A Ministry Model for Physical Healings
09/04/2001
Understanding
GOD’S FAITH (and not ours)
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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.
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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;
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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.)
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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Our grave responsibility is to know what the faith, which the
Father releases through us, contains.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Name of the Lord therefore is the Lord’s
faith.
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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.
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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;
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Heard,
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Seen with discernment,
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Behold as a movie in a theater,
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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Which He
energized (PAST TENSE)
in Christ when He raised Him out of a corpse…..
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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.
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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.
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This dunamis power was once and for all energized INTO CHRIST.
Because Christ lives in us, so does this DUNAMIS POWER.
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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,
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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.
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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;
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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)
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Be empowered in the Lord and in the display of outward dominion as a measure of
His inner residing strength.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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The present
tense describes action which is presently and continuously occurring in the
hear and now i.e.; “at this very moment.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You
would remonstrate by saying that you have likewise spoken God’s rhema word into
a circumstance and have seen nothing happened.
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“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.
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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.
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q I must now throw out a note of
caution. Please observe with me the two
verses above.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Let’s
take a look at Mark eleven twenty two through twenty-four.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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God by His
dunamis power dominates, subjugates and renders non-operational, or broken
down, and junks, all that is not of Him.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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).
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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:
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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 ).
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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 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh( ENERGIZES) all things after the counsel
of his own will:
· All things are energized in proportion to
how we minister in accordance to the counsel of His will
1 Cor 12:6 And there are diversities
of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
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God is
always energizing believers to make spiritual gifts and miracles fully operational
in them. Conversely, it can be said
then, that all spiritual gifts of God work in the world of the full effective,
viable and operational energy of God.
We must place our faith in this.
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In
the miracle working ministries of many OT prophets, the Hebrew “Hiphil” or verb
of cause is used in faith and miracles.
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The
blue highlighted verbs that follow are all instances of the Hiphil or the causative
verb. In a miracle-working ministry the faith of the minister must be extended
to CAUSE the miracle to occur by that faith, in accordance to the rhema word of
God.
Exodus 8:5 And the LORD spake unto
Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams,
over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to
come up upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus 4:2 And the LORD said unto
him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3
And
he said, Cast it on the
ground. And he cast it
on the ground, and it
became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. ( “CAUSING AND BECOMING.” “Miracle working ministry)
Exodus 8:16 And the LORD said unto
Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the
land of Egypt.
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Hebrew translation-
Strike the dust of the ground, and he will become into gnats in all
of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:21
Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send ( A CAUSATIVE APOSTOLIC SENDING) swarms
of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy
houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and
also the ground whereon they are.
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Part of the
faith of the minister as it rests on God’s faith is to know that God’s rhema
word always has an apostolic aspect to it.
The apostolic sending is always a sending with a mission and a commission
with authoritative signs following to execute God’s specific tasks. Whenever we
cause or speak something by faith in accordance to God’s rhema word, we must
know that a part of our faith must be centered that our actions and words will
cause an apostolic mission and commission with signs following, to accomplish
what the Lord desires.
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.
·
The minister of God as a diakonos is the believer in
his or her service to God in accordance to their spiritual giftings, ministries
and callings.
·
The believer, as a diakonos, must minister step by
step with the GRACE of God, which is Christ laboring within them.
As we minister step by step with Christ’s labor, His dominion subdues and
renders ineffective all that is not of Him, so that His kingdom can be freely
and unhindered brought forth through the believer.
·
The charismatic gifts, and the signs and the wonders, are the
outward display(OPERATIONS) of the energy that Christ puts forth
or releases as He labors within us (GRACE). They are displayed as operations. Charismatic gifts, and signs and wonders are
the totally effective and fully operational works of the invisible kingdom.
What makes them fully operational is that through the energizing power of God
they accomplish in our physical world what God intended for them to perform and
what they were already in the invisible supernatural world. His energizing is
in all aspects of the person into which His ministry goes into.
Col 1:29 Whereunto I also labour,
striving according to his working (ENERGY), which worketh (IS ENERGIZED) in me mightily( IN DUNAMIS POWER) .
·
Whereunto I
labor to the point of exhaustion, just in the same way that a spiritual athlete
would agonize in competitions according to the energy that is effectively put
forth by Christ dunamis power as he labors within me (GRACE). Laboring
according to Christ’s energy allows its two functions
to be energized us. PUTTING DOWN
and SUBDUING what is not of Him and making FULLY OPERATIONAL
what is of Him.
·
The energy
to make gifts and miracles operational is already there. This must be our level of faith.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and
that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these
things
·
Ministry to
be identical, to what the Father shows us can never initiate from us. Look at the Greek scriptures and what Jesus
was saying.
