
Author
Dr. Roberto Miranda
Summary: The Christian life is a life of power and the Holy Spirit is the source of that power. God has given each believer a manifestation of the Holy Spirit for their benefit and for the benefit of the Kingdom of God. One of these manifestations is the gift of healing, which can be manifested in a concentrated way in certain individuals, but can also be manifested in the life of any believer at any time. Therefore, believers should not waste any opportunity to minister healing to someone in the name of Jesus, as the Holy Spirit can use anyone who is available. Believers should also not abandon the gift of supernatural healing because of the advances of science. The Christian life is a supernatural matter and God wants to move to heal the sick.
The speaker believes in the gift of supernatural healing, even in the modern age of science. He believes that God wants to heal the sick and that the church needs to renew its mind and hunger for the supernatural manifestations of God's power. He cites examples from the Bible, such as Moses healing the bitter waters, and reminds the audience that God identifies himself as Jehovah Rafa, the God who heals. The speaker encourages the audience to pray and develop their gift of healing to become healing agents in their community. He also cites several Bible passages that promise healing to those who live in the Lord.
The speaker believes that if we open ourselves to God's healing power and remove the membrane of disbelief in our hearts and minds, we can believe in the miraculous and supernatural. The speaker references Jesus' healing ministry and declares that God wants to heal any disease and desires to activate his people as instruments of healing. The speaker leads a prayer for healing and encourages believers to fan the fire of the gift of healing in themselves and minister healing to others. A chorus is sung as a confession of faith in God's healing power.
I have always intended to go back and continue to talk about the Holy Spirit, that 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 he said there, it's a little more complicated, he says, '....it's not with strength or power but with your holy spirit..'
What he talks about strength and power is human strength. It is not with a sword or with an army, says another version. It is not with horses, it is not with human resources, it is in the spirit that the people of God fight their battles.
And that's why it's so important that we know how to use the resources of the Holy Spirit in our lives, because God has provided his spirit to help us navigate all of life's situations. That is why we speak of gifts of the Holy Spirit, charismata in the original Greek, it means, it is like gifts, provisions that God has given to his children so that they can carry out the tasks of life and he has also provided it for them. to his church so that the church can carry out all the tasks that God has entrusted to it.
You will remember that when Christ sends the disciples, the 70 to go to the different villages and preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, what does he do first? He says that he gave them power over demons, he gave them power to heal diseases, and he gave them power to declare shalom, the peace of God wherever they went. That is the power that we have.
If the Lord gives you a task, he also gives you the resources so that you can achieve it. Remember that always. If he tells you, 'Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,' he also says, 'All power is 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, which is why God is so interested in us recording that. The Christian life is not just routine, of coming to church, listening to a little sermon, singing two little hymns, and reading a little word, and then leaving just as broken and depressed and destroyed as we came in.
No, the Christian life is a life to strengthen ourselves in the spirit of God and to decapitate giants, to tear down walls, to scale mountains and to climb the highest heights. That is what God has called us to. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are for that and my desire, my purpose in these weeks has been, once again, to renew our minds, renew our vision. I see here, I see a lot of new people, I see people who have met the Lord recently, I see people who are seeking God, we are in different stages of cooking. Some are already well done, and others are rare, that means they are still bleeding, the old man is still alive and kicking, he's not that old, he's young, by the way.
But no, we are in different stages, but for all of you, brothers, I wish 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 calculated in the spirit to instill in us a supernatural mindset.
There are many evangelicals who have a rather generic mentality, we believe in the Bible, we believe in Christ each Lord, but there are many texts that do not speak to us, because we have neutralized them. And we kind of subconsciously say, no, that's not for me, that's for years ago when these things were done. But no, the supernatural life is for you and me.
I was thinking, this is a long introduction, but okay, I'm already in the sermon. By the way, look, so you know where I'm anchoring myself, First Corinthians, Chapter 12. Remember the last few 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 is given the manifestation of the spirit for profit....”
Pay attention, it says who? To some? To each other. That is, put your name there, every Christian, every person who has the Holy Spirit within him or her, is given a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, in some way the Holy Spirit incarnates in you with his power, and God has put a grace in you, God has put a resource in you, God has put something special in you.
