Look at most books on healing. They will have a chapter on nonhealing in which all causes are attributed one way or another to person being prayed with.

The problems are fairly common, in sense of occuring quite frequently. Ask yourself: which of following is/are most likely to apply to you? That will put you on road to significantly greater success in your praying for healing.

1.Everything In The Bible Is True But Not All Truth Is In The Bible John said in his gospel that world would not have been large enough to contain an account of all things that Jesus did and said (John 21. 25). How big would Bible have to be to contain all truth?

We are concerned here only with healing. We can learn much about how to pray with others for healing from gospels. But can gospels tell us everything about it? Of course not. So we need to use some commonsense and prayer, in relation to our experience, to fill-in gaps. If we are prepared to be self- critical and learn from our experience, in this activity as in others, we shall see a gradual increase in our success rate.

2. We Imitate Jesus But We Are Not Jesus In our book "The Keys To Praying For Healing" my wife and I discuss this whole reality. Everyone Jesus prayed with was healed. That is atarget for us. It is not arule governing our experience in praying for healing. Notice that even Jesus' near disciples had difficulties in sucuring healing when praying with others (e.g. Mark 9. 14 - 18). Since wew are not Jesus, sometimes we shall fail.

This failure may well be due to our own deficiencies on occasions. A deficiency is not necessarily same thing as a fault. For example, we can have a deficiency because of ignorance. If we are ignorant of something, we cannot take it into account. But in other cases we may be ignorant of something weought to have known about. The we are at fault.

But read Acts and see how Peter learned from his observations of Jesus (e.g. Acts 3. 2 - 8). Compare his approach to Jesus' approach. Can we not do that same? Of course. And from that we shall learn to increase our rate of success in healing ministry.

We often hear people make remarks like "I live my life to full" or "No one tells me what to do" and so forth. Those who make such remarks are either worldly people or people whose attitudes are dominated by world.

Following The World Things are, or should be, very different for Christian. Why? Simply because someone who is imitating Jesus cannot at same time be imitating world. Revelation 12.9 tells us two interesting facts. The first is that, when ancient serpent, or Satan was defeated he was not consigned to hell but was hurled to earth, and his angels with him.

Secondly, we are told that Satan leads whole world astray. Consequently, those who follow world follow Satan. Perhaps not knowingly, nor willingly. But then, Satan cares little about how much people know or whether they would do what they do willingly if they knew differently!

What is alternative? How do we guard ourselves against being misled? How do we avoid being duped by Satan?

Following Jesus = Following The Spirit Every Christian has been given Jesus as his/her model. His is example we follow - in everything!

This is not easy but it is something we have to keep pursuing. Now, in John's gospel Jesus makes a particular principle of his very clear. On several separate occasions he tells us that he never does anything except that it is in Father's will for him (e.g. John 5. 19; 5. 30, 77. 16;8. 29). It is therefore our task to live as nearly as possible in Father's will. It is no more than Jesus has instructed us. How do we do it?

Living Through The Spirit We are given Holy Spirit to be our mentor. A mentor is someone who guides us. He is wise and trusted advisor. Someone we can rely on totally to give us very best direction in whatever circumstance we might find ourselves in, whatever problems and decisions we are faced with.