Healing the Sick 101By
Keith McCann M.A
Text:
Mark 16:15-20
From this text three things stand out:
1.Believing (faith in the name or presence of the Lord)
2.Going/Obedience (follow, they went forth, laying hands on, casting out, drinking, etc.)
3.Confirming (shall recover, the Lord working with them, signs following)
•Forgiveness for Sin and the New Birth -- reconciliation with God
•Inner healing -- healing for damaged emotions through forgiveness.
•Healing of physical illness.
•Deliverance from spiritual bondage, demons.
•Healing of community and society corporate spiritual liberation
Six Healing Principles:
1. God wants to heal the sick today. This is the year of Favor.
2. God is looking for a corporate (signs of believers) ministry of healing.
3. Our trust in God is demonstrated by our actions. Faith w/o works is dead being alone.
4. We must be empowered by and led by the Holy Spirit. Jesus could do nothing without guidance of the Spirit (
John 5:19).
5. Importance of loving relationships with our brothers & sisters. Many illnesses are a result of bitterness and broken relationships (I Corinthians. 11)
6. God wants to heal the whole person, not just the specific condition. All healing points to a greater truth of a right relationship with God.
Four Healing Values
•Provide a Healing Environment.
•Provide a Regularly Scheduled Ministry Time.
•Provide Training & Equipping of the Saints.
•Encourage a Life Style of Healing.
The importance of Faith is paramount
•Caution masquerades unbelief (
Luke 4;
Matthew 17:20)
•The problem is not a lack of power or holiness, but a lack of faith
This is a free gift, freely received freely give.
•Lose all notions of earning these gifts
•The carnal Corinthians came behind in no gift
•Men throughout History have been used who have had deep sin in their lives
•Gifts point to the character of the giver not the messenger
Practical Observations
•A revelation may be seen
•A revelation may be heard
•A revelation may be felt
Healing Observations
•Sometimes the gift works through physical contact
•Sometimes a touch is not involved, but a point of contact
•A much as modesty allows lay hands on the afflicted part of the body
•Minister with your eyes open
•Don’t think so much as praying for the sick; think of it as ministering healing
•Sometimes a lack of faith is substituted by loud and long praying
•Be specific, the more specific the prayer, the greater the result
•Helpful to sometimes ask a few questions to know how more specifically how to pray
•Helpful to ask the person to move the afflicted part of the body
•Ask what happened to the pain, what did you feel
Other Observations
•The more one operates or steps out in faith the mores successful they will be (
Hebrews 5:11-14)
•No other way to grow in the supernatural than to be constantly practicing and risking
•Don’t rely on traditions or formulas, power doesn’t travel in words but in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ
•Put your confidence in Jesus not in your commitment to him (
Acts 3:12-13)
•Put your confidence in God ability to lead you not in the ability of the devil to deceive you
Prayer engagement Model
Acts 28:8
•Invite the presence of the Lord by prayer and worship
•Invite him to come and confirm His word by signs and wonders
•Place your hand on the afflicted part of the body and command the sickness and disease to go, and release healing
•Be sensitive to the Spirit for Words of Knowledge
Prayer Mentoring Example
Watch Me Do It
I watch you do it
You go and do it