Speaker 1: Please stand with me as I read from Luke chapter four,
Speaker 1: this is the mission of Jesus. And he went into Nazareth,
Speaker 1: and he got up to read, take the scroll from
Speaker 1: out of Isaiah, and he read these words. The spirit
Speaker 1: of the Lord is on me because he has anointed
Speaker 1: me to preach good news to the poor. He sent
Speaker 1: me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, and recovery of
Speaker 1: sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, and to
Speaker 1: proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, the Jubilee. Then
Speaker 1: he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to
Speaker 1: the attendant and sat down. Heavenly, Father, anoint your word
Speaker 1: this morning. Anoint our listening ears this morning in our hearts.
Speaker 1: We asked that you would speak to us about your
Speaker 1: call upon our lives, about the ministry of Jesus. Let
Speaker 1: it come this morning, Lord, all that you have planned
Speaker 1: in Jesus name. Amen. Amen, you can be seated. Okay.
Speaker 1: So this is what Jesus was saying, is saying, I
Speaker 1: have been called. This is my mission statement that I
Speaker 1: just read, and I have been called to heal the
Speaker 1: sick relationally, spiritually, emotionally, mentally. You name it. Jesus' ministry
Speaker 1: is complete and total healing of individual, of relationships, of society,
Speaker 1: and of our entire world. It is to bring the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God to everything and everyone. And of course,
Speaker 1: when Jesus began to tell them that it was he
Speaker 1: who was ushering in this calling that they promised of
Speaker 1: the Messiah, I was now fulfilled in him and his ministry.
Speaker 1: They wanted to take him out and kill him, right.
Speaker 1: They did not like that, so they pushed him towards
Speaker 1: the cliff outside the synagogue it's a terrible way to
Speaker 1: enschurch service, and tried to throw him off the cliff,
Speaker 1: but he walked supernaturally right away, as we know. And
Speaker 1: then he goes on to do what he said he
Speaker 1: was going to do. He delivers a man in at Capernaum.
Speaker 1: He heals Simon's mother in law from a fever, he
Speaker 1: heals a leper in another town, he forgives and heals
Speaker 1: a paralytic. So this is what Jesus is doing. But
Speaker 1: I want to tell you that my sermon this morning
Speaker 1: is not so much about what Jesus did, but you
Speaker 1: were called to do, because when he spoke his mission,
Speaker 1: he spoke your mission. And I'm going to show you
Speaker 1: through God's word. Why that's true. That's the big idea
Speaker 1: of the message this morning. I'm sure shortening it slightly.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the service, we are going
Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to fulfill his mission this morning
Speaker 1: with one another. We're going to have what I like
Speaker 1: to call sometimes clinic time. Clinic time is healing and
Speaker 1: deliverance time for the body of Christ and for this
Speaker 1: body in this house. So the first century Jewish person
Speaker 1: who obtained the Master and became a disciple understood it
Speaker 1: wasn't just about learning from the person's teaching, but it's
Speaker 1: about going all in, living with that person, going with them,
Speaker 1: doing what they're doing, and learning. And ultimately what's passed
Speaker 1: on is everything that that person the master's doing, the
Speaker 1: disciple would do. Okay, everything the master's doing, disciple would do.
Speaker 1: The apprentice ultimately does what the Master.
Speaker 2: Did.
Speaker 1: And you and I are an apprentice of Jesus if
Speaker 1: we're a follower of Jesus. Luke nine to one. When
Speaker 1: Jesus called the Twelve together, he gave them power and
Speaker 1: authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases,
Speaker 1: and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of
Speaker 1: God and to heal the sick. Amen. Matthew tells us
Speaker 1: very specific instructions that Jesus also gives them. He says
Speaker 1: in Matthew ten seven and eight, as you go, As
Speaker 1: you go, proclaim this message. The Kingdom of Heaven has
Speaker 1: come near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those
Speaker 1: who have leprosy, and drive out demons. Freely you've received,
Speaker 1: freely give what we're talking about. Here are the words
Speaker 1: and the works of Jesus. I wonder what that day
Speaker 1: was like. There were some apostles that were like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: let's go do it. We've been waiting these months to
Speaker 1: do what Jesus been doing, and now we get have
Speaker 1: the authority and power to do it. What what could
Speaker 1: be better than that? You know, I'm thinking about people
Speaker 1: like Paul, James and John. They're the kind of the
Speaker 1: forerunner type of people right all out there, excited and
Speaker 1: everything else. And the rest of the twelve you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but there was a mixed group there,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that some people were wondering, really can
Speaker 1: I do this? Am I Jesus really calling me to
Speaker 1: do this? Many of us would relate to one or
Speaker 1: the other attitude. Right, But they go and they announced
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, and they heal the sick. Mark
Speaker 1: six thirteen tells us they drove out many demons, they
Speaker 1: anointed many sick people and with oil and they healed them.
