Healing: Does God through Jesus heal today? St. John’s in Aptos CA

Come on now!  Does God through Jesus  and the Holy Spirit actually heal?

Can someone – Jesus –  help your  aching back?   Do people actually  get healed today — like the healing that happened to Saul  healed of blindness  by a lay person?

Does the laying on of hands with Christian pray help?  Find out ….

What’s this Holy Spirit stuff?

Fourth in a series of weekly  discussions ….

Michael DeArmond addresses those attending the six week  series  ‘Who do you say I am?’ held 2/1/2017 at St. John the Baptist in Aptos, CA.

Michael  tells  some of his spiritual journey.  And, he describes remarkable, immediate  physical healings which  he has witnessed. On himself  — through prayer and the  laying on of hands — and  the healing of  another.

Next meeting  is Wed. Feb. 8 from 7 PM- 8:30 PM.    A 15 minute Personal Story is  followed by time for individual reflection on portions of the Gospel of John. Groups of five at a table  share their thoughts.

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Joanne Peterson shares her story next week.

The Feb. 2 meeting started with readings from the Gospel of John including:  

John 3:1-21New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. ^2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

^3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.^[a]”

^4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their motherâ€s womb to be born!”

^5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. ^6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit^[b] gives birth to spirit. ^7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You^[c] must be born again.†^8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”^[d]

^9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

^10 “You are Israelâ€s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? ^11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. ^12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ^13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.^{[e] 14Â} Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^{[f] 15Â} that everyone who believesmay have eternal life in him.”^[g]

^16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ^17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ^18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned,but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of Godâ€s one and only Son. ^19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ^20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. ^21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”