Water Baptism in the Name of Jesus

  Jesus' Command        

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:19).

How the Apostles Obeyed the Command

Peter

"Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Acts 2:38).

"And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord" (Acts 10:48). "And he com­manded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (RV).

Philip

"For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 8:16).

Paul

"When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 19:5).

Why Should We Follow the Apostles?

Jesus told His apostles, "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you" (Matthew 10:20). So the above words of Peter and Paul are the words of the Holy Ghost Himself.

"See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern" (Hebrews 8:5). We find the early church pattern in the Book of Acts.

Jesus told Peter, "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 16:19). Peter first used these keys in Acts 2:38. They were the right keys, for the door opened and three thousand entered the kingdom.

"Ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3). The apostles delivered this faith, or doctrine, unto the saints.

"Ye . . . are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone" (Ephesians 2:19-20).

Speaking of the apostles, Jesus said, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word" (John 17:20). Therefore, Jesus wants us to believe on Him through the words of the apostles.

Paul said, "Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:8). He could say this because he did not receive the revelation of the gospel from humans, but from the Lord (Galatians 1:11-12).


Scriptural Proof That the Apostles Obeyed Jesus' Command in Matthew 28:19

Many people repeat the command given in Matthew 28:19 to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. But to repeat a command and to obey a command are two different things! To obey this command we must find out what the name of the Father is, what the name of the Son is, and what the name of the Holy Ghost is; we must then baptize in that name.

The apostles knew that Jesus is that name:

1.      Jesus is the name of the Father. Jesus said, "I am come in my Father's name" (John
5:43). In prophesying the birth of Jesus, Isaiah said, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counseller, the mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6).

2.      Jesus is the name of the Son. "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his
name JESUS" (Matthew 1:21).

3.      Jesus is the name of the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will
come to you" (John 14:18). The Comforter is the Holy Ghost (John 14:26). The Holy Ghost in
us is none other than the Spirit of Jesus. Paul said "Know ye not . . . that Jesus Christ is in you?"
(II Corinthians 13:5).

The Scriptures teach that there is only one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4), and "the Lord is that Spirit" (II Corinthians 3:17). Colossians 1:27 calls the Holy Ghost "Christ in you." In John 14:23, Jesus said that He and the Father would come in. Ephesians 4:6 calls this Spirit both God and Father. When we receive the Holy Ghost, we receive Jesus in Spirit form.

Since Jesus is the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, we can see that when we baptize by invoking the name of Jesus, we are directly obeying Jesus' command in Matthew 28:19—as did the apostles.

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for cor­rection, for instruction in righteousness" (II Timothy 3:16). Therefore, we cannot ignore the verses of Scripture on baptism in Jesus' name, or we deny that God inspired all the Scripture. Nor can we ignore Matthew 28:19. But when we correctly understand the subject, we will see that all the scriptural passages harmonize, and we need not omit any of them.

Can sprinkling rightly be termed water baptism? The Scriptures show that it cannot. The word baptize comes from the Greek word baptizo, which means "to bury, to plunge, or to immerse." Romans 6:4 and Colossians 2:12 command us to be buried with Jesus in baptism. Some declare that John sprinkled because there was a scarcity of water in the wilderness. That idea, however, is erroneous, for "there was much water there" (John 3:23).

Make no mistake, satan will cause offenses. In your family, between your business associates, and in your friendships, conflict is inevitable. Jesus Himself warned, “Offenses will come” (Mt 18:7).

Here are four keys to help you deal with offenses:

1. Don’t Curse it

When you sin or you are offended, don’t curse it. Don’t dwell on the issues of “if only I had” or “why me?” and let go of any anger. As Joseph did, boldly declare in the face of circumstances, “you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” (Gen. 50:20).

2. Don’t Nurse it

You nurse offenses by self-pity. When you think “poor me, I don’t deserve this” or wallow in guilt, you nurse your offense. Refuse to let self-pity crawl into your heart, because it is self-destructive.

3. Don’t Rehearse it

Rehearsing the wrongs done to you or your own sins, creates inner turmoil and torment. Isaiah   26:3 promises prefect peace if you keep your mind on God. Whether it is a sin you have committed or an offense committed against you, stop talking about it! By an act of your will, you must do as the Apostle Paul did and forget those things that are behind (Phil 3:3).You will never have a future as long as you live in the past

4. Disperse it

Covenant in your heart daily that you choose to forgive and forget as an act of your will. When you do that you disperse the offense that was committed, which means you disarm it of its power over you. True forgiveness comes by recognizing the wrong done, confessing the hurt to God, and choosing to release the negative emotions associated with the offense When you do that you position yourself for God to move supernaturally in your life.

IN-CHRIST REALITIES SCRIPTURE STUDY SHEET

In Revelation 12:11, the Word says the saints overcome the accuser by the blood of Jesus and the word of their testimony. Your testimony is not all of the bad things you once did before you came to Jesus. Your testimony is your confession. So what is this confession, the word of our testimony we are told in Hebrews 4:14 to "hold fast?" It is the positive things God has done in us and for us. The word of our testimony is the confession of who we are in Christ.

A spiritual law too few of us realize is that: our confessions rule us. Or, to put it another way you will never rise above the level of your confession. The more you talk about it, the more real it becomes. The less you talk about it, the less real. The key to success, victory and an overcoming life is:

Find out what God's Word says about you and make that your
confession.

People often want suggestions on how to study the Bible. There are, of course, many good techniques but one thing I've found most valuable is for the believer to read through the four Gospels and the book of Acts, prayerfully asking for a revelation of Jesus. Then, spend the majority of your time in the letters of Paul. These are written specifically to teach you how to be a success as believer.

As you read, look for expressions such a, "in Christ", "in Him', "in Whom', "through Whom", etc. Mark these in your Bible. There are approximately 140 of these expressions and they tell you what is yours as a believer because you are "in Christ." Study these scriptures—write them down. Meditate on them. Pray over them. Begin to confess them. Begin to say with your mouth "This is who I am, this is what I am and this is what I have, in Christ."

Faith's confession creates realities. As far as God is concerned everything you have or are in Christ is already present reality. But it is your belief of it and your confession of it that makes it a reality to you. It is with our heart that we believe—and with our mouth we make confession unto. In other words, when you believe a thing in your heart and confess it with your mouth—then it becomes real to you. That's how faith's confession creates realties.

