Christ our healer today: The ministry of healing in the Christian and Missionary Alliance

By Drake W. Travis

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875096166
• ISBN13: 9780875096162
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Christian Publications
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

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A passion to help the suffering

Realizing the power and love of God at a young age I soon took painful account of the amount of human suffering everywhere. The dissonance was frustrating. It seemed that humanity was (and is) thirsting to death while sitting next to an artesian well; dying of hunger and begging, cup in hand, while squatting at the entrance of a modern-day supermarket. By the way, (and to comlete the symbolism) our father owns the supermarket!In the first three chapters I spell out the myriad of ways in which God has exercised his healing heart upon his children in the time of Abraham all through the scriptures up through the era of Jesus and the Apostles. The awakening of the healing movement in the late 1800's is retraced in chapter four. Incidentally most all of the participants in the modern day healing movement can be traced to God working in the hearts of those who laid groundwork between the latter 1800's and early/mid 1900's.The final chapter is dedicated to a couple dozen testimonials; stories of those who have been miraculously healed and are alive today to tell the tale. The book includes a chart of healings found in the 'old' testament plus a comprehensive chart of the healings Jesus performed. There is also an original chart of the 11 Hebrew words for "healing"; they are listed and illustrated to enhance understanding of the Judeo-Christian roots of the concept of healing.The objective of this book is to help people become fully aware of the power of God to heal them in body, soul and spirit. It is ultimately to assist people in the life and death struggle to realize that God is very real, very near, altogether compassionate and ready to touch them. They need only to respond to His beckoning of them.Incidentally God's beckoning includes pain. Our problem is that nothing is so effective to get our attention. My hope is that in reading this book you will be aware (perhaps for the first time) of the power of God AND the access that you have to His power through His Son Christ Jesus. His Son Jesus is to be enjoyed and shared.D.W.T.