Speaker 1: And that to me is a pretty good you know,
Speaker 1: first time out, pretty good results. Right, they're out there
Speaker 1: doing it. They come back, Hey, we did this, Jesus
Speaker 1: in your name. It's just it was amazing what happened.
Speaker 1: You know, you can imagine excitement and everything else. But
Speaker 1: that was just the beginning, because we read in Luke
Speaker 1: chapter ten that the Lord had more in store after this.
Speaker 1: The Lord appointed seventy two others, and he sent them
Speaker 1: two by two ahead of him to every town and
Speaker 1: every place where he was about to go. Four runners
Speaker 1: of Jesus. He's sending them out. It's a widening circle
Speaker 1: of Jesus' call.
Speaker 2: To the people.
Speaker 1: We're following him and these are totally unknown people. Get
Speaker 1: We don't know who they are. All we know is
Speaker 1: they said yes to Jesus. All we know is now
Speaker 1: he's sending them. He told them verse two, the harvest
Speaker 1: is plentiful, the workers are few, or the harvest therefore
Speaker 1: to send out workers into his harvest. This is interesting
Speaker 1: because this time when I read it this week, I
Speaker 1: saw something different. I saw that he's sending him out.
Speaker 1: And he says, as you go ask for more workers.
Speaker 1: You think, oh, he has seventy two. Now that's got
Speaker 1: to be enough. He's wanting more, he says, He says, recruit,
Speaker 1: while you're out there, I want more doing this mission
Speaker 1: that I've called you to. And I, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that some of a man thought that, oh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: at least he didn't call us to pray for the
Speaker 1: sick passing out demons. While that is this weird, at
Speaker 1: least he didn't call us to do that. Verse nine,
Speaker 1: after giving him some specific instructions. This is what he
Speaker 1: says to the seventy two. Heal the sick. Heal the
Speaker 1: sick who are there, and tell them the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: God has come near you. Amen, same sending message, same mission.
Speaker 1: Do the works, do my works of healing deliverance, demonstrate
Speaker 1: the kingdom. Listen to this. Jesus does not water down
Speaker 1: anywhere what it means to be a disciple. He does
Speaker 1: not say, oh, well, you don't have to do that stuff.
Speaker 1: You can do all this other stuff. You don't have
Speaker 1: to pray for the sick, you don't have to cast
Speaker 1: out demons. No, I'll you can stay safe and comfortable
Speaker 1: in your in your life.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: The same DNA that Jesus had in him and when
Speaker 1: he spoke of his mission is the same DNA that
Speaker 1: he's passed on to his seven twelve disciples and his
Speaker 1: seventy two disciples, same DNA that he passes on to
Speaker 1: you and me. Lieu ten seventeen tells us what happens.
Speaker 1: The seventy two returned with joy. They returned with joy,
Speaker 1: and they said, Lord, even the demons submit to us
Speaker 1: in your name. This is amazing. This is awesome, This
Speaker 1: is incredible. We're casting out right and left, and the
Speaker 1: broken are getting healed, the demon eyes are getting set free,
Speaker 1: lives are being changed. This is amazing. This is wonderful,
Speaker 1: and we are filled with joy. You know the kind
Speaker 1: of joy. And some of you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: When the Lord uses you to pray for somebody and
Speaker 1: and they get healed, they get delivered, they get changed.
Speaker 1: They say, hey, this is happening. Wow, this is going on.
Speaker 1: You know, when I think back at one day when
Speaker 1: I prayed for my friend John, and he had back
Speaker 1: problems and back pain. And we looked at his legs
Speaker 1: and he had won three quarters of an inch longer
Speaker 1: than other. And and when I had him in a
Speaker 1: chair and I lifted up his legs, they were there.
Speaker 1: I felt I had my hands together and we just
Speaker 1: command that leg to grow. And I could feel it growing,
Speaker 1: and I could see it growing, and he could too,
Speaker 1: And all he could do was burst out laughing. He
Speaker 1: just it was too much to contain. He was just
Speaker 1: and I did too. I mean, it was just like
Speaker 1: the joy the Lord was and it was just such
Speaker 1: an amazing thing to be used by God. And and
Speaker 1: we're not talking about anything complex. It's like in Jesus
Speaker 1: name grow, I mean, we're not talking about uh all,
Speaker 1: you know this, it's simpler than you think. It's simpler
Speaker 1: than we think. Tears of joy on the face of
Speaker 1: someone you you pray inner healing for you help them
Speaker 1: connect with Jesus and the moment of their wounds, you know,
Speaker 1: past hurts and that type of thing, and you help
Speaker 1: them go through a process of forgiveness and letting go
Speaker 1: and renouncing bitterness and and and commanding any spirits to
Speaker 1: leave that are holding on to that. And you see
Speaker 1: them set free, and you see it on their face,
Speaker 1: and you see it in their life. And I mean,
Speaker 1: this is joy. This is joy when you get to
Speaker 1: be a part of this, Jesus says. The next he
Speaker 1: says Liuke ten eighteen. I saw Satan fall like lightning
Speaker 1: from heaven, and I've given you authority to trample on
Speaker 1: snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of
Speaker 1: the enemy, and nothing will harm you. And he's talking
Speaker 1: about demons casting out your snakes and scorpions. By the way, however,
Speaker 1: do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but
Speaker 1: rejoice that your names are written in heaven. He says, yes,
Speaker 1: my friends, isn't this wonderful? Isn't this amazing? But your
Speaker 1: greatest joy is your identity. Your greatest joy is that
Speaker 1: your name is written in the book of life. Your
Speaker 1: greatest joy is that you are a child of the Father.
