 Hi, welcome back everyone, we got a good breather. I wanted to play as a video before we could go on with the lecture. Just give me one second. So guys, please let me know if the audio comes through. I hope it does. Is the audio coming through? I can't hear the audio. Okay. Sorry guys, technically I'm not able to get that audio through. I don't know why. Okay, I'll figure that out in the next class and get that sorted. Okay, thank you. Thank you for being with me for three minutes. Okay, please continue from where we left off. Okay, so we ended with the last point on your page. We walk by the truth that has been revealed and search out what is unknown. We don't let the things that we don't know stop us from ministering divine healing with whatever has been revealed to us. And everything beautiful is going to be to us through Jesus Christ. And so we minister from that truth. We walk in that truth. And then we go on to the next crucial question here. Why doesn't everyone get healed? This is a question that you will have, you would have had, and you will be asked by a lot of people as well. Why doesn't everyone get healed? So we readily admit that not every person we minister to gets healed or delivered. I am sure that every great healing evangelist man or woman of God has faced this and struggled with answering this question as to why we don't see every person we minister to healed and delivered. We've all been asked the question. The answer to such a question is subjective relative since the actual conditions can vary from person to person, individual to individual. So we do recognize that there can be several things. There could be several variety of reasons, so many reasons as to why not everyone is being healed. I mean, someone known to us, some reasons unknown to us, we might not know. But the point is how we react to these failures is important, right? How we respond to these failures is crucial. We must always keep in mind that any failure is on our side and not God's side. Okay. Again, Bill Johnson puts it across like this is saying God's end of the equation is always right. That means something has to be on our side of the equation. So, you know, he's always good. We know that he wants to heal. So his end of the equation is always right. So any failure is on our side and not God's side. God is true to his word. We are in a continuous process of learning and discovering truth concerning God's kingdom. Okay. We are in a continuous process of learning and discovering truth concerning God's kingdom. Okay. We are talking about any term of being here. Right. Sometimes we tend to have this tendency of becoming all too familiar with the God we hardly know. Right. So we are in this continuous process of learning who this God is and how this kingdom functions and his ways. Right. None of us are perfect in our knowledge. We need to continue pressing in to order truth hidden in his word by his spirit. Okay. So we admit that. And in that and understanding that fact, we don't compromise the truth. Okay. Just because we see failure, like, you know, how we respond to it, we can respond to it in two ways. Right. One is okay. You know, I pray for 10 people. I have not seen anything since he a single feather of an angel come down. No gold dust, you know, nothing happened. The hairs on the body can stand. So you can respond that way because the healing didn't happen and just give up and walk away from the calling of what God has called you to do, or you can, you know, press in and not compromising the truth. Right. We do not change our understanding of God's nature, God's word and Christ's completed work on the cross. Okay. We do not compromise that truth. Okay. These are absolutes. That means it's what they are. It is in period who God is and what he has promised and what Christ has already accomplished on the cross will not change. We must refuse the temptation to modify our theology. Okay. It's amazing that we can change doctrine and the theology of God we hardly know. Right. So we must refuse the temptation to modify our theology to accommodate our experience. Okay. I pray it didn't work. So, you know, everything I've learned about God is not true. Okay. It can't be like that. I don't compromise the truth. Right. That's number one. I've learned to respond to failure by, remember I said, you know, God's end of the equation is always right. So you go close the, close your room, go and seek him and, you know, you pursue him and you ask him for insights. Okay. Another thing is don't, if, if healing doesn't happen with the person that you pray for doesn't get healed and the question arises, don't speculate. Okay. I don't like, you know, just simply admit, I don't know. And I think it's okay to say, I don't know. I love that answer. I don't know. I think, so since we, again, do not have all the answers, you know, we must not speculate and pretend to know. Okay. And I think this is where a lot of ministers have gone. A leaders, church ministry leaders can fall. Is that to pretend to know that we have all the answers. Right. It's okay if we don't know. And it's okay for you to say you don't know. But what is important is