I see my sister Miriam here nodding, I don't want to put you on the spot, do I? but it's okay, you're used to being on the spot. Because I see here my sister that I have seen her activate in the spirit. Yes or no? Amen. In the last few months, how many years have you been here coming to church? 4 years old, you and your family. As the Lord, I would not have thought that I would see you doing the things that you are doing now with the young people and filled with the fire of the spirit, and here making a mess with Janette also next door, and ministering to people, and ministering healing, advising.
But what in Paul's call to Timothy, 'I advise you to fan into fire the gift of God that is in you...' The gift of God is in us, the problem is that we don't we activate many times, we leave it there asleep, we don't click on it. We didn't activate it, but you know what? you have to start moving by faith.
Now, many times Christians if we are not alerted to these things from the pulpit or from the teaching room, we do not understand then we live a very limited Christian life in power and scope. But I want you to know that inside you there is a fireplace with a very powerful fire. There is a reserve of more than nuclear power within di.
The question is what are you going to do with it? Are you going to leave it contained there or are you going to start manifesting it? You just need you to believe that each one, me and begin to manifest the power of God in your life. So, that is what we have to do and that is why we are preaching these sermons in that sense.
Then Paul says: "... to each a manifestation of the spirit for profit..."
Say everyone, 'profit'. You know what the power of God is for in your life. For you to benefit. Profit for what? Well, good for your financial life, good for your married life, good for your family life as a whole, good for your physical life, your physical health, good for your emotional health, good for preaching the Gospel, good for ministering to others, advantage for being a teacher in the congregation, advantage for advising someone when they are in need, advantage for when the devil wants to destroy your life, you stand up and say, I'm sorry, you don't come through here, advantage for doing the works of God for profit.
God's gifts are given so that we can take advantage of them and do God's work here on earth. That is why I do not commune with those who sometimes very well intentionedly say that the gifts of the Holy Spirit have ceased. There is an evangelical doctrine in many churches, which is called cessationism, which means that the gifts have ceased to operate, because they are no longer needed. Where did a mamarracho of that type engender?
Since we are not going to need the spirit in the 21st century more than in the first century, this century is more inveterate than the first century and if today the church of Jesus Christ does not use the gifts of the Spirit Holy, we are never going to achieve what needs to be achieved at this time, more than ever.
There is no logic in the idea that God now already says, no, you do not need the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Crazy. More than ever the church today is in need of the manifestations of the power of God for our benefit and for the benefit of the Kingdom of God.
Then Paul says, speaking of different gifts, “....to one is given the word of wisdom.... –we already talked about that, I'm not going to go into too much detail. Again, consult the sermons that are on the Internet- “....to one is given a word of wisdom, to another a word of science or knowledge,... – gnoseos as it says in the original Greek. We already talked about what we more or less understand by the gift of science or knowledge- "..... according to the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit...."
That was the last intervention that I did about the gifts. We discussed three gifts: science or knowledge, wisdom, and faith. And now the Apostle Paul says:
“.... and to another gifts of healings.....”, charismata iamaton in the original Greek.
Say everyone, charismata iamaton. They are already experts in Greek imagine. Impress your colleagues at work tomorrow and tell them 'I have the charismata iamaton'. And they're going to say, 'what do you eat that with?'
“.... and to another gifts of healing by the same spirit....”
You know, my brother, that God has given his people gifts of healing. Now, the gifts can manifest in two ways. The gifts can manifest in a very concentrated and very specialized way in a person who we say has the gift of healing, for example, a Benny Hinn, with all his wrinkles and all his problems and defects, I believe that he is a man who move in God's healing anointing. A Yiye Ávila, a jibarito, former baseball player and weight lifter, but a man filled with the Holy Spirit, eighty-odd years old, already has a precious career in healing. 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 way in a person so that he can carry out an apostolate, so that he can carry out a work of evangelism, etc.
But also, you know what? I believe that the gift of healing can be manifested in the life of any believer, at any time as well. God can use you, don't hide behind the idea that the gift of healing is only for a select group of people. No, the beauty of this administration of the Holy Spirit in which we live is that God distributes his gifts to his people, and that he says here he gives one thing to one, another another.
Who knows if one day you are one of those others, or that one that God uses to heal someone in the name of Jesus? And that is why we cannot waste any opportunity to minister healing to someone in the name of Jesus. Because you don't know at the moment when God is going to use you. I know one thing, that the Holy Spirit dwells in me and that when the Holy Spirit wants to manifest himself in healing or in a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge, he can do it. What you need is a person available.
