Activating the Gifts of the Spirit (5 of 5) - Faith, Miracles and Healing

or about 15 minutes I'll just begin to minister to people and later on at the end I like to pray for everyone just lay hands on you for impartation to grow and to get and to expand in this holy of ministry and though all we'll do is we'll just touch on some of the things we've got we've talked about the gifts of spur bling for everyone the flow of the Spirit hearing the voice of God how God speaks to you how the gifts will work out of hearing God it's not so religious or so outrageous it's just actually quite simple and very natural and then we saw then how to get words and knowledge we saw how to get prophetic words how to actually pick up a thought pick up an idea and begin to move and then you have to then learn how to minister to people as well so we'll give you a few practicals on that but I might just pray for a few just to get warmed up and then we'll look at the area of healing and then faith in miracles and then just some practicals and ministering to people and pray with you now whatever you get you've got just the seeds of it everything that you grow into your future you have to grow by diligently working with God in this area so you can have a one-off seminar get some experience see God work having work through you and go no further or you can make a decision I want to grow in these things and all of us have to make growth in this area pursuit it just does not happen it's a pursuit to stay alive in the spirit it's a pursuit to deal with issues in your life it's a pursuit to keep stretching out looking for opportunities and letting God work with you and it's a it takes courage and effort to put yourself out in the risk zone it's easier to be comfortable and not do it but it's so exciting when you do hahaha that's so exciting when you do so it's God's plan in this hour that the church be filled with power and go out the community and that most of your ministry has done outside the church walls so we've provided like an easy safe setting and I've tried to break the teaching down so you could see it easily and then begin to just have a chance to practice and all of you have really broken through beyond where you started and some discovered you've got some internal blocks how many found that you started to notice internal blocks in your life okay that's alright to have those that just is where you are in your stage of your journey let me just help you by describing the internal blocks most of those internal blocks have to do with yourself they have to do with fear they have to do with what you believe about yourself about God and about circumstances of life and so when there's a block it means you're not connecting with your heart so you say I don't know why I'm not connecting of my heart because your heart is Preem trained to shut off when it's in certain conditions or situations so all of us the Bible tells very clearly in proverbs 4:23 keep your heart with all diligence for out of your heart flows the issues of your life so your life what you live out actually comes out of not all that you think that comes out of the issues that are in your heart and those issues you learn over the course of your life so some of the things that are blocks in the heart or what I'd call generational curses and generational spirits their generational in origin you were born into life with them and that you can be delivered of those blocks unless you delivered of those blocks of the iniquity and the spirits around it you tend to repeat the patterns of your parents although you fight against it all the way and don't want to be that way a second area that is a cause of problems are where we actually have bondages in the heart where there's being painful situations trauma or abusive or hurtful situations betrayal and relationships and as a consequence of that you have defended yourself by building walls and barriers in the heart it could be inner vows death wishes it could be control it could be statements that you've spoken in to yourself that now build a wall around your heart to keep you safe and that's what now you're dealing with because you're trying to access your heart so when you were young you defended yourself because you had no other way of coping now you're older you've got Jesus to defend you to help you but now you find you can't break out because you've got these things inside you so this is the journey of walking with the Lord and we run various things in the church dealt with that bus decides and his wife Jessie run a course for healing the heart to press the healer heart from time to time we run a deliverance course and a restoration course of pastor Lin that helps open these areas up so whenever you see something advertised enroll and get into it so that you can address opening up your heart and growing in freedom of heart so another thing that happens in life is we come to believe certain things whether they're right or wrong it's not the point at this moment if you believe it then it's true for you so if you believe that no one likes you that everyone is against you if you believe I'm not good enough if you believe I'll always fail then that's actually what you'll begin to experience in life it's like a negative expectancy pulls things into your life so if you for example had in your heart these firmly rooted beliefs that have been there for years I'm not good enough I'm a failure I fail I never get anything right or you know people will laugh at me if I make a mistake if you've got those beliefs in your heart then it's at the moment you put in a situation like this where you're in front of someone and vulnerable and you're wanting to reach into your heart to get something all of that stuff bubbles up and comes up creates turmoil around you so if you've had turmoils the terminals are caught that they're like I'd call flows of energy destructive energy that's the best way to describe it that frustrate you moving to do what you really want to do now the first thing is just face that that's what it is and explore it that's where I'm at right now don't condemn yourself that's just where I happened to be if a person's got a broken leg and they're hobbling along you don't mock them ridicule them or push them because they're hobbling along they're just hobbling along they do the best they carry on it's hard to walk along and I got a broken leg so if you're if you in that sense I've got a broken leg in your soul your emotions or somewhere and you're hobbling along that's just where you happen to be right now but it doesn't mean you have to stay there you could engage the journey with God of resolving those conflicts and shifting your belief systems this would then change and bring freedom and you no longer hobbling along you a lot freer on the inside the Ministry of Jesus if you notice that he said then Luke 4:18 I've come to preach the gospel to the poor I've come to reconcile people and build relationship with the father second thing to heal the brokenhearted in other words he came to restore intimacy and the capacity to be intimate which is damaged in life's relationships when we have trauma thirdly he's come to proclaim deliverance to the captives or deliverance to set you free of the things that restrict you from intimacy connection relationship and connection specifically with God fort be to open the eyes of the blind or literally to put vision in your life so that you can see what you call to do and escape from the prison of having no dreams visions or future called to lift office the crushing loads of guilt and blame and burdens all the stuff that we've carried like junk that stopped us going forward that's the Ministry of Jesus to bring us into the destiny has for us so wherever you are right now for you is okay it's okay but don't stay there determine to grow so if there are blocks have come to the surface during these times of these in opportunities to do activations take note of what they were and what you think they've originated in and start to pray into them that God would bring them to the surface help you see them and then explore getting some help whether it be counseling or a course or something that will help shift the blocks they're only there if you let him stay there it probably wasn't really you know it just happened that that's where you are there were some choices you've made but you know when someone's hurt they got no turn to turn to they just do what they can to save himself now you're an adult you don't need to save yourself you can let Jesus save you by opening that part of your life surrendering control and letting him help you in the inner journey unfortunately many people won't do it because there's pain