Speaker 1: Don't forget that when you're doing the ministry of Jesus
Speaker 1: and you walk in the ministry for a while, sometimes
Speaker 1: you forget that's your greatest joy. And so he reminds
Speaker 1: of them that even as they're excited about the works
Speaker 1: of Jesus. It reminds them that keep your eyes on
Speaker 1: your father's face. Your joy is that your name is
Speaker 1: written in his book. But then at that moment, then
Speaker 1: after he's given that little teaching reminder, what happens next
Speaker 1: Luke ten twenty one. And at that time Jesus, full
Speaker 1: of joy, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said,
Speaker 1: I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and Earth, because
Speaker 1: you have hidden these things from the wives and the learned.
Speaker 1: You've hidden these things from people who think they have
Speaker 1: you in a box. They have it. They know. They
Speaker 1: got the right theology, they got the right physician on things,
Speaker 1: and they got the right life on things. And they
Speaker 1: wise and they know everything, he says, because you have
Speaker 1: hid these things from the wise and the learned and
Speaker 1: revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is
Speaker 1: what you're pleased to do. There's no place in scripture
Speaker 1: you can look for it that Jesus shows so much
Speaker 1: joy in the spirit. Then right here, Wow. And it
Speaker 1: is his joy that the Father loves to give good
Speaker 1: gifts to his children. He loves to give the kingdom
Speaker 1: to his children. It is this joy that Father is
Speaker 1: so excited about giving you this ministry, giving you this
Speaker 1: gift that you can walk in Jesus' footsteps, and you
Speaker 1: can heal the sick, and you can cast out demons.
Speaker 1: This is the Father's and the Son's greatest joy. Many Christians,
Speaker 1: many Christians, see themselves as believers in Jesus. I'm a believer.
Speaker 1: I believe. And there are so those Christians who see
Speaker 1: themselves as followers of Jesus. I don't just believe, but
Speaker 1: I follow him, I walk with him. But then there
Speaker 1: are those who see themselves as sent to do the
Speaker 1: works of Jesus. Is that you? Is that you? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's you? And you may be thinking, well, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: you've proved the point that it's not just the twelve,
Speaker 1: you have the seventy two. But what about me? What
Speaker 1: does that mean me too? The Great Commission Matthew twenty eight,
Speaker 1: verses eighteen and following then Jesus came to them. This
Speaker 1: is his disciples, his followers, those He's been sending to
Speaker 1: do all these things right, all the works of Jesus.
Speaker 1: And he says, all authority, all authority now having died
Speaker 1: and risen from the dead, having been been crucified, and
Speaker 1: broken and bleeding. Now all authority, because I've risen from
Speaker 1: the dead, and I have the authority of the Cross.
Speaker 1: All authority has been given to me and heaven and earth.
Speaker 1: Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them.
Speaker 1: And then they have the Father and the Son of
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. And oftentimes we stop there, we think
Speaker 1: that's it Verse twenty and and teaching them to obey
Speaker 1: everything I have commanded you, And surely I am with
Speaker 1: you to the end of the age. Everything I've commanded you.
Speaker 1: I commanded to heal the sick. I commanded you to
Speaker 1: cast out demons. I commanded you to proclaim the breaking
Speaker 1: into the Kingdom of God. This is your calling, This
Speaker 1: is Jesus calling, and this is your calling. John Wimber,
Speaker 1: God bless him. This is the senior pastor of the Vineyard.
Speaker 1: And one thing that he used to say, everybody gets
Speaker 1: to play. Were God's kids in God's playground. Everybody gets
Speaker 1: to play. Everyone, every single one of you get to play.
Speaker 1: Every single one of you gets to play. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, as a kid, you can't maybe you can't
Speaker 1: play football. You're not big enough or you're not fast
Speaker 1: enough to be going to play track, go on track
Speaker 1: the track team. But everybody can play kickball, right, everybody
Speaker 1: can play kickball, doesn't matter who you are. Everybody can
Speaker 1: play kickball. Everybody gets to play. And then we could
Speaker 1: look at the Book of Acts.
