The Gift of Healing (Part 2)

I have always intended to come back and continue talking about the Holy Spirit, about how the Christian life is a life of power. In fact, the devotional theme, as we said this afternoon, has been power, the power of God and His intervention. I loved what it said there—it is a little more complicated—it says, “...not by might nor by power, but by Your Holy Spirit...”

What it says about might and power refers to human strength. “Not by sword nor by army,” says another version. It is not by horses; it is not by human resources. It is in the Spirit that the people of God fight their battles.

And that is why it is so important for us to know how to use the resources of the Holy Spirit in our lives, because God has provided His Spirit to help us navigate every situation in life. That is why we speak of gifts of the Holy Spirit—charismata in the original Greek—which means something like gifts, provisions that God has given His children so that they may carry out the tasks of life. He has also provided them to His church so that the church may carry out all the tasks God has entrusted to it.

You will remember that when Christ sends the disciples—the seventy—to go to the different villages and preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, what does He do first? It says that He gave them power over demons, gave them power to heal diseases, and gave them power to declare shalom, the peace of God, wherever they entered. That is the power we have.

If the Lord gives you a task, He also gives you the resources to accomplish it. Always remember that. If He tells you, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,” He also says, “All power has been given to Me on earth and in heaven; therefore, go.”

In other words, you have that power too. And the Christian life is a life of power; that is why God is so interested in having us impress that upon our minds. The Christian life is not merely a routine of coming to church, listening to a little sermon, singing two little hymns, reading a little word, and then leaving just as shattered, depressed, and broken as we were when we came in.

No, the Christian life is a life in which we are strengthened in the Spirit of God, behead giants, tear down walls, scale mountains, and climb to the loftiest heights. That is what God has called us to. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are for that, and my desire, my purpose during these weeks, has once again been to renew our minds, to renew our vision. I look around here and see many new people; I see people who have come to know the Lord recently; I see people who are seeking God. We are at different stages of cooking. Some are already well done, while others are rare, which means they are still bleeding; the old man is still alive and kicking. He is not so old, either; he is a young fellow, by the way.

But no, we are at different stages. Yet for everyone, brothers and sisters, I desire in the name of the Lord that you and I know that the Christian life is a supernatural matter and that what makes it supernatural is the presence of the Holy Spirit in us, the ministry of the Holy Spirit in us. That is why these sermons are designed in the Spirit to instill a supernatural mindset in us.

Many of us evangelicals have a rather generic mindset. We believe in the Bible; we believe in Christ as Lord, but there are many texts that do not speak to us because we have neutralized them. It is as though we subconsciously say, “No, that is not for me; that was for years ago, when those things were done.” But no, the supernatural life is for you and for me.

I was thinking, this is a long introduction, but that is all right; I am already in the sermon. By the way, look, so that you know where I am anchoring myself: First Corinthians, chapter 12. Remember that in the last sermons I preached, I was going through the different gifts of the Holy Spirit. And in verse 7 of chapter 12 of First Corinthians, Paul says:

“...but to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good...”

Pay attention. To whom does it say? To some? To each one. In other words, put your name there: to every Christian, to every person who has the Holy Spirit within him or her, a manifestation of the Holy Spirit is given. In some way, the Holy Spirit becomes embodied in you with His power, and God has placed a grace in you; God has placed a resource in you; God has placed something special in you.

I see my sister Miriam here nodding. I do not want to put you on the spot, right? But that is all right; you are used to being on the spot. Because I see my sister here, and I have seen her become activated in the Spirit. Yes or no? Amen. During these past few months—how many years have you been coming here to church? Four years and a bit, you and your family. The way the Lord has worked—I would never have thought I would see you doing the things you are doing now with the young people, filled with the fire of the Spirit, making a commotion here with Janette beside you, ministering to people, ministering healing, and counseling.

But it is like Paul’s call to Timothy: “I advise you to fan into flame the gift of God that is in you.” The gift of God is within us. The problem is that we often do not activate it; we leave it there dormant; we don’t click on it. We do not activate it, but do you know what? We have to begin moving by faith.

