 Okay, welcome back to the second session of a ministering healing and deliverance Right, so we looked at the point that talks about a basis for ministering healing and deliverance the spirits power Holy Spirit right who is available for us To minister healing and deliverance because we saw Jesus Ministered in with the power of the Holy Spirit in John chapter 14 15 and 16 Okay, I can make a note of it. I mean you want to you can read it Jesus did not just minister with the power of the Holy Spirit. He also Pot about the Holy Spirit to his disciples. That's John chapter 14 15 and 16 every now and then he said, okay No, I have to go away. It is good for me to go away and only then the helper the comforter will come Right so in those three chapters. He talks about different times where the Holy Spirit will be sent as a promise That has been made available for us. Okay One of the one scriptures in the notes It's page 77 for me, but in first quarantine's chapter 12 verse 7 first Corinthians chapter 12 verse 7 it says but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all Right and then Paul also writes in the book of Corinthians that says hey all you Christians earnestly desire best gifts of the Spirit in First Corinthians chapter 12 Talks about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, isn't it? How many gifts are there? Okay, everybody's aware of that All right, so Paul says earnestly desire the best gifts now let's take an example, right? Let's say we have an electric. We have this building has an electrical problem You know and we call who do we call to fix it doctor. It's so We call Prince to fix the electric electrical problems. Okay Hopefully you will call the electrician Right and so we have an electrical problem the electrician comes and And so he comes with this. I'm very nice company uniform and then he comes with his Sure Okay, so but what if he came with just a certificate that like sir, please see they go either they go may or Uniform see my you know beautifully ironed and then see my certificate It's beautifully laminated gold and all is there, you know What will you respond like like okay, sir all that is nice and well It's all good. I like a uniform. It's all nice. The certificate also very nice Tell me how are you going to fix the problem because I don't see any tools that you be carrying with right Now we are called to represent Jesus Right now we can't go into the world to be a witness by just saying you know wearing a nice shirt and pant me and say okay Please see, you know everything is clean and I come with a certificate saying that I'm a Christian look my baptism date is also there All of that all of that is nice and good, but what good is it so if we don't function and move in the spirit of God Right and when we say it's the gifts of the Holy spirit, please notice that it is not the gift of an individual It's not called gift of Russian or gift of pasta ashish or gift of female. Right. It's the gift of the Holy spirit. He gives us the gift and Paul says earnestly desire the best gifts Now I know the scriptures mentioned nine gifts But I'm sure there are more because we can't limit God to a specific number. Okay. He's there's only nine gifts Mine is mentioned all in good, but they could be so much more But what do you mean by best gifts earnestly desire and pursue best gifts now again? Let's come back to that electrical problem you know There could be various electrical problems, isn't it now if the electrician comes with only one tool Will it help him? No, right. You sure there's a saying in the music world. It says, okay If you know for for a workman if he has only a hammer If he only has a hammer Everything will look like a nail to him. You know what I'm saying, right? And so what is the best gift me? So for each different electrical problem an electrician should have an appropriate tool From a screwdriver to the tester to a cutting player to whatever he needs, isn't it? You can't fix all the problem with just one tool Right. It's not like the Swiss knife Swiss knife has the fork and the spoon and the knife and the nail cut everything built in So the best gifts are the gifts that are suited for that moment Right. If someone needs a healing you need the gift of healing for the Holy Spirit to flow through you If someone is going through say depression or whatever and needs a financial breakthrough and whatnot You need the spirit and the gift of wisdom to work through you. Are you guys with me? Right and all of this is made is made available for each and every one of us. Okay, and And so with that in mind, we'd also talk about faith at a personal level We are encouraged to pursue this the power of the Holy Spirit the baptism of the Holy Spirit in our personal level Can someone read Romans chapter 8? Rinn is very smart. Okay. It's not the whole chapter. No Romans chapter 8 was 10 and 11 A little louder. Okay. Thank you. So just The beginning of verse 10, what does it say if but if Christ is in you Then even though your body is subject to death because of sin That means because of sin our body is Dead so even if our body is dead in