Not exact matches
Apart from
healing the sick and injured, has
prayer ever yielded any
other tangible results
for you
other than peace of mind?
And to the extent that we are serious in our
prayers for justice or peace or
healing for others we become allies with God in the struggle
for these, and we proceed from
prayer to right action.
Told that unless they separated, sold their property, and never saw each
other again they 1) couldn't have
prayer for the one partner's
healing and 2) they were not welcome to come back to church.
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.
For others, resistance to
healing prayer may not signal a fear of losing control or face, but a fear of losing prophetic roots in peace and social justice issues.
Other people could pray privately that he would be
healed — that was fine and he welcomed it — but he could make his own decisions about whether to seek out formal
prayer specifically
for healing, and not feel that he was being delinquent if he didn't expend a lot of energy doing so.
Intercessory
prayer can best be understood as God's release of his Spirit and
healing, creative forces within a law - abiding world, such release being dependent in part upon our willingness to work with him
for the furtherance of
other persons» good.
During the worship time, people were invited to come forward
for prayer for healing and
other needs.