Healing Must Be A Part of Every Ministry

Healing Should Be A Part of Every Ministry

Matthew 8:16-17-When the even was come they brought unto Jesus many that were possessed with devils and he cast the spirits out with his word, and healed all that were sick: That is might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

Jesus healed ALL that were brought to him, and all that had demons in them, he cast them out with his word. I believe every believer on the earth today can do the same thing.

Jesus told us in Mark 16 to cast out devils, and to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. It doesn't say that only ministers can do this, but that believers can. Folks, we are missing it here by not doing what Jesus said. You don't have to be a minister to do this, only a believer.

Now, I do believe every person called to the five-fold ministry should have healing of the sick as a part of his or her ministry. They may no have a full time healing ministry, but healing of the sick should be included in there somewhere.

Jesus preached and teached and healed everywhere he went. Matthew 9:35. I believe this is what preachers should be doing today as well. I realize there are other things that God may ask us to do. But to preach, teach and heal is the main thing all ministries are to be doing first. If not, people won't be getting saved, filled with the Spirit, let alone healed.

You may say that you aren't called to heal people. Yes you are if you are called to the five-fold ministry. Every minister preaches, teaches and heals just like Jesus did. You may be called to do something in particular but I guarantee you that you will preach, teach and heal first. That's what all ministers start out doing and anything else is just added to that.

We must preach and teach the word so all can be fed the word and grow up in the Lord. But if you never lay hands on the sick for healing, you have missed a part of the gospel. People need to be taught about healing so they can have faith for it, then the minister needs to lay hands on them and pray for their healing. There shouldn't be any sick Christians in the church today. Whoops! I just lost some of you right there. But it's true. Jesus bore our sicknesses for us, so why are we still sick? Isaiah 53:5.

Healing must be a part of every church today. There must be healing in churches and ministries with whatever else they may do, or it's not a complete ministry as it should be. I say this looking at Jesus' ministry. He said the works that he did we can do also, and greater works than what he did we can do. John 14:12. He healed the sick everywhere he went except in his hometown of Nazareth because of their unbelief. Mark 6:5. But even there, it says he laid his hands on a few sick folks and healed them. So he did heal some that would accept him there.

Healing is a big important part of the gospel and should be happening in all ministries today. Jesus healed all that came to him and cast out the spirits with his word, and that fulfilled what Isaiah said many years before. Isaiah 53:4. Let's follow Jesus' example and we will be in his will and continuing on with what he did while he was here on the earth. It's his will to heal and he wants his children well.

Written by Ruth Napier July5, 2009
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IS IT GOD'S WILL TO HEAL ME?

Matthew 8:2-3 says, And behold there came a leper and worshiped Jesus saying, Lord it thou wilt thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Before you can ever have healing, you must settle the fact that it is God's will to heal you. Some believe it's God's will to heal others but not them, while others believe God might heal if it's his will, but if it’s not then he won't. None of these are true.

This leper knew Jesus could heal him if it was his will. He no doubt had heard of Jesus healing folks or possible had seen him do it. But he didn't know if it was his will to heal him. Are you at this place?

We all know God provided healing for his servants under the old covenant. He told them if they would serve him and obey him, he would take sickness away from the midst of them. Exodus 23:25. Go back and read the old covenant and you'll find this to be true. He told them that he was the Lord that healeth them. Exodus 15:26.

Healing has not been done away with like some say. Look at Hebrews 13:8. It says Jesus Christ the same Yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus was healing everywhere he went when he was here. So don't you know he is still healing today if he hasn't changed? This verse says he hasn't. He will be the same forever just like he was yesterday.

In Malachi 3:6 it also says, For I am the Lord I change not. We serve an unchanging God people. So believe the Bible, not what you hear someplace else.

God sent Jesus here to show us the father's will. Everything Jesus said and did was under the instructions from the father God. Jesus prayed and told God before his crucifixion that he had finished the work, which he had given him to do. John 17:4b. A big portion of that work was Jesus healing the people everywhere he went. Matthew 9:35. His ministry was preaching, teaching, and healing. It is still the same today through ministers here on the earth.