sin, but if Jesus is in us the spirit gives Life because of righteousness and then we come to verse 11 and it says But if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you Look at that powerful verse right if the spirit of him Who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you he who raised Christ from the dead will also give Life to your mortal bodies because of his spirit who lives in you Amen So again, God is just reminding us beautifully that hey this Holy Spirit is also for you personally It's for you to believe and for you to be equipped and for you to be empowered right for you to Feel alive. Are you guys with me? So that was the point the of basis for ministering healing and deliverance is the Holy Spirit is available for us The next basis for ministering healing and deliverance is the Is the name of Jesus Okay Can someone read Luke chapter 10 verse 1 verse 17 and verse 19 or 17 to 19 Amen, thank you. Okay, so it says in verse 17 the Lord even the demons are subject to us in In whose name Okay in your name amen So that is look chapter 10 verse 17 That's one of the lines that says Lord even the demons are subject to us in your name John chapter 14 verse 13 John chapter 14 verse 13 says and whatever you ask in My name that I will do that the father may be glorified in the son But whatever you ask in my name that I will do Okay, most scriptures mark chapter 16 verse 17 to 18. Can someone read that please? Thank you. Thank you. All right. So in my name, they will cast out demons and they will speak with new tongues Okay, one more scripture can someone read James chapter 5 verse 14 and 15. Thank you. So is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and The prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up and if he has committed since he will be forgiven Okay, one last scripture for us I'm sure there are more scriptures, but let's go to Acts chapter 9. It's not in your notes Acts chapter 9 Let's read verse 15 acts chapter 9 verse 15. Okay acts chapter. I'm sorry, right? 9 was 15. Yes. So acts chapter 9 was 15. What is the context of this passage and some until Ananias By pressing soul, okay, so what has happened in this chapter so far? Saul was on the road to Damascus and he encounters Jesus Jesus asked him, why do you persecute me? Saul Paul goes blind And then God tells Ananias to go meet him to baptize him Ananias is scared like Lord Don't you know that he was sent by the chief from Jerusalem to come and persecute as Christians here and you are going to You're telling me to go and meet him but verse 15 starts off by saying the Lord said To Ananias Go This man is my chosen instrument. This version says to carry my name to what? To carry my name. Okay. Here's what I want you to do. I guess look up and all quickly begin to name All the brands that come to your mind even those online, whatever brands come to your mind just start typing it out You know what a brand is right? Sorry Say it what? Brand guys, come on. Was I always like no, I don't go I do Nokia Apple, okay Samsung guys besides phone brands also, okay Then we begin to say, okay, yes one s2 s3 s4 guys Okay, some of the famous brands of any brand come on Calvin Klein, okay the word What? Louis Philip. Okay. All right. Louis Philip. Okay Adidas when he was in what else? Nike All right guys online. What's happening? Zara, okay Casio, okay Reebok. All right. There we go. Sorry Armani exchange. Okay. Yamaha. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. Sure. Why okay. What? T-shirt G-shock. Okay Panasonic, okay It looks like Prabhu is the only one online who uses who knows something about the brand. I say Okay, guys, okay some automobiles automobile brands Friends, okay Mercedes, okay Apple, okay Lamborghini Ferrari Audi Rolls-Royce Okay, no one wants to say Honda or no one wants to say Maruti Suzuki. All Benz Lamborghini Justin says Mahindra. Yeah So what You know Pajaj. All right Royal and feel okay Ferrari. Okay. All right guys Thank you Sorry. Oh, we need to have you have more. Yeah. What's that kinetic kinetic Honda. Okay. Okay. Okay Right. Wow. I mean, I am there are more right like some designer brands or whatever You go you go to some of these local markets in majestic. You come across brands that you've never heard You're all baptized So All these names that brands right that you mentioned like all of these companies They exist and they want you to carry their name Right like all of these companies like they want you to carry their name But you have the apple wants you to have their Apple iPhone whatever so when you use okay, everybody sees okay He's got an iPhone or a Samsung Then S1 is to know a Panasonic Whatever, right? Let me talk about Zara or Calvin Klein and What else is Okay, Nike Reebok And then cars right so all of these companies. What do they want? They want you to carry their name. You know where I'm going with this, right? Yeah, so even this badge that I'm wearing it says drama She's like, oh, this is you know But Jesus is saying to Ananias I have chosen him He's a chosen vessel a chosen instrument. Look at those beautiful choice of words. I