As you read some of these scriptures, they won't seem real to you at first. It may seem as though you really have what these scriptures say you have in Him. But, if you will begin to confess with your mouth, because you do believe God's Word in your heart, "This is mine, I have it now. This is who I am. This is what I have. This is what I can do." Then it will become reality to you. It is already real in the spirit realm. But we want them to become real in this physical realm in which we live and real to us in our experience. So remember, as you find these scriptures:

1.  Underline or mark each scripture

2.  Write it down

3.  Meditate on it

4.  Make your confession of it

5.  Begin to say it with your mouth

IN-CHRIST

Romans 3:24 Romans 8:1 Romans 8:2 Romans 12:5 I Corinthians 1:2 I Corinthians 1:30
I Corinthians 15:22; II Corinthians 1:21; II Corinthians 2:14; II Corinthians 3:14
II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:19 Galatians 2:4 Galatians 3:26 Galatians 3:28 Galatians 5:6 Galatians 6:15 Ephesians 1:3 Ephesians 1:10 Ephesians 2:6 Ephesians 2:10 Ephesians 2:13 Ephesians 3:6 Philippians3:13, 14 Colossians 1:28 IThess.4:16 IThess. 5:18
I Timothy 1:14 II Timothy 1:9 II Timothy 1:13 II Timothy 2:1 II Timothy 2:10 II Timothy 3:15
Philemon 1:6  II Peter 1:8 II John 1:9

IN HIM

Acts 17:28 John 1:4 John 3:15, 16 II Corinthians 1:20 II Corinthians 5:21 Ephesians 1:4 Ephesians 1:10 Philippians 3:9 Colossians 2:6 Colossians 2:7 Colossians 2:10 I John 2:5 I John 2:6 I John 2:8 I John 2:27 I John 1:28 I John 3:3 I John 3:5 I John 3:6 I John 3:24 1 John 4:13 I John 5:14, 15 I John 5:20 Ephesians 1:6

IN THE BELOVED

Ephesians 5:8


IN THE LORD

Ephesians 6:10 Ephesians 1:7 Ephesians 1:11 Ephesians 1:13

IN WHOM

Ephesians 2:21 Ephesians 2:22 Ephesians 3:12 Colossians 1:14 Colossians 2:3 Colossians 2:11 I Peter 1:8 Romans 3:22 Romans 5:15 Romans 5:17-19 Romans 7:4 I Corinthians 1:4

BY CHRIST

II Corinthians 5:18 Galatians2:16 Ephesians 1:5 Philippians 1:11 Philippians4:19 I Peter 1:3
I Peter 2:5 I Peter 5:10 I Corinthians 1:5 I Corinthians 8:6 Colossians 1:16

BY HIM

Colossians 1:17 Colossians 1:20 Colossians 3:17 Hebrews 7:25 Hebrews 13:15 I Peter 1:21
Hebrews 1:3

BY HIMSELF

Hebrews 9:26 Hebrews 9:11,12 Hebrews 14, 15


BY HIS BLOOD

Hebrews 10:19,20 I John 1:7

BY WHOM

Romans 5:2 Romans 5:11 Galatians 6:14 Ephesians 4:16


FROM WHOM

Colossians 2:19 II Corinthians 2:15 Philippians 3:12


OF CHRIST

Colossians 2:17 Colossians 3:24 I John 1:5


OF HIM

I John 2:27 Romans 5:1 Romans 5:11 Romans 6:11 Romans 6:23


THROUGH CHRIST

I Corinthians 15:57 Galatians 3:13-14 Galatians 4:7 Ephesians2:7 Philippians 4:6, 7 Philippians4:13 Hebrews 10:10 Hebrews 13:20-21 John 3:17 Romans 5:9


THROUGH CHRIST

Romans 8:37 I John 4:9 Romans 6:8 Galatians 2:20


WITH CHRIST

Ephesians 2:5 Colossians 2:20 Colossians 3:1 Colossians 3:3 Romans 6:4 Romans 6:6 Romans 6:8

WITH HIM

Romans 8:32  II Corinthians 13:4 Colossians 2:12 Colossians 2:13-15 Colossians 3:4
II Timothy 2:11-12 John 6:57 John 6:56 John 14:20

IN ME

John 15:4, 5 John 15:7, 8 John 16:33

IN MY LOVE

John 15:9 Matthew 18:20 Mark 16:17, 18


IN HIS NAME

John 14:13, 14 John 16:23, 24 I Corinthians 6:11

These verses do not use the specific phrases IN HIM, in Whom, etc. but they convey the message of who you are, or what you are, or what you have BECAUSE OF CHRIST. (This is only a partial list)

Matthew 8:17 Matthew 11:28-30 Matthew 18:11 Matthew 18:18-20 Matthew 28:18-20 Mark 1:8 Mark 9:23 Mark 11:23, 24 Luke 10:19 John 4:14 John 6:40 John 10:10 John 14:12 John 14:23 John 17:23 Galatians3:29 Galatians 5:1


Philippians 2:5 Philippians 2:13 Colossians 1:13 Colossians 1:26-27 Titus 2:14 Titus 3:7 Hebrews 2:9-11 Hebrews 2:14, 15 Hebrews 2:18 Hebrews 4:14-16 Hebrews 7:19, 22 Hebrews 8:6 Hebrews 9:24 Hebrews 9:28 Hebrews 10:14 Hebrews 13:5b, 6 Hebrews 13:8


James 4:7 I Peter 2:9 I Peter 2:21 I Peter 3:18 I Peter 5:7 I John 1:9 I John 2:1 I John 3:2 I John 3:14 I John 4:4 I John 4:10 I John 4:15 I John 5:1, 4-5 I John 5:11,12 Revelation 1:5, 6

As mentioned in a previous post, I have learned a lot from Curry R. Blake’s teachings. He has taken over the famous faith healer John G. Lake’s ministry.

Here I have combined some of his quotes which really stuck with me. Most of these quotes have been posted at the JGLM forum.

If your gospel isn’t touching others, it hasn’t touched you.

God will use you. Don’t think that he’ll just use you for headaches. He will use you to do ANYTHING that needs to be.

The power of God is mechanical.

You are God’s son, man’s servant, and the devil’s master.

The truth will set you free, But first it will make you mad.

If you haven’t found a gospel worth dying for, you haven’t found a gospel worth living for.

When a son of God speaks, Heaven hears and agree. Hell hears and obey.

Healing isn’t a reward, it is a gift. You don’t work for it or earn it.

If your knowledge of the word of God exceeds your obedience to the word, you are a backslider

Be hard on self, easy on others. You can give them truth, but don’t expect others to consistently walk at a standard that you have set for yourself. If you set yourself with the standard of the Bible, that is good. But, give people mercy. Give them room to grow. Everybody doesn’t know what you know. Everybody hasn’t studied as much as you’ve studied. Everybody hasn’t been where you’ve been. So give them room.

People don’t care how much you know, until the know how much you care.

True apostolic ministry doesn’t say ‘Come sit at my feet and let me be your father’…it says GO. Apostolic ministries don’t gather…they spread. When you gather, you build an empire. When you spread, you build the Kingdom of God.

Fasting doesn’t get you power. Fasting gets you out of the way so power can flow easier.

Healing is warfare!

A lot of people today would rather be lied to with a smile and soft words than to be told the truth without mincing words. They think that if their feelings get hurt then the person who hurt their feelings was not walking in love. This is the surest sign of spiritual immaturity.

Anything that prevents you from blessing of God is a devil for you to overcome and destroy.

Friends are like elevators, they will either take you up or bring you down, but they will never leave you in the same place.

Quit having faith in your faith.

God can’t say ‘No’ to a promise He’s already said ‘Yes’ to.

You will never be who you are supposed to be if you can’t forget who you used to be.

There is no reason why any person should not be healed.

You can’t have resurrection life until there is a death, and you won’t have a death until you decide that your old life is something you hate.

To the degree that your mind is renewed, is the degree that your life is transformed.

Exalt God…Exhort Men…Exhaust the devil.

