Healing is one of the benefits of our redemption in Christ. When Jesus hanged on the Cross, He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses (Mt. 8:16,17) and by His stripes (wounds) we have been healed. So, through His substitutionary sacrifice, He obtained healing for us. It is now left to us to receive that which He has made available for us.
Methods of Healing:
1) Asking in the name of Jesus
“And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." (Jn.16:23,24)
2) Making a demand in the name of Jesus
And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. (Jn.14:13,14)
To ask here is to demand. Take advantage of the right to use the name of Jesus and stand upon that authority to demand sickness to leave.
“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." (Mt.18:18)
3. Prayer of Agreement. Two or more believers can pray together in agreement. They must make sure they're agreeing on the same thing.
“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven." (Mt.18:19)
4) Laying on of hands.
A believer lays hands on the sick, thereby transmitting God's healing power, just as Jesus did in Lk. 4:40. God's power is hidden in His hand (Hab. 3:3,4). The believer's hand is an extension of God's hand, for we are "members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones," and "As He is, so are we in this world." (Eph. 5:30; 1Jn. 4:17).
"And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues... they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mk.16:17,18)
5. Anointing with Oil
"Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven." (Jam. 5:14,15)
The oil is one of the symbols of the Holy Spirit and is a medium (like the hand) through which the anointing - the yoke-destroying burden-removing power of God (Isa.10:27) - is released.
According to T. J. McCrossan in His book, Bodily Healing and the Atonement, "When we today anoint a sick saint with oil by touching the surface of the skin, as Aaron's sons were anointed in Exo.40:15, we recognize the blessed fact that this person has been regenerated and belongs to the church, the household of Christ, our great High Priest, and therefore has a perfect right to claim all the benefits of Christ's redeeming love."
6. Holy Communion (1Cor. 11:23-32; John 6:53-58)
Christ's body was broken for you (on the Cross) so that yours would not be broken by sickness, weakness or infirmity but rather be made whole, as symbolized by the breaking of bread. Jesus once referred to healing as children's bread (Mt.15:21-26).
The cup of communion is the New Covenant in His blood. It shows our union with Him in His life, for the life is in the blood.
In partaking of the Lord's body and blood in Communion, we do enforce in our lives the victory He obtained for us on the Cross of Calvary.
We've seen people come and get healed during our Communion services which holds first Sunday/Wednesday of the month.
7) Anointed (Healing/Prayer) Cloth
"Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them." (Ac.19:11,12)
There are times we're not able to physically reach the sick, and a piece of cloth serves as a "storage battery," super-charged with God's power and taken to the sick, and they are healed. The cloth serves as a conductor of God's power, a medium, just like the oil, to convey healing power.
"Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years,
When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.
Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction." (Mk. 5:25,27,29)
8. Gifts of Healing(s) / The Healing Anointing
There are some ministers, like myself, who are anointed with God's healing power - a tangible healing anointing - just like Jesus was anointed (Ac.10:38). When those gifts are in operation, people get healed (with or without prayer). This is a supernatural manifestation of healing power through one individual to another.
Now, every believer can get people healed by laying on of hands, though prayer or by ministering the Word as God confirms His Word with signs following. (Mk.16:17-20). But here, I'm referring to the Ministry (or gifts) of healing (1Cor.12:9,28).
9. Believing and Speaking the Word
"For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says" (Mk.11:23).
Just by continually speaking to yourself the Word as it concerns healing, you'll experience God's healing power. Get acquainted with Healing Scriptures and continually speak and act them out.
10. Healing in Redemption
This is by far the best method. This is for the believer who knows that healing belongs to him. You take your place as a son. You know that healing is in God's redemptive plan and that by His stripes, you are healed (Isa. 53:4,5; Mt. 8:16,17; 1Pet.2:24).
You refuse to allow sickness in your body because you are healed. You know that the pain, sickness or disease was laid on Jesus. Since He bore it, you don't need to bear it anymore. You simply know it, so you thank God. There's no need for prayer. No need to be anointed or to have hands laid on you. You just thank the Father for perfect deliverance.
MAINTAINING YOUR HEALING
One sad fact is that healing can be lost. Peter started walking on water, but when he began to doubt, he began to sink (Mt.14:25-31). Why did Peter begin to sink? He was looking at the situation around him instead of looking unto Jesus. That's how people lose their healing - through doubt.
When we take our eyes off His Word and begin to focus on the symptoms, we will "sink" more and more into that sickness.
In Num. 21:5-9, the children of Israel murmured against God and He sent deadly serpents to bite them. When they cried unto God, He instructed Moses to make a bronze serpent (the symbol used as the logo of the Medical Profession). When anyone was bitten, he was healed as he looked at the bronze serpent (a type of Jesus hanging on the Cross for our redemption) and not on the bite. It was impossible for them to look at both the snake bite and the bronze serpent simultaneously.
Take your eyes off your symptoms. Fix your gaze on the Cross where Himself took your infirmities. Don't be ruled by the senses whereby your improvement is the basis of your faith and not God's Word. Don't let your feeling dictate your faith. Healing has nothing to do with feeling. If God's Word says you are healed, then you are healed - whether you feel like it or not.
Smith Wigglesworth said, "I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I'm only moved by what I believe."
Thomas said unless I see I won't believe (Jn. 20:24-29). But Jonah tells us that they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy (Jon. 2:8).
Keep your faith strong by feeding constantly on the Word of God, speaking it at all times, and never focusing on your symptoms. In the words of Oral Roberts, "Never doubt God. If you must doubt, doubt your doubts, for they are unreliable."
WALKING IN HEALTH
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. (3Jn2)
It is God's desire that you not only get healed but that you stay healthy. The same Word that got you healed will keep you healed. Speak the Word (Mt.8:8) at all times, not only when you're down with sickness.
According to "Dad" P. C. Nelson, you must "keep you faith strong at all times. The time will come when you'll need healing for yourself or for some member of your family, and if you have not kept your faith string, you'll be at a disadvantage." He also added, "Constantly feed along the lines of faith and healing, constantly with whatever else you read."
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
In order to stay healthy, you must develop a healthy lifestyle. Eat healthy. There's no point destroying your health as a result of a wrong diet, only to get healed and go back to the wrong diet. When Jesus healed a paralytic, he warned him to "sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you." (Jn. 5:14)
Personal hygiene and sanitation must be taken seriously. Live in hygienic environments. You'll discover that some of the laws given Israel in the Old Testament were dietary and sanitary laws. One reason people are sick is because they break natural laws regarding health.
Exercise your body regularly, even if it's just a walk you take often. Even the Bible says bodily exercise has profit (1Tim. 4:8)
Learn to rest. Don't overwork yourself. There's an amount of stress your body can stand. If you don't learn to rest you'll be laid to rest.
I pray you'll stay healthy and live wealthy, in Jesus name.
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