So Jesus settled the fact to this leper that it was his will to heal him. What did Jesus say to him? He put forth his hand and touched him saying, I will, be thou clean. He said it was his will to heal him and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Has God changed his mind about healing? I can't find any place in the Bible where he has, and neither can anyone else. It's not there! Thank God!

God is not a changing God. He never changes and he cannot lie. So what you see in the Word is the truth and always will be. You can count on the Word to never fail, and trust it to be the truth for your every need.

Healing is for today and all the tomorrows as long as the earth is in existence. It's God's will to heal you, so don't let anyone tell you any different. Study the word and be fully persuaded in your own heart and mind that is God's will to heal you, because it is.

Written by Ruth Napier
July 3, 2009
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Faith Works ONLY By Love

Faith which worketh by love. Galatians 6:5

Did you know that your faith will only work when you walk in love? That's the only it works. It won't work any other way.

You receive from God with your faith. But what if your faith isn't working and you're not receiving? Then you need to check out your love walk. Your faith works when you walk in love towards others.

Think back. Did you get angry and say something bad to someone or about someone to someone else? Then you have to repent and ask for forgiveness before your faith will work for you. Do you see that?

God means just what he says in his Word. It says in Psalms 119:89 that, Forever O Lord thy Word is settled in heaven. God's word is forever settled and that's the way it will be always and never will change. He doesn't change his Word like some people do. You can stake your life on God's Word. For if he said it, it's a done deal and that's the way it will be. You can stand on it and know it is true.

Let's say you are believing God for healing and it's been a long time; then you better be checking out your love walk. That could be the reason healing hasn't come yet. Check and see if you've forgiven everyone that has hurt you. This is a good place to start. We have to forgive others is we want to be well. Unforgiveness will stop your faith from working and therefore you can't receive your healing. I believe this is one of the major reasons people aren't getting healed. They aren't forgiving and walking in love.

Learn to walk in love if you want your faith to work for you, and I know you do. We can't receive any other way from God except by our faith. It may very well be the most important thing you will ever do is to walk in love. It's not easy, but you can do it, because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, Romans 5:5.

If you have no love walk, then you will have no healing, no answered prayer or anything else because you are in sin if you aren't walking in love. I know that's a strong statement, but check it out in your own Bible and see what it says about walking in love, 1Corinthians 13. The commandment of love is the only commandment the church has to keep today. It's a commandment, not a choice you can make. Jesus commanded us to walk in love toward each other. That's the way the world will know we are Jesus' disciples. John 13:34-35.

Jesus said if we don’t forgive, neither will your heavenly father forgive your trespasses. Mark 11:26. If we aren't forgiven of our wrongs by our heavenly father, then where does that leave us?
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June 18, 2009

Did You Know Healing And Salvation Go Together

Did you know that healing for your body is as much yours as salvation is for your spirit? Jesus got both of these gifts for us at the same time. But we all accept the gift of salvation so much more readily than healing.The reason is, that salvation is taught so much more than healing. But they both come in the same package.

People have the strangest ideas about healing that I've ever heard. They think they didn't get healed because it wasn't God's will to heal them. This tells me they don't know it's God's will to heal them.

Some think it's not God's will to heal them because healing has passed away. This is just plain ole ignorance of not having studied the word. Then others think if God wants them well, they will just be well automatically, or when someone prays for them. If it doesn't work out this way, then they think they are sick to bring glory to God.

Some even think when they don't get healed then this sickness is on them to teach them something. If this is the case, then it's wrong for them to go to the Doctor to try and get well, or take medicine to get rid of the sickness. If one does, then he/she is going against God's will and they won't learn whatever it is that this sickness would have taught them. Now, doesn't that sound foolish? It is! Because sickness is never the will of God for anyone, and sickness is not your teacher. The Holy Ghost in you is your teacher.

So why are so many ignorant about healing? First I'd say our preachers and teachers have not taught it as much as they should have. They have taught salvation, but left healing out. Then also when a person gets saved it is their responsibility to read the Bible and find out about this for themselves.

When you are born again, healing comes along with it. You are now under the covenant that provides healing for you. Did you know you don’t necessarily have to pray for healing either? If you know that healing belongs to you, then all you have to do is accept it like you did salvation. Believe it and receive it, it's belongs to you.

