What does Tribe teach about healing prayer?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on healing prayer is grounded in the story of Naaman the leper in 2 Kings 5. Brian preached through that story to press a single honest question: where is your heart still facing the wrong direction when it comes to how you expect God to work? Naaman came to Elisha with a clear picture in his mind of how the healing was supposed to happen, a dramatic encounter, a hand waved over the leprosy, a named called out. What he got instead was a messenger and a muddy river. Brian identified three specific places where Naaman's expectations were off: he was wrong about the how, wrong about the where, and caught in a spiral of what-ifs. What Naaman never got wrong, though, was whether God could heal him at all. That confidence the text leaves untouched.
Brian's word for people sitting with those same misaligned expectations was direct. The phrase that shapes the series is this: when God's truth pets your fur the wrong way, you don't ask God to change, you turn your cat around. And he left room for something simpler underneath all the theology, saying, "He might just come through and he might just heal you because he's good." The point is not that healing is guaranteed on your terms, but that God's goodness is real and his ways are worth trusting even when they look nothing like what you imagined.
The broader teaching at Tribe holds that following Jesus more closely is not going to get easier to understand, but it will cost more. Brian says, "In the days ahead, the leadership of Jesus will be less complicated, but it will be more costly." That frame applies to healing prayer too. Bringing your need to God, staying open to how He chooses to answer, and trusting Him through the process when it looks like a muddy river instead of a miracle, that is not a small ask. But Brian's consistent message is that God's track record with harder things than this is the reason to keep showing up.
Taught from 2 Kings 5:1-15 · Ezekiel 33:11 · Romans 8:28 · John 8:36 · Revelation 12:11
“In the days ahead, the leadership of Jesus will be less complicated, but it will be more costly.”
From Turn Your Cat Around
The passage taught · 2 Kings 5:1-15
1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this.”
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- March 6, 2023 Turn Your Cat Around Brian Hunter walks Tribe through 2 Kings 5, showing how Naaman's pride nearly cost him his healing and why letting go of the how, where, and what-ifs still matters today.
Mentioned along the way
- November 9, 2025 Meal on the Mountain A sermon from Tribe Church in Jackson Hole exploring Exodus 24, where 70 elders dined with God on Sinai, and what it means to find God in life's disruptions.