Speaker 2: Exit.
Speaker 1: Really briefly, I'll mention there are many people in the
Speaker 1: Book of Acts who are not the twelve Apostles, and
Speaker 1: we find them. What do you think healing is sick
Speaker 1: and cats now demons working miracles? Paul Barnabas, Stephen, Philip,
Speaker 1: Anonias Silas, the deacons in Act six, the prophets in Antioch,
Speaker 1: believers in Jerusalem, in Samaria, in Corinth and Galatia. All
Speaker 1: of them walked in the power of Jesus ministry, all
Speaker 1: of them. So, yes, if you're a follower of Jesus,
Speaker 1: you're called to Jesus ministry, you're called to his mission
Speaker 1: that he spoke at the beginning of this message. John
Speaker 1: Wimber also said, you get to do the stuff. And
Speaker 1: so we're going to do this stuff this morning. And
Speaker 1: this is just for some of you. This might be
Speaker 1: the first time. For many of you. It might be well,
Speaker 1: you've been doing this, some of you started it and
Speaker 1: quit but we're all gonna do it. We're all gonna
Speaker 1: do it right. And this is not about having the
Speaker 1: spiritual gift of healing. Nothing to do with that. Some
Speaker 1: people have that. There's actually gifts of healing. So there's
Speaker 1: lots of different kinds of healing gifts. I won't go
Speaker 1: into that now, but we're talking about the calling of healing.
Speaker 1: You know, you you may not have the gift of evangelism,
Speaker 1: But does that mean you're not called to tell people
Speaker 1: about Jesus. You may not have the gift of serving
Speaker 1: a gift of service that Pastor Dwayne mentioned last week
Speaker 1: and talked about serving. You may not have that gift
Speaker 1: of serving. You may not be annoyed in that. Does
Speaker 1: that mean you don't need to serve? No, So we're
Speaker 1: not talking about that specific gift here. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the calling to walk in Jesus ministry. All right, that's it,
Speaker 1: you know for my my myself personally, it was many
Speaker 1: years ago that I heard a message like this, and
Speaker 1: I when I heard that message, I didn't think that
Speaker 1: I could I could get it get away as a
Speaker 1: Christian with anything less. I just thought, Oh, this is
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do. So I'm going to start
Speaker 1: doing it. And you know, there was some ups and
Speaker 1: downs in it. I didn't have, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people around me to train me or anything else.
Speaker 1: But but you know, honestly, I laid hands on anything
Speaker 1: that moved for a while, and you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: I can't say that all the results were good, but
Speaker 1: somewhere and the Lord was gracious to begin to start
Speaker 1: healing people. But I've learned a lot over the years,
Speaker 1: and I continue to learn. I'm a learner. I'm a
Speaker 1: child when it comes to this stuff. But I love
Speaker 1: to do the stuff. And I'm asking. I asked the
Speaker 1: Lord every morning, Look, can I do the stuff? Can I,
Speaker 1: you know, today, fill me a holy spirit? You know,
Speaker 1: give me a divine appointment to do something. Have you
Speaker 1: called some have me running somebody? I I want to
Speaker 1: do it. It's it's it's kind of, you know, in
Speaker 1: a good way, kind of addictive because it's it's you
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. And I want to say this
Speaker 1: as well. You don't have to know anything at all
Speaker 1: about healing. You don't have to have any training whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I had very little, and you can have zero. You
Speaker 1: can come in here today with zero training. And I'll
Speaker 1: give you a just example. I mean, children sometimes are
Speaker 1: better at than us adults because we overthink everything. I
Speaker 1: actually broke my daughter's arm when she was two and
Speaker 1: a half and I was flipping her over. She'd run
Speaker 1: up my chest and she'd do this, but she got
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger. Uh maybe I had to hold
Speaker 1: her harder or something. But I held too long hard
Speaker 1: on want of a wrists and I'm broke her arm. Yes,
Speaker 1: that was very horrified, H and so, and she was
Speaker 1: in a lot of pain. And we took her immediately
Speaker 1: to the clinic that was opening on the weekend and
Speaker 1: they took an X ray. Yeah it's broken, and uh
Speaker 1: but they said we can't.
Speaker 2: We can't.
Speaker 1: Uh cast we put a cast on. You have to
Speaker 1: do that at your doctor's tomorrow whatever on Monday. And
Speaker 1: so we did. We took her into the doctor. But oh,
Speaker 1: before we did that. That that night, as I was
Speaker 1: putting her bed and we were praying, she shed a
Speaker 1: simple prayer. He prayed. She said, Jesus heal me. That
Speaker 1: was it, and she went to bed. Let's sleep. Next
Speaker 1: morning she got up. She's happy as a lark. She's
Speaker 1: feeling better. She's just oh, I look at this. I
Speaker 1: was like what So of course we got to take
Speaker 1: it to the doctor. We gotta get X rays. We
Speaker 1: took her in, got X rays. The doctor looked in
Speaker 1: and said, there's no break here whatsoever. You know, this
Speaker 1: is on a child's prayer. So I'm gonna tell you now.
