Practical Approach to Healing
I. Practical Approach To Healing Prayer.
A. While we will look at theology, the emphasis will be on encouragement in receiving healing personally as well as
in praying for others to receive healing.
1. We want to bridge the gap between what we believe or know, and what we practice.
2. My own testimony here.
B. This session will also tie into the following session on Gifts of the Holy Spirit and Healing.
C. My key text is Micah 2:12.
1. While this is a prophetic promise of the Messiah who will deliver Israel at the 2nd Coming, it also is reference
to the first coming of Messiah Jesus who broke through the walls of our captivity and brought us out, to save, heal,
and deliver us.
II. God Created Adam And Put Him In The Garden. Then He Took A Rib From his Side And Created Eve,
That Adam Would Not Be Alone.
A. He blessed them and gave them authority over all He made. (Genesis 1:26-31).
1. God’s good and loving intentions toward man are seen in His provision and His fellowship.
2. The greatest gift he gave them was the chance to choose – He wanted voluntary lovers. There was only
one rule
3. Don’t eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, if you do, you will die. (Genesis 2:17).
B. A ‘usurper of power’ was also found in the garden. (Genesis 3:1). This serpent’s name was Satan.
1. As the highest angel of creation, he became infatuated with his own beauty and power and sought to usurp
even the throne of God. (Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28).
2. So deceptive was he that he convince multitudes of angels to join his rebellion, and in the end, in barely a
moment, they were all cast out.
3. In his burning anger and hatred toward God he set his vengeance on that which God loved.
4. Though Adam and Eve had authority over him, they fell for his deception.
5. The power of that act and its consequences. (Genesis 3:9-19).
6. The tenderness of God even in correction and a slight look into the mystery of His plan. (Genesis 3:15, 21).
C. From that time on, sin and death ruled over men. The sickness of sin affected every area of life
1. Physically, spiritually, socially, and emotionally.
2. In his rage, Satan invented more and more ways to damage, destroy, and kill man. His goal – get man to
curse the God who made him.
D. But from the beginning God had a plan, (Ephesians 1:3-10)
1. And so He raised up a nation through Abraham.
2. Though they often went astray, He continually demonstrated His love by sending them deliverers men and
women with bright spirits, full of the revelation of the greatness, goodness, and beauty of God.
3. His desire was for the earth to know His goodness.
4. One of them expressed that in Psalm 103 and 107 – a foretaste.
E. Through this people He promised a deliverer, a second Adam.
1. One day, in the small, remote town of Bethlehem, this Deliverer was born to a virgin named Mary, just as the
prophets foretold.
III. Jesus Is The One Who Broke Through For Us. Micah 2:13
A. In the plan of the ages, God emptied himself of power and glory and became a servant to reconcile men back to
their heavenly Father. (Romans 5, Philippians 2:5-11, Hebrews 4:14, 5:7-11, 12:1-3). Where Adam failed us, Jesus broke
through for us.
B. He broke through in overcoming Satan in the wilderness. (Luke 4:1-15).
1. After 40 days of fasting, as a man, He resisted every temptation of Satan
2. Satan was powerless against Him until a ‘more opportune time’. (vs. 13).
C. He broke through in destroying the works of Satan over men, body, soul, and spirit.
1. He healed every consequence of the curse right in the midst of broken, human hearts.
2. He got his hands dirty with lepers, and blind men, and paralytics, and the sick and diseased, the demonized
and unclean.
3. Some examples; a.) Mark 2:1-12 He heals and forgives the paralytic. b.) Luke 5:12,13, He touches an
unclean leper, making him clean in every sense. c.) He rebuked afflicting spirits, cast out demons, and gave sight
to the blind.
4. The point wasn’t just about power – it was about the goodness and testimony of the Father. (John 5:19).
5. He even broke through in the unthinkable realm of raising the dead.
(Mark 5:41, John 11).
6. Peter and John’s descriptions - (Acts 10:38, I John 3:8).
D. The Gospels are full of examples of healing. Do a study with a highlighter.
1. Ask questions and note methods and formulas.
2. In all that, don’t miss the compassionate heart of God reflected in the acts of Jesus. He looked into people’s
eyes. He touched their broken bodies and lives. He restored hope and dignity and freedom. HE BROKE TROUGH
FOR US.
E. Then He broke through in the most painful act of all, the cross.
1. Gethsemane was a preview.
2. It took the cross to undo Adam’s sin and pay what justice demanded.
3. It took the stripes to forgive, justify and heal us.
F. Then in the final act, sealing the breakthrough forever, He rose from the grave.
1. I would have loved to be in the tomb.
2. He took the keys of death hell and the grave, rose through the mid heavens, and sat down at the right hand
of the Father, all according to plan.
3. From the foundations of the earth He saw us seated with Him there.
4. Here the initial fulfillment of Micah 2:134 is seen. “THE ONE WHO BREAKS OPEN WILL COME UP BEFORE
THEM”.
5. He is seated at the right hand of the Father and there makes intercession for us, as the first fruit of many
brothers.
IV. "THEY WILL BREAK OUT, PASS THROUGH THE GATE, AND GO OUT BY IT. THEIR KING WILL PASS BEFORE
THEM WITH THE LORD AT THEIR HEAD.”
A. After His resurrection Jesus told the disciple to wait for the promise of the Spirit.
1. Then on the day of Pentecost, the promise was fulfilled. (Acts 2).
2. This was ‘break out day’ for the Church.
3. Jesus, the gate for the sheep, broke out, and now by the Spirit, they were empowered to pass through that
gate and to continue to destroy the works of darkness.
4. Now instead of one Jesus, Satan had a whole Church full of Jesus’ to contend with.
B. And this is the promise to us today – He already broke through.
1. He commissioned us to go in Mk. 16 with the promise of power.
2. He releases to us the same Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
3. And then He promises to pass before us.
C. In this day He desires to raise up His Bride as a Healing Community full of His presence.
1. He’s after more than the ‘platform guy’.
D. The Question is, “Who will go up?” Who will take up the cross and go?” Before we get excited about this consider a couple
of things.
1. The war is still on.
2. Faith is spilled ‘risk’ and ‘contend’.
3. It’s more than just about healing – its about a life surrendered.
a. The secret place and the market place.
b. The King’s chambers and the public meeting.