·
I do nothing of my independent and selfish self. As the
Father has taught me I prophetically speak (or also minister)
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.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is
come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
·
he will guide Guide as a
teacher; show the way and instruct
·
you into all truth : More accurately:
Into every type of truth that pertains to us.
·
but whatsoever he
shall hear; as many things that He will hear (NO MORE AND NO LESS),
all these He will utter or declare . (The confidence of the prophet)
·
and he will shew you
things to come. The prophetically coming things the Spirit will rehearse
and makes known to us. (JUST AS HE HEARD THEM) (The confidence of the
prophet)
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.)
·
Worketh is defined in exactly the same way that a company strives to be
successful in producing the services for which it is in business for.
· Hitherto: Until now. My
Father has been continually at work, producing the services that pertain to the
business of the kingdom of God in an unbroken flow, right through all of your
Sabbaths; and even now as we speak, He works.
· And I work:
I, in like manner.
·
This is a tremendously important point of instruction for
ministers who desire to work in the Spirit.
· Jesus tells us
that we are to work out into the world, what the Father works into us
with exactly the same intentions, intensity, and procedures used by the Father.
Our ministry must be a carbon copy of the Father’s ministry in us. Remember that every work of the Father is
translated into a rhema word that we can understand.
·
John
5:19Then 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”
·
Glancing
in the Spirit to what the Father does, gives us that momentary intuitive
knowledge, which on many occasions, is enough for us to step out in faith and do
with identicalness what we have acquired instinctively in our spirits.
·
Our right
to do so is based on the fact that we have an equal inner spiritual nature to
that of the Father, giving us identity with Him in our outward actions. We are responsible to work with
identicalness to what we see on the Spirit.
This is what the term “homos” means.
John 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth
him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than
these, that ye may marvel.
·
We have
the ability to minister with God’s identicalness based on the different aspects
of God’s anointing within us.
·
For the Father is fond of the Son and shows Him all things
that He does in a way that can be proven and for proof, and greater than these works will he show
you with the goal in His mind that you may wonder.
·
We must
know that continually, at all moments, the Father is exhibiting within us all
that He does in way that we can understand and confirm what he says, and then manifest
it outwardly as proof into the world.
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 him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
·
Upon the
faith of His name.
·
His name is
the limitations of the rhema word.
·
The discernible abiding of the Lord, oneness
in ministry with Him, and the faith, which He releases through us, is the
requirement for us to use his name through faith in his name.
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in (UPON) the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace,
and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
·
Upon
the basis of the Lord.
·
The discernible
abiding of the Lord, oneness in ministry with Him, and the faith which He
releases through us is the requirement for us to speak boldly in, or upon
the Lord
·
Bore witness
to the logos word produced by His labor
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on (PAST
TENSE) the new man, which after God is
created in righteousness and true holiness.
·
We have
already put on the new man whom is Christ. We are dead. When Christ gives us His rhema word, it is
Christ ministering, touching, and laying on His hands. This must be our level of faith.
·
Wherever, and whenever Christ touched or laid
His hands, He immediately healed. This
must be our level of faith, in His faith. When we pray for healing in
accordance to the rhema word of God, the healing is immediate and complete,
whether we see it or not.
Col 3:9 Lie not one to another,
seeing that ye have put off the old man (PAST TENSE; WE ARE NO LONGER)) with
his deeds;
10
And
have put on the new man, ( PAST TENSE; WE ARE NOW CLOTHED WITH CHRIST) which is
renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
·
Past tense
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ
have put on Christ. ( PAST TENSE)
28 There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye
are all one in Christ Jesus.
·
Past tense
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 and emanates out of the Son of God.
·
The “I” is no longer ME; The “I” in “Me” is NOW Christ.
Philippians 1:21 For to me to live
is Christ, and to die is gain.
·
The very act of my living is Christ living His life in me.
·
When we minister in the NAME of the LORD
it is Christ ministering through us, and releasing His faith which in turn
releases His power, authority, and energy, to subdue and destroy and make
operational and effective all at the same time.
The Laws of The Spirit Which
God Releases Through Us to Accomplish His Rhema Word.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me,
as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
·
Greek- Potamos- A river, flood or torrent. A
flood can sweep down torrentially and even carry houses away. How can we stop
the gushing of springs or the flow of a river?
·
This is the
normal flow of God’s power that is found within our spirits. The stronger our spirits, the more evident
will the flow that is already there present within them. Whether, or not we
feel this flow, the flow is there.
·
When
we minister in the NAME OF THE LORD we must know that this is the natural flow
of the Spirit of God through us.