Now, many times, if we Christians are not alerted to these things from the pulpit or in the classroom, we do not understand, and so we live a Christian life that is very limited in its power and reach. But I want you to know that inside you there is a fireplace with a very powerful fire. There is a reserve of power within you that is greater than nuclear power.

The question is, what are you going to do with that? Are you going to leave it contained there, or are you going to begin manifesting it? You only need to believe that this is for each one of us and begin manifesting the power of God in your life. So that is what we have to do, and that is the purpose for which we are preaching these sermons.

Then Paul says: “...to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good...”

Everyone say, “good.” Do you know what the power of God in your life is for? It is for your good. Good for what? Well, for the good of your financial life, the good of your married life, the good of your family life as a whole, the good of your physical life and physical healing, the good of your emotional health, the good of preaching the Gospel, the good of ministering to others, the good of being a teacher in the congregation, the good of counseling someone when they are in need, the good of standing up when the devil wants to destroy your life and saying, “Sorry, you are not getting through here,” the good of doing the works of God—for the common good.

The gifts of God are given so that we may make use of them and do God’s work here on earth. That is why I do not agree with those who, sometimes with the best of intentions, say that the gifts of the Holy Spirit have already ceased. In many churches there is an evangelical doctrine called cessationism, which means that the gifts have ceased to operate because they are no longer needed. Where was such a monstrosity conceived?

How could we not need them in the twenty-first century? We need the Spirit more than they did in the first century. This century is more hardened than the first century, and if the church of Jesus Christ does not use the gifts of the Holy Spirit today, we will never accomplish what needs to be accomplished in this time. We need them more than ever.

There is no logic in the idea that God now says, “No, you do not need the gifts of the Holy Spirit.” That is madness. More than ever, the church today needs the manifestations of God’s power for our good and the good of the Kingdom of God.

Then Paul speaks of different gifts: “...to one is given a word of wisdom...” We already talked about that, so I am not going to go into much detail. Again, consult the sermons that are on the Internet. “...to one is given a word of wisdom, to another a word of knowledge...” —gnoseos, as it says in the original Greek. We have already talked about what we more or less understand the gift of knowledge to mean—“...according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit...”

That was my last discussion concerning the gifts. We discussed three gifts: knowledge, wisdom, and faith. And now the apostle Paul says:

“...and to another gifts of healings...” —charismata iamaton in the original Greek.

Everyone say, “charismata iamaton.” Just imagine—you are already experts in Greek. Impress your coworkers tomorrow and tell them, “I have the charismata iamaton.” And they will say, “What do you eat that with?”

“...and to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit...”

Do you know, my brother, that God has given His people gifts of healings? Now, the gifts can be manifested in two ways. The gifts can be manifested in a very concentrated and highly specialized way in a person whom we say has the gift of healing. For example, Benny Hinn—with all his wrinkles and all his problems and flaws—I believe is a man who moves in God’s healing anointing. Yiye Ávila, a little country fellow, a former baseball player and weightlifter, but a man filled with the Holy Spirit—he is already eighty-something years old and has had a beautiful healing ministry. No one can deny that these people have something extraordinary in their lives. And there are people who move in the gift of healing, and sometimes God gives those gifts in a concentrated form to one person so that the person may carry out an apostolic ministry, conduct a work of evangelism, and so forth.

But also, do you know what? I believe that the gift of healing can also manifest itself in the life of any believer at any time. God can use you. Do not hide behind the idea that the gift of healing is only for a select group of people. No, the beautiful thing about this administration of the Holy Spirit in which we live is that God distributes His gifts to His people, and it says here that He gives one thing to one person and something else to another.

Who knows whether one day you will be one of those “others,” or that “one” whom God uses to heal someone in the name of Jesus? That is why we cannot waste any opportunity to minister healing to someone in the name of Jesus. Because you do not know the moment when God will use you. I know one thing: the Holy Spirit dwells in me, and when the Holy Spirit wants to manifest Himself in healing, or in a word of wisdom, or in a word of knowledge, He can do so. What He needs is a person who is available.