in it it's uncomfortable but you got to see the other side of it is the victory the other side of it is a change life the other side of it is flowing with the Holy Ghost it is worth it to get your future back again so if you're operating at this level you could operate at that level what would take that what would it take to shift you up there what would you have to grow in what would need to shift in your life that's what you're going to work on now for me I was challenged by message someone spoke one day pastor Clark Taylor and he said if you knew that there was one issue in your life that was hindering your life wouldn't it be worthwhile in this thing even it was six months in dealing with that issue knowing that all the rest of your life you would live life at a different level I thought that's me so in home and I recognized that what I was wrestling with was a rejection and fear of rejection and self-pity and unbelief and and these things were sitting around my life and there were spirits pushing on me working in brokenness in my heart so I made a decision I'm going to fight this thing so I got into prayer and fasting and every day to create victory over these spirits every day too clear to the spirit world that I was broken out of this thing it had no power in him I'm free of it and then I would spend the rest of the time releasing forgiveness where I felt I needed to blessing people that had heard me and then that most of the rest of time in meditating that God is with me I meditated Psalm 23 in the presence of God being with me I took time to picture it imagine it majeure what it would feel like to have Jesus my friend I would picture that it felt ridiculous it felt unreal because my heart was saying you ain't got any friends you're alone nobody likes you my heart was lying all the time and I had to reject the lie and meditate on the truth until it began eventually one day the truth become real in my heart the day had become real I suddenly felt the spirit world around me change no longer were those things pressing on me and I was overwhelmed with the reality of the love of God and I then practice daily for a while after that just remaining and coming into his presence to enjoy him because what I got by revelation I can give to you so what I got then I've carried all over the world it was worth a couple of months huh it's worth it to carry something that could change lives so it may take you longer it doesn't really matter how long but it is your life and your journey why not just decide whatever blocks your heart you'll address it meditation and and and fixing learning how to train your mind to fix on the presence of God so you become conscious of him so now I can just stop in a moment's notice even just driving the car to stop at the lights just for a moment just go down into my spirit become aware that God is with me and his presence starts to come I didn't used to be able to do that I used to feel in the middle of a party with alcohol and drink I'd suddenly have this overwhelming I'm alone it's like I was unreal thing like you you're there in the middle of it but you're not there and not connected at all but now I can feel the presence of God so that means you've got something to bring to people you are a minister of the Spirit it is worthwhile doing that not just being filled with information but letting the heart be transformed so we have reality of God and that'd be great you could do that just think of you do that so I've given you keys and tried to make the teachings simple but the real journey is outside here what you do the real journey is the journey of resolving things in your heart so you begin to become more conscious of God and then able to bring what you have to other people it's well worth it well worth it wouldn't it be worth it just to be able you pray and things happen isn't that great oh yes it's well worth it alright so see so I can have a confidence that if I just go look on just for example just show you come on if I could just pray with you that's right just come in throw this one here come here just come here that's why I'll pray with you later if you like I saw you you're when did you come to come to come on come to know both you come I just come and stand up here that's right okay then one well thank you can I practice on you say good I'm still practicing see and a great to have people happy people ready to let me practice on them isn't that good now what I want to do is I want to just talk to you just for a moment about just this power of meditation to change the spiritual realm that you live and flow in and so all I want you to do is very very simple you have to do anything at all your stuff to relax and close your eyes and I want you just to become aware what you feel of the presence of God okay so you close your eyes now and you I'm holding hands so we're connected to one another and what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to begin to meditate in the 23rd psalm so how do you do that well first of all I memorized it so it's no strain trying to remember because if your head's trying to remember your heart just can't engage it all your head's too busy so I've learnt the 23rd psalm so then make it very personal the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want you all know that but but what perhaps you don't know is this as the greatest king of Israel is saying how he's made God Almighty his personal friend so if you were to pray it's lightly differently and to pray it and let your whole imagination enter into the experience so let me show you how you do it so the Lord Almighty God who made all heaven and earth is my personal friend and companion and so if he's my friend and companion how would he look well he would be smiling at me because he's my friend so I meditate as much as I can and try to see a smile that Jesus would have the joy that's on his countenance the wonderful happiness he hasn't seen me he's so glad to see me his eyes absolutely no condemnation no judgment whatsoever full of love and fire absolutely wonderful his countenance full of life and his hands reaching out he's so glad to see me and this is my friend that I love he loves me so I reach out and I just imagine thank you Lord you're my friend you're with me I have everything I need I receive your love into my life right now there it is mr. presence of God is starting to touch me right now hey now she's getting the overflow I'm not actually ministering but as soon as I started to connect with him through meditation now she's starting to feel the overflow of it right now so meditation when when coupled with faith links you into the spirit world and the reality of God that's one of the great things and the Bible's a great truth if you're too busy you can't do this if you take in a horror you can't do this and if you've got lots of clutter in your head it's not easy to do it either you've got to declutter slow down and reflect so television and Internet get your busy you've got to find a way to find space to just slow down and just for a few moments just allow yourself to be well in the presence of God and become conscious of it like to come now so she will have felt the presence of God that's good praise the Lord okay that'd be good for you - wouldn't he - just close your eyes and so I'm not trying to make too much happen at the moment all I'm trying to do is just encounter the presence of God so I just again thank you Lord you're much and I went through every liner there is sometimes I pray the whole thing then I go back and pray one verse 2 verse 3 verse meditate on one verse win another verse try to meditate on any of the verses till I could feel the reality of it say so so thank you Lord you're my shepherd and friend I love that often I'd never get past that just that first oh he's my friend and he's there with me I begin to see him and feel his presence and then thank you love my cup runs over oh the joy of just full of the presence of God thank you Lord for your wonderful presence just flooding me right now that's begin to a joy and so I learned to just stand by the bed and just fall on the bed and yield and receive it's bed here now just stand on my feet I've learned to receive from God and so what would happen is you start to feel his presence thank you Lord just touch him now or your presence flow all over her life right now oh yeah and you're starting to sense something presence of God is on you it's like that it's a learn to yield rather than wrestle so I practiced just yielding to God yielding to his presence I just put the bed behind me just stand there and just yield and I'd be childlike and just let myself fall like wool from the presence of God and then I lie there