Not exact matches
When you add the «spiritual» layer to abuse through the silencing and censoring done by
others —
who are supposed to be your Christian brothers and sisters — it is overwhelmingly detrimental to any
healing.
And anyone
who tells them that they won't listen or shouldn't say their say, I suspect of an agenda
other than the safety and
healing of those
who are hurting.
I turned to the words I have often prayed over
other women
who come to me, the words from Psalm 147: «He binds their wounds,
heals the sorrows of their hearts....
Of course there is a sense in which the movement continues in its influence on the clergymen whose interest in psychotherapy and
healing was stimulated by their contacts with the movement, its literature, or
others who had felt its influence.
Then she contemplates the
healing ministry of Christ,
who also experienced and dealt with such feelings in his encounters with
others.
John I don't know any atheists
who believe in ghosts, leprechauns, Nostradamus, faith
healings, astrology, or any
other irrational beliefs, but I do know plenty of Christians
who do believe in such things, so I can't say that we're as prone to irrational belief as you claim.
Experience has shown that some persons respond to one approach
who do not respond to the
other, and vice versa, while
others benefit from a combination of counseling and
healing services.
This theme has been developed by persons like Bruno Bettelheim,
who has demonstrated the
healing value of fantasies for young people with emotional and
other disorders (UE, TL).
I've talked to people
who claim that they were
healed, or lay claim to some
other miracle.
AsI came to separate
who I was as spirit and soul from my ego or flesh and the latters coping mechanisms the inimacy with a few
others became a place i not only went to for encouragement, transparency and to
heal that inner child but also a place for clarity, to be remided
who I really am, where those
who've come to know me see me, help divide through the bone and marrow per se.
I think part of the
healing process is being able to get to know God for
who He really is, for
who Jesus really is, and not just taking the press release we sometimes get from
other people.
What does it matter when we die what is important is what we do with our life now.The struggles people find themselves is because of living a sinful lifestyle you cant play with fire and not get burnt there are consequences.Jesus wants to bring forgiveness and
healing and remove the guilt and shame that you are feeling.Ive have been there i was just as guilty i do nt believe theres a big screen that replays our life if it is it, it will be about what we have done for God as our sins are covered under the blood of Jesus.The judgement for christians is that we must give an account of what we did for Jesus while we were here did we make the most of opportunities given to tell
others to reach out
others with his love.Mat 25:14 - 30 the Parable of the talents talks about judgement and for me it is all about what we do for Jesus the ones
who are faithfull in the small things are set over much.The one
who did nt use his talent that God gave him was punished for his lack of faith.So for those
who are struggling with sin and life Jesus loves you and has a plan for your life just trust him to help you and he will.To be fair its wont be easy you will have to make some hard choices but he promises to help you through its all about choosing him over choosing what we think best because he knows whats best for us.Its important the choice you make as it will impact your life for eternity.brentnz
And then, having experienced together the
healing mercy that comes from the one
who alone is mighty to save, we can journey on as friends — no longer strangers to each
other —
who are eager to talk to each
other, and even to argue passionately with each
other about crucial issues.
«
Heal those
who have been wounded by the activities of
others, especially the victims of crime.
What and
who is the church — perfect, imperfect, a whore, a bride, an insensitive bitch, Jesus» woman, you, me, you and me, all
who believe, just the ones
who hurt each
other, the ones with all the answers, the ones with all the questions, the ones
who forgive, the ones
who refuse to forgive, the ones
who can't seem to forgive yet, the ones
who trust, the ones
who can never trust again, a body, a body full cancer, a body that tries to
heal itself and
others, a mess, a beautiful girl, a slut, a virgin, a beautiful woman?
There have been many
other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate
who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with
healing and eternal life....
Are we able to properly explain our faith to each
other, let alone someone
who is desperately in need of the
healing power of the forgiveness of Jesus Christ?
Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men,
who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those
who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each
other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to
heal themselves.
I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping
others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help
heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people
who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)
and fully conversant with its roots and value, have an unusually important opportunity: (1) To offer
others who are willing to trust Almighty God and clean house this dissertation on obtaining complete
healing in the hands of God; (2) To amplify and restore to our hearts and minds a full knowledge of Pioneer AA.
But Jesus is already able to communicate to
others in word and deed the powers of God's Kingdom; one
who is taught or
healed by him is already within the Kingdom.
The
other side of the picture, and at the moment the far more important side, is that, while there have been real wounds, there are today powerful men in our country
who specialize in reopening those wounds, not to help them to
heal more completely, but for quite
other purposes — to gain a partisan political advantage or to secure personal publicity; but most often in order to discredit by insinuation, if not by direct charges, all
who believe in some changes in the economic order.
Otherwise when individual black women try to seek
healing and try to move away from the Strong Black Woman, they're very much critiqued by
other black women
who are still in the throes of that identity.
