 Hi everyone welcome back. I hope you had a good break you got something to drink grab a snack okay um okay right um so we uh and we concluded the last session uh addressing this one of this frequently asked question is, is sickness the chastening of the Lord and we read a couple of scriptures uh and uh just to you know continue from where we left off here we see the word chastin is the greek word that's used as paideo which simply means to train up a child that is educated or by implication it's discipline and punishment to instruct to learn teach okay this is from the strong strong coordinates uh and uh and if you have a new sword software you can also you know look this up there okay the word is also translated as learned right as moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians and was mighty in words and these so that's the similar kind of word that's used so here we see that uh it simply means as again to train up a child to equip to teach by implication discipline punishment by instruction etc okay so chastening in the normal course of things has to do with teaching correction and punishment done lovingly as to a child and only in extreme situation has to do with judgment okay typically chastening must deal with training of a child as we just read and hence it refers to something done and not anger okay so coming back to the actual question you see that would an earthly parent use sickness and disease to train up their child to learn how to do what is right no even so our god is infinitely a greater father the eternal loving heavenly father will not make his children sick to chastain them in the normal course of everyday life but in the normal course of everyday life walking with him god will use his word his spirit and the fellowship of other believers to work his discipline into our lives okay so um that's addressing that question and uh another couple of quick question is uh is is it all right to combine faith and medicine it is is it all right to combine faith and medicine the answer is resounding yes absolutely and having looked at the instances of king izakaya like we just did uh you know god uses fake case uh instructs big space you need to be applied on his ulcers to on sports and we see that he gets healed by that and then at the busy ball instructing uh to have some wine for the stomach problems okay so even when we administer medicine or receive medical help our eyes are on the law to bring healing and cure faith is in his blood and in his power for healing ultimately comes from him okay so is it all right to combine faith and medicine yes and and finally is it taking care of your health a sign of unbelief right uh what do you guys think it's taking care of your health a sign of unbelief how many of you kind of take care of your health is that a better question okay how many of you take care of your health one of the lessons we can learn from this person called efferiditis it is just two pages before uh mentioned in the book in philippines chapter two we see that this person almost lost his life by not taking care of himself and in he was involved in in in god's work okay and so one of the lessons we can learn from his life is that while we do our work in christian ministry serving the lord and his people we also need to make and remain responsible and take care of our health um another of popularly used words is burnout right so it is possible that you can burn yourself out by just doing too much even in ministry and not taking care of yourself okay so otherwise there is the possibility of neglecting our own bodies and we risk dying prematurely without having completed the work assigned to us why we look to the lord for healing wholeness and health as part of our responsibility it is necessary for us to take care of our health okay so i think that's the end of of the chapter where we address frequently asked questions but uh this is before we go into chapter seven um do you guys have any other questions like is there something to discuss or ask right then let's move on to chapter seven in this chapter we're going to learn about the practical guidelines on ministering healing practical guidelines on ministering healing um one of the important things to know is that everything that you will be learning in this chapter or everything that we've also learned so far it can be used for both ministering healing and also receiving healing okay uh this same book which talks as it says ministering healing and deliverance can be same content but can be renamed as receiving healing and deliverance because it applies both okay so uh you know we know okay if you have to minister healing we know what to do and if you have to receive healing we know what to do as well okay so let's go on now um practical guidelines on ministering healing okay there are many ways in which we can minister to a sick person there is no fixed method or process that we are required to use each time what we attempt to do is to be familiar with the different ways to minister healing as described in scripture okay so what is the attempt what's the purpose of this chapter is we attempt to be familiar with the different ways to minister healings as described in scripture okay why we keep in mind that there is no fixed method or process there's nothing wrong in being familiar with some of the methods that's being used in the scripture to minister healing okay because remember that healing is not in the method but in the person because Jesus is our healer okay so that's the basis that's the foundation of this chapter so first thing uh how do we minister healing and deliverance through personal faith in God okay through personal faith in God can someone read Proverbs chapter four or 2022 please the Proverbs chapter four 2020 can someone read that please faster Proverbs chapter four verses 20 22 it's on the screen for they are like to those who find them and help to a man's whole body two scriptures say 20 21 and 22 says 20 to 22 20 my son pay attention to what i say listen closely to my word 21 do not let them out of your sight keep them within your heart 22 for they are life to those who find them and help to a man's whole body thank you so it says it starts off by saying pay attention to what i am saying right pay attention to what i'm saying so there is a session a teaching session that is going on okay and then the referral goes on to say that my words are like life medicine to an entire party right so that's Proverbs