A Ministry Model for Physical Healings
09/04/2001
Understanding
GOD’S FAITH (and not ours)
·
The physical healing ministry is totally carried out by
faith. This faith is not our faith, but
the faith that the Lord Jesus Christ living within us exerts by His rhema word.
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me? The RHEMA words that I speak unto you I speak not of
myself: but the Father that dwelleth
(THE ABIDING FATHER)
in me, he doeth the works.
·
The rhema word is a
translation of the works of the Father, and carries within it God’s faith to
make it come to pass.
Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The RHEMA word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the RHEMA word of faith, which we preach;
·
When the Lord desires to minister physical healing to someone, is
it His work, which He initiates, and which He carries out.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in (THE GREEK CASE OF
POSSESSION.) ( Have the faith of God) God.
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the
faith, of the Son of
God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
(ONCE AGAIN WE FIND THE GREEK CASE OF POSSESSION.)
·
(Greek: The life which I now live in the flesh, I live in
faith, this being the faith which dwells in the Son of God.
·
It is
imperative, therefore for us to know that we always minister out of God’s
faith, and not ours. Our faith rests on
the faith that the Father ha exercises, knowing that His faith is perfect to
accomplish what He wants.
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me? The RHEMA words that I speak unto you I speak not of
myself: but the Father that dwelleth
(THE ABIDING FATHER)
in me, he doeth the works.
·
When we obey the rhema word The Father releases His faith through
us. Our faith is to rest on His faith. Our believing is our continual grip on
the faith of God, until His faith accomplishes what it needs to do.
·
Our grave responsibility is to know what the faith, which the
Father releases through us, contains.
·
God’s faith will always successfully accomplish all that the
Father wills. The more that we know what
the Father’s faith contains, the greater will be our faith in the Father’s
faith, through knowing what dwells within us.
·
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace (GOD’S LABOR) are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 3:7 Whereof I was made a
minister (DIAKONOS), according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual
working of his power.
·
Grace is defined as the labor of God within us. God’s grace, or labor, is proportionally
released through our faith. The greater
is our understanding of what is contained in the faith of God, the greater will
be our faith in His faith, and the more that God will labor by His grace and in
turn release more of His faith.
·
The Father abides in us, when we move continually in the Spirit,
and live and act out of His abiding and discernable presence. To live out of
God’s abiding presence is to live out of God’s faith. Walking in the Spirit is the key for presence of the Father to
become discernable with us. When out of His dwelling or abiding presence, God utters
forth a Rhema word to minister to someone in healing, the rhema word describes the
work that the Father desires to impart upon that individual. The Father
releases His faith out of His discerned presence within us. The greater is our discernment of His
presence within us, the greater will be the release of God’s faith out of this
presence through us as we minister.
Acts 3:16 And his name through ( UPON
THE FOUNDATION OF) faith in his name hath made
this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by (THROUGH) him hath
given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
·
Upon
the foundation of faith of His name. The Lord’s Name represents the boundaries of
God’s rhema words given to us in a certain situation. Praying out of our mind, or quoting many scriptures, or claiming
and confessing while using the Lord’s name, when it is outside of the voice of
the Lord is NOT PRAYING in the Lord’s Name.
John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my RHEMA words abide in you, ye
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
·
Even the
Logos word of the Lord gets its life in a specific situation through the Rhema
word. When we speak in the name of the Lord, we are speaking within the
limitations of what He desires and wills, as manifested by His rhema word.
·
The Name of the Lord therefore is the Lord’s
faith.
·
His
name through faith is His name, is our
faith resting upon the foundation built by God’s faith, as He exercises it
through us. Our faith in His faith, or upon the foundation of His faith, is our
resting belief in what His faith contains.
All of this can only be accomplished if we abide in the
Lord’s presence so that out of this presence, God can release His faith into a
specific situation. As we said, His
faith resides in the rhema word, which we execute, as a translation of the
Father’s work.
·
One of the
greatest principles of our maintaining the Father’s discernible presence is our
execution with an absolute identicalness in ministry to what the Father
inwardly shows us, He wants to do. The
more exactly we minister to what the Father shows us within, the greater will
be the release of God’s faith and power.
This is what it means to rest upon the foundation of faith of His name.
