Pastors around the world Hunger for the Move of God
From: a.kumar kara [mailto:akumarkar@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:15 AMTo: stablesministries@gay4jesus.comCc: stablesministries@gays4jesus.comSubject: FW: Prayer
Dear minister of Jesus Christ,Yesterday I have seen your Blog in yahoo messenger online. I am an independent preacher minister Pentecostal. How I will heal to others? Please guide me spiritually.... also I like to invite to my church, India? Will you like to visit our small congregation and do some healing here? We are expecting your miracle visit to my place.
Pastor Nayak, IndiaHope Church
JESUS HEALS THE SICK
Matt 4:24
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. (KJV)
Matt 8:16
16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: (KJV)
Matt 12:15
15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; (KJV)
Matt 14:14
14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. (KJV)
Matt 15:30
30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: (KJV)
Matt 19:2
2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. (KJV)
Mark 1:34
34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. (KJV)
Mark 3:10
10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. (KJV)
Luke 4:40
40 Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. (KJV)
Mark 16:15-20
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
(KJV)
It is almost that every time Jesus spoke to crowds when he finished he begin laying on hands and healing everyone that came to him. Of all doctrines one would think that a mainstay in ministering would be laying hands on the sick and those in need of a variety of healings mentioned in the verses above. I pasted in just a few verses where large numbers came to hear Jesus and afterwards he healed the sick.
Mark mentions tongues. This tongues stuff is explained in detail in Acts chapter 2. I believe being baptized in the Holy Spirit is not a requirement to heal someone in Jesus Name, but fact shows this is much more in the rare category and usually is in the form of a long healing process which is not very distinguishable from your body or doctors doing the work.
Step 1) ensure you are Baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Step 2) have a great desire to have Jesus heal others through you.
Step 3) prepare yourself for the steps below.
Step 4) do not let a gathering you hold go by without providing a time to lay hands on sick folk.
Step 5) don’t let non-movement of God discourage you.
Step 6). figure out any additional steps you discover may help.
Step 7) have an idea what to do with the results.
Step 1) ensure you are Baptized in the Holy Spirit.
Baptism in the Holy Spirit is about the most important factor: (pastor Nayak you already have this)
1 Cor 12:4-11
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
(KJV)
9. . . . to another the gifts of healing
Gifts of healing is a gift that Christians can simply heal others, but great as this would appear because many get healed what lacks is a balance and so having or using just one gift can puff you up and your ministry can turn into a Christian cult following. Jesus is at the center and centering on healing can distract from the one that heals for you are not the healer but the conduit of Jesus’ healing.
So seek severally the gifts of the Spirit. Baptism in the Holy Spirit is key to receiving gifts. Having been given gifts as can be easily shown in tongues is at your will 24 hours a day you can choose to speak in tongues and nothing but your will can stop you. Gifts are given and they are subject to your will. Having gifts does not make you holy or closer to God as a Christian not baptized. Because you have the Baptism does not mean your thought and beliefs and ideas of God. Don’t make your operations in the gifts put you on a pedestal and you think what you say is 100% right. You want to heal others seek the gifts of healing, also know that healing someone does not have to be gifts of healing it can be your other gifts and love that also can heal others. You may not ever get the gifts of healing, but you will have other gifts and operating in the gift you have receive can produce almost the same effect as having the gifts of healing, but enhanced because you work through a variety of gifts to obtain what someone with the gifts of healing can do blind folded. Lots more to this step but I am trying not to write a book.
Step 2) have a great desire to have Jesus heal others through you.
Is really quite obvious, but again emphasis remains on Jesus not the healings.
Step 3) prepare yourself for the steps below.
This is about the most important part of everything do with healing. You should be ready at a moment notice to healing the sick in any situation. This can happen just for the fact you are a real Christian, because it may be 100% Jesus wanting a person healed and will use you simply because he just will. This is not the way to receive answers to desiring healings to be common in your meetings.
To be actively ready at any moment means you have already prayed yourself blue in secret and you have read whatever you could about healing people. I also think it is good to know counterfeit healer tactics. Many religions and other practices use some sort of healing people rituals. You should understand what is God and what is the world in healings. Some know how to heal and because it works in front of your eyes does not make it God or satan. It could be either. Mostly we say outside of the Bible it has to be satan. We are so wrong on so many fronts. So generally you should have for a great deal of time already had and have interests in seeing people healed. If this is a new thing for you you do have a lot of homework ahead of you. Jesus is wonderful not being sick is about the best feeling human bodies can know if it is sustained. So know your topic. (You do not have to memorize the Bible just know it).
