You Can Heal

Awesome. Imagine that! God will permit me, a nobody, to heal myself and to heal others. Mind blowing. Charles and Frances Hunter have a web site 15 hour video for you to watch, if you are serious about doing now what Jesus did 2000 years ago. Prerequisite is that you have Jesus' water and Holy Spirit Baptism. That means that you have Jesus' Spirit inside you, in your heart and that you have the Holy Spirit power to raise the dead, to heal cancer, to cast out demons, whatever needs to be done by God's power and for God's glory right now: this year, this month, this week, this day, this minute.

If you are not sure that you would go to heaven if you died right now,
and you want to be sure, then pray this prayer out loud:

Father God, forgive me for all my sins
and the sins of my forefathers.
I acknowledge that Your Son, Jesus Christ bore my sins on the cross
and rose from the dead.
I receive Your Son's sacrifice on behalf of me
and acknowledge Him to be my Lord and Savior.
I thank You.
I BELIEVE, based on Your Word in the Bible and not on my feelings.

John Lake,as quoted in John G Lake, the Complete collection of His Life Teachings, www.robertsliardon.org explains that salvation is triune: salvation of the spirit, salvation of the soul or mind plus salvation of the body. We are to have the Holy Spirit, the mind of Christ plus bodies that are always disease free. Lake encourages us to say, " In the name of Jesus Christ, I refuse to have this illness." In the name of Jesus, I refuse to have this cancer. In the name of Jesus, I refuse to have this cold. In the name of Jesus, I refuse to have this mental illness.

The baptism in the Holy Spirit helps us to obtain our goal. Wigglesworth, in Warner and Lee's The Essential Smith Wigglesworth, admonishes, "To be baptized in the Holy Ghost is to be in God's plan."

If you are not sure you have received God's baptism in the Holy Spirit then pray out loud:
I thank You for Your Holy Spirit power that raised Jesus from the dead .
I now ask You to baptize me with Your Holy Spirit
so that I might be empowered to do Your work on earth
for Your glory and Your praise.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, I pray. Amen
I believe You have done this according to your Word in the Bible
and not on my feelings.
If You now impress upon my mind unknown words,  I will pray them out loud,
because I trust You and will be a fool for You.
I know these new thoughts are not from the enemy nor from any mental illness,
but from You as a gift from You.
Regardless of what I now feel, or think, or experience
I thank You for giving me Your Holy Spirit as promised by You in the Bible

You might want to listen to Merlin Carother's (Methodist) audio tape on
How to Receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit www.foundationofpraise.org 1-760-741-2755
Another audio tape on receiving the Holy Spirit is Only Believe.

or Father John H Hampsch's (Catholic) book Receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit www.clareitaintapeministry.org

God wants us to be pregnant with His Holy Spirit and to reproduce His love, mercy, healing & power in other lives. He wants us to do like Jesus did. Heal the sick. Raise the dead. Love the unlovable. Forgive. God is not dead. He is alive in us, if we will allow Him to be.

Hello God.             Goodbye enemy of my soul.
Hello Jesus.            Goodbye depression.
Hello Holy Spirit.    Goodbye suicide.
Hello Heaven.         Goodbye hell on earth.
Hello eternal life.     Goodbye death of my soul.
Hello hope.             Goodbye despair.
Hello health.            Goodbye constant hospitalizations.
Hello sanity.            Goodbye insanity.

Jesus says (according to scripture in Mark 11:24) that when we pray, if we believe, then we shall receive, so let us believe, never doubting, until in time we will do receive the full healing of our hearts desire. Let us be reminded that our healing was obtained for us on the cross of Jesus 2000 years age.
It along with our salvation is in the atonement, ours for the taking, if only we believe. Believe.

The majority of us are like Peter, the apprentice of Jesus. Peter had the initial faith to step out of his boat and walk a few feet on top of the lake towards Jesus, but when he took his eyes off Jesus and onto the problems at hand, he sunk into the water and needed to be rescued. He was definitely in over his head. That was BEFORE he had the baptism of the Holy Spirit and BEFORE he took Jesus at His word without : looking back, being double minded, and relying on himself rather than relying on the power of God's spoken word. God does not fail. It is our trust that fails. We humans have the bad habit of relying on our circumstances, on what we see, on what we experience, on what the doctor tells us, rather than relying on what God tells us in Scripture. For many this is a deadly habit, where we go into the hospital and never come out! During the cold war between Democracy and Communism there was a saying, "I'd rather be dead than red (under communist control)." Well, we already have one foot in an early grave, when we speak death. God created the world by speaking. He continues to perform His word now, but only as we speak it, having first a clean conscience washed white by repenting of all sins and all omissions, plus having a heart that pants after God. We are never good enough, but God likes that, because then He can fill up our empty selves with Himself.

