Divine Healing

It is a series of meditations Murray published as, in his own words, 'a testimony of my faith in divine healing.' Written after more than two years away from his ministry ended in his own recovery in answer to prayer, the book works through the biblical passages on healing and sets out Murray's conviction that Christ heals the body as well as the soul, in answer to faith.

A South African pastor and one of the most beloved devotional writers of the deeper Christian life, author of many books on prayer, holiness, and abiding in Christ. Divine Healing, published in 1900, grew out of his own experience of restoration and reflects his lifelong emphasis on faith and the fullness of Christ.

Murray's own healing. He had been laid aside from ministry for more than two years by a serious ailment, and his recovery came in answer to prayer and trust in God as Healer. That experience moved him to study the Scriptures on healing and to publish this testimony, so the book is written not as theory but as the fruit of what he had lived.

That healing of the body belongs to the redemptive work of Christ and is available to faith — that the same Lord who forgives sins also heals, and that believers may trust him for their bodies as for their souls. Murray roots this in Scripture and in union with Christ, presenting healing as one expression of the fullness of life God offers his people.

As a series of short meditations working through the biblical passages that bear on healing, each unfolding some aspect of the theme. Rather than a single treatise, it moves Scripture by Scripture, building Murray's case for divine healing devotionally and drawing the reader to trust Christ as Healer through the word.

No — he writes soberly and devotionally, grounding healing in Scripture, faith, and union with Christ rather than in sensationalism. His concern is the believer's trust in God and enjoyment of the fullness of Christ's life, and he treats healing as part of a whole life of faith and consecration, not as a spectacle or a formula.

Any Christian interested in the biblical case for divine healing, or in Murray's own testimony of restoration, and anyone weighing what it means to trust Christ for the body. It sits alongside works like Simpson's Gospel of Healing in the deeper-life tradition, offering Murray's warm, scriptural, experience-tested treatment of the subject.

At the beginning, letting Murray set out his testimony and then work through the Scriptures on healing meditation by meditation. Because the book builds its case from the word devotionally, it rewards being read in order and prayerfully, as the personal witness of faith Murray intended it to be.