and enjoy him and get up again and do it again and again and again until it was easy to just open up and oh thank you lord this is presence of our God just come over life right now and you feel the touch of God you start to experience like a piece comes around you hey what else did you feel calm that great good isn't it I praise the Lord what did you sense an experience yeah yeah kids love so so as I was meditation opens up the spirit world or your connectedness to God and there's an overflow of life through you and around you it's great to understand that isn't that so otherwise you're going to be a performer trying to perform rather than a relator having a relationship and abiding and receiving and being able to give things to people now good okay then why did you show you how I did something here just take a look on this gift of faith and let me share on that and then I'll get back I'm under minister to summer just pray for a few people shortly cuz I want to just put together these areas of moving in the spirit the words are knowledge prophecy discerning I'll just put it all together for you and start to pray for a few people and explain which gifts are operating as they're operating okay so we'll do that shortly so we'll just have a quick look there and I won't take too long on this one I want to look at where is it now faith gift of faith the gift of faith okay there it is 18 all right then so a gift of faith now a gift of faith is not the same as walking by faith it's not the same as your daily faith life it is not the same as getting saved although when you are saved you receive a gift at point to belief so in a sense getting saved as a gift of faith at that point you got faith and you believed immediately that you're saved okay so what the gift of faith is it's not a fruit of the Spirit and it's not just daily walking trusting God a gift of faith is an ability to believe at a moment of time you know something's going to happen you absolutely know it he said how do you know it I don't know how you know it you just know inside what God is going to do and that it will happen and you have an assurance it's going to take place absolute assurance it will take place and so when you have that deep Insurance assurance and I say insurance when you deep surance then you you absolutely know something's going to happen now I'll give you I want to tell you well there's a classic one for me and then we'll give you a few examples about it but but the best thing is if I just share a personal story and you'll see how our can operate I was I go to Taiwan and minister up there reasonably regularly and they set up various meetings and and the Chinese have got their own way of doing stuff you say so anyway I went up there into this particular meeting and as I came out I stepped straight into the meeting out of the lift into this room with his meeting and then right in front of me there's a wheelchair and a guy sitting in a wheelchair you know like this and I'm thinking oh no a wheelchair I know whatever great meet this is all what went through my mind is I have a great meeting and then at the end that nothing's going to happen over this wheelchair and I was just a bit just out put out and so I say leave I went over to my seat as soon as I got the receipt and began to worship the Lord he said you've got a bad attitude i rebuked the devil ha ha ha ha no that was he said you've got a bad attitude and I just went quiet and listen to all everyone's worshiping on this thing and he said your attitude is wrong to this man it's filled with disappointments where you've prayed and nothing happened he said I want you to meditate on this man being healed really so while everyone else is worshiping I was just in my mind seeing a wheelchair and seeing the man stand up in the world hissing the man stand up single words you seen the men stand up now looking at this imagine just just praying stand Abbot's you to worship not struggling or striving meditating watching in and subtly hope it's going to happen I know it so before I was imagining it and then suddenly there's a point where faith came I thought oh he's gotta get healed I'm so excited but nervous took and then What did he say when they go over and pray for him straight away or whether or without then I'd better warm up first you see sir hahaha pray be the easy words so so anyway we sort of shared and then I began to move in the spirit began to pray for various people and some different people got healed and the pastor come up to me said well what are you going to do now I said see the guy in the wheelchair I'm gonna grab his hands and pull him out the wheelchair you know you're freaking me out you can't do that and I said you watch and so anyway we pray for a few more people and then we got there by the time we got there to the sky and the wheelchair there was a second wheelchair there I don't know where that one came from a lady in the wheelchair so she's sitting the world chin I thought no he's going last I thought my heart I when I got finished a meeting on that so anyway hopefully the wheelchair she been in the wheelchair for three years she's had tremendous pain a whole number of things happening in her life and she hadn't walked three years and normally the muscles all shrivel and everything goes and he can't even if you get him on their feet they don't easily walk so I prayed for her helped her out of the wheelchair she stood up and blame me down she began to walk a few steps oh whoa oh look at that it was great I'm very encouraged now ready to get this guy so I went over to the guide and asked him the question how long have been here ten years and he's been having operations on his back and he's just sick of the operations he's had enough and he just is no more operations there's no more hope and so I said wow so we just I just knelt down and just prayed said thank you Lord for healing this man it was no big prayer and a great issue no nothing I said now can I help you to your feet I took his hands helped him he stood up on the just next to the wheelchair and then I'm thinking I'll just help him walk you know no need to fall over and aside I'll be walk he made me let go of his hand and then he began to just walk like this right right across right across the room I'm terrified he's going to fall over and hurt himself and he walks across the room and back again and he's totally healed now what amazed me was this the caregivers immediately wanted him back into the wheelchair now notices he hadn't walked for ten years but they want him back in the wheelchair because that's where their paradigm is still locked in that he's he's cold they could not quickly catch up he's now walking and I didn't feel a thing I didn't feel I absolutely didn't feel a thing when that happened not one little field not an ounce of God on ounce of emotion nothing it's just it just happened so that was a gift of faith you just know now does that mean everyone I pray for no I knew that guy that day that time would come out and I could act boldly in that good situation later and he came up in the article game's heart to the Lord they were still trying to get him into the wheelchair so now I've learned I've learned now that if they get out of the wheelchair fold up the wheelchair as quickly as you can get them walking same with walking stick so again it just that's how faith just came says faith comes by hearing the Word of God so as I meditated I heard from God in that sense faith rose now I'm not saying that I can turn that on or off for any situation all I'm saying is that it is a gift comes in a moment of time and some people operate in it so much and so frequently it's like around their life the gift of faith and many miracles happen around their life and around their ministry oh no one particular person is a friend of mine up Malaysia tremendous miracles he has happen everywhere he goes just stunning gift of faith there's a resident gift lift in his life and he just operates in a whole faith dimension very inspiring so as a gift of faith comes just at a moment and then you can grow in that whole dimension until you actually seem to have a residing gift antal of faith over your life it is astounding when that happens to see these things so I've seen that happen a couple of times I had as they won I had lady that was totally deaf and born deaf I pray for nothing happened and then I felt something in me rise up I don't know I cannot describe it had to be faith I just refused to give up I prayed not once I prayed four times on the fourth time their ears popped and she could hear imagine if I just quit and had given up after the first time she'd still be deaf what about the other guy at the wheelchair imagine