I've been experiencing many victories over pain/sickness in myself and people around me and I've been learning as I go. I want to share my experience in hope that it'll encourage you to claim your victories in yourself and people around you as well. Here are what I've learned through some experiences.
Divide and Conquer
Our friend recently got into a car accident and her car was totaled. She felt pain all over her body so I thought it’d be good for me to give her a visit. I came and asked her where she hurt and she said all over. I thought to myself "OK. Where do I begin then." Every time we press in for healing, it is warfare. The person in pain is the battlefield. The pain and spirits of infirmities are our enemy. If it is warfare then we need to think of battle strategies. I thought to myself "OK. Divide and conquer. We'll work from top down." There was no problem in her head but she had pain breathing normally. So we started with the pain in her chest so she could breath freely. We started praying and after about 10 tries or so (about 10 minutes total) her chest was completely free from pain and she was able to take deep breath in and out with no more pain. Next was her hip. For some reason, I wasn't sure, we could not claim the healing in her hip completely. She said about 30% of the pain left and would not get better than 30% healed. After several tries her mom, who was also in the accident, came and we prayed for her instead. We did the same thing, divide and conquer.
Lesson: If the person is having pain all over and you don't know where to start, try this method of divide and conquer and work your ways around to take your victory piece by piece.
Be Persistent
Quitters always lose. From our example above, it took many tries for the person's breathing pain to completely leave. If we had given up on the first or second try, we would have not claim all our victory. Please note though that each time we pray, she got partially better and better. So there was progress each time or so. If you pray, and each time there is NO progress at all after many tries, you are doing something WRONG and should try a DIFFERENT method. Remember, this is warfare. If one method doesn't work, try something else. We'll look at that later, but regardless, be persistent and unwavering.
Lesson: Be persistent. Don't give up. Try different methods.
Plant Seeds of Faith
This is a very big subject and I will not share everything on here simply because it'll be too bothersome to read it all. I'll share my experience only.
It used to be that every time I run or jog, my knee would hurt. I went jogging two weeks ago at Mile Square Park next to my house and my knee started hurting as usual. About 5 minutes into it the pain came and it was bearable at first so I just went on as usual. About 15 minutes into it, I couldn't run anymore and I had to do something about it. Doing the only thing I knew that works, I commanded the pain to leave. It left and I would jog on. But about 20 seconds into it, the pain came back. I would command it to leave again, it leaves, but each time it would come back worst and worst as I continue to jog. The problem is that each time it comes back, it would challenge my faith. I find this to be one of the most difficult thing to overcome in praying for myself. I can feel the pain myself and it is apparent. Luke 8:11 say that God's word is a seed. If God's word of healing is a seed and commanding the pain to leave is planting that seed, each time I feel my own pain, the enemy (pain) would dig up the that seed of faith and nullify the healing. To overcome this, I commanded it leave, and as usual it left and came back. But this time around, I say to myself "The Word is good. The Word is good." Repeating it again and again to reassure myself in order to fight back the enemy's challenge. To my surprise, it works! The pain diminished. I ran even faster and faster to test it out! During the last strip, I even sprint as fast as I possible can without pain and had a great exercise for my body and my faith that day! The pain never came back, even the next morning like it usually would have.
Lesson: Plant a seed of faith, not doubt. God works in absolute and there is no uncertainty when it comes to the things of God as all things are possible with God. There is only uncertainty with us humans. If you are uncertain, such as praying "God, IF it be Your will...", you are planting a seed of doubt. If you don't know God's will, go find out what God's will is first before you pray. Romans 4:20 says to not waver through unbelief but be strengthened in the promises of God instead. Find out what God's promises are first and operate it in with no doubt.
Your Word is a Weapon
Most of us, growing up in church, knows that in spiritual warfare, God's word is the weapon. Ephesians Chapter 4 describes the full armor of God. Notice the sword in verse 17. It does not say the sword is the word of God. Words in of themselves have no power, but it says the sword of the Spirit is the word of God. This means that the Spirit is the one who does the fighting, but it's our spoken words that engages the Holy Spirit into battle with us against our enemy. Too often we speak empty words without engaging into battle with the Holy Spirit on our side and so we see no results. We want results but we think that everything is up to God and so we don't engage in battle with Him on our side. This is the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, and so there is nothing we can't overcome with the Holy Spirit on our side. Asking God to do the healing for us from the comfort of our own home is not engaging in battles with God on our side. Hence the laying on of hand is important; not that God can't heal over a distance though. If the occasion allow, we should do what the Bible commanded and lay on hands even if it means we need to drive to the sick person's house. We need to be in battle as well with Him and we fight using our spoken words and laying on of hand. Enough theology. Here's what happened on one occasion.
My co-worker caught a cold from a business trip and his cold symptons has been on going for a week without any sign that it would get better. So I thought I should pray for him. When praying for him, I cursed and commanded the viruses causing the cold to die and spoke strength to his body. The entire prayer was about 10 seconds or so. The very next morning he woke up and was really surprised at how he felt. He said he regained strength back in his body and the cold symptoms are mostly gone. He told me he felt about 80% better (100% being completely healed) and felt like he could have ran a mile. I believe that the cold causing viruses did indeed died since I commanded so and his body still has some lingering cold symptons (the remaining 20%) as the body re-adjust itself for the next couple of days. Lesson: My spoken word was the sword of the Spirit that struck down the enemy. Mark 11:23 says "I tell you the truth, if anyone SAYS TOthis mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." Too often we speak to God about our mountains instead to speaking to the mountain about God as the Bible commanded. Your word is a weapon. Use it against your mountains (obstacles or enemy).
Be Specific if Necessary
Teresa had pain in her left knee. At first she said it was bearable but wanted me to pray against it anyway. And so I did and it went away and I thought everything was all good and dandy. However, the pain came back again later. I prayed against it again and it would come back again. Prayed again then we went to the gym. After the gym, she is really hurting now and can hardly walk. So after going back and forth with it several times over a period of two days, I got kind of upset. I know the word is not being dug up because I am not wavering in doubt. I don't want to give up but be persitant so ask God what is going on. As I prayed, I saw the word "HEAL". I thought to myself "OK...Heal what??" Then I thought to myself "Hmm...that's a good question. Heal what?" So I did a Google search on the anatomy of the knee so I know what to heal. I pulled up this image:
With my newfound knowledge, I got very specific. I commanded the cartilage to be healed. I called out the synovial lining, and the synovial fluid and spoke healing to it, each by name. Then came the moment of truth, I asked Teresa to test out her knee. As she bend her knee, her face lits up and she said "Hey! It doesn't hurt anymore!" She ran up and down the stair to test it out and was quiet overjoyed. The pain never came back. This is actually kind of tricky. I usually try to be general, because in being too specific, I can be wrong. I am no doctor. I don't know the theology behind it. You can work out the theology yourself somehow if you really want but that's what happened. What if I had no google around? Well, I don't know to be honest. Thank God for the internet. Lesson: Try different methods. Be specific in the part you want to heal if you have too. It seems like that the more powerful you become in healing (if you invest your talent, God will increase your talent), the more general you can be. But if you're just starting out, try the divide and conquer method, and be specific if it seems like you're not getting the results you want.
There are many other things involve but this blog is already long as is. Next time I'll talk about common pitfalls to avoid. Feel free to ask me questions if you want in the mean time.
-An D.
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