says, okay, he is a Chosen instrument when we say the word instrument I say, okay, this is these are all instrument, right? We say, okay Hey, I'm using this guitar because I really like it. I like its brand. I've so I've chosen it. It sounds good Get what I'm saying and Jesus is saying he's a chosen instrument chosen by who? God himself I Have chosen him to carry my name Are you with me and the same thing applies to us The view are a chosen instrument to carry his name like a badge on you Are you with me guys? right and so that is The power in the name of Jesus that God has given to us and and so when we say in the name of Jesus when we say that We are gathered together in the name of Jesus. We have reduced it to finishing a prayer It is so much more than just ending a prayer by saying in the name of Jesus. We pray amen That's all we think the value is When you of Jesus our gathering should look like the gatherings during the time of Jesus Like what did he do? Right, you can just imagine the presence the anointing the power that would fill the room When Jesus was present Are you with me? Everybody's eyes would be on him. Are you guys with me? If we just realize that that when we are gathered together in the name of Jesus No, we will no longer be distracted by a musician on stage or worship leader anyone When we are gathered together in the name of Jesus, we know if he is there The worship leader doesn't even have to tell fix your eyes on Jesus Your eyes will by default be on him because you know he is there Right and then when we say that God has sent us go I send you in my name. That means You and I are standing on behalf of Jesus to pray for the person to minister to that person What did I say you are Standing there on behalf of Jesus you are Representing Jesus the represent is two words right represent You are representing Jesus nobody knows the power of this more than children The power of using someone's name I forgive me for keep using the example of my son He wants to come say TV I want to see TV like data put TV I said no If I didn't know that my wife has already told him that yeah, you can watch TV He will start manifesting But mama told me mama told me mama told you and then I like oh boy gone now He is we're gonna be very hard to control him. Why because He comes to me with whose authority You see he understands that so Jesus says okay, you have to become like children Right, you have to because it's like a childlike faith like childlike innocence And we start acting up demons will get scared of us Because we we go and David he says is like, I don't come to you with swords or javelin I come to you in the name of the lord Right when he goes to when he goes and stands before Goliath Right and then so we need to remember that when we use the name of Jesus We are standing in his place Representing him. We are acting on his behalf Are you with me? You I'm sure you've heard of Say acting leader or acting captain or acting Pastor acting pastor sounds wrong. You heard of it. What does it mean? On behalf of this leader You are right. So that means you will every decision is up to you Are you with me? Yes, no, maybe Right, so the lord Jesus has all authority in heaven and earth and he's given us that authority Amen, uh, let's look at one last scripture for this point in Philippians chapter 2 Philippians chapter 2 verse 9 Okay, therefore God has highly exalted him and Given him the name which is above every name Amen, and so when we use the name of Jesus, we are essentially acting in the highest authority available That's liners in your notes when we use the name of Jesus We are essentially acting in the highest authority available highest Nothing should scare us Guys, so remember We've looked at so many bases for ministering healing and deliverance. We looked at that it's God's nature We looked that because of the cross and the blood of Jesus Now that should be more than enough But God is so good. He's given us his word But he is more good. He's given us his name to use is like Take it Take my name Tell him my good. I said so Right He's given us his spirit But one of the key points in all of this is he invites us to minister healing and deliverance in faith We have that we know the understanding of the cross the blood the name the word But then there is one thing that he expects of us is that Come to him in Faith that is the next point Faith in God is essential when ministering healing and Deliverance Okay, now there's a time there's a section in your scriptures We'll read that in just a second in Matthew chapter 17 was 19 to 21 the disciples of Jesus try to pray They say, okay, nothing happened Lord. What you know, why didn't anything happen to this person when we prayed? um, so Jesus responds in Matthew 17 19 it says Then the disciples came to Jesus privately Because they didn't want to be embarrassed and like, you know, you wait for the person to be alone and then you go and ask Okay, very clever. It's like Why could we not cast it out? So Jesus said to them because of your unbelief Like a very Indian way of saying it, isn't it? So They go to him. Why didn't we