The Gift and the gifts — pt7: Healing, the gift that is a foretaste of wholeness
This week Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring one of the most beautiful, hopeful, and complex gifts of the Holy Spirit: healing.
Healing is one of the places where hope and disappointment often meet. Many of us carry stories of God’s surprising power breaking in, and many of us also carry stories of waiting, groaning, and unanswered prayer. So why do we still pray for healing?
In this talk, Dan explores healing through the Vineyard lens of the Kingdom of God — the now and the not yet — where Jesus’ ministry reveals God’s future wholeness breaking into the present. Every healing is a signpost of resurrection, a glimpse of the world as God intends it to be, and a foretaste of the day when all things will be made new.
The talk also looks at the gift of faith, the gift of healing, and the simple Vineyard five-step model for praying for the sick. It finishes with an invitation to be a church who pray with expectation and humility, asking the Holy Spirit to give us a taste of God’s future wholeness now.
To watch the Vineyard USA "5 Step Healing Prayer" video, do so here.
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