July 12, 2006
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My heart is longing for healing ministries to grow... groups of mature Christians that have a burning heart to pray for the hurting and would be willing to take a few hours out of a day every now and then to invite a hurting person/people to come, share their burdens, and be soaked in prayer. It would require a lot of trust between the prayer team and the hurting person, and a leap of faith to pray and worship for so long without knowing what God would do... but what would we have to lose? I want to truly live. I want my faith to grow. I want to grow in prayer for healing. I want to see the oppressed set free, the broken heart bound up, and the prisoners released from darkness. Wouldn’t the Lord be pleased?
Matthew 10:8 – Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
Luke 10:9 – Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The
Those instructions were given to the disciples as Jesus sent them to the towns ahead of him. They were to prepare the people for the coming of the Lord.
Come Lord Jesus, come quickly. Use us to prepare the way for your return.
Charlie Hall – Prepare the Way
Comments (3)
oh, me too.....my heart so longs for healing ministries. the past couple of months, God's been laying this on my heart...
at my old church, i was leading the prayer ministry and my pastor had asked me to start up the prayer + healing ministry....but now, here at my new church, i haven't been doing as much prayer for God's healing ministry as before. i don't know what it is. probably my lazy self plus i need to ask the Lord to open my eyes more to the broken.
to put it simply. my old church that i grew up in for 25 years is made up of people who grew up in the "ghetto" part of the city and my new church is in the more affluent neighborhood. so at my old church, broken lives were so evident and visible. and those that hid their pain well had a relationship with me and God would reveal to me how to more specifically pray for them / they would approach me and ask me to pray for them. we were also more neighbor-minded and our prayers cried out for broken lives around us to be healed and saved. but at the church i now serve at, i know that lives are broken and in need of healing and i know that there are many that still need to accept Christ in their hearts, but everything's so much more well hidden, if you know what i mean... i mean, i don't know. maybe these people were all fortunate to grow up with no hidden pain in their lives. maybe they don't struggle with sin day to day. maybe their walk with Christ is growing and flourishing..yeah, right. but if-if-if so, praise God. now we need to reach out and bring healing into others lives.
so i'm praying for authenticity and a touch of reality that life is hard...we all struggle...many of us have pains that we've just been bandaging up with temporary band-aids....we really need to know how to pray and support each other...
praying that GOD would be making us a community that is whole and wholly His so that we would be used to bring healing into others lives.
thanks for the reminder, jm.
sall good, i never leave comments on anyone elses xanga too. haha
^.^amen.
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