James Manning of Atlah World Ministries says that the disciples of Jesus did not need to wake Jesus up to quell the storm on the lake rocking their boat. They already had God's authority to speak to the storm themselves. Second, Manning says that Moses and many Jews of his generation did not reach the promised land because they did not believe and receive what God had already obtained for them. Well, such principles are foundational to obtaining what we have not yet obtained. Only there is a major flaw. They had God. They had Jesus. They did not have the Holy Spirit. They did not have Pentecost. They were not anointed and commissioned Let me explain. The Disciples in the boat on the lake had not yet had the Baptism of the Holy Spirit which Jesus gave to empower them in His physical absence. The Holy Spirit is the one Who gives courage and the one Who makes things happen. We are impotent without God's Holy Spirit. Second, Moses had sinned and God forbade him to step onto the soil which he was allowed to see at a distance. King David wanted to build a temple for God, but only his son Solomon was allowed to do this. David was the apple of God's eye, yet sin sometimes has its consequences. Unbelief is always sin. God always looks at our heart, more-so than at our deeds. Daily confession and communion contribute to our spiritual health in the same way that daily vitamins and exercise contribute to physical health.

It is not God's responsibility to heal, rather it is our responsibility to lay hands on the sick to allow God's power to flow out to heal. We are God's hands. We are God's feet. God healed us 2000 years ago. Once we are God's children plus Christ's mate and sibling, we have legal access to the power of the Holy Spirit, with signs and wonders following. God wants ALL his sons and daughters to walk in His power. He wants ALL His sons and daughters to be clones of Jesus Christ, by means of the Holy Spirit. The 12 disciples and Paul are the best illustration of that. They did what Jesus did on earth. Once we belong to the family of God, we are EXPECTED to act like children of God. It is not God who needs to DO something. It is we who need to DO something. If something is NOT getting done on earth, it is not God's fault. Rather, it is our fault. If we have a disabled, hospitalized relative, it is NOT God's problem. It is our problem. We have failed to avail ourselves of the power to act. The 12 disciples waited to obtain the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then they acted. They did not hound the rabbi to lay hands on the ill. They did not hound doctor Luke to cure the ill. No, they took upon themselves the power and authority of God's Holy Spirit and did the work themselves! Beware, it was not their power, nor their authority. It always is God's power and authority in us, by the means of the Holy Spirit dwelling inside us. Mind of ours, wake up. We have had bad teaching. We have bad habits. Let us wean ourselves off depending on others, wining, and pleading to God. God is WAITING on US to act. We have been taught incorrectly. We have been impotent. We have sinned. Let us go to the bank and write that check for our healing. God's money has been earning interest for 2000 years. That money of course is symbolism for God's gifts to us, including healing, health, sanity, peace, joy, wisdom, and love. We are engaged to the Prince of the entire universe. Our wealth in Him is more, more, more than we could ever desire. No, we are never able, but God in us is always able. All the operations in the universe have been paid for by the body and blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, many, many, many years ago. In the third heaven there are shelves and shelves of brand new body parts. Let us avail ourselves of this treasure. Whatever is released in heaven is then released on earth. Let us lay claim to our inheritance provided for us by the work of Christ 2000 years ago.

What if we fail to heal. Perhaps others need a spiritual tune up, but most likely it is we who need the spiritual tune up. Some healings take time, like medicine takes time, 30 or more to a bottle. Usually, but not always, God requires an assistant, meaning he wants us rather than Him to do the work. If a healing does not "take" it may be for numerous reasons, including, it is not received. God handed us healing 2000 years ago, but there are very few takers. Beware. Asking is NOT receiving. If we ask our dad for a hand-out, but we fail to take the gift out of his hand, then who is at fault? We need to learn to receive. We need to appropriate. We need to STOP begging and to begin THANKING. We need to get rid of our orphan, invalid mentality. Let us stop our stinking thinking which offends God and those around us. Another cause is that we may not need healing, but rather deliverance. We may need to forgive someone. The victors are those victims who do not quit.

