Grace - Healing

Below is an excerpt from Randy Clark's book "The Healing River and its Contributing Streams" (pp. 15ff), available here:  https://globalawakeningstore.com/The-Healing-River-and-Its-Contributing-Streams.html

"Today I find more schools of medicine open to the power to heal through non-traditional medical means than I do divinity schools, and more graduates of medical schools (MDs) open to healing that graduates from seminaries (M.Divs).  No wonder there is so little real expectancy for receiving healing through prayer in many of the churches of America and Western Europe.  Their pastors have been trained in unbelief regarding healing through prayer by the very seminaries established to train them for ministry.

There are two main sources for this unbelief, this lack of expectancy for divine healing through prayer.  One is liberalism, based upon rationalism, which doesn't believe in anything supernatural happening today because of liberalism's belief in a world that is basically deist. In a deist worldview, God would not violate his laws of nature.  The other main source causing such terrible unbelief, this disempowering force regarding expectancy of a miracle, is Cessationism, which believes God did do miracles through Jesus and the apostles, but after the death of the apostles and their immediate successors, these gifts of healings and miracles died along with the offices of healer (1 Corinthians 12:28f).

There are now, today, two things happening at the same time regarding healing.  One is the New Age Movement with its strong emphasis upon healing.  The other is the move of God within the Church, which is currently experiencing a powerful revival of healing and rediscovering the message of the Kingdom of God.  This current move of God is more characteristic of the Church south of the equator where Christianity is growing most rapidly, and where most Christians live today, but it is also beginning to advance in North America, and in Europe, today's dark continents of unbelief."

"The New Age Movement would not have so large a following if the Church was moving in its divine right to heal and experiencing its divine empowerment made possible in the Holy Spirit.

We need to receive what jesus died to give.  The counterfeit is filling the void created by a form of Christianity that is less than it ought to be.  We Christians need to rediscover again the emphasis, the importance, and the proper place of the ministry of healing within Christianity and with our personal lives as Christians."

"Jesus told his disciples that when someone experienced deliverance, the Kingdom of God had come upon them...Luke's gospel makes this powerfully clear."

"Philip was an evangelist and believed by many to be one of the first deacons of the Church; however, he was not an apostle, thus proving that healing isn't just the domain of the apostles."

May you come to see what is available to you through Grace.

Grace=Peace,

Jeremy