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How to Heal the Sick   Adapted from the  book by Sangat S. Bains MANIFEST GOD’S POWER NOW Session 4 Today we will study the examples of people in the bible who needed healing. They desired, believed, and thus came to the healer, and they were healed. Let us begin by looking at the Gospel of Matthew chapters eight and nine to highlight this point.  Matthew 8:1 & 2  When He was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.  And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.  This leper must have had a very strong desire to be healed. He must have had a great expectation that if he went to Jesus he would surely be healed. Being a leper, many of the multitudes surrounding Jesus must have told him to go away and not to come near them. But this did not stop him. He somehow got through the multitude (it says “great multitudes”) and came to Jesus. You perhaps know how difficult it is to go through a multitude to get to a person on the other side of the crowd. God says it was “great multitudes.”  You minister healing to a person who comes to you with great desire and expectation to be healed. In such a case you can absolutely heal him. Now, how do you get people to have great desire and expectation to be healed so that they come to be healed by you?  The answer is in point number one noted above; that is, you boldly speak/proclaim/preach to people that healing is absolutely available right now.   Matthew 8:5  And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,  This centurion, a Gentile, must have heard from someone that Jesus could heal sickness. He had a strong desire for his servant to be healed and must have believed that Jesus could heal his servant. Thus he must have searched out where Jesus was that day and went to him. It turned out that he had great faith. Jesus simply said to him, “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.” His servant was healed at that moment. Jesus always watched for the faith level of the person who came to him with a desire to be healed.    Matthew 8:16  When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with  Those people needing deliverance were brought to Jesus because their family and/or friends desired and believed that Jesus could heal them. Jesus must have known of many other sick people who were in that town, but he did not go to their homes. Those who got healed were the ones who were brought to Jesus.  Matthew 9:2  And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and  Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.  They must have heard the good news of deliverance or someone told them a testimony of deliverance. Hearing or seeing this got them to believe that the one who was sick of the palsy could be healed. They were excited that this man would be healed so instead of inviting Jesus to come to their home, they took this man on a bed to meet Jesus. Walking while you carry a man on a bed is a difficult task.  We do not know exactly how they got to the place where Jesus was, but we know they did not have a car or a van to take him. Well, we know they strongly desired and believed that the man would be healed. It says, “Jesus seeing their faith….” Jesus always watched for the faith level of the person who desired deliverance. We must follow what God’s Word shows us to do. When we follow what God shows us and instructs us to do, we are successful.  Once we know they have faith to receive, then give them the healing. You tell him to stand up and he will stand up. You tell him to stretch forth his hand and he will stretch it out.  The point here in Matthew 9:2, besides always watching for the level of faith, is that they brought him to be healed. Jesus did not go to his home to minister healing just because someone had told him a man suffering from palsy lived there. Yes, we may go to a home of such a man and speak to him that healing is available, but we will not minister healing right there and then. Let him respond; let him come and get healing from you. If he comes to you, that is a good indication of his faith, then you can heal him.  Matthew 9:18  While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.  Many of the synagogue leaders, Pharisees, Sadducees and priests were vehemently set against Jesus. Yet this ruler had come to Jesus. He greatly desired healing deliverance for his daughter so that he laid his job on the line. He might have lost his job by going to  Jesus. He had intensely desired for his daughter’s healing thus he searched for Jesus and asked him to come to his home and to lay his hands upon his daughter, because he believed, if Jesus did so, she would live.  This ruler came to Jesus in such a circumstance. Jesus understanding this and seeing the ruler’s great desire and faith went to the ruler’s home. There might have been another life and death case in that town, but Jesus did not go to the home with that situation.  Jesus went to the ruler’s house because the ruler had come and beseeched him to do so.  Jesus knew the person had a great desire and expectation for healing. The one who heals always look at the faith level of the person who desires to receive deliverance and then he works with the person’s faith as needed. If he has faith to be healed, then immediately heal him. If a man does not have faith to be healed, then work with his faith. Once his faith is risen up and he is confident to receive deliverance, then you give the healing to him. Matthew 9:20 & 21  And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:  21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.  Here again, we see that those who received healing, those that God takes time to show us in His Word, are the ones who heard about the deliverance, who responded with great expectation, and since they had great desire to be delivered, instead of waiting at home for the healer to come to heal them, they went to receive healing.  Matthew 9:27~30  And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.  28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.  