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The Miracle of Healing in Your Church Today

by Jim Lynn

300 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0019; ISBN 1-55369-206-3; US$29.95, C$46.95, EUR30.60, £21.20

Good health is not a matter of chance, it is your birthright.

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About the Book Was it God or man that put an end to divine healing in today's Church? This is the question that led author, Reverend Jim Lynn, on a three year long study. What he learned and shares in his book will have a profound influence on the Church and deepen your faith. The Miracle of Healing in Your Church Today sets forth that all healing is at once divine and timeless, not something relegated to a chapter in the book of life. The book makes a compelling case for the Christian Church to become the healing Center God created Her to be. "This book is a long-needed explanation of the mission and role of healing in the Christian community, "says Lynn. "Churches today are failing because they believe God no longer heals. The book does not question the legitimacy of the modern medicine, but questions why the Church today has severed divine healing from its divine calling. The book serves to put god back into healing, and healing back into the Church. Critical at times, the book condemns secular medicine that harms or even kills in the name of healing. "Medicine that harms is of evil. Medicine that heals is of God and never harms," says Lynn. "In God's medicine chest there is no such thing as 'acceptable risk', only healing. Our good health is not a matter of chance but a birthrght." We hear discussion today about integrated medicine. God's concept of integrated medicine is the physician, patient and Church all working together as partners (spiritual warriors). This form of medicine never harms, never kills. The human body, spirit and soul are considered as one, with each part affecting the whole. Above all, God in Jesus Christ is acknowledged as Yehovah-rapha, the God of healing. Filled with illustrations people can relate to, the book is an easy read and difficult to put down. Readers will learn why people suffer, why so few are healed when prayed for, read of healings modern medicine cannot explain, and learn why the Church mission is unfulfilled without a healing ministry.

About the Author Pastor Jim Lynn is a minister ad evangelist for the church of Christ and holds a degree in Sacred Literature from White's Ferry Road School of Biblical Studies. In 1990-01, Jim served as a missionary to Russia and Ukraine. While in country he lectured on the nature of Christianity at Russian State Medical University, Moscow, and taught a course on Bible at Dnepropetrovsk State University in Ukraine. As a result of his work, many souls came to believe in the gospel and were baptized into Christ. Pastor Lynn is founder and direstor of The Power For Healing Workshop, a non-denominational ministry that trains and equips Churches for the healing ministry. An accomplished writer, artist and public speaker, Jim has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including the World Broadcasting Network in Franklin, Tennessee. In 1989 Jim illustrated the Good News gospel magazine, published by We Care Ministry. Pastor Lynn is the father of two children, a former Air Traffic Controller of 16 years, an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America, a recipient of Most Outstanding Young Citizen Award, and holder of a letter of Commendation from the Federal Aviation Administration. In 1968, Pastor Lynn successfully raised one million signatures opposing the atheist, Madelyn Murray O'Hare, in her effort to ban the transmission of reading the Bible and praying over NASA radio. For his work Jim was invited to be an honored guest at a NASA Apollo Mission banquet.

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Contents

   Forward

   Introduction

   I. Torn Between Two Worlds
      A. The Nature of Illness and Healing
      B. God's Healing Word
      C. The Early Church and Healing

   II. Why People Suffer
      A. Who You Are
      B. What You Are
      C. The Law of Sin and Death
      D. If You Want to Walk on Water You Have to Get Out of the Boat

   III. By Whose Authority?
      A. The Occults
      B. Competition in the Medicine
      C. The Truth Behind Drugs
      D. Secular Medicine
      E. Confusion in the Church
      F. God's Medicine
      G. Whose Voice Are We Listening to?

