Essay: Healing and Deliverance Sessions

Sample Essay

Generally, in Evangelist Kanco’s ‘healing and deliverance’ sessions, the prayers for healing that follow diagnosis may be accompanied by some form of touch such as the laying on of hands and/or anointing with oil. In Pentecostalism sickness may be perceived as the result of some personal sins, curses, or as arising from natural causes.

The belief that God has granted the church the power to engage in a ministry of healing as part of its mission, is inspired by precedents in the ministry of Jesus and such Bible passages as James 5:14-16 where elders of the church are enjoined to pray for the sick, and to anoint them with oil for restoration and forgiveness of sin. Some exponents of the ‘healing and deliverance’ phenomenon, on the basis of the James and other passages, generally hold a somewhat uncompromising causal relationship between sin, the work of demons and sickness. The idea is that those who live in sin create a ‘foothold’ for the devil to enter their lives through the activities of principalities and powers (Ephesians 4:27 as seen in Basham, 1991)

In practice, however, irresponsible believers are also taught not to glibly blame the devil for problems, including sicknesses and other afflictions arising out of personal disobedience to God’s word.

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