Isaiah 53:4 says that, "with his (Jesus') stripes we are healed". And Matthew 17:8 says, "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, Himself took our infirmities and bare our sickness". So you see, Jesus already bore your sicknesses so you wouldn't have to. He got healing for you, so accept it and walk in your right to be well here on the earth now.

Healing belongs to us all that are children of God. Jesus provided healing for your body the same as he got salvation for your soul. They are a package deal if you will accept it.

Written by Ruth Napier
Copyright April 19, 2004
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Healing For Your Children

Do you think people born with something wrong with them have to stay that way? Take for instance someone born mentally retarded. Is that God's will for that person? No! No! No! Jesus has provided healing for everyone, no matter what is wrong with them.

Why do parents just accept certain problems of sickness like that? They look at the situation and can't believe that child could ever be normal. They are looking more at the problem than what Jesus has already done. The world, Doctor's and others tell us all the time that there is no cure or very little help for them. It's true in the natural, but you as a child of God have healing available to you and your children that the world doesn't have.

A parent of a mentally retarded child should claim healing for their child and not stop until it becomes a reality. It can happen, and you won't have to be burdened all your life with that, and your child can live a normal healthy life.

I know people that have taken care of a sick child all its life. The child is in a wheel chair and can't do one thing for its self. That is a burden and a hardship on that family. The child isn't normal and will never know a normal life. This is not God's will for that family. Healing belongs to them if they are Christians, and they are.

I've heard so many people say that 'it was just an act of nature, or God must have made them that way for a reason'. Or this one gets me; 'they were put on this earth like that so the world would be a better place by them being here'. Oh God! What a horrible thing to think, let alone say. God has no part of that.

This breaks my heart to see and hear people saying such things. They don't know any better I realize that. But wake up child of God. Healing belongs to you and your child. Don't accept any sickness or disease in your life or your family and especially your children. You as a parent can get healing for your child because it's your right!

Look at Deuteronomy 7:13b. It says He will bless the fruit of they womb. Bless? Is mental retardation a blessing of your womb, Mom? Of course not, so don't accept it. That's a work of the enemy, who is the devil. He's the one that steals, kills, and destroys. John 10:10. He's trying to destroy your child before he is even born! You take hold of healing for that child and get them healed. It's your right to do so and God will help you to.

In Psalms 139:13-16 it says; For thou has possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: My substance was not hid from thee, thine eyes did see my substance and in thy book all my members were written. Read all those scriptures for yourself. I just took a sentence from each one. But you'll see God formed everyone right, so something else happened that caused the problem when someone is born with a birth defect. It certainly was not God's doing.

Now remember, I'm not talking about sinners here. All kinds of things can happen to children born to sinners. The mother could be on drugs, alcohol, etc. A child born from that mother could have all kinds of problems. Of course if that mother will turn to the Lord, she can get healing for her child as well. Sinners don't have healing available for them and their families. You must be a child of God to have that available to you.

I'm talking about a Christian mother who has a child born with a defect. Don't you accept it as 'that's just the way it is' and 'I'll have to just deal with it'. No! You rise up and take the word of God and declare before heaven and earth that Jesus took stripes for your child's healing and you are claiming healing for them now, in Jesus Name!

No matter what it looks like or how bad it is, don't you stop till your child is normal. Healing belongs to you and with the stripes of Jesus we were healed Peter said in I Peter 2:24. "Were" means already done. We are all healed, not going to be or trying to be, we are ALREADY healed.

Remember, no matter what it looks like, there is nothing too hard for God. Jeremiah 32:17. Hallelujah!

Written by Ruth Napier
Copyrighted January 22, 2005
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God's Word Will Heal You

Exodus 23:25 says; And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall bless thy bread and thy water, and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. This was said to the children of Israel. They were not sick as long as they obeyed God. They were only sick when they were disobedient.

Why do you suppose there are so many Christians sick today?It is evident that Christians today don't know the word. They are too busy to read the Bible and they pray on the go. This is why they are sick like people in the world.

How the church needs preaching and teaching of the Word so we can all learn and grow up spiritually. Most aren't hearing the word at church or they would be a lot farther along in their walk with the Lord and healthier. They wouldn't be sick as much either. Do you know why? It says in Proverbs 4:20 that the word is health, (Hebrew word for health is medicine) to all our flesh. The word of God is your medicine! So if we were all hearing the word, we'd have faith in our heart and walk in health.