if I'd allow myself to stand that cranky unbelieving attitude he would still be in the wheelchair people need someone to break through on their behalf why not you now you don't necessarily quickly get to that you grow your faith level by level so don't matter how many times you've pray and something nothing seems to happen just keep meditating in the Word of God expecting God to work in your life and believing that you'll break through and come into different dimensions amen praise the Lord why don't we just step out in faith for something in a moment Oh that'd be good step out in faith and pray for someone Oh that'd be really really good then we'll just look at the gift of healings and gift of healings and working miracles and then just some practical keys and so why don't we just get you to do something with one another how about that so I tell what this would be quite a good thing to do and this will get you now into groups of about four or five and this is what I want you to I want you to put one person in the middle and the others all get some word of encouragement for them so instead of it one to one you maybe have at least three people ministering to um purrs no more than three so no bigger groups and four or it just takes too long to do it so you get one person in the middle and then you all pray and then one by one you share a word of encouragement for them to bless them encourage them and help how about that we do that okay let's do that okay let's be seated want to get on with the next session and then we want to just minister and then pray for you let's be seated and at this time look at section 19 gifts of healings gifts of healings and in 1 Corinthians 12 verse 7 the Bible talks about to another is given gifts of healings by the same spirit notice he use the word gifts of healings and so a gift of healing is a gift given to you at a time where you just have faith for someone to be healed now what I have noticed happens is that when a person is a gift of healing there is always a result take place so we can pray by faith or if we get a gift God gives a gift at a moment of time you can call it faith in call it a gift of healing the person gets a breakthrough straight away at that time and so notices gifts of healing not gifts so you can what I have observed is some people get very good in praying for backs they'll just get freedom every time they pray for about they've got faith for backs they've got like a gift of healing around their eyes some have got it for ears some will have it for other areas so you could so people can develop and focus in a particular area of healing so some are very good in getting their fears open some very good at getting backs and joints healed and free and you get them to pray they get 90 to 100 percent success rate they've got a gift around their life of healing that's faith for that area I was reading just concerning todd Bentley and some of his ministry and he teaches on how that you grow from level to level in this here and he had a point where I think is that one of his fan images mother was deaf and he began to contend in prayer for breakthroughs with deaf people and he prayed for hundreds and hundreds of people nothing happened just began to contend and eventually got a breakthrough once you got one it just kept growing until now wherever he goes he will pray for the deaf and get something like eighty ninety percent of people with deaf ears will open up so he got there's a that's a gift of faith or a gift of healing in that area so we're all on a journey so don't compare with someone else just settle in your heart how God wants to work with you and start to believe to grow in that area and so let's just give a couple of examples of it in mark chapter 16 and we read here the Great Commission we're commissioned to go into the world which is full of sickness and demonic oppression and it says we're to preach the gospel about how people can come to Christ come to God come to know the Lord and walk in his kingdom but it says notice this it says in verse 70 these signs shall follow them that believe in my name they'll cast out devils so if you can believe for it when you pray demons will come out of people you have to believe it'll happen not doubt or wonder whether it will happen it says last one they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover they'll lay hands on the sick and they shall recover and that means gradually or progressively come to a state of wholeness so when we think of praying for healing we tend to think of it all being instantaneous that was kind of like a mentality I had probably seen it in one of the movies or something I have this idea they go you pray there's this immediate miracle everything's just exactly back to normal and I realize actually in real life God does not seem to operate that way he operates in different ways around the healing area so for a gift of healing at a moment of time you just know in your heart when I pray something's going to happen that's a gift of healing the rest of the time we just pray by faith in other words we follow the scripture the lay hands on the sick and they shall recover so sometimes you get a miracle the healing is immediate so the transformation takes place immediately like the fideya is open it is immediate they're here or they don't hear but it can come in a couple of stages where they hear a little then it comes complete and they hear the whole same with the eyes with the eyes are either not seeing or sing and if they're not seeing you pray and they start to see a little then pray again and then they and believe for it to be progressive so I have noticed that sometime the majority of times have prayed I've had to persevere in prayer and believe that this only work and then they break through and they get the miracle so sometimes I've seen cataracts healed just gone people couldn't see and then wit they see and just but it took praying a couple of times to push through the barrier and the resistance that was there same with the hearing of ears I began to grow faithful walking sticks you know for walking people on walking sticks to be healed initially I would I just hated praying for people walking sticks I'd wonder one the other way because I never got any results I just didn't like that but I made a decision I'd persevere and believe God I could get breakthroughs and so I started and then so now on most the time when I'm in Asia if I got any any evangelism meetings I will look for people with walking sticks when I come in I'll look for them and I'll ask for them to come up and give it a go and I've had some meeting had one meeting had about forty five people get off their walking sticks and walk but that faith is growing for that area and so there's some and and and I found like some time getting better results in some areas than I've done before but you can grow in this area so notice what it says they lay hands on the sick so God call laying hands ins to identify with a person so we lay hands on the sick person and pray for them they make it a miracle immediately it may be progressive and they recover over a day two days three days four days so you need to take into account you may not see anything immediately happen it doesn't mean it hasn't happened I found when I first had to pray it used to so put me off because I prayed nothing happened I feel discouraged not even Inquirer later on whether anything happened I found since then you can't believe the number of people I pray for them on Sunday and Monday they were well but when they walked away they weren't well it didn't seem like it anyway but actually something had been imparted to them and it began to manifest the healing gift manifested so instead of thinking of a cut and dry yes it happen or not learn to just persistent prayer and so in prayer and believe in prayer a gift of healing you just know it and when it comes the person come to heal straightaway but the risk the time we pray by faith so here's a few simple things the first one is it's helpful to lay hands on the person lay hands identify connect with the person and let the Holy Spirit show you where to lay hands he may show lay hands on the head may get you to put your hand on the pot that's if it's appropriate on the part that's sick or not well or you put your hand on top of the person's hand whatever seems appropriate second thing you need to consider is maybe you need to cast out a spirit of infirmity if you have a look in the Gospel of Luke Gospel of Luke chapter 13 and verse 10 in verse 10 Jesus teaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath and there was a woman had a spirit of infirmity 18 years and was bowed down and could not lift herself up so she