that you have more compromise on the truth and that you would go on and continue to pray for healing and minister deliverance. Right. When we are unsure, avoid making statements like you don't have enough faith that there is some hidden sin, there are some generational curses and so on. Okay. We might just be adding to their unbelief by doing so. You could end up hurting people when speaking out of ignorance and sometimes arrogance. Okay. It is sufficient to say, I do not know why you didn't get healed. But God's love for you is certain. And his will is that he wants you to wear. Right. So don't speculate. Simply admit I don't know. Ask God for insight and keep on ministering to the individual. Ask God for insight and keep on ministering to the individual. It is true that not everyone we pray gets healed. But they should not prevent us from pressing in and doing our best to bring healing and deliverance to every person possible. Okay. They should not prevent us from pressing in and doing our best to bring healing and deliverance to every person possible. Right. And so at APC after after our Sunday services, you know, and we started this since the pandemic is after a service, we have a post service and ministering time where people join online through zoom to get prayed to get ministered to, you know, etc. And, you know, people asking for praying praying for wanting prayer for healing and deliverance, etc. And and over the year in the last year and a half, I've seen we've had so many people that we've paid for keep coming back for prayer for the same reason. Right. And it is so important for us as leaders that as we keep praying for, you know, imagine, be as he essentially, I just pray for you last Sunday, maybe something must be wrong with you. Like your faith is less. There must be some generation of causes. Imagine how how they would respond. But the fact that we are, you know, willing to keep praying encourages their faith and they keep coming, you know, and they don't just walk away saying, okay, this is not the true. So it's important that we keep asking God for insight. We keep moving in compassion as one of you shared earlier, right. And we keep ministering just like Jesus did. Right. So we encourage that individual to continue pressing into God to keep praying, to keep believing, to keep praising God for their healing and to hold firm to God's word. Right. This should be an encouragement to you and I as well. Okay. So we encourage them to pursue him to know him more and get inside an understanding of how you can be filled and holding on to God's word firmly and finally be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and flow with what the spirit of God reveals. So what happens when you're in that secret place, when you're when you're seeking him, pursuing him, learning to hear his voice, learning to hear his heart, you know, for his people. In the Gospels, we see time and time again that Jesus would go alone and be alone with God and he would pray all night or early in the morning he would wake up and go and see. And, you know, one of the assignments to go ahead to go and heal the person by the pool of Etc. He must have to see that assignment is when he was alone with, you know, praying with praying to God, his father. So, okay, I want you to go to this place and heal that man and show him our sovereignty. And so in that secret place, we learn to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. And then we keep asking, we keep asking him, okay, Father, what is your heart for this person? Reveal your heart for this individual. Reveal to me. So that allows us to move in compassion and in love, which is crucial. And then glorify God and not the condition. Glorify God and not the condition. What does that mean? So we are to glorify God and not the condition. Never magnify the sickness or the oppressive work of the devil. Don't allow yourself to be impressed by the work of the devil. No sickness or no demonic work is greater than our God. Don't be impressed by the sickness or whatever it is. Just because we did not see healing or deliverance, let us not make it seem that these were too difficult for our God. Oh, no, no, this didn't happen because that was stage four cancer. It was too late. Had you come a little early when you're still stage one, God would have healed. Do you think that really matters to God? Just because we didn't see healing and deliverance, let us not make it seem that these were too difficult for our God. There is nothing too difficult for our God. In that, we just need to learn how to release his power more effectively. Who needs to learn? We need to learn how to release his power more effectively. We need to learn. And just like how you are here attending this Bible college course to learn, if we don't show up to the Holy Spirit's class, who is he going to teach? If you don't show up to his class, he's not going to teach and you are not going to learn. And so if we are to learn, if we need to learn how to release his power more effectively, we need to attend his class in the room where alone by yourself with him, asking him to reveal the secrets and the mysteries of