Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

These imaginary rungs of the ladder towards total wholeness all work in conjunction with each other. Healing is part of deliverance, although different, and deliverance is always preceded by repentance. All these steps have a knock on effect. By going through the process, the individual grows and matures. The whole process of being in Christ is to grow so that we become fruitful. In fact, we are commanded from the very beginning of the creation narrative to be fruitful and to multiply (Gen 1:28). The limiting factor, which inhibits growth and fruitfulness, is the propensity for us to disobey and to do things our own way. Again the Lord reminds us in scripture that ‘His ways and not our ways neither are His thoughts our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8). And so the process of healing is ‘putting the missing ingredient back into a situation’. For a cancer patient, healing is replacing the damaged cells with good fully functional ones. For someone with a broken bone, it is supporting the limb until the structure has reconstructed itself. And for a broken spirit, healing is the process of reconnecting that spirit back to the creator of spirits, Yahweh. Now there are many gods in our world today, but it is Yahweh, the God of the bible, the only wise God, who is the creator that heals a broken spirit. Putting back the missing ingredient to body, soul (mind) and spirit was the mandate that Jesus set out with (see Luke 4:18ff), likewise we who follow Jesus are called to be ambassadors of this process as we ourselves are delivered, healed and restored.  Read Luke 4&5 to see the great task that lies ahead of us.