Do healing meetings benefit the church?

Do healing meetings benefit the church?

Do healing meetings benefit the church? 150 150 Keir Tayler
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SOME of our leaders in the different church movements are under the impression that:
  • healing campaigns do not benefit the local church.
  • its old school.
  • God is not into that to-day , its more seeker-sensitive and not good to offend those who don’t get healed.
Here is what happened in the 1940’s
“It was in the fall of 1948 that we first heard of the great healing revivals which were beginning to sweep across the nation. Reports began to trickle in of multiple healings; salvations and faith increased.”
“OUR CHURCH FASTED AND PRAYED FOR THE SUPERNATURAL!
Immediately our church went to God in prayer and fasting that these same signs and wonders might be seen in our
city. For years we had believed that there was more in store for the Pentecostal movement than the little we had seen. Now, that we had heard of these healing campaigns, we would not be content nor satisfied until we could see.
After much prayer and some letter writing, God led me to contact  an Evangelist….
FIRST HEALING REVIVAL IN THIS AREA
In the summer of 1950 he came, with his new tent, and by faith pitched it for the first time in our city, with the promise of only four small churches to cooperate.
It was the first healing revival in this area.
  • The meeting lasted for five and one half weeks.
  • The crowds grew steadily.
  • Faith rose in each meeting.
  • The Evangelist preached faith until we could conquer any giant.
  • Denominational folk, hungry for the deeper things of God, poured in by the hundreds.
  •  The power of God was manifested from night to night and the healings became the topic of conversation in churches and Sunday School classes for miles around.
  • In the fifth week, he preached for three nights on the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
 
Here again, the plain, forceful, scriptural preaching of this truth removed much of the opposition and fear in the hearts of the people.
RESULTS:
NEW CHURCH BUILT, MEMBERSHIP INCREASED
  • Because of this one campaign alone, our church gained seventy people, which was as many as we were able to gain by ordinary methods in the six years since our church was founded.
  • Since that time, an Apostolic team has returned three more times, with continued blessing.
  • God fulfilled the promises He gave us, by the ministry of the Holy Ghost, when He said that He would give us a great revival with many healings and miracles and the salvation of multitudes.
  • Since the evangelists first meeting, we have been enabled by God to build a new church into which, on occasions, we have crowded over 600 people.
  • Formerly we had rented an old shirt factory that could seat 125.
  • We only regret that we did not build our church larger. The debt on our building, which is only two years old, will be wiped out in two or three months.
DELIVERANCE MEETINGS ANSWER EVERY NEED FOR A CHURCH
When there it is the desire to:
  • build up the Sunday School,
  • strengthen the finances,
  • reach the city for God,
  • edify the believers, or
  • save the lost,
it is my earnest conviction that the deepest desires of any sincere pastor can be realized in this Bible-pattern ministry.”
LINDSAY-HAYES RALLY
Gordon Lindsay and Alton Hayes have just concluded a six-day rally, which further convinced us that Healing Revivals are in Divine order to build up the local church. The teaching of Brother Lindsay will not soon be forgotten. The unique ministry of the “word of knowledge,” as
Brother Hayes prayed for the sick, caused us to cry out in hunger and anticipation,
“God, give us more of this kind of ministry, to reach the lost and dying world and to build up the local church.”
Another article on the Divine Healing Ministry in the Local Church.
THE VOICE OF HEALING • June, 1953