The Name of Jesus and what it stands for and represents is ENOUGH to get ANY job done and ANY need met.

What we’ll give our eyes to, we’ll be doing.

Jesus only gave 2 reasons for failure, and every failure can be traced back to one of these: Unbelief or Traditions of Man.”

Jesus never said “gather up and sit” He said, “As you go, preach and heal”.

The reason why we’ll do greater works than Jesus is because we’re facing an enemy that’s already been defeated.

The Bible is a receipt of what was PAID FOR by Jesus.

You are not a leader if you will not say what you believe simply because you fear the consequences.

The fastest way to know what’s really in someone’s heart is to remove all restrictions.

Jesus said if you drink the water He gives, you will NEVER thirst again. You will never hunger or thirst. There is a difference between thirsting/ hungering and zeal. Thirsting keeps you waiting….Zeal gets you busy doing the Fathers will. If you thirst, you will be filled (no longer thirsting).

The church is so busy training people to go out, that they feel like they are doing something…when in fact, they are just staying busy but not going out to preach the Gospel, heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons!

If believing in God was the only requirement to get saved, then devils would be saved too. Devils believe and tremble when hearing His name and because they KNOW His power. Some Christians believe and don’t even tremble . Other Christians believe and obey. Which one are you?

If the harvest is ready, you are ripe!

You are made perfect as you work.

If you wake up on Sunday, and you do not go to Church, some Christians have a religious withdrawel because they are so addicted to their Sunday morning service and they are taught that if they do not go, then…… .

Train the way you want to fight, because that is the way you are going to fight!

No army ever won a war by showing how much it could suffer.

If you’re gonna talk it, live it.

Most people talk to God about their problems, when in reality, what you ought to do is talk to your problem about God.

Most people are trying to live a resurrected life without dying.

The greatest deliverance you ever get is from yourself. Forget yourself! Get over yourself!

The devil wants you on yourself.

Fasting is getting you out of yourself.

You are a Spirit, you have a soul, & you live in a body.

There is no part of you that is good. You have to die.

I don’t make decisions based on money. I go & know God will provide when I get there.

You can’t feed the hungry if you are hungry.

The fullness of God is him living IN us.

You do what you can where you are with what you’ve got.

A sin you will defend is a sin you are in. Jesus preached a gospel that made grown men walk away from everything they had.

There is no hinderance to God except YOU!

If you are HID IN CHRIST your life is hid in him, then the enemy can’t find you to put something on you.

Wherever you are the Kingdom of God is there.

God does NOT use the devil to spank you.

God has NEVER said anything negative about you.

When you make decisions based on money, then money is your God. Don’t make decisions based on money, make them based on God’s will for your life & the money will come.

If you want boldness, get sure.

Don’t hang on to the world. Touch the world, & hang on to God.

Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.

The devil in under our feet because he is under Jesus’ feet.

We are ordinary people who have an extraordinary God. The essence of Christianity is in the being, not in the doing.

Correction is for restoration, not for destruction. If you are going to error make one in His favor not against Him.

What is in you is BIGGER than what is outside of you.

Don’t follow signs. Let the signs follow you.

I don’t need revival. I am revived!

If you pray, believe, then receive.

Judge things. Not people.

To know the will of God, read the Bible. To be led by the Spirit, DO the Bible.

The first preacher of the gospel was a woman.

The world is waiting for us to grow up & show up.

My job, and the job of the five-fold ministry, is to work ourselves out of a job.

You find out what the Word of God says, you decide to agree with it and believe it. Then you begin doing it, you do it every time. You force yourself to do it, you force yourself to do it when you don’t feel like it. You never have to force yourself to do stuff you want to do. So discipline comes in when you don’t want to.

Training means doing what you’ve been taught; to practise and drill it, because when you get in the heat of the battle, you can’t THINK, you have to REACT, and you will react according to where the majority of your mind is.

An Old Covenant mindset says: “I’m not good enough. I don’t have enough. I need more…”.

The Temple Prayer

By

Paul Yonggi Cho

David Yonggi Cho (Formerly Known As Paul Yonggi Cho) Is A Korean Christian Minister. He Is Senior Pastor and Founder Of The Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies Of God), The World's Largest Congregation With A Membership Of 1,000,000 (As Of 2007).

Cho Still Conducts Two Out Of The Seven Services The Church Holds A Day;
They Are So Heavily Attended That People Often Must Arrive An Hour Early To Have A Seat.

 

The Temple Prayer

By Paul Yonggi Cho

 

 

"This Prayer Was Taught Many Years Ago, At That Time Pastor Cho Had Over 700,000 In His Congregation."

        The prayer I use most is the temple prayer. Everyday I use the temple prayer three or four times. Even this morning before I came to this service, I prayed according to the temple prayer. This prayer is so effective,

      The most important thing is to pray more than 30 min. To one hour every day. First, you must get people to pray for at least 30 min., then one hour. I say 30 min. By compromising with the westerners. And orient, I say one hour, no compromise. But with westerners, I give some leniency.

     In Gethsemane Jesus commanded his disciples to pray one hour. "Can't you be awake one hour with me together in prayer so that you may not fall into temptation?"  Because the disciples could not pray for one hour, they fell into temptation. So one hour is actually the basis for our prayer.

     How can you pray for one hour? If you pray the freestyle prayer, you cannot pray for one hour. Usually people do not have a definite and desperate goal and say it over and over again, and so that is another problem.

     If you do not pray the ripple prayer everyday, it's not very tasty. The more you pray, the better you feel about the temple prayer.

     One day, I was praying the, saying,"Oh lord, I now should know how the wonderful forms of prayer so that I can pray over and over again without feeling any fatigue." like lightning, God said, "pray according to the temple prayer." instantly, the whole plan of temple prayer was revealed to me.

     During the Old Testament when the Israelites came out of the wilderness, God showed Moses how to build the temple through which the Israelites would come and worship the lord. God strictly told Moses to build the tabernacle according to the plan, which he saw on Mount Sinai.  So when Moses came down from the mountain, he built the tabernacle in the wilderness.

     Holy Israelites were commanded to come and worship God only at the tabernacle. They were not permitted to worship God outside of the tabernacle.

     This tabernacle is attempted type of worship which God wants. God said, "You are the temple of the holy ghost. You are the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit. The tabernacle has disappeared but now you are the tabernacle. You are the tabernacle in which Holy Spirit dwells."

     So, when you plan your temple, your physical being, in your imagination you must go through the tabernacle and worship God according to God's plan.

The Brazen Altar
     When you approach the tabernacle, you find the Braen Altar where the priest killed the animals, sprinkled the blood, and burned the flesh to forgive the sins of the people. All the people who had committed sin had to bring animals to the tabernacle. As soon as they stepped into the courtyard of the tabernacle this all the Brazen Altar were God judge sin by killing the animals. They laid their hands upon the animal on confess their sins. Then in front of their eyes, the priest killed the animal, sprinkled the blood on four corners of the altar and import out the blood and burned the flesh.

     This is the type of the cross of Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, they all started worship God at the place of the brazen altar.

