Does God Still Heal? - Spiritual Healing - Operation Restoration, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Watching someone you care about turn away from their faith can be truly heartbreaking. But there is hope! In this program, Chip unveils a practical pathway to guide that friend or family member back to a genuine relationship with Christ. Grasp why people spiritually drift, how to support them without judgment, and what you can say to gently point them back to Jesus. Discover why no one is beyond the reach of God’s love.

Main Points

When Christians "Go Astray" --Proverbs 14:12

So what do you do when someone you know...

Morally falls?
Isn’t walking with the Lord?
Deserts their spouse?
Shows signs of spiritually drifting?

God's plan for spiritual healing. --James 5:19-20

The Problem: "Wandering from the Truth"
The Solution: "Bringing them back to God"

God's two-part strategy for restoration:

Pray for them.
Care enough to confront! --Galatians 6:1-2

Four keys to confronting in love:

Prerequisite - Spiritual maturity
Aim - Restoration
Attitude - Gentleness
Action - Don't give up!

The Result = Life and healing

Conclusion: A word to the "wandering." Three lies you must refuse to believe:

I'll come home later. --Luke 15
I'm too far gone. --John 21
God could never accept me now. --Isaiah 1:18-20

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About Chip Ingram

Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.

About Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.

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0:00.0	Do you know someone that used to really walk with God, but right now they have drifted away?
0:09.9	And you're concerned that you don't know what to do?
0:13.3	Stay with me.
0:14.3	That's what we're going to talk about today.
0:18.5	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship ministry
0:23.5	devoted to helping Christians worldwide live out their faith for the glory of God and the benefit of all people.
0:29.9	Thanks for listening today as we're nearing the end of our series, Does God Still Heal? So far, our Bible teacher, Chip Ingram, has examined what the Bible says about
0:38.2	physical and emotional healing. If you want to catch up on these thought-provoking messages,
0:43.4	and you can easily do that through the Chip Ingram map or at Living on the Edge.org.
0:49.3	Chip will be back in James Chapter 5 for these last two programs, unpacking what it looks like to experience spiritual
0:55.9	healing. He has a lot to teach us, so grab your Bible and notes, and let's dive right into this
1:00.9	vital topic. Well, when you think about life, I can tell you two or three things. Number one,
1:06.4	planes veer off course, even with high technology. You may remember when a major airline of which I will not name two pilots,
1:15.6	pilot and the co-pilot were on their iPads or checking Facebook or checking their email,
1:22.6	and their autopilot went right past the city about a half hour or so, and they found themselves
1:28.8	completely off course, had to turn around, and also lost their job.
1:34.7	Not only do planes get off course, but satellites over time drop out of orbit.
1:41.1	Cars occasionally, even with, I have a GPS that will tell me to turn on roads that don't exist.
1:50.0	And just like planes and cars and satellites, drift and get off course, so do Christians.
1:57.0	The thing about it is, is that when you are in the process of getting off course, and when I am in the process of getting off course, the last person to know it will be you.
2:08.6	It's just the human heart.
2:11.6	Jeremiah would say the heart is deceitful above all else, and who can understand it.
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