I love it—for example, there was a little group of sisters here, and there was a pregnant sister visiting, and they were praying for her. And I think they filled her with... The poor woman did not know she was going to get into so much commotion here. Someone came once and took out... Where did you put the oil? Do not take it home with you, you know? Oh, good, it is there, okay. Be careful, eh. But they were praying; three or four of them descended on her, ministering to the sister, because God is a healing God, because we can pray to the Lord to strengthen our lives.

We can pray to the Lord not only to heal us, but also to keep us healthy, to keep sickness away from our lives, and to give us healthy lives. Hallelujah! You can pray to the Lord for your health. The gift of healing is a gift for the people of God, so how could we abandon that precious resource we have in our hands?

Let us not allow science to rob us of the calling to pray for supernatural healing. I love doctors, let me tell you. I hasten to say that I thank the Lord for doctors. Sometimes we are very ungrateful to the poor doctors. We go to the hospital limping, they give us medicine, and we leave well; then afterward we say, “I give the doctors no credit at all.” How ungrateful we are. Give them at least a little credit, and thank the Lord too. But sometimes we want to be holier than the Pope—no, more Catholic than the Pope. We must thank the Lord for science.

But having said that, I also want to tell you, brothers and sisters, that because we live in a century in which science has made many advances, we cannot stop believing in and practicing the gift of supernatural healing as well. We have to renew our minds in that regard. God wants to move to heal the sick. And I tell you, brothers and sisters, that I continually live like Elijah’s servant when Elijah sent him to look from the mountain to see whether the promised rain was coming. Do you remember that? Years without rain, and Elijah says, “Now it can rain because everything has been set in order.”

Do you know what is happening? Let me digress here as well. We are... It is not raining spiritually because Baal is sitting where he should not be sitting. Until Baal is cut down and removed, the church of Jesus Christ will not see the rain it is supposed to see. Baal needed to be removed, and his prophets had to be banished from Israel for the rain to fall.

Many times we sing and cry out, “Send the rain.” I believe the rain is coming. I believe the rain is coming. I can almost hear the sound of the coming rain, but I also believe that first the house must be put in order. The church needs to put its house in order. Baal must be removed from the streets of Israel. God needs to send His prophets to put things in order. Before God brings deliverance, He always has to tear down the idol.

When Gideon is called to deliver Israel from the oppression of the Midianites, the first thing he is commanded to do is cut down the idol of Asherah, and when the idol is cut down, then God’s blessing and deliverance come. The fact is that when Elijah sent his servant, he sent him several times, because Elijah had said, ‘It is going to rain,’ and he sends him many times to look, and finally the servant says, ‘Yes, I see a little cloud the size of a fist.’ And then Elijah says, ‘Well, get ready, because the rain is already coming.’

And I likewise believe, brothers and sisters, I am waiting for the outpouring of the power of the Holy Spirit upon the church in this time. I am waiting for revival. I am waiting for the renewal of the gifts of the Spirit because I believe that this is necessary so that the harvest God wants to bring in at this time may take place, so that we may correct, to some extent, what is happening in this world. I believe in that.

And that is why we have to pray to the Lord, ‘Father, renew your gifts.’ We have to develop hunger, an appetite in our spirit, because if a church does not cry out, if a church does not hunger for the supernatural manifestations of God’s power, God’s power will not descend upon his people. And that is why the church has to be desiring, yearning like a pregnant woman longing at last to give birth.

‘Lord, we need a visitation from you. We want your gifts of healing to be manifested so that we can do the work of the Holy Spirit.’

I want to build a church that can pray and lay hands on people so that the sick are healed, because that is in the pages of Scripture. And that is why it says, “... gifts of healings....”

And we have to understand that from the very beginning of history, God has identified himself as the God who heals our diseases. Come with me for a moment to the book of Exodus, Chapter 15. I do not know whether I will be able to finish everything I intended to cover. This sermon is turning out to be very different from the one this morning, but the subject is still healing. And this morning, while I was sitting there, the Lord reminded me of this beautiful text before the service began.