had a back condition that was caused by our spirit it was a demonic spirit cause the problem medicines could not fix it it required deliverance so if there's a spirit of infirmity praying for the sick person won't set them free you have to cast the evil spirit out you've got to speak to the spirit and command it to go so you notice when the girl was standing there I spoke to the spirit commanded it to go and as soon as it left her she just fell over straight away and then there's a change in her condition in her back so when you're praying in this area for people who are sick thinking 2-dimensions think one it could be a spirit that needs to be cast out - it could be just a our weakness in the system a virus in the system a degeneration in the system or it could be some kind of thing that needs healing to take place if it's degenerative it needs a creative miracle for God to restore if it's just something damaged or broken or whatever it needs God to heal so keep thinking in terms of one I may need to cast the spirit out - I mean you to pray and release God's healing power into their life a third thing you need to learn to do is to command to speak to things like they are living in our in our Western culture we're not used to doing that but if you look in Acts chapter 1 a chapter 3 Peter and John went up to the temple and verse 1 about the night down a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried and they laid daily at the gate of the temple called beautiful to ask arms and he so Peter and John going into the temple and asked for arms Peter fixed his eyes on them they must have got a gift of faith for the healing must have got a gift of healing that because he knew something's going to happen so notice what he did silver and gold have I none but what I have so what did he have a gift of healing such as I have I give you now notice how we did it in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk that's not mamby-pamby stuff you learn to speak with authority these things resist they resist wellness they resist health so learn to speak firmly not loudly shouting doesn't do it with authority from your spirit fully believing what you say would happen notice how he how he's prayed in the name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk okay so he didn't even go talking about the curse or the spirit or whatever it was you said rise up and walk and he took now notice what else he did he took them by his right hand and he helped him up now notice this when the miracle happened immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength when do they receive strength when he got on his feet see so if he had stayed on the ground he would not have walked he had to be helped up onto his feet and when he got him onto his feet that's when the miracle happened so it doesn't always happen immediately when you pray sometimes you've got to take an action of faith that precipitates the miracle happening if you study Jesus miracles many times miracles happen when the person did something or when he did something so for example remember he told the guy he put the blind guy put mud pack on his eyes and said walk through the town and go to this pool and wash and you come back seeing now so the guy walked from when Jesus spoke to him to the pool and he was blind all the way until he washed his eyes and when he washed his eyes he could see so jesus required a faith action of him the lepers he said go show yourself to the priest now they were still lepers when they walked away from him but as they walked they were healed so when they did what was physically imposing when they did what they could do God did the rest another there's another guy standing there and he's got a crippled hand and God Jesus getting a stand up in the synagogue and not very nice to make the handicapped man stand up in front of everyone but he gets him to stand up he says now stretch out your hand now that's a physically impossible but when he began to do what was physically but when he began to stretch suddenly the power of God came now it's helpful if we'd understand sometimes you've got to get people to do things so I had one person for excellent lady had she had a shoulder and her shoulder was a lot of pain so I pray for us that's it any improvement she's just a little I said well then why don't you move your hand she's not spine is hurting it's hurting it said oh it gone so it was as she ignored the pain and took the faith action that's when the healing power began to flow and she got free and got the miracle if she hadn't taken a faith action nothing would happen so many times when you pray don't just think God will do it all often you need to get the person to give some feedback to you what's happened and then get them to take a faith action so if I pray for someone and there's no immediate result I will pray again and try to get them to do something they haven't done before and it's often in that that you get the breakthrough now one caution one word of caution do not encourage a person or tell them to stop taking medication you're not a doctor you're not a prescriber of medication if we're not authorized to tell them not to take it not taking medication as legal consequences and physical consequences potentially so what is important is we understand if the doctor is prescribed medicine let the person go show themselves to the doctor and let the doctor release them from the medicine or let them take responsible don't you go diagnosing someone doesn't need medicine anymore okay then so don't encourage them to no longer see a doctor if they going to a doctor just pray for them don't be something you're not you're not a doctor so our role is to pray for people we pray for them and see how they are and check them out afterwards and just encourage them then to to to continue to thank God for what their what's happened to them so that is the gift of healing so the gift of healing is different to praying by faith for healing we pray by faith for healing we just believe according to the Word of God that if we pray for the person that can be healed are there some people not healed yes sometimes unforgiveness will block a healing sometimes unbelief will block a healing sometimes there can be control or occult powers will block a healing you've got to ask the Lord to show you what blocks the healing when you get a gift of healing you just know the person's going to be here and when you pray it does happen and it happens pretty well straightaway the rest of the time pray check the person out break the power of a spirit over their life and encourage them to take an action that they haven't taken before so there's ministry the healing gift of in that gifts a healing a wonderful pray for gifts of healing there's so many sick people they go to chiropractors and doctors and cost them thousands of dollars and hear one prayer could set that person free what a great thing if you could begin to flow in gifts of healing in your workplace wherever you are people can be stunned in the community they just get a healing in the workplace get a healing wherever you happen to see them and they get so shift it's quite astonishing the effect that has on their life and that be great now related to gifts of healing of the working of miracles and we won't spend a lot of time related to that area but a miracle involves the breaking of a natural law means that the natural laws are overridden by the realm of the spirit God brings the superior power into play and so there are heaps of miracles in the Bible where God has invaded the natural realm and a miracle took place give me some example of people Peter walking on the water you can't walk on water you all know you come walk on water so what kept him up the power of God now I guess how did he know I guess he never knew he could walk on the water until he stepped out of the boat and got his foot in the water and who knows how far down it went before it was solid you don't know there's been examples of people doing this in Indonesia during revival crossing rivers that you couldn't cross and the people came after them went in the river and they were swept away it was that deep so there are many examples the feeding of the 5000 you notice that what Jesus did was he took the bread he broke it he blessed it he spoke over the over the bread he spoke words over the bread he looked up to heaven to the sauce spoke words over the bread then broke it and gave the suppers now at that point it still hasn't multiplied it was when they distributed it began to multiply see if they give out a piece and there's another piece taking its place and so on simple weird from Heidi Baker and Muslim beacon they had a huge number of people to