29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.  30 And their eyes were opened…  These blind men wanted to follow Jesus. Getting to Jesus could have been no easy task.  But because they strongly desired and expected to be healed, they went to him. Jesus knew that they had a great desire to be healed and must have known they had some expectation to be healed.  He asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He checked whether they believed to receive or not. This is what the healer must do. After knowing that they believed, he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith be it done unto you.”  The Pattern for Healing the Sick First, you speak to the people about deliverance, then they respond and come to get healing from you. You look at their faith and if they have faith to receive healing then you heal them. If their faith is not yet at a high level, then you work with them to increase it. As you begin to work with them to raise their faith, God will show you, if necessary, what to say and do so that you can raise the level of their faith so that you can give healing to them. Matthew 9:32 & 33  As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.  33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.  The pattern continues here also. They brought to Jesus a man possessed with a devil. I am sure there must have been people who were possessed with a devil in many homes in that city. Jesus did not go to their homes to heal them but healed the one who was brought to him perhaps by parents or family members. Those who brought him must have had a great desire to get this man delivered and also had great expectations that Jesus could heal him.  John 9 is one of a few records where God shows us an exceptional case where healing was given to someone who did not come to the healer and ask for healing deliverance.  John 9:1, 6, 7 & 11  And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.  6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,  7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation,  Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.  11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.  Jesus finds this blind man, walks up to him, and asks this blind man to take some action.  Here in these verses, it does not say that “the man believed;” however, we see that the blind man did not object to all that Jesus did to his eyes and the action Jesus wanted the blind man to take. The blind man accepted what Jesus did and said. He must have believed what Jesus asked him to do.  Now, this is an exception to many records of healing, because in a normal case those who needed deliverance came to Jesus to be healed.  How did Jesus know that this man would believe and do exactly what he asked him to do? He must have come to know, by God revealing it to him, that he had faith to receive healing. We see that this blind man did not argue with what Jesus did to his eyes or question Jesus as to why he had to go to the pool of Siloam and wash his eyes. He just acted on exactly what Jesus told him to do.  Acts 14:7~10  And there they preached the gospel.  8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:  9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,  10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.  This is also an exceptional case where a person in need of healing, instead of coming to the healer, a healer began healing the person. In this record, it says that Paul preached the gospel, and I believe one of the topics that Paul taught was the availability of healing. As this cripple man heard it, he had the faith to be healed. People cannot believe for something unless it is made available to them.    The crippled man did not go up to Paul to be healed or say anything about his desiring healing but God had shown the Apostle Paul that this man had faith to be healed.  When you receive revelation to go to someone’s home to heal or receive revelation that a particular person in your meeting has faith to be healed, then you heal him.  When a person has faith either you know it by revelation or because he comes to you with the desire and expectation to be healed. In either case, you just tell him to do the appropriate action. In Acts chapter 14, Paul told the crippled man, “Stand upright on your feet.” The crippled man did not argue about it or say, “How can I do it?” He just followed the instructions and received healing wholeness.  Do not go to the homes of sick people to minister healing just because your neighbor told you that there was a sick person in that home. Yes, you could go to his home and tell him that healing is available. Tell him about the testimonies of healing deliverance; however, God’s Word instructs us that for imparting healing, the one who needs healing is to come to you to be healed.  The pattern in the Word of God is that you do not go to the home of a sick person to heal him just because you came to know about it through someone unless of course, the Holy Spirit is leading you to do so. You heal him after he responds to the Word of deliverance you have spoken and comes to you to be healed. If someone responds to the good news you give and calls you on the phone requesting you to heal him, check whether he believes to be healed or not by talking to him. If he has faith to be healed, then heal him.  The pattern in the Word of God for ministering healing is that  1. You proclaim boldly and confidently that healing deliverance is available right now. Why do you proclaim it with boldness? Because the promise is not from you, but from the Almighty God.  2. When people respond with desire and expectation to be healed, they will come to you for deliverance.  3. When someone comes to you for healing, listen to what he says and observe his desire and faith to be healed. The words that he speaks and the actions that he takes will reveal his desire and faith. 4.  When the person who comes to you has desire, expectation and faith to be healed, then to such a one you minister healing.