     Likewise, when you pray, we must start from the cross of Calvary. This is very, very powerful prior. I always pray according to this tabernacle prayer more than three times a day. This prayer gives me power so that I can easily carry out my ministry among 700,000 people as well is my foreign mission evangelism.

     Every day you must come to the cross of Jesus Christ as many times as possible. There you worship the lord. There you see God judging your sense Jesus Christ. Just as God judge the sin of Israel through the animals, Jesus judges your sense through Jesus Christ. This is a very serious thing.

     I come to the cross and worship Jesus Christ saying, "Dear Jesus Christ I worship your blood. I thank you because your blood forgave all of my sins. All of the sins that I have committed and all of the sins which I'm going to commit in the future. You have forgiven me eternally".

     Pray this prayer:  "Jesus, I worship you because through the blood you have delivered me from the power of Satan and the world. You move to the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Now I'm living in your son's kingdom through the blood of Jesus Christ."

     Only the blood can set you from the chains of Satan and the world. Now I have cast out all the influences of Satan and worldliness from my life and the Holy Spirit has taken it all out of me. I'm living in the kingdom of the beloved son by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ. I am in the kingdom of the son of God and the Holy Spirit leads and guides me. Jesus Christ moves me and takes care of me. I praise him because of the blood.

     Praise the blood of Jesus Christ because that blood declares to me that I was completely freed from all kinds of sickness and infirmity.

     I pray, "Jesus through the stripes which you received in the Court yard of Pilot, all sickness and diseases have been taken away since 2000 years ago. I declare that because of the blood of Jesus Christ blood speaks better than the blood of Abraham, and so I praise you. I praise you for divine healing through the blood of Jesus Christ".

     Then I pray, "Dear Jesus, through your blood I have been redeemed from the Adamic curse. Because of Adam the earth was cursed. The earth was to bring forth thistles and thorns. That is a symbol of all the failure in life."

     "Oh God, you took our curse upon the cross. Because the bible says that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law making our curse for us for it is written cursed is every one that hangs upon a tree that the blessings of Abraham might come upon the gentiles."

     "So through your blood I am completely delivered from the curse. I'm delivered from failure and poverty. I am free from the curse. I have the blessings of Abraham. I am a blessed person."

     I very strongly confess the point that I am a blessed person because many people are living in failure consciousness. They live in poverty circumstances. Before they get rid of their consciousness us they can never move on to Jesus Christ.

     Jesus was rich but he became poor for you so that you might be rich in Jesus Christ. So you must really saturate your mind within we didn't the blessing of Christ. We should worship Jesus about that point I must declare that point powerfully. You must say "by his stripes I am healed. By his cross I'm delivered from the curse".

     When you we have the blessing of God in your heart, many times God will perform tremendous miracles in your life. From an unknown source, blessings will flow to you. So you must claim that blessings because you are a blessed people. You're not a cursed people. You are blessed people so only the blessings will come and dwell with you. The curse will not dwell with you any more.

     Next I pray, "Dear Jesus, through your blood I am delivered from death and hell. Jesus, you died and you are resurrected. You conquered death and hell. You brought the glory of the kingdom of heaven. By the blood of Jesus Christ I am completely delivered from death and hell and am now living in the glory of Jesus Christ. I am a member of the kingdom of God. I have eternal kingdom in the so praise God because of the blood. I worship Jesus and praise him because of the blood".

     For me, it usually takes 5 to 10 min to praise God for the blood. You really praise the blood of Jesus Christ, you feel so free because the Devil's all leave. The Devil is afraid of the blood of Jesus Christ. So when you really worship the blood of Jesus Christ point by point, the Devil leaves and you feel the refreshing presence of the Holy Spirit powerfully in your life.

     When you worship the blood, you see the devil flee. When you worship the blood, you see the Holy Spirit, and dwell within you. So it is very necessary to start your worship through the blood of Jesus Christ.

     If you're worshiping without the blood, then that worship is not very powerful. Only the blood opens the door for you to come near to the lord with boldness. That is the reason in tabernacle worship God always wanted the people to come to the brazen altar.

     First the sacrifice, then the approach to the lord. Without sacrifice, you cannot approach the lord. Jesus Christ offered the eternal sacrifice for us so we don't need to bring in animals. Jesus is our sacrifice, our eternal sacrifice. We worship him over and over again. By your worship, we are offering sacrifice to Jesus Christ, to our heavenly father.

The Laver

     In the courtyard, you move from the brazen altar to the Laver. The labor is full of water. Before the high priest entered the holy place, he washed his hands and feet. He was cleansed and sanctified.

     After the blood, comes purity and sanctification, so that my worship as I stand before the Laver, I can see water in it.

     The Laver is made of glass. The women had bronze looking glasses which had been gathered together and melted down to make the Laver. This symbolized God looks into your consciousness. When you stand before the Laver, you see yourself reflected in the glass. You are a true being, so confess your sins and wash yourself clean.

    As I stand before the Laver, I pray for God to make me a righteous person because righteousness bills me up. Righteousness bills my church, righteousness bills our society, and righteousness builds a nation. If you lose righteousness in your heart, you lose everything. As a minister, when we lose righteousness, we lose our ministry.

     In a home, if you lose righteousness, the home was broken. In society, if you don't have righteousness, and all kinds of sin and iniquity arises, so society is broken. In the nation, if the leader loses righteousness, and of the leader does immoral kinds of polluted acts, then the whole nation is in disarray.  So, I pray. "Oh God, make me righteous through your grace. Heavenly father, make me truthful. Please help me not to live in lies. Let me not tell lies. That may be a truthful person before you and before other people."

     Then I pray, "Heavenly father, make me a faithful person, loyal to God. Make me very faithful and loyal to God".

     When I read in the scriptures about David, I wondered for a long time about God saying that David is after my own heart. I said to myself, in the world I think I am better than David. He committed adultery, he tried to hide the adultery, and he killed. He committed the most agree sin. Still, God said, David is after my own heart, and I will fulfill my desire through him. I said, quote how come? Of course, David committed a very, very serious sin, but that is an ethical problem between human beings, but David was definitely faithful to his heavenly father.

     Look at the 10 commandments. Four commandments are concerning the relationships between God and human beings. The other six commandments are moral and ethical commandments. When you are committing a moral and ethical sin, God can forgive, but if you sin against God, you're finished. No hope.

     David committed an ethical sin and confessed, and God forgave him, but David never never never committed any sin against God. He kept the first four commandments very seriously. Do not have any other Gods before you. Do not bow down to idols. Do not call God's name in vain. Keep the Sabbath day holy. That is a contract between God and human beings. David kept this contract absolutely, without any compromise. That is the reason God loved David.

     But in ethical and moral things, David failed many times. He confessed and God forgave him.

     So, I pray:    "oh God, let me not break God's laws, so that I will be loved by you. Make me very faithful and loyal, especially as far as the 10 commandments are concerned."

     Then I go to my personal sanctification. "Father, make be holy and sanctified." if I lose holiness in my life, then I loses respect.

     When you have a big or small church, the church has no policeman or military police who say, "if you will obey me, I'm going to shoot you with a missile, or I am going to run you over with a tank." no in church you don't have that kind of thing.

     You can only rule people at the risk of the people. If people respect you, love you, and then your word has power. Once the people lose respect for you, then you have no power.

