Sarah Thomas, who is a monthly partner of the ministry, CfaN, has a vision for the homeless community of Tulsa to attend the Reinhard Bonnke Gospel Crusade in Oklahoma City. (For more information on how to become a partner of the ministry please click here). Sarah has chartered a bus and plans to fill that bus to capacity to take 55 homeless people to the crusade. In addition to “The Good News Bus” ride, the attendees will also receive a free meal for the journey there. Sarah is currently in the process of raising funds to make this vision possible. To give toward or get more information about “The Good News Bus,” visit www.gofundme.com/2dqzmqs.

Healing Is a Part of Salvation

The well-known verse in Romans 10:8-10 says that all who believe with their hearts and confess with their mouths that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead shall be saved. It seems fairly easy for us to trust that when we say this prayer and receive Jesus, we have eternal life in Him. And this is for ALL who believe!

What we often have trouble realizing is that the same redemption that saved us also healed us. The Greek word sozo is used interchangeably in the New Testament to speak of salvation and physical healing. Salvation includes healing. It’s part of the “package” Jesus provided for us on the cross!

If we want to know God’s will concerning something, we need to look at Jesus. Jesus healed all who came to Him and never once turned anyone away. He never told a single sick person that it was God’s will that they suffered a little longer. He never made anyone sick “to teach them something.” These are terrible lies that the enemy has sown to keep God’s children in bondage to sickness and doubt.
We also see God’s will for healing in James 5:14. James asks, “Is any sick among you?” The question reveals that there should be no sick people among us. The word sick is the Greek word astheneo and means “to be feeble, be diseased, impotent folk, (be) sick, (be, be made) weak.” James then declares, the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up!

God REALLY wants you well!

Healing Is God’s Will for All

To suggest that it’s not God’s will to heal some makes Jesus’ suffering on the cross of no effect. Yet the Word shows us His sacrifice was tremendously effective! “By His stripes, we were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). Jesus bore all sickness,so we wouldn’t have to—just as He bore all sin for us. The power of sickness is sin, and if sin is defeated, sickness has no legal right in any believer.

The True Nature of God

God does not change. Look at the Word concerning who He is: He is the Lord that heals us (Ex. 15:26), the Lord who sent His Word to heal us (Ps. 107:20), the Lord who forgives all our sins and heals all our diseases(Ps. 103:1-3), the Lord who bore our sicknesses on the cross (Is. 53:4-5), the Lord who healed all who came to Him (Matt. 8:16), the Lord who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38), the Lord who set the church against sickness and commanded us to go and to heal the sick (Matt. 10:8), the Lord who told us that greater works would we do ( John 14:12), the Lord who gives us power to lay hands on the sick and them recover (Mark 16:18), the Lord who confirms His Word with signs following (Mark 16:20), the Lord who healed the sick through the ministries of Peter, Paul and other believers (Acts), the Lord who gives gifts of healings to the church for the church age (1 Cor. 12:9), and the Lord who asks through James if there are any sick among us (James 5:14).

Through the Word, we can clearly see that healing is for all and available to all through faith in God’s abundantly wonderful grace!

(Source: Charis Bible College)

Pastors and Church of God members are being hit with devastating flooding for the second time this year. Over 1,000 people have had to be rescued from their homes, including one of our Church of God pastors who had to be taken by boat after more than three feet of water rose in the parsonage. As of late Saturday, at least two people had lost their lives.

The 2016 NWLC training season kicked off with great success, May 18-19 in Centreville, VA and continued July 27-28 in San Antonio, Texas. The National Worship Leader Conference is ready to partner with Westside Family Church in Lenexa, Kansas, to further champion sung prayer and offer premier leadership training to worship leaders and their teams, designed to transform lives and inspire ministry.

Jonathan Cahn– New York Times best-selling author of the international sensation The Harbinger–is back, this time mixing potent Bible passages and end-time insight in The Book of Mysteries, debuting September 6, 2016.

Rest is a defining and glorious weapon that God has given to His children in order to combat the confusion and distraction of the enemy.

David Blair began his term as the Church of God’s International Youth and Discipleship Director on August 1, 2016, a lifelong journey that began with the release of a dream to be a jet pilot while on a table in a South Georgia emergency room.

This week, the U.S. State Department released the religious freedom portion of its 2015 Annual Report on International Freedom.

Christians can embrace one of two extremes concerning the word “revival.” At one extreme are those who embrace pure emotionalism and hysteria—”if it’s odd it’s God.” At this church, and all weird behavior is excused.