The Power of Healing and Miracles
 
The Word is what brings the blessings, prosperity, and abilities, and creativity in our life. You must make up a list of your own Scriptures. Find Scriptures that are in agreement with your particular need. You must be led by Holy Spirit. One Scripture in II Samuel tells us that God healed a whole nation because of the prayers of David (II Samuel 24:25). As you study and apply these Scriptures, they will become part of your life and will bless you. ”Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God”
 
II Timothy 2:15 Amp. There are times when Holy Spirit, our teacher, imparts fresh revelation and we stand in awe of His quickening, and then there are times when He simply gives us the challenge to take heed to ourselves, to be diligent to present ourselves approved to Him. This is the time that we yield to Him and to His leading, and stand on what God has done and shown us already. We sometimes think that we have surrendered all to Him, and then He reveals another area of our self life. But He is not only the author of our faith but the finisher also, and as long as we stay yielded and studying the Word to show ourselves approved we will be found to His praise.  
 
The Greek word for “study” is “spoudazo” Meaning: to be diligent, to use speed, therefore giving prompt and earnest attention to it (Proverbs 4:20-24). The same word is used in Ephesians 4:3 Amp. “Endeavoring” (to make a serious and sincere effort to do something) this is vital in maintaining good fellowship, for we may not all agree on how to “divide” the Word, and apply it to our daily living, but if we keep a unity in Spirit, and seek to maintain peace, our differences won’t separate us. To whom are we to be approved by? Not trying to impress all the people around you. All that we do, even in our sharing with one another, ought to be “as unto the Lord,” for His approval, not man’s.  
 
Salvation includes in the covenant:  forgiveness, reconciliation, deliverance, healing, safety, rescue, liberty, assurance. All is paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ. I Cor. 11:24 When you found out Jesus’ blood was shed for your sins and you believed in your heart and confessed Him as Lord, at that moment, nothing could stop your salvation. Well, the same is true when you make a declaration of healing by faith. You find out the truth in God’s Word that Jesus’ body was broken for your healing; you believe and confess Him as your healer. Then nothing can stop your healing! Some of us have been taught only one part of redemption. Ministers have told Christians that healing isn’t for today. “God can heal, but that doesn’t mean He always does heal. Sometimes our prayers for healing work, and sometimes they don’t.” Where the full Gospel has been preached that Jesus Christ paid the same price for sins and sicknesses, then people get saved and healed at the same time. 
 
Confession: Healing belongs to me just as much as salvation does. Jesus is as much my healer as He is my Savior. I walk in the full benefits of my redemption! Sickness and disease is an invasion of an outlaw force seeking to rob you of your health. Many make the mistake of substituting belief in healing for the actual taking of God’s medicine-His Word. 
 
This course will teach us:
1.     Sickness is not the will of God but the will of the devil. 
2.     God made health a law and a statute. It is against divine law to be sick.
3.     Paul’s thorn in the flesh was not sickness.
4.     With one of two exceptions, there is little record of any godly Bible characters being sick.
5.     This teaching will place you on solid Bible grounds on how to have and enjoy continuous health. 
 The Lord wants us to know that He is not slack concerning any promise He has made in the entire Bible. You have promises of healing from the foundation of the earth, and it’s yours. I hope you will cling to His promises and let them bless you. God wants us to know Him more intimately and understand His purposes in a deeper way as He calls us to a new dimension of power and authority. May He bless you as you discover more about Him and His desire to use you in praying for others and as a testimony of His anointing and power.
 
Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; He was:
•	A SUITABLE LAMB
Jesus is the Lamb of God; the sacrifice for all time. When Jesus was born, God chose a lowly stable as the place for His Son’s birth. (Micah. 5:2) But when God the Father chose a place for His Son’s birth, He said a stable. And if inquiry be made as to why, the answer is clear. Jesus was a Lamb, and lambs are born in stables- not palaces. It was therefore, not without significance that shepherds were among the first to behold this incomparable LAMB
 
•	A SILENT LAMB
Jesus was not only born a lamb, but He would die a Lamb. Jesus was a suitable Lamb. He was examined for three years. Jesus Christ was never at a loss for words. He had come as a spokesman for His Father’s will. Only during His trial did He refuse to speak or defend Himself. As a youth He confounded the doctors of the Law.
He left the Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians and Scribes bewildered, dismayed and silenced. 
His knowledge of the law was complete, Hiss logic flawless, His communicative shills perfect. Had He chosen to defend Himself, the outcome would not have been in doubt – freedom would have been certain. He simply refused to come to His own defense – He would not respond. Why? Isa. 53:7 
 
•	2. AN OBEDIENT LAMB
Matt. 26:53 “he could have called ten thousand angels…”
Why didn’t He resist? Why didn’t He use all means at His disposal to avoid Calvary? He was born to die that we might live. He was an OBEDIENT LAMB. 
 
•	JESUS CAME AS THE BREAD OF LIFE. 
Bethlehem means the House of Bread. God in His wisdom chose this place for His son to be born. Jesus proclaimed in John 6:35, “I am the Bread of Life, he who come to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.” 
 
•	JESUS CAME TO ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN
The shepherds were common men. They also were viewed as outcasts. The Jews avoided them because they worked with unclean animals and were, therefore, ceremonially unclean. But God does not look on the outward appearance of man. He looks at the heart. Jesus did not come to walk among kings and princes; He came to you and me. “Peace on earth …”
 
•	JESUS CAME TO TEACH US HOW TO LIVE
Obedience to God is a foundational principle. When you make a choice to obey God, you position yourself for blessing. Jesus taught us how to be obedient and follow God’s will.
 
•	JESUS LOVES YOU AND ALWAYS HAS TIME AND PLACE FOR YOU.
God will never turn you away. Though there was no room for Mary and Joseph at the inn, God in His mercy has a place in His heart reserved for you. Access is granted no matter what has happened in your past. All He asks of you is that you acknowledge your sin and your need for His Son.
 
Jesus had seven purposes in healing. 
1. Jesus heals because He is full of compassion. It was compassion that led to Jesus’ miracles. Jesus Christ heals people today for the same reason because “…the goodness of God leads you to repentance Romans 2:4.
2. Jesus heals because healing belongs to His children. If you are a believer, the promises of healing belong to you. God’s promises or benefits to the believer include healing just as they include forgiveness of sin. And as His children, the promise of healing becomes a reality as we ask in faith, believing to receive. Matt. 7:8
3. Jesus heals to bring glory to His Father. All glory and praise belongs to the Father. Healing is a wonderful, awe-inspiring faith-builder that should lead to glorifying God (Matt. 9:8).
4. Jesus heals to fulfill God’s promises. When the Master heals, it is a fulfillment of the prophecy spoken through Isaiah. On the cross, Christ took our sickness and infirmities. See that as happening as you pray for yourself and others.
5. Jesus heals also to confirm His own Word. Healing was promised by the Father, and then declared by Jesus Christ. Christ knew exactly why He was sent to earth. He came to perform the works of His Father and undo the works of satan. Miracles confirm the spoken Word of Jesus. He heals to fulfill His personal Word to you. 
6. Jesus heals to show you the power in His blood. The blood of Jesus Christ was shed to forgive sin and provide a way for your healing. We have a Blood Covenant with God. 
7. Every time the Lord heals, the devil’s defeat at the Cross is exposed. Jesus knows everything about you. You are His chosen one. He even knows the number of hairs on your head (Matt. 10:29-31). You are so precious that He died on the cross for your sin and your infirmities, and He earnestly desires to show you His mercy and healing power. Whatever your need may be, let the Great Physician bring healing and deliverance to you today!
 
The principles we are going to get into the next four weeks are very basic things: releasing power of Jesus’ resurrection into someone else; and there is no limit to what God can do. If there is any need in the earth, Jesus and the resurrection power is the answer to that need. Even genetic issues are no longer an obstacle to our renewed minds. All we have to do is focus our agreement with the Word, and the Lord will do marvelous things. 
 