Exodus 15, verse 22, says, “.... And Moses made Israel set out...” —the Israelites are in the wilderness, in dry, desert places; there is no water anywhere. They are wandering through the wilderness. It says, “... and they went out into the wilderness of Shur and traveled three days through the wilderness without finding water, and they came to Marah”—Marah means bitter—“... they came to Marah and could not drink the waters of Marah because they were bitter; therefore they named it Marah.” Those are not the maras from over there in Central America, by the way.

It says, “... then the people murmured against Moses and said, ‘What shall we drink?’ And Moses cried out to the Lord....”

For healing to take place, brothers and sisters, the first thing we have to do is cry out to the Lord. The Word says, why do you not receive? Because you do not ask. Moses was a man who knew what had to be done when there was a need. These waters were sick.

Look at the connection here. This is not about healing a sick body, but about healing waters that need to be healed. God is the God of healing for every situation; there are no limits to what God wants to do. Your healing may be emotional in nature, and God wants to heal your emotions. Your healing may be spiritual in nature; perhaps there is some oppression in your life, some kind of addiction, some demonic oppression.

Look, God wants to heal you in that need as well. And perhaps your need is for physical healing in some part of your body. God says, ‘I can intervene in that area of your life.’ It does not matter what it is.

To me, these bitter waters are a symbol of something we need. Waters were made to refresh, to quench thirst, to give life, but many times those waters are bitter. In the same way, I believe that God has called our lives to experience health, vigor and energy, but our physical, emotional, mental or spiritual waters have become bitter and prevent us from enjoying something God created for our blessing.

But many times, what do we do? We complain as the people complained. And then we simply say, ‘Oh, God, you are not being faithful.’ Brothers and sisters, what were we saying last Sunday? Be anxious for nothing, but let your requests be made known.

When you have a need for healing, or when there is someone in your family or somewhere near you, under your influence, who needs healing, pray in the name of the Lord, anoint with oil, exercise the gift that is within you. Begin developing the gift in your life. Brothers and sisters, let us always carry our little bottle of Goya oil in our purse or pocket. Always ready.

I love those little old Pentecostal ladies who are never without a little rouge and a little bottle of oil to anoint the sick. That is lovely, brothers and sisters, that is precious, and we have to use the anointing and the gifts God has placed within us. It is the only way we are going to see the miracles God wants to take place. Thank God Moses knew what he had to do: instead of complaining, he cried out to the Lord. And what does it say here? It says:

“... and the Lord showed him a tree”—this is one of the most poetic images in all of Scripture: bitter, poisonous waters, and God shows him a tree. A tree is something that suggests life, suggests beauty, suggests nourishment, suggests ministry. He showed him a tree, and they took that tree—interestingly, they pulled it up; perhaps it was some kind of shrub or something—they pulled up that tree that manifested life and cast it into the waters. And what happened to the waters? The waters became sweet; they lost their deadly, harmful quality.

That is God’s power when it enters; it is the healing power of God when it enters any situation. There are women whose wombs are bitter; they do not give life. There are men whose minds are bitter, and they do not give life. There are young people whose sensitivity is bitter, and no life comes out of them; they cannot function, they cannot move forward, they are stuck, and the life of God needs to come and heal those places.

I know that it speaks of healings in the physical sense. But no, God’s gift for healing is multifaceted; wherever there is sickness of any kind, the healing power of God can enter. Always remember that. You are a tree; you are a healing agent. This city needs healing people, people with the Spirit of God, people filled with the Holy Spirit, people with a warrior’s vision, people who know that we have God’s life-giving power within us. You have the life of God within you; you can heal the waters of this city. This city needs healing.

It says, “... and the waters became sweet, and there he gave them statutes and ordinances, and there he tested them....”

And look at the connection; look at what God says: “... and he said, ‘If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, no disease.....’”

That is why I know that the mind of God made the connection between those waters that were healed and physical healing, because God then told them, ‘What you have seen is nothing. I want to tell you something: if you walk in my commandments, order yourselves according to my statutes and obey me, I will bring healing to everything that has to do with your lives.’

Then he told them, “... if you do this, I will put none of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians upon you, because I am the Lord, your healer....”

