Healing isn’t always as simple as treating or praying for a symptom. Sometimes, Jesus is restoring something deeper. We need to understand that people aren’t made up of disconnected and unrelated parts. We were created by God to be amazingly integrated beings. As we will discover today, God’s design was fractured by sin and that is what makes His plan for salvation, restoration, and wholeness so vital. It also means before we can understand healing, we first have to understand what Jesus actually accomplished on the cross. What did He come to restore?

God wants His people to participate with Him in bringing wholeness to the world. Through studying scripture, telling testimonies, and pulling from his decades of experience, Happy shares his tips and wisdom on the topic of healing.

Have you ever prayed for something, and it didn't happen? Maybe a breakthrough, and you’re still waiting? Maybe you obeyed God, did what He asked you to do, and still ended up disappointed? What do you do in the waiting, when life doesn't unfold the way you hoped?

Jon shares a special Father's Day message about healing and faith. Through scripture and stories of faith and miraculous healings, we are encouraged to boldy engage our faith, expectation, and trust with our loving Father and Healer.

We don't want us to think about healing and wholeness as something reserved for a few special people or a few dramatic moments. We have been built to encounter His love, experience His transforming power, and then learn how to extend the miraculous to those around us. This is our mission, as a church! As Christians, we are called to partner with the love and power of Jesus in a broken world. Part of that invitation is to give away what we have received. So this awakening is two-fold – healing for us, and healing through us. In the same way that doctors practice medicine and lawyers practice law, Christians are invited to practice healing. We like to say it this way – What God does in you, He wants to do through you!

Dianne shares personal stories and revelation concerning faith, trust and healing, as well as important principles listed below. These are foundations that Holy Spirit laid, that still remain a part of the Vineyard Church of Central Illinois.

- JESUS WILL ALWAYS BE THE HERO. HE IS THE HEALER.

- We will always believe the incredible truth that our God is a God of healing. He wants us whole in every way, and He wants us to give that away to others.

- We will always welcome and honor the Holy Spirit and His fresh infilling.

- We will always make God's Word our top priority for studying, meditating, confessing, and believing.

- We will always make faith a priority — trusting God through difficult times, persevering, worshiping and praising, and hanging on no matter what.

- We will always believe in the power of prayer.- We will always be hungry, humble, and teachable and stay committed to doing life in community--the church family.

The awakened life is not the life of someone who never fails. It is the life of someone who keeps returning to Jesus. When the Holy Spirit convicts us, we come into the light. There we discover what David discovered: the mercy of God is greater than our worst failure. Jesus did not save us merely so we could avoid judgment someday. He saved us to awaken us to life with Him right now. This life isn’t about sin avoidance, it’s about SON awareness. The Son of God, Jesus, is where we fix our attention.

Awakened people reorder their lives around God’s Presence. We often want God’s blessing, power, or help without truly re-centering our lives around His presence. We instinctively build our lives around protecting ourselves, while awakened people learn to build their lives around God’s presence.