Healing
- 1. Healing
- 2. Healing
- 3. Healing
- 4. Healing
- 7. What makes this different? Out there Gentle Jargon free Compassion Consistent Peaceful and Authoritative
- 8. How Jesus did it With compassion With simplicity With words and touch With authority Jesus healed from a place of rest
- 9. How Jesus told others to do it Like he did it! With compassion With simplicity With words and touch With authority
- 10. The issue of authority Jesus was under authority Jesus acted in authority Jesus authorised his 12 disciples to heal Jesus authorised 72 disciples to heal Jesus authorised his disciples to teach others to do everything he had taught them
- 11. Who are we? Sons/Children of God Co-heirs with Christ Jesus’ body on earth God’s ambassadors
- 12. The difference between a command and a petition
- 13. We don’t need to be powerful We don’t need to shout We don’t need to be aggressive We don’t need to be complicated Calm, authoritative statements
- 14. Jesus and his disciples never used petitioning prayer for healing
- 15. Ok… It’s all about love We invite the person to sit down We get down to their level keeping our eyes open We ask the person what they have come for We check that it’s ok to lay hands on them We invite the Holy Spirit We pray from a position of rest and confidence (faith) worshipping Jesus in our hearts We take authority over the illness or disease ushering it away in Jesus’ name We pray for peace and for a knowledge of God’s love We exercise faith and enquire how the person is
- 16. What next? Healing is immediate Partial healing comes No healing is experienced
- 17. What healing is A sign that God’s kingdom is coming and ‘at hand’ Heaven’s rule being expressed on earth A taste of the future A pointer to Jesus’ resurrection Strong evidence that God loves the world A gift
- 18. What about disappointment? We exhibit peace and confidence We never blame the victim We reassure about God’s love We offer more prayer We accept that we only see a little of all that is happening around us We understand that we live in a battle
- 19. Let’s do it