Speaker 1: So if you're thinking you have to have, you have
Speaker 1: to have more to do what you're going to do
Speaker 1: today or what you're gonna do tomorrow, you don't. You don't.
Speaker 1: All right, So uh we're going I'm gonna share for
Speaker 1: a few minutes about jesus ministry of healing. Well did
Speaker 1: I've spent some time reading the Gospels many times. I've
Speaker 1: actually read and studied every single time Jesus healed somebody
Speaker 1: or delivered somebody, and there's a lot to learn there.
Speaker 1: One thing I'll tell you is he never did the
Speaker 1: same way twice. I mean he had, we had, but
Speaker 1: he had some things that he brought and used often.
Speaker 1: And I'd like to talk about those because if if
Speaker 1: you know those in advance, then you're already a step
Speaker 1: ahead in terms of your effectiveness. Because I tell you
Speaker 1: that we can all pray for the sick, but we
Speaker 1: want to be as effective as possible. Then this look
Speaker 1: at Jesus ministry. There's a lot of ministries out there
Speaker 1: of healing. I just like to look at Jesus ministry
Speaker 1: and that's we're going to do that for a few minutes.
Speaker 1: And this is for free acceptertise and authorings.
Speaker 2: This is for free.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay, I had some charts. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to show you because that's not the engineer in me.
Speaker 1: And right now, the engineering me will make this go wrong,
Speaker 1: so I don't want to do that. We're going to
Speaker 1: go right to Jesus healing. And it's about fifty fifty
Speaker 1: times that Jesus healed or delivered. We don't have exact
Speaker 1: number because sometimes several gospels mention them and that type
Speaker 1: of thing, but about fifty number one. Have a prayer
Speaker 1: life with the Father. Have a prayer life with a father.
Speaker 1: You know that Jesus spent much time with the Father,
Speaker 1: and after he would pray for people or ministry, he'd
Speaker 1: get away to be with a father. That's where he
Speaker 1: got what he needed to give away. That's where uh,
Speaker 1: that's where he was restored, That's where he was uh, guided,
Speaker 1: and so so he could come in any situation and
Speaker 1: be ready. That's how you be ready by by having
Speaker 1: that time. And my my, uh, my effectiveness praying for
Speaker 1: the sick change when I began to focus more on that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's that's uh, that's maybe obvious, but it's a
Speaker 1: good reminder because that's where you want to grow. And anointing, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's where you get it. That's where you get it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jesus said that the son could do nothing of himself.
Speaker 1: He can only do what he sees his father doing
Speaker 1: in John five. He says in other places too, So
Speaker 1: he's getting what the Father is saying and doing and
Speaker 1: then he's going out and giving it right. And so
Speaker 1: that's important. And I also want to mention that Jesus
Speaker 1: came up to his disciples one time who could not there.
Speaker 1: They couldn't cast a demon out of out of someone.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you remember what he said,
Speaker 1: but these kind only come out by by prayer and fasting.
Speaker 1: Right in some translations he's not talking about at the moment.
Speaker 1: Do you see Jesus spending more time and more prayer,
Speaker 1: keep going at going on a demon? No? No, he
Speaker 1: spent time, more time with a father. And so if
Speaker 1: you have a prayer filled life, it's going to be
Speaker 1: easier to do the works. It's going to take less
Speaker 1: time and less unless you know, sometimes sometimes it's it's
Speaker 1: a mess, right, Sometimes it's difficult. But but spend time
Speaker 1: with the Father and that's in your prayer closet, and
Speaker 1: that it will come easier. Number two, learn to use
Speaker 1: the prayers of command. Uh. If you look at every
Speaker 1: time Jesus healed, never once do you hear him ask
Speaker 1: something from the Father.
Speaker 2: Not once he's.
Speaker 1: Already done that. He's already done that in his prayer closet.
Speaker 1: He's ready, he's coming out now and he's going. And
Speaker 1: so the prayers of command and you know them, I
Speaker 1: could so many examples. Rise, pick up your bed and
Speaker 1: go home. According to your faith, may be done with you.
Speaker 1: Be clean to the ears of a deaf man, be
Speaker 1: opened right to that demon, Uh, be silent and come
Speaker 1: out of him right. And so that's that's like new
Speaker 1: to We like to pray, like I say, we pray
Speaker 1: like a Protestant and I'm you know, but I use
Speaker 1: that in a general term. When you do we have
Speaker 1: the Lord's prayer, and that is petition. That is asking
Speaker 1: mostly it's right, it's it's it's praising God, but then
Speaker 1: it's going into asking him for stuff. But when we
Speaker 1: go to somebody, uh, it's okay. At the beginning, I
Speaker 1: often pray quietly, Lord, what are you doing? How should
Speaker 1: I pray? And that's good. The apostle did debt. There's
Speaker 1: the Book of Acts apostles several times. Peter did it,
Speaker 1: Paul did it where they prayed first and then they
Speaker 1: went and healed somebody. Right, it is that. But when
Speaker 1: they healed somebody's command, it was lifting them up.
