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
    • 1. Holy Spirit Not Flowing Through the Person Praying
    • 2. Holy Spirit Not Able to Pass from Person Praying to the Sick Person
    • 3. Blocks within the Sick Person
  • h. After the Healing Session is Done – Follow-Up Instructions for the Sick Person
  • i. Debriefing With the Team
  • j. Protection Prayers for the Team
• F. Healing Prayer for yourself
• G. Healing prayer over the phone

Appendixes

• Appendix 1: Jewish understanding of evil, demons and Satan
• Appendix 2: Dealing With Curses
• Appendix 3: Creating a Blessed Object and What To Do With A Blessed Object
• Appendix 4: Confessing The Sins Of The Ancestry
• Appendix 5: Laying Hands on the Sick
• Appendix 6: Shutting Down Demons for Healing
• Appendix 7: The Process of Healing Prayer
• Appendix 8: Quick Miracle Prayer
• Appendix 9: The Checklist Of Possible Blocks to Healing
• Appendix 10: The Basics of Spiritual Protection
• Appendix 11: Functions of the Trinity
• Appendix 12: Orthodox and Catholic Baptism and Anointing with Oil
• Appendix 13: Diagnosing Spiritual Problems
• Appendix 14: Making Theological Sense of Evil/Satan/Demons