chapter four verse 22 and someone quickly read Romans 10 17 please Romans chapter 10 verse 17 someone else so then i'm reading Romans 10 chapter verse 17 so then faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God okay thank you so how many of i mean how many of us are familiar with this we've heard it many times isn't it so faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God okay so the point here of this of this method is to teach right to encourage faith right faith comes by hearing by the word of God right faith is encouraged you know as we hear someone teach someone preach right we are we are inspired okay so um so the first point is through personal faith in God okay anyone can receive healing by meditating in God's word and using the faith that is birthed out of his word by reading God's word builds our faith it equips us it prepares us to receive the healing and also minister here right so when faith is mixed with the word that we receive God's power is released to work a miracle of healing okay and faith is mixed with the word that we receive God's power is released okay so that's point one and two aspects of in how it can be expressed is faith in God can be expressed in a variety of ways but then here's just two believing and speaking okay believing and speaking okay I would like someone to read Matthew's 1720 and Mark 11 23 and Romans these scriptures mentioned that please come on guys quick quick quick I hope you have a Bible signing Matthew 7 20 17 27 17 20 17 20 he replied because you have so little faith I tell you the truth if you have faith as small as mustard seed you can say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move nothing will be impossible for you thank you sir yeah someone Mark 11 23 please 11 23, Mark 11 24 very light to you that you so ever shall say on this mountain be there more removed and be there casting to the sea and shall not do things out or shall believe that those things which we have said shall come to pass which we shall have and thank you and finally Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and 10 please Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and 10 and that if you confess with with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be served for with the heart one believes on two righteousness and with the mouth confession is made on to salvation amen thank you right so we see that just a few examples on just believing and declaring right speaking right we know another problem that says the power of life and death right life isn't the power of the tongue isn't so we gotta believe you know in faith and then I just believe you're not doing anything about it but speak that Matthew 17 and Mark 11 says you know speak to this mountain if you speak it will be gone and so when you're ministering healing I say okay you speak to that sequence you speak as I can say hey the cancer in the name of Jesus be gone right bones grow we speak we believe and we speak we declare okay and that is kind of related to the second point believing and acting on your faith right so we we you you've built your personal faith you've read the word of God you know you've built your faith and then now it's time to believe and speak and act on that faith that you have built okay and that's one of the methods of ways and how we can minister healing and also how we can receive healing okay uh exercising faith for others exercising faith for others we see here we can have faith in God for someone else to be healed examples the Roman centurion for his servant the canine woman for her daughter Peter and John for the lame man at the temple gate okay so uh it's the first point in this point this kind of correlated we at the point is more we personal individuals and then it's kind of use that same faith for another individual for your friend for your family member that you uh that you want to pray for and see healing minister to and we see that it is possible by exercising your faith with others okay and and that again comes in line with the third point here I say okay you are exercising your faith with others through the power and the prayer of agreement right so if I'm the person that's receiving the that's receiving healing and you know one of you are praying for me you are exercising your faith and I'm exercising my faith in receiving healing and you are ministering here and that kind of leads to this beautiful third point says that's this the power of agreement right and we see Matthew 18 18 20 he says assuredly I say to you whatever you bind on or to be found in heaven whatever you lose on or to lose from heaven 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 or three are gathered together in my name I am there in the midst of them right and so you would have learned a study about this that ministering uh you know in the name of Jesus using the name of Jesus is we don't just use that name to end a prayer is when we use when we say when we declare that in the name of Jesus it is as if Jesus is present right there and so and then you come in agreement and your faith you know believing that Jesus can do this nothing is impossible so that it's powered through agreement okay so three things what we just learned so far is through personal faith in God and that is built by meditating on the word of God by hearing the word of God by equipping yourself and powering yourself on the word of God and believing and speaking and how you can use that same faith and exercise that faith even for others and that leads to the prayer and the power of agreement okay and then through the prayer of faith uh as well in James 5 14 15 it says is anyone among you sick let him call 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 will save the sick okay notice that prayer of faith will save the sick so first they say okay is anyone among you sick let them come now I know it says here you know but they call the elders of the church but we've again learned already in the duration of this course that everybody can minister right it's not just for elders not just for pastors and teachers evangelists apostles you know and I etc etc but everyone can minister this right let them pray over that person says and then verse 15 prayer of faith will save the sick okay you see how the first three points are in line with this right and how faith is so integral in everything we do when it comes to ministering divine healing right and I mentioned this before multiple times that faith