     In my church, I can do tremendous things in our people accept me because they respect me. But if I would ever lose the respect of the people then I would be unable to control my church. This big church would then be in great confusion.

     If you lose holiness and sanctification in your life, you can never never receive respect. Especially in the kingdom of God. You may be very talented, you may have accomplished tremendous things in the past, but once you lose sanctification, you are finished. This is a very very serious thing.

     So, the devil tried his best to get ministers and Christians so that they will lose their sanctification. We must pray before the lord every day because in our own strength, we can never, never live a victorious life. So, we must receive the grace of God every day and pray: "father, sanctify me. Father, sanctify me in your power." so, I pray this point every day.

     Jesus asked us to pray to God, "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." every day we must pray this prayer. If you don't pray everyday, you are exposed to temptation and attacks of the devil.

     Then I pray, "Father, give me grace to forgive and love." sometimes you can forgive, but you can't love. Loving is very difficult. To love you must put yourself on the cross many times.

     There are many places in the bible it says to forgive. When you pray, if you have anything against anyone, forgive.

     One lady, with facial paralysis, came to me. I had prayed for her many any times but nothing happened. She had received medical treatment, but could not be cured. In desperation she came to me crying, so I prayed with her once more.

     The spirit spoke to my heart, I said, "sister, do you have anything against anybody?" she said, "Yes, I hate my in-laws. My father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law. We're all living together as a family, and I serve him like a slave, but they mistreat me. I have deep-seated animosity against them."

     I said, "You must forgive them." she cried say, "I can never love any of them. They treat me like a slave. I have done everything for them, but they show me no appreciation. I can't love them".

     I was shocked. I was at a loss to know what to do. So I prayed, "Lord, if I was in her shoes, I would not love the in-laws either. What can I do to help her?"

     The spirit spoke to my heart, "Look in the bible again, I ask you to forgive." I was enlightened. That is right! That is true! So I told her, "you don't need to love your in-laws, but you should forgive them. After forgiving, if you have any strength left over, then try to love." she wiped the tears from her eyes and smilingly said, "pastor, I can at least forgive, but I can't love them." "Okay, that is fine, just forgive them".

     So she prayed, "father, in the name of Jesus Christ I forgive my father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, through the blood of Jesus Christ, I forgive them, so forgive me".

     As she prayed this prayer, I was looking at her. Suddenly her face was healed; I was shocked to see that forgiveness and had such power. Humanly speaking I cannot easily forgive and forget, and so every day I forgive all those who have wronged me in the name of Jesus Christ.

     So, every day I pray, "Father, if you give me any more strength, then I will love them." I pray every day for the father to help me forgive, then help me to love them. You

     Next I pray: "Father, make me a very humble and meek person." Humbleness and meekness are very very important. When you have a harsh heart: God is not pleased. Many homes are broken because the husband or wife has a harsh heart, and say harsh words.

     I counsel with young people. I tell them, "Girls, when you marry have a relationship with your date lasting more than six months. Find out if your husband to be has a lenient, sweetheart, or a narrow, harsh heart".

     To the males I say: "When you find a wife, don't look at facial beauty. That won't last too long. If that girl has a sweet, soft heart been inside the beauty increases every day. If the girl has a harsh heart and attacks her husband every chance, and responds with harsh words, then you're going to live in hell during your marriage."

     A soft and beautiful heart is very important. I pray: "Oh God, let me be very soft and loving in my heart toward my Christians." Many pastors are failing because they are pounding upon their people. They condemn the people and break their spirit. In that way you cannot have a good ministry.

     I have always been a very tender and careful with my people, even if they have been very bad. Some of them really tried to destroy me, but I have been very tenderhearted toward them, loving them. It is not easy, many times I would've liked to call upon the lord to send lightning and destroy that person immediately. I say, "Oh God, you store up so much lightning without using it." I feel that kind of spirit in my stomach, but still I must control myself and the tenderhearted and speak kindly.

     Through that kind of attitude, I can keep the 700,000 people content. We have never had any division at all. We have around 700 elders and 50,000 deacons. You can just imagine how much of a headache I have. I have no time to rest because I have problems coming to me from every direction, but I still should not answer them with harshness in my heart. I should be very sweet, tender and loving.

     So, I pray every day for God to give me this kind of spirit. If I don't pray, I can't have this kind of heart attitude. My nature is not sweet. My nature is very judgmental, but God changed my heart through this prayer.

     Then I pray, "Oh God, help me to live according to the measure of faith you gave me. Don't make me proud. Make me living according to the measure of faith you gave me."

     God has given each person a measure of faith. We should know the measure of faith and live according to that major. We should not go beyond the means that we have.

     Many, many people are discontent because they go beyond their earnings of their salary. They purchase so many things without considering the money they have. In that sense, credit cards are a curse. In using credit cards, payments must ultimately be made. Credit cards are very handy to use, but payday comes all too soon. Let me always say, "Let me not use a heavy heavenly credit card," many people are using heavenly credit card, beyond their faith.

     For example, they build a church beyond their financial strength. They become corrupt. Even in purchasing church facilities, they buy very expensive organs, panels, pa systems, and use a heavenly credit card. Then when they are unable to pay, many of them come to me saying, "Please help me to pay this heavenly credit card," that is my trouble all over Korea.

     I always say, "Oh God, let me live according to the measure of faith you gave Me." sometimes God gives me a tremendous measure of faith.

     Recently, a golden opportunity came my way, and I turned it down. The amazing thing was I could hardly imagine it in my mind but when I was praying, I would have jumped in to this situation and accepted the money, but I would've been in deep trouble because I do not know how to use this money. I would have no time to carry out my worldwide evangelism. I should build a university. I should build a big hospital. I should build an old folks home. I should build some special facility.

     For 20 years, I have been involved in building. All through my life, I have been building. Churches, prayer mountains, etc. Etc. These items take a tremendous amount of strength out of you; you can't have peace because nowadays people are cheating so much in the technical world and construction. If you don't pay close attention every moment, people will cheat you and it becomes costly, so you are living in the present tense and you have constant indigestion. You should carry "Tums" everyplace, (Tums is a medication for upset stomach).

     Think of this, in my prime time, I am carrying out world evangelism. If I have that much money, I should spend it. I can't put that money in the bank. To spend the money, I would be bound in Korea, carrying out the tremendous work this project would involve. I would have wasted the rest of my life on the construction site.

     So, God gives me wisdom to turn down propositions. If I could share that money with others: I would accept it, but they would not agree to this, they told me "you and you alone must use this money". So, I finish my prayer of sanctification at the Laver in this way.

Golden Candlestick

     After the sanctification process, I marched into the holy place. As soon as I enter the holy place, on the left side is a seven branched golden candlestick. As I stand before the golden candlestick, it is shining in the holy place. In the holy place, there is no other light shining except this one.

     As we step into God's holy place, we should never let any light, and one the light of the Holy Spirit. In knowing the bible, you can't have any light of archaeology, philosophy or history, etc. In the holy place, never let any sunlight comes in. Only the golden candlestick shines in this Holy Place.

     As far as God's work is concerned, we must only depend upon the Holy Spirit. You should not depend upon your education, theology, philosophy, or history. That kind of thing destroys the revelation of God.