39
But
this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for
the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto
her, Give me to drink.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou
knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink;
thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and
the well is deep:
from whence then hast thou that living water?
·
In the Greek, the well described in verse 11 is a regular
well.
14
But
whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but
the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
·
The well that Jesus describes in verse fourteen is a spring
fed well, showing to us the continuous action of the Holy Spirit. When we minister in the NAME OF THE LORD we must know that this
is the natural flow of the Spirit of
God through us.
·
1 John 2:20 ¶ But ye have an
unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
·
You have an ANOINTING OF INTUITION
continually abiding that allows you know by intuition all things (given to
you by the Spirit).
27 But the
anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that
any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is
truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
·
The anointing abides by walking in the Spirit.
1 Cor 2:11For what man knoweth the things of a
man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth
no man, but the Spirit of God.
·
The Holy
Spirit has a perfect intuitive knowledge of the things of God
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of
the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God.
·
Because we
have received the Holy Spirit, we have the same ANOINTING OF INTUITION to have a perfect intuitive knowledge of every thing that God has
given to us graciously and freely
13 Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual
·
We speak out the spiritual
things that God has given us, using the inward spiritual means (prophecy,
visions, revelations, knowledge and so forth.)
“Comparing” is defined as joining together, compounding, and combining.
We must minister out as closely and accurately as possible to what the Lord
shows us within. Our ministry must be a
compounding, combining, and a joining together with the rhema word of the
Spirit, and a compounding, combining and joining together of the means that He
wishes for us to execute that rhema word.
1 John 5: 20 And we know that
the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know
him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God, and eternal life.
·
Secondly, the Spirit has
also given to His mind ANOINTING OF UNDERSTANDING, to interpret
the intuitive knowledge that we receive.
This is called revelation.
·
Revelation is our understanding of
spiritual intuitive knowledge.
·
The
Spirit of God has no bounds in ministering.
This must be our level of faith in the things that God asks us to
minister in.
2 King 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said,
Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither:
and Elisha went over.
2King 2:21 And he went forth unto the
spring of the waters, and cast
the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there
shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
22 So the waters were healed
unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
Exodus 4:6 And the LORD said
furthermore unto him, Put now
thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his
hand was leprous as snow.
7
And
he said, Put thine hand
into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom,
and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
John 6:20 But he saith unto them, It
is I; be not afraid.
20 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at
the land whither they went.
John 20:19 ¶ Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the
week, when the doors
were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus
and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Matthew 4:24 And his fame went
throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people( Miserable and ill) that were taken with divers (Various) diseases and torments (Those being
tormented, afflicted, and tortured by the acute pains of the diseases) and
those which were possessed
with devils( Demonized (a verb), and those which were lunatick,( Epileptic
(struck by the moon)) and those that had the palsy( Paralytic) ; and he healed them.( Greek
aorist (past) tense; once and for all)
·
All the
healings of Jesus were done once and for all in the past tense. Since we have put on Christ this must be our
level of faith when we minister IN HIS NAME.
Mat 8:7 And Jesus saith unto him,
I will come and heal him.
·
Greek: I having come will heal him.
·
This
shows us the nature of Jesus, that at every time that He comes, He heals.
Mat 8:14 ¶ And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he
saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.
15 And he touched
her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
Mat 8:16 When the even was come,
they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the
spirits with his word (
“A” logos word, not “the” logos word, making it into a rhema word) and healed( Greek aorist (past) tense; once and for all) all that were
sick:
Mat 9:18 ¶ While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a
certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but
come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
Matthew 9:20 And, behold, a
woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him,
and touched the hem of
his garment:
Matthew 9:21 For she said
within herself, If I may but
touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Matthew 9:29 Then touched he their eyes,
saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Mat 14:36 And besought him that they
might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made
perfectly whole.
Mark 1:34 And he healed ( PAST
TENSE) many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out ( PAST TENSE)many
devils; and suffered not
the devils to speak ( to utter, not the content of speech, but the act of speaking)
because they knew him. (Know Him intuitively, and not by knowledge that
must be learned.)
Mark 8:25 After that he put his hands again upon his
eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Luke 13:13 And he laid his hands on her: and
immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore abode
they speaking boldly in
the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted
signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
·
Upon the
basis of the Lord.
·
The abiding
of the Lord, oneness in ministry with the Lord, and the faith of the Lord
·
Bore witness
to the logos word produced by His labor
Hebrews 2:4 God also bearing them
witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of
the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
·
God
bearing witness together with them
Mark 16:17 And these signs shall
follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall
speak with new tongues;
·
Shall
follow besides or hand in hand