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Renewal Journal 4: Healing – Renewal Journal 4 Healing Renewal Journal 4: Healing Copyright © Geoff Waugh, 1994, 2012 First published 1994 2nd edition 2012 Renewal Journal articles may be reproduced if the copyright is acknowledged as Renewal Journal (www.renewaljournal.com). Articles with everlasting value ISBN-13: 978-1461187042 ISBN-10: 1461187044 Printed by CreateSpace, Charleston, SC, USA, 2011 Renewal Journal Publications www.renewaljournal.com PO Box 2111, Mansfield, Brisbane, Qld, 4122 Australia 2 Contents Editorial: Wholeness in spirit, soul and body 5 1 Missionary Translator & Doctor, by David Lithgow 9 2 My Learning Curve on Healing, by Jim Holbeck 25 3 Spiritual Healing, by John Blacker 31 4 Deliverance and Freedom, by Colin Warren 39 5 Christian Wholeness Counselling, by John Warlow 47 6 A Healing Community, by Spencer Colliver 57 7 Divine Healing & Church Growth, by Don McGavran 63 8 Sounds of Revival, by Sue Armstrong 79 9 Revival Fire at Wuddina, by Trevor Faggotter 85 Reviews and Resources 101 Renewal Journal 4: Healing Editor: Geoff Waugh Editorial Board Australian: Drs Irene Alexander, Jerry Amway, Stephen Beaumont, John Meteyard International Consultants: Drs Peter Hocking, Eddie Hyatt, Susan Hyatt, Richard, Riss, Vinson Synan Original Consultants: Bishops David Cremin, Owen Dowling, Hamish Jamieson, John Lewis, Ralph Wicks, Revd Drs Lewis Born, Dean Brookes, Rowland Croucher, Djiniyini Gondarra, James Haire, John McElroy, Peter Moonie, Tony Nancarrow, Stuart Robinson, Charles Ringma, Norma Spear, Peter Wagner, Colin Warren, Drs Barry Chant, Dorothy Harris, Patricia Harrison, Robert McQuillan, John Roulston, Revs Dan Armstrong, John Blacker, Vincent Hobbs, Ian and Ruth Lord, Cindy Pattishall-Baker, Thomas White. Cover Photo Youth Pastor Grant Shaw leads healing teams in shopping malls, here with nurse Leah Waqa who prayed for a dead girl in hospital in Port Vila, Vanuatu, who lived again. Renewal Journal Logo Ancient lamp and parchment scroll; also basin and towel – anointed ministry, in the context of the cross and the Light of the World. 4 Editorial Wholeness in Spirit, Soul and Body The cover photo shows Grant Shaw with Leah Waqa. Grant Shaw and I attended the Sunday service at the Upper Room church in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. There Leah, a nurse, told how she had been dispensing medicines at the hospital that week when parents brought in their young daughter who had been badly hit in a car accident, and showed no signs of life - the monitor registered zero – no pulse. Leah felt unusual boldness, so commanded the girl to live, and prayed for her for an hour, mostly in tongues. After an hour the monitor started beeping and the girl recovered. Grant joined me on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. South Pentecost attracts tourists with its land diving – men jumping from high bamboo towers with vines attached to their ankles. Grant prayed for a jumper who had hurt his neck, and the neck crackled back into place. That young man and his father both gave their lives to the Lord right there in the village. Grant prayed for a son of the paramount chief of South Pentecost. He was healed from a painful leg and later he invited the team to come to his village to pray for the sick. No white people had been invited there to minister previously. More were healed there in Jesus’ name. The full account is in South Pacific Revivals by Geoff Waugh (2010). Healing is a tough subject, especially if you or your loved ones are sick! Attitudes to ‘the healing ministry’ and theologies about healing vary Renewal Journal 4: Healing greatly. At one extreme lies the claim that everyone can and should be well, and if you have enough faith in God you will be healed; at the other extreme lies the claim that healing, if it occurs, now happens through medical science. People at the first extreme tend to avoid medical help, trust in God alone for healing, and deny any ‘lying symptoms’. However, they usually acknowledge the importance of healthy food, exercise, rest and positive attitudes – which people at the other extreme also acknowledge. The truth, I believe, doesn’t just stand somewhere in the middle, but in both. God heals. His healing power is always at work in us with every heart beat, every breath. Life is his gift to us. Healthy living contributes to good health. Oranges and Vitamin C tablets promote health. So do healthy attitudes. So does prayer, and faith. We know that being healthy is good, not bad. We go to a doctor or we take medicine because that can help overcome sickness and restore health. Most of us pray for healing, for others and for ourselves. We usually appreciate others praying for us. We pray for others in many different ways. It may be the general ‘God bless them’ prayer or our wish for their well being. It may