What is the difference between miracle and healing

This is well shown in Mark Let us read this passage in King James Version of the Bible:. MARK This passage in Mark tells us that healing can be a process. When we read that the believers in Christ can lay hand on the sick in Jesus name for divine healing, and the sick shall recover, so here the verb to recover speaks of a process that is not always instantaneous.

This tells us that when the gifts of healing are in operation, the lay on off hands shall transfer to the individual the power of God to heal the healing anointing and that power not necessarily will do the job instantaneously, but from that moment the healing anointing will begin to operate until the individual would be completely healed after a period of time. In this period of time in which the healing process is taking place, the individual must keep his confession of faith in the Word of God, even when the symptoms are not gone completely.

I read a report this morning, the first one I've ever read. Amazingly, I read it just this morning before coming here about diet changes that are reversing dementia. This is fascinating. One of them is one of the foods is walnuts. Which interesting to me looks like a brain. There are all these things that I believe are a process that I would put in the healing category. Then there are just flat out miracles. I've experienced both. I believe in both. I believe those two camps need to not be segregated, we can get a lot more done and be a lot more effective for the Lord.

Be a powerful testimony to Him. I just believe that it's going to be a different route for each person and because of that, and I'm glad you brought it up. I have the heart to encourage people who are in the healing route because they can get so discouraged. Why didn't God answer my prayer? I thought I was going to get a miracle. What am I doing wrong? I guess that doesn't work.

I guess God doesn't heal today. Well, I tried to get rid of sugar and it didn't really do anything. I'm going to just go back. On and on and on, the enemy can just absolutely get us off track if we're going down the healing route. I so believe that healing route, you're not going to believe I'm going to say this. We all would prefer a miracle, but the healing route is the one that's really going to make you whole because you're going to have to dig deep and pray and say, "Lord.

Am I not connecting with you? Lord, how am I thinking wrong? Miracles are good and they're merciful. We knew a guy; he was addicted to drugs and alcohol. He literally went to the altar and got delivered of alcoholism like that never had another craving.

The drugs, however, I'm talking about prescription drugs. He was on like 33 Xanax a day buying them illegally online. That happened by process.

He weaned off of them. We actually had several sessions with him of prayer that turned into all-out what I would call deliverance sessions. We knew medically what the symptoms were of Xanax withdrawal. He went through all of those checklists. There were some in this category over here that you could not explain things that were manifesting and voices. It was the reason he was medicating. We had to deal with those. This one at the altar happened.

It was a miracle. The alcoholism was taken from him. God required him to cooperate with him to get off of these prescription drugs. It has made him a better father. It's allowed him to choose better coping mechanisms because he's whole emotionally now and physically. It's up to your heavenly Father which one he chooses for you.

It's not your place to argue with him You have to flow with Him and obey Him. Gary: I think the healing we have when people ask why would God want it to take so long? I often think of when God was bringing, I think it was Joshua, back into the promised land and he says, "I'm going to leave five enemies in the land.

Laura: It is standing. It's the process of climbing. Psalm 24, "Who may stand before the Lord? The holy hill of the Lord. There's the climbing and then there's the standing. I believe that if you will do both since you bring up, the drugs and the alcohol and all of that, and the numbers passage about God, what it specifically says, "He won't clear all the giants at once, or else your children would never learn to war". I think about the legacy Your father has in you and his children.

Sometimes he won't take all the giants out immediately because he wants your children to learn to overcome. There were times when I was going through things and I would think, I'd be digging, soul searching, Spirit connecting with the Holy Spirit. As I said, the full route, the healing route, the clean-my-clock route. I would say, "Lord, how much character does one person need? I can't remember what it is now. I can't remember what it was but as I looked it up, it said, "And I will not remove all Goliaths at once that your children may learn the art of war".

I thought, "Okay". What this is about is not just me and something I'm doing wrong. He wants my children to learn how to war for him. He wants my children to learn not to be discouraged if they asked for a miracle and get healing. He wants them to-- Because remember, we were turning the Titanic around.

Those first two children were raised in a denomination that did not believe in this. They had to see the miracles, but they also needed to learn healings and not move into doubt and unbelief if there was a waiting period.

But before all of that she was just a farmer's daughter with a love for colorful food and a pastor's granddaughter with a heart to see others prosper spiritually. The best-selling author and her husband, Chris, are the founding co-pastors of Eastgate Creative Christian Fellowship in Nashville, Tennessee, where they specialize in helping people get healthy—body, mind and spirit—believing it is the only path to wholeness.

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Facebook Twitter. Search Search. Laura: Thanks. Can you just talk about the difference between the two, the Divine-- [crosstalk] Laura: I tell you what. You just hit on why I wrote the book. Gary: Okay, good. Gary: Okay, that's what she's saying, okay.

Gary: Jesus' temptation of stone into bread. When we think of therapy like if somebody goes to a Christian counselor or therapist, they don't expect to hear five minutes of the therapist's words and then also to walk away, "I have a perfect marriage now"- Laura: That's a perfect example, right.

Gary: - therapy is usually a long-term- Laura: Process. I thought this would be an interesting conversation. Dec 30, We teamed up with Faith Counseling. Can they help you today? Dec 30, 2. I'm thinking it would be something outside the norm, that did NOT involve anyone's health. Like walking on water.

Dec 30, 3. Miracles will be giving a blind man sight or giving a deaf man hearing. Healing is like if I had an awful flu and then being healed by it vanishing within seconds.

Dec 30, 4. I tend to agree with charityagape, with a slight variance. Since scripture doesn't really give good definitions other than the definitions of the words themselves , it would seem that "gifts of healings" deals with those who are in need of healing-- and whatever is ill be it physically, spiritually, or mentally is made whole.

Miracles, on the other hand, deals with those supernatural acts, outside of healing, in which the laws of nature are superseded. I think there are also cases I classify as a "miraculous healing", where it is beyond something ill being made whole-- such as a missing leg growing back-- things where there is actually a creative miracle occurring as part of the healing.

Dec 30, 5. Good thread Balance. I just learned I don't need a healing, I need a Miracle!! Dec 30, 6. I think a miracle is an explosion of the might of God into the natural realm. It is specifically intended to awe and inspire those who see it. A healing is the manifestation of a the compassion and love of God toward someone who is suffering or disabled. Dec 30, 7. Dec 30, 8. Huhmph, well, scripture is scripture.