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The Healing Breakthrough: Creating an Atmosphere of Faith for Healing
How to Create an Atmosphere for More Effective Healing Ministry
Foremost healing expert and bestselling author Randy Clark unwraps the hard questions that baffle most Christians about healing prayer. Speaking from Scripture as well as from personal experience, in which the healing power of Jesus has become normative, Clark helps readers learn to:
- walk in an atmosphere of effective healing ministry
- navigate the balance between faith and expectation
- pray with confidence
- expect results every time
Grasping these easy-to-understand principles from a biblical foundation will increase the likelihood of healing when you pray. Let the power of God work through you, your prayer group, or your church for the healing breakthrough promised to every believer.
Foremost healing expert and bestselling author Randy Clark unwraps the hard questions that baffle most Christians about healing prayer. Speaking from Scripture as well as from personal experience, in which the healing power of Jesus has become normative, Clark helps readers learn to:
- walk in an atmosphere of effective healing ministry
- navigate the balance between faith and expectation
- pray with confidence
- expect results every time
Grasping these easy-to-understand principles from a biblical foundation will increase the likelihood of healing when you pray. Let the power of God work through you, your prayer group, or your church for the healing breakthrough promised to every believer.
224 pages, Paperback
Published May 3, 2016
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June 13, 2022
Clear, Readable, Informative, Biblical, and Practical
This is one of the best guides to what healing ministry is all about. Clark covers a plethora of biblical, theological, and practical aspects of healing: objections, testimonies, questions, various schools of thought, and the mystery of some being healed and others not. Clark writes well and both those with theological degrees (like myself) and those relatively new to Christianity should be able to get something out of this book. I especially appreciate his irenic tone and his stalwart rejection of the dreadful notion that God wills suffering. I can’t think of a better introduction to healing ministry than this. Equal to, yes, but not better.
This is one of the best guides to what healing ministry is all about. Clark covers a plethora of biblical, theological, and practical aspects of healing: objections, testimonies, questions, various schools of thought, and the mystery of some being healed and others not. Clark writes well and both those with theological degrees (like myself) and those relatively new to Christianity should be able to get something out of this book. I especially appreciate his irenic tone and his stalwart rejection of the dreadful notion that God wills suffering. I can’t think of a better introduction to healing ministry than this. Equal to, yes, but not better.
July 9, 2023
I received this book from a friend who wanted to know my thoughts on it. I am open to the gifts, and this book is about practicing the gifts, specifically that of healing. There were some helpful things in the book, but for the most part I found myself disagreeing with a few statements and sometimes even saying out loud “where did that come from?”. I won’t go into details on what all my disagreements were, but many of them were theological. But as I said, there were a few good nuggets here and there. I was glad to see him play down “hype” in his healing services. I find emotionalism is a big problem with continuationists, so I was glad to see him write against that.
December 10, 2018
A Wealth of Knowledge
Really great book for those seeking supernatural healing or healing ministry. I had a supernatural encounter with the Holy Spirit and none of the many pastors at my large church could help me understand it, none could teach me more about it so a friend referred Randy Clark and this book was a great introduction with applicable daily steps to grow in this ministry. I'll be reading all of his books!
Really great book for those seeking supernatural healing or healing ministry. I had a supernatural encounter with the Holy Spirit and none of the many pastors at my large church could help me understand it, none could teach me more about it so a friend referred Randy Clark and this book was a great introduction with applicable daily steps to grow in this ministry. I'll be reading all of his books!
September 8, 2022
This is the first Randy Clark book I've read, and it's the best book I've read on the subject of physical healing. He has settled into his own style, which is researched based instead of overhype or under-testifying. So I'm going to read several of his books now, as he's worth considering as a mentor on this subject.
March 23, 2018
An excellent book to navigate the Subject of Healing.
I have read many books on the subject of Supernatural Healing, this is by far the most helpful for someone wanting a deeper Relationship with the true healer. Jesus!!!
I have read many books on the subject of Supernatural Healing, this is by far the most helpful for someone wanting a deeper Relationship with the true healer. Jesus!!!
April 29, 2018
Very well written with examples and practical applications. Definitely faith building. I suspect that cessationalists could be swayed if they’d read this. It was a bit more scholarly and detailed than I needed... but very good.
July 28, 2017
This book was such a life-changer for my Christian life. Every Christian should read this book so that they can truly begin to understand their partaking in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and use spiritual gifts.
May 22, 2023
Has made me think hard about what I thought I understood and what is right and true. I have a lot more to think about.
July 5, 2016
Creating an Atmosphere of Faith for Healing—
this is a how-to book to do just that.
I love Randy Clark’s writing style. He has an openness and authenticity that are not always found in books of this type. I especially appreciate his openness to talk about portions of his life before he became famous for healing miracles and was struggling to come to real faith for healing.
Mr. Clark addresses several common objections to healing with short but concise chapters on each issue, such as, Paul’s thorn in the flesh, whether faith is or is not dependent on signs and wonders, hype, emotionalism, and cessationism.
