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Welcome to the Layhands.com
teaching ministry! |
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| In these articles you can... |
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Realize how much God truly loves you!
Make certain that you will go to heaven!
Learn some ways to share the Gospel!
Understand how to receive healing and pray for the sick!
Find out how to hear God's voice!
Discover how to skyrocket in spiritual maturity!
Check out some ways of studying the Bible!
See why Jesus might return at any moment!
Study what the Bible says about most of the Christian doctrines!
Get answers to many of your questions about God, the Bible, etc.!
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| Resources |
All of the articles in this ministry are listed on the left. Click the topic headings for descriptions of everything under that topic.
To read these articles offline, you can download this entire website in a single .ZIP file:
EvangelismAndHealing.zip
(under 3 MB). To unzip this file, try downloading a free evaluation version of WinZip at
WinZip's Download Page  .
Be sure to come back here periodically to check for changes to these articles.
There is no charge for anything here, and no donations are accepted.
People sometimes tell me that they have emailed some of these articles to family and friends, or they have printed certain articles out and passed them around at church, or they have used some of this information in their own articles and websites and Bible studies and training materials and sermons and handouts and so on. The information here is not copyrighted, so feel free to use these resources in any way which will glorify the Lord Jesus Christ!
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| Do You Believe What the Bible Says? |
Many years ago, God rocked my Christian world. He showed me that I didn't actually
believe
what the Bible says about certain things because I didn't really
know
what the Bible says about those things! Sure, I had absorbed various opinions and biases and views from family, friends, and church, just like everyone else has. But think about it for a moment. Do the people that we absorbed our views from
really
understand what the Bible says about those things? Maybe not!
Consider the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle. In order to see the
full
picture, we need to use
all
of the puzzle pieces and fit them together properly. Similarly, in order to see the full picture of a doctrine in the Bible we should find as many pieces of Scripture as possible for that doctrine, and we should fit them together properly.
After God showed me these things, I started studying the Bible differently. Now I pick a topic and search the Bible, finding as many relevant passages as possible so that I am better able to see the full picture. I try to be prayerful, honest, thorough, and objective, and I found that I had to discard many of my preconceived views because the Scriptural evidence simply does not support those views. Being thorough means that my articles tend to be rather long, but I believe that being thorough and listening closely to the Holy Spirit enables us to be more accurate than if we just base our views on a few passages.
For some thoughts, ideas, suggestions, software, etc., to help you study the Bible, please see my articles called:
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| About the Name |
In 1995 God told me to create this online ministry, and I was able to put it on the Internet for free.
A couple of years later He prompted me to get my own domain name, so I asked what the name should be. The answer I got was "Layhands.com."
It's possible that this means I am meant to have a ministry of laying hands on the sick, but that hasn't happened yet. Even though I do lay hands on people sometimes, and I do see healings, God hasn't made that the focus of my ministry.
I believe that He has had me in a "season of preparation" since the summer of 1999. I don't know all of the details, but in addition to maintaining Layhands.com the new thing He's preparing me for will involve a new location, new relationships, and a new area of ministry.
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May the Lord abundantly bless you as you study His Word!
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In His Love,
Dave Root
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