Does anyone have any suggestions of books on Biblical healing/miracles/signs and wonders that have ministered to you? I'm not looking for an author's testimony of their healing, but rather a bit of a study on Biblical healing/miracles/signs and wonders.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Blessings,
Ben Brockway
There are plenty of books on healing available but here are two older ones that I would suggest - Andrew Murray "Divine Healing" and J.Sidlow Baxter "Divine Healing of the Body" Murrays book is in sermon format and Baxters is a more scholarly approach. You will probably have to source them second hand as they may both be out of print.
Know-Him wrote:
There are plenty of books on healing available but here are two older ones that I would suggest - Andrew Murray "Divine Healing" and J.Sidlow Baxter "Divine Healing of the Body" Murrays book is in sermon format and Baxters is a more scholarly approach. You will probably have to source them second hand as they may both be out of print.
Thank you, Know-Him. I am looking more to the classics, so I thank you for mentioning them.
This is a topic that polarizes people. You will rarely find a book that is balanced. Some seem to think that divine healing ended with the apostolic era and others will vehemently disagree and go to to the other end of the spectrum and say that healing for us is included in the atonement. So, who are you going to believe?
May I suggest you read and study the Scriptures, including the OT. Divine healing is not limited to Jesus' ministry nor the apostles'.
There is a book that is helpful, IMHO. I have not read it in 25 years, I think, but it is still in print and this should teach us something. It is titled "None of These Diseases" by S.I.McMillian.
Blessings,
ginnyrose
EDIT: May I suggest that if you do a thorough study of the WORD it will have the effect of grounding you, settling you from which you will not be easily distracted. Man's literature does not provide one with that stability.
The Gospel of Healing by A. B. Simpson. I think you can find an online version for free if you search.
Christ The Healer by F.F.Bosworth. It's a classic on spiritual and physical healing.
A.B.Simpson The Fourfold Gosple, its a classic too. He unfolds the full gosple starting with justification and sanctification by faith. He goes on explaining how to receive Christ as the healer of our body. The last part of the book speaks about the second comming of Jesus Christ as King.
Just a freindy advice. Its good to read books on healing that don't over-emphasis healing as a blessing to the neglect of Christ who should be all-sufficient to us for everything. The difference between a spiritual christian and a carnal christian is this:
The first wants Christ above all the spiritual blessings, the second desires more the blessings than the giver of the blessings.
Edited
Both of A.B. Simpsons books, The Gospel of Healing and The Fourfold Gospel are available in pdf format on the following page-
http://www.cmalliance.org/about/history/simpson
That is some more reading for me to do as well as both these books look very good.
I have read parts from Simpson The Fourfould Gosple. The book is so rich, deep, and insightful in explaning the gosple. A.B.Simpson was a very balanced christian with a great heart for God and people.
Today many are gosple ignorant. We need a revelation of the cross and of our grorified Lord & Savior. The preaching of the gosple in the ealy church radically changed the whole man from inside out. The gosple is for the whole man, not only for our spirit or soul but for the body too.
Sin came as a result of Adam disobidience and sickness and death entered in the life of man.
Justification by faith is only the beginning of the gosple and sanctification by faith is for us too. When it comes to our bodies, God loves our bodies and he wants it to be in good health because its the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Now when it comes to out bodies we should be humble to accept the fact that although it is God's will to heal the body of sickness, there are exceptions in his will, where he allows and permits sickness in our body. That's how i see it.
I believe that many christians are sick because of unconfessed sin in their life and God brings judgment in their life. This is clear fron the 1 Corinthians and James letter.
Dick Sipley wrote "Divine Healing." It is balanced. He is associated with the Canadian Revival Fellowship (who may have the book inexpensively). I think a few of his sermons are posted on SI.
The progression I have seen in Scripture and in life is:
The Word of God
The Works of God
The Wonders of God
How about reading Smith Wigglesworth?? He claims to have never read any book but the bible.
And ....wow, what do yknow, SI even has some of his sermons on here. hmmm imagine that.
There is a nice book that deals with healing by John Sherrill entitled [i]They Speak With Other Tongues
The book is a partial biography of John and Elizabeth Sherrill, who coauthored books like [i]The Cross and the Switchblade[i]The Hiding Place[i]God's Smuggler
In this book, John Sherrill details his own spiritual journey and research into certain spiritual phenomenon (like divine healing). He and his wife were quite skeptical of such things. They explain how they had been atheists who came to Christ. For years, they attended traditional mainstream denominational churches (even while skeptics). Eventually they gave their hearts to Christ. John Sherrill performed quite a bit of research into such matters. This research made him less critical, but he remained somewhat skeptical. Eventually, he recounts that he found himself in a hospital suffering tremendously from a deadly illness. During this time of suffering, Mr. Sherrill experienced healing for himself.
I would certainly recommend this book to anyone. In it, he details the findings of his own research and interviews with people like David Wilkerson and Corrie Ten Boom. I appreciate his logical approach to the subjects within the book and the fact that he isn't out to convince anyone of anything or convert them toward his own views. I found it to be a very balanced view of the subject of healing and tongues.
You can purchase, view a sample and read reviews of this book at [url=http://www.amazon.com/They-Speak-Other-Tongues-Sherrill/dp/0800791304]Amazon
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Thank you to everyone! This is a great start! Certianly, if anyone knows of any other sources, please continue to post on here!
To those that have recommended the reading of the Word and studying the healing that occurred in Scripture, I will most certianly be doing that. As part of the study I wanted to get some other author's perspectives on those Scriptures that might have better insight and knowledge in it that I could never grasp otherwise.
To those that mentioned particular resources and links - thank you! I ordered Divine Healing, Divine Healing of the Body, and The Gospel of Healing. So, I think these three books will be a great help in my study along with the Word. I had considered the Fourfold Gospel by Simpson, but wasn't sure, so I thank you for the link to be able to read it for free online - that'll be a great help! Blessings to you all!
Ben
There are those that are adamant about divine healing, that this is God's will that all have perfect health or be healed supernaturally.
If you look at the proponents of this doctrine, take the long range view. Consider the lives these people: why did they die? Were they ill that brought on their death? If so, did they sin to bring on this illness?
Having said all that, there are many reports of divine healings coming out of countries where the preaching of the Gospel is restricted or the people are so dreadfully poor.
Several years ago I interviewed a lot of old people when I compiled a genealogy book of my mother's family. In these interviews my uncles told me of a relative - on another side of the family - that had this gift of healing. When people were sick they would bring this person to him and he would lay his hands on them and pray softly - at least this is what they believed him to do. He was a godly and upright man. I remember hearing of this man when I was a child since he was married to mom's aunt.
My uncles said they do not know of any healer today who has similar gifting.
One can easily ask why back then but not now? Scripture tells us it is God who grants the gifts and that is what they are gifts, nothing earned...
Blessings,
ginnyrose
ginnyrose wrote:
There are those that are adamant about divine healing, that this is God's will that all have perfect health or be healed supernaturally.
...And because of sin in this world, perfect health won't occur until our new heaven and new earth.
One can easily ask why back then but not now? Scripture tells us it is God who grants the gifts and that is what they are gifts, nothing earned...Blessings,
ginnyrose
...And what I think is a key element that is missing, is that each of us can have the gift of healing/miracles/signs and wonders. So, the "why then, and not now?" question is part of my study.
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