MINISTERING IN-DEPTH HEALING

About the Book

Ministering In-Depth Healing, or Mid as I call it after fifteen years writing it, started as a dream. I refer to the kind of dream that happens in sleep. Whether Mid arose from the depths of my unconscious and was an entity before my conscious mind knew it existed, or whether the idea was dictated by angels or God, I cannot say. What I know is that on the second floor of a townhouse in Reston, Virginia, I laid in sleep one night memorizing a list of words that scrolled over and over for hours. The words were always in the exact same order, and always at the end of the list I would think this thought: These are chapters in a book. Then the words, Ministering In-Depth Healing would appear and I knew that was the title. Then the list would start all over and I would start memorizing again. I think you should know that.

The following day when I remembered the dream, I didn’t remember the list. So I sat down and asked the Holy Spirit to bring it back to my remembrance if it was from Him. The list rolled out. Now it was on my desk. As before, the last thing came last and I was dismayed. It appeared to me that perhaps God was telling me to write a book, but I didn’t think I knew anything about what I saw on that paper.

I prayed, God, if this is really you, then, give me an outline for every chapter. Out came the outline. I was convinced but terrified. I left in a hurry.

The next day, I sat down at my desk and found the paper. God, I’m not arguing, but if you are saying that I am supposed to write this book, then help me write the first chapter and I will know that it’s me that is supposed to write this book. As evening crept through the glass wall and a sunset glimmered on the horizon, the first chapter lay on the desk. Now I had no escape. I had presented my body as a living sacrifice and the God that answers by fire had met me there.

Those of you to whom this has never happened are saying, Wow. Those of you to whom it happens are saying, She didn’t have to say that. I think I did, but it’s not wow, either. The book was there, ready to happen, only I didn’t know it. I had just been living my serendipity life without reflecting in any way that what I had learned was worth telling anyone else about. Fifteen years later, I have changed my mind about that.

Mid is worth reading.

It is a book that will heal Christians everywhere in the Body of Christ, one person or one issue at a time. It is not a book that will teach anyone how to heal. It is about what happens when someone makes a commitment to become his brother’s keeper and plunges into the fields that are white with harvest, the everlasting harvest. It’s a longish book, but I hope that its true stories, and something in the way it is written, will be fun for you and make you want to read it all.

It is written in three 12-chapter sections: Physical Issues, Personal Issues, and Spiritual Issues, 36 chapters in all. It is non-denominational in character and outlook. It has one appendix: a section on Care and Teaching Units. It was integral to the book and I could not leave it out. So, I referenced it in my chapter on Teaching...

About the Author

Rachelle Hamlin’s response to the Great Commission began in her junior year at Catholic High School in 1956. Converted to non-denominational Christianity in 1974, she has lived in and out of Christian communities and fellowships in the Eastern United States. As an ordained minister, she has worked extensively with families and children. In 1983 she established a ministry of helps for writers, musicians and artists, The Studio of the Son. She and her husband George have six children and nine grandchildren and live in Christian community in Florida.