feed large number of people to feed they looked at the food they had and it wasn't enough so they just began to pray over it well they fed everyone and had food left over no one knows how they did it so I've heard a whole number of stories like that in modern times of the food just be multiplied how did it happen they asked God what to do just prayed over it and distributed it out and God did the rest it was a miracle of working miracles so the many so some aspects of miracles are overriding natural laws another aspect of miracles is deliverance deliverance is a working of miracles because in deliverance God displaces a demonic power by the working of miracles so deliverance is also a working of miracles so there are many examples of these in the Bible how do we how do we move in it I think you've got a desire miracles you've got a hunger for them and pray for them reach out to God for them and I've noticed that most of the miracles take place where there are needs that have been met by people serving people I've noticed that's where most miracles take place most common miracles are not necessarily in a church meeting they're actually out where people are doing something to help someone it's in those environments that God works the greatest miracles it's where the unsaved are I've looked at the meetings I've taken overseas in Asia because I've seen heaps of miracles heaps of healing heaps of deliverance and I noticed that the best miracles the best miracles were with people who are unsafe time and time again have word of knowledge on people that were on say I didn't know they're saved or unsaved they're just Chinese people to me but they come up and we'd pray for them to get healed and then later on in the old call to get saved the miracle power opened their hearts to get saved they saw the reality of the power of God so it's fantastic how many enjoyed that like that is a good fun we should pray for a few people shouldn't be a to reach out and pray for a few people all right then so what I'll do now to just start the prime minister to some and then what I want to do is to lay hands and pray and just release and empowerment in your lives and I want you to go out and just give it a go never give up just practice ask God to give you words ask God to bring people into your heart life that are ready to receive something and then give it a go what do you got to lose then on the way don't wait til you got your head full of theory just learn on the way someone sick offered to pray for them and there's a few practical things and offering to pray for them we'll just we've given you some of those we'll get to that in just a moment so what I'll do then is I'll just show you what I mean I'll just put some of the gifts together and just begin to flow with the holy spirit just and you and I identify the different gifts as we as we're flowing then you'll see how they just operate now most of us are not going to be in a meeting doing something in a meeting so for most people it's as you interact with people and they in my identify a need you step up and say I just love to pray for you or you may just sense something about a person go over and relationally interact with them and then share with them what you feel God showing you and do it in a non-religious way so it's very very simple and someone can easily receive it so for most people it's quite a simple sort of process and expect that as you're doing God will give you things now clearly no one wants to step into that unless you've had time with the Lord and a building a personal relationship with them but if you are then let's go for it so what you could do simply in your personal preparation is go through the Gospels reading the stories of Jesus and healing and meditate on those stories of people healing maybe see it thank you Lord when I lay ends on the sick they shall recover I thank you Lord when I lay hands on blind eyes they open begin to picture it and see it and hold it that this is what's true in your life even before it happens don't wait to see it then I believe it believe for it to be seen in your life and ministry ok so thank you Lord that when I pray the deaf ears will open I thank you Lord that as I minister to people your presence touches them powerfully today Lord I surrender my hands I yield all the works of my hand say Lord I hands a blessed all I put my hands to Lord a blessed Lord when I lay hands on people the power of God will touch them start to decree and declare over your life the things you're believing God to do we talked about removing some of the blocks in your heart but arise expectantly day by day today Lord bring someone into my life who was in need of prayer or help and show them to me in a way I can see them and then enjoy looking out for people give it a go you know and if nothing works or nothing ever what do you nothing to lose just well you were giving it a go and it's in the giving it a go you grow I've never seen anyone get anywhere by just filling up on books information and meetings it's actually at the end you just got to get down and pray for someone see what will happen you might be surprised what happens and there's an element where you don't know until you're engaging with them what God will do so for example if I was just to pick the skill out here would like to come up yes that's right why not want to come up here that's it they said what are you going to do is that I've got no idea I'm just going to just take an opportunity to just reach out and just see what God will do so what can you tell me a name put it that's a great name great I'm so glad you came you've been enjoying yourself that's awesome that's great ok now the moment I started to interact with her like that and I immediately I got a word from the Lord can I'm expecting it you see I don't want it to be something that's very hard and very difficult to be something that's very very easy so I just interact with there like that and we're just trying to make it as relaxed as possible and I'm really I'm glad that you've come and you've been enjoying it and but there's one eye the Lord showed me that you struggle with fear that you you've got real desire in your life to actually do a whole number of things but often fear will lock your back as though I'm afraid to step out or afraid and and so now I'm going to reach out to see well the way that fears come from see so what I do is well and what I feel the fear has come it's from people around spin from around family it's like they've put you put trying to push you down into a box that that's where you belong and would you be younger in the family yeah you push down and like the young one in the family and so it's like there's an order and you're at the bottom all the way down here they'll be right see words or knowledge yeah that can you see it sort of natural it just flows naturally I'm just talking with her and so what I'm seeing is that this is that God's wanting you to you're not in a box any longer and you're not subject to that any longer you can actually rise up you have got a wonderful gift in your life and so I wonder what the gift is okay well I see what I feel is I feel you a very creative person you've got a very soft spirit you love to worship God and you're very creative on the inside you slip in fact actually you have been restricted so long but you long to break out you've got lots inside you to come out and the thing that's been holding you back is just the words that were spoken that it puts you down and the fear of doing anything to break out of where you feel you're assigned to be and God will help you with that today he wants you to know you're not what they say you are who he says you are he says you're a mighty woman of faith he says you've got a ministry to touch many many people you've got a heart for young people you've got a heart to reach out and help them and God says that you have got greatness inside you and you are not the youngest in his eyes you're not the least in his eyes he sees you as great because you've got a real desire to love people a capacity to work with people and you're in training for them say he's sick can you see it's quite natural and and I can see you're already being touched because you know I could not have known any of these things I don't think I met you before today so how could I read her mail like that so what so you're experiencing then it's funny like first of all you a bit frightened all right that's because the Spirit knows I'm onto it because I'm about to pray for that spirit in the moment so that fear you are feeling actually was the spirit being afraid that's why you suddenly felt the fear say and it's like it gripped you suddenly that's because the the the