 Hey, guys, if you're doing well, give me a minute here first. All right, I hope you can all hear me OK and see me as well. Thank you all for joining. Good to see you. Hi, Lucy. Hi, Warren. Hi, Gertrude. Hi, Daniel. Good to see you. Thanks for all the amazing thumbs up, guys. All right, I hope you all are doing well. Let's pray. OK. Father, we love you. We honor you. We thank you for this gift of life. Lord, we thank you that your mercies are new every morning. We thank you that your grace sustains us, that gives us the strength to face another day, Lord. We thank you for your love that continues to sustain us, Jesus. It gives us the strength, Father, to endure all things. Lord, we thank you for your word, Holy Spirit. I pray that you will come and open up our eyes to the wonder of your word, the wonder of who Jesus is. So come and manifest and display the wonder of the power of Jesus in our midst, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen. OK. We're good to see you. I hope you got some good rest last night. Awesome. Great. Very quickly, we've covered five chapters, right? Can you all hear me at the back here in the classroom? All fine? Can you hear me OK? All right. So we've covered five chapters now. So far in this topic or in this course of ministering, healing, and deliverance. Can you very quickly share some of the things that you have learned? You can put your hands up or you can just type in the chat section. What are some of the things that you have learned that you remember that's ministered to you, that I'm not trying to test your memory. I'm trying to test or trying to ask what's ministered to you and in this content that we've covered so far. So yes, I could. Very essence and emphasis of Jesus' healing all of them. Sorry? The emphasis of Jesus' healing all of them. The tendency prior to you emphasizing and coming to read that on a frequent basis, it was like healing was either seasonal or it could be like only with the efforts. But just to hear and see that and it is his goodwill to heal all. Yes. So that was something that really stayed. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for sharing that. Can we increase that Mike's volume or some clarity? I think it's a little muddy, but yes. Yeah, anyone else also feel free to unmute and speak or share anything that's kind of made sense to you? Okay. God's will is to heal everyone. Yeah, correct. Yeah, we can use his name, his cross, his blood for healing and deliverance. Okay. Oh, he remembers that punch line. Yeah, with intimacy, God will use us without intimacy. We will be using him. Yes. Anything else? Yeah, thank you. So God is not the author of sickness. I'm glad that we are all very clear about that, right? If anybody says that, okay, this sickness is from God rebuking, you know, because that is just the wrong teaching, isn't it? You know, why is the church is not advancing in healing and deliverance? One of the reasons we saw is wrong teaching, isn't it? It's very sad because as a leader, and in this class alone, we have 15 people together, almost 35. If I'm teaching that, okay, sickness comes from God, one person is having an impact on 35 to 40 people and that 40 people will go out and share the same thing, you know, with another 40 and it'll only keep multiplying, isn't it? So, I mean, the power of teaching, the power of words, power of declaring the right things is so important and it is very, very important that we are clear that sickness is not from Jesus. Wait, he's not the author and it is his will to heal us, right? Like you said, he healed everyone who came to him. There is not a single person that Jesus said, go away. He healed with compassion, right? Okay, so we have, Deepu says, not the process or method is healing but it is the person, yeah, thank you. Sanjay says, the ministry of healing and deliverance isn't for a select few, amen. It's for all of us who believe in Christ. We are all called to heal the sick and minister deliverance to those in need. Yes, thank you for sharing that, Sanjay. God's perfect will is to heal us. Thank you, Lucy, yes. Okay, what else? We've learned quite a bit in the last five chapters because there won't be, what we in this course for chapter nine, 10, 11 and 12 will be covered in other courses and other subjects, okay? Emotional healing in a wholeness and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, benefits of the Holy Spirit of the speaking in tongues. So other chapters will be covered then but we will only be covering three more chapters in this course. So we don't, but it's more about practical guidelines on the last two chapters, okay? So this chapter and the next chapters, just getting a little practical about it and then I'll share the final assignment. It'll be a book review, book report, that's the final assessment, not for e-learning students. Okay, anything, come on, just talk to me. Some other things, what do you want? Don't be shy. Again, I said, you know, I'm not trying to test your memory. I'm really trying to gauge if something from this course has ministered to your spirit, to your heart. And so that's the thing you will carry for the rest of your life when you're ministering. It's not, you know, memorizing things. Although memorizing is good, but yeah, just faith and heal. Yeah, okay, so having faith, right, right. Yeah, yes, yeah, thank you. Yes, faith is a very important element or component in Christian life in general. Okay, all right, what is this guys, that's it. That's up. Right, so yeah, Jesus healed everyone who came to him in faith. Okay, he was willing to heal anyone who's coming to him in faith. Okay, anyone from online guys, who