is felt as risk r i s k most of the times we avoid and uh stop ourselves from taking that risk because the one we are scared say okay what if I pray and that nothing happens or what if that person rejects saying no I don't want to pray what if uh you know there's just a lot of lot of what ifs isn't it that stops us from taking that step of faith you know taking that risk and going ahead and praying for someone believing for someone exercising of faith right is very important so through the prayer of faith go and you know just bounce on the chance to pray for any other individual all believers can pray the prayer of faith for someone to be healed so we should not restrict the prayer of faith only to elders the healing takes place because we pray the prayer of faith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ okay if you ask anything in my name I will do with John floating potency right okay so that's another point there through the prayer of faith through a word of command was it through a word of command matthew 816 when evening had come they brought to him many who were demon possessed and he cast out the spirits with the word and healed all who were sick right now he looked for 38 39 now he arose from the synagogue and entered simon's house that 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 met so through a word of command believing speaking remember believing and acting on it and we love we we've learned that there is power in the words that we declare right Jesus declared a god spoke a god spoke and he created the universe right he and he knows the power of the word he is the word right some 33 verse 6 I think it says by the word of the Lord the heavens were made right not even words not through like by the word of the Lord the heavens were made and the star it was by the breath of his mouth right Jesus Jesus sleeps in the storm and and disciples asked the most fascinating question ever to to the god of the universe is like don't you care that if you perish and Jesus like a boss you know wakes up and just comes because all he says is peace and then everybody is left and wonder then who is this man even the winds and the waves obey him right they obey so when do you obey something when you've heard a word of command right so all the soldiers in the army they obey to the word of command given by the general and that same authority has been given to you and me and it's left to you it's left to us is how we willing to use that authority for the good right saying I want to minister healing to the sick through a word of command moving on through laying through the laying on the laying on of hands let's say the most used method I would say is that you know we see people laying hands on and praying for okay so through laying on of hands with mounting oil over the word of command whatever maybe and we see that multiple times mentioned in the gospel that Jesus did this right then Jesus put his put out his hands and touched him right he is Matthew Matthew 8 says so he touched her and then he touched their eyes Jesus had compassion and touched their eye and immediately their eye received sight and they followed him and then there are instances where people reached out and touched them all as well right we see this instance where this woman with a show of blood which is now the hem of his arm as well okay so through the laying on of hands with anointing oil with the word command okay it doesn't matter okay so ministering healing to the sick through the laying on of hands is a common way to minister we lay hands on the person and command the sickness to leave in the mighty name of Jesus we expect the power of the Holy Spirit to be administered through the laying on of hands okay ministering healing through laying on our hands can be done in several ways laying on of hands along with the prayer of faith or with the word of command or with the prayer of faith and anointing oil and and laying on of hands and anointing of oil in the name of the Lord no verbal prayer may necessarily be made so there are different methods different ways you know it can be done but there's just a few examples that's mentioned okay and we also just saw the see that it's not just Jesus who touched people and they were healed people who touched him also were healed like Matthew 14 36 and begged him that they might only touch the hem of his garment right so the difference between Matthew 9 and 20 9 20 and 19 14 so whatever happened here must spread across the town people must have heard about it and that's how this person must have also heard that hey okay if I can just touch the hem of his garment I can be healed just like that woman who was healed okay and it's happened so another method is through the announcement of faith announcement of faith now faith seems to be the recurring word here isn't it like time and time again from the way from the word from the first method okay build your personal faith exercise your faith speak your faith act on your faith come in the prayer agreement is acted on faith and then there is the prayer of faith in itself and word of command is released in faith and now we have through the announcement of faith okay then Jesus said to the centurion go your way and as you have believed so let it be done for you and his servant was healed that same hour. Matthew 15 then Jesus answered and said to her oh woman great is your faith let it be to you as you desire and her daughter was healed from that very power through the announcement of faith now Jesus was not in that space in that place physically to minister healing to that individual in he in all of these scriptures he is talking to another individual who is there on behalf of another individual right and Jesus is so full of faith maybe use this word you know to describe God like one of the characteristics is that he is faithful every every time we use this word that ends with full it simply means say for example beautiful simply means that's full of beauty wonderful is simply means that's full of wonder and Bible says Jesus is the wonder of wonders isn't he's say he's wonderful he's full of wonder he's beautiful he's full of beauty and then we say he's faithful and he's full of faith if you need one just one lesson on how to be you know on faith is we need to encounter the faithful one for us to be full of faith right and then announcing through faith won't be very difficult right so there are times when the Lord may lead us to simply announce to