the law that the demon knew I'm on to it he knew what's going to happen and so you you suddenly feel his fear it's not your fear it's his fear he's the one afraid you got nothing to be afraid of your God loves you I love you the people here love you well there's nothing to be afraid of see but the fear you're feeling is actually not your fear it's the demonic fear huh and it's but it's gripped your life for years it's been like a part of your life they and you don't have to live that way anymore okay you don't have to love today's change day for you you're not going to go back into that box go back into that way all right then so we want to pray for you now all right then okay this isn't one that's been touched that's right that's interesting can I take your hand I just come forward a little bit I think want you to close your eyes close your eyes now this is I'm not going to do this in front of everyone but there's some specific people that deeply hurt you I want you just in your heart to picture them and then release getting slower I just forgive I forgive them for what they said I forgive them for what they do how they treated me I forgive them for boxing me in like they do just God sees your heart you know what that's there and not forgiving will block the deliverance you say so now I thank you Lord you love it thank you Lord that your precious is coming on alive right now the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I break abusive words spoken over your life I take authority over word curses spoken over you I rank them in Jesus name I come against words of death I come against words of hatred I come against words of despising bitterly power of your life today in Jesus name and your spirit of fear you're targeting spirit in Jesus name I let it go - go get it go now Jesus name thank you lord thank you all thank you Father just Frank piece of there now I thank you for the anointing of the Holy Spirit throne right now I break them generational curses of hatred and abusive woman I record the Jesus name I release you from the grip of those things I forget the negative words spoken over you spirit of death I command you loose sir in Jesus name I break one agreements wanting to die loser in Jesus name a lot of it your peace just got around without I just pour forth creativity life freedom in Jesus money now are a myriad of McQueen things I notice their gifts of words of knowledge then prophetic flow mingled in and then discerning the spirits what actual spirits were there that need to be proton for life and then you see how we'll just close to give up like that and I've got you to interact with us so you can see how natural the flow is it's not a force or difficulty are they it's just remaining relaxed and just interacting and listening to the flow from your heart and you can see as she talked in the tractor that you could see how deeply she's been touched by suddenly God knows me you notice my difficult journey and my struggles and he cares about me he wants to help me this is the most wonderful experience absolutely blessed experience how you feel that you feel really connected what we're afraid to come on that beer we go what what happened what do you see something Canali you felt something we can go out of it you won't feel the same again you feel quite differently no not give it it's gone after you see we taught you just the the foundations of this all you got to do is grown in your home who knows what you could do there's no limits no limits really what you could do is God has got an area of people for you to meet with and interact with that I'll never meet and so he wants to work through you to touch them and not in a church meeting but outside wherever you are isn't that exciting the government use you in some ways they're great so great so well there's someone here who has trouble at night times and is a woman and you wake up and severe nightmares you have these tormenting nightmares you wake up and they're quite the trouble for you they occur quite regularly the disturb your knife and there you wake up in your quite fright this is the woman that has that problems you can just come right now we'll pray for you one young woman you have this one for quite some time God want to set you free as long as these nightly as you wake up these tormenting thoughts and dreams I love to pray for you right now who's that person you think that you just come quickly quickly I bless you the idea come on up that's okay this matter if you the only one comes up up still have great work okay you're special you're special to me I mean over breakfast and you're special with God he loves you today's your day you know to be wanting so much special chain why would it not be you why don't you exactly why don't you and you need to be thinking that why instead of driving rather why not this time right okay and you had this for quite some time now okay that's it so since you were a child since you were a child okay and this since your chart that I six and we're better half for why yeah okay so and you'd wake up at night quite afraid yeah you feel the presence of something around you okay it's winter with us on that last thought so yeah it's constant talking so what I'm going to do so to help you tonight is all an industry in me by the we can just calculate this part of it okay all right and so now there's clearly a cult background in your family word bounces of locating your parents or grandparents great-great grandfather what was he oh he was walking yeah that's a big deal yeah that's me it was seriously interest attending stuff okay but because he was seriously into those kind of things he would have committed his family for generations two occult powers and the spirit world would recognize that that would lay claim to every one of the descendants and particularly the girls and so unusual things were happy to all the girls of the family that unexplainable it seems and you need I think a whiny why is always been whi the stuff happen that be right okay and that's because of a curse running down through the family now Jesus died for a curses and so what we need to do to reach out and he become a curse so that the blessing of Abraham will come on us so here's the two things that we need to get you to do it Egypt get you to follow me in a prayer just to confess Christ to what he's done okay and secondly to release forgiveness to your ancestors that opened the door for this problem you need to forget you've tried before it's hard it's not okay I wanna believe today that you can let me go I'll just help you with at the moment and then we need to renounce which speak off your life speak words to break that curse and I would get holding your life again I'm going to put the cross across between you you stun one okay so forgiving it's not a favor you do something else they're giving to be you to move forward it's releasing the debt that they are so when you look back you do you open your fist like I have you gonna be they say hey that's not my business that's God's business I'm just releasing it cycle more party unforgiveness will lock you to your past it just keeps you from even time you can't move on that's what so what not only that God forgives us so much it's not giving you much yeah well let's call grace we don't deserve it that he gives it and so to stay in grace we really need goodness to others not because they deserted by the one yeah but just because that's what we do we want to say grace and then grace go to others so if letting go is very good okay we're all right now I needed to do this because it's mostly ministering without your understanding a little bit about the party she has to play see I can't just fix all the problems what I need to do is leave it to the one who does and they may sometimes be apart used to play knows I talked about the ancestor put an event of everything but he letting need forgiveness go in the heart was quite important to do that so from a hard level she let go then she's free to get out of that stuff and the spirit better straight away so something won't happen this time so I may get the names of certain spirits and things to pray it will be discerning of spirits and operating in rebel knowledge to do that okay so we're all the way now how you feel you look like you can make it better yeah okay don't you feel it pretty close your eyes paternity one hot and sure folks just just a hard reach I would love to do you know this is very vulnerable position to be in front of you look like that I just appreciate your honesty and but anyway it's over and if you let it say and that's the great thing and I just thank you for just being willing to just respond to be so it really is going to be there and we