How to Heal the Sick

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Double Vision For A Single Mission 2. The Big Breakthrough 3. Laying On Of Hands 4. Laying On Of Hands - Plus 5. Let The Sick Lay Hands On You 6. Talk To A Mountain 7. What You See Is What You Get 8. Some Conditions For Healing 9. Anointing With Oil 10. Healing Through Intercessory Prayer 11. Healing Through Use Of Prayer Cloths 12. Other Ways To Heal The Sick 13. What If I Don't Get Healed 14. Being Sensitive To The Holy Spirit 15. Casting Out Devils 16. The Gift Of Faith 17. Creative Miracles 18. Growing Out Arms And Legs 19. Go Into All The World ... Heal The Sick CHAPTER 1 DOUBLE VISION FOR A SINGLE MISSION By Charles and Frances In June of 1980, God gave us a vision of the world with silver and gold bands covering the entire globe — but not in the orderly sense you would expect to see them. These bands were spilling all over the world like melted silver and gold rivulets and running into all sorts of odd little places — mountains and valleys alike. There was no obvious plan of any kind represented by these silver and gold rivulets — they went hither and thither all over the place. Sometimes they were wide, and sometimes they were super skinny. In some places it looked like a big blob of melted silver and gold had fallen, but there was no pattern of any kind! Then we saw students begin to rise up and stand on these melted silver and gold bands. We began to ponder on this, because in the beginning it seemed to us like nothing but a huge hodgepodge, but slowly God began to reveal what this vision meant, and how it applied to our ministry. The more we examined this divine vision, the more we began to understand that God was telling us to take the total message of salvation, which includes healing, to the entire world, by letting the masses learn how to operate in the supernatural and heal the sick. Our hearts began to sing as God continued the revelation of what he wanted us to do. First, he directed us to teach on the subject of HOW TO HEAL THE SICK. We had seen students from the City of Light School of Ministry standing on the silver and gold bands, and thought momentarily that they were going to go to all parts of the world to teach the nationals how to heal the sick. Somehow this understanding did not give us total assurance that this was actually what the vision meant. We continued to think more about the vision. Then the picture expanded even more, and we saw the video schools going into ALL the world — into the small places where evangelists never go, to teach all the people in the remotest places of the world how to lay hands on the sick and heal them. The students who learned from these video tapes would then go out and preach the gospel to the poor, heal the brokenhearted, preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, and set at liberty those who are bruised. For the first time, we plainly saw the identity of the students standing on the bands! We had seen students of all nationalities, but had thought they would be coming to the school here in Texas. Then we realized they were the ones we might not ever meet, the ones who might only see us through video tapes, but the ones who had received the message of how to heal the sick and had gone out to stretch forth their hands to the sick! This is God's timing for another great move of his Spirit as the masses are being trained to go out and minister on a one-to-one basis. Bible colleges and schools of ministry have sprung up all over as a hungry world says, "Teach us how to operate in the supernatural the way the original disciples did!" There is such a hungering among God's people to learn more about the things of God that we believe in a few years there will not be enough schools to fill the need, and the people will have to be put on a wait-list to get into the schools that are already in operation. What a thrilling thought, and what a thrilling time to be alive! We were confident that God had opened our spirits to a dynamic, far-reaching mission of teaching the masses how simple it is to become a miracle-working disciple like those in the book of Acts. The Monday after we finished teaching on Friday, God supernaturally sent a missionary to our school, who knew nothing about our video tape ministry, and we gave him fourteen hours of teaching on how to heal the sick. On Tuesday, God sent another missionary! We gave him a complete set of teaching tapes as well. He had a video player in Africa, but he desperately needed tapes. He called us within two weeks and reported that he had rented a building in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), which would hold about three hundred people, and after inserting one small ad in the newspaper, he had turn-away crowds to see the teaching. Great numbers were healed as they watched these tapes, and eighteen were saved and baptized in water the following Sunday! In just two or three months, video schools have started among the Catholic charismatics in Lima, Peru, and other schools are in Bolivia, the Philippines, three other countries in Africa and requests are coming in from all over the world for this particular series of tapes containing the "how to's" of healing! As we held a Healing Seminar in Kansas shortly after this, Pastor Fred Kirkpatrick told us of a prophecy about the end times which literally exploded our faith as a confirmation of the part this teaching will play in what we believe to be the end of the end times before Jesus comes for those who love and obey him. Our book was ready for the typesetter with the exception of the Introduction, when we contacted the publisher of a book entitled PERTINENT PROPHECIES I by John M. and Dorothea M. Gardner, and received permission to reprint the following prophecy, given by Tommy Hicks, noted evangelist, in 1961. VISION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES My message begins July 25, about 2:30 in the morning at Winnipeg, Canada. I had hardly fallen asleep when the vision and the revelation that God gave me came before me. The vision came three times, exactly in detail, the morning of July 25, 1961. I was so stirred and so moved by the revelation that this has changed my complete outlook upon the body of Christ, and upon the end-time ministries. The greatest thing that the church of Jesus Christ has ever been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to help men and women to realize and understand the thing that God is trying to give to his people in the end times. I received a letter several weeks ago from one of our native evangelists down in Africa, down in Nairobi. This man and his wife were on their way to Tanganyika. They could neither read nor could they write, but we had been supporting them for over two years. As they entered into the territory of Tanganyika, they came across a small village. The entire village was evacuating because of a plague that had hit the village. He came across natives that were weeping, and he asked them what was wrong. They told him of their mother and father who had suddenly died, and they had been dead for three days. They had to leave. They were afraid to go in; they were leaving them in the cottage. He turned and asked them where they were. They pointed to the hut and he asked them to go with him, but they refused. They were afraid to go. The native and his wife went to this little cottage and entered in where the man and woman had been dead for three days. He simply stretched forth his hand in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spoke the man's name and the woman's name and said, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to come back to your bodies." Instantaneously these two heathen people who had never known Jesus Christ as their Savior sat up and immediately began to praise God. The spirit and the power of God came into the life of those people. To us that may seem strange and a phenomenon, but that is the beginning of these end-time ministries. God is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of, the no-accounts. He is going to take every man and every woman and he is going to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God. In the book of Acts we read that "In the last days," God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I wonder if we realized what he meant when God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I do not think I fully realize nor could I understand the fullness of it, and then I read from the book of Joel: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain" (Joel 2:23).

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