TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: Purpose
of the Miracles of Healing
A. Jesus' Commission (who did he call and what did he call them to do)
B. The first commission: the 12 disciples
C. The Commission of The Seventy
D. The Great Commission: all baptized believers
Chapter 2: The Power of God in
Healing
A. The Power of God Must Be Present for Healing To Occur
B. The power of God is recognizable
C. The Power of God Is Energy
D. The Power of God is Accompanied by Grace
E. The Power of God Can Increase Over Time And Provides Proof that Jesus is the Christ
F. The Power of God Comes With The Holy Spirit
G. The Power of God Validates the Gospel Message
H. The Power of God Can Be Denied
I. Evidence of the Power of God is a Test
Chapter 3: The Gifts of the Spirit in Healing
A. General Background Information
B. How Spiritual Gifts are Given?
a. Impartation Through the Laying On Of Hands
b. Divine Impartation: God Decides
c. Divine Impartation: God Responds
d. Ask and it will be given to you …
C. Gifts From God Are Irrevocable
D. Not Everyone Gets Every Gift But Everyone Gets at Least One Gift
E. Gifts are Distributed According to the Will of the Holy Spirit
F. Some shouldn't have the Holy Spirit imparted to them?
G. Why Are Spiritual Gifts Given?
a. to confirm the gospel
message of Jesus
Christ
b. to build up the Church
c. to “serve” others – for
the common
good
d. so that faith won’t rest
on men’s
wisdom
e. to make believers
strong
H. Gifts can be given but
neglected
I. Spiritual Gifts Connected
With Healing the
Sick
a. Gifts of Healing
b. Word/Message of
Knowledge
c. Gift of faith
Chapter 4: Requirements of the Person Praying
A. Doing the Will of the
Father
B. Doing What You See The
FATHER Doing
C. Being A Righteous Person
D. Testing The Spirits
a. First
Warning
b. Second Warning
E. Fruit of the Spirit
F. Humility and
Acknowledgement of Personal
Weakness
Chapter 5: Requirements of the Person
Requesting Prayer
A. Forgiveness Required for
Healing
a. Healing Dependant Upon
the Forgiveness of Sins
b. Forgive Other’s Who Have
Wronged You First
c. Repentance Comes Before
We Are Forgiven by God and Others
d. Confession Precedes
Healing and
Forgiveness
e. Forgiving Sins, In Jesus
Name
f. Forgiveness for Unknown
Sins
B. Be Willing To Give Up
Your Illness
C. Be Willing To Face
Emotional Pain/Past Hurts
D. Be Willing To Change Your
Lifestyle
E. Be Willing To Receive
What God Has For You In The Way He Offers It
F. Be Willing to Face Up To
What You’ve Done To Yourself
G. Willingness to deal with
all possible blocks to the healing process
H. How Desperate Are
You??
Chapter 6: The Rights of the Person Receiving
Prayer
Chapter
7: How The Sick Were Healed In The Old Testament
A. The First Healing – A
Philistine
B. Keeping God’s Commands
Prevents Disease
C. Healing After Confession
of Backstabbing
D. The Prophet Releases
Healing In A Word, Not Knowing What The Person Prayed For
E. A Guilt Offering Must Be
Presented at the Temple to Receive Healing After Robbing God
F. Strange Actions Effect
Resurrection of the Dead
G. God Heals His Way, Not
Necessarily The Way We Expect Him To Heal
H. Touching Dead Prophet
Brings Dead Man Back To Life
I. God Accommodates the Sick
Man Who Asks for a Sign
J. The Leader Asks for a
Pardon For Innocent Actions of his
People
K. God Is In Control of
Wounding and Healing
Chapter 8: How the
Sick Were Healed in the New Testament
A. General Statements
B. If You Are Willing
C. Faith of the Sick Person
THE FAITH
THAT
HEALS
D. Faith of the
Parent
E. Faith of the Boss
HEALINGS FROM
AFAR
A WORD ON
CHILDREN
F. Faith of Others
G. Speaking to the Dead
Person
H. Commanding the
Illness
I. Forgiving Sin
J. Exorcising the Demons
K. Lack of Faith a Bar to
Healing
Power
a. The faithless hometown
crowd
b. Lack of faith in the
person praying
c. Lack of faith of the sick
person
d. Lack of faith of
mourners
L. Strange Ways –Spit, Mud,
Shadows, Handkerchiefs and
Aprons
M. Servants of God Initiate
Healings
a. Jesus
Initiates
b. Paul & Peter
Initiate
N. Laying on of
Hands
a. After being freed from a
demonic
spirit
b. After
prayer
c. Do not “share” in the
sins of
others
d. On The Issue of The
Elders, Laying On Of Hands, Positions of Spiritual Authority
O. Maybe Some Will Just Be
Sick?