having, to fill you with his power. So in spite of the condition we rejoice, we pray always and in everything we give thanks because we know who he is. So glorify God and not the condition. Keep declaring the love of God, the goodness of God. This leading on to the next point says, God can use a person in spite of sickness, bodily ailments and any physical problem. God can use a person in spite of sickness, bodily ailments and any physical problem. Or also any spiritual condition as well. Now what does that mean? For example, so I read worship and through the week from Monday to Saturday, I've lived a lifestyle of sin. I drink, I smoke, I watch things that I shouldn't be watching, there's absolutely no preparation until Sunday. But then Sunday morning, nobody knows my secret lifestyle, but I happen to be a worship leader at a church. That's the only thing everybody else knows of the devotion as a worship leader. I get up there, I leave worship, God decides to show up, not because of me, but in spite of. He will decide to show up because he is good and he loves his people. Are you with me? That's one of the spiritual conditions. And I know of so many other people, evangelists, who have beautiful healing ministries, who minister healing and deliverance, but have they all physical condition as well? Physical problems, right? One, Eric Johnson has a speech impediment problem, or I've seen, the list can go on, but God will choose to use that individual in spite of and not because of their condition. So God can use a person in spite of sickness, bodily ailments and any physical problem. However, this does not automatically mean that the condition they are in is God's best for them. Good? God is not using them because of their sickness or ailment. God works in spite of the situation. He is not limited by our limitations. He works because of his purpose and grace given to us in Jesus Christ. What does he do? He works because of his purpose and grace given to us in Jesus Christ, right? Sickness or no sickness. That is why he is God. So when God uses a person in spite of his sickness or ailment, we glorify God and not the sickness. But sickness is still something we need to fight and resist. And finally, keep pressing in for more. Any failure is on our side, not God's. Keep pressing in for more for his anointing and revelation on how to bring healing to all and as many as just the way Jesus did. Keep pressing in for more just the way Jesus did. He is our standard. We must press in to do his work and even greater works, right? So why have we covered so far in this... When we try to address this question of why doesn't everyone get healed? Where we don't know the answer. We won't always have the answer. But how we respond to that question when you are asked or when you yourself ask is very important. And it is important that you don't compromise the truth or change the theology or your understanding of God. And it is okay to simply say, I don't know. But just continue to press in. Ask God for insight. Spend more time with him and being sensitive to learning to hear his voice or recognize his voice, his heart for people. And glorify God, not the condition. Don't be impressed by the devil. Don't be impressed by the sickness. Nothing is impossible with God. Our God is greater than any sickness, any name of sickness that has ever been mentioned. And God is sovereign to use us in spite of our condition and not because of our condition. And finally, keep pressing in for more. Okay? Don't worry, we are coming towards the end of this chapter. Okay? Everybody's getting there? So the next question here is, why are some healings gradual? Okay? Why are some healings gradual? No. See, it says here, in the ministry of Jesus, other than the one incident where he touched a blind man twice, we see all other healings and deliverance happening instantly. However, when we minister, there are many times when healings take place gradually over time. Once again, a response to this question is really subjective, one, and depends on individual situation. Okay? So when you come down, we see this chapter here. In March, chapter 8 was 22 and 26. It says, then he came to Bethsida and they brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand and let him out of the town. Okay? I'll just highlight that because it's important he let them out of the town when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands on him. He asked him if he saw anything and he looked up and said, I see men like trees walking and he put his hands on his eyes again and made him look up. He was restored and saw everyone clearly. Then he sent him away to his house saying, need to go into the town, not tell anyone in the town. So, why did Jesus leave this blind man out of town to minister to him? Why did Jesus have to touch him twice before his sight was restored completely? Why did Jesus tell him not to return to his town when there was no one in the town? Okay? So, at least four of Jesus' disciples came from Bethsaida. Andrew, Simon, Peter, Philip and Nathaniel were from the city of Bethsaida. Bethsaida was one of the cities that Lord Jesus rebuked for their