Susan's Testimony.
"I have been attending the teaching sessions at The Healing Ministry Centre (Golden Grove) in Newtown since 1993. I would have to concur with the friend who said, "It's like sitting at the feet of Jesus" - I guess that's why people of all denominations attend.
The Healing Ministry Centre is a place bathed in God's love; an oasis in the middle of a bustling city. It is a place where transformations happen, and its Monday teaching sessions, given by Canon Jim Holbeck, provide a wonderful start to the week. I never fail to leave more up-lifted than when I arrived.
Salvation means wholeness, and people are certainly enabled to become more "whole” here - in body, mind and spirit. As Margaret Court wrote: "It's not enough to have a light snack of God's Word on a Sunday if we want to live in victory every day of the week. ... It's no time to try to develop our faith when we are in the middle of a time of great testing. That's when we need to use the faith we already have. If we are constantly feeding ourselves faith (God's Word) when we don't need it, we will be able to release it when we do."
From first-hand experience, I can say that to be able to act on God's Word when those times of trial hit, has shown me the importance of trusting Him - taking Him at His Word. We pray, God answers, and He answers in all areas of life, including physical healing - which has not just happened to me personally, but also to family members.
The teaching received at The Healing Ministry Centre in Newtown, combined with Jim's lecture notes, is so thorough that I've found myself not needing to buy so many books. When it comes to understanding the text, if knowing the Greek will bring a fuller understanding to the English, Jim explains the Greek. It's so illuminating. Then there's the way he pulls together the Old Testament with the New which brings an added dimension. There can be no more wonderful thing than to know fully what we have in Jesus and to be able to act on it. Not just simply to believe in God, but to believe God - to take Him at His Word - that what He promises, He delivers, and to be so secure in this.
What have I experienced at the Centre? A sense of being bathed in God's love. The development of a far more intimate relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and the enabling to put God's Word into action in my life. To have the freedom Jesus promised - to have life and have it to the full. That's what's been opened up for me. It's all been God's doing. I'm just a willing participant in an exciting journey; a journey that everyone's invited to come on."
The Healing Ministry Centre is a place bathed in God's love; an oasis in the middle of a bustling city. It is a place where transformations happen, and its Monday teaching sessions, given by Canon Jim Holbeck, provide a wonderful start to the week. I never fail to leave more up-lifted than when I arrived.
Salvation means wholeness, and people are certainly enabled to become more "whole” here - in body, mind and spirit. As Margaret Court wrote: "It's not enough to have a light snack of God's Word on a Sunday if we want to live in victory every day of the week. ... It's no time to try to develop our faith when we are in the middle of a time of great testing. That's when we need to use the faith we already have. If we are constantly feeding ourselves faith (God's Word) when we don't need it, we will be able to release it when we do."
From first-hand experience, I can say that to be able to act on God's Word when those times of trial hit, has shown me the importance of trusting Him - taking Him at His Word. We pray, God answers, and He answers in all areas of life, including physical healing - which has not just happened to me personally, but also to family members.
The teaching received at The Healing Ministry Centre in Newtown, combined with Jim's lecture notes, is so thorough that I've found myself not needing to buy so many books. When it comes to understanding the text, if knowing the Greek will bring a fuller understanding to the English, Jim explains the Greek. It's so illuminating. Then there's the way he pulls together the Old Testament with the New which brings an added dimension. There can be no more wonderful thing than to know fully what we have in Jesus and to be able to act on it. Not just simply to believe in God, but to believe God - to take Him at His Word - that what He promises, He delivers, and to be so secure in this.
What have I experienced at the Centre? A sense of being bathed in God's love. The development of a far more intimate relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and the enabling to put God's Word into action in my life. To have the freedom Jesus promised - to have life and have it to the full. That's what's been opened up for me. It's all been God's doing. I'm just a willing participant in an exciting journey; a journey that everyone's invited to come on."
1 Tim. 4:4-5 Everything God created is good, and to be received with thanks. Nothing is to be sneered at and thrown out. God's Word and our prayers make every item in creation holy. (Message)