Healing for Everyone Part 2

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Healing for Everyone Part 2

• William P. Wilson MD

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How Does God Heal?

• In my first lecture I said he heals in six ways
• 1. He heals with this divine power
• 2. He heals through health professionals
• 3. He heals with time
• 4. He heals by giving us the forbearance to bear
  a thorn in the flesh

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How Does God Heal?

• 6. He heals by conforming us to his image
  spiritually
• What does Jesus Heal
• He heals the whole person
• He heals our bodies
• He heals our souls (psyche)
• He heals our spirit

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What does God Heal?

• We have to remember that we are not tripartite we
  are unity or a system made up of three functional
  units
• These three units are a system
• If one unit goes bad it profoundly influences the
  other units (1 Corinthians 1212-26)

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What does God Heal?

• All of us know that the body is subject to all
  kinds of diseases
• God can heal them all
• Unfortunately he doe not heal them often
• When he does he does so for his glory

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Healing the Body

• It is always possible that God wants to heal our
  body so it behooves us to pray in faith for
  healing of any disease.
• We should not continue our effort if we have not
  achieved results after fervently praying

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Healing the Body

• James (514,15) told us how to pray for the sick
• Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the
  elders of the church to pray over them and anoint
  them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the
  prayer offered in faith will make them well the
  Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned,
  they will be forgiven.

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Healing the Body

• If the sickness is localized to a specific part
  of the body we should lay hands on that part as
  we pray. Of course there are certain parts that
  we should not touch!
• Agnes Sanford always visualized the healing
  light of Gods presence focused on the person
  when she prayed. I have used this from time to
  time.
• Pray fervently in the Spirit

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Healing the Psyche

• There are a number of major areas that need
  healing
• On of the most common that I encounter is low
  self esteem
• These people have a view of their self that is
  distorted by early life experiences
• The way this is changed is to teach them who they
  are in Christ

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Who am I in Christ?

• The Bible makes it plain that I am Gods child
• I am a son or daughter
• I am a prince or princess
• I am a servant
• Therefore, I am loved unconditionally
• I am significant
• I am secure

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Who am I in Christ?

• Neil Andersons book Living Free in Christ will
  detail this for you
• It is important that a person with low self
  esteem realize they are believing lies about
  themselves that they must repudiate. This is done
  by an act of the will

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Who am I in Christ?

• Another thing to do is to set down with a friend
  or counselor and make a list of the things you
  like about yourself and in a separate column list
  the things you dont like
• The friend and counselor can help you identify
  both characteristics
• List not only talents, but personality
  characteristics and spiritual assets

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Healing the Psyche

• A second common problem lies in the emotions
• There are uncontrolled emotions especially anger
• There is emotional isolation
• There is the inability to express or receive love

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Healing the Psyche

• There is a psyche filled with misbeliefs. These
  can be healed by learning the truth. The source
  of truth is the Bible
• When misbeliefs (lies) are corrected the persons
  emotional life will be changed

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Healing the Psyche

• One of the primary interventions to be used in
  healing the psyche is what is called inner
  healing or healing of memories
• This technique was introduced by Agnes Sanford
• How is it carried out?

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Inner Healing

• Inner healing is the reeducation of the
  subconscious
• All of us have an inner child of the past. This
  is the sum of all the memories of our childhood
  especially the painful ones.
• These memories determine how we perceive and
  behave in the present, but also what we expect to
  happen in the future

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Inner Healing

• In this intervention we pray with our eyes
  closed. We ask God who is the Lord of time to
  take us back to the place where we had the
  traumatic experience by visualizing it.
• We will then relive the experience as it happened
  originally. We will allow ourselves to experience
  the emotion that we felt at the time

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Inner Healing (cont.)

• We then ask Jesus what he would do or say in the
  experience to heal it. If he comes into the
  visualization we allow him to say what the person
  thinks he would say and act in a way to heal the
  emotion

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Inner Healing (cont.)

• Inner healing is most useful in healing post
  abortion syndromes and unresolved grief.
• Here we can have the person visualize themselves
  with the child or loved one. They take or lead
  them up to the threshold of Gods kingdom and
  commit them to God for their eternal destiny.
  They then visualize angels coming and taking the
  baby/person off into the light of Gods presence.

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Confession Repentance and Forgiveness

• Many people are riddled with shame and its
  accompanying guilt
• They need to confess to themselves, God and one
  other person
• Their confessor must then seek to lead them into
  repentance

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Repentance

• Repentance has two aspects
• One it begins with a godly sorrow
• Two it is attended to a determination to amend
  their ways
• When they have truly repented they can be forgiven

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Forgiveness

• In John 2023 Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to His
  disciples and told them that henceforth they
  could forgive sins or refuse to forgive sins
• To forgive sins we say, In Jesus name and by his
  power you are forgiven!

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Forgiveness

• In the process of confession and repentance and
  forgiveness
• It is important that the person confessing
  confess to individual sins (Psalm 513) and that
  they be for given individually
• If the person says that they know God has
  forgiven them but they cannot forgive themselves
  help them understand the arrogance of such a
  statement.

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Exhortation

• An important healing intervention is exhortation
• Many times life is hard and full of traumatic
  events
• It is our job to encourage a person to persevere
  when they are discouraged

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Demonization

• Satan interacts with persons in several ways
• He oppresses them
• He obsesses them
• He possesses them

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Deliverance

• Although one rarely sees a person who is
  demonized it is necessary that we realize Satan
  can possess a person
• Any mature Christian can deliver a demonized
  person from the dominion of Satan
• It is done by asking the demon(s) who he/they
  is/are and command him in the name of Jesus to
  depart