Straight from the Healing Rooms Manual

Imagine being told that the root cause of your child’s Cystic Fibrosis is fear and anxiety? Or, that you have Parkinson’s because you have unresolved rejection, self-rejection, or abandonment issues? Or, your parent has Alzheimers because of self-hatred, self-rejection, shame and guilt?

These are the kinds of things you will find in the official Healing Rooms Manual published by the International Association of Healing Rooms founded by Cal Pierce in 1999 whose headquarters is in Spokane, Washington.

On the second page of the Manual (no page numbers are given in the manual), it states:

Information for this book has been gathered through many thousands of prayer sessions in the Spokane Healing Rooms. Scriptures are given on each disease as the Holy Spirit directed our team to them.

Root causes to sickness have been known by the medical industry for decades. We have identified spiritual root causes by interviewing those prayed for. Certain symptoms of sickness have similar root causes. We simply have linked those which are most common root causes to specific diseases. Our goal is to bring an awareness of what those root causes are and how to minister healing. [emphasis mine].

There are indeed demonstrable natural root causes to many sicknesses, however, this isn’t the same as assigning a spiritual root cause. Furthermore, just because common issues appear regularly with a specific illness doesn’t mean it is the cause of the illness. Correlation NEVER proves Causation. Just because the Sun comes up around the time a Rooster crows doesn’t mean the Rooster caused the Sun to come up.

For example, the root cause given for Cystic Fibrosis is “fear and anxiety.” Online, there is an article that indicates fear and anxiety is common among those afflicted with the disease or those who care for them. Due to the nature of the disease it is natural that it would cause this. So, there is a correlation, but any reasonable person would realize that dealing with the disease is the cause of the fear and anxiety, not the other way around.

Some of the other Disease and Root Causes listed are:

Arthritis: Usually involves bitterness from unforgiveness toward others or yourself
Autism: Can be Generational.* Rejection, rebellion, anger, self-hatred, spirit of fear, deaf and dumb spirit, and self-condemnation
Diabetes: Extreme rejection and self-hatred coupled with guilt. Can be inherited through an unloving spirit from parents or grandparents. Could be a generational curse.
Hypoglycemia: Worry, fear, fear of rejection, not trusting God, self-hatred; could be hereditary.
Stroke: Could be generational. Stress, anxiety, and anger. Self-rejection, self-bitterness, self-hatred.
Varicose Veins: Internalization of hurts that are caused by anger and resentment. Usually inherited.

Root causes for different types of Cancer:

Cancer: Can be deeply rooted bitterness, anger, guilt, and self-hatred. Can be generational.
Colon Cancer: Bitterness, slander, possibly generational with division making—contention.
Liver Cancer: Lusting after a female, mentally or actually. Often involving pornography, fornication, drugs and/or alcohol addiction. Also bitterness.
Breast Cancer: Conflict and bitterness between the female and her mother, sisters, or mother-in-law.
Ovarian Cancer: Woman’s hatred for self and her sexuality and self-bitterness
Uterine Cancer: Bitterness and self-bitterness; promiscuity and uncleanness
Hodgkin’s Disease & Leukemia: Deep rooted bitterness coming from unresolved rejection by a father
Prostrate: Bitterness, unforgiveness toward males in the family, fornication, fear.

*In the ministry sections for the disease it indicates that what is meant by “generational” is a generational curse. On rare occasions the root cause is given as possibly inherited or genetic related.

After the section on the diseases, there is an article called “How to Keep Your Healing.” It uses the parable of the sower in Matthew 13 out of context to support the belief that you can lose your healing.

When we receive a word on healing and are prayed for and a healing takes place, we receive it with joy but it must become firmly rooted in us because the devil will always try to inflict us with the very same symptoms to change our minds. Verse 21 says because of the Word, this affliction will be brought against us once again to cause us to fall away.

However, if you read the parable in context and take into consideration Jesus’ interpretation of it, this parable cannot be applied in the manner they have done. Nothing is referred to as a word on healing. It is actually the “word of the Kingdom.” Verse 21 doesn’t say anything about an affliction being brought against us once again to cause us to fall away. This is talking about troubles and tribulation in a person’s life.

The article in the Healing Manual goes on to state:

If the devil can cause us to look at symptoms instead of God’s promise, he can convince us to believe his lie. When we focus on the symptoms, pain or whatever it is, doubt and unbelief come to our mind and this gives entrance for fear to re-establish the sickness. We must keep our heart and mind fixed upon God and His promise…We need to hold fast to that which is good. We must allow the Word to take root so that it can complete the manifestation of healing.

There is no description of anyone losing their healing anywhere in the entire Bible. When Scripture describes divine healing it is always immediate and permanent and any visible symptoms disappear.

Some were healed without exhibiting any faith at all.
Some were healed through the faith of others
Some were healed through their own faith
Some were not healed because of an overall lack of faith in the area (not a specific person’s)
100% were healed immediately or within moments—never over a long period of time
Absolutely NO ONE lost their healing

It is important to realize that a number of people in the New Testament were healed without any faith at all. The people at the Healing Rooms believe they have the gift of healing. If this is true and they believe everyone is guaranteed healing, then if the person they pray for is not healed, logically it would be their own lack of faith, not the faith of the person they are praying for. The belief that you can lose your healing appears to be a cop out—so that if the person isn’t healed, they can blame it on the person’s lack of faith.

In the Bible, how did the person being healed, the Apostles or the people watching know that the person was healed? The SYMPTOMS disappeared! The blind man could see, the lame could walk, the leper’s flesh became normal. If you still have the symptoms, you are not healed. These healings were also verified by the methods described in the Old Testament, by those with the expertise and authority to declare that the person was healed. If the person still had the symptoms, they would not have been declared healed or “clean.”

For more detailed, in-depth discussion of this topic, please watch the presentation on this question “Can a Person Lose their Healing?”

The Healing Rooms Manual has a number of concerning issues and should make a person think twice about going to one for healing.