John G Lake says that our blank check is not worth 10 cents, unless we believe God, but if we believe God and fill in that check, then our healing will come to pass though the power of Jesus Christ on the earth today. (See John G Lake, the Complete Collection of His Life Teachings by Roberts Liardon www.robertsliardon.org chapter The Spirit of God)

Lake reminds us that Christ ministered through His body and now we are His hands and feet; we are priests unto God for the healing of mankind in our generation. Each person on earth has the potential of being filled up with the Spirit of God for the purpose of healing. Even if we are not yet mature enough to administer Christ's healing, each of us is mature enough to believe for ourselves or for others to receive God's healing. All it takes is enough faith to fill a seed. Jesus says in Matthew 17:20, " If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, say to this mountain, ' Move to yonder place.'; and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you." Again in Like 17:6 Jesus says, "If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you would say to this sycamore tree, 'Be plucked up the the root, and be planted in the sea.'; and it would obey you." Each generation has this opportunity and this challenge. Jesus Christ is special, but so are we, because God wants many sons and daughters to be filled with His Holy Spirit and to operate in the same power that Jesus demonstrated. Are you willing to allow God to use you the same way He used Christ?

Jesus says in John 14-15. "He that believes on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to My Father. And whatsoever you shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it. If you love Me, keep My commandments." In John 15:5-7 Jesus says, "I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in Me and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without Me you can do nothing...If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done." In John 16: 23-24 Jesus says, "Verily, verily, I say to you, whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be made full." In Mark16:17-18 Jesus says, " And these signs shall follow them that believe; in My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

John G Lake says that most people are waiting on God to act, but in reality God is waiting on us to act, because as Holy Spirit filled people we have God's resources to act on God's behalf. Lake uses the illustration of Moses. Moses prayed to God to rescue him at the Red Sea. God responded and told Moses to act. Moses obeyed and the Red Sea opened. Moses' mouth. God's power.

Reinhard Bonnke in Evangelism by Fire reiterates that God is waiting on us to act. God did his act 2,000 years ago through His son Jesus Christ, our example. When we become sons and daughters of God, He equips us with His Holy Spirit, the same way He equipped Moses, Enoch, Elijah, and the apostles. Elijah gave his magic mantle to Elisha. Jesus gave His mantle to His apostles. In 1961 George Jeffreys gave his mantle to Bonnke. The same Holy Spirit is now our inheritance, once we are baptized by Jesus Christ, himself...Christians, the tomb is empty. The corpse is alive in well on His throne in heaven. The only one that is still dead is the modern day, impotent, head in the sand, church. Wake up, Dry Bones; revive and rescue our mentally ill loved ones. Mentally ill, this illness is NOT God's wish for you. Rise up in the power of the risen Lord Jesus and redeem the years the locus have eaten. www.fullflame.com www.cfan.org

Wigglesworth (in The Essential Smith Wigglesworth a book by Warner and Lee) admonishes us that we will miss a great deal if we do not begin to act in the name of Jesus. Wigglesworth encourages us to just begin to bind and cast out devils in the "name of Jesus" so that many people will become loosed of their infirmities. Third, he reminds us to seek the notoriety for Jesus and not for ourselves, and thus lose God's blessing not only for ourselves but also for others. He goes on to say that there is nothing stopping the flow of God except the believer's failure to believe and to act. Let us repent, take courage and act in the name of Jesus. Wigglesworth encourages us to copy him or to copy Jesus, to lay hands on the ill, and to command, "Come out of him, in the name of Jesus." Wigglesworth wants us to exercise our spiritual muscles and notes that "we are made in hard places; at wit's end corner, with no way out. A man is made in adversity."

Chapter 19 Greater Works Shall We Do quotes Wigglesworth: "Many of you know as far back as 12 or 14 years ago, how we used to gather with small companies of people, and divine healing was a small thing in those days, but as we lived and moved among the people they were healed and they are healed today...All over the world I tell the people that since the Lord healed me over 30 years ago, I don't know what it is to have a body. Hallelujah! It is redemption in all its fullness, no neuralgia, no stomach trouble, no kidney disease, no dyspepsia, no rheumatism. Hallelujah! No lumbago, no corns, absolutely and entirely a new order of things. This is the inheritance of all that seek Him; this is the inheritance there is in Jesus...Listen to His word today: 'Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto My Father (John 14:12)' Oh, glory to God! Sometimes we fail, but God never does...The moment you believe you are "mantled" with a new power to lay hold of possibility and make it reality." Like Elijah. "Unbelief is sin...This is the work of God that you believe." Chapter 24 Being Hid with Christ in God Wigglesworth says. "Every ailment is of satanic origin."

