THE HEALING ANOINTING: IMPARTING THE ANOINTING

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Nothing demonstrates the love of God, and the reality of Jesus Christ, quite like the ministry of healing. Anybody can do charitable works, but only a born again one who walks with the God who answers by fire can bring real healing. I once ministered to a Hindu woman in India who was crippled with arthritic pain. After the demon was cast out, and the pain gone, I asked her, “You have seen Jesus the Messiah come as your Healer. Are you ready to make Him your Savior and Lord?” She was, and she did. You can be that born again one who walks with the God who answers by fire as well. Love to all!

Authors note: This is the fourth in a series of four teachings on the healing anointing, which were first published in September of 2004.

THE HEALING ANOINTING – IMPARTING THE ANOINTING

“…and the power of the Lord was present to heal them…” Luke 5:17

We had just finished a long Sunday service in the Nairobi city church. Pastor Stanley had brought me back into his office, and given me a Coca cola. Presently he left, and returned carrying a young boy. “This boy needs your prayers!” he said, as he lay the boy down on the chair. The boy’s right leg was facing backward, the results of polio. The Holy Spirit said, “Grab his knee and turn it around!” So I did. “Grab his foot and turn it around.” So I did. “Grab his foot and reshape the bones properly!” So I did. Within minutes he was running home to his mother, glory to God.

I love formulas. I love to teach, “Just do THIS and THIS and THIS, and you will get THAT!” And much of the practice of the Word of God, on a certain level, can be taught in just that way. But that is not the case with the impartation of the healing anointing.

There are, however, four principles that need to be considered in light of the impartation: giving commands, timing, flexibility, and patience.

GIVING COMMANDS

I know of no record in the Gospels where Jesus ever asked God His Father to heal anyone. He commanded Lazarus to come out of the grave ( John 11:43). He commanded the man with the withered hand to stretch it forth ( Mark 3:5 ). He commanded the demons to leave ( Luke 11:20). He commanded the leper to be cleansed ( Matthew 8:3 ). I know of no record in the book of Acts where the disciples asked God to heal anyone. They commanded the healing to come ( Acts 3:6, 9:34, 40, 14:10, 16:18 ).

So, why do we always pray to ask God to bring the healing? Because of religious tradition based on one verse of Scripture in James 5:15 “…and the prayer of faith will save the sick…” How do you handle this, in light of the clear teaching of Scripture that healing is to be imparted by a command? First of all, you must understand that there is valid intercessory prayer on behalf of others. But that is not necessarily the impartation of healing. Also, I believe ‘prayer’ can be understood in a broader sense to include the command, as evidenced by Isaiah 45:11, and other Scriptures.

Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. Isa 45:11 KJV

When God shows you by revelation what He wants to heal, and how to do it, command it to come…

TIMING

Perhaps the second most violated principle, behind ‘asking’ for healing, is the principle of timing.

There is a time for everything. Our souls become anxious for any number of reasons and we get out of God’s time. Perhaps everyone is ‘praying’ for someone to get out of a wheelchair, so someone decides to pull the poor guy out of the chair, and failure and heartbreak ensue. I went to a meeting where RW Schambach was ministering. Rev. Schambach had been an assistant to A.A. Allen, a famous healing evangelist, and had seen many healings in his own ministry, as well. That night there were present many in wheelchairs, but he never tried to pull them out. Why? Because he would have been out of God’s timing. Now, we can influence God’s timing by our faith, but we must not get out of His timing.

Sometimes I have ministered healing instantly, and effectively. In other cases I have waited weeks, months, even years before I knew I could effectively minister. I have prepared people for days, even months, to get healed. The wait never stopped me from loving the person, but I could not minister effectively until God said, “Iťs TIME!’

