Prayers of Healing
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Introduction: Every one has Hurts. Every one has Pain. Everyone has broken relationships. Everyone has done things they regret or they are guilty of. Every one has been offended. Everyone has been touched by evil or sinned against themselves or against their brother. No matter who you are you need healing.
It may not be at the surface level. I know that even this week as i was working towards this subject for this sermon things that were deep seeded in past relationship were brought to my attention and I am looking at healing even now. As i stand before you i stand yet again healing from a wound i thought i was through with.
I was told by my spiritual mother this week that healing sometimes is like layers of an onion. We get one layer and then another layer is revealed.
Some healing is easy, its a small offense such as when we are children and we get punched by a sibling there may be a bruise and a pain but eventually there will be no evidence of that bruise or pain the physical healing will occur.
Then their are deep seeded emotional wounds like when someone breaks our trust where we may struggle for months or years to regain the trust to keep the relationship or it may kill it all together.
I'm sure we can all relate to being the injured person and being the one who inflicted the injury. I’ve inflicted many injuries in my time and taken many blows as I’m sure so have many of you.
The important thing is is not the injury as much as what we do after we are injured.
1. There is no Formula
1. There is no Formula
I was told several years ago that i was going to be a Healer. When you get a word like that first of all you think its very cool because i do not believe as some churches do that the miracles that God preformed in the bible died with the Apostles. I believe that we have the same power they have through the Holy Spirit.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
So here and there i would study healing, I have a passion for the great revivals of old that saved and healed millions of people so i would watch those sermons. I would watch what are they doing. What are they saying. Where are they laying their hands? Are they speaking in tongues? How are they doing it what are they doing? Are they fasting? What exactly is the method that works?
After i started preaching on the street 3 years ago i wanted to see more of Gods miracles i wanted to see healing and all the things i’ve never seen.
But there is no formula......no special wording...........no special person.
2. It is All God
2. It is All God
He either heals or he doesn’t
It’s not about you or me it’s about him.
It’s as simple as that.
The only part we play in a prayer of healing is the obedience to pray.
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.
When i stopped worrying about the words, the method and became obedient to the Lord and said what he wanted me to say and did what he wanted me to do and envisioned what he wanted me to envision etc. He began to heal people not through me in spite of me.
3. It’s all God’s Glory and in Jesus name.
3. It’s all God’s Glory and in Jesus name.
Any thing God does through us being used as a vessel for his purpose is to Glorify. Honor or magnify himself. So why should healing be any different. Why should miracles be any different .
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
And in Jesus name we are supposed to ask for things. In the book of Apostle John is where we are instructed to do this. The Apostle John was Jesus beloved apostle of Jesus he calls himself that and in his book he says we should pay in Jesus name.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
Disclaimer: Just because we ask for it doesn’t mean we are going to get it. This simply means that we have to realize we have no power on our own.
In the new testament letters they put that they are from Jesus in the beginning of the books. Its like putting a seal on the letter so you know who its coming from. I wonder if when we say in Jesus name if maybe the demonic powers can’t mess with the prayer we just prayed out loud because the bible says they flee in the name of Jesus.
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
I just don’t think it’s complicated.
I think when people make it about not having enough faith and not believing you will be healed that’s just too deep and just not true.
I know people with huge faith and huge belief that God has not healed. I don’t know why because their desire is to be healed. They believe in God as much as you all, but we do know that even the bible talks about this.
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
Even the Apostle Paul had something within him God would not heal. He doesn’t say what it is, and many theologians have tried to give it a name but they are just guessing only God and the Apostle Paul know what that was.
It could have been something he needed help with healing in his soul emotionally, physically, or mentally. It was up to God and for whatever reason God did not take it from him. Three times is not a long time to pray. I’m sure we spend a lot more time praying for things to be taken from us when God wants us to keep it.
Tonight i want to pray for you.
You may need healing in one of these areas or you may need to accept that God wants you to have this thorn in your flesh for his will and purposes. In the course of going through my journey with Asperger’s I prayed to be healed I've had this for 5 years. I was diagnosed a year before i became a Pastor and i will have been a licensed Pastor here 4 years in October.
I am past the i need healing stage and I’m in the Apostle Paul acceptance stage and i can see how it makes me who I am and helps me with lost of things. Apostle Paul continues in these verses saying
And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing.
Healing for the soul
Body
Mind
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
You might need to repent if its a sin you committed to heal.