P. Some May Not Want To Get
Well?
Q. Scriptures NOT Connected
to Healing the
Sick
Chapter 9: Overcoming Obstacles to Healing/Root
Causes of Sickness
A.
Sin
a. Sins of the Fathers
b. Sins of the Self
1. Acting Contrary to God’s
Will - Disobedience Draws a Curse/Punishment
2. Putting One’s Trust in
Man instead of God
3. A Father Can Curse His
Child For Offending Him
4. A Mother Takes Her Son’s
Curse Upon Herself
5. Conditional curse to
determine if a person has sinned
6. Making Idols, Dishonoring
Parents, Theft, etc. Draw Curses
7. Robbing God Of Our Tithes
Brings A Curse
8. Not Loving the Lord
Brings a Curse
9. People Can Put Themselves
Under a Curse
10. Believers Have Been
Known To Praise God and Curse Other People
11. Preaching a False Gospel
Brings a Curse
c. Turning the Sins of the
Fathers & Sins of the Self into Blessings
1. Return to the Lord
2. Humble Yourself Before
God in Repentance
3. Confession of Sins of
Self and Sins of the Fathers
4. God Forgives His People
5. God Will Remember the
Covenant With His People
d. Unbelief In a Message
Sent By God Can Result in a Physical Condition
B. So that God’s purposes
would be
fulfilled
a. … so the work of God
might be
displayed
b. … so that God servants
would be safe, to show the power of God,
to bring a persecutor of the
faith into the faith for God purposes
c. … so that God’s Son would
be
glorified
d. … so that the gospel
would be
preached
e. … so that our personality
flaws won’t interfere with God’s purposes
f. … bring us back from
being
astray
C. Because of Taking
Communion Without Examining Oneself
D. Stress and the Emotional
Condition
F. Inheriting Bodily
Weaknesses/Deformity from our Gene
Line
G. Environmental
Hazards
H. Accidents - Spit
Happens!!
I. Not taking care of the
bodies God gave us
J. Unknown
Chapter 10: Demonic Obstacles to
Healing
A. Demons Can Be The Root
Cause of a Physical Sickness
B. What causes demons to be
the root cause of a physical
condition?
a. The Story Of Job
b. Our own sin and the sins
of the fathers
c. Victimization
d. Witchcraft on the family
line
e. Curses
f. Bridging the
understanding of demons between the Old and New Testament
C. Demonology and the
Mentally
Ill
a. Protecting the Vulnerable
b. Demonic Look
A-likes
D. Are Demons Interfering
with a Healing Occurring or
Not?
E. Temporary suspension of
demons that are blocking a
healing
F. Basic guidelines about
dealing with demons and afflicted people
G. What kinds of demons are
there and how do we deal with them when trying to heal the sick?
a. Every Day Garden Variety
Demons
b. Rights and Grounds Demons
c. Curses
d. Shutting down someone
else’s demons -
SILENTLY
THE ELDERLY SICK PERSON
Chapter 11: Developing a Ministry Team to Pray
for the Sick
A. Protection for the
Ministry: A Lone Seal is a Done
Deal
a. Operating under the
spiritual umbrella of the
church
b. Operating in teams
c. Need for Intercessors
d. Referral Sources
B. Protection for the
Ministry: Spiritual Warfare for the Ministry
Team
a. Protection for Yourself,
Your Spouse and Your Children
b. Protection For the Team -
Before, During and After
Ministry
C. Ministry
Don’ts
a. Don’t criticize the
efforts of other Christians
b. Warnings to people
praying
Chapter 12:
Inspirational Thoughts for the Righteous Believer Who Doesn’t Receive a Healing
in their
Lifetime
A. Perseverance
B. Weak and Tormented?
C. Acknowledging the real
state of the
body
D. Earnestly seeking pleases
God
E. Persistence and
Endurance
F. A Few More Comments on
Job
Chapter 13: Methodology for Healing the Sick
A. Love: 1 Corinthians 13
B. Basic
Guidelines
C. Impartation and
Manifestation of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
D.
Self-Examination
E. Setting up the
Ministry
a.
Introductions
b. Initial
Interview
c. Description of how the
healing prayer ministry will be
done
d. Initial
Prayers
e. Quick Miracle
Prayer
f. Other Methods of Healing
That Are
Quick
g. Dealing with the Blocks
to Healing
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