be the more specific ‘Heal them, please God’ or ‘Lord lay your healing hand on them’. It may be the still more specific prayer with a person as we lay our hand on them in Jesus’ name. It may be the even more specific prayer or command, led and anointed by the Holy Spirit, through various gifts of the Spirit including healing, miracles, faith, prophecy, words of knowledge or wisdom, discernment of spirits, or tongues and maybe interpretation. And sometimes we don’t pray for healing, but it happens anyway! More difficult to understand is when we do pray for healing, we do have faith, we ‘trust and obey’ and yet healing does not happen, as 6 Editorial far as we can see. We have to acknowledge that we don’t ‘see’ very far yet. There is mystery in healing, as there is in living. We don’t understand the mystery of life, nor do we understand a lot about eternal life. However, we know that God gives life, and sustains life. We can learn more about how to co-operate with God, including learning how to pray more effectively, believe more truly, and love more fully. Healing is complex. Most healing takes time, but intervention through prayer or medicine can speed up the process, sometimes dramatically. Healing also involves the whole being – spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). These are inter-related. We can learn more about blockages to healing such as unforgiveness, unbelief, unhappiness, and unwillingness to yield fully to God. These can be removed in a loving, caring environment. One major discovery in charismatic renewal, and in similar ministries, has been the reality of God’s healing grace revealing the Father’s love, such as through compassionate prayer in Jesus’ name in the power of the Holy Spirit. This ministry of love and compassion increases everywhere now. Those who live and worship in places or among people where there is love, compassion, forgiveness, faith, courage and support for one another are especially blessed . All these facilitate healing. As we yield to the Spirit of God among us, these graces abound, and so does healing. This is part of the Lord’s purpose and commission for his church – to be a loving , caring and healing community. We believe that Jesus healed, especially in compassion for people. He commanded and taught his disciples to preach the good news about the reign of God, heal the sick and cast out evil spirits. Jesus is the same – yesterday, today and forever. His commission is the same still. We are learning again to humbly and courageously obey him in the power of his Spirit. There is more to learn and do yet. 7 Renewal Journal 4: Healing This issue of the Renewal Journal aims to help you do that. David Lithgow, Jim Holbeck, John Blacker, Colin Warren, John Warlow and Spencer Colliver tell of their discoveries and understanding of healing. Sue Armstrong and Trevor Faggotter describe revival movements which also include healing through prayer. The next issue of the Renewal Journal , Number 5 (95:1), looks at Signs and Wonders including an overview of their place in the church throughout history and their explosion in revival movements today. Subsequent issues cover topics such as worship, prayer and compassion. These take on new meaning and expression in renewal ministry. The Renewal Journal carr ies articles on renewal and revival across all churches and in the community. Pray as you read! May God bring healing to the land as we repent and believe the good news of God’s great grace. 8 1 Missionary Translator and Doctor David Lithgow Dr David Lithgow and his wife Daphne were Bible translators and medical missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators for over 30 years, mainly in the Milne Bay Islands of Papua New Guinea. These edited selections from newsletters tell a little of their work for the Lord. _____________________________________________________ In one place it seemed that everyone turned to the Lord and was baptized in the sea. The same happened on two more islands. Rev. David Kuwab burnt lots of magic paraphernalia which was brought to him. _____________________________________________________ __ * Seven sick people were prayed for in Jesus’ name, and all were healed. Other people kept their sick relatives hidden inside their houses, preferring to trust their own magic and spirit cures. No one Renewal Journal 4: Healing among these people was healed. This has been a demonstration of the power of Jesus. * A woman who had been crippled for years got up and walked immediately, and was doing normal garden work in a week. The people here were convinced that Jesus is the Strong One, and this report spread through the whole area. * The Lord has worked some surprising miracles, like multiplying the one remaining antibiotic capsule for treating an infection to become twelve – enough to complete the cure.
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