The Healing Touch: A Guide to Healing Prayer for Yourself and Those You Love [Paperback]

Norma Dearing (Author), Francis Macnutt (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002

Our society is brimming with people suffering the effects of past abuse, rejection, physical illness, bad choices, and unhealthy relationships. Author and radio personality Norma Dearing has spent thousands of hours listening to and praying with those in need of emotional, physical, or spiritual healing. In The Healing Touch, she shares stories from countless people who have been set free from unhealthy relationships, unholy unions, addictions, generational influences, and physical illnesses associated with these.
The Healing Touch is divided into three sections: Healing our Relationship with God, How to Have a Right Relationship with God, and Living within a Right Relationship with God. Packed with wise counsel, the book includes specific prayers for healing in the reader's own life and prayer for others in need. Dearing also covers rarely addressed problems such as healing from occult experience and pre-birth traumas, and explores the issue of why some people are not healed.
This handbook is for counselors, lay leaders, pastors, and individuals who want to see people delivered from the unnatural ravages of hurt and sin. It is a powerful reminder that God longs for his people to be healthy and whole.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Are you or someone you love hurting physically, emotionally or spiritually?

In The Healing Touch, Norma Dearing tells how we can be set free from the harmful effects of the past. Rejection, abandonment, emotional trauma, generational bondage, unholy unions and dabbling in the occult can each interfere with our healing. In this book you'll find prayers for deliverance, practical advice from Dearing's years in counseling and prayer ministries, and examples of people who have received healing. The Healing Touch is a powerful reminder that God longs for His people to be healthy and whole.

"Trustworthy instruction for virtually all aspects of prayer for healing. Most valuable is the down-to-earth guidance given at each step along the way." -Donald E. Baustian, North American Warden, The International Order of Saint Luke the Physician

"The simple explanations and helpful illustrations make this a valuable resource for all who seek physical, spiritual and emotional wholeness." -Barbara Shlemon Ryan, R.N., president, Be-Loved Ministry

"Underscores the importance of healing our relationship with God and places in our hands
practical tools for healing prayer. I highly recommend this book as a balanced, hands-on guide." -Michael D. Evans, founder/director, Wholeness Ministries

"The Healing Touch should be in the library of every pastor, priest and counselor. And in yours, too." -Sandra Simpson LeSourd, author, The Compulsive Woman

"To read, mark and inwardly digest this book is to experience God's healing touch." -The Rev. Canon Charles B. Fulton Jr., president, Acts 29 Ministries.

About the Author

Norma Dearing is the executive director of Impact Communication Ministries and host of the radio program The Healing Touch. She spent fourteen years as director of prayer ministry for Christian Healing Ministries in Jacksonville, Florida, where she developed the Schools of Healing Prayer and Foundation of Healing Prayer courses. Dearing and her husband have five grown children and live in Jacksonville.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Chosen Books; 1st edition (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800793021
• ISBN-13: 978-0800793029
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, Prayerful, Astonishing, Uplifting!!!, March 2, 2002

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Mixed-Media Maven "Jen" (Jacksonville, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Touch: A Guide to Healing Prayer for Yourself and Those You Love (Paperback)

This book was lent to me to read during a down time in my spiritual relationship with God. It was suggested as "light" reading and yet spiritually gratifying. I was hooked from the very first page, where Norma discusses herself, ministry, and prayer life. Little did I know that reading this "light" book would bring me to realize the areas in life where we all need to take a good look at what our views and relationship with God are.

Mrs. Dearing's prose puts you deeply into the place of actually experiencing the healings that she has personally witnessed and was involved in. This book will be on my shelf for reference, pray guidance, and also relive the exuberance of Mrs. Dearing, her writing is humorous, insightful, gripping, heart-wrenching, and most importantly, it is written to glorify God, the Ultimate Healer who blesses us with the opportunity to witness the POWER OF PRAYER. I want copies of this book for all of those that I love.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What should be on a healers bookshelf, May 9, 2004

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Sylvia Smith - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Touch: A Guide to Healing Prayer for Yourself and Those You Love (Paperback)

If you are a healer or want to be healed, these books should help. You may also want to put two of these books in your doctor's hands: The Power of Divine: A Healer's Guide, and Hands of Light. I read many books on various forms of healing, and alternative medicine, and I have found wonderful insights and practical how-to in each of these books.

The Healing Touch: A Guide to Healing Prayer for Yourself and Those You Love--- Norma Dearing, Francis MacNutt

The Power of Divine: A Healer's Guide - Tapping into the Miracle---Tiffany Snow

Hands of Light: Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field---Barbara Ann Brennan

Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal---Richard Gordon

Healing Light---Agnes Mary White Sanford

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, July 5, 2006

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Cordellia - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Touch: A Guide to Healing Prayer for Yourself and Those You Love (Paperback)

I love this book.I happen to know Miss Dearing and reading her book
is wonderful because it feels like she is talking you as if you were having a conversation.There is such an easy feeling to this book,while at the same time giving alot of insight into the healing of the body ,generational healing, healing of addictions and so on.I highly suggest it to everyone, check it out.You won't be sorry.