 Okay, thanks again for joining in Let's pray and we'll get started. Shall we? Heavenly Father, we Come before your throne of grace. We humble ourselves before you. You're before your presence And Lord how wonderful and how beautiful are you Lord? How magnificent how holy How lovely are you Jesus Or we thank you for another day another week That you added into our lives. We thank you that your faithfulness sustains us that your mercy upholds us Thank you, Holy Spirit that every day of our lives you lead us you speak to us you guide us You are always with us. We thank you for your promise that says you will never leave us nor forsake us So thank you for everything For who you are and what you're doing in our lives in each and every single person's lives and Lord as we continue to read about and study about Your heart for us Lord, I pray that Holy Spirit that you would fill us with your knowledge with your understanding with your wisdom To understand your heart for us Jesus as we study about the subject of healing and deliverance father. I Pray that our heart would be filled with compassion just like your heart was In Jesus name I pray amen Amen, okay Great. I hope you all are doing well We were in the last class be covered a huge portion of chapter 7 in your your hard copies So from page 159 Some of the things that I just want to do a quick recap of everything we've covered in the last class chapter 7 is practical guidelines on ministering healing and One of the things that we highlighted was that you can speak about this same topic Same points and just change the name of the title To practical guidelines to receiving healing. You will have two different summons with the same points, right? So Couple of things few things what we learned was be minister healing through the personal faith in God through the prayer of agreement through the prayer of faith Through a word of command Through the laying on of hands through the announcement of faith through acting in faith Through the gifts of the Holy Spirit through the healing anointing through special anointing through repentance and renunciation of sin Through deliverance through the exercise of faith when celebrating the Lord's table through the use of prayer cloths through other unusual methods And that's where we kind of stopped at but I hope you had a chance to go through the rest of the chapter when you did but before we move on to chapter 8 I just wanted to Talk about a few things in chapter 7 as a conclusion in again and you see that in page 119 in your PDFs and a page 180 in your textbooks 180 in your hard copies I just want to talk very briefly about Getting people to exercise their faith and we'll kind of conclude this chapter, right? Is that okay? Are you all with me? Just give me a yes Okay, a thumbs up or whatever Awesome. Okay, cool. Thank you Right, so getting people to exercise their faith It's very important So a few simple guidelines when encouraging people to step out and exercise their faith Do it by spirit It ensure that the Holy Spirit is prompting you to speak this to them Otherwise bring positive encouragement so that they do what they are comfortable doing while exercising their faith Do it by the spirit Be led by the Holy Spirit that seems to be like the theme that has to be the theme of everything that we do in life But especially in this ministry is just being sensitive to the leading of his spirit Holy Spirit What are you telling us to do? What do you want me to do? Just being surrendered to him Which leads us to the other point that says do not be presumptuous Right, for example, if you're praying for a person, you know person comes and says please pray for my eyes You pray for them and now you don't you don't tell them to take their glasses and okay, okay You don't need this through the glasses off You know, you don't take the place of the doctor right that's acting of that's Just acting very ignorantly, right don't be presumptuous, okay So an example mentioned here is if a person using visual aids such as glasses or contact lens Say they are acting their faith and presumptuously get gets rid of their visual aids There could be serious consequences On the other hand when their eyes are healed Wearing glasses would be very uncomfortable for them That is the right time to take off their visual aids you you know you can ask them so and One of the things that you can always do after praying for them and after asking them to exercise their faith and You know in this context if they just prayed for their eyes instead of Acting ignorantly taking their glasses and throwing it away or whatever You know, you ask them to remove the glasses and see if they can read well like they you know And if they couldn't read well And and then ask them to go back to their you know to their doctor and get their eyes checked and whatnot Right, it's always good to be led by the spirit not to be presumptuous or ignorant or act out of Your arrogance. There's a there's a tinge of arrogance also involved in that Right. Don't let the excitement of the moment cause you to act foolishly Exercise wisdom Right and that will come by being led by the Holy Spirit Do not take the doctor's place. I don't give medical advice. Don't say, okay You need to stop taking your medicines now. You don't have to go to the treatment. It's all done You know, I prayed for you don't take the medicines and all of that, you know I don't take the place of the doctor. Okay, let them do this based on the consultation with their doctor Okay, so these are very important points for us to keep in mind when we are ministering in healing and deliverance, right? I hope you guys are with me And another thing which we've also spoken about in the previous chapters is to teaching them to maintain their healing Right to You know people need to learn how to meditate in the word of God once they've been prayed on You know, once they've been healed right to meditate on the word of God to build their faith in God to keep their healing and Walk in faith, right? I cannot walk ignorantly after again. We've spoken of so many examples, right? We If you've been healed of diabetes You will do you will take every precaution to walk in