cast it out? Because of your unbelief For assuredly I say to you if you have faith as a mustard seed You will say to this mountain move from here and it will move. We know the rest of the passage right, um I mean we spoke about faith earlier in this class. I mentioned faith is spelt how RISK risk Not rask, okay Faith is spelt risk. So is you take that step of faith We keep saying that right in our in a Christian circle take that step of faith Take that step of faith. See what happens. Take that step of faith. See what happens Everyone who came to Jesus in faith. He healed them all Right multitudes and multitudes came to him in faith and Jesus Healed them all in acts chapter three was 16 Uh acts chapter three was 16. It says and his name Through faith in his name Has made this man strong whom you see and know Yes, the faith which comes through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all This is peter Talking about a person that he had just healed Uh in the book of acts Uh, right. He's saying that okay through the faith and his name Uh, his healing was made possible Galatians chapter three verse five Galatians chapter three Verse five it says therefore he who supplies the spirit to you And works miracles among you Does he do it by the works of the law or by hearing of faith? It's a rhetorical question. It simply means it is by faith, right and so Faith is taking risk So many times we act like this healing is dependent on us Did you hear what I said? Most of the times we act like The healing is dependent on us something magical has to go out of my bones. It comes through my hands and like this Be healed Like iron man thing or the spider man nothing is coming, you know We act like that And that stops us from taking the risk and going and praying For someone really what doesn't nothing happens By now we shouldn't realize that okay healing is It's not who's the healer God and we are the vessel we are a chosen instrument All we need to do is pray Right, we take that step of faith we declare in the blood of jesus by this by his stripes you are healed Right you leave it to him the rest you do what you have to do Let him do what he has to do Isn't it and so that's what faith basically is that you take that step of faith in your ministry and go pray for the individual Don't think about okay. What's going to happen and whatnot, right? So even in our personal journey, there's a bunch of scriptures that uh, you know Mentioned in the bible for us to be encouraged in personal faith We rob the roman centurion Yeah The roman centurion right he is not even a jew He's a roman that means a Gentile He's coming and asking healing for his servant Right and of course, you know, uh, jesus Say he sends his word and be healed and whatnot, but jesus responds to him what he says Great is your faith Right, great is your faith and we also know about this canonite woman. Uh, you know, he says Lord, uh, you know If the whole passage talks about but i am here You know, how can I take the bread of children and give it to the dogs and whatnot? Uh, but she's not offended by that. Uh, he says, you know, she pursues She goes deeper and then say jesus again responds by saying be of good cheer daughter Your faith has made you well, right? And again to the blind man we see in matthew Matthew chapter nine was 29 all the blind man who came to uh came to him for healing Jesus says according to your faith Let it be to you According to your faith, let it be to you And again towards canonite woman in matthew chapter 15 Was 28 matthew 15 28 it says oh woman Great is your faith Let it be to you as you desire Amen Okay, um, so And and keep praying ask god to fill you with faith and you take that step of faith. Yes, anum. Yes Yeah, so like I said, no you you do what you have to do Right like you take that step of faith and you go heal and even receiving healing you can say, okay, there is no faith involved But to receive prayer There is A certain element of faith in there like a certain percentage of it. You can't see there's nothing there But what the bible says is if you have a faith like a mustard seed then that suffices So in the transaction even if one person has faith, it's a good deal Right. So when you're praying for a dead person to raise from the dead the dead person what faith he has He or she will have The person is dead. No, and so but you're praying in faith anyways, right? And so in the in the conversation if one person has faith and I think that suffices Answers, yeah Any questions so far any other questions besides yeah, right? Okay. So just for our online class students The question prince asked is so matthew 17 says, okay They were not able to heal because of their unbelief and there's another passage that talks about Where you know, they're not able to cast out demons and jesus said that okay, these kind will go with only Fasting and prayer right and so is it required to fast and pray for some? No, I don't want to categorize and say, okay You need fasting and prayer for these things these demons need fasting and prayer these demons don't need fasting and prayer This healing need fasting