can all there that we all with you so you may be watching what I'd like you to do is to be praying for a point in time and it's all going together she's part of our family the family of God and one suffers all suffer so they have heart I would compassion we don't know war sees faces on through what we're looking for is God to bring brothers they're right I guess if just close your eyes make everyone managed Roman it's just you moving in the lord thank you lord what is the Poland's prayer other accounting with Jesus name I confess Jesus Christ as my savior and Lord I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus probably every case I belong to you I renounce now every generational good every generational agreement with evil spirits all my family members I renounce it with the cross of Christ between me and that goes work I release forgiveness to family members who over the door to spirits by the act I forgive them ie let them go and I turn to You Lord Jesus I ask you to set me free thank you lord it's going to be really easy in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I break all agreements formed by a great-grandfather with evil spirits I break the curses that came through his life and his actions I break the currency made with evil spirits I break the power of demons made through blood altars I break all blood covenants that inform with evil spirits I break written agreements made in blood that enabled family members generation after generation to be afflicted by evil spirits I cancel the right of all evil spirits from your grandfather to enter or to remain in your life in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ now I just speak now in the name of the Lord Jesus I command the straw meeting spirit that's time energy since aims of forward nightmares and dreams I speak to you now all related spirits spirits of torment I provide you now go Jesus name right there released so now in Jesus name thank you lord thank you that's my father and the name of the Lord Jesus is praying you killed it I think you close your blessing upon there in Jesus name I just take authority to break every I'm going to be belief that you have there's something wrong with me I'm Gregg your agreement with that line right now in Jesus name I broke every desire every death we should spoken up your life just wanting to die I break it in Jesus name a lot of just ask your loving presence is to come around or I thank you look in love Jesus right well Georgia very nice now and usable nights instead of being torn that they're desert and thank you becoming that with someone else was Tommy but he didn't come back so I want to thank you for your courage in coming to Nadia just you must get regret when your right shoulder and your pain in your right challenge that person this one idea we got come on now okay so come on you got to do this right so since January their problems for that chocolate ah okay bullets did I God knows about that so it watches it looks like it's 50 time limit or razor thing very sharp pain in your shoulder you just have like a supplement yes you will call me debate today I had not see what happens and his hunger desire that's what these kind of things have been I am a so terrible so since January she's been a tremendous pain in the shoulders she's been asking the Lord to help and come and pain today believe in God to do something when would you come back from Malaysia okay okay so I'm just looking to counter pro so here's the options one is we just broke the healing ones we pray and enter the realm of spirit that they may be a spirit causing the affliction now notice that she has been trying to cast it out so it's almost like a new heart she's aware there's a spirit there okay now so there the question is if she's been doing that as an Arizona wonder why that is so I kind of asked questions I don't just quickly just jump in you just start to ask questions and you come on be whatever Malaysia form and you were sharing about Jesus philosophy and what I won't have you baby sharing Jesus a lot of restoration let's go okay is there anyone who's on happy with you do not really Lydia when I went back there was a spiritual warfare but then I mean my sister she really now came to know Christ Oh wasn't used to be hand there thank you all father I just thank you that you're the God who heals I think it's nothing too difficult for you the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I take authority over which cry I come against every word curse spoken against you I come against every spirit of witchcraft of sign against you and the name of the Lord pray to Jesus Christ I break that spirit of witchcraft off your life infirmity I command you now let it go now loose analogy to stay loose loose that children Jesus name is breaking power healing the flow to the joint of the reserves the commands shoulder to be released now Jesus name thank you we can show if you're better now understand on and I noticed begin a move around to see that this I can see you doing things you couldn't do before and I want to look so steep this it was very stiff it was visibly stuff and the times to pass the time yeah it's been enough breaking all the time Thank You Laura just look up to the lobby Ghost is come upon up Oh Phil Oh Holy Spirit right now Jesus Wow user and healing now so how do we precise I listen don't jump into conclusions just they line up to listen listening is the big deal then act only on what you see so I listened and I felt that feel and that's why I was asking the questions I just got someone actually was very upset with their and curse them and so that's why I broke that Wichita curse and spoke against the spirit of infirmity and then immediately just free it up just like that no one claimed oh how glorious is our God well we're just running out of time now there's a whole heavy on people here a sec today anyone here said when you stand where you are you sick in your body got a sickness that needs healing when you stand right where you are tables going to get around your brain for you be great point if you have a chance to do something to pray for sick person I've got a through sick table down there going I can move around go to one of the other tables and then some people their freight again around the one screw up the from sickness when they come in you tell what the problem is what you believe in God more and the team will pray to you this is our daughters in college alrighty then okay this just be seated we'll just finish up tidy up now wonderful well I wonder if we had some healings here like just identify if anyone got healed through prayer 1 2 3 4 great what happened to you you can bend right down awesome one of all ok someone else have a healing they like to just testify to yes what happened right shoulder it loosen up boy she got up quick didn't she were here to you I ha ha ha you could have said it was right shoulder as well and what happened to you your shoulder got healed and freed up show us what you can do yep yep yeah great right okay Wow Wow so praise the Lord God's touch you today wonderful come on let's give it a clap amen all right then praise little won't we just pray it enough to just pray for people just to get an impartation just so you can go away fired up when you come up to me crows here we'll quickly pray for you front row stand here second row eyes open catching and okay and and which bus the limo drive to come up and help us with praying for people joy like to come up and help with praying if you can get away from there you come up help right well better leave hor away with the cameras okay just lift your hands up you come you know what it is you come for you wanting God to touch you just close your eyes lift your hands up now we won't brief you if there's no one behind you to catch you I don't want you to fall over there's no one there that's right okay are we ready okay let's begin to pronto just from the spirit now thank you Lord for your goodness thank you for your presence thank you for your power thank you Lord Holy Ghost come thank you lord thank you lord show ba-ba-ba-ba-ba father we just pray release increase of the flowing of the gift of the Spirit we pray an impartation of faith there from this day forward each one would be empowered in a new way to bring your presence to others Holy Spirit come mightily come powerfully in Jesus name power of God just touch you right now in Jesus name thank you love would you speak to these ears just combine them right now open in Jesus name release her right now thank you lord you

Channel: Mike Connell

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Length: 89min 3sec (5343 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2013