Kingdom Impact
Healing our birthright
After listening and reading Bill Johnson, Andrew Wommack and Curry Blake material, God has stirred His passion in our hearts to see our city and surrounding areas impacted by the Gospel of the Kingdom. This is the first part of a two part series on healing.
New years Sunday message on the Kingdom principle of Healing as a seed.
We are living in a society filled with religious misconcepts. God’s roles and the devils one has now changed. John 10:10
John 10:10 (NKJV)
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
In this sermon I want to highlight the following.
HOPE – FAITH – PEACE
But before I can start on those points we need to lay the right foundation. Our Faith in God must start from the presupposition that God is just Good.
God is JUST GOOD
Psalm 34:9 (NLT)
Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who trust in him!
1 John 1:5 (NLT)
This is the message he has given us to announce to you: God is light and there is no darkness in him at all.
Matthew 19:17 (NLV)
Why ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “Only God is good.”
Healing our BIRTHRIGHT
Healing comes by The anointing and / or BY USING the AUTHORITY of His Word
Acts 10:38 (NKJV)
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
It is so strange that 2000 years God anointed Jesus to heal the sick. That sickness was the work of the devil. Today people believe different. Now suddenly it has become an instrument in the hand of God – to teach me something. It is suppose to grow character in me. This is a LIE out of the PIT of HELL. When did God change the purpose of Jesus – at the cross? Or maybe at another mysterious time?
Is sickness suddenly our friend? Then in that same sense unbelief and doubt are our friends in building the kingdom? NO ways – it is the enemy of the very price that God has paid for all sickness and affliction.
Does this mean that God hates sick people? NO – he hates sickness.
Does this mean that God hates sinners? NO – he hates sin.
Does this mean that God is against doctors and the medical profession? NO Luke was a doctor. He wrote the Gospel according to LUKE and the ACTS of the Apostles.
Does it mean that we are against them? No we love the medical profession. Some of our doctors and nurses are actually trusting God that they will see miracles day after day happening in the practices and the hospitals.
I think it is because we do not understand the scriptures that we have changed the roles of Jesus and the devil.
How can God choose not to heal someone when He already purchased their healing? Was His blood enough for all sin, or just certain sins? Were the stripes He bore only for certain illnesses, or certain seasons of time? When He bore stripes in His body He made a payment for our miracle. He already decided to heal. You can’t decide not to buy something after you’ve already bought it.
There are no deficiencies on His end - neither the covenant is deficient, nor His compassion or promises. All lack is on our end of the equation. The only time someone wasn’t healed in the Bible (gospels) is when the disciples prayed for them. For example, Mark 9 when they prayed for the tormented child. They did not have breakthrough. But then, Jesus came and brought healing and deliverance to the child.
Jesus Christ is perfect theology - He is the will of God. We can’t lower the standard of scripture to our level of experience . . . or in most cases, inexperience. It’s a very uncomfortable realization - not everyone can handle it. Most create doctrine that you can’t find in the person of Jesus. He is the will of God.
Hope – The Kingdom of God is filled with a climate of HOPE
Hebrews 11:1 (NLT)
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.
Faith is the realization of the unseen. Faith realises what the natural man cannot see as the true reality. Faith is believing what God says is superior over what you see. SAY vs SEE. Faith is the realization of things hoped for.
Francis Frangipane says “Anyplace where there is no hope in a person’s life – that place is where there is a stronghold of the enemy.”
Hope to understand it. Faith growths in the soil of hope. It operates in the atmosphere of hope. Hope is the place where we start to operate in. It means to have an excited positive expectancy.
So any area of our live where there is not an excited positive expectancy there is a stronghold of the enemy. A stronghold in this sense is not to be demon possessed but rather a place where the enemy have deceived into a lie that brings us to a place that there is no hope (an excited positive expectancy) to change. The word of God says in 2 Cor 10:3-5
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NLT)
3 We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.
Faith realises things before they come.
Faith is to believe that you have it. That it has already been given to you. Faith is to see it.
Any area that does not have the expectation of something good is a lie.
FAITH – It our handle on the things we cannot see.
2 Cor 4:13 (NKJV)
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
• What do we speak?
• What is in our heart?
• Whose word are we allowing close to us?
• Are we looking at the world for answers?
• Are we blinded by satan and his negative report?
Nothing will be impossible with God." The word "nothing" is actually two words in the Greek. No rhema (the freshly spoken word of God) will be impossible (without ability), which literally means, no freshly spoken word of God will ever come to you that does not contain the ability to perform itself.
1 Peter 4:11 (TNIV)
11If you speak, you should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If you serve, you should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Peace
Hebrews 3:1 (NKJV)
3 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
Hebrews 3:7-14 (NKJV)
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
Hebrews 3:19 (NKJV)
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 4:1-2 (NKJV)
4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
Hebrews 4:12 (NKJV)
12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Healing:
Therefore HEALING happens when we move in the anointing. Now currently the anointing for healing is not as strong in our church as we want to see it. BUT IT IS CHANGING. From today. We do not function in miracles as we should. No guilt trip – let us change it by accepting God’s word as true.
Let us study His word and seek His kingdom.
So I am declaring today, prophesying that HEALING will be part of our ministry to this city. We are trusting God that He will do mighty deeds and works throughout our lives. That we will be moved with compassion and not comparison. That we live in a city without sickness.
What I am doing now is prophesying:
Prophesy does not just foretell an event. Prophesy is sometimes use to cause an event.
It becomes a declaration of what has done through Jesus actually creates an opportunity for that miracle or event to be duplicated.
