Overcome By The Spirit

Part I: The Phenomenon Of Resting In The Spirit
Introduction: Why This Book Was Written
1. My Own Experience
2. What Happens When People Fall?
3. Why Is It Helpful To Rest In The Spirit?
4. Between Tears And Laughter
5. Do You Find It In The Bible?
6. Rapt In Ecstasy: The Catholic Tradition
7. Spreading The Word: The Protestant Tradition
8. Objections
9. Who Falls And Who Doesn’t?
10. To Sum Up

Part II: If It Happens When You Pray …
Notes To Those In The Healing Ministry
11. The One Who Does The Praying
12. Where And How Long?
13. Additional Patterns
14. Practical Decisions … The Arrangements That Work Best For Us
15. One Last Word
Notes
Reading List
192 Pages

Additional Info
In the 1960s and early 1970s, when Francis MacNutt first witnessed being “slain in the Spirit,” he didn’t know what to think. Then, amazingly, it started happening in his own healing ministry, where he could determine firsthand its impact on believers. One of the first things MacNutt learned, through extensive research, is that resting in the Spirit (as he prefers to call it) is not new at all: It occurred throughout Church history, including in the Protestant revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and over centuries of Catholic tradition, Resting in the Spirit continues today, an extraordinary phenomenon that graces believers with healing and wholeness, Overcome by the Spirit tackles every conceivable question and concern about this issue, including:
* Isn’t it just the power of suggestion?
* Aren’t some people actually pushed over?
* What are the spiritual benefits, if any?
* Doesn’t it lead to vanity and competition among ministers?
* How good can something be that causes division and controversy?
Christians seeking deeper understanding of this phenomenon will find biblically informed wisdom and sensitivity. A special section offers practical advice to those in the healing ministry.