else? Anusha, Sam, okay, I keep forgetting the camera is up there, so. Yeah, Sam 115, verse three is the best. He does whatever he pleases, of course. All right, cool, fine. So, you know, I really hope you're learning something and it's something that's staying with you in your spirit and it blesses you. And I also hope that this course, you know, creates in us the urgency of, and the importance of ministering healing and deliverance, right. You know, one of the points which I really love is it reveals who God is, right. It reveals the nature of God, right. We don't always have to, you know, open up a Bible and we might not always have the opportunity to open the Bible and preach the gospel. But we can simply go and ask, can I pray for you? Isn't it? And so, us just getting a chance or an opportunity to pray for a stranger or for an unbeliever creates an opportunity for you to reveal the nature of God and the love of God. Are you with me? Yes, and so I really hope you understand the importance and the urgency of this ministry. Okay, so chapter seven, we are skipping chapter six. We're looking at chapter seven. It states practical guidelines on ministering healing, practical guidelines on ministering healing. Okay, so we are going to be looking at a certain practical guidelines on how we can go about ministering healing, okay. Now please notice that the word guidelines is being used and it's not a rule, okay. A rule is different from a guideline, right. So it's not saying this is how you have to do it. This is how you should do it. This is how you should minister healing and deliverance. A guideline is what is just, okay, you know, it's pointing. It's saying, okay, you can go a certain direction or not. So it's just guiding points for us. Now this entire chapter, okay, every single point can be the same and I can just change the title of this chapter. From ministering healing to receiving healing. So you can preach two different sermons. Just change the title, but the points will remain the same. I can write a whole different book with all the same points, but just change the title saying how to receive healing. Okay, so the same points will be applicable for ministering healing and receiving healing. Understood? Receiving healing to receive anything. I think we need a special grace for that as well because we are not always good at receiving things. Some of us are, but some of us are too proud to receive help. I think it's okay, I can do it. Don't help me. Have you ever said that, you know, why should I get help from you? I can do it myself. There's a level of, there's a certain element of pride and arrogance in it. Why should she help me? Why should he help me? Why should I ask for help? I will do it by myself. If we learn to receive honor, we will learn to give honor or we will know how to give honor. If you do not know how to receive honor, you will not know how to give honor. Understood? That's very important. You know, you've just led worship and someone comes and tells you, it's like, you know, Akhil, you've led worship really well. I had a blessed time election. Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You know, ah, it's not me, it's Jesus. It's only Jesus. Jesus, it was not that good. You know, what we do is someone appreciates you or acknowledges you or honors you receive it. Thank you. And praise God. Right? Thank you. Praise God. So it's very important in the kingdom of God, we learn how to receive. Because if we don't receive honor, eventually we will not have a crown to throw before the king. I'll say that one more time. If we do not know how to receive honor, metaphorically, we will not have a crown to throw before the king. Okay? Because we are giving him all the glory and honor. Okay? So it's very important that we learn to receive honor and so that's what this chapter is all about. Different ways to minister healing and same points as applicable to receive healing. Okay? So let's look at the first one. Through personal faith in God. The first step to minister healing is through personal faith in God. Let's look at Proverbs chapter four. Proverbs chapter four was 20 and Proverbs chapter four was 20 to 22. Great. It says, my son, pay attention to what I say. Listen closely to my words. Do not let them out of your sight. Keep them within your heart for they are life to those who find them and health to a man's whole body. So, okay, you have faith in God and now you mix that with the word of God, right? Starts off by saying in verse 20, listen closely to my words. Do not let them out of your sight. Keep them within your heart. Keep what within your heart? What is the scripture saying? Keep it within your heart. What is it saying? Keep what? Word, right? Keep them within your heart for they are life to those who find them and health to a man's whole body, right? And so when faith is mixed with the word of God, it's a very good starting place for us to minister healing and deliverance, right? Your faith and your word. Now, in the previous chapters, we've learned so many different bases to minister healing and deliverance. What are the different bases? The cross of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, the name of Jesus, God's word, Holy Spirit, sorry, the promise of salvation. Yeah? Okay, so it's a good place to start, isn't it? So faith and it mixed with the word of God, okay? Another important aspect here is in Romans chapter 10 was nine and 10. Does anybody, can anyone tell what it says? Romans chapter 10 was nine and 10. If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, good. Right, so believing and speaking. So faith in God can be expressed in just two different