Honest questions, straight answers.

Start by asking the person what they would like prayer for, and then listen. You don't need a formula or special language. Ask if you can put a hand on their shoulder — or don't, if that isn't welcome. Then pray simply and out loud, in the name of Jesus: thank God for the person, speak to the pain or the sickness, and ask Him to heal. Keep it short. Long prayers are for the pray-er; short ones are for the person.

Afterward, ask what they're noticing. Sometimes pain leaves and bodies mend. Sometimes nothing changes that day, and you bless them and pray again another time. The outcome was never yours to produce — God decides, we pray. And healing prayer never competes with a doctor's care: if the person is under treatment, they stay under treatment. Jesus told His followers, “Heal the sick… freely you have received; freely give” (Matthew 10:8). The instruction was for ordinary people. It still is.

We believe it is. Jesus healed the sick everywhere He went, then told His disciples to do the same — “heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons” (Matthew 10:8). The book of Acts shows ordinary believers carrying that ministry on after Him, and James 5 tells the church to keep praying for the sick. Nothing in Scripture announces a stopping point.

We hold that conviction honestly. We have watched God heal bodies, and we have also prayed for people who were not healed and grieved alongside them. We don't pretend to explain the difference, and we won't promise anyone an outcome. Healing is God's to give, not ours to schedule. What we can say after more than a decade is this: God still heals, He still uses ordinary people to do it, and the right response to the mystery is to keep praying, not to stop.

Inner healing is prayer for the wounds no one can see — grief, shame, trauma, and the lies those wounds leave behind about who you are and who God is. Where physical healing prays for the body, inner healing invites Jesus into a memory or a pattern and asks Him to speak truth where shame has been speaking.

In practice it is quiet and unhurried. A trained person listens, prays, and helps you bring the specific thing to Jesus — not to relive it, but to let Him meet you in it. God meets memory, grief, and shame, and He is patient with all of it. Inner healing is not therapy and does not replace it; a good counselor and healing prayer work well side by side, and we will always tell you so. Many people find that freedom in the inner life is where everything else begins.

Deliverance is prayer that breaks demonic oppression off a person's life in the authority of Jesus. He set people free from spiritual bondage throughout the Gospels and gave His followers the same assignment, and that ministry has never been withdrawn from the church.

Done rightly, deliverance is gentle, private, and full of dignity — never spectacle. There is no shouting, no drama, no audience. The person in front of you is never the enemy; they are someone Jesus loves who has been held down long enough. Deliverance usually walks hand in hand with inner healing, because oppression tends to attach itself to unhealed wounds and unforgiveness. So we take our time, we ask good questions, and we let the Holy Spirit lead rather than force anything. If the word makes you picture something loud and frightening, that is not what we do. Freedom should feel like relief.