the person that healing has been done okay they may not necessarily be a prayer or a word of command or there could be a combination of these two we announce in faith and authority that the work is done okay so you're praying so let's say for example so I've kind of broken my arm by the way I managed to fracture my wrist and so if we had a pastors meeting last week and you know and all of them prayed over me for healing right and they were just announcing and declaring the finished work of the cross over me right that is because we believe right and we believe this is what the word says we know the will of the Father and we know that he can and he is more than able to heal right and so there will be times and when we pray for individuals like an example that I just did that's okay I'm praying for his leg for his healing for his for this pain to go for we declare by faith and announce it saying you are healed okay whether we'll have something happens or not it's not it's not up to us right Jesus is our healer all we do is exercise our faith and the authority that's been given to us and we declare life remember right faith and power of the words okay moving on is through acting in faith Matthew 9 6 7 but but you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins then he said to the paralytic arise take up your bed and go to your house arise take up your bed and go to your house stretch out Matthew 12 13 then he said to the man stretch out your hand and he stretched it out and it was restored as the other right John 9 7 says he said to him go wash in the pool of Silo so he went and washed and he came back seeing now what is this called through acting in faith through acting in faith okay so you're telling the individual to try and do this and then as as Jesus said this in the process and the process of obedience the healing happened right there they received the healing now there are times when the Holy Spirit may lead us to tell the sick person to act on their faith to act on it you know and we do that right okay so we have a shoulder pain or you know or a back pain or lower back we pray for that individual and we say okay can you do this what you were not able to do before and you are you able to bend and touch your toes you know it's an example right you get what I'm saying so that's after praying but then there will be also times where the Holy Spirit tells you to tell the sick person to act on their faith okay now you know we will touch on this point a little later as well but then I just want to mention it right away is that we cannot be reckless or presumptuous you know about this and like I mentioned we will learn about this as we go on much at a later point as well but then I feel like you know it needs to be mentioned here as well they're saying okay you're praying for someone's eyesight they're wearing glasses and they're having problem with their eyesight you know you can't just stick their glasses and throw it and say okay you know how much is this you just be prepared to buy them a new pair of glasses you know give what I'm saying right okay so while we are called to act on our faith we're also not called to be stupid sorry for the lagoon but over I guess it's very important for us to be sensitive to the leading of the voice of God that is the key here okay we need to move as he leads because everything Jesus did was in line with what the Father wanted him to be and he was sensitive to the leading office spirit and how much more should we right hey I hope you all are still alive learning something okay yeah okay thank you so much all right this few points here another method she mentioned here is when people act in faith when people act and we see that woman who had a flow of blood for 12 years came from behind and touched the hem of his garment and for she said to myself if only I may touch his garment I shall be made well Jesus turned round and when he saw her he said be a good cheer doctor your faith has made you well and the woman was made well from that power we know that story it's a similarly people do things in faith without being told to do so okay without being told to do so I just like the woman with the issue of the blood who made her way through the crowd and touched the hem of Jesus's garment this was her act of faith and God honored that the four men who brought their paralyzed friend to Jesus were acting on their faith they went to the extent of going up to the roof and letting their friend down from the roof that's some faith isn't it guys Jesus saw their faith their friend was healed their act of faith is something between them and God God sees their heart in response right you know now you are praying and I mean this can happen over television isn't it home people and so many testimonies of people being healed just watching where the person is praying you know and then and you know they start acting on their faith they start beginning to check okay you know I couldn't do this and now I'm able to do that and probably as they're doing that God is administering healing to them so you know this point of people act on faith you know act in faith God responds and how many times have you seen the responding to faith and he always responds to faith isn't it it's like a law in the heavens in his kingdom that just cannot be neglected you know overlooked it's like okay if the person has faith it is person is working in faith believing faith and working expressing that faith there is no other option for the kingdom of heaven but to respond to your faith right so faith is powerful isn't it so the next method is through the gifts of the spirit through the gifts of the spirit first go and things 12 7 11 says but the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the prophet to all or to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit to another the word of knowledge through the same spirit to another faith by the same spirit to another gifts of healing by the same spirit to another the working of miracles to another prophecy to another discerning of spirits to another different kinds of tongues to another the interpretation of tongues okay but one and the same spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually as he goes right and we've seen I think in Isaiah chapter 8 he is the spirit of wisdom he is the spirit of knowledge he is the spirit of understanding he is the spirit of revelation right so he's a perfect spirit of God so through the gifts of the spirit you