Hope Ministries Australia - Gerald James
 Parramatta for Jesus - Australia for Jesus - The World for Jesus

Sign and Wonders


Signs and wonders shall confirm the preaching of the Word. Yet do we really expect God to heal the sick ?

When people are confronted with a supernatural sovereign act of God they sit up and take notice. The medical profession is under pressure about professional indemnity insurance, which is sending the cost of care to skyrocketing heights. This in turn will bring a new flow of interest in divine healing while much of the unbelief and apathy will come from the church ranks itself.

People are comfortable with a distant God to whom they pray once in a while but who is too distant to be involved with their daily lives. Suddenly when they are confronted with the supernatural they freak out and resort to denial.

Jesus Himself got into strife for healing the sick whether it was because He did it on the Sabbath or because of jealousy as the recipient of the miracle was considered a second-class citizen.

In our time God is using healing as much as a sign to unbelievers as a blessing to the body of Christ.

As a healing ministry we have no control over who gets healed of what. Sometimes someone knows in advance because of a word of knowledge sometimes the Holy Spirit shows up unexpectedly—because God is sovereign in what He does when and how He chooses to do it.

There is no formula for healing. God sees to it that you don’t put Him in a box. Remember He is the God of creation so He does not need to perform the same trick twice. Man treasures the comfort of reliability, predictability and security but God likes to surprise us.

If the medical profession is told that mistakes should never happen otherwise we’d send you broke then God is under no obligation to perform either.

Without faith it is impossible to please God so we know that it is a major necessary ingredient. We also know from Scripture and past testimonies that prayer, fasting, intercession, endurance, spiritual discernment and laying on of hands all play a part.

We are not in the business of documenting every act of God with supporting medical evidence. Some will believe and turn to God as a result others will dig their heels in and display the utmost creativity in refuting the evidence.

Also we have a duty to protect people’s identity so we are only releasing enough information for people to believe—no more, no less. But the greatest miracle of all is not that some are restored in their body in ways that no doctor can explain because we are all destined to die (rapture aside).

No the greatest miracle is that people who once were walking without God to eternal death can be born again, regenerated in their spirit and re-united to God's family through faith in the work of the resurrected Christ dying on the cross the death that they once deserved.