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Sunday Morning Healing Seminar - Part 2 (presented July 17, 2005)
Introduction: When I first became a Christian I was involved in a church that didn't talk much about healing. Some friends began taking me to some meetings outside of the church where I saw people receive prayer for various maladies, and give testimony of being healed. It seemed a normal thing to me. I read the Bible. It occurred all over the place in there, so it didn't seem like a big deal to me. I did notice, however, that the only ones actually praying for people to be healed were always up on stage. Healing happened when lines formed and a person or two went down the line touching people and praying short prayers over them.
Some years later I was in a meeting in Fort Worth , Texas when I heard John Wimber minister for the first time. He too spoke about healing. And at the end of his message there was a time for people to receive prayer. But there was a difference. John didn't have people line up, he had them raise their hand, and folks went to them from all over the gymnasium.
I had a recurring stomach ailment, and responded to the invitation for prayer. People gathered around me and prayed. I felt a burning in my stomach and a condition I had dealt with for years left.
The healing felt great, but my world was changed by the fact that the ministry of healing had been opened up to everyone. I would never be the same, and I would never approach healing the same.
John Wimber had a passion to see everyone in the church participate in ministry. He developed a model for healing prayer that has been taught all around the world – not because it is the right model, or the only model, or the best model – but because it gets the whole Church doing the stuff Jesus did, instead of leaving it in the hands of a select few.
Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” – John 5:19
Overview -
Section 2: THE FIVE STEP HEALING MODEL
STEP ONE - THE INTERVIEW
Answers the question: "Where does it hurt?"
What is the Father doing?
A. Conducted on two planes
1. Natural - information derived by natural senses
2. Supernatural - information received from God
B. This is not a medical interview
C. This is not a counseling session
D. Determine what type of wounding the person is experiencing
(Physical, Emotional, Spiritual)
STEP TWO - DIAGNOSTIC DECISION
(Takes place during the interview)
Answers the question: "Why does this person have this condition?"
A. Physical realm
B. Emotional realm
C. Spiritual realm
1. Demonization (Levels)
2. Occult
3. Familial
D. Sin
Committed by or against the individual
Note - The temptation is to see healing always as a quick fix. It is rarely so. Often these areas overlap and affect one another. A prayer for physical healing may uncover need for spiritual healing. A person set free from demonic influence may need further emotional healing, etc. Don't think that you have failed if they are not "totally fixed” the first time you pray.
(The service was again ended with a ‘Lab' of-sort where we continue to practice healing prayer by gathering throughout the sanctuary to pray for those in need of God's divine healing touch. Please join us next Sunday or check back here next week as this very important series unfolds) |
