?

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Exploring the Transformative Power of Healing Prayer in Modern Faith

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  1. Healing Prayer: Do We Really Believe In It Anymore?

  2. Where Are We Now? • Our history • Are we still in the same place of expectation and experience? • Why is this the case? • Is that ok? Or not ok?

  3. My Story • My early experience / expectation • My Vineyard introduction: pray for 200 • The Langley Vineyard • Healing conferences • Our present environment

  4. Faithful versus Faith-filled • Are we praying more out of compassion than out of faith? • Already / not yet: which is the exception and which is the rule? • Why keep placing so much emphasis on something that so seldom seems to work?

  5. A Shifted Focus • From disease to dis-ease (and restoring shalom) • Including the concerns of justice, creation care and unity • “Which is easier…?”

  6. Is It Us? • Wimber re: lack of faith (Luke 18) • Are we paying the price for faith that we did in the beginning? • To some degree we get what we fight to make room for

  7. Why Fight? • Healing is a “taste” of our / God’s desired end (resurrection)

  8. Why Fight? • The centrality of healing prayer in the New Testament and the first three centuries of the church • Ramsay MacMullen – healing and other “miracles” were the key to the early dramatic growth of Christianity within the Roman Empire – what about today?

  9. Building a Faith Environment • Establish a theology of healing • Learn how to pray prayers of command • No risk / no faith (create room) • Get healing prayer out of the church • Lower the bar (be a blessing)

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