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

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’


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.


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.


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.'


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!"


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)


1 John 3.8

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.


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


Earth

HeavenEarth

Realised eschatology

Everything now


Earth

Heaven

EarthUnrealised eschatolog

y

Nothing now


Kingdom of Satan

Darkness of sin

Doubt

Demonisation

Disaster

Division

Death

Faith

Deliverances

Protection

Unity

Resurrection

Disease Healings

Kingdom of God

Deprivation Provision

Forgiveness


Earth

Heaven

Earth

Inauguratedeschatology

Everything increasing now



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



Fear Of ‘failure’Of opinions of othersOf pastoral ‘chaos’



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

Documents

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