Kingdom Institute
Healing the Sick
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:15-18
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. John 14:12-14
Do you believe, by faith, the two passages cited above by Jesus? If not, why not?
How to Heal the Sick
SEVEN ACTION STEPS
STEP ONE: Prayer to Renounce Cessationism by Heather Baker.
In Order to break the stronghold of Cessationism, on behalf of ourselves and those who came before us, we repent of and renounce the following sins.
Old Testament time period:
• Adam and Eve’s desire to be like God and eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, believing God’s Word wasn’t true.
• For man’s building of the Tower of Babel, and man’s choice to create his own religious way to God, which the Tower represented.
• For the worship of the Golden Calf (Baal/Satan) while Moses was on the mountain receiving God’s commands.
• For mankind choosing to worship according to their own customs and will, rather than by obeying God’s commands and statutes.
• For the slow devaluation of the Word of the Lord, as evidenced by the loss of the written Word of God until its discovery in Josiah’s time.
• For the persecution and murder of the prophets of the Most High God, who moved in the miraculous, by those who claimed to worship God.
• For the Maccabean Jews’ acceptance that the dead minor prophets’ miracles were “more miraculous” than the prophetic words and miracles occurring in their time, and so they: Stopped expecting or believing that miracles or prophecy could be for them; turned from prophecy and relationship with God to allow only the study of the written Torah, and it’s interpretation; honored what they could control (studies) and devalued what they could not control; accepted the cessation of miracles and prophecy.
• For the monumental influence of Plato’s Dualistic world view which taught that the spiritual realm is superior to the natural and physical realm, which is inferior, worthless, and even evil.
• For the crucial effect Plato’s writings had on the course of Church History. His writings devalued the human body, which Jesus came to save and to heal, and denied any healing ministry.
Early Church time period:
• For Maximilla declaring “After me there will be no more prophecy to the end of the age.”
• For Victorian’s statement that “The mighty signs and wonders of the apostles overcame the unbelievers. After that, the faith was established, the charismata have ceased, and now the church is comforted by the interpreted scripture“.
• For Ambrosiaster’s teachings that only Apostles can perform miracles and miracles have therefore ceased.
• For the Unscriptural Teachings of John Chrysostom (347-407) saying that: Miracles are for those weak in faith; when True Religion took hold, miracles ceased; to suffer for Christ is much greater than to experience miraculous deliverance from that suffering; the sign greater than all signs is deliverance from sin, “therefore, we don’t need any other sign or miracle; if we choose Christian love as the best spiritual gift we shall have no need of signs.
• We repent for Jerome, while translating the Vulgate Bible , choosing to translate the Greek verb sozo, which means saved healed and delivered, as saved only, hiding the healing aspect of the verb.
• We repent for Augustine’s early teachings: that miracles do not need to continue, because they will weaken faith, and keep people from maturing; his many books devaluing the miraculous, which greatly impacted the reformers centuries later; his dependence on Plato’s philosophy, and not adhering only to the Word of God, and the Spirit of Truth; and, for the his teachings that changed the world view of the Church from a scriptural Warfare World View to a more passive Blueprint World View.
Middle Age time period:
• All influence into Christianity from Gnosticism, especially the teaching that our bodies are evil, and that Jesus did not die on the cross and provide forgiveness for our sins and healing for our diseases.
• For the influence of Plato’s Dualistic world view on the Gnostics, who then influenced the Church.
• For Gregory the Great, who said that miracles were necessary at first, but are no longer needed, thus further stifling ordinary believers from using their gifts.
• For Thomas Aquinas’s, statement that the only purpose for miracles was to serve as a visible sign, a testimony to guarantee the divine source and truth of Christian Doctrine, and that enough miracles had been done to prove faith once and for all.
• That the Church Fathers who failed to see the compassion and care of our Father in the healing of the sick, and His great mercy toward the afflicted.
• For the belief of the Church Fathers that: the Apostolic level of the miraculous could not and should not be approached or attempted any longer, as it has ceased; miracles are given out by merit. No one now is righteous enough ; miracles are not needed, they have been replaced by piety and the study of scripture.
• For each way these doctrines limited and grieved the Holy Spirit, throughout the centuries.