John 5:9Then answered Jesus and said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth (To habitually glance at what the Father
does in the Spirit. This is not
discernment with understanding) the Father do: for what things soever he
doeth, these also doeth
the Son likewise. (
Greek word “homos” )
John 5:17
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto ( My Father never ceases working in
the Spirit) and I work.(and
I work externally, using exactly the same procedures and in exactly the same
manner in which I see instinctively the Father working within me.)
John 5:30 I can of mine own
self do nothing: as I hear, I
judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but
the will of the Father, which hath sent me.
· “Judging”, in the verse above is the administration of God’s kingdom in the Spirit.
1 John 1:1 That
which was from the beginning, which
we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
·
Heard,
·
Seen with discernment,
·
Behold as a movie in a theater,
·
Acts 3:16
above then shows us that the faith, or His faith, which comes through Him, and
out from us, made the man whole.
·
The abiding of the Lord, as we march step in
step with the Spirit, oneness in ministry with the Lord, and the faith released
through this process is what is defined as “upon the foundation of faith of
His name”.
·
Let us know
study what the FAITH WHICH GOD RELEASES THROUGH US CONTAINS. Our job is to fully know and understand what
God releases through His faith. Then we
can believe without doubting, and move successfully into a healing ministry, or
a ministry of miracles, which takes even greater faith.
The Power that God Releases Through Us By His Faith to Accomplish His Rhema Word.
Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power ( DUNAMIS) to us-ward (FUNNELED INTO)
who believe ( CONTINUALLY BELIEVING) , according to the working( ENERGY PUT OUT) of his mighty ( INNER
SPIRITUAL STRENGTH) power,(EXTERNAL DOMINION)
What is the throwing beyond (homerun) greatness of
His dunamis power
funneled into us the ones believing according to the energy that is put out as God’s inner spiritual strength
is translated into His external
dominion.
·
Dunamis power is the inherent power within every created being,
living, and non-living. God has His own
inherent dunamis power. Disease has its own type of dunamis power. Dunamis
power is what distinguishes one object from the other, and gives to its life
and power.
·
20
Which he wrought (ENERGIZED) in Christ, when he raised
him from the dead
(CORPSE), and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
·
Which He
energized (PAST TENSE)
in Christ when He raised Him out of a corpse…..
·
Working in verse nineteen, and wrought in
verse twenty are exactly the same root word; ENERGY; Working, is the noun, energy. Wrought
is the verb to
energize.
·
The definition of God’s DUNAMIS POWER was the energy that
was “put out” (in the historical event 2000 years ago), as Christ
was raised up from a corpse and made to sit far above in rank, power, and
physical distance over all principalities, powers, and might, dominions,
and all names which are named both in heaven and upon the earth.
·
This dunamis power was once and for all energized INTO CHRIST.
Because Christ lives in us, so does this DUNAMIS POWER.
·
However the living reality of this dunamis power is funneled into
us, and out of us, in proportion to how fully we understand this very power
that God releases by His faith to accomplish His rhema word. The greater is our understanding of this
power, the greater will be our believing without doubting, thus increasing
God’s grace or labor.
21 Far above all principality (BEGINNING), and power(AUTHORITY), and might, (DUNAMIS POWER)
and dominion( LORDSHIP
OR BONDAGE), and every
name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to
come:
a. Far
above in rank, power, and physical distance
b.
Every
type of principality
– Or the beginning of every created thing
c.
We
know a principality to be an authoritative demonic being. However, in the NT, the word principality is
also used for a physical beginning, the creation of something, and the root
source of something. The dunamis power
of God in Christ, and available to us, is far above in rank and power, above
every root problem such as generational sins, curses, judgments, and the root
causes and beginnings in diseases. This
is very important to us when we minister.
A simple knowledge of this facet of God’s power will allow us to
exercise God’s power with a new level of faith.
d.
Authority Power of choice; liberty to do as one pleases;
jurisdiction such as a state police has over every road within a state; the
power of rule and government
e.
Authority
is the power of choice; or the liberty to do as one pleases, such as the
jurisdiction enjoyed by a state policeman or woman over every road and highway
within the state wherein they work.
Cancer, for example has its own authority, in that it can spread at will
throughout the human body. However the authority found in Christ’s dunamis power
has an authority far above in rank and power over that of cancer. Dunamis power The
inherent power in every created thing that defines it and gives to it its life.
f.