I love it, for example, there was a small group of sisters here, and there was a pregnant visiting sister and they were praying for her, and I think they filled her with... the poor thing, she I didn't know I was going to get into so much trouble here. Someone came once, took out.... where did they put the oil? They are not going to take it home, you know? Ah, well, it's there, ok. Be careful, huh But they were praying, about three or four fell on top of them 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 to keep us healthy, to keep sickness out of our lives, 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 and how are we going to abandon this precious resource that we have in our hands.
Let's not let science take away the call to pray for supernatural healing. I love doctors, let me tell you. I hasten to tell you that I thank the Lord for the doctors. Sometimes we are very ungrateful to the poor doctors and we go to the hospital, limping and they give us medicine and we come out fine, and then we say, I don't give doctors any credit. How ungrateful we are. Give him even a little bit of credit and thank the Lord too. But sometimes we want to be holier than the Pope, not more Catholic than the Pope. Thank the Lord for science.
But having said that, I also want to tell you, brothers, that because we live in a century where science has made many advances, we cannot stop believing and practicing in the gift of supernatural healing as well. We have to renew our mind in that sense. God wants to move to heal the sick. And I tell you, brothers, that I live continually as Elijah's servant, when Elijah sends him to see from the mountain if the rain that had been promised was coming. Do you remember that? Years without rain and Elías says, 'now it can rain because all things are fixed'.
Do you know what's going on? Let me digress here as well. We are... it doesn't rain spiritually because Baal is sitting where he shouldn't be sitting. Until Baal is cut off and removed, the church of Jesus Christ will not see the rain that it has to see. Baal needed, and his prophets had to be banished from Israel for the rain to fall.
We often sing, cry out, send the rain. I think the rain is coming. I think the rain is coming. I can almost hear the noise of the coming rain, but I also think that first you have to put the house in order. The church needs to put the house in order. Baal has to be removed from the streets of Israel. God needs to send his prophets to put in order. Before God makes deliverance he always has to tear down the idol.
When Gideon is called to free Israel from the oppression of the Midianites, the first thing he is commanded to do is cut down the idol from Sidewalk and when the idol is cut then comes the blessing of God and liberation . The fact is that when Elías sends his servant, he sent him several times, because Elías had said, 'It's going to rain', and he sends him many times to see and finally the servant says, 'yes, I see a little cloud the size of a fist'. And then Elias says, "Well, get ready because the rain is coming."
And I also believe, brothers, I am waiting for the outpouring of the power of the Holy Spirit on the church at 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 that God wants to give in this time can be produced, so that we can correct a little what is happening in this world. I believe in that.
And that's why we have to pray to the Lord, 'Father, renew your gifts.' We have to develop the hunger, the appetite in our spirit, because if a church does not cry out, if a church does not hunger for the supernatural manifestations of the power of God, the power of God is not going to descend on his people. And that is why the church has to be longing, longing like the pregnant woman longing to give birth.
‘Lord, we are in need of your visitation. We want your gifts of healing to manifest so that we can do the work of the Holy Spirit.
I want to build a church that can pray, lay hands and have the sick healed, because that is in the pages of Scripture. And that's 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. Go with me for a moment to the book of Exodus, Chapter 15, I don't know if I'm going to be able to finish everything I proposed. This sermon is turning out to be very different from the morning, but it is the very subject of healing. And this morning, sitting there, the Lord reminded me before we started the service of this beautiful text.
Exodus 15, verse 22, says “.... and Moses divided Israel...” – the Israelites are in the desert, they are in dry, desert places, there is no water anywhere . They are circling in the desert. It says, "...and they went out into the desert of Shur and walked three days in the desert without finding water, and they came to Mara -Mara means bitter- "...they came to Mara and could not drink the waters of Mara because they were bitter, that's why they named her Mara. 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 Jehovah....”
So that of healing, brothers, the first thing we have to do is cry out to the Lord. The word says, why don't you receive? Because they don't ask. Moses was a man who knew what to do when there was a need. This water were sick.
Look at the connection here. It is not about the healing of a sick body, but it is about the healing of waters that need to be healed. God is the God of healing for any 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, there may be some oppression in your life, some addiction of some kind, some demonic oppression.
Look, God wants to heal you in that need too. And perhaps your need is for physical healing, in some part of your body. God says 'I can intervene in that aspect of your life'. It doesn't matter what it is.
