Our
Healing Ministry
The greatest
healing I know is spiritual and it’s the new birth. And it’s spiritual but the spiritual is so
dynamic that it affects the physical.
And it’s basically in believing because those people of the Old
Testament who could not be born again still if they were properly taught and
they believed what they were taught, then believing that brought a lot of
healing to them. But in our day and in
our time and this is what I’m going to be teaching and setting before our men
across the country and world our women is that:
If thou wilt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
That
if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. – Romans 10: 9, 10
That I believe is
the greatest healing. Now accompanying
that of course with this birth of Christ within is speaking in tongues. Where you build up that
inner man, that spiritual man.
And he is at work within us to will and to what? Do His good pleasure. You all know
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest what? Prosper
and be in what? Health. Now, that spirit of God working within us,
people has never been analyzed as to how much that does physically for us. But the Word of God says that He worketh within us to will and to do His good pleasure and
one of His good pleasures must be
In 1 Corinthians chapter 12: verse 27. it
says: Now you are the body of
Christ. Whether we like it or whether we
don’t, we are the body. And we are
members in particular. Not everybody is
a sore thumb in it. Not everybody is a
pointing figure. Not everybody is an
eye. But every part of that body is
very, very important.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular [individuals]. -- I Corinthians 12: 27
And God set some in the church, first apostles,
secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles,
then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. -- I Corinthians 12: 28
Are all apostles? Are
all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of
miracles? -- I Corinthians 12:
29
Have all the gifts [charismata] of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? -- I Corinthians 12:
30
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto
you a more excellent way [than
coveting] -- I Corinthians
And that is chapter 13 which is the greatest chapter in the Word on the
love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation. You see God so loved according to John 3: 16
that God gave His only begotten son. Now
you and I are sons of God. Now we must
so give that others can learn to live for as we give, they live. If God so loved that He gave the least that
you and I can do is so love, that we give. You know, it’s so easy to criticize, it’s so
easy to find fault, it’s so easy to see wrong because
that’s the natural man. That’s how we
were born and raised. That was the
environment. That’s the culture we came
out of. Now, we are born again, now we
are believers being motivated by the greatness of God’s Word. And we have to just drive ourselves to get over that criticism,
that faultfinding, that seeing the wrong all the time. God so loved that He what? Gave. I remember Moses. I remember Abraham, I remember David, I
remember a lot of others in the Old Testament that God so loved that He
gave. I remember Paul, God so loved that
He gave.
Boy if we can just discipline our minds to never say anything but that
which is positive and on the Word. What
a day that would be. Never
to say anything except that which is good about someone. If we couldn’t say anything good about
anyone, then we better look at ourselves because everyone has something good
that we could share.
In I Timothy 6: 10, it says: The love of
what? Money. Is
the what? Root of what? All evil.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: -- I Timothy 6: 10a
If the love of money is the root of all evil, then the love of God in
the renewed mind in manifestation must be the root of all good, by sheer
logic. The love represents the world,
the power, the structure. Nothing wrong
with the world, there’s nothing wrong with the power, nothing wrong with the
structure except, once they get money, they never get
enough of it. That’s why the love of it,
the love of it is the root of all evil.
They never get enough.
The love of God in the renewed mind in
manifestation. We’ll never get enough of the love of
God. We can always use more. Spiritually, it is given to us all, but I
haven’t put it all on up here. Just picture for a moment.
Just remember the healing that came when somebody really loved you with
that love of Christ. Not that
possessive, not that egotistical type of love, not that get that something out of you type of thing called
love, no, no, no. Where they just opened
their heart to you and just took you in and tenderized you with the love of God
in the renewed mind. I don’t know
anything more healing than to be loved. Then to just gather someone into your spiritual arms, so to speak. Into your heart, into your
mind and just sharing your dynamic love with them. The Christ that’s in you
just tenderly. You know anybody
can raise hell. But very few people who
are Christian ever get to the place of really exuberating love, tenderness,
kindness, forgiveness, understanding.
Think how healing it is when someone just walks up to you and takes you
by the arm and says “I sure love you”. A
lot more healing than someone take you by the arm and say: “Well, what in the hell is the matter with
you”? Isn’t it now? You see we’ve heard that negative side, that
hell business and all that bad stuff. We
seldom take a look how
healing a place can be where there’s a believer with that love.
Golly, you are the greatest arm of God’s healing in the world today. You heal just by loving people, by
tenderizing them, by taking them in. Now
you may not agree with what they’re doing.
They may be wrong. You may have
to show them a little Scripture but you can do that lovingly too. God is our Father, we are His children. If God so loved, we are His children, then we
love. There is no other way of bringing
great healing, now I am not just speaking spiritually, I am speaking
physically. Physical
healing. Because that love does
something to people that makes their blood flow better. I don’t know.
Muscles function better. I don’t
know what happens in the physical body, I just know it happens. It warms them inside.
