Healing Scriptures and Prayers

Healing Scriptures and Prayers

by Jeff Doles
Walking Barefoot Ministries
ISBN 0-9744748-1-9
6 x 9 in., 128 pages

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GOD WANTS YOU WELL!

Someone has said that prayer is not about overcoming God's reluctance, but about laying hold of His willingness. This can also be said of healing ministry — it is not about overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness to heal. God's willingness is seen in His Word, where He has repeatedly revealed His desire to heal His people. The format of healing Scriptures and healing prayers is designed to help you lay hold of God's willingness to heal you by laying hold of His Word and praying it back to Him in faith.

The Bible says that "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10.17). The Word of God reveals the will of God, and so enables us to pray effectively. "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him" (1 John 5.14,15). Healing is the will of God for His people, as these Scriptures show, so you can pray confidently, knowing that He hears you, and that you will receive your healing. In this book you will discover:

• God's healing words in the Old Testament
• How healing is revealed in the names of God
• How to choose life
• God's healing words in the New Testament
• The healing ministry of Jesus
• The healing ministry of the disciples
• Life restoration stories in the Bible
• How healing is revealed in the name of Jesus
• The Lord's Prayer as healing prayer
• The Lord's Supper as healing prayer

This is also a great tool to help you minister healing to others.

"Faith in the promises of God is the most important aspect of the ministry of divine healing, as well as the way to a walk in divine health. Jeff Doles has labored diligently to correctly lay out those healing promises in such a manner that this book can be both a refreshment to the soul of an individual needing a wonderful touch of Christ, or the person who is desiring to operate in the ministry of divine healing and setting people free. I would also recommend this book to every Healing Team/Healing Rooms ministry as an important working instrument for their own faith and the building of faith in those to whom they minister."

— Wayne C. Anderson, Founder & Apostolic Director
International Apostolic Ministries International
Healing evangelist and president of Standsure Ministries

"Jeff Doles has blessed the body of Christ with Healing Scriptures and Prayers. This well written book will take the reader on an enlightening journey through the Word of God. Familiar passages of Scripture will take on new meaning and many special treasures of knowledge will bring increased understanding of the ways and the grace of God. This book is not just for those wanting physical healing, but for everyone who wants a deeper and richer relationship with God."

— Ben R. Peters
President, Open Heart Ministries
International conference speaker and author

"I know this book comes from the heart of Jeff Doles, because he has a passion to see people walk in divine health. I have known Jeff for years as a student and lover of the Word of God. He has done a wonderful job laying out the scriptures on healing. As I read through them, my heart explodes with faith as I see the great love and plan God has for His people. I love the prayers because they are such a practical way to make the scriptures become yours. I believe this book to be an excellent resource for those hungering to walk in divine health."

— Rick C. Wilson
Senior Pastor, Revival Outreach Center, Dover, FL
Apostolic Director, International Apostolic Ministries

Old Testament Healing Scriptures

Volume 1 of the Healing Scriptures and Prayers audio collection. Available in CD and as MP3 download.

Volume 1: Old Testament Scriptures
Read by Jeff Doles
Walking Barefoot Ministries

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Discover the powerful dynamics of prayer and faith in the Old Testament. Over 60 minutes of soaking prayer from the Psalms, Proverbs and Hebrew Prophets to help you receive healing from God.

TRACKS
  1/  Using Healing Scriptures
  2/  The LORD Who Heals
  3/  Healing Scriptures from the Psalms (Part 1)
  4/  Healing Scriptures from the Psalms (Part 2)
  5/  Healing Scriptures from the Psalms (Part 3)
  6/  Healing Scriptures from the Psalms (Part 4)
  7/  Healing Scriptures from the Book of Proverbs
  8/  Healing Scriptures from Isaiah (Part 1)
  9/  Healing Scriptures from Isaiah (Part 2)
10/  Healing Scriptures from Isaiah (Part 3)
11/  Healing Scriptures from Isaiah (Part 4)
12/  Healing Scriptures from the Prophets
13/  Close

Healing Names of God

Volume 3 of the Healing Scriptures and Prayers audio collection. Available in CD and as MP3 download.

Volume 3: Healing Names of God
Read by Jeff Doles
Walking Barefoot Ministries

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Discover the names of God in the Bible that display His ability and desire to heal. Over 70 minutes of soaking prayer and meditation on the healing names of God in the Bible to help you receive healing for your spirit, soul and body. Plus bonus tracks on choosing life, and the new covenant we can have with God through Jesus Christ.

TRACKS

  1/  The Healing Names of God
  2/  The LORD Will Provide
  3/  The LORD Who Heals You
  4/  The LORD My Banner
  5/  The LORD Who Sanctifies You
  6/  The LORD Is Peace
  7/  The LORD of Hosts
  8/  The LORD My Shepherd
  9/  The LORD Our Righteousness
10/  The LORD is There
11/  Almighty God
12/  Everlasting God
13/  God Most High
14/  The Living God
15/  God Who Forgives
16/  Other Healing Names
17/  Close

The Healing Ministry of Jesus

Volume 4 of the Healing Scriptures and Prayers audio collection. Available in CD and as MP3 download.

