The Art of Healing Prayer
Ebook
Overview
The Art of Healing Prayer aims to help both clergy and laity to develop a greater understanding of those who come seeking healing, and to become skilled in praying for such people biblically, imaginatively and sensitively.
The authors recognize that this is a costly ministry, requiring counsellors to find time in their own often busy lives to guide others, and necessitating that they continue to be open to the gifts of God’s grace.
However, it is a ministry that often results in joy and transformation, as those healed from long standing inner woundedness become sources of goodness and healing for others.
Wisdom for those who long to grow in their life of prayer by praying for others.
1 Dimensions of the healing ministry
2 A case study
3 Preparation prayers
4 Inner healing: opening prayers
5 Listening time: prayers of discernment
6 Prayers of confession and repentance
7 Prayers of forgiveness
8 Prayers of separation
9 Prayers for deliverance
10 Prayers of inner healing
11 Prayers for the infilling of the Holy Spirit
12 Prayers of protection and closure
13 Follow-up and conclusion
Notes
Charles Ringma has taught in universities, seminaries and colleges in Asia, Australia and Canada. He is Emeritus Professor at Regent College, Vancouver, a Franciscan Tertiary and a Companion of the Northumbria Community in Brisbane. He has written many books on Christian spirituality, including Hear the Ancient Wisdom (SPCK, 2013). See faithcompanions.com.
Mary Dickau has been on the pastoral leadership team of Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, Vancouver, for 25 years. She is a spiritual director and hosts a city retreat called Stillpointe, facilitating weekly rhythms of prayer and times of healing prayer.