We believe God is sovereign over his entire creation and that individual healing occurs in accordance with his perfect plan [Job 42:2, Ps. 139:16b, Jer. 29:11, Rev. 19:16]. Because of our necessarily limited understanding of his purposes, healing does not always occur when we would like it to happen or in the way we think it should happen [Is. 55:8-9]. Nevertheless, we are admonished by our Lord to ask for what we need and to believe that our Father’s desire is to bless us with every good and perfect gift [Mt. 7:7-11, Jas. 1:17].

We believe that the spiritual gift of healing and associated gifts of miracles, prophecy, words of knowledge, words of wisdom, etc., are not only in evidence today as they were in the early Church, but are intended by God to be used and not neglected [ 1 Tim. 4:14, 2 Tim. 1:6, Heb. 13:8]. We have a responsibility to pray for one another and to believe that God can and will intervene to accomplish miraculous acts of kindness and mercy according to his pleasure [Ex. 33:19, Eph. 6:18, 1 Pet. 1:22].

We believe that Satan and his demonic forces are real [Dan.10: 12-14, Eph.6:12-18, 1 Pet. 5:8-9] and that deliverance from demonic oppression is one of the ingredients in the healing process. We do not fear Satan or his forces, but rather believe that Christ was victorious over them at the cross [2 Tim. 1:7, 1Co. 15:57, 1 John 4:18; 5:4]. We believe that authority and power has been given to Christians to conquer these influences and that prayer is an integral part of realizing victory in our lives [Lk. 10:19, Jas. 4:7, 1 John 4:4].

We believe that the healing ministry of Jesus and his disciples provides the model for us to follow, and we seek direction and encouragement from God’s Word to guide us as we pray for healing [Ps. 119:105, Prov. 3:5-6, Jas. 5:14]. We believe that God’s healing miracles are a result of his grace and not because of our works [Ex. 33:19, Eph. 2:8-10]. Therefore, we do not have man-made rituals or recipes to follow as we pray. We believe that healing is accomplished by the power of the Holy Spirit and not by how well we follow a particular procedure [Zec. 4:6]. At the same time, we believe that all things should be done in an orderly fashion in obedience to God’s will [1Co. 14:32-3,40], and thus we do have common elements in our meetings: worship and praise offerings, thanksgiving, expressions of dependence on God, willingness to be content with whatever He does or does not do, rejoicing over His miracles, etc. [Lk. 5:26; 19:37-40, 1Co. 14:26, Php. 4:4,6,12, 1 Thes. 5:18, Heb. 13:15]

We believe that all the glory belongs to God for his divine healing of our infirmities and that the focus of our gratitude should never be on individuals who are merely His instruments of grace [Rom. 11:36, Gal. 6:3-4]. We do not believe that any one healing team in our ministry is more “powerful” or more “gifted” than another [1Co. 12:21-26, 2Co. 10:12] . Instead, we believe that all the teams function as members of the Body of Christ to serve one another in a variety of ways and with specialties of emphasis, but with the recognition that God can and will move through any group He chooses to accomplish any miracle He desires [1Co. 12:14-20].