You get healed by hearing the word, and when you hear it, it gets in your mouth and in your heart. When it is in those two places, your healing will show up any time now. It's a sure thing. So---do you see where we're lacking? It's a lack of the Word of God. Not many are teaching the real word. Some are, and they are the ones that most are fussing about. The ones that aren't, are the ones most people are praising. They teach things that will help you some in your day to day living, but won't get you healed when you're sick. It takes God's Word straight from the Bible to do that.

Preachers, Teachers, Evangelists' Missionaries, and anyone else that might teach the word in some venue; Get in the Bible and begin to fast and pray and study and learn more yourself, then you can teach others more and then all can grow and learn and live more of an abundant well life.

As we get more of the Word in us, we will walk in more health, The word is our medicine, it's God's medicine for all his children, but you have to take it to get the results you need. It's for healing as well as any need you many have in your life.
Shalom!

Written by Ruth Napier
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Peter's Shadow Healed The Multitudes

Acts 5:12-17-And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch). And of the rest durst no man join himself to them, but the people magnified them. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits, and they were healed every one.

The apostles did many signs and wonders among the people in their day by the laying on of hands on the people. But here was a multitude of people and there was no way they could lay hands on all of them, so they were laid out on the street in beds and couches and when Peter passed by his shadow fell on them and they were healed.

Now we all know that a shadow of a man passing by and overshadowing someone will not heal them. But this was a special manifestation of the Spirit of God on Peter that caused this to work. Remember Paul? He took handkerchiefs and aprons from his body and sent them to sick folks and diseases departed from them and evil spirits left them also, Acts 19:11&12. God wrought spirit miracles by the hands of Paul. Here is another special way God ministered healing to this multitude that were sick by Peter's shadow.

This was not the only multitude that got healed. A multitude came from cities round about unto Jerusalem bringing the sick and those with unclean spirits and they were healed everyone it says. That is an amazing way to get healed, isn't it? But if you will read the Bible and look for these things, you will be surprised how many different ways people were healed.

Jesus spit on the ground and made clay out of his spit and put it on a blind man's eyes and told him to go wash in a pool called Siloam and he would come seeing, John 9:6. Now what would you think if some minister did that to you? You would call him a sick disgusting person doing such a thing. Today we have people that have healing ministries and do some strange things as well, and people call them fakes and putting on a show, or paying the people to act that way. But folks, go to your Bible and see the strange things the apostles and prophets did concerning healing and also what Jesus did. Of course I will say, there probably are some fakes doing this, because the devil always copies the real thing. But don't let that bother you. God always proves the real from the fake.

Naaman in the Old Testament needed healing and he sent for the prophet Elisha. Elisha told Naaman's servant to tell him to go dip seven times in the river of Jordan and his leprosy would leave him and he would be clean. Now what does dipping one's self in a dirty river have to do with being healed? Nothing in the natural. But God has his ways of doing things, and whatever he tells you to do, then that's what you do if you want to be well. This made Naaman mad, but his servant talked to him and got him to do it and he was healed of his leprosy. IIKings 5:10-14. So you see there are some strange instructions sometimes to be carried out to receive healing. But they are God's ways, not ours.

None of God's ways make any sense to us. He doesn't make sense. His ways are higher than our way of thinking, and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts, Isaiah 55:8-9. So don't try to figure God out, you never will, just do what he says to do and everything will turn out right.
Why don't we see these things in the church today? I have wondered about that. People, I believer are afraid to do something different in fear of being talked about or put out of their church or being persecuted. God hasn't changed; he never changes the Bible says. So he must still be desiring to do these things today just like he did back then. But evidently no one is willing to heed to his leading in this manner. If Peter hadn't obeyed the Spirit of God, then that entire multitude would have stayed sick and no doubt many would have died.

Jesus had a healing ministry, the apostles had healing ministries and so do ministers today. Healing is a part of the great commission in Mark 16. We are to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. It didn't specify just ministers to do this. But that believers were to do it. Are you a believer? Then you can lay your hands on the sick and expect them to recover. Hallelujah!

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