Does healing happen today?

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Does healing happen today?

• Christine Bryden (Boden)

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What does the bible say?

• Old Testament
• Ex. 15 I am the Lord, the one who heals you.
• Psalm 41 The Lord will help them when they are
  sick and will restore them to health.

• New Testament
• Matt 10 Jesus told disciples to heal.
• Luke 10 Jesus tells 70 people to heal.
• Mark 16 Jesus says believers will lay hands on
  sick and will heal

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How do we go about it?

• Is there a special way to pray?
• Do we have to lay hands on the person?
• Do we have to be very holy or righteous?

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Now back to 1995 ..

• I was diagnosed in May 1995 - with two girls at
  home aged 9 and 14, and a 19 year old in Sydney
• But the Holy Spirit was working in my life, to
  fill all those empty spaces in my brain with
  peace and joy

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Seeking prayer

• Is any one of you sick? You should call the
  elders of the church to pray over you and anoint
  you with oil in the name of the Lord.

James 514
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A journey of faith

• Healing of the body
• Healing of emotions
• Healing of the spirit
• Which is most important?

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Emotional healing

• Fear to be overcome - of the disease, the future,
  the tests
• Joy and peace came through vision and dream
• A bubbling joy to sustain me through more tests
  and scans

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Spiritual healing

• A healing Service during my time on Cursillo Team
  in 1995
• Confessed sins of pride in intellect, of doubt
  and unbelief in healing, and of fear of the
  future
• Like Peter walking on water towards Jesus (Matt.
  14), if I doubt, I begin to sink in fear

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Physical healing

• Hallucinations drove me to seek prayer from three
  friends
• Around them a prayer scrum formed at church
• Those in the scrum beyond my three friends
  asked for total healing

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Gods timing the book

• Sent to publishers before I felt better
• HarperCollins contact me after I knew I was being
  healed
• Book published in 1998, reprints in 2000, 2001
  and 2002

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Miracles do happen

• I continue to feel better
• Never underestimate what God does
• Expect miracles and you will see them