Ever Increasing Faith by Smith Wigglesworth admonishes us to be walking letters of His Word, to dare to act in God, and to dare to believe, for when we know God's spiritual truths and do not act, it grieves the Holy Spirit. Wigglesworth feels that many potential spiritual heroes have become zeroes, due to inaction. Besides, it is not us, but the Holy Spirit in us. Let us, let the genie out of the bottle!
Philippians 3:13-14 reminds us to forget "those things which are behind and reach(ing) forth to those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

God told Demos Shakarian (as reported by John and Elizabeth Sherrill in The Happiest People on Earth) that we spirit filled humans should never doubt His power and that His power is the birthright of every Christian. We need only accept God's power. Second, God told Demos that He wants all His church to do this work of healing. Revolutionary. Awesome. Beautiful. Demos notes that Pastor Prince became known for his insistence (a) that not clergy, theologians, nor preachers, but men and women with ordinary jobs in the ordinary world will be God's most important channel and (b) that healings like the ones recorded in the Bible are meant to be part of the normal experience of the church in every age. Pastor Prince founded his beliefs on the Bible and his experience with evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Sometimes when the healing presence of the Lord would arrive, both Demos and Charles would notice it by the weight and warmth of God as though a heavy blanket were settling over their shoulders.

Charismatic Catholics will appreciate Father DeGrandis' statement, "We have the gifts of charisms of healing and miracles... Miracles...we find in 1 Cor. 12, as one of the charismatic gifts given to many of the faithful. The whole healing ministry is rooted in the Document on the Laity, Chapter 1, Section 3, where it says: 'These gifts are given to the laity for the building of the Body of Christ and they must be allowed the freedom to practice them and they should be practiced in harmony with their brothers, their pastors.' Ideally the pastors, priests, are supposed to discern these charisms of the laity." www.sign.org/article.phtml?idnum-116

Father John Hampsch in Healing Your Family Tree recommends the following deliverance prayer, to be best used during Eucharist: "Dear Heavenly Father, we praise and glorify Your for Your love and mercy...Reveal all hidden sins-both our own and those from former generations. We now take authority in the name of Jesus Christ over all familial (family) spirits, all generational bondage, all hereditary defects, genetic or of blood, or wrong inclinations that may have been transmitted to us...We rebuke all sin and the forces of evil...In the holy name of your son, Jesus Christ, we take authority over all familial spirits and bondage, and their manifestations within our lives. By that same power of Jesus, we break the power of evil from ourselves and our families and destroy what otherwise might be transmitted to our descendants....Thank you, Lord, for total healing and deliverance, in Jesus' precious name. Amen." www.claretiantapeministry.org Father has a genogram he uses and recommends others to use in prayer for family members. It is a family tree or diagram of family illnesses and sins rather than the traditional genealogy most people are familiar with.

There is a difference between instant or progressive healing and a miracle. Many healings take time, as does it take time for a seed to grown into a flower or a stalk of corn or a tree. Miracles are those healings that are instantaneous, but also magic in that the disease is/was incurable to modern day medicine. Everything and everybody failed, except God - for those that believe. That is the key. Miracles and healings are only for those who believe. That is why so many people fail to receive. The church is contaminated with denial of God's availability in our daily lives, trying to earn one's way into heaven or purgatory, and doubt about the willingness of God to heal and help.

Lake tells a story of a most holy man and his likewise holy children. The dad became violently ill and bedridden and nothing worked, including medicine or prayer. Lake prayed for this gentleman for 16 straight hours without result. Finally the Holy Spirit reminded Lake of the scripture "Himself took our infirmities". Lake grabbed hold of the feet of that elderly man and the Holy Spirit raised that senior citizen from his deathbed. Never, never quit. We need to get over the fast food quick fix mentality. However, you need 2 or 3 gathered together, agreeing in prayer, believing. Both the gentlemen plus his children "believed" with Lake for God to act.

