Articles About Healing

We hope you'll find inspiration from the articles you find in this section of the ICM website.

Inner Healing by Jan Alkire

To achieve inner healing we enter into prayer, bring a painful memory of a past event to the Lord, and allow him to transform that memory. Remembering with God's help leads us to find the truth, and that truth sets us free.Originally appeared in “Chariscenter USA”, March/April 1992.

Praising God: A Doorway to Joy by Jan Alkire

The prayer of praise makes a wonderful start to any time of worship, whether a Sunday liturgy or a personal prayer time. It enhances all the prayers that follow and can open us to God‘s healing power and open the door to joy.

The Power of the Spirit: Healing Prayer Ministry
Posted with kind permission of St. Thomas More University Parish, Eugene, Oregon

“When we live in the Spirit, the weakness of human flesh is clad with the power of God, and we are capable of doing what we thought impossible, facing what we feared most, bearing what we thought unendurable... The ministry of healing prayer is a gentle tending of members of Jesus' flock who are suffering for any reason: emotionally, physically, or spiritually...It is successful when God has become real to the supplicant, and when the way they experience their situation has changed, so that they feel less alienated and have more hope.”

The Perfect Christmas by Jan Alkire

When her plans went awry one year, the author found that the perfect Christmas was nothing like the one she had planned. Gratitude and joy replaced frustration and domestic disasters, and the spirit of the season filled her heart and household when she realized that while “the obstacles may include being as homeless as Jesus, being as poor as Mary and Joseph, or being separated from loved ones … the perfect Christmas — then and now — is one in which Christ enters into our very real lives.” Originally appeared in “Liguourian”, December, 1994.