TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: Purpose
of the Miracles of Healing
- A. Jesus' Commission (who did he call and what did he call them to do)
- B. The first commission: the 12 disciples
- C. The Commission of The Seventy
- D. The Great Commission: all baptized believers
Chapter 2: The Power of God in
Healing
- A. The Power of God Must Be Present for Healing To Occur
- B. The power of God is recognizable
- C. The Power of God Is Energy
- D. The Power of God is Accompanied by Grace
- E. The Power of God Can Increase Over Time And Provides Proof that Jesus is the Christ
- F. The Power of God Comes With The Holy Spirit
- G. The Power of God Validates the Gospel Message
- H. The Power of God Can Be Denied
- I. Evidence of the Power of God is a Test
Chapter 3: The Gifts of the Spirit in Healing
- A. General Background Information
- B. How Spiritual Gifts are Given?
- a. Impartation Through the Laying On Of Hands
- b. Divine Impartation: God Decides
- c. Divine Impartation: God Responds
- d. Ask and it will be given to you …
- C. Gifts From God Are Irrevocable
- D. Not Everyone Gets Every Gift But Everyone Gets at Least One Gift
- E. Gifts are Distributed According to the Will of the Holy Spirit
- F. Some shouldn't have the Holy Spirit imparted to them?
- G. Why Are Spiritual Gifts Given?
- a. to confirm the gospel
message of Jesus
Christ
- b. to build up the Church
- c. to “serve” others – for
the common
good
- d. so that faith won’t rest
on men’s
wisdom
- e. to make believers
strong
- H. Gifts can be given but
neglected
- I. Spiritual Gifts Connected
With Healing the
Sick
- a. Gifts of Healing
- b. Word/Message of
Knowledge
- c. Gift of faith
Chapter 4: Requirements of the Person Praying
- A. Doing the Will of the
Father
- B. Doing What You See The
FATHER Doing
- C. Being A Righteous Person
- D. Testing The Spirits
- a. First
Warning
- b. Second Warning
- E. Fruit of the Spirit
- F. Humility and
Acknowledgement of Personal
Weakness
Chapter 5: Requirements of the Person
Requesting Prayer
- A. Forgiveness Required for
Healing
- a. Healing Dependant Upon
the Forgiveness of Sins
- b. Forgive Other’s Who Have
Wronged You First
- c. Repentance Comes Before
We Are Forgiven by God and Others
- d. Confession Precedes
Healing and
Forgiveness
- e. Forgiving Sins, In Jesus
Name
- f. Forgiveness for Unknown
Sins
- B. Be Willing To Give Up
Your Illness
- C. Be Willing To Face
Emotional Pain/Past Hurts
- D. Be Willing To Change Your
Lifestyle
- E. Be Willing To Receive
What God Has For You In The Way He Offers It
- F. Be Willing to Face Up To
What You’ve Done To Yourself
- G. Willingness to deal with
all possible blocks to the healing process
- H. How Desperate Are
You??
Chapter 6: The Rights of the Person Receiving
Prayer
Chapter 7: How The Sick Were Healed In The Old Testament
- A. The First Healing – A
Philistine
- B. Keeping God ’s Commands
Prevents Disease
- C. Healing After Confession
of Backstabbing
- D. The Prophet Releases
Healing In A Word, Not Knowing What The Person Prayed For
- E. A Guilt Offering Must Be
Presented at the Temple to Receive Healing After Robbing God
- F. Strange Actions Effect
Resurrection of the Dead
- G. God Heals His Way, Not
Necessarily The Way We Expect Him To Heal
- H. Touching Dead Prophet
Brings Dead Man Back To Life
- I. God Accommodates the Sick
Man Who Asks for a Sign
- J. The Leader Asks for a
Pardon For Innocent Actions of his
People
- K. God Is In Control of
Wounding and Healing
Chapter 8: How the
Sick Were Healed in the New Testament
- A. General Statements
- B. If You Are Willing
- C. Faith of the Sick Person THE FAITH
THAT
HEALS
- D. Faith of the
Parent
- E. Faith of the Boss HEALINGS FROM
AFAR A WORD ON
CHILDREN
- F. Faith of Others
- G. Speaking to the Dead
Person
- H. Commanding the
Illness
- I. Forgiving Sin
- J. Exorcising the Demons
- K. Lack of Faith a Bar to
Healing
Power
- a. The faithless hometown
crowd
- b. Lack of faith in the
person praying
- c. Lack of faith of the sick
person
- d. Lack of faith of
mourners
- L. Strange Ways –Spit, Mud,
Shadows, Handkerchiefs and
Aprons
- M. Servants of God Initiate
Healings
- a. Jesus
Initiates
- b. Paul & Peter
Initiate
- N. Laying on of
Hands
- a. After being freed from a
demonic
spirit
- b. After
prayer
- c. Do not “share” in the
sins of
others
- d. On The Issue of The
Elders, Laying On Of Hands, Positions of Spiritual Authority
- O. Maybe Some Will Just Be
Sick?
- P. Some May Not Want To Get
Well?
- Q. Scriptures NOT Connected
to Healing the
Sick
Chapter 9: Overcoming Obstacles to Healing/Root
Causes of Sickness
- A.
