Does the communion bread heal your body? Today I look at the healing power of the Holy Communion
Surely a small piece of bread cannot possibly heal an incurable illness?
I mean, it would be completely wonderful but it really does sound quite far fetched and almost too good to be true, doesn’t it?
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Today we consider the question, why does God allow sickness and disease?
I’d like to offer 3 reasons for suffering that will hopefully give you some understanding as to why sickness is so rampant, even amongst believers.
When I volunteered in the chaplaincy at my local hospital, I often encountered similar questions like ‘if God is love, why does He allow sickness?’ or ‘why did my loved one die?’
Have you ever asked such questions?
Think of a young child, constantly asking why about anything and everything, eager to grow and understand. Even Jesus asked God ‘why have you forsaken me?’
When you enter into God’s rest, you position yourself to receive all He has promised, including your healing.
Today we consider how the battle you are in belongs to the Lord (what this actually means!) and then I’ll share 7 ways that can help you enter into God’s rest.
Joseph Prince uses the analogy of a boxing match. The champion wins the battle and is awarded a trophy. He then goes home and gives the trophy to his wife.
He did all the work but she benefits
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In today’s post, we look at how to demolish those strongholds that are holding us back from our healing.
I will define what strongholds are and how we develop them. Then I’ll speak on how I demolish destructive strongholds in 5 simple steps.
We learn through repetition. How many times do you find yourself singing along to your favourite song on the radio.
Chances are, you will have heard it many times, now all the words are hardwired into your system.
Unfortunately we can also repeat unhealthy or toxic thoughts, or strongholds, into our brains as well.
It’s as though they’re stuck on repeat; the rumination becomes 2nd nature as those thoughts become hardwired.
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God is NOT punishing you when you’re suffering so you can relax. There is nothing the enemy wants more than for us to see God as angry and distant, cursing us with sickness and disease.
By reading this post, you’ll give yourself a break for any wrong-doing as you realise just how impossible it is for God to punish you.
And I’ll suggest 6 pieces of evidence from Scripture proving God is not the cause of your suffering.
I completely get why some may think this, when we read of God punishing sin so severely in the Old Testament, even visiting people’s sins to the third and fourth generations!
When I was a child, I just loved the story of Jonah and the Whale. The excitement and thrill that God would send a large fish to swallow someone whole.
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I believe that it’s powerful to see yourself healed, even though you’re in the midst of illness.
Today we look why you need to see yourself in this way and not as someone who is sick. By the end of this post, you’ll gain 5 tips that’ll help you to see yourself healed.
Is there such a thing as demonic influence or spiritual causes for disease? and is this the reason you’re ill today?
According to the Gospels, demons are everywhere! Jesus delivered people from demonic influence all the time and often the demons did cause sickness and disease.
Today we look at demonic influence today and whether or not this is something that causes sickness. More specifically you’re going to learn
I remember 20 odd years ago, deliverance ministry was strong amongst Christian healing ministries around the globe.
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In the synoptic Gospels we read of how Jesus heals Jairus’ daughter. Today I wanted to glean 5 important truths that we can apply to our own healing journeys:
If you’re believing God for a healing, then check out the following 5 truths from the story of Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman.
So what can we glean from her story?
If you know the heart of Jesus, you will know how keen he is for us to be well and how it’s just not his nature to ignore us.
So how do you explain the story of Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman whom he disregarded? The story always baffled me as it appears to contradict Jesus’ willingness and generosity.
Close inspection reveals that Jesus wasn’t ignoring the woman. He was setting her up for her breakthrough.
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When Jesus tells the paralyzed man to ‘pick up your mat and walk’, he is instructing him to be the head and not the tail.
When we’re paralyzed, we are
I believe God wants us to allow the Spirit in us to be in control whilst you journey through chronic illness. Oftentimes however, our survival skills and coping strategies run the show.
We surrender our empowerment