     So I stand before the candlestick and pray this way: "Dear Holy Spirit, I recognize you. I welcome you. I adore you. Thank you for being in my life you is my senior partner. You are the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of Jesus Christ. You are the spirit of wisdom. You are the spirit of understanding. You are the spirit of counseling. You are the spirit of power. You are the spirit of revelation of the word of God you are the spirit of reverence which gives me power to reveal God. So help me now. I cannot do anything without your anointing. I depend upon you. I worship you. I thank you."

     One Baptist minister strongly protested the same, quote when I listen to your lecture I feel a red light appear in my heart." I responded, quote I have a full green light in my heart." Quote no," he said, quote I have a red light." I asked, how come?" He said, "Throughout my theological training, I have never been taught to pray to the Holy Spirit, I was only taught to pray to God and to his son, Jesus Christ. But I was never taught to pray to the Holy Spirit." I said, "You are foolish because in your case, God is not trying God. God is the father, God is the son, and God is spirit. They are all God.

     Moreover, Jesus asked us to pray to the Holy Spirit. In the Bible all read the Jesus Christ as his disciples to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers. Clearly, Jesus was not the Lord of the harvest. He would have chosen the laborers himself, but Jesus prayed to the Lord of the harvest so that he would send more laborers. Jesus was not the Lord of the harvest and heavenly Father was clearly not the Lord of the harvest.

     Then in acts 14, you read that the Antioch Church with Paul and Barnabas was gathered together fasting and praying. The spirit spake, "choose Paul and Barnabas for my work. Ministry is the work of the Holy Spirit.

     So, the laborers to work in the harvest were chosen by the Holy Spirit. "Choose Paul and Barnabas for my work." Work of the harvest belongs to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Lord of the harvest. So Jesus prayed to the Lord of the harvest, the Holy Spirit, so that he may thrust in more laborers.

     Moreover, when you read first Corinthians 12:13, you see where you can have fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Without talking to one another, it's impossible to have fellowship. Fellowship is very important.

     I am trying to learn French because I want to have fellowship with the French people. I don't think that I would ever willingly preach infringe. However, when I go to France preach, afterwards all the old gentleman, ladies and sick people, come up and want to personally talk with me. If I don't talk back to them, we have no fellowship.

     The same thing is true in Japan. When I first went to Japan, I could not speak any Japanese. When I preached in English, all the Japanese grandmothers, grandfathers, and sick people would come up and talk in Japanese to me. I just stood there. There's no fellowship. I've is treated as a foreigner. I was not one of them.

     I started studying the Japanese language very hard then I was given the ability to speak Japanese will he. What a time of fellowship I have now. I could talk with Japanese. I could cry with you. I could touch them. I could pray with them in the Japanese language. We could have deep fellowship together. I was loved very much. Japanese treated me as one of their own.

     Learning a language is very import. You must know how to communicate with people. If you don't talk to the Holy Spirit, then you will be a stranger to, and the Holy Spirit will be a stranger to you. The Bible very clearly, and sister have fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

     When I stand before the golden candlestick, I pray to the Holy Spirit, "I love you, I admire you, I depend upon you, and I can't handle this situation. You are the one who has all the power. Let's go together. Let's go dear Holy Spirit."

     Even today before I came here, I said to the Holy Spirit, "let's go, let's go, dear Holy Spirit. I am going to lecture to these brethren who came from foreign countries. Let's go together."

The Shewbread

     When I finish my worship in front of the golden candlestick, I turned to the right side where the shewbread should be every morning; steaming hot shewbread is for God. Fresh shewbread is placed on this table every day.

     Shewbread is a symbol of the word of God. You can't live with yesterday's work of God. You must say, "Yesterday I studied so much that today I can live on that study." No, every day fresh new steaming shewbread must be spread. Every day you must have a new revelation of God in your heart. You must read the word of God every day. I say to the Lord, "Lord, I envy the word of God. I admire and love the word of God I long after the word of God. I've read, I study, I believe, I act, I thank you, and I want to teach this word of God. So, Lord give me a fresh new revelation in my heart. My heart is panting for the word of God. Please give me new revelation."

     When I pray In This Way, God always gives me a revelation. I have been in my ministry for 38 years but even now, I struggle for the next Sunday's message. My wife does not understand my heart. She says, "You have been ministry for 38 years. When you open your mouth, the word of God just flows out of your mouth, so why do you worry?" I answer, "you don't understand me."

     I am dying every week for a new message. For 38 years I have been dying for the message. God would not give me two or three messages at one time. God only gives me daily bread, weekly messages. So I am forced to pray every week for the message. Every week I cry, think God kissing the message for the word of God.

     It's not easy to receive the word of God. Many ministers are failing in their ministry because they are presenting stale message so people cannot eat. But if the pastor really praise and brings a steaming fresh, delicious, juicy message from the word of God, then people would come to his church.

     So, don't give up on old bread. Always ask God to give you new bread daily.

Incense Altar

     When I come to the center, there is the incense altar. They burned incense here 24 hours a day. The sanctuary was filled with incense. The incense is praise and prayer to the Heavenly Father.

     I come to this place and pray, "I really appreciate you. You delivered me from sin. You delivered me from worldliness. You delivered me from sickness. You delivered me from the curse. You delivered me from death. You are the God who is the foundation of my life. You're the purpose of my life. You are the value of my life. I worship you, the God who created the heavens and the earth and all things in them. I worship you. I thank you."

     I sing praises to the Lord, and then I began to speak in tongues for a long time. When you can express yourself in your no language, the best way is to revert to tongues. I come to the heavenly Father at the incense Altar; I speak in tongues for about 20 or 30 min. That helps me.

Ark of the Covenant

     Now, I see the curtains part. When Jesus Christ said, "It is finished", the veil between the Holy of Holies in the Holy place was torn apart. God opened up the Holy of Holies and invited people to come and. Through the blood of Jesus Christ, we cannot enter the Holy of Holies were God's throne is.

     I walked into the Holy of Holies and see the Shekinah glory. I see the throne of God. I see the Ark of the Covenant.

     In the Old Testament, God gave the Ark of the Covenant. Once a year the high priest brought the blood and sprinkled it on top of the golden plates of the Ark of the Covenant. That purchased Israel one Whole year as God's chosen people. Notice one point very clearly. The high priest would come, and make a yearly covenant with God through the sprinkled blood, God chose Israel as a chosen nation for one more year, but that blood only covered one year.

     When the Israelites personally committed any sin, then they should come to the brazen altar and offer the element of blood every time. That was a personal relationship between them and God.

     But as a nation, the high priest would come and make a covenant with the blood.

     Jesus Christ shed his blood and sprinkled his blood on that golden plate in the holy of holies. The blood of Jesus is eternal, and his covenant is eternal. So when you cast the blood of Jesus Christ, your salvation is eternal. You are eternally forgiven. You are eternally declared righteous. You are eternally saved. You are eternally blessed. That is the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

     In the Old Testament, through the blood covenant, the people were beloved by God for one year. Every year, freshly, the high priest would go into the holy of holies and renew the covenant with the blood of animals. We don't need to do that now.