Note that Lake grabbed hold of the feet. Lake touched the man. Often God uses His touch to transmit His healing power. God used His Holy Spirit in Jesus to touch human beings. Often untouched children or animals will die, whereas touched and loved children/animals will survive in the same circumstances. Warner and Lee in the Essential Smith Wigglesworth share a story of touch. During preaching, Wigglesworth fell off the stage and into the isle, landing on his feet and stabilizing himself on the shoulder of a man in the congregation, who announced that he was healed at the moment Wigglesworth touched him.

As human beings we need to be touched spiritually, physically, intellectually and emotionally. Mental illness and many incurable diseases create isolation, so it is extra extra important to join a church and to fellowship with other believers, where you can pray and mature in character together. No man is an island unto himself. We are God's hands, feet, eyes, mouth, ears, etc. Together we make up the body of Christ. It is not us, but the Holy Spirit who is the breath of God. We need each other. We need God. Then God can use us as a team, the same way one would operate a ball game - as a team. We will be safe, loved and also useful That is definitely a miracle for those who are mentally ill in this generation.

Did God heal Jesus the crucified one? Yes He did, but not when His disciples wanted or expected. God the Father performed a miracle, after the fact, after He was dead, but nonetheless, Jesus was healed, but in God's time. God allowed Jesus to suffer, to be taken advantage of, to be abused, to feel abandonment. Was God a good Father to Jesus? Yes He was. God is always fair and just, only it often takes hindsight to understand God's pruning and fertilizing of our character. If we allow evil in our lives due to ignorance and deception, due to inheritance, or due to God's permission as was the case with Job in the old testament, then let us confess our sins and shortcomings to God and wait for Him to rescue and restore us. While we are waiting let us do one good thing each day to another who is hurting. Each day let us say thank you to God for little things like seeing a sunset, hearing the birds, walking without assistance, and smelling flowers.

As a postscript, you might be interested in a unique chapter #12 How I Experience a Healing Service by Father Ralph A DiOrio (with Donald Gropman) in The Man Beneath the Gift (The Story of My Life). This is a glimpse into the personal interaction of Father DiOrio and the Holy Spirit during a healing service. It is unique to him. Every life experience is individual. However, it gives us a taste of what it is like to be the person through whom the Holy Spirit operates.

What do I say to God?
Here are some tested illustrations:

as prayed by Bill Johnson
in When Heaven Invades Earth, A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles.
www.ibethel.org bill@ibethel.org Redding, California, USA :

"Father (God), this was Your idea (on how to pray). You commanded us to pray for things to be here as they are in heaven, and I know there is no ________________there (in heaven), so there shouldn't be any here. So I command in the name of Jesus for the nerve endings to come to life. I command full restoration of ______________in this body."

"You don't exist in heaven; your are not to exist here. This is my town. You are here illegally. I forbid you to establish roots here! God has declared that wherever the soles of my feet tread, God has given to me. I bind you to the word of God that declares that I have authority over you. Be gone!"

as prayed by Father John H Hampsch author of Healing Your Family Tree www.claretiantapeministry.org :

"Heavenly Father, I come before You as Your child, in great need of Your help; I have physical health needs, emotional needs, spiritual needs, and interpersonal needs. Many of my problems have been caused by my own failures, neglect and sinfulness, for which I humbly beg Your forgiveness, Lord. But I also ask You to forgive the sins of my ancestors whose failures have left their effects on me in the form of unwanted tendencies, behavior patterns and defects in body, mind an spirit. Heal me, Lord, of all these disorders.

With Your help I sincerely forgive everyone, especially living or dead members of my family tree, who have directly offended me or my loved ones in any way, or those whose sins have resulted in our present sufferings and disorders. In the name of Your divine Son, Jesus, and in the power of His Holy Spirit, I ask You, Father, to deliver me and my entire family tree from the influence of evil one. Free all living and dead members of my family tree, including those in adoptive relationships, and those in extended family relationships, from every contaminating form of bondage. By Your loving concern for us, heavenly Father, and by the shed blood of Your precious Son, Jesus, I beg You to extend Your blessing to me and all my living and deceased relatives. Heal every negative effect transmitter through all past generations, and prevent such negative effects in future generations of my family tree.