and fasting and prayer is for you for your faith to increase You with me What does fasting do is when you fast from a certain thing you are killing your flesh you are saying no to your flesh Right, when you say no to your flesh when you're when your flesh begins to die your spirit man begins to come alive And because god is spirit He speaks to our spirit. He keeps depositing things into our spirit Our spirit becomes sensitive to the presence of god our spirit becomes sensitive to the voice of god Are you with me? So you fast and pray for yourself for you to be You know and power for you to be edified etc etc, but Jesus did that regularly, isn't it? I mean jesus fasted and of course the bible records that he fasted and prayed once 40 days for you know, 40 nights I'm sure he did he did it, you know, so many more times and that's not that was not the first time That he did that And jesus, you know Look at his disciples in luke chapter 6 or somewhere The his disciples go to jesus and we know when when the topic of prayer comes. What do they say lord lord teacher teach us to teachers to pray Yes or no Yes or no, okay Okay, the disciples go to jesus and say lord lord teach us to pray now You guys come and ask me to Teach me music. Teach your music. Teach you to play guitar. Teach you drums Right Or if you know someone who cooks really well, it's like he teach me to you know Give me the recipe teach me how to cook this biryani and whatnot. Yes. Why do you ask that? Why do you ask a certain individual to teach you something? Because you think they are good at that Yes or no, you you ask me to teach you music because you think I know I'm good at music Right But you because you've seen me play the guitar or whatever And you will ask someone say your mother or someone to teach you how to cook like this Because when I'm married and gone, I'm not sure if my wife will cook me this. No, I'm just kidding Right Because you you've tasted it you've seen okay, she can cook well and I want to learn from her Isn't it and so when disciples ask Jesus to teach me and to pray They've seen him be a man of prayer Right day after day week after week month after month. They've been with Jesus They've seen him pray and they know he is good at this They with me and so they go to him and say Lord teach me to pray Teach us to pray And so that's the answer to your question is Prayer is It's never an option to just to do something Everything else happens because of your relationship with him and with the life of prayer Jesus lived an extensive life of prayer Are you guys with me? Okay, um, so next point talks about the basis of ministering healing and deliverance is the kingdom of god kingdom of God, let's can someone read matthew chapter 16 verse 18 and 19, please Okay, thank you. So, um, what is the context of this? um passage Okay, let's read. Let's read from verse 13. Okay Matthew chapter 16 verse 13 Okay, uh, all those online are you doing okay? Are you with me? Okay, Nina all good Hope you're still alive Okay, awesome. Thank you. Right Matthew chapter 16 verse 13. Let's go Thanks for more. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um, so verse 13 it starts off by saying when jesus came to the region of Caesarea filipi Okay, he asked his disciples who do people say to the son Say the son of man is now Uh, now I keep talking about geography quite a bit, right Um, Caesarea filipi Caesarea simply means uh, Caesar. It's uh, it's a town Named after Caesar and then Herod had three sons one of the sons name was filipi And so he named that region called Caesarea filipi. Okay, and there were a lot of Caesarea and other towns Now this was in the northern part of israel. So, you know north and south Right northern part of israel and the southern part of israel So Caesarea filipi was in the north after Galilee and everything now this region Was forbidden for Jews to go Jews were forbidden to go into that region Why because the most evil things would happen in that region There were all these roman gods and idols that was carved uh for One a greek god, I think called by the name of pan pan Pan, okay, uh, it was like a man's body with a goat face And everything evil would happen in that place uh from children's sacrifice to To all these sexual immoralities everything would happen in you know, like in that region And so Jews were forbidden from going into that region because it was absolutely Evil there were all these different statues of different gods and whatnot and and they would there was a huge cave Okay, you can imagine a cave, right? I'm just pointing here You just imagine a huge cave and inside that cave was this water this stream like a stream like a spring Which will come now Have you heard of mount herman? Mount herman in israel it's in the northern part. So this Caesarea filipi is just below mount Herman now herman mount herman is the highest Point in israel like highest peaks about nine thousand Feet right And so all these and it would be capped with snow And so during after the winter time during the spring and the summer the snow would melt And it would come down as a fresh spring of