Divine Healing

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Summary: "how to have a miracle in your life"
Review: This book changed my life, and lead me through some very hard times with my health, and taught me about Jesus and my religion, and helped me learn what It is all about, the best book I have ever read.

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Summary: "how to have a miracle in your life"
Review: This book changed my life, and lead me through some very hard times with my health, and taught me about Jesus and my religion, and helped me learn what It is all about, the best book I have ever read.

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Summary: a call to a higher trust in God
Review: This book is not just about healing. It teaches very clearly, taking very many Scriptures that you don't often hear in this context. But it is also about a life of trusting God through and through, growing in trust and seeing God move. Andrew Murray says that we lose a precious opportunity to grow in the Lord by relying on man and the methods in nature, but he does not come across as forbidding going to physicians, but rather as earnestly urging us to go higher in faith, giving us a glimpse of the blessing of wholly trusting in God. And who can get enough of that? I do think that this alone makes this book an invaluable experience.
Though I have been hearing teachings on healing for at least 10 years, the difference with this book is that when reading it, I sometimes feel I am on holy ground. Healing is not cheap, and Andrew Murray takes us on a journey with reverence and depth. You will be deeply blessed.

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Summary: A Good Book, But I Don't Agree
Review: Which Christian perspective on healing is true: faith healing (if you believe enough, God will heal you) or God-will healing (God will heal you if he wants to, even if your faith is only the size of a mustard seed)? Andrew Murray puts forth a scripturally based opinion on this topic in his book Divine Healing.

As a health practitioner, I was very disappointed to find that Mr. Murray believes in faith healing. According to Mr. Murray, "Already the health of our bodies is a fruit of the salvation Jesus has acquired for us. We see also that health as well as salvation is obtained by faith." We are healed in proportion to the amount of faith in our lives, not works. He stated that health practitioners and medications should not be used because they steal from God the opportunity to heal us and show His power. His position seems reminiscent of Christian Science, which forbids vaccinations, medications, and visits to hospitals.

His strong support of faith healing may be due to the state of the church at the time in which he lived. The charismatic movement did not begin until the early nineteenth century, and very few miraculous healings or other signs of the Holy Spirit were seen during Mr. Murray's generation. Many people believed God had the power to do miracles, but they did not have the faith that God wanted to use his power in their lives. Thus teaching faith and healing would be very important to Mr. Murray.

This book does contain small jewels about healing. For example, he states, "One of the chief benefits, then, of divine healing will be to teach us that our body ought to be set free from the yoke of our own will to become the Lord's property. God does not grant healing until He has attained the end for which He permitted the sickness." Until God's purpose for allowing an illness is completed, even the prayer of faith will remain unanswered.

This book is an excellent treatise on faith healing, and even those who don't agree with Andrew Murray's position may find nuggets of spiritual truth in Divine Healing.

--- reviewed by Terri for Christian Bookshelf