In I Corinthians 12 Paul shows us how the church is to experience spiritual gifts. The burden of this article is to live into to the richness of operations and administrations of the Spirit in getting people healed. Watch Jesus. In the Gospels, he never healed anyone the same way. Not once! Those of us who feel stuck in our patterns of ministry, seeing little power, can learn a great deal by observing Jesus as He obeyed the Holy Spirit who was administrating the gift of healing, and the other attending charisms. Methods, like Theophostics and others, are excellent ways to springboard into the free flow of divine giftings. The Holy Spirit wants to teach us how to flow with Him. Paul said, "There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. There are varieties of operations but it is the same God who works all in all." (Verses 5 and 6) And remember, they are ALL to work in ALL! So many times we try to box God in or make God do things our way, and we fail in prayer to achieve results. God has a much better way.

In the Order of St. Luke, to become an Associate Member one must study the healings Jesus performs in the Bible. From the start we are encouraged to do it the way Jesus did. "Go and do likewise" Jesus was under the administration of the Holy Spirit. We experience the gifts the same way Jesus did. Isn't that wonderful? The word for administrations is energeia in Greek and it means to energize. In other words, the Holy Spirit brings the energy or power that causes the gift to manifest. This energy or power can manifest the Mind of God in prophesy or a Word of Knowledge while we are praying for people. Jesus always listened to the Holy Spirit. When this power is present the healing is obtained and it stays; it is not a psychical energy where people are worked up emotionally or with some New Age hype with no real or lasting results to prayer. Look at Jesus. In one case he spoke to a fever, in another he forgave a person's sin and obliterated guilt, in another he sends the Word and heals a person, in yet another instance He commands a demon out. Look at Peter.

One time he takes a lame man by the hand and pulls him up, another time he just walks by and his shadow is used by God to heal many.

She feared for his life. We sat her down on a stool in the front of the sanctuary and began to pray for her nephew. All of a sudden my hands began to burn red hot (not just warmly), and I looked up to see what was happening! I literally could not see John Mark for the golden light that flooded the sanctuary area. I said: "Do you see what I see?" Each of us saw the same thing, and I remember saying, "Ask what you will, but be careful what you ask." I mean to tell you, this was a very holy moment. In our circle of prayer the man standing next to me came in with kidney stones that night, and he was in severe pain. He asked to be healed and was instantly cured. His wife, who could not reach her son who had the flu, asked that he be healed. Later she called and his broken phone worked (she had tried all afternoon to call him and could not get through) and she found out that about the time we prayed he sat up in the bed and got up to watch TV and fix something to eat. Each thing we asked for (and one we did not even ask for) was immediately answered, each situation totally resolved. Praise God! Often, when I think of what happened that night, I have to believe we had an unmistakable FORETASTE of what it means to SWIM in the River of God.

In the last issue the statement was made that THERE IS COMING SOON, AN EXPERIENCE OF GOD'S PRESENCE THAT IS REFERRED TO IN THE SCRIPTURE AS SWIMMING IN A RIVER THAT COMES FROM THE THRONE OF GOD. In our meetings over the past several months the Presence of God has been so strong! In Beaumont a man with Parkinson's Disease was healed. He no longer walks with his cane, and the tremors are gone! In Pueblo, Colorado a precious young girl who had gone deaf in one ear and was losing her hearing rapidly in the other ear, woke up after prayer on Friday night to find that Jesus had healed her hearing! God is so Mighty, so Awesome! The same Jesus who manifested His Glory, whom John said we held Him, we touched Him, this same Jesus is in our midst. He has us waist deep right now in His Healing River. No more shallow waters. The waist is the place of reproduction and of giving birth. God is bring people to Christ in a very real way, some for the first time, some for the second or third or fourth time with very real breakthrough experiences out of bondage and into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of Light! WE MUST BE THANKFUL WITH ALL OUR HEARTS! Jack

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2008

August 22-23
Alpine, Texas
OSL Conference
Contact Thelma Hoyle for information
1-432-837-2088

September 5-6
Plainview, TX
Harvest Christian Fellowship
contact: Alecha Sheppard
alecha@harvest
christianfellowship.org

September 21-24
Shrinemont
Orkney Springs, VA
contact: John Harler 
jharler@verizon.net

October 3-4
St Alban's Church
3001 Wisconsin Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20016
contact: Jim Cantwell
jcantwell@cox.net

October 17-19
La Porte, TX
St. John's Episcopal Church
Contact: Sandi Harris
281-471-0383
sandi@stjohn-laporte.org

October 24-25
Christ Healing Center
135 W. Olmos,
San Antonio, TX
Contact: Hope 210-930-7760
Region V- OSL Healing Conference
Please register!! Space is limited
Speakers: Norma Dearing, Healing Touch Ministries and
William Standish Reed, MD

November 14-16
Del Rio, TX
St. James Episcopal Church
OSL Healing Conference
Contact:  Diane Pattison
830-774-5286
t6airplane@yahoo.com

2009

January 10-11
Houston. TX
Healing Mission
Mission Bend United Methodist Church

February 2-7
Cruise Your Blues Away!
A women’s healing retreat at sea. (spouses are welcomed)
Anna Marie Leading &
Angela Nelson of The 4th Voice providing
Praise and Worship!
Click here for registration form    

February 20-22
Lake Havasu, AZ
OSL Healing Mission
Contact: Jim Wright
928-453-8404 (h)
jimgloriawright@aol.com

March 6-8
Hudson, FL
OSL Healing Mission
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church
The Church is north of Tampa, about 40 miles and is located on the coast just
north of Tarpon Springs, Fl.
The church office phone #:  (727) 863-8560. 
Fax #: (727) 862-9275. 
Email address:  stmartins123@aol.com  
www.stmartinshudsonfl.org. 
Our Order of St. Luke Chaplain: Fr. Fred Scharf
fred.scharf@verizon.net

March 13-14
San Antonio, TX
Christ Healing Center
OSL Mission
WE host: Speakers: Don Jaeger and The Rev. Nigel Mumford
Come hear Don’s awesome testimony of  healing from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Please register!! Space is limited!
Call: Hope 210-930-7760

April 24-25
Philadelphia area
Healing Conference
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church