ways, okay? Believing and speaking and believing and acting on your faith, okay? Believing and speaking and believing and acting on your faith, okay? All right, let me try this, a very simple, I don't know what to call this, but okay. So I'm gonna ask you in your mind to count from one, between one to 10, okay? Don't start, all right? And start counting in only in your mind when I say start, all right, start. What is your name? Okay, so you were counting, which number did you stop at? Three, okay, this is a very simple exercise, guys, okay? I'm trying to communicate a very simple point. So blessy was thinking something else, but he declared something else. I don't know, he's thinking something else, but he declared something else in his mind. He's counting one, between one, two, three, four, okay? But when I asked him a question, he told me his name. Very similarly, we go through life and life is not always easy, right? There will be times where you're thinking, like giving up, man, I can't do this. I can't do this. You know, I feel like giving up, what do I do? But words have power. Is it, you declare against those negative thoughts. God is for me, he's fighting for me. Greater is he who is in me than he that is in the world. Right, he is my deliverer, he's my protector, he's my provider. What are you doing? You are declaring faith over your situation. So you're believing it, although, you know, there's logic and reasoning that is going against it, you believe and you declare the word of God. Your faith is now mixed with his word. Are you with me? Yes, and you know, Philippians chapter two, verse 12, I think it says, work out your salvation in fear and trembling. It's in the Bible, Philippians chapter two, verse 12. It says, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Workout is what, exercise. You know, that's the word or language we use if someone is going to the gym or whatnot. Okay, I'm going to work out. What do they mean? I'm going to do some exercise, isn't it? And so what are you doing? You're acting on what you want to do. Okay, nobody can just sit in the chair. We can all do that, by the way. They can all sit in this chair and simply say, I love to work out. I love to have these six pack, but we all have those one family pack, you know? We all like the idea of working out. Yes or no? We all like the idea of having amazing fit body. I hope so, right? But not all of us work on it. Are you following what I'm saying? We all like the idea of having a fit body, but not all of us act on it, I should say. Similarly, in context of the kingdom and his word, we all like the idea of following Jesus, but not always everyone acts on it. We all like the idea that Jesus is our healer. Yes or no? If I ask you, every Christian would say, yes, Jesus heals most of them. We all like the idea of having an intimate relationship with God, but we will not pay the price to spend time in a secret place. We all want a ready-made anointing, 30 seconds microwave results, put in, take outside. It's not going to happen. It's not enough that you like the idea. We need to act on it, and God expects us to act on it. It all begins with believing, speaking, and acting on it. Romans chapter 10 verse 17, classic scripture. Romans chapter 10 verse 17, faith comes from hearing. Yes, faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word of God. Which builds our faith? Are you all with me? All good? Following? Another element of this, we're still in the first point. Okay, let's move on. This first point that says through personal faith in God, you can pray for yourself, or you can also intercede for another person. With faith in God, you can pray for yourself. You can also pray for the other person. That's what ministering healing and deliverance, the first point is. Second one, let's move on. Through the prayer of agreement. Wait, we just back up just a little bit. To the previous point, it says exercising faith for others. Matthew chapter eight, I just give you an example of the Roman centurion. Do we all know the story of the Roman centurion? Yes? Okay, so I know there will be a lot of stories that we speak about in this class, which will be repeated. I'm sorry, and I'm also not sorry about it, okay? The Roman centurion, he is not even a Jew. He's a Roman, right? He's a Gentile, in other words. A Gentile recognizes the power in Jesus just by observing, just by looking at him, right? He knew that he was, he understands that he is the man in power. He knows if he says something, you know, people will do it. He looks at Jesus and says, I recognize authority when I see one. I'm paraphrasing it. All you have to do is just say the word, Lord. Just say the word, okay? Let's look at the other section there. It says there can be mutual faith in God where two or more believers together. In James chapter five, we see that the four, sorry, the group of elders coming together and praying in faith. And we can also manage the healing in the corporate setting. As mentioned in Acts chapter 14 verse 19 to 20. So please go through all those scriptures. Okay, so the first one is through personal faith in God. The second one is through the prayer of agreement. Through the prayer of agreement. Let's read Matthew 18 verse 18 to 20. Assuredly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you lose on earth will be loosed in heaven. And again, I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by my father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them. Awesome. So give me some of the alternate or similar words for agreement. This is through the prayer of agreement. What does that mean? What other word can you use for agreement? Sorry? Both