unwillingness to respond to the mighty miracles they saw. That means they had an element of unbelief in them. They did not receive the works of God. Okay? So, it is obvious that the city was unbelieving and unreceptive to the miracles of Jesus possibly because of their wise and prudent people who then corrupted the rest of the residents in the city. At least one, at least on one other occasion at Jairus' home we see Jesus putting out all those who ridiculed who were unbelieving and receptive to his ministry. In March, if I was 40, we see that he goes to the house of Jairus and is in the same town. And he sends everybody out who were all unbelieving and just had his disciples before he ministered healing and deliverance. Okay? So, although the passage does not state this, it is quite possible that the reason that Lord Jesus took this man out of the town then ministered to him and gave him instructions not to go back into the town or tell the people was to separate him and secure him from the unbelief and lack of receptivity that prevailed in the town. Okay? Was to separate him and secure him from the unbelief and lack of receptivity that prevailed in the town. And quite the same reason why the Lord Jesus did not permit anyone except Peter, James, John and the girl's parents to be around when he raised Jairus' daughter back to life. In other cases of blind people being healed the Lord Jesus ministered freely restoring their sight and response to their fear. While the passage of Mark 8 in Mark 8 makes no mention of the faith or lack of faith in this blind man at Bethsaida it is possible that he may have been influenced by the prevailing unbelief in the city. Right? And so Jesus starts praying and then he starts seeing partially and then because he could see partially the first time you say okay I can see men walking like trees that must have encouraged his faith to grow a little bit. Right? And then as his belief was growing as his faith was growing Jesus heals him and goes ahead and completes the healing. Okay, so some reasons we can take back from this incident with the blind man at Bethsaida is what we learn to separate people from an environment of doubt and unbelief to help their faith. An atmosphere is super important the atmosphere you grow is important because an environment that you surround yourself can shape the way you think and you live your life, isn't it? Right? And Jesus died for us to have a renewing of our mind that means the way we think had to be changed. In other words he is just saying that we need to come out of the earthly environment and start thinking from the kingdom's perspective. Right? That is the renewing of our mind and we see that Jesus doing in this scenario is that as we learn to minister divine healing we need to learn to separate people from an environment of doubt and unbelief as leaders as ministers of God it is our responsibility to do that. We also encourage people's faith even with a gradual improvement in their physical condition and not press through till the healing and press through till the healing is complete. Right? Another question that is being asked is why are some healings partial and not complete? Why are some healings partial and not complete? Okay now the person that you might pray for might have a multiple physical condition. The person might need healing for their neck pain and their ankle pain and their wrist pain. Right? They can come to you with multiple prayer requests for them to be healed. And as you keep praying what is important again in all these questions how we respond is super crucial. Right? And as we pray if their wrist pain goes first and not their neck and ankle pain still the same you don't give up. Okay nothing is happening and you get discouraged and you take it as failure and just move on. No we can't respond that way. We give thanks to everything and rejoice with them for what God is doing even in the small process. Right? If God has healed their wrist first just go ahead and give thanks to what God has done and then you continue to pray for their complete healing. Okay? Another thing we may observe when ministering healing is that sometimes people with multiple problems get healed of some conditions and continue to have other ailments persist in their bodies. Now here again we will not have all the reasons why complete healing did not occur. We must thank the Lord for every small progress in recovery that we see. We must thank the Lord for every small progress in recovery we see. If you see a small progress that's happening in a person's body give thanks. Give thanks. Don't as I said don't glorify the condition but glorify God. Glorify him that he's just ministering and then continue to pray. Keep praising God keep pressing in to see complete healing and deliverance. Continue to encourage the individual and not in any way shame or condemn the person. Are you guys with me so far? Continue to encourage the individual and not in any way shame or condemn the person. That shouldn't even be a temptation. Okay. It's a movie on the three heart attitudes that God allows God to work miracles. The three heart attitudes one is faith expectancy and