   IV. Why We do Not Heal
      A. The Spiritual Nature of Pharmaceutical Drugs
      B. Iatrogenics
      C. The Fear of Disease
      D. The Lord's Supper and Healing

   V. The Healing Gospel of Jesus Christ
      A. Understanding the Great Mystery
      B. Bad Hermeneutics

   VI. In the School of Christ
      A. Yesterday's Wisdom, Today's Destiny
      B. Jesus Instructs the Twelve
      C. The Use of Healing Oil in the Church During the First Millennium
      D. Divine Healing in the Secular World
      E. Prayer
      F. Faith is the Key
      G. Confession of Sin
      H. The Effect of Confession
      I. Blessing and Laying on of Hands

   VII. Christ's Healing Ministry in the Church
      A. Understanding the Mission
      B. The Gospel of Jesus Christ
      C. Healing in the Early Church
      D. Problems of Healing Encountered in the Early Church
      E. Why Church-sponsored Healing Ministries

   VIII. Rekindling the Mission
      A. Wake Up
      B. The Miracle of Healing in Your Church
      C. Equipping the Saints
      D. The Power For Healing Workshop
      E. Those Who are With us are More Than Those With Them

   IX. When Healing Makes no Earthly Sense
      A. Divine Healing Testimonials
      B. Epilogue

   Appendices
      A. What the Bible Says About Your Immune System
      B. The Spiritual Roots of Breast Cancer
      C. The Hidden Chambers
      D. Recommended Reading

Those brief words exchanged between Jesus and Martha summarize the conflict Christians face between their faith in God and the world view of life and death.

The big lie in the world today is that human suffering, disease, and death are the result of natural manifestation. Nothing could be further from the truth, but this is the lie Satan wants you to believe. The truth is, that while suffering, sickness, and death take place in the natural world, all human suffering begins and ends in the spiritual world.

Martha's faith is much like ours today. Even though she wants to believe that Jesus can return her brother to her, she sees only the stone covering her brother's tomb. The stone is Martha's reality. She thinks Jesus is too late to be of help. But Jesus tells Martha to remove the stone. That age-old stone remains in place for many Christians today and represents why this book is written. It is the stone of unbelief.

Behind all suffering and sickness lie the whispers of Satan, the father of all lies (John 8:44). Just as Satan deceived Eve, so does he with us today. Just as Eve turned away from God, choosing to be wise in her own eyes, so do we today. It is our own faulty wisdom and the lies of Satan we accept that keeps us from removing the stone that leads to healing. This is the way of the world.

When it comes to placing our faith in God for healing we are like the man who fell while mountain climbing. Poorly prepared, he began his climb alone. When the day was gone, instead of setting up camp, he continued his climb in the black of night. Bad weather set in, and soon visibility was zero. He could not see where to place his footing so he relied on his sense of feel to guide him.

As he was climbing a ridge near the top of the mountain, he slipped and fell. Falling rapidly he could see only blotches of darkness passing by. He felt the terrible sensation of being sucked in by gravity.

In those moments of his fall, memories flashed through his mind. He thought he would die. But then he felt a jolt that almost tore him in half. Yes!! Like any good mountain climber he had staked himself with a long rope secured to his waist.

Suspended in the air he had no other choice but to shout, "Help me God. Help me."

All of a sudden he heard a deep voice from heaven, "What do you want me to do?"

"Save me," cried the man.

"Do you really believe that I can save you?"

"Of course, my God," said the stricken man.

"Then cut the rope that is holding you up."

The man was shocked into speechlessness and just held tighter to the rope.

The following day the rescue team found a frozen mountain climber hanging tightly to a rope--two feet off the ground. This is the situation in which millions of Christians afflicted with chronic illness find themselves today. God has wondrous healing for us, if we are but willing to trust in His Word and let go of the world's wisdom.

Someone asks, "I thought the main theme of the Bible is "Jesus Saves." Certainly, Jesus saves. But, saying so is like saying Charles Lindbergh flew airplanes--it leaves out a big part of the story. In this book we will learn that "God Heals" and "Jesus Saves" have similar meaning, but that the attention given to one, over the other, has paid a heavy toll.

Healing (restoring man to wholeness) has always been uppermost in God's mind. From the foundation of creation, God had a plan to restore man back to health, in body, in spirit, and in soul, to free man of unclean spirits. The Bible records God's divine remedy for doing exactly that. But, for many Christians, God's Word is a book of salvation, not a book of wholeness or healing. It is this limiting view of God's Word that has opened the door for unclean spirits to enter into our lives. They are the cause behind the chronic illnesses that plague our bodies.