As
we spoke earlier on, dunamis power is the inherent power exclusive, to every
created thing. Water, has an inherent
power of its own, which gives to it its life, and defines it as water exclusive
of any another object. Cancer has
another type of dunamis power. God has
His own dunamis power. The dunamis or
inherent power of Christ resident in us is far in rank and power above the
inherent power of any other created object.
Hallelujah! When we minister, we
know that Christ’s inherent power will subordinate, subjugate and destroy the
inherent power sustaining the evil that we are ministering against.
g.
Lordship- Someone or something which can bring into bondage.
h. And
every name that identifies something for what it is exclusive of anything else.
22 And hath put all things
under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
·
All these Christ subordinated and subjected under His feet. When God gave Christ be to be head over all
of these things to the church; this same power is now available to us.
·
Let us look now at another
very important quality of God’s power.
1st Corinthians 15:24 teaches to us how Christ’s dunamis
power subordinates and subjugates what is not of Him.
Eph 3:16 That he would grant you,
according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened (STRENGTHENED WITH DOMINATING OR
SUBJUGATING STRENGTH) with might (AS SEEN IN HIS DUNAMIS POWER) by his Spirit in ( AS IT IS FUNNELED INTO) the inner man;
·
In order that He may give you according to the riches of His
glory, dunamis power in its facet of dominion by His Spirit to be funneled into our inner man
Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my
brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power (OUTWARD DOMINION) of his might.( INNER STRENGTH)
·
Be empowered in the Lord and in the display of outward dominion as a measure of
His inner residing strength.
·
The aspect of dominion as exercised by God’s dunamis power is
one of the two facets of the healing ministry, in that God dominates,
subjugates and renders useless the sickness into which His power goes to.
·
Every time that the Lord translates to us a work that He desires
to do into His rhema word and we minister it out with identicalness to what we
see in the Spirit, God releases His faith, which contains the itemized descriptions
of the power that we just studied above.
Our faith rests on this release of God’s power, whether we see or feel
it, or not. Our faith is to count it as being done in one instance of time. Let us now look at an excerpt of one of our
older studies on faith.
Mat 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am
not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word ( Greek:
a word)) only,
and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having
soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go (aorist), and he goeth; ( present ) and to
another, Come,( present) and he cometh;(
present) and
to my servant, Do this (aorist),
and he doeth it(present)
10
10 hen Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said
to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith,
no, not in Israel.
q
q The centurion had a deep understanding of
the faith of Jesus, and this is what made the Lord marvel at, and honor his
faith.
q
q In verse eight of Matthew eight, we find
the centurion dialoguing with Jesus and acknowledging that His rhema
word spoken in regards to the sickness of his servant would result in hiscomplete
healing. The phrase “shall be
healed”, is in the indicative mood.
q
q If you can remember from our previous
studies, this Greek mood describes a statement of fact, an absolute certainty,
and a done deal. The centurion is in fact
relaying to Jesus that he is cognizant that the Lord’s rhema word will
accomplish with absolute certainty all that it intends to do. This is what deeply touched the Lord.
q
q In verse nine, the centurion goes on
further to describe his faith in the word of the Lord Jesus, by comparing it to
his relationship with men that are under his authority. Let us refresh our memories from past
studies by including a paraphrased excerpt of the aorist tense.
q
q The “aorist tense” in
the Greek, can be compared to our “past tense” in the English. Simply
speaking, it describes a past occurrence.
However, the Greek aorist tense is stronger than our English past
tense.
q q
This
verb tense has the element of “punctiliar action.” This fancy word in reality means nothing more than a “punctuation”
or “punctuation mark” in the succession of time. Can you see the similarity between
punctiliar and punctuation? Whenever we place a question mark, a period, and a
comma as we write, we insert one mark with our pens in the sequence of time and
go on with our writing. This one single event jotted down in one moment of
time, is called punctiliar action. I call the use of the aorist tense, “punctuation in time.”
q q
The present
tense describes action which is presently and continuously occurring in the
hear and now i.e.; “at this very moment.”
q q
If you
would take a look at verse nine you would observe a bunch of aorist and present
tenses working together. The gist of
what is happening here is the following.
q q
The
centurion has to speak the command to his men only once, as he utters it in one
moment of time. At that very same
moment, in the “here and now”, his commands at once are carried out to
completion. By this explanation, the
centurion is describing the operation of the rhema word of the Lord.
q q
In every
scriptural study of faith (that I can remember) the progression of faith
is always the same. The rhema word is
spoken in a specific circumstance, in one moment in time. The response to it by the circumstances that
it affects, is immediate, it is always in the “here and now,” and is carried
out to completion at the very instance that the rhema word was spoken out.
q q
You
would remonstrate by saying that you have likewise spoken God’s rhema word into
a circumstance and have seen nothing happened.
q q
“Mountain
moving faith” is the believing of our heart, founded upon the title deed that
is brought by the specific rhema word.