I symbolically place the cross of Jesus over the head of each person in my family tree, and between each generation; I ask You to let the cleansing blood of Jesus purify the blood lines in my family lineage. Set Your protective angels to encamp around us, and permit Archangel Raphael, the patron of healing, to administer Your divine healing power to all of us, even in areas of genetic disability. Give special power to our family members' guardian angels to heal, protect, guide and encourage each of us in all our needs. Let Your healing power be released at this very moment, and let it continue as long as Your sovereignty permits.

In our family tree, Lord, replace all bondage with a holy bonding in family love. And let there be an ever deeper bonding with You, Lord, by the Holy Spirit, to Your Son, Jesus. Let the family of the Holy Trinity pervade our family with its tender, warm, loving presence, so that our family may recognize and manifest that love in all our relationships. All of our unknown needs we include with this petition that we pray in Jesus' precious Name. Amen."

"I command inherited genetics to be changed back to the way they were suppose to be from the foundation of the world, in the name of Jesus."
"I command all genetic impurity to be reversed, in the name of Jesus."

I SAMUEL 17:45 David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will hand you over to me." (The Philistine was a giant. Our giants are Satan, disease and other enemies.)

MATTHEW 18:18-20 "I (Jesus) tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, I tell you that if 2 of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven, for where 2 or 3 come together in My name, there am I with them."

WARNING: We are NOT stating a "name it and claim it" protocol based on "me, myself and I", but on the power of God and in the time of God, to honor His word. It is always God the Father, Jesus the son and the Holy Spirit who ALWAYS do the healing, but in us and through us, in each generation. They, not us, must ALWAYS get the glory, the praise, the honor and the adoration. Second, healing or deliverance should always be free, per the Vatican council. No individual should personally benefit from serving another. This is God's work, not ours; God's power, not ours.

Why is God sometimes so slow to heal when we do and say all the "right things"? Sometimes we can stand in faith with the power of attorney on behalf of another individual. Sometimes God requires the ill individual to step up to the plate with his own faith. A simplistic example is an alcoholic who needs to address the root issues of the illness as well as the character issues, lest he fall back into sin. If I am the alcoholic, then I need to work on my own character issues and root causes with the help of the Lord plus dedicated friends and family. There is "much" to learn of spiritual things. Healing is not a quick fix but a lover's walk with our future mate, Christ. Healing can be fixing a broken body part, creating a new body part (miracle), or delivering one from evil spirits. Sometimes we demand a chemical brain imbalance correction when in fact we may need the eviction of evil spirits. Perhaps the ill individual has not been anointed with oil by church elders? Perhaps the ill one has not been baptized in water for the forgiveness of sins? Perhaps the ill individual person has not been baptized in the Holy Spirit? Sometimes it makes NO difference our approach, because God is the foreman, but sometimes a wrench will not do the job of a screwdriver. We need to be tutored by the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we students have to repeat our lessons until we get it right. It could be a simple issue of attitude rather than method. God always looks at the heart and never the college degrees (knowledge), but most of all He looks for FAITH in JESUS CHRIST to act, never doubting, never double minded.

ACTS 19:13-17 NIV    Some Jews who went around driving out EVIL SPIRITS tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed (demonized). They would say, "In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out." 7 sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. One day the EVIL SPIRIT answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?" Then the man who had the EVIL SPIRIT jumped on them and overpowered them all.

Derek Prince reminds us that the "right formula" is NOT what it takes to be delivered. It takes the Holy Spirit to be delivered and to stay delivered. No substitutes. If the Holy Spirit does not already live in our heart or if He does not immediately move into our heart after the evil spirit(s) has vacated, then there is a good chance the enemy will return with many roommates.
MATTHEW 12:43-45 NIV    "When an EVIL SPIRIT comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it 7 other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live here. The final condition of that man is worse than the first."

Derek Prince in They Shall Expel Demons has some ground rules for praying for "deliverance" for others: (1) be under authority, (2) minister at least in pairs (Jesus sent his disciples out in pairs.), (3) never minister alone to the opposite sex, (4) rely on the atonement of Christ and not on our authority, (5) never charge for your work, and (6) speak the word of God to the enemy. Better still, read this book, for one, before ever attempting "deliverance" on behalf of another.      www.derekprince.com

Reinhard Bonnke in Mighty Manifestations: The Gifts and Power of the Holy Spirit cautions the self made healers NOT to expect power: due to attending sermons, lectures, schools, due to pride, or due to determination. Rather we can expect God Himself to act when there is compassion, empathy, crisis and a heart cry of desperation. Bonnke contends that healing will not be the result of what we think or say, but what is in our heart, for God looks at the heart and not at our techniques.

