Develop a Culture of Healing in Your Church
"Pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective."
(James 5:16)
Healing the sick is something that Jesus tells us, His disciples, to be doing all the time.
It is not just for the exceptional occasions, but rather it is to be woven into the very fabric of how we live as faithful disciples.
It is not just for the leaders to do, but rather the whole community of faith is to be engaged in it.
It is not just something for certain types of sickness, but rather we are to minister healing whatever the root cause.
Can We See More People Healed?
We should not be content with the numbers we are currently seeing healed. We follow Jesus, who is full of love and compassion for those suffering with ill health.
When we don’t see healings, this should cause us to return to Jesus and find out how we, as a community of faith, can lower our resistance to the power of God flowing through us.
Put positively, this means that there are things we can do to see more people healed!
Stop Thinking Like an Individual!
There is a shift in approach that many churches and ministries need to make. We must stop thinking of ourselves solely as fully autonomous individuals (a concept that originated in the Enlightenment, not the Bible), and move instead to realizing that we are located within a community of faith.
As a local church (or ministry), we have a responsibility and calling to together press further into the faithful exercise of the Spirit’s empowering and authority.
As we talk about in this video on building a culture of healing, we can work together to raise the water table of faith. The goal is that it will become quicker and easier for those needing to experience the presence of God to indeed meet with Him.
Here’s the video to explain more:
Homework
Make an agreement with the Lord Jesus, so that when you come across anyone who is sick, you are going to offer to pray for them.
What would it look like for a GROUP of you to share in this commitment together? How could you encourage and stir one another on? How would your group assess what difference you were making together?
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