To have “the faith of God”, is to believe that all circumstances
pertinent to the rhema word have immediately obeyed; they have acted in the
here and now, and are likewise immediately accomplished, so that this title
deed of faith is now secure our hearts.
Any time that we can receive a title deed of faith , God will remove
every obstacle and mountain in our lives and accomplish His word. He is the Lord who does His greatest works
out of corpse like circumstances and call things into existence, which are
presently non-existent.
q
1 Cor 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
that I could remove mountains (Present Tense: one mountain after another after another), and have not
charity, I am nothing.
John 3:27
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given
him from heaven.
John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my rhema words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and
it shall be done unto you.
q
q I must now throw out a note of
caution. Please observe with me the two
verses above.
q
q In
John three and twenty-seven, John the Baptist admonishes us that a man or woman
will not have the power to take something for him or herself unless the Lord
has given it to them to begin with.
q
q In John fifteen and seven the exhortation
is similar. We are only promised by the
Lord to receive all that we ask for, if it is done in strict accordance to the
rhema word describing God’s title deed for a particular situation.
q
q I believe that confession is scriptural
and that there is power behind it.
However, we must be very careful when we get into confession, and the
“claiming and framing” of things that we selfishly desire, and which do not
line up with the rhema word of God. At
best we will only get part of what we desired, and it will only be the part
that lined up with the rhema word of the Spirit of God.
Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith(Present) in ( Have the “God kind” of faith, or the faith OF GOD!) God. (God is in the genitive Greek case of “ God possessing something”, hence His possessing faith)
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed(Aorist), and be thou cast(Aorist) into the sea; and shall not doubt(Aorist) in his heart, but
shall believe(Aorist)
that those things which he saith shall come to pass(Present); he shall have whatsoever he
saith.( future indicative)
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever
ye desire, when ye pray, believe(present)
that ye receive them(present), and ye shall
have them.(future
indicative)
q
q
Let’s
take a look at Mark eleven twenty two through twenty-four.
q
q
Jesus commands us to have the faith of God. Simply speaking, we know this to mean that
the Lord commands us to seek for, and obtain His rhema word in every particular
circumstance. Let us take a ministry
encounter where we are asked to pray for a person that is totally blind. My rule of thumb is to always seek for, and
obtain a rhema word, in every circumstance that I am required to minister in.
q
q
In this
particular instance, as we wait on the Lord, in the spirit we see this person
as seeing normally. This is the rhema
word of the Lord, describing His level of faith for this individual’s sight. We can now speak into, and rebuke the
mountain of blindness with all authority, and know that the effect of our
rebuke is immediate and permanent. We
command the blindness to be removed and planted in hell. We must believe in our hearts that our
orders have been presently and immediately carried out, and the blindness at
once is presently removed.
q
q
The Lord
tells us in verse twenty-three that whatsoever we say shall come to pass. The “come to pass” is in the future
indicative. The indicative mood
tells us that without a shadow of a doubt the person will see normally. It is a done deal. The future tense is in God’s hands. Whether the Lord desires to restore the person’s sight in the
next one second of the future or twenty years later, He has His own plans and
reasons. Our responsibility is to keep
the level and the content of God’s title deed in our heart as long as it takes,
and regard it as a done deal. Mountains
are not always removed in one second. I
can guarantee you; this qualityof faith based upon the rhema word of God will
remove every obstacle from the way and bring every last thing promised by the
word of God to us.
John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that
cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
·
Our knowledge of this
facet of God’s power is our resting upon His faith, so that when we pray for an
individual we automatically can believe that the laying on of our hands and
prayers automatically dominates, subjugates and destroys every type of sickness
and disease.