When you have prayed over 11 people who subsequently were not healed, do not quit. #1, we need to learn that it is NOT us who is the healer, but God. #2, many people go a long time "practicing as an apprentice" before they get their wings. As you study renown healers, you will discover that many had the same dilemma, but the same hope. Their secret is that they did not quit.

The old testament of the Bible story of Moses and Joshua is an illustration of the spiritual journey that the most of us need to travel. God promised to Moses the nation of Israel. Moses saw that land just before his death. It was Joshua who claimed that land. God did not drop it into his lap. The land belonged to other nations. Joshua had to go to war to accomplish God's will. In life, the real enemy Satan. God did not pluck the Hebrews out of Egypt by translocation and plop them elsewhere. The slaves were chased out of town. Then they had to plod through the desert sand of life's tribulations for 40 years, due to UNBELIEF. That entire generation of adults died in their UNBELIEF, including Moses! It was the descendents who went to war to claim God's "will". The children were the "beneficiaries", due to the parents' UNBELIEF. Most of us do not get instantaneous miracle healings. Most of us have to fight a bloody war to lay claim to God's will. Nonetheless, let us not grow faint hearted and loose out, as did the parents of those children, who took up the assignment of God that their parents had dropped. The children laid claim to what God had promised. They did receive God's best. The nation of Israel was born. It was from Israel that Christ was born, died and resurrected.

Benny Hinn talks of God's known will and His secret will. Many Jews were annihilated during world war 2 in what we now call the holocaust. The Jews were not healed. Instead, they were killed. We all know that martyrs are the elect of God, if they die for Him. Perhaps this was part of His secret will for them. We all know that the true enemy at that time was Satan. Hitler was only his instrument.

Let us not be overcome with bitterness, defeat, discouragement and lack of courage. Let us not loose any prize which Christ has for us, whether it be healing, martyrdom, or keys to a city. If we have everything we want, but do not have Jesus as our Lord, Savior, Baptizer, Lover, then we have lost the game of life.
Remember, what God sees is our heart. What goes to heaven is our heart, not the organ in our body, but the invisible part of us that loves and is attached to God like an umbilical cord.

Publications:

Heflin, Jr Wallace H Power In Your Hand www.revivalglory.org
Spanish and English.

Hunter, Charles & Frances How to Heal the Sick www.cfhunter.org
An amazing book that not only inspires but teaches Mr. and Mrs. Nobody to do what Jesus did and what Jesus still does today. Jesus will heal the sick and raise the dead through us the ordinary man, who Jesus came to forgive, recycle, and revitalize, not because of who we are, but because of who He is and because of the great needs in this world.
Chapter one introduces us to Tommy Hicks' 1961 prophecy, where the Nobodies of this generation do awesome things by the power of God for mankind. www.angelfire.com/ri/wring/breakingloose.html

Hunter, Charles & Frances You Can Do It Too www.cfhunter.org
This is a textbook or manual, a How To workbook, especially good for chiropractors or those who need chiropractic treatment or physical therapy. It instructs the Lay Person how to lay hands on themselves or others to allow God's Holy Spirit power to flow through and heal. It recommends that we do NOT pray but command out loud using Jesus' words and example.

Meyers, Joyce Me and My Big Mouth www.joycemeyers.org
Joyce admonishes us to speak to our problems and not about our problems. If we plant seeds of faith but water them with contradictory words, we are negating all the work we put into our garden. We need to continually confess scripture over our seeds of faith. We need to "zip our lip" when it comes to negative speech, gossip, tearing down of each other, tearing down of ourselves, critical "stinking thinking", and whatever filth or lies the enemy would employ in our thought life.

Vagalas, Bishop The Witch Doctor and the Man http://patholliday.com/order%20form.htm
Autobiography of Samuel Kanco, former African witch doctor. It will AMAZE you.
Samuel told Sid Roth that what ever bad thing happens to you, it happens in the spirit world first. www.sidroth.org/radio He also told Sid that witch doctors travel in their spirit, not in their body, to do harm. Both Samuel and Reinhard Bonnke contend that healing is an "office" appointed by God. Samuel seldom does anything without first getting the red light from God, for that was his habit when working for our spiritual enemy.