Learning to Heal
1.To build your faith in God• In His willingness to heal today• In His desire to use you in healing
2.To equip you • With a model for prayer that you
can use anywhere• With some understanding of how to
pray in different circumstances
3.To give you the chance to receive healing prayer, and to pray for others.
Aims and objectives
1. Rediscovering the Ministry of Jesus
2. Authority and power in healing prayer
3. Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
4. Barriers to involvement5. A healing model6. Foundational values7. Specific Types of Ministry
DeliveranceForgivenessFilling with the Spirit
Key Areas
Learning to HealWhat does it mean to be a
Christian?
To be becoming more like Jesus
• In relationship with God• In morality• In ministry
The Foundations of the Healing
Ministry
Rediscovering the Ministry of Jesus
Its only when thousands of ministers are praying for the sick that people will begin to regard the healing ministry as ordinary. Only then will the healer be regarded neither as an object of scorn, nor as a subject for worship.
Francis McNutt ‘Power to Heal’
Rediscovering the Ministry of Jesus
Mark 3:13 -15
Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve -- designating them apostles -- that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.
Rediscovering the Ministry of Jesus
Luke 9:1-2
When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
Rediscovering the Ministry of Jesus
Luke 10:1, 9
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.'
Rediscovering the Ministry of Jesus
Matthew 28:18-20"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
Power and Authority
Authority = the right
Mark 1.27 The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching--and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him."
Power and Authority
Mark 11.28
"By what authority are you doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave you authority to do this?”
Power and AuthorityPower = the ability
Luke 4.14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit
Luke 5.17And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick.
Power and AuthorityLuke 4:18"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners , and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour."
Power and AuthorityJesus gave both to his disciples
Authority
Mark 6.7Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.
Power and AuthorityGenesis 1.26Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
Power and Authority
Psalm 115:16 The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to man.
Power and Authority
John 1:12
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God
Power and AuthorityPower
Acts 1.8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.".
Power and Authority
Jesus’ authority and power came from his relationship with God
– so does ours!
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
Mark 1:15
"The time has come,The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
(1 John 5:19)
But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin(Gal 3:22)
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
1 John 3.8
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
1 Corinthians 4:20
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
Return
Birth of Jesus
Revivals
Cross and ResurrectionPentecost
Earth Time
God Heaven
The coming of the Kingdom
Kingdom of Satan
Darkness of sin 2.3-12 Forgives/Heals a Paralytic
Doubt
Demonisation
Disaster
Division
Death
1.16-20 Calling of disciples
1.21-28 Drives out evil spirit
4.35-42 Jesus calms storm
2.14-17 Calling of Levi
5.22-43 A dead girl
Disease 1.29-31 Heals Many
Kingdom of God
Deprivation 6.32-44 Feeding thousands
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
Earth
HeavenEarth
Realised eschatology
Everything now
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
Earth
Heaven
EarthUnrealised eschatolog
y
Nothing now
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
Kingdom of Satan
Darkness of sin
Doubt
Demonisation
Disaster
Division
Death
Faith
Deliverances
Protection
Unity
Resurrection
Disease Healings
Kingdom of God
Deprivation Provision
Forgiveness
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
Earth
Heaven
Earth
Inauguratedeschatology
Everything increasing now
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
Rediscovering the Kingdom of God
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.
Barriers to Involvement
Why haven’t we ministered healing before?
Poor theologyLiberalismCessationismSalvationism
Barriers to Involvement
Why haven’t we ministered healing before?
Fear Of ‘failure’Of opinions of othersOf pastoral ‘chaos’
Barriers to Involvement
Why haven’t we ministered healing before?
Apathy - little compassionNo model No opportunity
An Integrated Healing ModelJesus’ model of ministering healing
• Usable everywhere–The meeting place is the training
place for the market place.• Assumed people could learn it• Involved command not just
intercession• Dependent on the gifts of the Spirit
An Integrated Healing Model
Five Questions
Where? - the problem Why? - the cause How? - the prayer What? - the work of the Lord Where next? - the follow up
An Integrated Healing Model
The gift of word of knowledge
See it Feel it Hear it Know it Say it Foresee it