God is Love and He loves us!!!
I Corinthians 13:13 NLT “Three things will last forever-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love.” It is true, everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and things will either fall or come to nothing, or else they will abide the testing, and remain to the glory of God. We find in this text there are three things that will abide: faith, hope, and love. Faith that has not come to us from God will not stand. Be sure your faith is built on a solid foundation that you can stand on that will bring glory and praise to God. When Jesus comes in His second coming all things will be complete and we will not need these. Faith causes us to come to God, but never failing love gives us His character, His DNA. Faith enables us, gives us the legal authority, to come to God and accept salvation, but love enables us or causes us to operate in God’s love. 
 
I Corinthians 13 tells us love is more important than any of the spiritual gifts. Without it other gifts are worthless. I John 3:1 and 2:29 John talks about bring born again which leads Him to proclaim the splendor of God’s love. The Greek term translated “How Great” implies a love so unearthly (not of this world) that Christians find it hard to believe. This is an act of a Father making it legal to claim His children and have a Father relationship with them. Faith – hope – love are all connected and they come from the same person. God is love and He has fused or merged us together with Him. Meekness, joy, passion, love, goodness and you are all these things. You became a part of Him. Faith is His. There are no Christians without faith. It is in you. You received it when you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. The love of God cannot and will not fail us. That is what we are endued with. I Corinthians 13:4 love is patient and kind. This is evidence of how we are to respond. Out working of love of God – you allow this new nature to express itself. We are talking about operating out of our new nature. It takes discipline. 
 
But once we learn that My Abba or daddy loves me we find that nothing can succeed against love. Allow love to do what God put it there for. Freely extend to others all you have been given. Love released us from the obligation of the penalty of sins. Ephesians 1:4 God actually picked us out for Himself before we were born. I can stand in His presence in love, and I do not have to feel guilty or condemned, and that releases me to minister to others in love. I Peter 1:23 & 2:4&9 we have been made anew in His nature. We inherited His DNA. We have inherited His nature, ability and authority. II Corinthians 5:17 We are a new creation; a brand new person. We are a new kind of species that Darwin never knew about.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The old has gone, the new has come. God’s love abides in us with His love inwardly and that love enables us to live an outward life that testifies to this love. A seed is a container of life. The Word of God, as the incorruptible seed, and it contains God’s life. So it is living and abiding. This is how Mary became pregnant with Jesus. She simply received the Word and what did she say to Gabriel? “Be it unto me according to your Word.” Luke 1:37-38 & 45. 
 
Hope, that divine expectation is assured of fulfillment, when its source is the Word of God. Mary had hope and found favor.
 
Galatians 5:22 this is agape (Eros, stereo, pile, and agape) this word is so filled with deep emotion and meaning that it is one of the most difficult words to translate in the NT. 
 
Love of God is Agape in Greek and is used of God’s love produced in the heart of the yielded saint by the Holy Spirit. We are challenged by Jude 2. Jude tells us how to keep ourselves in the love of God. Discipline yourself in the love of God. He will not leave us or forsake us and will always love us. Message Bible says, “Staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched.” 
 
Jesus gave a correction and reproof to the church of Ephesus, “because you have left your first love.” They were highly commended for their good works by Jesus Christ, but they were so busy serving the Lord, they forgot their first love. What does Jesus consider our first love? 
 
In Galatians 5:6 the word “worketh” is the Greek word “energeo” and it could be translated this way, “Faith energized by love.”  Wouldn’t it be wonderful, if all our faith was motivated by God’s love? There would never be any failure, because “love never fails.”
 
 I Peter 4:8 states “for charity shall cover a multitude of sins.” And Proverbs 10:12 is even more direct when it says, ‘LOVE COVERS ALL SINS.”
 
Agape means love that is wholly selfless and spiritual. It occurs when an individual sees, recognizes, understands, or appreciates the value of an object or a person, causing the view to behold this object or person in great esteem, awe, admiration, wonder, and sincere appreciation. 
 
