The Orphan Spirit—A Dream
One afternoon my wife and I watched a Bethel video featuring Bill Johnson, who spoke on the subject of the orphan spirit. It was a good message, but apparently, the Holy Spirit wasn’t done speaking when I turned the video off. The message continued into my dreams. That night I had a dream in which Bill Johnson and his wife Beni were present, along with one of their sons. (I don’t know which one.) Their presence in…
God’s Perspective on Excellence
My wife and I were entertaining friends when we got on the subject of writing books. I told our guest I was not the best healer in the world. “If you want to see a really gifted healer,” I said, “Go hang out with David Hogan.” I’m not the most knowledgeable or the most proficient healer, but with the little knowledge I do have, I was able to write a decent book on the subject, because in all…
Healing — More to Learn
On June 19th of this year, I had a dream about healing that was very instructive. In the dream, I was doing a community outreach event to teach and demonstrate healing. The dream focused on my interaction with one person, who was skeptical that he could be healed. As I spoke with him about healing and prayed for him, nothing happened and he became despondent and even more convinced that he could not be healed….
Healing in Health Care
I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to see many people healed in the setting of emergency medicine. I think healing and medicine make a wonderful partnership, though not everyone agrees. There are many issues that need to be considered if you want to use divine healing in your medical practice. In this message, we’ll discuss the most common problems and look at some solutions. Before I began operating in divine healing, one of the…
Healing Mental Illness – A Matter of Love
I had a dream on the night of July 12. In the dream I watched people being treated for mental illness as they transitioned from a hospital to a mental health treatment facility. In some of the scenes, patients were treated rudely and without compassion. This made their condition worse. In some scenes, they were treated with compassion, understanding, and love – which made their condition better. Some dreams don’t need much interpretation. This is…