Healing
Think about some of the people Jesus heals.
This isn’t a lineup of the most educated religious scholars, the most proven disciples, the most “worthy” individuals or even, seemingly, the most faithful believers in the first-century Holy Land.
The beautiful thing about Jesus’ healing touch is that you don’t have to have a fully formed theology of how divine healing works in order to receive.
Healing is not dependent on how righteous and sinless we’ve lived the past few days, on our depth of Biblical knowledge relative to others, what Christian tradition we grew up under, or having some warm, fuzzy, super spiritual feeling that everything is going to be all right.
Just come expecting – something – of God.
Bring your mustard seed of faith (Matthew 17:20) and plant it. Bring your mixed feelings, your doubts, your inner struggles to the Lord.
At Restoration Church, where “embracing the mess” is a core value, one avenue for an encounter with God at your point of need is the healing prayer tables in the back corners of the sanctuary. After the sermon and during communion, two prayer ministers are stationed at each table, to join in agreement with all who will come seek God for healing, wholeness, restoration about – anything.
Physical healing. Mental healing, Emotional healing. Spiritual healing. Financial healing. Intercession for others. An initial prayer of salvation for a first-time believer or receiving a deeper flow of the Holy Spirit for a long-time believer. Or just a few minutes of prayerful empathy with fellow believers about something bothersome or painful.
God shows up every time in every prayer. What we receive may or may not be exactly what we envision. But He delivers.
Kevin Myatt
Author & Church Member
- A Roman centurion, sending others at first to intercede for him on behalf of a sick servant, then meeting the Lord and asking him, from a distance, to send his orders of healing. (Luke 7:1-10)
- A man confessing his own mixed feelings about faith – “I believe, help me with my unbelief” – as Jesus casts an unclean spirit out of his son. (Mark 9:23-25)
- A woman with a persistent menstrual bleeding pushing through a crowd to break Jewish law by touching the robe of the rabbi Jesus. (Mark 5:25-34)
- A servant of the high priest who had his ear cut off by one of Jesus’ own disciples, but Jesus restores it. (Luke 22:50-51)
This isn’t a lineup of the most educated religious scholars, the most proven disciples, the most “worthy” individuals or even, seemingly, the most faithful believers in the first-century Holy Land.
The beautiful thing about Jesus’ healing touch is that you don’t have to have a fully formed theology of how divine healing works in order to receive.
Healing is not dependent on how righteous and sinless we’ve lived the past few days, on our depth of Biblical knowledge relative to others, what Christian tradition we grew up under, or having some warm, fuzzy, super spiritual feeling that everything is going to be all right.
Just come expecting – something – of God.
Bring your mustard seed of faith (Matthew 17:20) and plant it. Bring your mixed feelings, your doubts, your inner struggles to the Lord.
At Restoration Church, where “embracing the mess” is a core value, one avenue for an encounter with God at your point of need is the healing prayer tables in the back corners of the sanctuary. After the sermon and during communion, two prayer ministers are stationed at each table, to join in agreement with all who will come seek God for healing, wholeness, restoration about – anything.
Physical healing. Mental healing, Emotional healing. Spiritual healing. Financial healing. Intercession for others. An initial prayer of salvation for a first-time believer or receiving a deeper flow of the Holy Spirit for a long-time believer. Or just a few minutes of prayerful empathy with fellow believers about something bothersome or painful.
God shows up every time in every prayer. What we receive may or may not be exactly what we envision. But He delivers.
Kevin Myatt
Author & Church Member
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