So above is an academic background you should be and have obtained. Bible schools and colleges may not be a good place or may be actually a bad place to gain background if you go there and 100% accept all they teach. Upper education has pros and cons so discernment gift should be in full operation as you study in such facilities.
More importantly is preparation by prayers (possibly fasting but that would be on rare occasions or your situation and desire to fast feeling this urging to do so) (fasting is a drink water, at least if you want water fasting included (this is a your choice not someone telling you thing) you should drink in a day otherwise health issues will rise very fast) but again fasting is mostly not needed most of the time.
So prayer closet is a must, praising God is a must, worshipping God is a must, thanking God is a must these done in private. Now don’t assume a ritual that is usually standard in Christianity to these few things. In Pentecostal churches sweet praising and worshipping and singing in the spirit and such are really really nice. But missing is what is praise? Praise is saying you did a good job and explaining what was the good job. Just saying I praise God is great too, but think about it there God is thinking “then don’t just tell others to praise God, actually praise me by saying what it is I did that you are telling others to praise me. Praise God is a command not the actual praise. Thank God for what? Yes repeating these popular phrases is wonderful and yea God loves it to no end and yes miracles abound in them. I worship you. So what does worship mean? I hope you are getting the point that if you want to operate with healing manifesting in your services or rallies then understand what you say in the process of these common phrases.
There you are standing in front of your congregation or rally you have done your homework perhaps with many years of crying to God and studying you have prepared and you know your topic (not the sermon topic which you should also know) but you know the time in the service now is to heal people. It is crucial to have your background in the Lord strong and unwavering. Healing ministries is not particularly liked by satan and his specialty is to corrupt it. Money flows easier; fame makes you feel godlike and these corrupt people very fast. Preparing is getting yourself aware of what you are stepping into.
NONE of these steps are really any good if you base your ministry in modern English version Bible or translations using those as a base. There are two sets of manuscripts the corrupt and the uncorrupt, both are 2nd century. If you use a Bible search to see if it is a RECEIVED TEXT translation or a King James Version translation. Today the KJV is really the only version from the Received Text so using any other version translated to your native languages is setting you up to be conditioned to anti-christ acceptance in that day.
Use KING JAMES BIBLE or ones translated from the RECEIVED TEXT
Step 4) do not let a gathering you hold go by without providing a time to lay hands on sick folk.
It is really hard when nothing happens for long periods so never get discouraged if no healings take place and you feel like a fool. You may lose people it may get tougher. But you want a healing ministry as part of your ministry. This may take a toll so dig in. Now maybe from day one people will be healed so right away you become popular and you have to deal with that instead. But like salvation sinners prayer should be offered at every gathering for people can actually take a step of faith and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. Having a period also for inviting people to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit should be a regular feature of your service. No one will ever get healed in your service in front of everyone unless you offer a time for laying on hands.
Maybe you are doing this now, you email indicates then if you are you are not seeing regular healings.
Step 5) don’t let non-movement of God discourage you.
Was covered in step 4 above.
Step 6). figure out any additional steps you discover may help.
Now comes the: you are not me and you are not anyone else part. You are you God called you. You lived your life and now you have a ministry you are a pastor you are in authority you can delegate and give orders and seek others and their talents to provide a ministry that is truly you calling. Here is where no one can help you. You should not follow an instruction manual to create your ministry. Use instructions as guidelines not rules. One thing I have grown to dislike like is the pride churches take in their entertainment as it were. Almost church competing who has the best choir or electronic presentations.
Singing inspired by God or the talents some people have is amazing use it to glorify God not to be the best in town. Money big time problems be careful in asking for it and be accountable for it. (don’t buy $23,000 toilet seats as one minister has done).
But beyond the usual running of your ministry’s operation and logistics to make the service run smoothly step 6 means if it is not working toss it. Maybe not that directly but meaning figure out something. I again am not you, what works for me may be a disaster for you. Maybe you sing and write songs, take a second look at that and try your talents in imaginative directions. Maybe old world religion songs and styles had their day and you been thinking on trying out an urge inside you to try something new. Maybe you got a comical side. This holier than thou approach to ministering just are ingredients for a dead church. I am trying to say use your God given brain to make something not working work.
