God heals. It’s not us. But he honored us with the privilege of being part of the process. Here are a few more things I’ve learned that will help you grow in releasing healings and miracles. And I also included a step-by-step template of how I minister in healing. And it works.  :)

• Ask people what they want. (especially when praying for believers)

I first realized how important this is when I was asked to pray for a woman with several physical illnesses. She was a believer and asked me to “pray for her.” I asked her what she wanted. She said “I want you to pray for me.” I realized that deep inside I wasn’t convinced she wanted healing. She just wanted prayer. I decided to give her a hard time. Just a little. I asked again “what do you want?” Then I asked straight up “So… do you want prayer, or do you want healing?”
It really makes a difference when you make someone say it out loud. Don’t just pray for people, because they came for prayer. Ask things like “What do you want? Do you want prayer for healing? Or do you want healing?” Use your divine imagination, and get the person to. Imagining what you would like can release hope, and hope releases faith. Plus, it’s just helpful to mess with people a little. Especially if they’re believers. Stir up some of the religious demon strongholds keeping them from having faith.

• Own the fact that you have the gift of healing.

In the previous post, (click here if you haven’t read it) I talked about impartation and receiving the gifting and anointing for healing. If we’re commissioned by Jesus to heal the sick, there’s nothing wrong with telling someone you “have the gift of healing.” In most cases when I offer to pray for someone who is not acquainted with the ministry of healing, their response is simple. “Yes, I appreciate that, if you want to keep me in your prayers.” There’s no reason for them to believe I have the power to heal, if all I tell them is that I can pray for them. They may as well think it’s just like the president asking America to keep the families of fallen soldiers in our prayers. But this is different. And this needs to be made clear somehow. My wife and I were praying for some refugees from the war in Ukraine recently, and to my surprise at the time, she boldly told them “we have the gift of healing.” Honestly, I believe that little nuance of how she introduced the idea of us praying for them really set the stage for faith. The older gentleman suffering from pain due to Osteoarthritis in his shoulder could not work for three years because of his condition. When we prayed for him, 100% of his pain left instantly. Allow me to point out however, that we prayed two times. The first time we prayed the pain left, but there was still clicking. So we prayed again, and the clicking went away. The look on someone’s face after being miraculously healed is priceless.

• Don’t always pray. Mix it up.

When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t always necessarily pray.  One time he made mud with his saliva, and rubbed it in the person’s eyes. Another time, he touched the leper and all he said was “I will; be clean.” Now that’s a short prayer. I believe Jesus mixed it up intentionally, to keep us from making formulas. Ask Holy Spirit how to pray. Or whether to pray at all! My wife has seen many miracles happen without praying at all. As someone walked up for prayer, she just asked them to check out the pain, and at that moment they realized it was gone. This is not easy, because we’re so programmed to PRAY for the sick vs. HEALING the sick. But it is very helpful to start making this shift in your brain.

Here’s a six-step template of what has proved to be the most effective methodology for ministering in healing in my personal experience.

1. Find out the condition. And if there’s pain, find out where it’s at on a scale of 1 to 10. (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT)
2. Ask people what they want. (My first point in this post)
3. Lay hands on the location of pain (if appropriate). Power is released through our hands. Pray and declare healing. Don’t beg God to heal! COMMAND the pain to leave, and release healing power, Gods goodness, peace, love etc. Keep it short.
4. Ask the person to do something that will show where the pain is at now. Be very specific on the 1 to 10 pain level scale.
5. Celebrate, give thanks! If there is any improvement at all, give Jesus thanks, and celebrate out loud. And encourage the recipient to also.
6. Pray again a second time, or even a third time, if there wasn’t instant relief. Don’t give up. Be persistent. Sometimes just the fact that you’re so persistent releases faith in the heart of the recipient, because they start to believe that you actually believe something could happen.

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Here are a few books and resources I highly recommend you get, to get you moving into seeing supernatural breakthrough.

When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles – Bill Johnson  This was the book that ruined me.  I can’t imagine reading this book, and being content with powerless Christianity any longer.

Hosting the Presence Curriculum Kit: Unveiling Heaven’s Agenda – Bill Johnson

Books by Randy Clark

Walking in Supernatural Healing Power – Chris Gore

Chris Gore is the overseer of the Bethel Healing Rooms where hundreds of people get healed every Satturday at Bethel in Redding.  My wife and I have personally served in the Healing Rooms ministry under Chris and he is just phenomenal.  I highly recommend hearing what he has to say on healing.

Free-Falling: True Stories of One Man’s Leap into the Miraculous – Chuck Parry

I have not read this book yet, but I’ve served under Chuck, and heard many of the stories in this book.  Chuck probably has more faith than anyone I’ve ever met.  He has seen the absolutely most mind boggling miracles you can imagine.  And the amount of joy he walks in is contagious.