Does God Still Heal? - Spiritual Healing - Operation Restoration, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel unlovable because of past mistakes? You are not alone—many grapple with crippling guilt and shame, convinced they have strayed too far for God to care still. But that is not true! Chip emphatically sets the record straight in this powerful program. Dive into James chapter 5 and discover how to release yourself from condemnation and embrace God's limitless love and forgiveness. Learn today the transformative steps you can take for a fresh start.

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	What do you do when someone you love is choosing to live in a way that ignores God?
0:07.5	Or maybe worse, what do you do with someone that has turned away from God and done some things
0:12.9	and they don't believe that God could ever even love them again?
0:17.3	What's your role?
0:18.7	How do you restore people who've drifted away from God? That's what we'll cover in our time together today.
0:26.3	Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram, an international teaching and
0:32.0	discipleship ministry that motivates Christians to live like Christians. And in just a minute, we'll
0:37.3	conclude our series,
0:38.3	Does God Still Heal, with the second half of Chip's talk
0:41.3	on spiritual healing.
0:43.3	Last time, Chip emphasized prayer's crucial role in restoring Christians
0:47.3	who have strayed from their faith.
0:49.3	And as he begins today's message,
0:51.3	he'll highlight the next step of this delicate process.
0:54.5	So get your Bible and notes ready as we dive into Chips Talk from James Chapter 5.
1:00.7	God says, I want you to intervene.
1:03.0	If you see a brother or sister wandering, you draw them back, and when you do, you save
1:10.0	them from separation from God, and it covers
1:12.7	a multitude of sins.
1:14.8	The question I would say is, how do you do that?
1:18.1	And James doesn't say, does he?
1:20.0	He just says, do it.
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