• That we have allowed the philosophies and vain deceits of Greece and Rome to influence our belief systems.
• That we have built the foundation of our beliefs on the tradition of the Church Fathers rather than on your Word.
• That we have based the doctrines and practices of the church on the traditions and cultures of the world, and not on Christ Jesus our Lord.
• That the restrictions on learning to read kept people from learning the truth.
• That as true faith and morality gradually declined in church leadership, the power to heal gradually declined as well, which led to the belief that normal persons who operated in the power to heal were accused of operating by the power of the devil.
Reformers and Reformation time period:
• That as the reformers searched for authority, they became more opposed to the supernatural.
• Their extreme concern for maintaining control, believing that this control was necessary in order to stay alive, consequently stifling the Holy Spirit’s moving, speaking, or leading.
• For the Protestant’s rejection, envy, and judgment of the miracles occurring in the Catholic Churches before, during, and after the Reformation, even accusing the Catholics of doing miracles by the Devil’s power.
• For the Protestant Movement’s unbelief and suspicion of the miraculous.
• Wherever the Reformers encouraged legalism, rather than heeding the Spirit of God, to interpret scripture.
• That they did not understand that God’s power flows through relationship with God, not through doctrine.
Age of Enlightenment time period:
• For the changes in belief, doctrine, and practice made during the age of Enlightenment /Reason, which were based on our human desire to be God.
• For the gradual change in the core of Protestantism from the Word of God to a human authority based in perception and reason. We exalted our minds, and devalued His Word.
• For the exaltation of scientific investigation, rather than the Logos and Rhema of the Living God which caused people to explain away miracles as part of the natural order. We repent for redefining miracles into explainable ordinary events.
• That the seminaries taught the pastors not to believe in miracles.
• For allowing skepticism and rationalism to train us that the laws of nature are unbreakable, even by the creator of the universe.
• For rationalism’s influence that revelation is not necessary in Christianity.
• For skepticism encouraging doubt in the church.
• For Dispensationalism.
• For teaching that the miraculous ended with the death of the Twelve Apostles.
• Regarding Benjamin B. Warfield, we ask forgiveness for: 1.His highly influential and prominent book Counterfeit Miracles, taught in US seminaries, which teaches, contrary to scripture, that the only purpose for miracles is to accredit the gospel, therefore all other miracles are counterfeit. 2 His denial that Spiritual Gifts and Miracles ARE the Gospel of the Kingdom. 3. That most US pastors were trained by his teachings. 4 Continuing Calvin’s teaching that Christians cannot have demons.
Present Day time Period:
• All present day Bible commentaries, handbooks, and teachings which state, agree with, or confirm the belief that miracles have ceased and are no longer available to us. • All present day Bible commentaries, handbooks, and teachings which treat the miraculous or prophetic with suspicion, accusation, or devaluation.
• For the intense, ongoing verbal and written criticism of Spirit filled believers by Cessationist believers, and for the effect this verbal strife has had on the Body of Christ alive today.
• For every believer who did not know they were being taught lies when they were being taught Cessationism. Forgive us for not searching scripture for ourselves. Forgive us for passively accepting Cessationist teachings as truth.
We Declare that:
• Jesus Christ is the only true foundation for the church, her beliefs and practices, and her life.
• In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and we are complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and power.
•Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• We declare that He has not stopped working miracles on behalf of his people.
• We declare that the Kingdom of God is not of words, but of Power!
• We declare that every need we have has been provided by Jesus’ death and Resurrection, and this includes healing, deliverance, salvation, provision, protection, guidance, Sonship, and relationship with God the Father.
• We declare that By His Stripes we are healed of every infirmity and weakness.
• We declare that He created us to walk in the fullness of all that He is.
• We declare that He will not withhold any good thing from us, and that we sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
• We declare that His Spirit lives in us, who believe in Jesus Christ the Savior, and this Spirit pours life and health into our beings.
• We declare that Jesus was sent to destroy the works of the Devil, including sickness, sin, poverty, and death.
• We declare that Jesus Christ is the only Light, Truth, and Life, in Him are we fully and abundantly equipped, functioning, and made whole.
• We declare that God will move in our lives, and we will keep our confidence in Him.