For me these bitter waters are a symbol of something that we need. The waters have been made to refresh, to quench thirst, to give life, but many times these waters are bitter, as many times, I believe that God has called our lives to experience health, vigor, and energy, but our physical waters, or emotional, or mental, or spiritual are bitter and prevent us from enjoying something that God has created for our blessing.
But many times what do we do? We complain as the people complained. And then we just say, 'oh, God you're not being faithful. Brother, what were we saying last Sunday? Do not be anxious for anything unless your requests are 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. Put to develop the gift in your life. Let us be, brothers, that we always carry our bottle of Goya oil in our wallet or pocket. Always ready.
I love those Pentecostal old ladies who never lack a little bit of blush and a little bottle of oil to anoint the sick. That is beautiful, brothers, that is precious and we have to use the anointing and the gifts that God has placed in us. It is the only way that we are going to see the miracles that God wants to happen, that thank God that Moses knew what he had to do, instead of complaining he cried out to Jehovah. And what does it say here? It says that:
“...and Jehovah showed him a tree – this is one of the most poetic images in all of Scripture, bitter and poisonous waters and God shows him a tree. A tree is something that suggests life, suggests beauty, suggests nutrition, suggests ministry. He showed him a tree, and they took that tree, interestingly they uprooted it, maybe it was a bush of some kind or something, they uprooted that life-manifesting tree and dumped it into the waters. And what happened to the waters? The waters became sweeter, they lost their deadly, harmful quality.
That's the power of God when it comes in, that's the healing power of God, when it comes into any situation. There are women whose belly is bitter, they do not give life. There are men whose mind is embittered and do not give life. There are young people whose sensitivity is sour and there is no life coming out of them, they cannot function, they cannot get ahead, they are stuck and God's life needs to come and heal those places.
I know it talks about healings in the physical sense. But, no, God's gift to heal is multifaceted, wherever there is disease of any kind, God's healing power can enter. Remember that always. You are a tree, you are a healing agent. In this city healing people are needed, people with the spirit of God, people filled with the Holy Spirit, people with a warrior vision, people who know that we have within us the life-giving power of God. 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 listen attentively to the voice of Jehovah your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, no disease...” < /p>
That is why I know that the mind of God made the connection between those waters that were healed and physical healing, because God once told him 'what you have seen, this is nothing. I want to tell you something, if you walk in my commandments and are ordained according to my statutes and obey me, I am going to give you healing to everything that has to do with your lives.'
So, I will He said ".. if you do this, none of the diseases that I sent to the Egyptians will send to you because I am Jehovah, your healer..."
That is one of the names of God, Jehovah rafa , Jehovah the healer. God, the essence of God is to heal, just as God is love, he is also a healer. God is not a healer in generic terms, but is 'I am Jehovah, your healer'. Remember that always.
God always identifies himself as the healer, which is why we cannot be happy or rather satisfied with the diseases that exist in our lives. We always have to be crying out and touching the Lord, whatever situation there is in your life, any disease of any kind, look, keep touching the Lord, don't settle, keep crying out to the Lord and asking, 'Lord, I need that health'. Do not settle for a state of anxiety, depression, with a physical illness, with any type of illness, but remember that God has said 'I am your healer'.
Remember that image of that tree falling on bitter waters, and remember that that is, when the Gospel enters your life, where the Holy Spirit enters your life it is to heal your life, and it is so that you be a healing agent to others too. I am Jehovah, your healer.
Look in Exodus, Chapter 23, verse 25 as well, it says there "... but you shall serve the Lord your God and he will bless your bread and your water and I will remove all sickness from among you... .”
That's a promise; either God exaggerated or lied or didn't know his limitations, or he was telling the truth, all sickness. God wants a people, I believe that God wants a healthy people, brothers. Now, I understand well that there are diseases and we have prayed and we have done everything that is on our part. But what I want to say, okay, that does not prevent you from living a happy life, if you have a condition but keep crying out to the Lord, put your mind on God's intention, put your mind on those promises.
Why look at the negative promises when there are so many positive promises? I am Jehovah your healer. I will remove all sickness from among you.
Look at another passage, Deuteronomy 7:15, and notice that all of these things are conditional on living in the Lord. Brothers, I believe that if humanity put the word of God into practice, disease 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 asks for. I know that there are other mysteries that also intervene 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 kept that promise and completely banished disease. But of course, they fell, became corrupted and disobeyed the Lord.
Deuteronomy 7:15, says: ".... and the Lord will remove from you all sickness and all the evil plagues of Egypt that you know, he will not put them on you, but will put them on all who hate you....”