Psalm 8:5- This is how God sees us. Agape is a love that loves so profoundly that it knows no limits or boundaries in how far, wide, high, and deep it will go to show that love to its recipient. 
If you will let the Spirit of God release it from your heart, you will discover and enjoy this love of God that is in you. It is already inside you. Let the Holy Spirit manifest it in your life. 
 
It will be by the love of Christ that we shall see men and women are drawn unto Christ. The projection of human personality and emotion must end, while He becomes all in all in us, and then He becomes the sum-total of all that flows out of us. 
 
The quality, the strength of divine love is almost beyond our comprehension, so long have we defined love according to the sentiments of the flesh. God’s great desire to give and serve is too much for man’s mind. 
 
But through the cleansing of the washing of the water by the Word, and the purifying of the fiery trials, we are learning of NEW DIMESIONS, and thank God for them. 
 
In this set of three things that will last forever, faith, hope, and love, we see that faith lays the foundation, hope holds us steady upon that foundation, while God’s love brings us to fulfillment. 
 
Each virtue is needful or a link is missing, and the glory of the reality of God’ love and care for us is missing in our life. The faith that works by love is essential. 
 
So the question is how do we receive this Divine love?  The source is clear, ‘THE LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO US.’ 
 
Rom. 5:5 this love is given to us to help us grow and depend more on Him. We can be confident of our hopes because love has been poured into us. The Holy Spirit is constantly encouraging us with this love. This love was manifested by God sending His son to die for us. I John 4:9 – 10; I John 3:1 John was amazed at God’s love and that we should be called His children. John was full of love for God and believers. 
 
God sent His Son into the world not only to be a propitiation for our sins that we might be forgiven but also to be life to us that we might have life and live through Him. In the love of God, the Son of God saves us not only from our sins by His blood, but also from our death by His life. 
He did for us that we might not only have eternal life, but that we would have that abundant life now because we have His name and love. We know we cannot generate this divine love by our own ability; it has to come from God. 
 
You can only work out, give manifestation to that which Christ has worked into you. The love of God is God Himself. The Holy Spirit pours out this love in us because He has been given to us as the motivating power within us, that we may more than conquer in all our tribulations. I John 4:12
 
Rom. 8:37-39 because of God’s unchanging love for us and the fact that Christ has accomplished everything on our behalf, neither tribulation nor persecution can suppress or defeat us; rather, in all these things we more than overcome and conquer through Him who loved us. 
 
Nothing can separate us from this love of God. It was bestowed on us before we even believed. Rom. 5:8 He demonstrated His love for us while we were dead in trespasses and sin. God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us the way we are. 
 
In God’s salvation this love to us has become the love of Christ vs. 35. We know that this great grace provoke God’s enemy to attack us with all kinds of sufferings and calamities, But depending on our response and attitude to these attacks they can become benefits to us. Read Rom. 8:28. 
 
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Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty…He will REST IN HIS LOVE.” Love abides, it remains to the end, when all else has been spent and exhausted, love is still there to prevail and reconcile all back unto God. 
 
When we are firmly settled on a solid foundation of the faith of God, kept, held steady by him, the anchor of the soul, and resting in HIS LOVE, we shall abide the present shakings and testings. May the Lord ever more work in the fullness of these three: faith, hope, and love.
 
What if we got saved and we were never sick again or in any kind of need physically, mentally or socially or financially? What kind of witness would that be to the world that is suffering this kind of tribulation? No, we are a witness to those that are suffering when we overcome and trust and believe in God’s deliverance and compassion.  
 
Rev. 2:9 Tribulation is precious to the church because it tests the very life of the church which is believing and trusting in God’s Word and His love to deliver us. (Take another look at Job and notice what Satan said.) 
 
Rom. 8:28 these attacks of Satan, because we have let the love of God protect us, these things become a benefit to us. When we are healed, blessed or delivered it is a testimony to God that it is not the result of anything we have done, so no one can brag about it or take glory for it. 
 
I John 4:15-19 in sending Jesus into the world God showed His Higher and nobler love and He has manifested it in us.