He includes a good discussion on what real faith for healing really is, including a lengthy citation from Charles Price that was very helpful.
This book also has lots of tips and techniques, that is, the how-to create an atmosphere of healing. He included things that do and do not help to raise people’s faith for healing and thereby increase the number of healings seen.
Before each main section of the book, the author summarizes what he’s about to tell us, similar to what good speakers do. He also summarizes what he just told us at the end. This was very helpful.
I enjoyed reading about the healing stories from his own ministry and others’ ministries as well. These will help increase the readers’ faith for healing.
If you want to know the truth about healing today, want to know how to increase faith for healing or want to know how to pray for healing for others in a ministry setting, then this book is for you. If you are mainly interested in how to do street or public ministry to unbelievers, this book is not focused on that, and although some points are transferable, most are not.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Chosen Publishers as part of their blogging for books program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commision’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
this is a how-to book to do just that.
I love Randy Clark’s writing style. He has an openness and authenticity that are not always found in books of this type. I especially appreciate his openness to talk about portions of his life before he became famous for healing miracles and was struggling to come to real faith for healing.
Mr. Clark addresses several common objections to healing with short but concise chapters on each issue, such as, Paul’s thorn in the flesh, whether faith is or is not dependent on signs and wonders, hype, emotionalism, and cessationism.
He includes a good discussion on what real faith for healing really is, including a lengthy citation from Charles Price that was very helpful.
This book also has lots of tips and techniques, that is, the how-to create an atmosphere of healing. He included things that do and do not help to raise people’s faith for healing and thereby increase the number of healings seen.
Before each main section of the book, the author summarizes what he’s about to tell us, similar to what good speakers do. He also summarizes what he just told us at the end. This was very helpful.
I enjoyed reading about the healing stories from his own ministry and others’ ministries as well. These will help increase the readers’ faith for healing.
If you want to know the truth about healing today, want to know how to increase faith for healing or want to know how to pray for healing for others in a ministry setting, then this book is for you. If you are mainly interested in how to do street or public ministry to unbelievers, this book is not focused on that, and although some points are transferable, most are not.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Chosen Publishers as part of their blogging for books program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commision’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
July 11, 2016
I was horrified when Clark described his allegorical handling of a bible passage as "typological" (p29). In fact, I was so incensed that I put the book down and only managed to force myself, a week later, to finish reading it so I could write the review and get rid of it.
I was amused to find that Clark too was not in favour of hype (Chapters 4 & 5). I had assumed that "these hyper-Charismatic types" would be cozying up with the over dramatisation of hype as readily as with the violence to Scripture.
When I picked the book up the second time, I was extremely cautious of what I would read and had expected to give the book a 1 or 2 star rating. Clark's sincere sharing of his journey with healing did not "weird me out." Rather, I found that I was often reflecting upon and reconsidering my own Theological position on healing (that prayer would be for a desire more for God than the healing; that a heavenly grace be granted in the pain and suffering rather the removal of the latter). I was surprised and rather pleased by the substantial discussion about unanswered prayer (Chapter 21), which I presumed would often be a taboo topic in healing circles.
This skeptic found that he was thoroughly blessed by and was sincerely surprised to have enjoyed the read. If Clark or the publishers correct the wrong use of "typological," I'd be happy to revise my rating to 5 stars. Nevertheless, I would recommend it to all Christians, to the reformed and the charismatic, to the liberal and the conservative. Ministers and Pastors should find the book especially helpful.
I received this book from Baker Publishing Group's Chosen Divison Blogger Review Program for the purposes of providing an unbiased review. All views are my own.
I was amused to find that Clark too was not in favour of hype (Chapters 4 & 5). I had assumed that "these hyper-Charismatic types" would be cozying up with the over dramatisation of hype as readily as with the violence to Scripture.
When I picked the book up the second time, I was extremely cautious of what I would read and had expected to give the book a 1 or 2 star rating. Clark's sincere sharing of his journey with healing did not "weird me out." Rather, I found that I was often reflecting upon and reconsidering my own Theological position on healing (that prayer would be for a desire more for God than the healing; that a heavenly grace be granted in the pain and suffering rather the removal of the latter). I was surprised and rather pleased by the substantial discussion about unanswered prayer (Chapter 21), which I presumed would often be a taboo topic in healing circles.
This skeptic found that he was thoroughly blessed by and was sincerely surprised to have enjoyed the read. If Clark or the publishers correct the wrong use of "typological," I'd be happy to revise my rating to 5 stars. Nevertheless, I would recommend it to all Christians, to the reformed and the charismatic, to the liberal and the conservative. Ministers and Pastors should find the book especially helpful.
I received this book from Baker Publishing Group's Chosen Divison Blogger Review Program for the purposes of providing an unbiased review. All views are my own.
November 9, 2016
This is by far the best book on healing that I have ever read. Highly recommend.
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May 4, 2017I am not an avid reader but this book has stirred a desire to soak deeper into the knowledge of the Father's heart to heal and bring breakthrough to His children.
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