a healthy manner and not walk life and do life Ignorantly and and open doors or create circumstances where that That disease can come back Okay And so teaching people to maintain their healing to meditate in God's word to walk in faith to that builds their faith as well Okay So some of the personal preparation to minister healing. This is coming down to us now as leaders Personal preparation and how you can prepare yourself to minister healing It's the foundation the fundamental and the most basic things is growing in the word of God Are you growing in the word of God? Do you love the word of God? Are you steady studying the word of God? Are you meditating on the word of God? Are you just letting his word dwell in your heart meditating your heart? You know grow in your heart, right? So let the word on healing Anointing miracles deliverance authority be established richly in us through Continual meditation someone is a classic example of that, isn't it? Our faith in God must be strong and one of the ways faith is developed is through the word of God So grow in the word ask yourself if you're growing in the word Growing in the annoying thing Okay, so growing the word growing the anointing You know develop deep communion and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit Praying in tongues worshipping him setting aside time To just grow in that intimate Relationship with him is key and that is how you grow in the anointing and you also grow in anointing by Serving under other leaders or other ministers of God Who are in this ministry? Right, which is very important as well. So desire for more of his presence more of his power And pay the price any price that needs to be paid to grow in the anointing Okay and because that The same anointing that all these great generals of God has functioned under you know from Charles Spurgeon to a John G lake To anybody that you want to mention Catherine Coleman or Benny Hinn etc etc whoever you want to mention Who's had a very successful healing ministry? It it's the same Jesus who anoints them And it's the same Jesus who wants to anoint us and fill us Right and the again it all comes down to your question your your side of the equation is how far Or how much of the price are you willing to pay? Right. Are you willing to go after him to seek him more? Are you so growing in the word growing in the anointing? Growing in intimacy through obedience prayer worship and fasting maintaining purity of heart We must maintain a pure heart. We must guard our hearts from wrong motivations from competition jealousy pride and self This is one of the reasons why we do during the orientation of pc We do this we cover a pc publication laying the axe to the root If you remember, I think we did this for you guys also Right laying the axe to the root and there we cover all of these things Right guard your heart from jealousy of all from pride. It will absolutely kill you Destroy your your destroy you personally and also your ministry Read your relationship with other people and whatnot. So I do everything in your You know in with your within your power to Protect your heart to guard your heart To constantly keeping the prayer saying search me and know me see if there is any wicked ways in me Allowing God to look into your heart and say lord Let my heart be steadfast Let my heart be steadfast. Let my heart be steadfast. Let my heart be humble before you I am your servant. Let no jealousy or pride enter me at any point in time Right, because this is very clearly the downfall of It can be the downfall and I think I've I've I've been in ministry as a christian and in ministry long enough to see that That how these two things have destroyed people that is jealousy and pride Um I hope you understand what I'm talking about correct, uh, right If it just absolutely ruin your life So do everything in your mind to guard your heart to protect your heart. You guys with me Yeah, um, so grow in word grow an annoying thing grow in intimacy through obedience prayer worship and fasting A maintain purity of heart Now grow in faith through stepping out Grow in faith through stepping out Time and time again. We've spelt faith as risk. Isn't it? R. I. S. K. So you take that step of risk And you know, and and that's how you will grow in faith Take that step of faith and pray for the individual that you see that needs to be prayed for Don't be afraid Ask the holy spirit to guide you to give you the spirit of boldness because he has given us the spirit of boldness and courage Right and finally always giving god all the glory Always always always always Give god all the glory Right, um, because with me this is these are all just fundamental Basic points for any christian any believer to grow in Right, you grow in the word grow an anointing intimacy to obedience prayer worship and fasting Maintaining purity of heart Growing in faith through stepping out and always giving god all the glory Right, and if all this is set in place, you're on the way to a very successful ministry Right you guys with me alive Okay Okay, now let's go into the next Chapter Chapter 8 A simple model for ministering healing Right a simple model for ministering Healing One of the key points in this course is it's one of the many is that It's not only the pastors or the evangelists or teachers who can minister in healing and deliverance, but The point is to encourage every believer to step out and And minister healing and deliverance Okay, and so out of that In the last chapter we learned about some of the guidelines to ministering healing and deliverance and this chapter We'll we look at a model Okay, so model for ministering healing. So what is a When you when you say, okay, this is a model to minister healing or this is a model to do something Why is it important you in do you think it's important to follow a model Or a blueprint You think it's important to have some kind of a blueprint before we Start building something Yes, no maybe so You know this chapter is built upon the The teaching by john whimper This is called a five step model Which is presented by john whimper now john whimper is the founder of vineyard ministries John whimper used to work for a