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• Suffering persecution is inevitable for the true disciple, and there are a variety of ways to respond to it. We may resist it on one occasion, flee from it on another, and accept it on yet another. Sickness on the other hand is not in this same way an effect of true…
• The Bible said yes to the church's healing ministry; my experience said no. I doubted myself. Had I read the Bible correctly? Was it true that miracles of healing ceased with the apostles? Was there something wrong with my faith? Was I not righteous enough to get my prayers answered?
• The connection between an active healing ministry and effective evangelism holds even in the industrialized West. In his book Power Evangelism, John Wimber discusses this connection in North America.
• Gradually, however, I came to what for me is the essential motive to pray for the sick. I had read the Bible for fifteen years but had never noticed that when Jesus told his followers to preach the kingdom of God, he also commanded them to heal the sick and to cast out demons (Lk 9:1-2; 10:8-9; Mt 10:7-8; Mk 6:12-13). I preached the gospel because ...
• Before good theological and biblical seed can be planted in our hearts, certain weeds and thorns must first be rooted out.