know we people pray about creative miracles right creative miracles as we you know we uh let's say for example a person whose kneecap or who does not have a kneecap is being prayed for and then the person ministries prays in faith and declares and asks God for a new kneecap to be supernaturally uh grow right and every method that we've just spoken on uh is kind of being acted in that prayer right as a prayer of faith you're declaring the words you're laying hands okay and and then asking the Holy Spirit to come and do his work and so that's great you know through the gifts of the spirit so God is our healer it's not just about the methods we're just getting familiar with the methods okay through the healing anointing so anointing is the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit anointing is the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit the anointing can empower an individual or be present over a congregation corporately in a gathering of believers to cause the power of God to be manifested okay Luke 5 17 now it happened on a certain day as he was teaching that there were Pharisees and teachers of law sitting by well who had come out of every town of Galilee Judea and Jerusalem and the power of the Lord was present to heal them the power of the Lord was present to heal them right the Holy Spirit was present the anointing of God was present to heal okay so that's an other method we've used to minister healing okay wait we again I touched upon this thing in the previous point as well through special anointings as we saw the example of asking God for creative miracles and whatnot in all of this what we need to keep in mind is that we need to be sensitive and recognize this and flow with the Holy Spirit I desire you know see what he wants to accomplish at that time so that people can be touched okay through repentance and renunciation of sin it's very interesting there's just you know about last week or before I was listening to a sermon on healing and I was saying you know and and as this person was you know beginning to pray he was led to ask this other individual before he could go and minister healing he was led to ask him okay is there someone in your life that you would like to you want to forgive right now what's the other side of forgiveness it's bitterness isn't it and that's not healthy for us isn't it it's it is the same right the holding bitterness in the jealousy and grudge against another individual and so it's what he said so as that other individual chose to forgive and let go of the bitterness and as this person ministered healing he was healed right and sometimes you know it's not all sometimes again you need to it's just speak with that individual that you're ministering to and if you are that individual that receiving it's important for you to know the importance of repentance and renunciation of sin you know sin surrendering everything to God and that releases the healing power of God over our lives okay another method is through deliverance as they went out behold they brought to him a man mute and demon possessed and when demon was cast out the mute spoke the multitudes marveled saying it was it was never seen like this in israel matthew 12 says then one was brought to him who was demon possessed blind and mute and he healed him so the the blind and mute man both spoke and saw all right this we're talking about ministering healing and deliverance right and healing and deliverance healing again is ministered through deliverance right we don't negotiate we don't we cast we cast the demons out and we recognize okay this is the spirit of infirmity that is over this person that's oppressing this person that's you know that's causing this person to do things that is not normal that only an evil spirit would do we recognize that and in the name of Jesus by the authority that's been given to us we act on our faith and we declare deliverance and healing over that individual right um and through the exercise of faith when celebrating the Lord's table right so it says 1st Corinthians 726 for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes right and i've heard of testimonies and i'm not sure if you have of how people were being healed as they participated in the Lord's table right now if you take the element of faith if you take the element of God's wonder working power out it's just a wafer and a grape juice right wine sometimes the wine can be too sweet or the sour it's it's again it's not in the method isn't it it's about the faith that we believe in and what the Lord has done for us on the cross the price has already been paid right he bore we bore our sicknesses and our infirmities and by his stripes we are healed and that's what it represents it is a symbol so as we as we partake of the communion in faith we expect healing and we also teach okay expect to receive your healing right so through the exercise of faith and celebrating the Lord's table and another method is through the use of prayer clocks we know the story of handkerchief that was used you know by paul paul's handkerchief but just a word of caution here i think that is this is more important than just being very familiar and we i'm sure you've seen you know this method being used before but just a word of caution here is when using clocks or items or objects or whatever sometimes if people are not instructed correctly they can end up making the item that was used to bring them healing or deliverance as an object of worship as a charm or some other supernatural item that gets their attention okay that's i think we need to keep that in mind more than anything else is that uh or any or any methods for that matter i was a swap person here we need to go back to the the original statement that was that is being made is that the healing is in the person and not in the methods but we familiarize ourselves with the different methods that can be used to minister to people to express and to reveal the love of the father and be sensitive to the leading of his voice because he might the Holy Spirit might tell you to do something completely crazy and and we need to be sensitive to hear and act in faith to what he says okay so this i just uh stop here and what i want to do is i want to encourage you to read the remaining of the chapter if you will right um before we come to our next class next week so i want to encourage you to uh read finish the remainder of chapter seven in the can okay let's stop the recording now