SIX-STEP HEALING PRAYER

(Condensed from "Biblical Healing, Christian and Scientific")



"The prayerful steps outlined in the links found on this page are intended to provide you with a systematic means of demonstrating your innate spirituality, your power and authority as the image and likeness of God, and your inherent exemption from sin, sickness, and death.

"They are also intended to encourage and to facilitate your ongoing practice of spiritual healing through prayer. We define spiritual healing as the process whereby truth is made to outweigh error in your thinking, and which results in that enlightened state of mind which Paul describes in his letter to the Romans as "spiritually minded." This enlightened state of thought is less susceptible to the subtle and deceptive arguments of error, and much more awake to the spiritual facts of being -- to the Kingdom of God, which Luke defines as "within you."

"Outlined below are six important steps for you to consider as you pray. A more detailed example of how these steps might be incorporated into your prayer for the purpose of healing can be read by clicking on each of the numbered links. Please note that neither the outline, nor the example that follows, can ever be used as a formula for healing. The steps are designed to aid you in making your prayerful healing work more thorough and effective. The inspiration must always be fresh, and it must always be your own."




Step 1. Establish Biblical Authority For The Truth
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." (II Tim. 3:16)


Step 2. Establish A Biblical Definition Of God
In your prayer, give earnest consideration to as many of the divine characteristics as you can think of: all-powerful, ever-present, infinite, all-knowing, all-inclusive, etc. For even greater insight and clarity, combine these with the Biblical terms for God, i.e. Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love. This brings the spiritual concept of God that the Bible reveals into clearer focus in your thought.


Step 3. Establish A Biblical Definition Of Man
We pray each day to establish the genuine spiritual idea of man firmly in our thought, then we are not so easily deceived or misled by the sinning mortal counterfeit that material sense seems to see everywhere.


Step 4. Expose And Denounce The Carnal Mind
If mankind had once understood that the earth was round, no amount of outward evidence to the contrary could ever have convinced him that it was flat. We can only be deceived by what is false if we accept it as true.


Step 5. Reaffirm Biblical Definitions
In Step Four we focused our attention on error and its method of operation. To reaffirm our understanding of its nothingness, and God's Allness, we need to lift thought once again to the conscious acknowledgement of truth.


Step 6. Know Truth's Healing Cannot Be Concealed.
In conclusion, it is important to seal our conscious daily recognition and acknowledgement of truth with a solid affirmation of its enduring value and ongoing healing effect.



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