Don’t get stuck in morality issues. This is disgusting to God flat out. People trying to say what is right and what is wrong to 7 billion people with all the cultures steers people away from these coming days that Jesus will return. Let God deal with morality. Add morality issues to your message and almost guarantee for a hard fall when the church spanking begins. Keep moral issues to a general condition of mankind and don’t point out specific areas as though you think you know the issues about it. Keep focused on reaching the Lost for Christ not how dirty people are. Once you talk about the filth of other then you invite your filth to be openly shown. Jesus came to take away our burden not to add to them. This is not condoning sins; it is bringing the Gospel to the Lost and giving God the opportunity to write his laws on tablets of flesh.
Too many pastors are just not looking “out of the box” God is throughout the universe treat God as God. Jesus Created all things nothing created were not created by him. Not saying God is bored but he gave us a mind and many talents.
I am greatly saddened when I see ministers center their ideals on large numbers of people especially youth. Ministers that use their talents to create a large ministry and add in as a major factor their ideas of morality which is actually not Bible, but they believe it is.
So avoid centering on issues you may think important so you make a main message. But also do not back down from a message you know is from God, just be ready to explain how you make it from God and that your info sources really are backing your messages. Tough times are coming, but the Joy of the Lord is out strength, so don’t place burdens and weights on those that come to you. Hard not to talk about issues you think are important morally, but remember it is not your job to judge 7 billion people or even one person.
Aim your seeking to have regular healings in the direction of reaching the lost and lifting the burdens. People love getting entertained us all the talents at your disposal, but never make entertainment a competition or a means to keep people coming and staying. Use entertainment (talents) to glorify God. But first and foremost is your message. Don’t trade your message for entertainment that brings people to your church. You are about the message God gave you and your ministry is based on you and that message. Just keep in mind interesting ways to get people to hear your message.
Some may get 10s of 1000s others may have a 100 or so or less, do what you can with what you got don’t beg other to give you more. Everyone has got enough to do God’s will as you need more it will be given. Show how you can use what you have (keeping as close to debt free as possible) don’t try to buy your way to a healing ministry or more people. Also step outside your church. Your church is your base maybe, but this is not a cookie cutter Christian time period. Those Christians doing same thing as year after year will not see mighty move of God.
Think about sort of unrelated to your church separate ministry. Have your regular church services (maybe set up guest speakers as need be) but also plan testing out trying out new ideas. As a pastor of all people you know how to gather people so maybe hold meetings elsewhere, but radically alter your status quo style. Find who you are or might be. All I am saying is NOW is the RIGHT time. Don’t let your roots hold you back. There are 7 days I a week and all are not Sunday meeting or Wednesday meeting times. You can try HEALING ministry on other days.
Testimony of Healing ministry founders are “nothing happens” overnight, but one night Jesus began healing in their meeting and from there their healing ministry developed.
Step 7) have an idea what to do with the results.
The probably most important aspect of healing ministries is what you do with results. There you are people getting healed. NOW more people hear about it and come. So what of them when they leave? If in your church and they stay with your church you can feed them God’s word as you do your flock. A great importance is once healed and or saved but they really are not likely to go attend your church what will you give them to cement their faith in Jesus Christ?
As we see many Healing ministries that are large usually have counselors and so take those accepting Jesus or gotten healed or both back somewhere to explain what went on. Maybe give them a Bible or reading materials and strongly suggest they find a church that believes in healings and baptism in the Holy Spirit as soon as they can. Give them also guidelines. We live in the Last days. As many as 5 billion people will be killed in a 7 year period in which half or those are very likely to occur while Christians are still here before the Rapture. It is not good to saved them heal them and send them out to be slaughtered. The types of things to come are things that minutes can produce not months or years. We do not need to promote fear, but we also cannot let them go without warnings of what being a “LAST DAYS” Christians means. Blessings will for sure come, but also antichrist’s kingdom is nearly built.
Summary is balance your desire to bring physical healing to people with the reality of our day. You do not need to be an expert on the LAST DAYS or much of anything to have a healing ministry, just remember these you minister to our going out into the DAYS that bring Jesus back. And it is not going to be watching our favorite TV show and zap we are in Heaven. When we see Heaven (meet Jesus in the air with the dead in Christ rising first) we will know and lived in great death and destruction beyond measure. We will have been made ready for eternity with Christ during a 1260 day period and not at “anytime or any moment” as many pastors suggest today.
Healing power can make you feel godlike know this so as to keep the Glory pointed where it belongs, to Jesus Christ who is the healer.
God Bless you in Jesus Christ’s Name
John
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