God created man to be body, spirit, and soul (Genesis 2:7). Without all three dwelling together, we are incomplete as human beings. We are not whole. So any attack on one part of man is an attack on the whole of man. This is the reason why God is as equally interested in our body and human spirit as He is in our soul. For God not only considers our soul to be holy but our spirit and body as well. His great work of restoration is able to make and keep us whole and holy, both now and for eternity.

God's Word is His instrument for healing the whole of man (Proverbs 4:20-22). This is the reason why so many of us become sickly and die before our appointed time. We accept God's Word as medicine for the soul, but we treat our body and spirit as separate secular issues. Why?

Healing is the most valuable, sought-after commodity on earth. Some one hundred and twenty-five million people in America suffer from chronic illness. The number is staggering. Nearly one-half of our country's population is affected. Imagine how much more powerful the Christian message of love and salvation would be if Christians turned back to God for healing in body and spirit, as well as in soul. What would happen if churches nurtured healing and included healing ministries as part of their outreach programs? Church membership would overflow into the streets. Church buildings could not contain this growing mass of humanity.

We have faith that God is victorious over death through Jesus Christ, who was crucified for our sins. We place our trust in Him to keep our souls. But what of our body in the here and now? When Jesus bore our sins on the Cross, He also bore our infirmities and sicknesses (Isaiah 53:4-5). We trust that Jesus healed the sick during His ministry (Matthew 8:16). We believe we can have life through Jesus and have it to the fullest (John 10:10). We even call Jesus the Great Physician. So why then do we pay only lip service to Him in healing?

The answer and sad truth is that our trust (faith) is anchored in someone or something other than in God for healing. We have forsaken God's Holy Word to follow another's voice. That voice has led millions to an early grave, crippling the work of God. That same voice has caused millions more to question their faith. This is the work of Satan, not of Yehovah-rapha, the Lord who heals you (Exodus 15:26).

In this book you will learn there is both good and bad medicine within the medical industry. You will learn that true medicine does not harm, ever! In God's medicine chest, there is no such thing as "an acceptable risk," only healing. You will learn to seek out physicians who honor God as our Healer and who respect their patients in body, spirit, and soul.

More importantly, you will learn that the early Christian Church never separated the need for repentance from healing but instead pursued both as one healing mission. Today, our culture has separated the two. People go to churches for salvation and nurturing of their souls, and they go to the world of modern medicine when faced with illness and disease. This book does not question the legitimacy of modern medicine, but questions why the Christian Church (the Body and Bride of Christ) has severed divine healing from Her divine calling.

We hear discussion today about integrated medicine. God's concept of integrated medicine is the physician, patient, and Church all working together as partners (spiritual warriors). This form of medicine never harms, never kills. Its sole mission is to overpower the effect of Satan to allow healing. The human body, spirit, and soul are considered as one, with each part affecting the whole. Above all, God in Jesus Christ is acknowledged throughout the healing process as Yehovah-rapha, the God of healing.

Jesus asked Martha to remove the stone. His words are just as applicable for us today as they were on that hillside outside of Bethany 2,000 years ago. Jesus is asking us to remove the stone that keeps us in bondage to Satan's lies and sickness. Jesus is asking us to place our trust (faith) in Him that He is (present tense) the Great Physician of man, in body, spirit, and soul.

This book is written to Christians who accept the Bible as the plenary Word of God but struggle between God's Word and Church tradition. If you are one who picks and chooses what to believe or not to believe in God's Word, you will have difficulty grasping the truth expressed between these covers. For it is by reliance on God's Word that the author's thesis is made.

Having said that, the author accepts and expects skepticism, as it should be. I only ask that, as you read, you keep an open mind. If what you read fails the test of truth expressed in the Bible, you will have lost only some time. But, if what you read convicts your heart, I ask that you fall upon your knees in prayer before God, asking for forgiveness in your unbelief.

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