How To Pray For The Sick Volume 1
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Commission To Heal The Sick
Jesus’ Commission
The First Commission: The 12 Disciples
The Commission of the Seventy
The Great Commission: All Baptized Believers
Chapter 2 The Power of God to Heal
The Power of God Must Be Present for Healing To Occur
The Power of God is Recognizable
The Power of God Is Energy
The Power of God Is Accompanied by Grace
The Power of God Can Increase Over Time
The Power of God Comes With the Holy Spirit
The Power of God Validates the Gospel Message
The Power of God Can Be Denied
Evidence of the Power of God is a Test
Chapter 3 The Gifts of the Spirit in Healing
How Spiritual Gifts Are Received?
Gifts From God Are Irrevocable
Every Believer is Given at Least One Gift
Gifts are Distributed According to the Will of the Holy Spirit
Some Shouldn’t Have the Holy Spirit Imparted to Them?
Why Are Spiritual Gifts Given?
Gifts Can Be Given But Neglected
Spiritual Gifts Connected With Healing the Sick
Chapter 4 Requirements of the Person Praying
Doing the Will of the Father
Doing What You See the Father Doing
Being A Righteous Person
Testing the Spirits
Fruit of the Spirit
Fear and the Spirit of Timidity
Humility and Acknowledgement of Personal Weakness
Chapter 5 Requirements and Rights of the One Requesting Prayer
Forgiveness Required for Healing
Be Willing To Give Up Your Illness
Be Willing To Face Emotional Pain/Past Hurts
Be Willing To Change Your Lifestyle
Be Willing To Receive A Healing The Way God Offers It
Be Willing To Face What You’ve Done To Yourself
Willingness To Deal With All Possible Blocks To the Healing Process
How Desperate Are You?
The Rights of the Person Receiving Prayer
A Word To The Elderly
Chapter 6 Lessons On Healing In The Old Testament
The First Healing – A Philistine
Keeping God’s Commands Prevents Disease
Healing After Confession of Backstabbing
The Prophet Releases Healing In A Word
Guilt Offering Required Before Healing Is Released
Resurrection of the Dead – Method 1
God Heals His Way
Touching Dead Prophet Brings Dead Man Back To Life
God Prescribes Medicine Through His Servant
The Leader Asks for a Pardon For Innocent Actions of his People
God Is In Control of Wounding, Healing, Giving Life, Taking Life
Chapter 7 Lessons On Healing in the New Testament
Mass Healings
If You Are Willing
Resurrection of the Dead – Method 2
Commanding the Illness
Strange Ways –Spit, Mud, Shadows, Handkerchiefs and Aprons
Servants of God Initiate Healings
Chapter 8 Faith For Healing
Faith of the Sick Person
Faith of the Parent
Faith of the Employer
Faith of Others
Faith of the Elders
Lack of Faith a Bar to Healing
Chapter 9 Sin And Sickness, Forgiveness And Healing
Sins of the Fathers
Personal Sin
Unbelief In Message Sent By God
Taking Communion Without Examining Oneself
Forgiveness Required for Healing
Chapter 10 God Can Have a Purpose in Sickness
So the Work of God Might Be Displayed
Blindness Inflicted For A Purpose
So That God’s Son Would Be Glorified
So That the Gospel Would Be Preached
So Personality Flaws Won’t Interfere With God’s Purposes
To Bring Us Back From Being Astray
Chapter 11 Other Causes of Sickness
Stress and the Emotional Condition
Inheriting Bodily Weaknesses
Environmental Hazards
Accidents
Not Taking Care of Our Bodies
Unknown
Chapter 12 Encouragement For The One Not Healed
Perseverance
Weak and Tormented?
Acknowledging the Real State of the Body
Earnestly Seeking Pleases God
Persistence and Endurance
Comments on Job
Chapter 13 Controversial Issues In Praying For The Sick
Laying on of Hands
There Will Be Sickness
Inappropriate Use of God’s Word in Healing
Gift of Tongues
Falling Down
Walking In Faith
Spiritual Warfare and Demonic Interference in Healing
Appendixes
Appendix 1: Checklist for Blocks to Healing
Appendix 2: Training Christians to Pray for the Sick
Appendix 3: Confessing the Sins of the Fathers |
