Silicon Valley Healing Rooms Healing Brings Change
There are a lot of reasons why people don’t get healed. The number one spot goes to unforgiveness. This roadblock to healing is a great place to explore. The healing process can include an opportunity to forgive everyone everything. Not forgiving people (even if they don’t deserve it) is a spiritual open door to physical ailments. There are things we can do that help keep us on the path of health and healing such as aligning our words with God’s words. Our words of faith definitely impact our healing process—positively. It also helps to take Communion, and seek relationship with the Healer along with seeking healing.
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When people get healed in Scripture, there is usually radical change. Consider the blind man from birth whom Jesus healed on a Sabbath (See the full story in John 9:1-41). His parents were afraid to tell the story to the Pharisees because it happened on a Sabbath and some Pharisees were looking to make it a crime to have been healed on a Sabbath. When asked directly, the parents wouldn’t talk about what happened. “Therefore, his parents said, ‘He is of age; ask him’” (John 9:23, NKJV). The healed man went on to share the obvious fact that he had been blind, but now he could see. To the no-longer-blind man, the man who healed him must have been from God. The Pharisees kicked the now-seeing man out of the temple. This was the equivalent of being a social reject and outcast. Nonetheless, he had his sight.
Like the formally blind man, healing came with changes. His parents didn’t want to talk about it because of the social risks. But the blind man talked about it, no matter the cost. He was healed. Talking about what God heals is part of God’s design plan. Most people want to get healed and go right back to what they were doing, and go right back to the way things were. They want to go right back to the way they were prior to the illness. In fact, being healed brings faith. It brings growth, it brings testimony, and it brings change. Is it possible that one of the reasons people don’t see more healing is that they aren’t willing to allow change into their lives? Are they willing to let more of God into their lives? Are they willing to talk about it? Even when it comes at a cost?
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Jesus knew people would talk about their healing. In certain geographic regions of the land, He specifically told certain people to NOT talk about their healing. That went against the normal response. When people do share about their healing, are they willing to give God the glory? In modern times, the doctors, the hospital, the nursing staff, the medicine, or the operation often gets the credit for the remarkable change. It is rare that people say that prayer to a living God was the turnaround. God deserves the recognition for what He does. Is it possible that there could be more stories of healing if God got the credit? If people lift up the medical people or the medical process, and they don’t need God, does He intervene? Is He quietly present in the midst of all our modern medicine? And still performing miracles as a result of, or sometimes in spite of, all our modern processes. |
Proverbs 3:6 reads, “In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths” (AMP). Acknowledging God’s role in our lives primes the pump to see more of God’s hand in our lives. That’s how faith works. Talking about faith and God’s role in our lives increases our awareness of how God is at work in all things. |
A few verses later in Proverbs, acknowledging God is directly linked to health. “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord [with reverent awe and obedience] and turn [entirely] away from evil. It will be health to your body [your marrow, your nerves, your sinews, your muscles—all your inner parts] and refreshment (physical well-being) to your bones” (Proverbs 3:7-8, AMP). |
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Let’s activate more healing by stepping into the changes that healing brings, and being willing to share our story. Let’s give God the glory. Seeking stories of miracles and healing builds our faith for when life situations pull on the need for more faith. |
God Answers Prayer
Since our last Healing Rooms Open Hours:
One woman’s stress level went from an 8 to a 1 during the appointment. Her experience was uplifting and energizing. He provided Words of knowledge, encouragement and divine strategy for a prayer request for an upcoming business situation. The woman left encouraged and grateful. |
One woman came in with concerns about what the Lord was revealing to her about her past. Ahead of time, the team had received pictures about a ship at sea in a storm and dropping an anchor along with various verses. These images helped the woman feel the Lord was with her in her journey of discovery, even when it felt stormy. |
One woman came in seeking prayer for the needs of her child. The team asked her about the answer to her previous visit a few months earlier, which had been about a financial need. She said, “Oh yeah, after that prayer time, I got three new clients and things have been good. Now I need….” The team stopped and gave thanks to God for answered prayer and then went on to pray about the current need. It builds faith to remind ourselves of answered prayer along the path of life, even as a new set of prayer requests might present themselves. |
The teams prayed for issues around anxiety, marriages, heart healing, strength to take action, wisdom, adult trauma, cancer, diabetes, God’s peace and strength, relief from fear and worry, high blood pressure, AFIB symptoms, low heartbeat, perseverance and endurance, life direction, whether to move or not, job changes, relationship with adult children, disagreements with neighbors, faith renewal, breakthrough in circumstances, counteracting witchcraft, workplace challenges, settling in to a new place to live, dealing with home repairs, caring for a loved one, financial breakthrough, sciatica, sleep disorders, and trauma relief.
Scheduling an Appointment
Together, Silicon Valley Healing Rooms Prayer Ministers are ready to take your prayer requests to God in prayer. They also seek God’s word for you in advance of the appointment.
We are now taking signups for prayer appointments for Tuesday June 3, 2025
To sign up for an appointment, there are TWO STEPS:
1. Let us know your TOP THREE APPOINTMENT TIME PREFERENCES, in order of priority.
We will coordinate the teams, and send the zoom information on Monday for the appointment on Tuesday.
2. Share a phone number so we can TEXT you with scheduling changes.
In the event that we are not able to offer you the time frames you desire, you may share a phone number with us to text you if an opening should arise when someone needs to cancel an appointment. This happens from time to time, and we are able to text you to see if you are available to join an available prayer team. All information is confidential to the ministry and is not used for solicitation. This step is optional.
You are welcome to sign up for prayer appointments at the following times listed below:
| Morning Times: | 11:10 to 11:40 am |
| 11:55 to 12:25 pm | |
| 12:40 to 1:10 pm | |
| Evening Times: | 7:10 to 7:40 pm |
| 7:55 to 8:25 pm | |
| 8:40 to 9:10 pm |
It is our greatest joy to join you in prayer and pray for whatever you want to bring before God. We pray, believing, knowing, and confident that God answers prayer.
If you don’t need prayer right now, you are welcome to forward this to others you know that might want people to pray with them.
***We love to hear how God has answered prayer. Please share what God has done in your life as a result of prayer. You can reply to this email, or share it in your appointment, or write a comment on our web site.
The spiritual winds are blowing strength, life, and peace into us,
Stephanie Shoquist, Donna Maranon, Jim Clow Directors, Silicon Valley Healing Rooms Team
Future Open Hours Online: June 17, July 1 & 15
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