Sin
- a. Sins of the Fathers
- b. Sins of the Self
- 1. Acting Contrary to God ’s
Will - Disobedience Draws a Curse/Punishment
- 2. Putting One’s Trust in
Man instead of God
- 3. A Father Can Curse His
Child For Offending Him
- 4. A Mother Takes Her Son’s
Curse Upon Herself
- 5. Conditional curse to
determine if a person has sinned
- 6. Making Idols, Dishonoring
Parents, Theft, etc. Draw Curses
- 7. Robbing God Of Our Tithes
Brings A Curse
- 8. Not Loving the Lord
Brings a Curse
- 9. People Can Put Themselves
Under a Curse
- 10. Believers Have Been
Known To Praise God and Curse Other People
- 11. Preaching a False Gospel
Brings a Curse
- c. Turning the Sins of the
Fathers & Sins of the Self into Blessings
- 1. Return to the Lord
- 2. Humble Yourself Before
God in Repentance
- 3. Confession of Sins of
Self and Sins of the Fathers
- 4. God Forgives His People
- 5. God Will Remember the
Covenant With His People
- d. Unbelief In a Message
Sent By God Can Result in a Physical Condition
- B. So that God’s purposes
would be
fulfilled
- a. … so the work of God
might be
displayed
- b. … so that God servants
would be safe, to show the power of God, to bring a persecutor of the
faith into the faith for God purposes
- c. … so that God’s Son would
be
glorified
- d. … so that the gospel
would be
preached
- e. … so that our personality
flaws won’t interfere with God’s purposes
- f. … bring us back from
being
astray
- C. Because of Taking
Communion Without Examining Oneself
- D. Stress and the Emotional
Condition
- F. Inheriting Bodily
Weaknesses/Deformity from our Gene
Line
- G. Environmental
Hazards
- H. Accidents - Spit
Happens!!
- I. Not taking care of the
bodies God gave us
- J. Unknown
Chapter 10: Demonic Obstacles to
Healing
- A. Demons Can Be The Root
Cause of a Physical Sickness
- B. What causes demons to be
the root cause of a physical
condition?
- a. The Story Of Job
- b. Our own sin and the sins
of the fathers
- c. Victimization
- d. Witchcraft on the family
line
- e. Curses
- f. Bridging the
understanding of demons between the Old and New Testament
- C. Demonology and the
Mentally
Ill
- a. Protecting the Vulnerable
- b. Demonic Look
A-likes
- D. Are Demons Interfering
with a Healing Occurring or
Not?
- E. Temporary suspension of
demons that are blocking a
healing
- F. Basic guidelines about
dealing with demons and afflicted people
- G. What kinds of demons are
there and how do we deal with them when trying to heal the sick?
- a. Every Day Garden Variety
Demons
- b. Rights and Grounds Demons
- c. Curses
- d. Shutting down someone
else’s demons -
SILENTLY THE ELDERLY SICK PERSON
Chapter 11: Developing a Ministry Team to Pray
for the Sick
- A. Protection for the
Ministry: A Lone Seal is a Done
Deal
- a. Operating under the
spiritual umbrella of the
church
- b. Operating in teams
- c. Need for Intercessors d. Referral Sources
- B. Protection for the
Ministry: Spiritual Warfare for the Ministry
Team
- a. Protection for Yourself,
Your Spouse and Your Children
- b. Protection For the Team -
Before, During and After
Ministry
- C. Ministry
Don’ts
- a. Don’t criticize the
efforts of other Christians
- b. Warnings to people
praying
Chapter 12:
Inspirational Thoughts for the Righteous Believer Who Doesn’t Receive a Healing
in their
Lifetime
- A. Perseverance
- B. Weak and Tormented?
- C. Acknowledging the real
state of the
body
- D. Earnestly seeking pleases
God
- E. Persistence and
Endurance
- F. A Few More Comments on
Job
Chapter 13: Methodology for Healing the Sick
- A. Love: 1 Corinthians 13
- B. Basic
Guidelines
- C. Impartation and
Manifestation of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
- D.
Self-Examination
- E. Setting up the
Ministry
- a.
Introductions
- b. Initial
Interview
- c. Description of how the
healing prayer ministry will be
done
- d. Initial
Prayers
- e. Quick Miracle
Prayer
- f. Other Methods of Healing
That Are
Quick
- g. Dealing with the Blocks
to Healing
- 1. Holy Spirit Not Flowing
Through the Person Praying
- 2. Holy Spirit Not Able to
Pass from Person Praying to the Sick Person
- 3. Blocks within the Sick
Person
- h. After the Healing Session
is Done – Follow-Up Instructions for the Sick Person
- i. Debriefing With the
Team
- j. Protection Prayers for
the
Team
- F. Healing Prayer for
yourself
- G. Healing prayer over the
phone
Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Jewish
understanding of evil, demons and
Satan
- Appendix 2: Dealing With
Curses
- Appendix 3: Creating a
Blessed Object and What To Do With A Blessed
Object
- Appendix 4: Confessing The
Sins Of The
Ancestry
- Appendix 5: Laying Hands on
the
Sick
- Appendix 6: Shutting Down
Demons for
Healing
- Appendix 7: The Process of
Healing
Prayer
- Appendix 8: Quick Miracle
Prayer
- Appendix 9: The Checklist Of
Possible Blocks to
Healing
- Appendix 10: The Basics of
Spiritual
Protection
- Appendix 11: Functions of
the
Trinity
- Appendix 12: Orthodox and
Catholic Baptism and Anointing with
Oil
- Appendix 13: Diagnosing Spiritual
Problems
- Appendix 14: Making
Theological Sense of
Evil/Satan/Demons
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