corporate company for the longest time and one day he gets frustrated about okay Okay, you know about his life saying what am I doing for his kingdom and whatnot he And so he starts this ministry which which is now popularly known as vineyard Most of you would have heard it and it was a beautiful moment in the 80s in the 90s A lot of churches have been planted worldwide And so many songs have been birthed out of this movement Which was started by john whimper The founder of vineyard churches okay, so we we learn of You know a five step model to how to minister healing But what I want us to keep in mind is that this is not the only way to minister healing Okay, but it is a simple model that has been taught and it's been effective In a bearing powerful fruit in So many people's lives and so that's what we will be looking at today in this chapter Okay, another point that I want to reiterate Is that as we go through these different steps of this as we go through this model Remember that the healing is in the person of Jesus Christ Healing is in this presence and not in the process Right. So having said that let's look at the first step in this model of ministering healing Uh The first thing is what we first step is what we called as the interview Right. So a person comes to uh, you know for prayer requests for prayer And you begin by asking okay, what would you like me to pray for? Okay, uh, where does it hurt? Etc. Right. What can I pray for? So you begin with that question okay now Please note that you may we may not have you know the time to ask all these questions You know all the time People will sometimes you have 50 people 100 people coming to just pray And sometimes you may have the chance or the opportunity to ask them And there will be times where you will not have the time Or the chance to ask them. So it's okay. Remember. This is just a model. Okay It's a good place to start. It's a good reference point for us to learn to minister healing and deliverance And so ask them. Okay. Uh, where does it hurt or what would you like me to pray for? Um, you know, some of the questions that we can ask is what is your name? Uh, you know, what would you like to pray for? Um, and then You know, once you have that you can ask you how long have you had this condition? Do you know what the cause is? Have you seen a doctor? What the what does the doctor say? about this Do you remember what was happening in your life and this condition started? Did anything traumatic happen to you about the time your condition began or within a few months prior to starting? so You see what I mean by that you will not always have the time to ask all these questions Right. Uh, so it's okay if you don't get to ask all these questions It's just a reference point and see what kind of question is appropriate at that point of time For you to take that step. Okay. Most of the time at least in from my experience. It's been What is your name? That is just to become get more personal and to pray for them specifically if you if you don't have the time to get What their prayer request is and whatnot if there if there's a lot of crowd and whatnot What I would suggest or encourage you to do is to at least get their name And so you can pray for them by their name Okay, so you ask for their name and then you ask them for their condition You know, what can I pray for? Uh, is there anything specific that I can pray for? How did it happen? What did the doctor say about it? Etc etc That is the first step right because you're getting specific about it. You're not just doing a random prayer You need to know. Okay. It's the pain in the right wrist or the left wrist. It's a certain x-ray You know, that says a certain fracture And what must you as you get more specific you get to speak to that condition directly Right. You say for example, okay, it's the left wrist That's broken And if it's a certain and if the person even says that this is certain bone because every bone has its own name But it's okay. And you speak to that particular bone to that condition to that fracture You know, and do you declare the name of Jesus over that? It's all about getting specific Isn't it? So that's what the step is all about. So once you finish the step one, you kind of begin the diagnosis You can ask begin to ask yourself and them Why do they have this condition? Right. So this step is about identifying the root of the person's problem There's again, if possible And now this step is not always necessary Okay, this step is not always necessary, but it's helpful In as we minister healing and deliverance to this person. Okay, so Now in the first step, you're in you're asking all these questions to the individual say, okay, what's your name? What's the condition? What can I pray for and whatnot? As you are listening to this person, you must also listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying Right, your heart is in line as you're listening to this person. And you know, it's uh Yeah, it's like multitasking. I guess okay, so you're listening to this person intently And you're also asking the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit Uh, help me out here. What do you have to speak to this person? What do you have to say about this person? How do you want me to minister to this person? Right and so at that point of time as the person has finished sharing the Holy Spirit may give you a word of knowledge Of a vision or a picture or something some insight for you to in helping you to minister to that individual Right, so this step again is called as the diagnosis as to why they have this condition It's not always necessary. But then If you go through this step, there may be several reasons as to why you may think that this individual Has a certain condition, right? It could be several right. It could be a natural cause A disease or an accident or it could be a sin committed by them or to them Uh, right emotional hurts causing physical or other pain relationship problems a lack of forgiveness or or supernatural And and maybe demonic right for example, let's say a person Comes and shares You know and and they say that they haven't been able to forgive a certain individual because