Promise of healing, gifts of healing. And one of my favorites is psalm 103, verse 3, I know it by heart, but I'm going to look it up anyway just in case. He says, "... bless my soul Jehovah and do not forget any of his benefits, he is the one who forgives all your iniquities, the one who heals all your ailments...."
He who heals what? All your ailments You see that over and over again the Lord speaks in comprehensive, complete terms. The one who heals all your ailments. I see over and over again, brothers, that 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 it and for us to have the expectation of healing.
I believe that if we were able to open ourselves as a radar or a satellite opens to emit waves and receive waves, if we would open our faith and our expectation to the God who wants to heal, and we could remove, remove the membrane of disbelief in our hearts and minds, grown and hardened by science and criticism that we have absorbed in so many ways, this world is continually bombarding us with disbelief. And it becomes difficult when a man or a woman wants to wake up from that nightmarish dream and enter into the capacity to believe God, we discover that we have a metal band around our mind that does not let us believe and we want to believe, but there is something that we ran into a glass wall. We cannot enter into the measure of faith that God wants, and that is the way the church is today.
That is why the word says that we transform ourselves through the renewal of our understanding so that we can verify the good will of God. I think we have to ask him, 'Lord, renew our mind, remove the incredulous mind, remove the critical mind, remove the overly lucid mind so that as children we can believe that you can heal our lives, and use us as healing agents too; that you can use me as a healing instrument.
Our problem is not that we are ignorant, our problem is that we know too much. And Christ said "... if you do not act as children you will not enter, you will not see the Kingdom of God..."
I believe that what I have to ask the Lord, 'Lord, make me innocent and take away this diabolical lucidity that has been induced in my mind and makes me capable of believing that Little Red Hood can still walk in the middle of the world and that you can do the miracles that you say in your word that you are going to do, and that we can believe as children in magic, to believe in the miracle, to believe in the outbreak of the surprising and the rare and the magical.'
That sterile mentality of modern men, with all their science and all their reason, has to yield to the mentality of the child who can believe anything, that if God tells him, 'look, not only did the whale swallow Jonah, but Jonah swallowed the whale', that he can believe it and say why not? Instead of looking for vain explanations for God's miracles.
And that's what we have to believe that God wants to heal us. The people of God need to open up, for the satellite to open up as arms are opened when it is in space to receive the divine waves and then channel them towards the earth, channel them to a world that needs men and women who create.
Brothers, we have to move in that supernatural mentality and we have to say, again, that idea that God can control every situation, in every disease God can minister, no matter what it is.
Look at the ministry of Jesus Christ, we are talking about in the Old Testament. We 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 liberty 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 nature itself, the very essence of Jesus' ministry is to heal. The very nature of Jesus' ministry is to set the captives of the devil free, to heal the oppressed, to heal people who need deliverance. No matter what the condition, no matter what the situation, God has the power to do this.
Matthew, Chapter 4, see 23, says; “...and Jesus went through all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and healing all sickness and disease among the people..”
Every sickness, every disease, the Lord healed her. One of the things that impresses me about the ministry of Jesus is that when someone came to him, he healed him. I have never seen Jesus someone approach him and say, 'I'm sorry, I can't heal you', and go on his way. Sometimes the Lord stopped his healing work for a moment, but he always ended up healing the sick. And he healed the paralyzed, he healed the blind, he healed the dead, he healed people with an issue of blood. No matter what the situation, the Lord Jesus Christ healed her. And in that same verse here it says:
"... and they brought him all those who had ailments, those afflicted with various diseases and torments, the demon-possessed, lunatics and paralytics and he healed all of them.." < /p>
Brothers, let's understand that, the Lord wants to heal any disease. I think that is the central focus of what God is saying to this group that is here this morning, because the Lord has directed me in another direction and that is, no matter what the situation in your life, no matter what it is the nature of your sickness, the Lord Jesus Christ has power to heal you. The Lord Jesus Christ has power to minister to your life. The Lord Jesus Christ wants to heal any disease condition that is in you. And the Lord Jesus Christ wants you to activate yourself as an instrument of healing, that you never lose that idea that the gifts of healing are still in operation and that God is looking for a hungry people, a people willing for him to channel. the blessing, to all of us, to each one of us God wants to heal and also to make a healer.
