Healing Prayer: On Holy Ground by Mark W. Sheehan, M.D. (Creation House)

A simple prayer can be an act of physical, spiritual, and emotional healing for everyone involved.  This book conveys a message of hope in the presence of a loving God who longs to hear from us.  You will be encouraged as you read true stories of visions and visitations from God.

Power Through Prayer by E.M. Bounds (Bottom of the Hill Publishing)

The church today needs people whom the Holy Spirit can use--people of prayer, people mighty in prayer. E. M. Bounds shows how effective prayers will transform you into a dynamic Christian with deeper understanding of the Word. You will be challenged to live in victory through the joys and rewards of petitioning the Father.

Healing by Francis MacNutt (Ave Maria Press)

A very sensitive and pastorally wise book on the ministry of healing. It combines extensive practical experience, psychological insight, deep faith in God’s healing power, and compassion. This  is a classic on healing prayer. Francis has a PhD from Harvard and has viewed prayer and healing from a scholarly perspective. He and his wife, Judith, have founded a training center for healing prayer ministry in Jacksonville, Florida.  Website is

http://wwwlchristianhealingmin.org

Power Healing  by John Wimber (Harper Collins)

A major work on Divine healing, a classic. Provides practical models for the healing ministry. It explores healing in the Old Testament, offers an overview of healing by Jesus and His disciples, and discusses healing that occurs in hospitals. “Clear, detailed, and hands on analysis, is essential reading for anyone interested in Christian healing today”. Also provides models for starting a healing ministry in your church.

Christian Healing, A Practical and Comprehensive Guide  by Mark Pearson (Chosen)

Addresses many of the important questions raised today about healing, including why some people are not healed. He explains why we should expect healing today and offers direction on how to go about praying for healing. He presents a balanced overview of how God works in a variety of ways to accomplish healing.

Handbook on Healing  by Colin Urquhart (Nelson)

Provides Scriptural understanding and practical models for applying the Gospel message of spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical healing. Excellent for anyone just beginning in healing ministry. It is indeed a handbook for those who want to pray for others.

The Healing Light   by Agnes Sanford (Ballantine Books)

A classic book for healing ministry. Filled with practical advice and offers many illustrations of people whose lives were transformed by the healing power of God. “It is a faith builder of the first order. One reads it and gradually knows that God will answer prayers for healing.”

Christ Healing  by Howard Cobb (Macalester Park)

“The healing of body and mind by the grace of God in accordance with the teaching of the Holy Scripture is just as real as in the days of our Lord’s ministry on earth.” This is a fair minded, convincing, and courageous book based on Scripture and sound reasoning. A wonderful and inspiring text!

Restoring the Christian Soul  by Leanne Payne (Crossway Books

Discusses three great barriers keeping us from being whole persons-the inability to receive God’s forgiveness, the inability to forgive others, and the inability to accept ourselves. The author shows us how to overcome these obstacles so that we can become all that God intended us to be. This book is about the healing of our emotions.

Chasing the Dragon  by Jackie Pullinger (Hodder & Stoughton)

Wonderful book about God’s healing power among the lost and drug addicted gang members in the Walled City of Hong Kong. An inspirational and awe-inspiring story of how God can use one person open to Him to heal many! The author  continues her ministry today in Hong Kong.

Surprised by the Power of the Spirit  by Jack Deere

Written by a former professor of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary who now works fulltime in healing ministry. A memoir of his personal journey with God to test and see that healing through prayer was real. Provides a very logical and scholarly approach to the topic, and the issue of the Holy Spirit.

Healing: Stories of Faith, Hope, and Love  by Jan Alkire (Paulist Press)

This book offers readers hope and shows them how to participate actively in their own healing: physical, spiritual, and relational.  At the end of each chapter, a practical section is designed to lead the user into healing experiences where God can meet them in their need.

Healing as a Parish Ministry  Leo Thomas, O.P. and Jan Alkire (Byron Books)

Rooted in the church’s scriptural/sacramental tradition, this book emphasizes the primary goal of healing ministry: bringing God to those in need.  It expands on the how-to’s of prayer ministry that are introduced in Healing Ministry: A Practical Guide, including how to deal with demoralization, the obstacle to well-being that ministers encounter in wounded people. The book also describes eight pitfalls that healing ministers are apt to encounter in the ministry.

Healing ministry: A Practical Guide  Leo Thomas, O.P. with Jan Alkire (Sheed and Ward)

Today thousands of lay and ordained people seek ways to bring the healing power of Christ back to the people they serve.  This book grows out of Fr. Thomas’ experience of more than thirty years of training both clergy and laity—Catholic and Protestant—to do pastoral ministry.  Healing Ministry will be useful to clergy and laity who are interested in learning how to make healing ministry a part of an overall ministry of pastoral care.

Overcome by the spirit  Francis MacNutt (Fleming H. Revell Co.)

MacNutt uses “overcome by the Spirit” rather than the more common “resting in the Spirit” or “slain by the Spirit.”  With his customary personal and readable style, MacNutt offers helpful answers and advice regarding the many questions this ministry poses.  He give both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on this phenomenon.

Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve Lewis B. Smedes (Harper San Francisco)

A great book.  Smedes, a theology and ethics professor, goes through four stages of forgiveness, shows how to forgive those who are hard to forgive and ends by giving excellent answers to a question that many people fail to address: why forgive?