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In describing the nature of His own ministry Jesus read from Isaiah 62…
When He sent out the twelve on their first ministry trip he told them to…
 Later He sent out a larger ministry team, this time of seventy two others and told them to…
“Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you' ” Luke 10:9
Are we beginning to see a pattern here? By the way, the numbers of people Jesus is allowing to participate in this ministry is increasing, not decreasing.
After His resurrection Jesus appeared to a larger group of disciples and said, “ As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” (John 20:21) and then breathed on them and said “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
Healing has always been a manifestation of the character and nature of God. He healed through the prophets. He healed through Jesus. He healed through the apostles, and others of the disciples. He has healed people throughout Church history. We don't understand everything about it, but we don't want to be guilty of neglecting this part of the ministry of the Church. Let's pick up where we left off last week…
B. Prayer for Emotional Healing
1. Invite the Holy Spirit to come and minister the love, mercy, forgiveness and power of the Father.
2. Ask the Holy Spirit to go deep to the source of wounding and reveal it to you and to the person (remember to ask questions).
3. Determine sinful self-protective actions that must be dealt with. (walls built to protect us keep God out too)
a. Judgments - Done by you - “They always…”
b. Vows - Done by you - “I will never…”
Have you ever made any judgements or vows?
c. Injunctions - Done to you - “You always…”
d. Family Sin - Done to you - Generational
4. The Bottom line is forgiveness ("Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.")
Forgiveness is giving up your right to continue to judge/accuse another of their (apparent) wrong doing. You set them free and are no longer bound to them.
Forgiveness is not pronouncing them “not guilty”. Only God can do that. Forgiveness sets you free more than it does the person you forgive.
5. Phenomenological Response
a. Weeping
b. Laughing
c. Screaming (often mistaken for demons)
d. No emotion/feeling (when some should arise)
C. Prayer for Healing of the Demonized
(Note a couple of extremes – C.S Lewis said intrigue and ignorance are equally dangerous. Demons aren't just in far away places. Nether were they a specialty in the New Testament – they were dealt with when they showed up)
1. Invite the Holy Spirit to come in love and power to set free.
2. Rebuke (break their power). Demons are not hard of hearing. Respect the dignity of the person.
3. Bind (contain their power to harm or bring disturbance).
Your authority rests in Christ, not in your physical strength, nor in the strength of your will
4. Expulse (eliminate their presence)
a. Speak to them, not with them. Do not dialogue with liars.
“ Come out. Let go. Get off. Shut up.”
b. Tell them what you want them to do (as a parent speaking to an unruly child).
5. Ask the Holy Spirit to come and fill with Christ's love and power (fill areas made clean) Matthew 12:43-45 house swept clean
6. Often need for inner healing because of their destructive nature.
Go back and pray for inner healing
7. Phenomenological response
- Stiffening
- Convulsing
- Unusual contortions
- Screaming
- Confusion
- Falling asleep
also anger, profanity, thoughts you pick up…
A note about demons and laying on of hands – the only place in Scripture where sin is transferred through the laying on of hands is when sin is transferred to the sacrifice lamb by the one performing the sacrifice. You should be careful (don't get hit) but not fearful.
The interview is over and it is time to pray when you have determined where it hurts, the source of the hurt and how to pray. Ask God to continue to lead you, to reveal Himself, to bring His Kingdom and to do His will.
Are you ready to try it? Let's pray for each other. |