Speaker 2: It was that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So so that makes sense. Right, So that's good. Don't
Speaker 1: be shy about the prayer of command, and that's rebuking
Speaker 1: of the enemy. Command the enemy to leave. That's speaking
Speaker 1: to the condition and commanding it to be gone. It
Speaker 1: is praying wholeness over the body. You speak, blessing speak,
Speaker 1: healing speak deliverance number three. Oh, by the way, I
Speaker 1: just said it, include deliverance prayer, Include deliverance prayer and
Speaker 1: your method. You know, early on I didn't really know
Speaker 1: how to pray deliverance prayers, so I was affected as
Speaker 1: I could be. But you know, thirty forty percent at
Speaker 1: least at least that's what's specifically mentioned of Jesus prayers,
Speaker 1: our deliverance prayers or deliverance was part of it, you know,
Speaker 1: part of it. Healing came from deliverance or healing and
Speaker 1: deliverance were both there, right, So yeah, yeah, you got
Speaker 1: to be And this is when I put the plug
Speaker 1: in for Restored Life ministry. If you wanted to learn
Speaker 1: more about deliverance prayer, If you want to receive a freedom,
Speaker 1: more freedom in your life, that's coming up this on Thursday.
Speaker 1: If you want to grow in the ministry of healing,
Speaker 1: and maybe you're stuck a little bit, that's not a
Speaker 1: bad place to go because you will be. You will
Speaker 1: be further trained and equipped. As they said, we can
Speaker 1: pray for anything. You can pray for anybody now and
Speaker 1: see healing. But to be as effected, to see this
Speaker 1: as quickly done as possible, as easy as possible. You
Speaker 1: want to know more, all right? Number four, Ask the
Speaker 1: Lord to deepen your compassion for people. The Lord was
Speaker 1: moved multiple times out of compassion and that's that's that's
Speaker 1: what he flowed in and that's what that's when the
Speaker 1: healing happened. Okay, and so and we we don't need
Speaker 1: any more people who have have the gifts and have
Speaker 1: the power, but don't have love. Right, and so I
Speaker 1: asked the Lord to give me more love because no
Speaker 1: matter what happens, and that when you pray for somebody,
Speaker 1: if they feel love, they feel that you care about them,
Speaker 1: If they receive the love of God through you, then
Speaker 1: the Kingdom has come. You know, whatever happens, whatever happens
Speaker 1: immediately or later, you are, you've done. You've already done
Speaker 1: what God has called you to do. And anything more
Speaker 1: he gives you, he gives you. Right, So ask the
Speaker 1: Lord for compassion for people, love for people. And uh.
Speaker 1: And then you no matter what happens, you can go
Speaker 1: away thank the Lord that that he poured out love
Speaker 1: on them. Number five, use touch or we called laying
Speaker 1: out of hands. Right whenever appropriate, right, Uh, men with men,
Speaker 1: women with women, unless you're in a group then uh.
Speaker 1: And I always ask I'm almost always asked with men
Speaker 1: or women, but sometimes with men that can I just
Speaker 1: tell that they want it, but they want hands laid
Speaker 1: on it. But anyway, uh, that's appropriate. Just this be
Speaker 1: appropriate there. But laying on of hands. It bring. It
Speaker 1: conveys love, okay, and care for a person, and it's
Speaker 1: you're putting Jesus hand on them, right. That's also it
Speaker 1: conveys power. And we know that power comes out of touch.
Speaker 1: The woman with the flow of blood, she was healed
Speaker 1: when she touched the gumer Jesus, so we know power
Speaker 1: comes out as well. So when appropriate do that, it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good thing to do. And uh
Speaker 1: so do that number number six. Bring your faith, bring
Speaker 1: your expectancy. I go in. I always expect Jesus to heal,
Speaker 1: and I always expect or deliver, and I always expect
Speaker 1: him to do it right. Then he doesn't always do
Speaker 1: it right then, but I want to have the faith
Speaker 1: for the best. And it's the easiest thing and the
Speaker 1: easiest time. When Laurie and I were in the prayer
Speaker 1: rooms during the during the summit, during the conference, uh
Speaker 1: they we had ten minutes and we're like, that's a
Speaker 1: short amount of time to pray for people. And then
Speaker 1: they came. Then the leader came in lair and said, no,
Speaker 1: you only have five because too many people out there.