They say that worry gives you ulcers because it does something to your
bloodstream that eats out your stomach or your intestines and you got
ulcers. Well, if that poison in the
bloodstream is from worry, think of the sweetness of love in there. Then love would be healing. Love would tenderize. Love would bring that blood to flow
better. You know, when you lose your
temper and you really jump up and down and raise hell. Just think how sick you feel on the
inside. How your old heart pumps like
crazy and you get red in the face. Just
the opposite of what love does. It’ll
settle that heart down and it will beat normally and nicely. I doubt if any of us have ever taken a look
at the healing wholeness of love. Really. And when you
spell it all out from God’s Word, the Word says: how can we say we love God if we do not love
our what? God so loved that he gave ….. you can look after verse after verse of Scripture on love.
Every one of them, you will see, is contributing toward making you and me
physically whole.
Nothing is as healing as that love.
I looked up a few verses of Scripture that I thought I wanted to share
with you also in Proverbs chapter 12, verse 17.
He that speaketh truth sheweth
forth righteousness: but a false witness
deceit. -- Proverbs 12: 17
Verse 18:
There is that speaketh like the
piercings of a sword:
but the tongue of the wise is health. -- Proverbs 12: 18
So there are two ways of going.
One is the love way, the other is the opposite. Speaketh like the
piercing of a what? Sword. You know, raising hell, loud voice, yelling
at each other or at someone is like the piercing of a what? It cuts, it injures. But the tongue of the wise, the tongue of the
wise not piercing, but love, speaketh true, sheweth forth, wisdom, that brings health.
In chapter 16, verse 24:
Pleasant words are as
an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the [what?] bones. --
Proverbs 16: 24
Pleasant words, pleasant words come from the heart of love. And the heart of love is the heart that has
been tenderized with the love of God in the renewed mind where we put on the
mind of Christ and we speak and we walk with that mind and with that love. It says also in Proverbs that death and life
are in the power of the tongue. Death
and life are in the power of the tongue.
All sickness is death in whole or in part. All healing is deliverance in whole or in
part as needed. Death and life are in
the tongue so the life that’s there must be the life of the love of God in the
renewed mind in manifestation. In the 13th
chapter of Proverbs, verse 17:
A wicked messenger falleth into
mischief: but a faithful ambassador is [what?] health. -- Proverbs 13: 17
Faithful ambassadors holding forth God’s Word bring health. One of the reasons we don’t minister here
every Sunday night, well, first of all the place would be too crowded many
times. But that’s just an excuse
really. Never too
crowded if you really want to.
But you see I’m just so convinced that this place has the love of God
here and the accuracy of the Word and I just am so convinced that we speak with
that love of God that the healing has to come.
You got to build people’s believing on the Word. See, always I’ve been fearful that if we did
too much ministering of healing then people get the idea well, I am the
healer. That’s not what I want. I want the Word, the Word in this ministry. Sure, I can minister healing every
night. But that’s not the greatness of
what I believe in. I believe it’s
wonderful from time to time for me to minister, but I think the greatest
ministry is the ministry of the Word.
It’s that Word that liveth and abideth [what?] forever.
It’s that Word that brings healing.
And people have to get confidence in the Word and not in a man. See it?
They’ve got to get confidence in God and His Word. Now the man is only a vessel. That’s fine.
Needed. But boy, the Word, the Word.
A faithful ambassador brings health by teaching the Word and by loving
people. You see, in spite of the
shortcomings of all of us, we still have the greatest amount of love radiating
of any peoples anyplace in the world.
There is no greater love being made known in this world than through
this ministry today, anyplace. And as
ambassadors holding forth the love of God, it will bring help to people. And it’s that Word you want to promote. You don’t go forth and talk about how great
the Way ministry is. Nothing
great about the Way Ministry.
It’s the Word that’s great. The
Way ministry just happens to fit in that Word occasionally. You talk the Word. A man says something, read him the Word. Don’t tell him the Way Ministry stands for
this or for that. Tell him what Word
says. The Way Ministry will do all right
as long as you teach the Word and I teach it.
Right?
It’s the Word. In
Isaiah 58. Listen to this. Verse 7:
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, [you know, talking about the fast] and that
thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide
not thyself from thine own flesh? -- Isaiah
58: 7
Then [then,
if you do] shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health
shall spring forth speedily: and thy
righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward [reward]. -- Isaiah
58: 8
Then shall thy light break forth in the morning and thine
health shalt spring forth speedily. When? When thou seest the naked that thou shalt cover him.
Then thou hide
not thine self from thine
own flesh. Do you know what that
means? Sometimes men are prone to help
somebody else, but they won’t help their own kids. They’re sweet on everybody else’s woman,
except their own wife. Sweet on
everybody else’s man, except their own husband.
Sweet on helping the poor heathen in
Then, verse 9, shalt thou call and the Lord
shall answer and He shall say “Here I am”.
If we get things in proper order with the
new birth, the manifestations, speaking in tongues, studying to show ourselves
approved by putting on the mind of Christ rightly dividing it. And
then just have that love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation. The healing, physical healing is fantastic
among a group of believers. Fantastic. Because it’s built on the Word. And the Word delivers, the Word heals.
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