     Jesus Christ went once, and His covenant is eternal: His sacrifice is an eternal sacrifice: His blood is eternal blood. So when Jesus went into the Holy of Holies for us, he made a new covenant with God, and that covenant covers eternity, from eternity to eternity.

     Whosoever trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ has a covenant with God eternally. The covenant is forgiving your sins without setting any conditions. That makes your righteousness without any conditions, and gives you salvation without any conditions. All you have to do is believe in God.

     When you sin, then every day you must confess your sins. That is your permanent relationship between God and you. Through Christ's sacrifice in the Holy of Holies through the blood, you are eternally saved. If you don't renew your fellowship with God, every day confessing your sins, then you will not have intimate fellowship with God. This is very very serious.

     When I was born into my family, I was born and named Cho. That is all. I can't become cam again. I was born in chose family so I am Cho. That cannot change. Still I must obey my parents to have fellowship with him. If I don't have fellowship with him, even though I am Cho, they won't give me any other thing. They feed me, but they won't answer my other requests. When I have good fellowship with them, then they give me everything, but if I don't have fellowship, then they will always help me.

     Through Jesus we are saved, but every day we must confess our sins and keeping good fellowship with Jesus Christ.

     When I come to the holy of holies see the blood of the Ark of the Covenant, I am in the presence of God. I am right in front of the throne of God. There I pray all things I want to receive from the Lord and thank him for them. I pray, "I am eternally forgiven. I'm eternally declared righteous. I am eternally saved. I am eternally blessed by his blood covenant. I think you dear heavenly father, I am now your family member is my father. I am his child and I joy in the triune God. I am living in the holy of holies. Father, now I have many requests I want you to hear them and help me."

     So when you come all the way through to the presence of God. There you can spend many hours if you would like to offer your heart to the Lord. Many people, when they come into the presence of God, just want to ask him to do things for them. But it takes a long procession through the brazen altar, the Laver, the golden candlestick, through the shewbread, through the incense altar, then into the holy of holies. This is the process to approach the heavenly father. To approach the heavenly father, you must take time to go through this procession step by step.

     Every morning it takes me one hour to pray according to this tabernacle prayer. When I have finished his prayer, I feel the fullness of the Holy Spirit, during the daytime, after lunch, I pray according to the tabernacle prayer. In the evening before I retire, I can pray according to the tabernacle prayer.

     This prayer is according to God's plan, and God clearly accepts the prayer offered through this tabernacle prayer. So, I am convinced in my heart this prayer gets results. Don't worry about regular prayer.

     Generally, we who live in the middle class don't have very many things to ask of God. We have clothing. We have food. We have a home. We have a family.

     So, when you want to pray more than one hour, you don't have any words to say. My people say, "Pastor, when I pray for 10 min., there is nothing left to speak." I asked them, "What do you do then?" "I only say, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah," that is not a prayer. That is praise. Praise is good, but you must still pray to release your spirit.

     You must learn a different way to approach God and repeat that form again and again. I call this prayer the jogging course. We invest many prayers along the jogging course: Free prayer, Goal minded prayer, Ripple prayer, the Lord's Prayer, the Tabernacle prayer.

     When you jog, you must know the course ahead, and then you can jog properly for 30 min., one hour, two hours or three hours, etc. So when I pray, this tabernacle course in prayer, it takes me one hour. If I wantto pray another prayer I add a Lord's Prayer. Then, I pray relationship prayer, but this takes too long to explain at this time

     So, I just feed many forms of prayer and can now pray one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, or five hours. However, if you don't have these definite prayer forms, you are confused and can't play well. By understanding all the forms of prayer, you can and one prayer form to another.

This post is in response to the well-known publication on Christian healing by F.F Bosworth (Fred Francis Bosworth), entitled Christ the Healer. As reference, you can download the original Christ the Healer PDF, or alternatively try F.F. Bosworth: Christ the Healer.pdf. Also see Amazon: F.F Bosworth – Christ the Healer.

F.F. Bosworth was an evangelist in the early 1900′s, with a great healing ministry attributed to him. His book Christ the Healer (more than half a million copies sold)  contains excellent material on the subject of healing, but fails at chapter 13 – Why Some Fail to Receive Healing from Christ. This quote from Curry Blake is very true: “The only hindrances to healing, is believing there are hindrances to healing.”

I’d like to take F.F. Bosworth’s supposed hindrances or burdens to healing and disprove them with the Bible, to make known God’s goodness, His power and the simplicity of the Gospel.

Bosworth starts chapter 13 – Why Some Fail To Receive Healing From Christ, with the following paragraph.

It is so clearly revealed throughout the Scriptures that the Heavenly Father wills our healing.

Why do some who seek healing, fail to receive it? This question is in the minds of many honest inquirers. There are several answers to this question,which we will mention briefly. By these answers many have been helped who had previously failed to receive healing.Consequently, they have been gloriously healed.

F.F Bosworth – Christ the Healer reprint

Then, the first supposed burden, or reason for failure regarding healing, Bosworth calls “Insufficient Instruction.”

The first reason for not receiving healing is ignorance concerning the healing power of the Gospel. Paul tell us that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”(Romans 10:17) Many have sought healing from Christ before they heard or knew enough of the Word of God. They have not had a steadfast faith.

He states that anyone looking to receive healing must first meditate on God’s Word to learn His will.

I want you to look at the following Bible Scripture:

Mark 16:15-18
And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.  He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe;  In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 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.

1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

I’d like to point out here the commonly known fact that anyone is free to receive forgiveness and redemption through believing and confessing Jesus Christ is Lord. This is absolutely free, regardless of your knowledge of the Bible. Most scholars accept this. Why then do we have to “work” for our healing? No, healing is a gift - and gifts are free. Healing isn’t a reward, it is a gift. You don’t work for it or earn it.

Mark 16 makes no differentiation between those who can believe, and those who can heal. Neither does 1 Peter 2 separate redemption and healing. If you can receive the one, you can receive the other.

Jesus Christ even said we will will be able to do the same miracles He did, and more! Look at the following verses in John 14:

 John 14:12-14
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Now, continuing to quote F.F. Bosworth on the supposed hindrance to receiving your healing:

We have seen that God’s way of producing faith for healing is the same as that of producing faith for salvation. This is the way for any other blessing. The needy one should first learn, from the Scriptures, what God’s will is in the matter. The hand of faith cannot reach out and take from God what the eye of faith does not first see to be the will of God.

While I have to agree that one should make up your mind about God’s will on healing (read the Bible – God wants everyone to be healed all the time!), I must add that one can receive healing through someone else’s faith. In fact, a Christian can pray for anybody, without their permission, for healing because the Christian is exercising his dominion over demons and principalities, not the sick person. To quote Curry Blake: ”You are God’s son, man’s servant, and the devil’s master”.

Jesus never said to anyone who was sick to first meditate on the scriptures and get to know God’s will. No, he instantly healed people on His own faith. Similarly, should someone be ill, fellow Christians should be able to heal that person if his faith is lacking. To prove this, look at James 5.