intense desire. Now remember all these prawns are in line with co-partnering with God. We started off by learning about his sovereignty but he's all powerful, all known he can do what he wants to do when he wants to do because he is sovereign. Right? And we saw that there are exceptions where he steps in and ministers divine healing but that is not the norm. What the norm is that he wants to partner with you and me and so for that the attitudes that he expects is faith expectancy and intense desire. Right? So when ministering to people we must walk in faith expectancy and intense desire. We minister healing and deliverance with faith in our hearts. Our unbelief can be a hindrance to the power of God flowing through us. We must expect people to get well. We must expect people to get well. When you pray for him it is possible and it is natural for you to feel a little nervous okay what if I pray and he doesn't get healed then there, right? But when you pray you must expect for the people to get well not because you are praying but you know who God is and he wants to see that individual well and whole. Expect people to be delivered and made whole. We need to have intense desire to see people healed we need to have intense desire to see people healed. As we minister to people we need to help them come into a place of faith expectancy and have intense desire to be made whole. Okay? As leaders as I keep saying as leaders and as ministers of God we need to help them we will be that we are their shepherd we need to shepherd them to come into a place of faith expectancy and have intense desire to be made whole. Okay? And finally in conclusion some of the hindrances to receive healing okay? This is not a complete list there's just a few hindrances that's list out here you know that can be like a roadblock to receive healing once again it's being reiterated here it's never criticized, condemn, blame or shame the individual and ministering. Okay? If this is being repeated at least more than once it's very important for us to remember this right? Never criticize, condemn blame or shame the individual and minister. We must not try and take the place of God in people's lives we are just earthen vessels making ourselves available in God's hands to be used for His purposes right? So there are a few reasons or hindrances one is lack of knowledge in Hosea 4.6 says my people perish for the lack of knowledge in Isaiah 5.13 he says my people are taken into exile or my people are taken into captivity due to the lack of understanding or knowledge right? Let me see lack of faith is another hindrance considering the ailments as the will of God that's a big one right? lack of persistent desire to get well not really wanting to be well given up you stop praying saying okay you try to receive prayer for this what you're going through in physical condition but nothing's happened and you just give up lack of persistent desire to get well being passive in resisting sickness wrong posture that leads to passive belief if it is God's will what will heal me in his time whatever happens is God's will and so on right? wrong heart attitude this might be the last point but then crucial wrong heart attitudes anger, resentment, jealousy, unforgiveness, bitterness and so on then all of this can just make your soul and your spirit sick a sound heart is life to the body but envy is a rottenness to the bones Proverbs 17 22 says a merry heart does good like medicine but a broken spirit drives the bones these are all the hindrances that's just been mentioned and then there are destructive lifestyles if a person continues to do things that are self-destructive to their health like continuing abusing their bodies with drugs, alcohol, smoking and so on and other unknowns we do not know every cause that could hinder a person from receiving healing and deliverance we do not know every cause so we learn to listen to the Holy Spirit and He will show us what to do in specific situations that is the conclusion of chapter 2 I just want to stop here and I don't know where but as we covered a lot of content I realized that and I think this is one of those courses that is really intense and I think it's really intense with the content I would encourage you to go back and re-read everything that we covered or at least meditate re-meditate on what it is cause each and every one of you each and every single person we are called to live life the way Jesus did we have all been commissioned and commanded to heal the sick to cleanse the lepers to raise the dead yes you and I so seek and pursue God asking him to fill your heart and learning to recognize his voice his heart for the people his love for people is crucial as we learn to minister divine healing I hope I really wish I could make that video really nice but I see something can be done by next class but the video that I wanted to play is a movie called the father of lights I'm not sure if you've heard um yeah it should take it out when you can so that's about it for today I'll stop I hope everybody's doing alright so I'll stop the recording now and and sorry I don't have the link for the video it is something that I