That is one of the names of God: Jehovah Rapha, Jehovah the healer. God—the essence of God—is to heal; just as God is love, he is also healer. God is not a healer in generic terms, but rather, ‘I am the Lord, your healer.’ Always remember that.

God always identifies himself as the healer, and that is why we cannot be content—or rather, resigned—to the diseases in our lives. We must always be crying out and reaching out to the Lord. Whatever situation there may be in your life, whatever disease of any kind, look, keep reaching out to the Lord; do not resign yourself to it. Keep crying out to the Lord and asking, ‘Lord, I need that healing.’ Do not resign yourself to a state of anxiety or depression, to a physical disease or to any kind of sickness; instead, remember that God has said, ‘I am your healer.’

Remember that image of that tree falling upon bitter waters, and remember that this is what happens when the Gospel enters your life, when the Holy Spirit enters your life: it is to heal your life, and it is so that you may be an agent of healing to others as well. I am the Lord, your healer.

Look also at Exodus, Chapter 23, verse 25. It says there, “... but you shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take all sickness away from among you....”

That is a promise. Either God exaggerated, or lied, or did not know his limitations, or he was telling the truth: all sickness. God wants a people—I believe God wants a healthy people, brothers and sisters. Now, I understand very well that there are illnesses and that we have prayed and done everything within our power. But what I mean is, all right, that does not prevent you from living a happy life. If you have a condition, keep crying out to the Lord; set your mind on God’s intention, set your mind on those promises.

Why look at the negative promises when there are so many positive promises? I am the Lord, your healer. I will take all sickness away from among you.

Look at another passage, Deuteronomy 7:15, and notice that all these things are conditioned upon living in the Lord. Brothers and sisters, I believe that if humanity practiced the Word of God, sickness would have been banished from the earth long ago. The problem is that we have contaminated it with sin, and even the church as a community does not live up to what God requires. I know that there are other mysteries that also come into play in human life.

But God continually gave the Hebrews... I believe that if the Hebrews had always walked with the Lord, as a community, as a people, God would have fulfilled that promise and completely banished sickness. But of course, they fell, became corrupt and disobeyed the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:15 says: “.... And the Lord will take away from you all sickness and all the evil plagues of Egypt that you know; he will not put them upon you, but will put them upon all those who hate you....”

A promise of healing, gifts of healing. And one of my favorites is Psalm 103, verse 3. I know it by heart, but I am going to look it up anyway, just in case. It says, “... Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of his benefits; he is the one who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases....”

Who heals what? All your diseases. You see that again and again the Lord speaks in comprehensive, complete terms. Who heals all your diseases. Again and again, brothers and sisters, I see this idea of a God who wants the gift of healing to flow through his people, and God wants to activate our minds to believe in that and for us to have an expectation of healing.

I believe that if we could open ourselves as a radar or satellite opens to transmit waves and receive waves, if we opened our faith and our expectation to the God who wants to heal, and if we could remove, strip away the membrane of unbelief in our hearts and minds, which has grown and hardened because of the science and criticism we have absorbed in so many ways—this world is continually bombarding us with unbelief. And it becomes difficult when a man or woman wants to awaken from that nightmarish sleep and enter into the capacity to believe God. We discover that we have a band of metal around our minds that will not let us believe, and we want to believe, but there is something—we run into a glass wall. We cannot enter into the measure of faith that God desires, and that is the church’s present condition.

That is why the Word says that we should be transformed by the renewing of our minds so that we may prove the good will of God. I believe we have to ask him, ‘Lord, renew our minds; take away the unbelieving mind, take away the critical mind, take away the overly lucid mind, so that like children we may believe that you can heal our lives and use us as agents of healing as well; that you can use me as an instrument of healing.’

Our problem is not that we are ignorant; our problem is that we know too much. And Christ said, “... unless you become like children, you will not enter, you will not see the Kingdom of God....”

