This is the last article in our series, ’10 Days of Healing.’
This final article will focus on some practicalities of healing ministry…
Q. How do we get the ability to heal people?
A. ‘God gives us His Spirit and works miracles because we believe what we heard not because we observe the law, or through human effort.’ (Galatians 3:2-5)
‘What must we do to do the works of God-believe in Jesus?’ (John 6:28-29)
Q. How much authority and power did God give Jesus Christ against Satan?
A. All authority in heaven and earth! (Matt 28:18)
Q. Why did God give Jesus this power and authority?
A. ‘Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come. And God has put all things under the authority of Christ, and he gave him this authority for the benefit of the church.’ (Ephesians 1:21-22)
Q. When you say, ‘I don’t have any power or ability to heal’ what are you actually saying you don’t have?
A. The Power of the Spirit (Acts 1:8)
Q. When does God want us to rise up, lay hands on the sick so that they will recover?
a.When we are mature
b. When Jesus decides to give us the power to do so
c. When the church is raptured
d. During the millennium
e. Just before Jesus comes back
f. Now-(Mark 16:17-20)
Q. True or False: We should wait until we feel we are capable before we reach out to the lost or lay hands on the sick?
5 Steps in the Healing Process:
1. What do you want prayer for?
‘Then Jesus asked the man, “What do you want me to do for you?”’ (Luke 18:41, Mark 10:51)
What’s The Problem? What is your particular need? Tell me where the pain is: ‘Do You Want To Get Well?’ (John 5:6)
2. What is the Cause?
Where does the illness stem from? (Revelation) What category of healing are we dealing with? (Spiritual, emotional, deliverance, relational, generational etc)
Remember that between 70-90% of diagnosed illness is psychosomatic.
Is the person looking to God as the source in faith? ‘Do You Believe That I Am Able To Do This?’ (Matthew 9:38)
What does God want to do? (Word of knowledge/Do what the Father is doing)
3. Pray
Pray specifically
Pray in the mind and pray in the spirit. Depend on the Holy Spirit. Depend on the gifts of the Spirit. Command of Faith. Rebuking, binding and expulsion
4. How are we doing/Check?
Ask the Person how they are doing or what’s happening. That’s why we keep our eyes open so we can check for what God is doing.
Show me what’s binding them, hurting them, stopping them from receiving.
Stop praying when the person indicates that it’s over!
You’ve got to learn to stop when the Spirit stops you!
5. Parting Advice
What should the person do to keep their healing: ‘See You Are Well Again, Stop Sinning or Something Worse May Happen To You’ (John 5:14)
(Go wash yourself in the river…)
After Ministry Be Alert & Watchful!
Operating in healing will put you on the enemy’s hit list (Matthew 12:14, Luke 6:6-11)
Withdraw To Pray (Luke 5:16)
Categories of Healing:
Spiritual Healing: Forgiveness of sin for what we have done (2 Sam 11:1-7 Proverbs 18:14 Proverbs 20:9 Proverbs 28:13)
Emotional/Inner-Healing: Caused by what someone has done to us
Healing of past hurts and memories (Proverbs 4:23-24)
Deliverance/DemonisationAlcoholism (Proverbs 23:29-35)
Relational/Social Healing (Proverbs 20:20)
Healing of the Dying (Proverbs 10:27)
Biblical Methods of Healing:
Laying on of Hands: Luke 4:40, Mark 16:18, Matt 6:18
Anointing With Oil: James 5:14
Say the Word/Word of Faith: Jesus (Matthew 8:8)(James 5:15) Gods Word/He sent his word and he healed them
The Name of Jesus: Acts 3:16/Acts 4:10
Confessed Sin: Confess your sins one to another and you will be healed (James 5:15-16)
Elders/Leaders Prayer (James 5:15-16)
Handkerchiefs & Aprons (Acts 19:11-12)
Shadows (Acts 5:15-16)
Healing Power/Gift of the Spirit: The Use of the Gifts (1 Corinthians 12/14)
Dealing With Some Difficult Questions
Is it God’s Will To Heal Me?
The answer is that when God rules supreme, there will be no sickness (Rev 21:3-4)
Sickness can never be a part of his will. To suggest that is to dishonor the character of God. The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. God comes to give life (John 10:10)
When people said to Jesus: ‘If you are willing, You can make me clean,’ Jesus replied: ‘I am willing; be cleansed.’ (Mark 1:41).
Wherever Jesus went, healing followed, because wherever Jesus went, God’s will broke through. Jesus is what God has to say about himself.Watch the deeds of Jesus and see the will of God!
Does God bring us dis-ease?
No! -‘Every good and perfect gift comes from our Father in heaven.’-(James 1:17)
Where does disease come from?
‘The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus came to bring abundant life.’ (John 10:10)
What happens if we pray and it ‘doesn’t work?’
Keep praying (ask and keep asking, seek and keep seeking, knock and keep knocking)Through faith and patience we inherit the promise
How do I know that I can heal the sick?
Because Jesus has given us Authority and Power‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.’ (Acts 1:8)
Where do doctors, medicine, surgeons come in line with spiritual healing?
‘Healthy people don’t need a doctor-sick people do.’ (Luke 5:31)
‘In the 39thyear of his reign, Asa developed a serious foot disease. Even when the disease became life threatening, he did not seek the Lord’s help but sought help only from his doctors.’ (2 Chron 16:12)
Luke was a doctor who traveled with the missionary team
What to do when you are terminally ill?
Know that death is a divine appointment (Heb 9:27)Death holds no terrors for the believers, for after death he will immediately be with the Lord (2 Cor 5:8)
Remember the resurrection-the ultimate healing of your total being (John 11:25, John 14:19, Phil 3:10, Rev 7:17-17)
‘I will always remember that whatever the doctor misses, or prayer misses, or any other healing instrument misses, the Resurrection will get. I will be whole in my glorified bodyWhy are some people healed and others not?’ 1 Cor 11:29-32
Isn’t it cruel to pray for people if they don’t get healed?
Praying for people is one of the highest expressions of love
Do we stop telling people about Jesus because all people aren’t getting saved?
If we don’t pray for anyone, we will see no-one healed!
It is our job to pray and Gods job to move in His way
Didn’t Jesus heal everyone he met who needed healing?
No! Only healed one man at the city hospital (John 5:1-15)
At Nazareth Jesus could only lay hands on a few sick and see them healed (Mark 6:5-6)
Didn’t everyone Jesus minister to get healed immediately?
No-the blind man who could see people walking around like trees (Mark 8:22-26)
Didn’t everyone in the New Testament early church get healed straight away?
No-check out Paul (Gal 4:13-15), Timothy (1 Tim 5:23) and Paul’s’ traveling companion (Phil 2:26-27)
Activating Healing
-Get people to lay hands on the sick (Mark 16:17-18)
-Get leaders/elders to anoint the sick with oil (James 5:14)
-Get people to put their hands up after receiving the word if they have faith for healing
-Commanding in faith those who previously couldn’t do something to do something (E.g. stretch out you hand)
-Operate in words of knowledge on ailments Christ wants to heal
-Words of wisdom regarding what the person needs to do to be well
-Power and Authority. I give you power and authority to cast out demons and heal the sick (Luke 9:1-2) These signs will follow those that believe. In my Name… (Mark 16:17-18)
Go, Heal the Sick!
Hope this series has inspired you and empowered you as you step out in healing the sick
[The material in this article draws heavily on a source text from years ago. I can’t remember what the source text is]