they've hurt them You you immediately know what the issue is it's unforgiveness that has led to bitterness and you kind of ask them, okay How long ago was this, you know, this person did something 10 years ago And this person has been dwelling on it for 20, you know, 10 years You know, they've been holding that offense in their heart and that's led to That offense has led to unforgiveness and that unforgiveness has led to bitterness and bitterness has opened the door for The the demonic to you know, take a foothold in their lives and so you immediately know What what the condition is and what has caused the condition? and now you know To what you have to speak to and declare to Are you guys with me? Are you guys following what you know, uh, the importance of this step, right? I hope you are with me Right. Um, so again, uh To reiterate as you're listening to the person it is extremely important You're not just praying, you know for this person. Yeah, it's like See as christians as ministers as leaders We get used to praying to a lot of people Right, uh, maybe at the beginning of the service or the end of the service people come to say is like pastor Can you pray for me and what not and and it is it is very easy for us to treat That individual like, okay, let me just pray and move on in life because i'm very tired It's very easy, but um, so you know, there's one thing I learned I used to work in a call center Between 2005 to 2009 It's quite some time ago So and I would take approximately A day On an average I would get a hundred calls. So that's hundred different customers Okay, um, so one thing what I learned is they would say Look guys, you know It's true that you might be getting a hundred calls a day. That means it's a hundred different customers Uh, and for me it's a hundred different customers, but for them It's their first call to you Are you with me? So they're not going to understand that you they are they are the 60th person to call you They are the 99th person to call you So you don't expect them to understand that you are tired and what not you treat them as As if they are your first customer Okay, this is just a little corporate insight Uh, and so similarly for us as leaders as christian leaders as pastors It's very easy for us to get into that zone. Say, okay, let me just pray and get on move on with lifetypes But uh, every individual's challenge Is is important and that's why they come to you for prayer And and we pray and we minister to them in the name of jesus we are You know, we are in the place of jesus right when we say i minister to you in the name of jesus You are in the place of jesus to them and you would minister to them your heart ought to be filled with compassion for that individual Are you guys with me? Yeah And so you gauge You know what they're going through and what the holy spirit wants to do in their lives So that is the second step of diagnosing their condition And that leads to uh, and now Okay, so you know what the problem is, you know, who they are, you know, what's causing their condition, etc and now you Uh decide on the method or method selection what kind of method to use when ministering Okay, what kind of method you want to use ministering. Okay, you remember what we've learned It's not about the method or the process. It's in the person of jesus and its presence Okay, but then you choose a method to to minister some of the common ways to You know become the common methods is laying on of hands anointing with oil Petition simply inviting the holy spirit asked for healing Intercessory prayer The command of faith pronouncement of faith Binding and rebuking demonic powers for giving and renouncing past hurts and wounds Okay Couple of things to watch out for one of the common ways as mentioned is laying down laying on of hands Oh What what I'd like to do is Be it The same sex person or the opposite sex male or female. I'd like to get the permission of the person I asked them is okay Uh, is it okay if I lay my hands on your head? Is it okay if I if I hold your hands? um and and I think it's It's a it's a good thing to do right because you don't know Uh, how an individual might feel someone some might feel okay and comfortable with you laying your hands on them And another individual might not it doesn't matter their gender Or it could be male or female. It doesn't matter But as soon as you ask their permission and I think it allows it Uh, it's almost like they are a lot. They're okay. They're letting yourself they're letting, you know, you're in To say, okay. Yes, you can come and lay your hands on me Right, or you could if they are not Uh You know, you could ask another person to lay their hands on that person the way it's hurting We could ask the person to do that for themselves. Okay, so laying on of hands anointing with oil Um petition intercessory prayer um Forgiving and renouncing past hurts and wounds That that is, you know, lead the person in a prayer to forgive those who have wrong or uh Sorry, I thought something was wrong there You lead the person in a prayer to forgive those who have who may have wronged Or depend of doing wrong to others Uh, right again, these are all uh, some of the methods ways in how you can minister um To to the person that you are ministering to okay. Um, there is an example that is mentioned in your notes. Let's take a look at it Um For example, here is a ministry that is a combination of several things. Let us say a person named john Has several problems in their lower back due to an injury Here is one way to minister. Okay. It's one of the ways to minister Uh, you say if possible john place your hand, uh, you know, you say place your hand on their back or have someone else Place their hand on their on the person's back Um, you would then minister saying in jesus name I bind and cast out any spirit of infirmity affecting john's back Uh in jesus name. I command healing to john's back. I command healing to the vertebrae Discs and nerves and command these to go into their proper place Come holy spirit release your healing virtue on john's back and make him completely well in jesus name Okay, this is again one of the ways uh to minister To a person one of the