of yours are on the same page. Okay, we're getting closer. So what does that look like? Just say it, it's okay. There's no right or wrong answer. I'm not going to fail you. I was like, ooh, what have I done? What other word comes to your mind when you hear the word agreement? Mutual consent. Mutual consent? Okay, thank you. Sorry? Confirm. Confirm. Okay. Let's see, anything? Proof, okay. Mutual consent, proof, okay. Agreement, agreement, agreement, agreement. I'm thinking of covenant. We are coming together in agreement. We both understand the same thing and we both believe the same thing. Okay. Very often in the book of Acts, it says apostles came together in one accord. Not the Honda car accord. They came together in one accord, in one heart, yeah, shaker is onto it. What does that mean? Unity. Okay. So another word that we can look at is unity for agreement, okay. So what does it say? Through prayer of agreement or unity. Okay. Something about a united heart in a corporate setting, it moves the heart of God. Something about a group of people coming together in his name in one accord, in one heart, that really moves heaven and earth. You can read about it in the Old Testament. I can share with you scriptures after scriptures. It says, again, in the book of Chronicles and all when Solomon built his temple, it says, when the priests and everybody sank together in one accord, the cloud came down. The glory of God came down. When all the priests blew their trumpets, 120 trumpets in one accord, something happened. Are you with me? And that's the one thing the enemy is against. So he's made us Christians so busy at fighting each other, saying, okay, are you Baptist? You Lutherans? You Methodists? You Pentecostals? You Charismatics? You Radicals? Oh, we don't speak in tongues. You don't speak in tongues, you know? You know, we are so busy fighting each other and that's exactly what the enemy wants. But if only we came together in unity, that we believe that one common denominator, Jesus, that he died on the cross, he rose again. If he could just respect that and come together and heaven and earth would be moved, right? And so there is so much power. And otherwise, Jesus wouldn't have said this, coming together in agreement, right? So we do this in agreement while releasing our faith and exercising our God-given authority. God-given authority is another question. So what is the God-given authority? Authority, that's a commission. But what's the authority he's given us? What is the God-given authority, guys? Speak to me, speak to me. Yeah, Jesus' name. What took us so long? It was not a tricky question, guys. All authority in heaven and earth has been given unto me and as the Father has sent me, I send you. If you ask anything in my name, right? So that is the power of agreement, power of coming together in one heart. And just you and the Holy Spirit who bears witness in you and just saying, look, Lord, I believe, I put my faith in you. I come in agreement with your word. You are our healer, you are our Jehovah Rafa. That's your covenant name. I believe that. And so now in your name, I pray over the situation. In your name, I pray for the sickness. In your name, I pray for this person. In your name, I declare healing. Yes, that is how we act in faith. Isn't it? See how it's linked to the previous point as well. The fact is, for example, let's say, the fact is I'm addicted to alcohol. But the truth is Jesus can set me free. Yes? So let's say the fact is, bless He is addicted to smoking. Example, I know you're a good boy, spirit-filled boy, you're in Bible college. Okay, bless He. But let's say He's addicted to smoking. That's the, that may be the fact, okay? But me declaring and working on, or acting on my faith is what? Me declaring that you are no longer bound to that addiction. You are set free in Jesus' name. What am I doing? I'm believing, I'm speaking, right? I'm also acting on the faith, on His behalf. Are you with me? Right? And so that is also coming in agreement with God's word. Okay, how are you guys doing online? All fine? Do you have a question? Oh, someone has a question. Okay, ha ha. So it's really talking about two different kingdoms. Satik Shah is really asking a question about Matthew chapter 18 verse 18. What is that? Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. So clearly Jesus is talking about two different kingdoms. The kingdom of earth and the kingdom of God, right? So, and heaven is used as a place for, you know, where He dwells. Now, what makes the kingdom of God? Well, scripture says something, right? What makes the kingdom of God? This is one very old song. Righteousness, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost. Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. That's the kingdom of God. Don't you wanna be a part of the kingdom? Okay. So when we say, when we lose the peace of heaven, the joy of heaven, the righteousness of heaven, the fullness of heaven over any situation that does not seem to carry any of that, that's what we are losing. You know, we are releasing here on earth as it is in heaven. That's basically what it is. Okay, so how do we minister and receive a healing? One is through personal faith in God, through the prayer of agreement. Okay, and next we go to that point through the prayer of faith, through the prayer of faith. Okay, James chapter five was 14 and 15. