Healing Prayer Training

Resurrection in West Chicago has long been known for its Healing Prayer ministry, and people from many other churches attend its Praise and Healing Prayer services at 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday. There are several training resources on this page. Be sure to look all the way through.

What We Believe About Healing Prayer

We believe I Corinthians 12:7-11, which says that God gives gifts to His people according to His will, to accomplish His purposes. In prayer ministry we see Him give the gifts of wisdom and knowledge, discernment, prophecy, faith, mercy, healing and tongues as they are needed. We pray for God to intervene in specific circumstances, but out guiding focus is to pray for the things that the Word tells us are priorities with God; that we would be one with Him and with each other as Jesus prayed in John 17:21; that we would know the full measure of God's love for us and be filled with the fullness of His life and power as Paul prayed in Ephesians 6:19; and that God would give us complete understanding of what He wants to do in our lives and make us wise with spiritual wisdom, Colossians 1:9. These and many more are rich promises of spiritual blessings given to us in Scripture, and we pray boldly for these riches in each other's lives.

The New Testament pattern is that God healed people's bodies, minds, and emotions in order to demonstrate His love and power and to free them to be 'all that Christ Jesus saved us for and wants us to be,' Philippians 3:12. He is still doing that today. Our job is to ask, as He instructed us to do in John 16:23-24.

Resurrection
Prayer Ministry Covenant

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (NIV)

Ministering in the Spirit -

Members of Resurrection's prayer teams receive regular training in healing prayer, and a full 10-week training has been recorded and is available here. The instructor is Randy Fisk, a highly regarded Vineyard pastor who is a regular part of Resurrection's ministry team, and author of an upcoming book titled Ministering With the Presence, Power and Heart of God.

These talks were recorded each week and placed here in MP3 format for listening or downloading.

Session 1 2/23/05 Introduction Click here to listen 33 min (some distortion about 4 minutes into it for a few seconds)

Session 2 3/2/05 Healing I Click here to listen 43 min

Session 3 3/9/05 The Holy Spirit Click here to listen 36 min

Session 4 3/16/05 Healing II Click here to listen 33 min

no class 3/23/05 (holy week) - but regular Praise and Healing Prayer service

Session 5 3/30/05 Faith Click here to listen 33 min

Session 6 4/6/05 Authority & the Kingdom of God Click here to listen 36 min

Session 7 4/13/05 Prophetic (Hearing from God) I Click here to listen 39 min

Session 8 4/20/05 Prophetic (Hearing from God) II Click here to listen 31 min

Session 9 4/27/05 Healing, Prophetic & Evangelism Click here to listen 44 min

Session 10 5/4/05 The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Click here to listen 30 min

Short Introduction to Healing Prayer

A training done by Resurrection at St Benedict's Church in Bolingbrook, Illinois.

Introduction to Healing Prayer, Part I - what it is and isn't. By Pastor George.

Bibliography of books and other resources on healing prayer.