The Healing of Families - How to Pray Effectively for Those Stubborn Personal and Familial Problems

By Fr. Yozefu-B. Ssemakula

This book takes you through a prayer process that, if followed well, leads your entire family to deep structural healing. Based on Christian doctrine and a Christian perspective of life, the author guides you through identifying the root spiritual causes of the issues we usually have deemed "problems of life" but which actually don't have to be. The types of healing that it will touch are issues of life circumstances, ranging from marriage issues to bad finances; behavioral problems including addictions; diseases, especially those that stick with us a long time; and what the author calls "special", like accidents and suicides in the family, etc..., all of which our families find themselves stuck in many times.
In this world in which we live are only three things going on: God, who continuously lavishes His love upon us; we, the receptors of that love, and the evil one who tries to obstruct that love. All the rest that happens in life is a mere result of the interaction between those three things. The book takes you through the roots of that interaction and how we humans make our way through by constant choices, which choices eventually get us where we find ourselves. But all that can be healed if we learn how to pray correctly, and actual physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological healing happens in the family, even among members who didn't take part in the process.
This is an excellent tool for not just individual families, but for small communities, or even an entire church community if the pastor so decides to lead the congregation through this prayer process, to eventually heal an entire church community, for, we are always what our families are. And healed families lead to a healed church.

Softcover, 2011

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