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call the elders of the church and let them pray over him. Now, in that first verse itself, there's another way to minister healing. Okay, so if anyone asks you a question or a theological question, say, okay, how are you going to minister healing to someone in a church? Where James chapter five verse 14 says, you know, one of the ways that we can minister healing to someone is calling the leaders of the church. Okay, now just because James chapter five was 14 says, call the elders of the church to pray. Does it mean only the elders can minister healing and deliverance? What does that mean? No pastor. Thank you. Someone said a resounding no. It all of us can minister in healing and deliverance, isn't it? And this again, remember the guidelines. These are just guidelines. It's not rules. So how you have to do it. It's one of the ways that we can minister healing and deliverance is calling the elders of the church or the leaders of the church, pastors of the church, et cetera. Okay, let's move on. But that was not the main point. The first 15 is the main point. And the prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Okay, see the progression. The prayer of faith will save the sick. It's interesting that it doesn't use the word heal the sick. Okay. Prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Okay. John chapter 14 verse 14, if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. God given authority. Okay, remember, simple. John 14, 14, easy to remember, right? If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. Okay. So all of us can pray a prayer of faith for someone or for yourself to be healed. Simple. What we've been talking about. All believers can pray the prayer of faith. All of you. Okay, it's fundamental. Through a word of command is another thing. Through a word of command. Matthew chapter eight verse 16, when evening had come, they brought to him many who were demon possessed and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. Luke chapter four was 38 to 39. He says, now he arose from the synagogue and entered Simon's house, but Simon's wife's mother was sick with a high fever and they made a request of him concerning her. So he stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her. And immediately she arose and served them. Almost scripture and we look into that section. Matthew 17, 20. So Jesus said to them, 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 to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you. Okay, so in the first scripture that we read, Matthew eight, 16, it says, in the evening had come, they brought to him demon possessed and he cast out the spirits with a word. Okay, he was not having a dialogue or a conversation. They're like, okay, where do you came from? What is your name? You know, all that, nothing. It's just cast out with a word. You know, Psalm 33 verse six, Psalm 33 verse six says, let's read it, someone read it. By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made. Right, it's not even words. It's not plural. It's singular by the word of the Lord, the heavens were made and he is the word. Jesus is the word, right? In Revelation chapter 19, we see that it talks about that his robe was dipped in blood and his name was the word of God. It's talking about Jesus, right? So through a word of command and this authority has been given to us in Jesus name. I have mentioned this before that the name of Jesus is not just another name for us to end a prayer, okay? The name of Jesus is not another name for us to just simply end the prayer, right? Okay, Lord bless this food in Jesus name, amen. If only we again continue to understand the power of his word, of the name of Jesus. So through a word of command, we declare again, we speak the words of faith over every situation, over every sickness, okay? Even in Simon's context, in Luke chapter four, verse 38 and 39, Simon's mother-in-law is not well and he just rebuked the fever, right? He rebuked the fever. Okay, you know, sometimes as Christians, I just wanna pause here. We read the Bible, hopefully, and we genuinely lose the wonder of Jesus. I really hope not because when you read scriptures like this, when you, how many times you would have read this scripture or you know the story that, okay, you know, Simon's mother-in-law was sick and Jesus rebuked the fever. We kind of know the story, but when you pause and said, and just imagine, you know, just imagine everything what Jesus did. Okay, how would he have sounded, you know, how would he have looked? This, we are talking about the son of God, God incarnate, God in person. You know, it would have been a treat to listen to Jesus preach, isn't it? I mean, God, the God man, his preaching, it would have been something else to just listen to him preach, to listen to him talk, to listen to him teach about the kingdom of God and then to watch him minister healing and deliverance. You wouldn't have to do any other course after looking at Jesus, Jesus' life, right? And so I pray that we don't lose the wonder as we know of Jesus as we go through the gospels when we read, let each and every story, each and every parable, each and every verse, you know, cause us to rejoice in his word. Are you all with me? Right, so those are the, I think we looked at four simple points. One, let's go through them. First one is through personal faith in God that is believing and speaking your faith and believing and acting on your faith, right? Believing and acting on your faith through the prayer of agreement or unity that God given authority that is the name of Jesus through a prayer of faith again and through a word of command. So these are the four points we've looked so far on how to minister healing and how to receive healing as well. Okay, so we'll pause here. We'll take a break and we'll come back and continue for the next section. Okay, take a break guys, I'll see you all.