Healing a Lifestyle: Seizing God's Healing

By Christine Beumier

Do you want your faith to be strengthened? Would you be in favor of tips that will make you into the truth of divine healing? If so, here is the right script. Throughout your reading, you will discover how much we are in favor of the covenant of Yahve Raphe. The study of the biblical narratives of Jesuss healing ministry are accompanied by contemporary reports that show how Jesus acts even today. What God wants for us is to be ready to receive His healing and, hence, to show His love to those who need it so that they also can be healed. Good reading and good practice.

Pierre Beumier

Much ink has flowed on the subject of healing. This book, however, stands out for its simplicity, clarity of themes, and spirit of synthesis. It is based on the word of God; that is its strength.

This book is for both scholars as well as young people in search of light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781512726657

Christine Beumier

Christine Beumier is married and a mother of four children who all serve the lord. With her husband, she has been pastouring for twenty years. Now they are preaching the good news of the kingdom of God all over the world and, through healing institutes, they teach children of God how to pray for the sick and see God’s powerful healing. Christine has also written other books, such as Praising a Life Style and The Hill of Change—a Study of the Beatitudes.

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Copyright © 2016 Christine Beumier.

Translated from French by Katie Piette & Joanna Piette

Printed in French with the title

‘La guérison un style de vie’

ISBN 2-9600114-8-1

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Index

Chapter I Testimony: God Heals Today

Chapter II God Wants to Heal

Chapter III Jesus Fully Demonstrates the Father’s Will

Chapter IV Acts of Faith

Chapter V Confessing Our Faith

Chapter VI Unity in Faith

Chapter VII Healing through a Third Person

Chapter VIII Faith Is Contagious

Chapter IX Pray Until You Are Totally Healed

Chapter X Faith Versus Religion

Chapter XI When Glory Transcends Faith

Chapter XII Beware of False Gods !

Chapter XIII Giving and Receiving Healing

Appendix 1 Concerning the Reporting of a Miracle

Appendix 2 Jesus’ Miracles of Healing Told in the Bible

CHAPTER I

Testimony: God Heals Today

The Lord Jesus came into my life many years ago.

I have seen Him transform my life in many ways, and I have seen Him heal a lot of sick people and deliver people tormented by evil spirits. I realized however that I had more faith when it came to praying for others than for myself, especially for physical healing. It is maybe due to my mathematical training, which enforces the Cartesian¹ way of thinking, already very much present in our western French-speaking world, to quite a high degree. I need to understand, explain the why and the how.

But I have learnt that with God, this is the order to be followed:

1. First, believe in His Word and put it into practice.

2. Only then do you see the fulfilment of His promises and the explanations.

I have often prayed that this rational mentality would not hinder God’s work because my desire is to see His Glory shown, as much in our countries as in Africa or among peoples with a less complicated frame of mind, or even a less twisted one.

The Bible says God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices. (Ecclesiastes 7:29)

Healed of hepatitis

This is how God, by His grace, allowed me to experience His divine healing in my own body.

It happened in 1994, we had just moved with our four children to the region of Mons (Belgium) where God had called my husband and I to a pioneering ministry in church planting.

I had been feeling quite tired for some time, but I couldn’t stop; there were so many things to be done, what with the family, the house and the ministry.

One afternoon, we were out shopping at a supermarket when I just stopped dead, literally exhausted. My husband came up to me and saw that my face had gone quite yellow. We straightaway went to the doctor, a very nice lady, who gave me a blood test. It showed that I had hepatitis A. Everyone else in the family had to undergo a check-up with a blood test, but, praise the Lord, the results were all negative.

I was extremely tired, to the point were the least effort sent me straight back to bed. I was unable to clean around or do any housework at all. Even just the smell of food was unbearable.

Throughout this first phase of the illness, I thank God for His provision in sending us sisters from the church to look after the housework, while others were preparing meals for our family.

Many people were praying for my healing, not just in our local church, but all over Belgium and the North of France as well. In fact, we were in the middle of preparing a training day for Christian musicians and I was in charge of most of the administrative work and the welcoming. I for one, knew that God was Almighty and could heal me, but I didn’t want to refuse this enforced time of rest and as I wasn’t really involved, at least not in the beginning, in praying on my own behalf, the training day took place without me.

I built my faith through the trial

It wasn’t long before I began to be bored with staying in bed and I actually started to long to be healed. That is when I realized that my faith needed to be built up.

A servant of God was coming that next Sunday and I intended asking for a laying of hands on me, but I knew that if I didn’t come forward fully in faith, then nothing would happen For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.(Hebrews 11:6b)

As faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ (Romans 10: 17), I decided to nourish my faith by reading the Word of God. A book guided me to all the passages that speak of God’s healing, in the Old Testament as in the New Testament. I re-read the Gospels and all the healings Jesus had performed and the things I discovered not only convinced my intelligence, but also my heart, of a profound truth: Not only was God able to heal me, but He wanted to heal me.

When the truth becomes Rhema

The truth became Rhema, i.e. the revealed Word, in my heart and when I woke up on Sunday morning, I knew deep down that I was healed.

When I came down to the kitchen that morning, I announced to my husband: Honey, I’m healed. My husband is a man of faith. Knowing how hard it had been for me to smell coffee or see chocolate, he answered: Great, I’ll make you some breakfast! And he poured me a big mug of coffee and made two chocolate-spread sandwiches (he likes to say just exactly how much chocolate-spread he put on them). I swallowed my breakfast without a murmur. I was well and truly healed and was able to testify at that morning’s meeting.

Definitive healing

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