Letter from the Editor
by Kathi Smith
Spring 2014
Welcome to the Healing Line family! We hope that you enjoyed your holidays and that 2014 provides a fresh start to your New Year's resolutions and blessings. If not, we hope that you will add your prayer requests to our online intercessor's list.
My family just got back from a trip to Israel where we experienced snow in Jerusalem (leftover from the week before we arrived). We visited places where Jesus performed miracles — like Capernaum where He healed Peter's mother–in–law — and places where His presence can still be felt — like the Church of the Primacy on the Sea of Galilee where the resurrected Christ addressed Peter and asked him to feed His sheep. The trip's focus on these healing locations brought to life the rich history of healing and the reason why Christian Healing Ministries exists today.
As I write this, Jacksonville, Florida has just had two days of freezing weather and many of our subtropical plants will need to be taken out, pruned back more than usual and maybe even replaced. We don't expect subfreezing temperatures very often. As with Jesus' pruning and vine images in the Bible, we will need to prune and assess damage from this freeze. In prayer ministry at our center, the prayer ministers start each session with prayer. Just like the post–freeze, they ask the vinedresser to come and make an assessment. They read the prayer recipients' intake forms and ask the Holy Spirit to assess what healing work He wants to do in the prayer session. I continue to be surprised that He comes up with a plan that is not the most logical in progression (OK, we are talking about my idea of logical, i.e. linear in progression, etc).
As a prayer minister at CHM, we are taught to listen, love and pray. As a mother and wife, I often want to fix, control and quickly eradicate problems. The Holy Spirit always knows the best path for each person and I continue to be amazed at how many different paths He shows us for the same healing issues. Not one prayer session ever looks alike. We are truly blessed at CHM to weekly see transformed lives and hear the testimonies of inner healing, deliverance, physical healing and generational healing. Please consider joining us this year — either for prayer on our campus or for training at our schools and conferences! And if you love to intercede, we would love to have you join our intercessory prayer team.
Please continue to submit your testimonies of healing on our website. We love to hear your stories and we often print them. We thank God for you and ask Him to bless you and continue your healing journey in 2014.
Kathi Smith, Senior Editor
Kathi Smith is the Senior Editor of Healing Line and an active CHM prayer minister. |