Letter from the Editor

by Kathi Smith
Spring 2015

Dear Healing Line Family,

We celebrate Christ again and again, with renewal, with healing, with transformation, and especially with the new season of spring.

With spring comes new life. We see God's creation resurrecting from winter–worn brown sticks in the ground to beautiful flower–laden bushes. We experience more rain which brings more growth and green outside. With the winter weather changing to spring we even experience a cheerier disposition. What is it? I believe that spring brings with it renewed hope in many areas in our lives.

Here at Christian Healing Ministries, people come to ask for prayer. After we greet them, our first question is, "What would you like Jesus to do for you today?" The shock that registers on many faces is very visible. Some people even feel the need to discuss the question with us. We have hope for healing. We have hope that Jesus will show up, intersect and change current situations for people in their physical and emotional health. We see changes, we hear testimonies and we are expectant! Please bring your prayer requests to our intercessors. Please bring yourselves to our prayer conferences, such as Journey to Healing. Please come to our Schools of Healing Prayer^® to learn how to pass on this expectant hope to a world that doesn't yet know about healing.

Some people come to CHM with the tiniest thread of hope. It grows and blooms into a beautiful transformed life when healing occurs. As a gardener, I can look at a brown leafless bush and, aware of its seasonal patterns, I know I can leave it there to experience winter. I expect that with a little pruning job, it will start to bud and grow new leaves and be a healthy, hardy, gorgeous, blooming plant in the spring. Our prayer ministers are like gardeners at CHM. In a prayer session, we do a little bit of pruning. We cut away lies, we prune away bad generational patterns. We look at roots and see if there is anything causing harm to growth. We look at the soil around the person's life. Has it been nourished? We listen, love, pray and bring Jesus to them with the power of the Holy Spirit (better than any Miracle–Gro!!) and before you know it, the winter has turned to spring!

Blessings,
Kathi Smith
Senior Editor

Kathi Smith is the Senior Editor of Healing Line and an active CHM prayer minister.