Speaker 1: Five minutes. I'm telling you, the Lord just shortened everything.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm serious. He shortened everything was like pray okay
Speaker 1: that persons delivered or inner healing for that person. You know,
Speaker 1: So time it's bring your faith for here. And now
Speaker 1: you know, Jesus healed everybody who asked, and not necessarily
Speaker 1: everybody around him. If they didn't ask but they didn't
Speaker 1: want it, he didn't heal them. But he healed everybody
Speaker 1: who asked.
Speaker 2: I go go with that.
Speaker 1: And then if it takes more time, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: because I asked him part way through what's happening. And
Speaker 1: sometimes they say, oh, nothing, Well, I always pray again.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I say, oh, I feel fifty percent better. Not
Speaker 1: paying is fifty percent gone. I say, let's praise the
Speaker 1: Lord for that, and then we'll keep going. And so
Speaker 1: it's important to get the person you're praying for looking
Speaker 1: at God, praising God and acknowledging that that just makes things.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes this makes it flow faster, and so that's part
Speaker 1: of it too. So and bring your faith. Sometimes when
Speaker 1: Jesus healed, it was his faith. Sometimes it's the person's faith.
Speaker 1: Sometimes is the family faith. It's you know, faith is important,
Speaker 1: but don't put it on the person and if a
Speaker 1: person walks away not getting healed, it's not on them,
Speaker 1: it's on me. It's like, okay, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to make an excuse that I don't have enough
Speaker 1: power this morning, or I was off for whatever, you know, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's a mystery. Sometimes God heals over Even Jesus prayed
Speaker 1: for blind person twice right the second he was partially
Speaker 1: healed and he was seeing things like trees, so he
Speaker 1: prayed for him again. Right, So we know Jesus sent
Speaker 1: several people to Uh. They had to obey him, and
Speaker 1: as they were going to the priests, as they were
Speaker 1: going to the pool of Siloam, as they were going,
Speaker 1: they were healed. So sometimes the person has to do
Speaker 1: some obedience to get for fullness of healing. And sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just God's timing. I got to tell you last year,
Speaker 1: I had a psiatic nerve problem in this I'm all
Speaker 1: the way down this leg. It was after I had
Speaker 1: an operation for my hip, and it was it was very,
Speaker 1: very painful, painful all the time. Laura and I we
Speaker 1: prayed constantly for it and for months, for months, nothing happened.
Speaker 1: Then one day I was I was downstairs in the
Speaker 1: living room, and I was stretching it out and I
Speaker 1: was kind of groaning. I was trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: make it feel better because I had a busy day.
Speaker 1: Head Laurie came down the stairs. You saw me, and
Speaker 1: she just came down the stairs. She came over to
Speaker 1: me and just put her hands in me. Oh, Jesus,
Speaker 1: heal Gary Boom. I was instantly healed, just like that,
Speaker 1: you know. So, but I had to wait. I had
Speaker 1: to wait months. I don't know why. But Jesus also
Speaker 1: taught you know, keep asking, you know, keep knocking, right,
Speaker 1: keep asking, keep knocking. So just want to throw that in. Finally,
Speaker 1: be willing to take risks because faith is built risk.
Speaker 1: All right, So now I'm going to take a time.
Speaker 1: We're going to go right to commissioning time. Let's all stand.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask you to receive this as
Speaker 1: I pray, and then we're going to do the stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're going to do the stuff. Receive this. This is
Speaker 1: the blessing from the Lord this morning for you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord is upon you because he's
Speaker 1: anointed you to preach good news to the poor. He
Speaker 1: has sent you to proclaim freedom to the prisoners. He
Speaker 1: has sent you for a recovery of the sight for
Speaker 1: the blind. He has sent you to release their oppressed,
Speaker 1: and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Let
Speaker 1: it be done according to his word for you, as
Speaker 1: you receive that this morning. Okay, let's sit down. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. Let's sit down. It's ministry time. And here's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We're gonna pray for people for
Speaker 1: healing and deliverance. All right, I have some words of
Speaker 1: knowledge that will get things started. But if, if, if
Speaker 1: your specific condition isn't called out, then you're welcome to
Speaker 1: stand too. Okay, last service, I forgot that. We had
Speaker 1: plenty of people that received. But okay, lower intestinal condition,
Speaker 1: things like colitis, chrones, ibs, whatever, there's people here with
Speaker 1: that who will gave you a clear picture of that.
Speaker 1: He's gonna heal you. Skin conditions that medications aren't resolving,
Speaker 1: brain conditions, cognitive injury or disease, things that are affecting
Speaker 1: your mind, that affect your brain. Receive healing this morning.
Speaker 1: Joint pain, joint industries, indust injuries, chronic or periodic, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, come and receive.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The Lord did some things last last service. And in
Speaker 1: relational wounds, broken relationships, the Lord SA, I want to
Speaker 1: heal relationships. Uh, and it's it's the time to forgive.
