From the Back Cover
If you need healing, what can you
expect from God?
"Jesus brought the healing promise of God but His enemies killed him. Just what that healing gift involves is the subject of this important and encouraging book..."
from the foreword by John MacArthur
God can heal, this is a truth clearly evident from Scripture. We can agree, with absolute certainty, that God still possesses the power to do the miraculous.
But is God using the Faith Healers?
In The Healing Promise Richard Mayhue provides straight answers without compromising the Bible or God's miraculous power.
The Healing Promise includes --
A special interview with Joni Eareckson Tada where she talks about coping with the attitudes towards healing she encounters every day.
A chapter by Andre Kole, the man behind many of David Copperfield's illusions, on techniques used in healing meetings.
A special interview with John and Patricia MacArthur about their experiences when Patricia was badly injured in a car accident.
Richard Mayhue is Vice President and Dean of The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California.
Foreword
Everybody dies. Everybody gets sick. Everybody has been injured. Avoiding these pirates of peace and pleasure is a lifelong enterprise for everybody. Because they mean pain, suffering, debilitation and separation, we all pursue triumph over them. Eliminating death, sickness, and injury from life would bring bliss! No disease, no disaster, and no death would mean no fear, no anxiety, no dread. A life like that would be Utopian. People would do anything and pay anything for it.
If someone had the power to heal all disease, eliminate all injury, and end all death, the world would surely make that person the object of their love and adoration. Right? Wrong. Jesus had the power and demonstrated it, but His enemies injured Him and then killed Him. Amazingly, they wounded and murdered the One who came to end their pain and death forever! Such is the irrational selfishness of man.
Jesus brought the healing promise of God, and it was clear to see that he could fulfill it. He banished disease from Palestine. The prospect of physical healing drew people to Him and His apostles by the thousands. And they were not disappointed, for they were healed. This massive demonstration of both the power of God over the effect of sin and the compassion of God for the experience of suffering clarified the reality that God was offering healing to those who came to Him. Just what that healing gift involves, both now and in eternity, is the purpose of this important and encouraging book...
John MacArthur
Pastor-Teacher
Grace Community Church
Sun Valley, California
From the Preface
...some of the designed features in The Healing Promise include:
- Seeking Scripture to understand God's will in the matter of healing.
- Setting Scripture above experience when interpreting claims of healing.
- Seeing God's hand in our health and healing at all times.
- Exposing outright fraud or false doctrine.
- Interacting with those who have also written on healing.
- Equipping Christians to biblically deal with sickness in their own life, in their family, in the body of Christ, and in the world.
- Allowing God to be God.
I have prayed that God would use The Healing Promise as a ready reference tool for pastors and lay people who must continually minister to the sick and suffering. It is also intended to equip the saints for understanding the issues of life and death, and to be effective in ministering to those who now suffer. Portions of this material can encourage and strengthen the sick because through it they can better understand the truth of God's word and the direction of God's will. My chief objectives include 1) glorifying God in all His majesty, 2)honouring God in His ministry to the church, to both the healthy and the ailing, and 3) letting God's Word be the final arbiter in these issues...
Contents
Part 1: A Perspective for Today
1. God's Healing Promis
Part 2: Faith Healing
2. Contemporary Confusion
3. Are Faith Healers for Real?
4. Understanding Reported Healings
Part 3: God's Healing Ministry
5. Before the Cross
6. Jesus and the Multitudes
7. The Apostolic Legacy
8. Is There Healing in the Atonement?
9. Is James 5 for Me?
10. Demons and Sickness
11. Answers to "What About...?" Questions
12. What About Miracles?
13. God Heals Today!
Part 4: A Christian's Response to Sickness
14. What About Faith, Prayer, and Doctors?
15. Joni Earekson Tada on Sickness
16. On My Back by Divine Design
17. When Suffering Arrives
18. Your Healing Promise
"The Broken Heart"
O Lord.
No day of my life has passed
that has not proved me guilty in they sight.
Prayers have been uttered from a prayerless heart;
Praise has been often praiseless sound;
My best services are filthy rags.
Blessed Jesus, let me find a covert in they appeasing
wounds.
Though my sins rise to heaven thy merits soar above
them;
Though unrighteousness weighs me down to hell,
thy righteousness exalts me to thy throne.
All things in me call for my rejection,
All things in thee plead my acceptance.
I appeal from the throne of perfect justice
To thy throne of boundless grace
Grant me to hear thy voice assuring me:
that by thy stripes I am healed,
that thou wast bruised for my iniquities,
that thou hast been made sin for me
that I might be righteous in thee.
that my grievous sins, my manifold sins,
are all forgiven
buried in the ocean of thy concealing blood.
I am guilty, but pardoned,
lost, but saved,
wandering, but found,
sinning, but cleansed.
Give me perpetual broken-heartedness,
Keep me always clinging to thy cross,
Flood me every moment with descending grace,
Open to me the springs of divine knowledge,
sparkling like crystal,
flowing clear and unsullied
through my wilderness of life.
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