STEP TWO: Pray the Prayer to Reconcile, Reunite and Restore Me to the Land Where I Live
Lord, I come on behalf of myself and the sins of my entire generational line back to before the beginning of time. I renounce and repent for all of us who engaged in ungodly sexual activities outside the will of God on the specific land areas where we lived. We have repeatedly broken your covenantal laws, clearly laid out in Exodus 20:14 and Leviticus 18:1-30, which instruct us not to:
Have sex with any family member
Commit adultery
Have sex with someone of the same gender
Have sex with an animal
Abort our children, which is patterned after the burning of our children in the fires of Molech.
Lord, please forgive us for defiling the land areas where we have lived through infidelity, and through the murder of the next generation. I recognize that because we have been unfaithful to You, the land You betrothed to us has issued a divorce decree to us, and I repent for our unwillingness to follow Your Word. From this day forward, I pledge my personal fidelity to You and the land where I live. Lord, please:
Cleanse us of all defilement and guilt resulting from our unholy sexual activities and the murder of the innocent.
Sever every ungodly soul tie between me and the land areas where we have sinned sexually.
By Your grace and mercy, please burn up the divorce papers that the land served us, and cleanse by your blood every geographic area where we have lived.
Lord, as the Lion of Judah, please release the sound and frequency of Your mighty roar and set free all generational spirit and soul parts that have been entrapped in the land; remove all parts from the ungodly length, depth, width and height. I also ask You, Lord Jesus, to wield Your sword as the Son of Man and sever me and my generational line from the grip of the Rephaim, which show themselves as the dead ones, departed spirits or shades.
Lord, please complete the process of reconciling, reuniting and restoring me to the land You have given us by destroying every ungodly generational library to which the enemy has access. This has resulted in us being spit out and/or has caused the lands where we live or have lived to come against us. Lord, I am truly sorry that we have wounded Your heart, and have giving the enemy the legal right to wreak havoc upon our families and the lands where we live.
Lord, please release the authority that is available to me through Jesus Christ, so that I may advance Your kingdom in the land you have given me.
Lord, for me, my family line, and my descendants, please establish our connections to the land that are in accordance with Your original design.
STEP THREE: Receive an Impartation to Heal the Sick
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. Romans 1:8-12
STEP FOUR: Before Your Pray Do a Basic Inventory of the Person’s Condition
What would you like the Lord to do for you?
On a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is your pain level?
Was there anything unusual when your condition began?
STEP FIVE: Ask Permission to Lay Your Hand on the Affected Area
Men, the only place you should lay your hands on a woman is on her shoulder. If a woman is praying with you she can place her hand on the affected area and you can then place your hand on her hand.
Never, ever touch either gender inappropriately! Remember, you are representing Jesus and His church.
Don’t feel like you have to keep praying as your hand is laid on someone who has requested prayer. Allowing the anointing of the Holy Spirit to flow through you without words is just as powerful when you are praying with words.
STEP SIX: Begin the prayer as the Holy Spirit Leads by…
Rebuking the condition in Jesus Name
And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them. Luke 4:38-39
Commanding the sickness to leave in Jesus Name
And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me recover my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. Luke 18:40-43
But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” Acts 3:6
Petitioning God to heal the person in Jesus Name
And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” Acts 4:29-30
Note: Whatever option the Holy Spirit leads you to pray, pray in the Name of Jesus.
STEP SEVEN: When you have finished praying do another inventory by asking…
On a scale of 1 to 10 what is your level of pain?
If the number has gone down ask the person to thank God (If the number has not gone down continue to pray).
If the number has gone down continue to pray by faith until it goes down to zero.
Summary: Love Heals!
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.”
John 5:19
There are no formulas to pray for the sick. John 5:19 says that Jesus could do nothing except what He saw His Father doing. Intimacy with the Holy Spirit is the key to praying successfully for the sick. Asking the Lord (ATL) what He wants to do when praying for someone who has requested prayer is the best option you can take. Jesus did not have a prescribed way to pray for people. Sometimes He:
Spoke a word and people were healed
Touched people and they were healed
People touched His garment and were healed.
Remember, it is the Holy Spirit who heals through you. Your role is to love the person and allow the love of Christ to flow through you. Stand in your authority in Jesus name, with faith like a child, and the Lord will do the rest.