We hope and pray that this programme ‘God’s Healing Love’ will be of help, and that the peace of God may enfold you. Set out below are some questions which are often asked by those who come to a healing service, we trust that the answers will clarify and re-assure.

How do I receive healing?

With prayer. This may include the laying on of hands, if people so wish, and sometimes within a service of Holy Communion.

Who heals?

Not those who pray for you or who may lay hands on you. They represent the Church and they minister in the name of Jesus Christ. It is God who heals, through the work of the Holy Spirit, and in the power and name of Jesus.

What can be healed?

God's will for us is wholeness, yet because we live in a broken and sinful world we are all sick people in one way or another. Some of us are physically ill; some suffer from depression; some are burdened by guilt; some are stressed and need peace; some come full of bitterness and resentment and need to let go of it; some need the healing of a broken relationship; some seek to know God in a real way; some have a fear about which they need reassurance; some come scarred by their past. For whatever reason you feel the need of God's help, be quite sure that His will for you is wholeness - what loving father ever wanted his children to be less than whole? God is our loving, heavenly Father.

Have I enough faith?

What counts here is not the amount of our faith but the direction of it. It is faith in God and not faith in faith. Jesus said that even faith like a tiny seed is enough, so come with as open an attitude as you possibly can to what God might do in your life.

Are all healed?

If you mean "cured", then the answer is no, they are not. Some folk come with tremendous faith and yet are not cured, others come doubting and are - there is a deep mystery here which is beyond us. What you can be absolutely sure of however is that you will be made more whole. More whole in your relationship with God, more whole in your attitude to others, and more whole in your acceptance of yourself as a person of worth. Let us be quite clear though, that many are also made whole physically, and when that happens we praise God together.

How will I feel?

Some know instantly that they have been healed; others feel a great sense of warmth; others a sense of well being; others (perhaps the majority) nothing at all. We need to remember that we have come in faith to meet God, He is always faithful, He has met with us and heard us however we feel. Remember also that this is a regular monthly service. Keep thanking God for his goodness tomorrow and for the rest of the week, come again to the next service on the first Sunday evening of the month. We look for an on-going wholeness which is an ever deepening experience.

But I'm still muddled!

Then it would be good for us to talk further. Do feel free to contact one of the staff at the Church Office on 020 7654 3809 and ask for Revd Malcolm White.