How to Heal the Sick   Adapted from the  book by Sangat S. Bains MANIFEST GOD’S POWER NOW Session 3   V. How to Heal the Sick A. Principles of How to Heal the Sick  The following are important points to note with regard to healing.  1. You speak or proclaim to those who need healing that they can be healed right  now.  This is the first point and it is very important. We have seen that all of the manifestations of Holy Spirit are based on the same keys as needed to evidence speaking in tongues.  Then this next point of proclaiming the immediate availability of healing, indeed comes first in bringing deliverance to those who need healing. Those who need healing must desire strongly and believe to be healed. As people hear that healing is immediately available, their believing or faith will increase. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God.  Romans 10:17  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  That particular Word of God, the Word of promise, the specific Word from the Spirit of God that you speak forth enters into the heart of the one who needs healing, and brings faith and confidence that he or she can be healed.  Therefore Jesus Christ preached the good news of deliverance first before healing  people.  Matthew 4:23  And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the  gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of  diseases among the people.  Teaching and preaching of the good news preceded healing.  Matthew 9:35  And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and  preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every  disease among the people.    The preaching of the good news and what is available from God preceded healing  deliverance, because Jesus Christ could heal if they had faith to receive healing. In other words, he could not have healed and delivered people had they not believed to be healed.  You could minister healing all day to a person without faith or with little faith, but you will not be able to impart the gift of healing to him.  Mathew 13:58  And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.  Mark 6:5  And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few  sick folk, and healed them. Of course, we should not use this as an excuse and therefore not heal people. Do not worry about this; there are plenty of people who want to believe and be healed who have not yet heard the Word that brings faith to their hearts. Therefore, we speak/proclaim to people that deliverance is sure and it is available right now.  You have to proclaim the information regarding deliverance from sicknesses and  diseases. And when you proclaim this, you must speak it with confidence and boldness so that the hearer can also become confident that they can receive healing.  Tell them of your and others’ testimonies of deliverance. Confidently and boldly tell them God’s testimonies of deliverance from the Word of God. If we are unsure of the deliverance then the hearer will also be unsure. God is the guarantor of deliverance. We speak what He says and do not worry that God may fail to bring to pass His promise because since the world began, He has never failed to bring to pass His promises.  Acts 8:5  Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.  Philip must have spoken what was available in Christ first.  People will decide whether or not to receive healing after they have heard that healing deliverance is available. If they decide to receive healing and come to you, then you heal them. God’s Word says Philip did the miracles.  Acts 8:6 & 7  And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake,  hearing and seeing the miracles, which he did.  7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.  Speak to those who need the healing that healing is absolutely available for them. By speaking this truth to them, you will build up their confidence to receive healing deliverance and when they come to you, you heal them.  Therefore, proclaiming and speaking the good news regarding healing deliverance is the first and the most important step.    2. The recipient of healing must strongly desire and believe to receive healing, thus  they come to the healer to be healed. You do not go to a person to minister healing  just because you are aware of his need for healing. – LOOK AT THEIR FAITH!  The second important point you need to see from the Word of God regarding ministering healing is that the recipient of healing must desire strongly and believe to receive healing. People will come to you for healing after they have heard the good news regarding the availability of immediate healing. Then when they come to you for healing, you must look at their faith level.  You can become aware of their level of faith by listening to what they say. It is essential to speak with the one who desires healing. Listen to what they are saying as it will reveal to you what they believe. Revelation comes when you cannot receive the necessary information by your five senses. God expects you to know something that you can first receive by your five senses.  When the person desiring healing speaks the language of faith, that is, “I know I shall be healed,” “I know you can heal me,” etc., then begin healing him and he shall receive healing. If he speaks with doubt or he is not confident about receiving healing, then you work with his faith. God works in you and shows you how to get the level of his faith up so that you can impart healing to him.  God’s Word shows that when those in need of healing desired and believed to be healed (after knowing that it was available), they went to the healer to get the healing. Another thing we notice from the Word of God is that the healer (with some exceptions that will be shown later) never went to the homes of the sick to heal them just because he heard or came to know that a sick person lived there.  Many records of healing in the Word of God show us that those who needed healing desired strongly for healing, then came to the one who was able to heal and cried or beseeched the healer to heal them because they believed that they could be healed.  The following are some of the scripture references that teach this principle.  Matthew  8:2, 5-6, 16; 9:2, 18, 20-21, 27-28, 32 12:22  14:35-36, 15:22, 29-30; 17:14-21;19:1-2  20:30-34; 21:14  Mark  1:40; 5:23; 6:54-56; 7:24-35; 8:22; 9:17-29  10:47, 51  Luke  4:38-39, 40-41; 5:12-14, 17-26; 6:17-19  7:3; 8:41-44; 9:11, 38-43; 11:13-16  17:12-13; 18:38  Acts  3:1-8; 4:22; 5:15-16; 9:38    Therefore, this is a very important point when we minister healing to people. Heal those who respond to the Word and desire, expect, believe and come to be healed.  You will notice as you study the above-mentioned verses that Jesus almost never went to minister healing in someone’s home just because he heard that a person in that house was sick. The few cases where Jesus went to heal someone without them asking happened because he knew by revelation that they had faith to be healed. (John 5:2~15; 9:1~7)  The truth God shows us in the Word of God about those who received healing always has this pattern.  Summary of principles   1. You speak or proclaim to those who need healing that they can be healed right now; that healing is absolutely available for them. 2. Teaching and preaching of the good news preceded healing.  3. You could minister healing all day to a person without faith or with little faith, but you will not be able to impart the gift of healing to him.  4. The recipient of healing must desire strongly and believe to receive healing  You do not go to a person to minister healing just because you are aware of his need for healing. – LOOK AT THEIR FAITH!  5. Heal those who respond to the Word and desire, expect, believe and come to be healed.