Volume 4: The Healing Ministry of Jesus
Read by Jeff Doles
Walking Barefoot Ministries

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Discover how the healing ministry of Jesus reveals God's will and desire to heal. Over 70 minutes of soaking prayer on the healing ministry of Jesus to help you receive healing from God.

TRACKS

  1/  The Healing Ministry of Jesus
  2/  Jesus is Anointed to Heal
  3/  The Centurion's Servant and Peter's Mother-in-law
  4/   Jesus Heals a Paralytic
  5/  Jairus' Daughter and the Woman with a Flow of blood
  6/  The Blind, Muted and Demonized are Healed
  7/  Healing on the Sabbath
  8/  Healing is the Children's Bread
  9/  All Things Are Possible
10/  Bartimaeus and a Deaf Man
11/  The Woman with a Spirit of Infirmity
12/  Jesus Heals Ten Lepers
13/  The Nobleman's Son
14/  At the Pool of Bethesda
15/  A Man Blind from Birth
16/  Jesus Healed Them All
17/  The Healing Signs of Messiah
18/  Close

The Healing Reawakening

REVIEW
The Healing Reawakening:
Reclaiming Our Lost Inheritance
by Frances MacNutt

Francis MacNutt has written an insightful book about how the ministry of healing has been greatly diminished in the Church for centuries (almost 1600 hundred years!). Healing was a major part of the ministry of Jesus and His disciples, the record of which takes up about a third of the Gospels, not to mention the book of Acts. Throughout, MacNutt emphasizes the importance of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, not just for healing ministry, but for every ministry.

MacNutt shows how healing ministry flourished for the first three centuries, and was then sidelined by nominal Christianity beginning with the Constantinian era. He details how ecclesiastical structures and the developing clergy/laity distinction quickly began to remove healing ministry from the hands of the people-it became a work for the "super-spiritual," and few could qualify to perform it (some of the Desert Fathers, for example). Healing shortly became the province of relics and shrines-and the clergy no longer had to deal with embarrassing questions when healings did not occur at their hands.

He also talks about how the purpose of God's love and compassion in healing had been severely neglected in the intervening centuries. Healing ministry became viewed strictly as a validation of truth, but was no longer necessary for faith. "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe" became the watchword, and interest in the display of God's love through healing fell by the way.

MacNutt discusses how the Platonic split between body and soul, and the severe doctrines of the Manichees (i.e. the intrinsic evil of the flesh, and especially of sexuality) further eviscerated the ministry of healing. During the middle ages, the development of the "divine right of kings" generated "the Royal Touch," and healing ministry was limited, by law, to the monarchs of England and France.

Although a committed Roman Catholic, MacNutt believes that the Reformation did not extend far enough in its scope-the Reformers continued to ignore the reality of healing ministry. Oh, they recognized that there had once been such a thing in Jesus' day, but now that time was past, and the ministry had ceased. So much for reformation!

But all along the way, there have been healing ministers and ministries among the people, arising in times of revival and when people were desperate for a healing touch from God. In the last 300 hundred years there have been some glimpses of healing ministry arising again, then faltering. Then it began trending upward in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mostly among the pentecostally inclined. These came to include the charismatic and "third wave" movements late in the mid-to-late 1900s, about which MacNutt writes from personal experience (the appendix is a testimony of how he received the baptism, or "release" of the Holy Spirit, into his life and ministry).

In all, Francis MacNutt brings us understanding about the decline of healing ministry, but also a hope and a challenge to welcome the release of the Holy Spirit and healing ministry back into the Western Church-just as it has been increasingly been experienced in the Third Word Church.

— Jeff Doles

Contend, O LORD

Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me;
Fight against those who fight against me.
Take up shield and buckler;
Arise and come to my aid.
Brandish spear and javelin against those who pursue me.
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame;
May those who plot my ruin be turned back in dismay.
May they be like chaff before the wind,
With the angel of the Lord driving them away;
May their path be dark and slippery,
With the angel of the Lord pursuing them.

Since they hid their net for me without cause
And without cause dug a pit for me,
May ruin overtake them by surprise—
May the net they hid entangle them,
May they fall into the pit, to their ruin.

Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD
And delight in his salvation.
My whole being will exclaim,
“Who is like you, O Lord?
You rescue the poor from those too strong for them,
The poor and needy from those who rob them.”

(Psalm 35:1-10)

My mother was healed of leukemia about four years ago. Recently, it has come back. She has been in the hospital for about four weeks now and has received a round of chemotherapy, but a new complication has arise in the form of an infection that has hindered her breathing.