They are also, at times, made by my fellow members of the Body of Christ,
who do not realize that while their words hold the power to bring
healing to
others, they also hold the power to wound.
In doing so, there are many occasions in which my church, like
other churches seeking to serve those
who are hurting, works together with local counselors and
other agencies to bring
healing to people.
Christians
who claim that they were
healed due to prayer can not prove that their
healing was not due to some
other factor, such as the medication that their doctor was giving them or pure coincidence.
(Isaiah 53 is, of course, the principal passage of several in Isaiah dealing with the Servant of Yahweh,
who was led» as a lamb to the slaughter,»
who bore the iniquities of
others and by whose stripes
others were
healed.
Seriously, come meet
other people without shepherds... people
who have defied abusive authority and are
healing their lives.
answer YOUR A LIBERIAL if i were a doctor and every monday i let people
who did not have health insurence or money in their pockets come to my office so i could
heal them what am i?answer YOUR A BLEEDING HEART LIBERIAL if i let you hit me right up side of my head and all i did was to turn my
other cheek to you what am i?
Many of those
who have been
healed have gone on to help
others through subsequent retreats, and the retreats themselves are on theincrease.
When encountering people
who fit the description, treasure hunters ask if they might be «God's treasure», perhaps showing the words written down, and offer to pray for them, for
healing or any
other need.
The Holy Spirit came upon that small Jerusalem community on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2: 1 - 39), in order that through them and through
others who were to believe in Christ through their word (John 17: 20), the world may be
healed and redeemed.
Craig maybe the definition of teaching men under authority is limited to that particular area within the church.But that does nt stop God from working outside those constraints.Mother Etta and no doubt
other women felt compelled to preach the gospel such as women missionaries.Mother Etta preached the gospel and many were saved people were
healed just as in the day of the disciples it is the same Jesus that saves and delivered from from sin and disease not the fact that it was a man
who spoke behind the altar.Why do you find it hard to see that God can use women just like he uses men to witness for him.The call to witness for Christ is for everyone not just men and not just in a church situation.When we limit God to a narrow view it limits the effectiveness of the gospel.
Also, why did god
heal you and not the many millions of
other people
who could have really used it?
He argued: Where is the absurdity, then, in holding that there exist among men, so to speak, two extremes — the one of virtue, and the
other of its opposite; so that the perfection of virtue dwells in the man
who realizes the ideal given in Jesus, from whom there flowed to the human race so great a conversion, and
healing, and amelioration, while the opposite extreme is in the man
who embodies the notion of him that is named Antichrist?
4) To allow
other people
who've experienced abusive church to gain from our process, so they can find some
healing and restoration.
To answer your question — As someone
who has been extensively mentored by people
who are very gifted in inner
healing and as one
who also administers pastoral counseling, I believe that I've become perceptive to things that might not be aware to
others.
On the
other hand, I've seen someone
who went to a welcoming church for
healing and instead became the latest toy for the
others in the congregation, including an assistant pastor.
Similarly, the minister
who elicits trust in
healing prayer isn't the one promising perfect results, but the one
who acts as a guide through the thicket of the spiritual world — urging and helping
others to accept their responsibility to work as partners with Jesus Christ,
who respectfully and lovingly stands at the door and knocks, but waits for us to open.
People's own experiences help them see the desperate need for ministry in this area, and if they have done some
healing and they're not in crisis, they are perfectly positioned to do ministry to
other people
who are going through the same thing.
As time moved on, I was able to connect with
other «loss mamas»
who were integral in my
healing; they were a source of comfort and hope.
But what about the
other woman, the one
who had three of her «Lifetime Prayer Requests» answered in one week — plus her ingrown toenail
healed?
This caring includes evangelism, telling its internal history because «those
who know the story's
healing and directive power want
others to know it too» (54).
And pointing out that those
who profess to
heal others are unable to
heal themselves.
I think of Elora and Mary and all the women
who bravely tell their stories so that
other women might
heal.
Does that mean God will
heal the wounds and raise the dead of the people
who killed or tried to kill themselves and
others out of fear of this phoney rapture?
With Thomas Berry, I believe that we need spiritual leaders
who will assume the global human heritage as [their] own individual heritage,»
who through contact with
other traditions will come to know their own traditions very deeply, and through whose «own self - integration a
healing comes to all [humankind]... and the human community is brought into the divine presence.»
Those people
who want faith are allowed all the time for personal reflection, or to be near
others that feel the same way as they want, but does one group's desire to have formal recognition of their beliefs trump the people
who don't want to face theirs time for
healing?
In Chicago to - day we have the case of Dr. J.A. Dowie, a Scottish Baptist preacher, whose weekly «Leaves of
Healing» were in the year of grace 1900 in their sixth volume, and
who, although he denounces the cares wrought in
other sects as «diabolical counterfeits» of his own exclusively «Divine
Healing,» must on the whole be counted into the mind - cure movement.
Great to hear about
other people
who are being
healed through good food.