Mat 10:1 ¶ And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave
them power authority (Absolute power of choice over demons,
disease and sickness; total liberty to do as one pleases with every
demon, disease, and sickness; full jurisdiction such as a state police has over
every road and highway within a state; the power of rule and government).
against unclean spirits, to
cast them out (drive them out, send out, expel, compel to depart, and drive away
by force; all in a continual basis)
and to heal all manner( Every type ) of sickness( disease)
and all manner (Every type) of disease( infirmity, disability and
bodily weakness)
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and
spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
i. Jesus spoke to
them saying, it has been given to Me every type of authority (Absolute power of choice; total liberty to
do as one pleases; full jurisdiction such as a state police has over every road
and highway within a state; the power of rule and government) in the world of heaven, and upon the
earth.
Luke 4:36 And they were all amazed,
and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and
power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
j.
What type of word is this?
Because in the world of authority (Absolute power of choice; total liberty to
do as one pleases; full jurisdiction such as a state police has over every road
and highway within a state; the power of rule and government) and God’s inherent dunamis power,
which is greater than the inherent power in the unclean spirits, (He with
a word,) militarily commands them, and they come out by their own
means. (In that the word had
adversely affected them)
Luke 9:1 ¶ Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power
and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
k.
He gave them once and for all the inherent power of
God (mightier than the inherent power resident within any evil thin
and containing all the properties found in Eph 1:21) and the
authority (Absolute
power of choice; total liberty to do as one pleases; full jurisdiction such as
a state police has over every road and highway within a state; the power of
rule and government) (to
use God’s dunamis power effectively over every other evil inherent dunamis
power) upon the demons and diseases and sicknesses in order to heal them in
the present tense.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you
power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy:
and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
l. Lo, I presently
give to you the authority (Absolute power of choice; total liberty to do as one pleases; full
jurisdiction such as a state police has over every road and highway within a
state; the power of rule and government) to continually trample upon serpents and scorpions and crush them
with your feet, and upon all the inherent dunamis power that gives to the enemy
his life, and makes him into what he is; and absolutely nothing, in any wise,
will hurt you (as to cause you to suffer spiritually).
1 Cor 15:24 Then cometh the end,
when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he
shall have put down all
rule and all authority and power.
·
Jesus will give the
kingdom to God and the Father only when He shall have rendered non
operational and totally ineffective (as and old car with an old
engine, that finally breaks down and ceases to function any more and must be
junked) every type of principalities and roots sources of all evils, all authorities
which are not from God, and every type of inherent power that gives life and function to
every type of evil.
·
God by His
dunamis power dominates, subjugates and renders non-operational, or broken
down, and junks, all that is not of Him.
·
By that same
dunamis power God renders fully effective, functional and operational the works
of His kingdom through us. Where the energy of God found in His dunamis power
subjugates and dominates and junks what is not of Him, that same energy takes
the invisible works of the kingdom, transfers or energizes them through us, and
makes them fully operational and effective to accomplish what He wants to in
our visible world.
·
1 Corinthians 12:6
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh ( ENERGIZES) all in all.(ALL ASPECTS WITHIN EVERY OBJECT IN
HIS CREATION)
·
This is called an operation as
found in 1Corinthians 12: 6, or a working as found in 1
Corinthians 12:10. Every charismatic gift, and miracle-working ministry, is
defined as operations that God always fully and effectively energizes in order
through us to make them fully viable and operational in the natural world. Identicalness
in ministry to what we see in our Spirits is one of the main keys.
1 Corinthians 12:6
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh ( ENERGIZES) all in all.(ALL ASPECTS WITHIN EVERY OBJECT IN
HIS CREATION)
·
An OPERATION
is a work of God which is one hundred and eight degrees opposed to the working
in God as to when HE CAUSES SOMETHING TO BECOME SUBJUGATED, NON
OPERATIONAL AND NON WORKING SO THAT IT MUST BE JUNKED!!)( This is the second aspect of God’s power).
·
If we know this fully when we minister,
our faith will always make every rhema word of God to become fully operational
in the person to which we minister. God fully energizes His operations in every
aspect of every person into which His rhema word is ministered to.
1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working
( OPERATION) of miracles ( DUNAMIS POWER (plural); to another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another
the interpretation of tongues:
·
God’s dunamis power at the same time makes totally
effective and fully operational the things that belong to His kingdom. These are called “operations” or “workings’.
1 Cor 12:11 But all these worketh
( ENERGIZES) that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing (DISTRIBUTING) to every
man severally as he will (COUNSELS ).
·
All of these things continually energizes the one
and the same Spirit dividing separately to each as He counsels. The energizing of the operation of God is
in proportion to how closely we minister to the counsel of God.
Eph 1:11