As we drove up to Charlotte to visit her this past week, I have been meditating on Psalm 35, particularly in view of my mother’s need. She is a woman of faith; she belongs to the LORD, and His promises belong to her. So I have been praying this psalm on her behalf, calling on God to contend with the leukemia that is contending with her and fight against the infection that is fighting against her.

Meditating on this, I have been reminded about the twelve spies Moses sent to reconnoiter in the land of Canaan, which God had promised to give to the children of Israel. Ten spies came back, reporting that the land was indeed very good, but that it was full of giants. “There we saw the giants … and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight” (Numbers 13:33). However, the other two spies, Joshua and Caleb, came back saying,

The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, “a land which flows with milk and honey.” Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them. (Numbers 14:7-9)

The two remembered what the ten did not: God was with them—He would be contending with those who contended with them. The two did not see themselves as grasshoppers in the eyes of their enemies, or even in their own eyes. Rather, they saw these giants as grasshoppers in the eyes of God.

Leukemia and other forms of cancer are often seen as giants treading on us little grasshoppers. Fear strikes the heart at the mention of their name. But when we know the Lord as our help, we can look to Him to come against those things which come against us. Neither leukemia nor infection, nor any other sickness or disease, can match the strength of our God.

The NKJV rendering of verse 10 has particular significance for me in this situation.

All my bones shall say,
“Lord, who is like You,
Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him,
Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?”

Leukemia is a cancer of the blood, and the blood is produced by the marrow, which is in the bone. When God comes against the enemy for our sake, our bones—my mother’s bones—shall praise Him. We are believing God to give her fresh, new marrow to produce rich, healthy blood.

God contends on our behalf to fight against our enemies. That is why Jesus came. He took on all our foes at the cross—and prevailed. And now, we are “more than conquerors through Him who loved us (Romans 8:37). All that is left is for us to take hold of and apply that victory. This we do by faith. Please join your prayer and faith with ours as we say,

LORD, contend with the sickness that is contending with my mother; fight against the infection that is fighting against my mother. Cause all her bones to praise You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Faith Focuses on the Answer

“Do you want to be made well?” (John 5:6)

People often focus more on the problem than they do the solution.

Jesus went to the pool of Bethesda where a man who had been infirmed for thirty-eight years was waiting for the “moving of the water.” It was said that an angel would come down at a certain time and stir up the water, and whoever stepped into it first would be healed of whatever disease he had. So the man waited. When Jesus saw him lying there on his little pallet, and knowing how long he had been infirm, He asked him a very simple question: “Do you want to be made well?”

The man, however, had become so fixated on the problem (his infirmity) that he lost sight of the answer (healing), and he gave a terribly muddled answer: “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” This was not even the primary problem, but a secondary one associated with the particular way he desired to get the primary one solved. He did not have a clear picture of the solution he needed to his real problem, so he was unable to give a straightforward response to a Jesus’ simple question. His faith, like his reply, was confused.

Jesus addressed him again, taking his focus off the problem and onto the answer. He was simple and direct, with a three-point solution: “Rise. Take up your bed. Walk.” There was healing in those words. Now it was up to the man to believe and obey what Jesus said. Had he remained focused on the complexity of his problems, he might never have heard and believed, and received his healing. But once he focused on the answer, which is always going to be found in the Word of God, his primary problem was solved and the secondary one was no longer relevant. He rose, took up his bed and walked.

Consider Bartimaeus, a blind beggar who cried out for mercy as Jesus passed by (Mark 10:46-52). Jesus called him over and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?” Bartimaeus did not whine and complain about his blindness or how hard it was to be a beggar. He did not hesitate, but immediately spoke out the solution he desired, “Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.” He did not deny the problem. He fully recognized it, but his focus was on the answer—and the One who could bring it to pass. Jesus answered, “Go your way; your faith has made you whole.” Bartimaeus immediately received his sight and followed Jesus. His faith was specific to the need, and by that faith he saw—and received—the solution to his problem.

Or remember the woman with the “issue of blood” (Matthew 9:20-22; also Luke 8:43-48). She had been hemorrhaging for twelve years, rendering her ceremonially unclean, unable to go into the temple or socialize freely with others. When Jesus passed by, on His way to heal the daughter of Jairus, she saw her answer. She followed Him, watching for an opportunity to touch the tassels of His prayer shawl, the corners or “wings” of His garment (see Healing in His Corners). As she followed, she kept saying to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.” She did not remind herself of what a terrible problem she had or how she had spent all her money on doctors to no avail. No, by here “self-talk” she kept herself focused on the solution: Jesus, the Son of God with “healing in His wings” (Malachi 4:2). She finally touched His tassels and her hemorrhaging immediately stopped. Jesus discovered what she had done and, instead of being angry, commended her, saying, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.” By the focus of her faith, expressed by her words and actions, she laid hold of the answer to her problem.

Healing Word: It is helpful to identify the problem and get a good diagnosis of it. Then having done that, we must keep the focus of our faith on the Answer.