And I believe that this is the great revival that God has for the future of the church, it will come through these manifestations of the gifts of healings, the gifts of miracles, the prophetic gifts, come on I'm going to talk about all these gifts later, but I want you to remember that, brothers, we have to begin to hunger, begin to desire, hunger and thirst and begin to believe that God can do that work through us, that God he wants the Kingdom of God to advance with power as it advanced in the ministry of Jesus Christ, as it advanced in the first church in the first century, in the 21st century God also wants to manifest his healing power in our lives. Amen.
Let's stand up. I am going to ask that the brothers of the ministry of praise come here and we are going to minister faith to the people of God this afternoon, we are going to believe that God has the power to do wonderful things. We are going to pray for that sister right now and we are going to ask that she had that accident here, we are going to ask that the Lord place her hand precisely.
Father, in the name of Jesus we send your healing power over your daughter and we ask, Lord, that you place your hand of healing on her, canceling any damage, Father, that she has received, in the name of Jesus. Bless, Father, and put your grace on her right now, Lord, and may this that we have preached, Father, manifest in her life. Your neutralizing any evil, Father that may have resulted in Jesus name.
Father, we believe that you want to do works of power in the midst of your people. We confess that the gifts that you have poured out on your church are for yesterday, but they are also for today. Father, we banish unbelief from our minds, we banish right now the cloud that covers our understanding and that prevents us from believing in a God of power, a healing God, a life-giving God.
Father, I pray that in the name of Jesus the gifts of healing may be more clearly manifested in this church this morning, Father, we remove all disbelief, we lay aside all denial of your desire to manifest yourself as the healing God that you record in your word. And Father, we declare in the name of Christ, healings being done in this church from now on with more power than ever, Lord, and we ask that your healing anointing descend upon your children. Descend with power, Lord, descend your anointing on this town this afternoon.
Father, help us to walk straight before you, help us to remove all obstacles, Father, help us to arrange our lives so that your power can rest upon us. Help us to be a community, Lord, that walks straight before you so that all those plagues of Egypt can be cast aside, and we can enjoy that healing that your word promises. On this afternoon we by that declared word, Lord, announce healing over your people, over diseases.
I want you to raise your hand if you are sick, if there is any disease in your life and it is harassing you and taking away your joy, brother or sister, raise your right hand right now in the name of Jesus where you are there, and I am going to use this word that I have stated in such detail as a projectile sent into the lives of my brothers now.
Receive in the name of Jesus the healing anointing of God. Father, I declare miracles taking place this afternoon, healing miracles this afternoon, Lord, in the name of Christ. We cancel the disease, we cancel cancer, we cancel bone diseases, neurological diseases, we cancel sterility, we cancel growths of tumors and calluses where they should not exist, fibroids of different types, obstructions in the circulatory channels, in the veins, cholesterol and others. things that take away the health of your people in the name of Jesus.
Lord, we neutralize pain, back ailments and problems with the spine, Lord, in the body of your children. Lord, we neutralize ailments of different kinds, Father, in the name of Jesus. And we declare, Lord, also in the digestive system of your people healing and power.
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 life and body of your people.
We have said that you are our healer. Father, you yourself said, I am Jehovah, your healer, and we believe it this afternoon, Lord. We activate that incarnation 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 body of your people in the name of Christ, we rebuke diseases, we rebuke evil 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 activate gifts of healing for your people to minister healing and health to others in Jesus name. Receive that healing power, and I advise you that when you see a situation where you have to pray for someone, pray in the name of Jesus and believe that you can be used, you can receive that gift of healing, you can be used as a channel of healing to others. Glory to the Lord.
Father, we got that, we got double portions. The gift of healing is activated in the midst of your people. I advise you to fan the fire of the gift of God that is in you, says the word of the Lord, fan the fire of the gift of God that is in you. Flow, flow in healing, flow in anointing to heal. Amen. Amen. Glory to the Lord.
Is there a chorus that you have on healing specifically, we have any chorus on healing that you mention.... Don't we have 'I am Jehovah your healer'? That's not there. Okay.
We're going to lead a chorus that talks about the miraculous power of God. I know you are here, I see your walk, you move among the people bringing healing, in fact, glory to God. Amen.
We're going to use that chorus as a confession, we're going to use that chorus as a confession to everything we've done. We are going to put the full stop, the full stop to that paragraph that we have preached this afternoon.
I know you are here, I feel your walk, 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's confess that. Give the Lord a big round of applause. Glory to God.