Speaker 1: It's a time to let go, me set free. And
Speaker 1: then finally, uh, grief from loss if you experience that
Speaker 1: or depression related to that. Uh. If I said any
Speaker 1: of those things and I missed anything, that's okay, But
Speaker 1: you stand up. We're gonna pray healing and deliverance for you.
Speaker 1: Stand on up. If if there's something else, if you're
Speaker 1: here and you have pain that in your body that
Speaker 1: you you carry, stand up to because we're gonna pray
Speaker 1: for you as well. Okay, all right, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask people to get around each of these persons, okay,
Speaker 1: and you might want to put your hand up so
Speaker 1: that we know you're there. Because as people get up,
Speaker 1: we want to know where to go. And at least
Speaker 1: one or one or two people, uh to every person,
Speaker 1: and you know how to pray. You bring what God
Speaker 1: gave you and you give it to them. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do that right now. It's the rest of you
Speaker 1: stand up and go to that person. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people standing, so it's okay, to pray for somebody
Speaker 1: first and then ask for prayer. We have a little
Speaker 1: bit of time. Uh it's see, it's twelve thirty, but
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of time to service. So please,
Speaker 1: let's let's do this together. Come.
Speaker 2: Maybe they put up their hands, maybe they.
Speaker 1: Had yeah, yeah, make sure that we get you needing prayer.
Speaker 1: Put your hand up, so make sure, okay, and somebody
Speaker 1: around them, somebody around them. Keep your hand up until
Speaker 1: somebody comes to you. Keep your hand up till somebody
Speaker 1: comes to you. Holy Spirit, come, Holy Spirit, come right
Speaker 1: now and anoint the ministry of Jesus. Let your spirit come.
Speaker 2: And move in power.
Speaker 1: Let it come, Lord. We have some people still waiting.
Speaker 2: Mhm.
Speaker 1: But we want to get to everybody. We have a
Speaker 1: couple of ladies over here that would would like prayer.
Speaker 1: A couple of ladies over here. Put the hands up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get We're gonna get to everybody. Don't worry, Father,
Speaker 1: we bless what you're doing. We know it's your joy
Speaker 1: to give to your children this ministry. It's your joy
Speaker 1: to minister through them. Let it come, Father, Let it come,
Speaker 1: Moral Lord. These conditions we speak to, all these conditions
Speaker 1: I listed. We command them all to leave in Jesus name,
Speaker 1: every one of them, every one of them to leave
Speaker 1: in Jesus name.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Work through Lord, work through the leon of hands. Lord,
Speaker 1: work through the speaking of commands. Lord work through.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Thank you that your body's ministering to the body. Thank you, Lord,
Speaker 1: Thank you for boldness, Thank you for faith. Now is
Speaker 1: the time. Now's the time. And and if you if
Speaker 1: you see as people start being done, and you see
Speaker 1: some prayer warriors being done, then raise your hand and
Speaker 1: let him know that you still like prayer. Release it,
Speaker 1: release that yes, release it on.
Speaker 2: You're so good, You're so good.
Speaker 1: Healing is the children's bread. We receive that bread this morning,
Speaker 1: we give it away. We share it. Healing is the
Speaker 1: children's bread. Jesus you said that we share that bread.
Speaker 1: We share it.
Speaker 2: Now break the yall and break the yol.
Speaker 1: Thank you lot. If you're nearby, just bless what somebody
Speaker 1: is doing nearby. Strick your hand down. Bless that your
Speaker 1: your prayers count your faith counts. God uses that there's
Speaker 1: breakthroughs that need to happen. Just uh, just empower encounters
Speaker 1: that need to happen. And sometimes it's the it's it's
Speaker 1: the sharing of that with with others. You pray in agreement,
Speaker 1: let it happen. Thank you, Lord, bless, bless.
Speaker 2: That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing.
Speaker 3: Less more, Lord, more, Holy Spirit, give us more.
Speaker 1: We're hungry. You're thirsty for more of your life in us.
Speaker 1: You're healing, your deliverance. Lord, heal us, cleanse us, empower us. Yes,
Speaker 1: we say yes and amen to your will this morning.
Speaker 1: Yes and amen to your will. I thank you that
Speaker 1: you're calling us to take this out, take this out
Speaker 1: into our world, to our families, to our friends or
Speaker 1: co workers, our neighbors. Yes, Lord, call us out, Call
Speaker 1: us out, as you call the twelve and the seventy two,
Speaker 1: call us out. Yes, Lord, say yes, yes.
Speaker 2: Everything.
Speaker 1: I pray for those who began and stopped sometime in
Speaker 1: your Christian life, and you started praying for the sick,
Speaker 1: and you stopped, and Jesus Name, today you're starting again. Today,
Speaker 1: you're starting again. Tell your hand and pray for people.