water just like our himalayas right it comes And so that water that region was very rich in fertile Because there was abundance of water and so inside this cave was a spring of water And what these people would do is they would sacrifice right offer sacrifices is they will either throw a goat Or sometimes babies whatnot Because they're praying for fertile fertility Now if the goat or any body if it doesn't come up They think okay their gods have accepted their offering And if it floats for them it is that means okay their gods have not accepted their offering So that cave that i'm talking about was known as the gateway into Hades that's what they called it What did they call it? So that cave thing that was the gate into the dark world according to them It is a that place in that part of the town jesus takes his disciples And these disciples can see everything what that is a place stands for and then he says You see all these gods You tell me who i am You tell me who i am And then simon peter says by the inspiration of the holy spirit you are the son of the living god And then jesus says right okay i also say to you you are peter that on this rock I will build my church on this rock is not a piece of rock On this revelation that you've just had jesus is saying that is the rock The revelation that i'm the son of the living god on that rock. I will build my church and the gates of Hades everything that you see here behind you guys The this cave this gates of hades will not prevail All this demonic thing will not prevail because the church will advance. Are you with me? Great, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you lose on earth will be Loosed in heaven Right, so what is the meaning of that is with that revelation? We will bind what is already bound in heaven We will lose what is already Loosed in heaven. That's the literal meaning of those lines. Are you with me? So we We minister healing and deliverance Knowing that the kingdom of god comes when we pray Now look at that line. It says the gates of hades shall not prevail Are you with me the gates of hades now? Does a gate move Does a gate as in besides opening and closing does it go forward? Does it come back? Does it go sideways? It's stationary, isn't it? Yes or no So gate doesn't advance it can't go anywhere besides it can open and close So here saying Jesus is saying I will build my church and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven What jesus is saying is the church You need to advance To this gate and destroy the gates of hell Gate is going to be stationary But the church needs to advance. We are called to advance. Why because jesus also says You can advance because it will not prevail You have you will have the victory We are not called to be complacent and comfortable and just chill Guys, we are called for war Knowing that all of heaven backs us when we go in the name of jesus Are you with me? right and finally the last point For basis of basis for ministering healing and deliverance is our commission We know the great commission in matthew chapter 28 Right It's the great commission in matthew chapter 28. It's not a great omission In john chapter 20 verse 21 jesus says as the father has sent me I also Send you Can someone read one john chapter 3 verse 8? One john chapter 3 verse 8 Thank you. All right. So for this reason for this purpose the son of god was manifested to destroy the works of the Devil now if jesus came Like jesus said right in john chapter 20 verse 21. It says I came because the father sent me and then in john one john 3 8 says he came to destroy the works of the devil And then we see that jesus says that as the father sent me. I send you to do what? Just enjoy Jolly I send you to go and destroy the works of the devil That is our commission. We are called to partner with the kingdom of god Right to establish his kingdom in on earth as it is in heaven. Amen Yeah, so that's it for today. We'll stop here and we'll resume in the next class of the way we left off. Yeah Um, can someone lead us in prayer and close the session? Okay. I pray and close father. We thank you Uh for this day. We thank you lord for we just want to pause and ponder about everything that you've done for us And everything that we have learned lord as we learned that Um, it is your nature to heal us. It is your nature to see as whole It is your nature. It is your intention your heart to see us live a beautiful life Thank you for the cross the blood that you shed for us. Thank you for giving us your word And thank you for giving us the authority of your name To declare your name Thank you for giving us and allowing us and trusting us and choosing us as your chosen instrument to carry your name Thank you for everything that you are doing in us. Thank you for everything that you've done for us And you're about to do through us lord and I pray that Lord that we would partner with you in being a witness for you to the world around us lord I ask all this in the name of Jesus. I pray amen amen Okay, thank you everyone for joining us online Take care. Have a lovely day. I'll see you all next week. Bye. Bye