James 5:13-15
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

You see, it would be unfair to expect of a person in need of healing to first meditate on the Word of God. What if his lack of healing costs him his faith, and he passes away of his sickness? No, God tells us clearly that if any one is sick and he can’t receive healing on his own, other Christians should be able to perform the healing.

The point that I’d like to get across with this post is this: If one needs healing and you have trouble manifesting it yourself, let someone else heal you. “Lack of instruction” is not a hindrance to healing. Remember, Jesus healed some people on his faith, not theirs.

In the same breath I’d like to remind you that Jesus said we will do the same works as He did, and even greater. So we must identify with Him (as having power over sickness), and not as the sick, un-renewed and un-born-again sick people in the Bible.

Again, to quote Curry Blake:

• “When a son of God speaks, Heaven hears and agree. Hell hears and obey.”
• “There is no reason why any person should not be healed.”
• “The Name of Jesus and what it stands for and represents is ENOUGH to get ANY job done and ANY need met.”
• “Jesus only gave 2 reasons for failure, and every failure can be traced back to one of these: Unbelief or Traditions of Man.”
• “The Bible is a receipt of what was PAID FOR by Jesus.”
• “Most people talk to God about their problems, when in reality, what you ought to do is talk to your problem about God.”
• “There is no hinderance to God except YOU!”

Q: If healing was already paid for 2000 years ago, why am I still sick?
A: Remember, healing is warfare! Sickness enters your body ILLEGALLY. Its up to you to take authority of it. Compare it to a country’s law: it is illegal to steal, yet thieves still do. It is up to the police to enforce the law. Now enforce the healing Jesus Christ paid for! The reason why we’ll do greater works than Jesus is because we’re facing an enemy that’s already been defeated.

Q: Can it be that God doesn’t want me healed?
A: God can’t say ‘No’ to a promise He’s already said ‘Yes’ to. He said we will have dominion over every evil thing and the believers will lay hands on the sick and they will be healed. God said it. I believe it. That settles it! No need to question God on his will/goodness. No army ever won a war by showing how much it could suffer. God does NOT use the devil to spank you.

The only hindrances to healing, is believing there are hindrances to healing!

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A. B. Bruce said in his “Miraculous Elements of the Gospel”, “Cures should be as common as conversion, and Christ’s miracles are signs that disease does not belong to the true order of nature and are but a prophecy that the true order must be restored to us.”

The Baptism in the Spirit of Jesus was Christ reproducing Himself in the believer. To that extent we are empowered by the Spirit to be Christ’s ambassadors on earth. That means the believer must perform Christ’s most holy ministries to the sinful and the sick just as Jesus Himself would do. The believer is a priest in every aspect. He must perform Christ’s priestly ministry. Believers are expected to heal the sick, lay hands on the sick and heal them; they are not to die, they are to recover. Believers should cast out devils.

Lymon Abbot, American clergyman and author – “The authority to pronounce absolution and remission of sins that are past and fulfill the aspirations of the soul for the future belong to every believer.”

John H. Graham in the “Faith of the Quaker”, “it is not that there is no clergy, but that there is no laity, for we are all priests unto the Highest.”

Every believer is authorized by Christ to do as He has done. Acts 10:38 “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him.”

Luke 13:16 Jesus demanded His right to heal the woman bound for 18 years with the spirit of infirmity.

Dr. Frank N. Riale in his book “The Antidote for Sin, Sickness and Death”-”There is no reason why men should die.”  Science declares men are so constructed as to be perpetually renewed. Many great scientists declare the elimination of sickness to be their final objective.

Jesus anticipated the needs of the world. He commanded  His power for the use of mankind and invites us to help ourselves to His eternal quality and become, thereby, sons of God. It is time to take the shackles off of God. Jesus did not heal in order to coax people to become Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.

“Healing is by degree, based on two conditions:

1. The degree of healing virtue administered (power).
2. The degree of faith that gives action and power to the virtue administered.” John G. Lake

“Healing is the renewal of the body from diseased conditions. A miracle is in the creative order. Jesus used science to heal the afflicted. He laid His hands upon the sick in obedience to the law of contact and transmission.” John G. Lake.

It is not necessary, however, for the person desiring Christ’s blessing to understand this science of healing or how it is accomplished. God is not confined to methods. Heaven backs up the soul with faith anywhere under any conditions.

The Truth About Divine Healing:

1. There are no hindrances to healing. The only hindrance is that you think there is a hindrance.

2. The Bible gives us only two reasons why the Word or power of God was not received.

a. One reason is unbelief. Mark 6:1-6. In verse five it says Jesus could there do no mighty works because of their unbelief. For further understanding of this unbelief we must go to Luke chapter 4 beginning in 18. The Scriptures reveal to us that the unbelief of the people caused them to reject Christ in such a way that Jesus never got the opportunity to minister unto them.

b. The other reason is in Matthew 15, the traditions of men.

3. Anything that stands between God’s command or God’s promise and you  obeying that command or obtaining that promise is not God. In other words we are commanded to heal all who are sick. We don’t need a special leading or unction.

4. If Jesus did it we do it. If Jesus didn’t do it, we don’t do it. Jesus never went into a person’s past or tried to find the secret sin that prevented a person from being healed. Jesus never told anyone they were not going to receive their healing because they didn’t have enough faith. Jesus did not pray to the Father or beg Him to heal anyone. He commanded healing to come. He commanded the sickness or the evil spirit to go.

5. Jesus healed thousands at a time without requiring them to repent or believe first. Matthew 4:23-24; Luke 4:40-41; Matthew 14:36.

6. Great faith is not necessary to receive or minister healing. The Roman Centurion in Matthew chapter 8 and the woman of Cana in Mark chapter 7 were both outside of the Old Covenant, hence, Jesus described their faith as great. Jesus said in Matthew 17:20 that with the faith as the size of a mustard seed we could speak to a mountain and command it to be removed and cast into the sea and it would obey us.

7. Unconfessed sin does not keep people from being healed. All the people that Jesus healed in the Gospels were sinners. For believers James 5:14-15. First they are healed then if they have committed any sins they are forgiven them.

8. Jesus never tried to find the root cause of the illness or sin that “opened the door”.

9. Jesus was never prevented from healing anyone due to the sin of a person’s ancestors.(Generational curses). John 9:1-7.

10. We are not to judge who is confessed up, in faith or ready to be healed.

11. The Spirit Baptism is given to minister in the power of God. (To act like sons of God).

12. The written commandment to heal the sick is sufficient without a “rhema” word for each person.

13. The only requirement for a person to receive healing is to come to be healed.

14. God is not the cause of a delay of healing.

15. We are to command the power of God without picking and choosing who is worthy.

16. We have the authority to cast out devils that people think they want to keep. Acts 16: 16-18.

17. New Testament believers initiated divine healing and delivered people at will.

18. Signs, wonders,and the Holy Spirit follow us as we obey the Word of God. Mark 16:20.

19. As believers we cannot increase our healing anointing except by using it.

20. God will heal through any believer, because it’s not about us, but about His goodness.

21. We as believers are God’s sons, the devil’s master, and servants of humanity.

22. We don’t beg God for healing. We proclaim freedom for the captives or prisoners.

23. God’s anointing abides within me, is always ready to heal, and is always on.

24. Christ in me is always available to destroy the works of the devil through me.