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 rooted in the story of Naaman the leper in 2 Kings 5. Brian worked through the passage at length to show that the places where people get stuck are rarely about whether God can heal, but about how they expect healing to arrive. Naaman had a clear picture in his mind of the dramatic encounter he wanted, and nearly walked away because God's instruction looked too ordinary and the river too muddy. Brian identified three specific postures that blocked Naaman: being wrong about the how, being wrong about the where, and cycling through the what ifs. None of those obstacles were about God's willingness or power. Brian says, "He might just come through and he might just heal you because he's good."
The deeper point Brian pressed is that following Jesus into healing, as into anything else, is not complicated to understand but it does cost something. He opened the series with something he said the Holy Spirit had whispered to him: "In the days ahead, the leadership of Jesus will be less complicated, but it will be more costly." For Naaman, the cost was setting down his expectations and wading into a river he considered beneath him. The servant girl who first pointed him toward the prophet carried real faith under genuinely tragic circumstances, and Brian held that detail up without forcing it, letting the text speak to how faith and suffering can occupy the same person at the same time.
What Naaman got right, Brian said, was never doubting that God could heal him at all. That confidence is the foundation. The work of prayer and healing at Tribe starts there, with a God who is good and who acts, and then asks people to hold their expectations loosely enough to receive what he actually sends.
Taught from 2 Kings 5:1-15 · Ezekiel 33:11 · Romans 8:28
“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.