I believe that what I have to ask the Lord is, ‘Lord, make me innocent and take away this diabolical lucidity that has been induced in my mind, and make me capable of believing that Little Red Riding Hood can still walk through the world and that you can perform the miracles you say in your Word that you are going to perform, and that like children we may believe in magic, believe in the miracle, believe in the emergence of the surprising, the strange and the magical.’

That sterile mentality of modern man, with all his science and all his reason, has to yield to the mentality of the child who can believe anything—so that if God tells him, ‘Look, not only did the whale swallow Jonah, but Jonah swallowed the whale,’ he can believe it and say, ‘Why not?’ instead of going around looking for vain explanations for the miracles of God.

And that is what we have to believe: that God wants to heal us. The people of God need to open themselves up, for the satellite to open up like arms open when it is in space to receive the divine waves and then channel them toward the earth, channel them to a world that needs men and women who believe.

Brothers and sisters, we have to move in that supernatural mindset, and we have to affirm once again that idea that God can control every situation, that God can minister in every illness, no matter what it may be.

Look at the ministry of Jesus Christ; we have been talking about the Old Testament. Let us now go to the New Testament, where the Lord Jesus Christ shows what his personal nature is. In the Gospel according to Saint Luke, before the Lord begins his ministry, he identifies himself in this way.

Luke, chapter 4, verse 18: “...The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom to the captives and sight to the blind, to set the oppressed free, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord...”

In other words, look at the very nature, the very essence of Jesus’ ministry: it is to heal. The very nature of Jesus’ ministry is to set the devil’s captives free, to heal the oppressed, to heal people who need deliverance. No matter what the condition may be, no matter what the situation may be, God has the power to do this.

Matthew, chapter 4, verse 23, says: “...And Jesus went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and healing every disease and every ailment among the people...”

Every disease, every ailment—the Lord healed it. One of the things that impresses me about Jesus’ ministry is that whenever someone approached him, he healed that person. I have never seen someone approach Jesus and have him say, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot heal you,’ and then go on his way. Sometimes the Lord paused his healing work for a moment, but he always ended up healing the sick person. And he healed paralytics, he healed the blind, he raised the dead, he healed people with a flow of blood. No matter what the situation was, the Lord Jesus Christ healed it. And in that same verse here it says:

“...And they brought him all those who had ailments, those afflicted by various diseases and torments, the demon-possessed, lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them all...”

Brothers and sisters, let us understand this: the Lord wants to heal every disease. I believe that this is the central focus of what God is saying to this group gathered here this morning, because the Lord has led me in another direction, and it is this: no matter what the situation in your life may be, no matter what the nature of your illness may be, the Lord Jesus Christ has the power to heal you. The Lord Jesus Christ has the power to minister to your life. The Lord Jesus Christ wants to heal any condition of illness within you. And the Lord Jesus Christ wants you to activate yourself as an instrument of healing, so that you never lose sight of the fact that the gifts of healing are still operating and that God is looking for a hungry people, a people who long for him to channel the blessing through them. God wants to heal all of us, each and every one of us, and also make us healers.

And I believe that this is the great revival God has for the future of the church. It will come through those manifestations of the gifts of healings, the gifts of miracles, the prophetic gifts. We will speak about all these gifts later, but I want you to remember this, brothers and sisters: we have to begin to hunger, begin to feel desire, hunger, and thirst, and begin to believe that God can do that work through us; that God wants the Kingdom of God to advance with power, just as it advanced in the ministry of Jesus Christ, just as it advanced in the early church in the first century. In the twenty-first century, God also wants to manifest his healing power in our lives. Amen.

Let us stand. I am going to ask the brothers and sisters from the worship ministry to come up here, and this afternoon we are going to minister faith to the people of God. We are going to believe that God has the power to do wonderful things. Let us pray right now for that sister who had that accident here, and let us ask the Lord to place his hand upon her specifically.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we send your healing power upon your daughter, and we ask, Lord, that you place your hand of healing upon her, canceling any harm, Father, that she may have suffered, in the name of Jesus. Bless her, Father, and place your grace upon her right now, Lord, and may what we have preached, Father, be manifested in her life, with you neutralizing any harm, Father, that may have resulted, in the name of Jesus.

