I've always had a knee-jerk repulsiveness to the idea of a 'healing school.' Isn't healing God's business? How can you train somebody to do miracles when God is the one who is actually doing the miracles?

But what was Jesus doing for 3 1/2 years? Was he only teaching his disciples doctrine? Wasn't he also training them in the practical how-to's? Wasn't that 3 1/2 year period one very long healing revival?

Entire cities would come out to be healed by Jesus. And while the term 'cities' back then referred to maybe at most a few hundred people living close by each other for protection, wouldn't there have been long healing lines? Wouldn't it have taken several hours to pray over every person? To rebuke every devil? To answer the follow up questions? To give instruction? To meet other needs?

Do this: take a few of the healing miracles that are recorded in Scripture and multiply them by 50, and that was just a typical day for Jesus. He and his disciples lived at a healing revival 24/7!

I am not suggesting that we will see the 100% healing rate that Jesus had, but wouldn't we have more successes if we learned to do it God's way?

I can't remember where Jesus ever laid hands on someone and then prayed for their healing. Didn't he address the disease or demon with authority and command it to leave? Isn't that Peter's pattern also? And Paul's? Why then do we ignore the biblical example?

God moves when we exercise faith. Which shows more faith: to loudly address a person in public and call out their disease, or to quietly put a hand on someone's shoulder and whisper a prayer for them that ends with "...whatever you want, Lord; your will be done"?

Just this one example shows that we have not LEARNED to deal with sickness and demon possession as the Lord Jesus wants us to.

So . . . healing school? Yeah, I think it's not such a bad idea. As a matter of fact, I think it's one of the missing ingredients in today's churches. We have learned about God, we have the form of godliness, but we lack the power thereof.

Maybe because we were never trained?



p.s. Didn't Elijah have a school for prophets in the Old Testament? I know, I know, that was more of a Bible college. Or was it? Maybe it wasn't just a place to memorize doctrines, dates, and facts ad nauseum; maybe it was actually what the Bible says it was! A school for people, like Elijah, who had the gift of prophesy.

Think about it.