Check the record in Acts 3…

Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. Acts 3:1-6 KJV

Do you see the walk by the Spirit with regard to timing? The man was laid daily at the Beautiful gate of the Temple. Who do you think had used that entrance many times to enter the Temple, but had never ministered to him? Yes, Jesus Himself. But the Lord never ministered to him because the timing issue involved. I’m sure He loved him. Perhaps He and the apostles knew this man by name. But He never ministered to him, because even Jesus Himself had to walk by the Spirit. And, in the Spirit, there is timing.

Now when it comes to someone dying, or any other emergency, you STILL must regard the principle of God’s timing. Jesus knew Lazarus was sick, but He didn’t rush over to minister to him because He would have been out of the Father’s timing. Wait until God gives you a clear word in your spirit, then act.

FLEXIBILITY

Jesus was utterly selfless. He did some of the most seemingly absurd things to get people healed. He embraced a leper. He spit on the ground, made clay and stuck it in a guy’s eyes. He stopped funeral processions. He had Lazarus dug up. It wasn’t a healing, but He made water into wine. Jesus was never ‘married’ to a technique. He did whatever needed to be done, simply, majestically, lovingly.

They tell the story of Smith Wigglesworth, how he always wanted to minister to the sickest person present. One time, they dragged a sick woman up on stage. Smith said, “Let her go!” She fell on the floor. They picked her up. He said, “Let her go!” She fell again, and was picked up. He said again, “Let her go!” She fell again. Now people were getting angry. But this time, when they picked her up, her tumor lay on the floor. Another time, he punched a guy in the stomach, sending him flying off the stage. Again, healed.

Kathryn Kuhlman would stand on stage until the Lord showed her what He was doing, and she would begin to call out the healings in different parts of the room. People would come forward healed, and testify. John G. Lake would drive through town, promising people that there would be demonstrations of the Spirit at his meetings. Then he would back up his promises. The power of the Lord was present to heal…

You and I must be willing, zealous, and confident to follow the Spirit’s leading in crucial situations. We become this way by practicing His presence every day. Do you realize that the King of glory dwells in you and that you are never, ever truly alone?

As surely as I can think, and perceive my own presence (who am I? where am I? what am I doing?), I can perceive His presence as well. The presence of God is so real, so powerful, and so practical that if you ever get a revelation of it, it will change your life forever. If my wife is present, I can talk with her, and she with me, as long as I acknowledge her presence. If I ignore her, we cannot talk. Yeshua is present with you. He never leaves you, even when you sin, or forsakes you. If you acknowledge His presence, you can talk with Him at any time, and He with you, making you more than a conqueror in any situation.

PATIENCE

There are times when total healing does not fully come the first time you pray for someone. One time I was called to the hospital to minister to a young woman whose body had been crushed in a car accident. Being a clergyman, I was admitted immediately to the womans side in the ICU. Her body was in a coma, and she was trembling. The Holy Spirit said, “Her brain is swelling!” I spoke out loud, “Brain, I command you to quit swelling in Jesus’ name.” Immediately, her body quit trembling, and she shortly came out of the coma.

I ministered to her four times over the course of a month, each time the doctors said healing was impossible. She would be brain damaged, scarred, unable to walk, etc. She walked out of that hospital totally whole, bless God forever. Lake would have people return to his Healing Rooms until they got their full healing.

I once saw a group of severely retarded and handicapped children walking in to a restaurant. I asked the Holy Spirit how He would heal them. He said, “One part at a time.”

The key, when you go to minister, is to ask God what He wants to do at that moment.

If He says, “I want to heal their back.” You say, “Back, I command you to be healed in Jesus name!” If He says, “There is a demon of infirmity in the colon.” You say, “Demon in the colon, I command you to come out!” And it happens. If He says nothing…you wait. Perhaps you need to go back and prepare the person more fully for healing (see part three). If you are patient, loving, wise and bold, you will do the best that is possible under the circumstances. People will be blessed, and God will be glorified.

Now go and heal the sick!

Remember, dear ones, we must be about our Father’s business…