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Welcome to “Healing in Jesus’ Name”.

Allow me to introduce myself and tell you my story

I am Doug Harbour and this is my introductory Blog. I have spent my adult life as a Baptist Church Pastor in four UK churches. I took early retirement in 2009 to look after my late wife who had Dementia and went to be with the Lord in 2018. Prior to that tough decade, I had already survived a heart-attack in 2003, followed by Clinical Depression which curtailed my pastoral ministry for three years. My life was sustained by God, with the help of my loving family of three children and, now, nine grandchildren, in addition to many praying Christians from my four churches and further afield.

My wife’s passing, and the demoralising struggle which preceded it for one-seventh of my life, left me exhausted – physically, mentally and spiritually, and my faith was clinging on by its fingernails! But God, who I still believed was holding tightly on to me, made a quite dramatic intervention in the Spring of 2018 in two major steps. First, he brought a new woman into my life, and then together we experienced a dramatic prophetic encounter in a South London church service. The Leader, David Opoku, a Ghanaian prophet who had never met me nor had any prior knowledge of me when we visited his church, called me out and declared that from now on I would have a Ministry of Healing and Prophetic Speaking. Before that, he prophesied that my new partner Ingria would move from London to live in Oxford for the rest of her life, which led to our marriage in 2019.

Immediately on returning to my church (which I had previously pastored), my successor recognized this calling and let me loose to pray with people in the church, laying-on-hands and anointing them, resulting in a significant number experiencing various benefits within the first two weeks. The prophetic gift was less apparent at first, but a long time-childless woman was given Psalm 37:4 simultaneously with my being led to read it out. She and her husband believed it was for them, and before long they became the happy parents of their first child. While free, before the Covid-19 lockdowns, to still have contact with people, I saw athletes immediately healed of upper and lower limb pain, a young and an old lady having their knees freed up, arthritis relieved, and several cases of partial improvement.

In my own life, my health was severely tested not only with the heart attack and bout of Depression I mentioned earlier, but also in a quite severe internal haemorrhage which sparked a fear of cancer.  But in these and other cases, God used the Scriptures, the words of prophets and a little faith on the part of me and those supporting me, to overcome my fears and restore me to full health.

The Coronavirus pandemic forced churches to close their physical doors, so we all discovered Zoom, and I was allowed to carry out the Healing Ministry by video, including something I learned from the Prophet Opoku – ‘guided self-anointing’ – which resulted in one or two notable healings overseas!. I produced a video to teach about Divine Healing, and then undertook to lead some weekly Midday Prayers at our church, including a series of talks about Healings in the Bible, and conducted Biblical Meditation as a powerful tool for the healing of the Mind and Body.

I also surprised myself by taking to writing and self-publishing  small paperbacks and eBooks, entitled “My Late Harvest (An Old Man Dreams)” (a fuller version of what I am here telling you, and what events led up to it), then “A Socially-Distanced Healing Ministry (Bible Healings viewed through a Covid-19 Lens)”, followed by “Biblical Meditation – your Spiritual Medication”. See how you can acquire these on the page “My books for sale” by pressing the Menu button (three horizontal lines, upper right).

The Prophet’s words to us were re-affirmed in detail when we were able to return to his South London church on Good Friday 2022, and he emphasized how our ministry would be effective in Oxford. So, with the support of our church leadership, we are testing the Prophet’s words by making contact with churches and their leaders in the city of Oxford, to find fellow-workers in the ministry of Healing in Jesus’ Name. Already I have begun with a Healing Service, and shared my testimony in other churches. I am offering my ministry to the churches, and now online with this site.

I am aware that viewers will have a variety of experiences (or maybe none) of ‘faith-healing’ and different perceptions of it. Some will have been put off by their experiences. My focus is on Christian Healing, specifically that offered in Jesus’ Name, and where faith is operating – in the practitioner essentially, and advantageously in the seeker or others present, or in all of them. Historically this has been performed by a wide spectrum of churches and denominations, ranging from the quiet, meditative setting of a Retreat centre, to the noisy clamour of a large, noisy gathering in front of a charismatic evangelist. God does not limit himself to any one of these styles or settings. I believe my whole life has been led, by God, to the fulfilment he intended for my later years. To offer healing in Jesus’ name is to obey my prophetic calling, and all I have to be is obedient and faithful. I will take no personal pride in somebody’s healing, nor will I feel deflated when immediate healing is not apparent – it is in God’s gift, not mine. I will never accuse the seeker of a lack of faith, nor imply it; for that is to load guilt upon their current burden. And when visiting churches to minister healing, it will be in a spirit of mutual sharing of faith and gifts, in the spirit of Romans 1:11-12. I remain an Accredited Minister (Retired) of the Baptist Union of Great Britain.