Father, we believe that you want to perform works of power in the midst of your people. We confess that the gifts you have poured out upon your church were for yesterday, but they are also for today. Father, we banish unbelief from our minds; right now we banish the cloud that covers our understanding and prevents us from believing in a God of power, a healing God, a life-giving God.

Father, I ask that, in the name of Jesus, the gifts of healing be manifested more clearly in this church. This morning, Father, we cast off all unbelief; we set aside every denial of your desire to manifest yourself as the healing God whom you reveal in your Word. And, Father, in the name of Christ, we declare that healings will take place in this church from this day forward with more power than ever, Lord, and we ask that your healing anointing descend upon your children. Descend with power, Lord; may your anointing descend upon this people this afternoon.

Father, help us to walk uprightly before you. Help us remove every obstacle, Father; help us put our lives in order so that your power may rest upon us. Help us to be a community, Lord, that walks uprightly before you, so that all those plagues of Egypt may be cast aside and we may enjoy the healing your Word promises. This afternoon, through that declared word, Lord, we proclaim healing over your people, over their diseases.

I want you to raise your hand if you are sick, if there is an illness in your life that is harassing you and robbing you of your joy. Brother or sister, raise your right hand right now, in the name of Jesus, right there where you are, and I am going to use this word that I have declared in such detail as a projectile sent into the lives of my brothers and sisters right now.

Receive God’s healing anointing in the name of Jesus. Father, I declare that miracles are taking place this afternoon, healing miracles this afternoon, Lord, in the name of Christ. We cancel disease; we cancel cancer; we cancel diseases of the bones and neurological diseases. We cancel infertility; we cancel the growth of tumors and hard masses where they should not exist, fibroids of different kinds, obstructions in the circulatory channels and veins, cholesterol, and other things that rob your people of their health, in the name of Jesus.

Lord, we neutralize pains, back ailments, and problems with the spinal column, Lord, in the bodies of your children. Lord, we neutralize ailments of different kinds, Father, in the name of Jesus. And likewise, Lord, we declare healing and power in the digestive systems of your people.

Father, we also declare that hormonal and chemical problems are resolved this afternoon in the name of Christ. We declare healing in the name of Jesus in those areas of the lives and bodies of your people.

We have said that you are our healer. Father, you yourself have said, ‘I am Jehovah, your healer,’ and we believe it this afternoon, Lord. We activate that embodiment of your name in this church. Oh God, send your healing power; send your healing power, Lord. Activate the healing power now. In the name of Jesus, we declare healing over the bodies of your people in the name of Christ. We rebuke diseases; we rebuke malignancies in the name of Jesus, and likewise we unleash the healing work of God.

And, Father, now we also receive oil to share with others, and we activate gifts of healing so that your people may minister healing and health to others in the name of Jesus. Receive that healing power, and I advise you that when you see a situation where someone needs prayer, pray in the name of Jesus and believe that you can be used, that you can receive that gift of healing, that you can be used as a channel of healing to others. Glory to the Lord.

Father, we receive that; we receive a double portion. The gift of healing is activated in the midst of your people. I advise you to fan into flame the gift of God that is in you. The Word of the Lord says, ‘Fan into flame the gift of God that is in you.’ Flow, flow in healing; flow in the anointing to heal. Amen. Amen. Glory to the Lord.

Is there a chorus you have specifically about healing? Do we have a chorus about healing that mentions... Don’t we have ‘I Am Jehovah Your Healer’? That one is not here. Okay.

Let us sing a chorus that speaks about the miraculous power of God. I know that you are here; I see you walking. You move among the people, bringing healing—indeed, glory to God. Amen.

Let us use that chorus as a confession; let us use that chorus as a confession of everything we have done. Let us put the paragraph break—the final period—on that paragraph we have preached this afternoon.

I know that you are here; I feel you walking. You move among the people, bringing healing.

And the second verse, Bruce—what does it say? With my faith I will reach you; with my faith I will touch you. I will receive my miracle, and I know that I will be transformed. Glory to the Lord. Amen. Amen.

Let us confess that. Give the Lord a great round of applause. Glory to God.