methods that you can use there's multiple methods that's involved there Here Okay, any thoughts any questions guys so far? Okay. All right Let's move on to the next section. Um The ministry ministering and watching what god is doing Okay, uh, the ministry itself as you are praying now Uh, you also watch what god is doing right? So while we are ministering, uh, We would normally keep our eyes open to see what god is doing Don't have to but you can keep your eyes closed as well Uh, you know, but you know as we as we see slight improvements We are we are being encouraged and we are encouraging the person to act in faith as well Right and so you ask the person if they feel anything or do they feel any difference? You know and most of the time someone would say You know, they would say okay. I feel like a heat going through or like a wind that's blowing etc etc and then, you know Uh, if you try one kind of prayer or command and get results, but not complete healing Uh, continue to explain to the person that god wants to God wants them completely well Right and so you you continue to pray for them saying, okay, you know, I I could not stretch my hands fully For example, if you've been playing praying for their uh for their elbow or whatnot They're saying I could not stretch it out fully, but I'm able to stretch out so much and my pain has reduced Uh, you continue to pray and say, okay. Can I continue to pray saying god wants to heal you completely and hold Right, so you continue to pray and whatnot so And in this process another important question to ask is uh, when do we stop? Right, so you okay now you've prayed you've seen partial improvement partial healing That this person has received When do you stop a couple of pointers for us to remember is you can stop when the person is completely healed That's one thing Right, uh, and or when person says when the person wants you to stop. Okay, pass a thing. It's enough. It's okay Um, you don't say no. No, I will pray for you No matter what uh, they will not come back to your church Uh, right, so when the person wants you to stop respect that honor that When the holy spirit tells you to stop saying hey, that's enough be sensitive and just stop Uh, you're not given any other way to pray or you're not gaining any ground, you know, if you see, okay Uh, okay, there's you've prayed the person has not told you anything What you can do is okay this way what I will say is uh Um Not sure if this is right about the common sense. Okay, let's be okay. You know, you've pushed enough You've tried enough, but you say, okay, uh, you know, you can go back home continue to pray and we will continue to pray for you and And you know, you encourage the person and say a god will come to you god will heal you completely Okay, so those are the few pointers for us to remember as we are ministering Healing and deliverance of the key important points is to make it personal You know diagnose what they're going through And then you minister to them and you choose a method that you want to minister in And and be sensitive to when you have to stop Okay, um, and finally the post ministry suggestions What should they do to keep their healing? Right, uh, what should they do to keep their healing? Um, so if the opportunity arises speak to the person about their personal salvation if they are not yet saved Right, so if they are not yet saved speak to the person about the personal salvation. So uh an unbeliever a non-believer comes and Pray and asks for prayer once you prayed for them and you present the gospel to them Right you and say, uh, you know This is available the gift of eternal life is available through Jesus Christ. Are you willing? To accept So you're presenting the gospel, right? Uh, you talk to them about their personal salvation and And then you also continue to tell them say, you know, you talk about what john chapter 5 verse 14 says Uh, you know after jesus heals the cripple man. He says sin no more less the worst thing come up on you Right, so you encourage them to spend time with god Uh to stay involved with the church if they are not connected to a church You encourage them to get connected or help them get connected to one of the local churches that you might know of In the vicinity I'll get their number their contact details and keeping in touch with them making sure that they are plugged into one of the churches Is is an important method post ministry right, um What if they are not healed This is again a question that we've addressed in the previous chapters, but Reassure them that god loves them Right encourage them to keep on in faith and continue to pray persevere in faith Right, uh, one of the things that we should not do or avoid at all cost is to accuse the person uh Which you are not healed because of Generational curse or some hidden sin or you are not cause you of little faith. You lack faith uh, you know We will never take the place of accusation or accuse the person saying you are not being you are not healed because of this This this this uh, we do not say that at all. We encourage the person saying what loves you It is his nature and his desire to see you made whole Right, uh, and so we are only his instruments if the healing does not happen Uh, we just need to press into him and seek him more And um, so these are the five step model To a minister healing Right. So what are they first thing is the interview You ask them, where does it hurt? What would you like me to pray for? Second is the diagnosis Right, why do they have this condition the root cause or root causes? Uh, and you the method of selection, right? You choose which method that you want to Pray or your minister, right? The ministry the ministering you watch them as you're ministering as you are praying for them You see what is happening. You see what god is doing um, okay, and then post ministry suggestions is What should they do to keep their healing and the importance of getting connected to a church and whatnot All right, guys. Are you all with me? Do you have any questions or thoughts that you want to ask or share? All right, then, uh, there are no questions. We'll stop our session. Let me just stop recording this session