Lest We Create As Many Problems As We Solve

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I’m in love with God, and I’m a nurse. Both of these things color how I view both the world and the Kingdom. There are a number of us in the Portland/Vancouver area in Oregon and Washington that are and have been seeking the Transformational Shift that everyone has been hearing about from God for many years now. I am calling it that because I believe that it will be more than just a ‘revival’ like those of times past, but a true transformation that brings about inner and outward change on all levels at speeds far faster than previously experienced ever before. I believe it will not be abnormal for an individual to go through 10-20 years-worth of inner healing and deliverance in a fifteen-minute period of time with the spiritual technologies and spiritual acceleration that God is releasing even now. And that’s just one example.

With this release, there is a greater perspective that has to come into play—and a greater responsibility that we who are currently aware have to use to help steward this as it manifests in the earth. In order to ensure new wine is not just spilled worthlessly through mismanagement, there is a new wineskin which must be provided. In the same way, while it is not our job to provide either the wine OR the wineskin, it IS our job to partner with God to do what we can do, so that when we have done everything we have been told to do that He will do what ONLY He can do.

As we have been discussing a little of how to move forward to step into the living-out of this new wineskin, there are a few things that I have come to understand as a nurse that I think present an important topic for consideration as we walk out what God is doing in a responsible manner. Please bear in mind that while I truly believe this is important, that it is only part of the puzzle. Many others also have important thoughts to share as we all walk into the Greater Glory that God has for us.

I believe that as we step into this Greater Glory manifestation that is going to include but not be limited to physical healing, we are in danger of creating as many problems as those we solve by applying the power of God to situations. I believe it is important to understand the problems we are in danger of creating in advance in order to adequately prepare to solve those problems before we make them exist.

Take a nursing home for an example: When transformation power hits the building through God’s vessels of Glory, namely you and I, His children, people will get healed. And this at first glance appears to be good, because it is. But let’s look a bit closer at the scenario. Let’s say that some friends and I walk through a nursing home and start healing people, at first a few things happen. Albert the quadriplegic has a total recovery and gets up and walks himself into the bathroom for the first time in over 20 years. Sally the stroke victim is able to eat and drink water that is at its normal consistency without having any danger of breathing it into her lungs. She greedily gulps water without help and then dances down the hallway without assistance in clothing she put on all by herself. This is the first time in 14 years this has happened. It’s a miracle!!

While we are busy rejoicing over the miracles that God is performing (and we SHOULD rejoice), there is another problem. Albert’s wife left him and took all the money with her over 15 years ago. He has no money and hasn’t had a job in over 20 years. He is now 68 and has no practical way of returning to the workforce. Sally’s house was sold years ago to help with her medical bills, and she and her husband both moved into the nursing home together. He died two years ago and her money is all gone. She is 85.

For both Albert and Sally, they are healed, and it’s a miracle from heaven!! But because we healed them they no longer qualify for benefits under Medicare. Both of them have to move out. Certainly, they have a couple days at most to remain there as the administrative staff are talking to a lawyer and are bewildered about how to kick these poor people out of their facility since nothing like this has ever happened before, but they are no longer paying customers and the facility needs the beds. The fact remains that in a day or so Albert and Sally will be homeless and jobless, and with no additional resources. Yes, they have been healed. But now what?

In Albert’s case, there is a vague chance that one of us healers might take him in for a few months, help him get back on his feet, and maybe even help him find a job somewhere. If we let him stay long enough, he might be able to get enough together to get an inexpensive car or similar, buy some clothes and accumulate some other household items and then move into his own apartment elsewhere. In Sally’s case, things don’t look so good. You see, we know that if we take Sally in, she will never leave. She has no place to go. And are we in for that kind of deep commitment? What if she has future medical problems? Medical bills? The small amount of social security she gets doesn’t come close to meeting her financial needs, and she could quite reasonably live for another 10 years or longer. This doesn’t even address her needs for food and clothing. What is SHE going to do?

Let’s pretend that Sally’s needs were met as well. What about the other 30 people in that care facility that we healed and just don’t have enough room or resources for?? And what is the facility going to do now that it has no residents—and thus no need for any of the staff? It might stay open, but it could very well close. We say that God is our Provider, and He is. But it is easy to say “God is big enough” and harder, I think, to choose to cast a vision large enough that it solves the problems we create alongside the problems we solved.

As God comes and keeps on coming, we need to enlarge our vision and ask God for both insight and connections. We need connections because no one can do any of this alone. We all need to help each other and receive the help of one another. And we need insight to foresee the problems we will create and have strategies set in place through divine wisdom and divine counsel to take care of these needs in advance instead of waiting until every emergency hits. In 2 Kings 4, Elijah gave a woman direction from heaven to pour out oil supernaturally and this abundance of oil would solve her financial needs. But with that instruction was another word of direction which told her to prepare by collecting empty vessels with which to contain the outpouring when it started. In other words, when the oil started being poured into jars, it was not the time to be looking for containers. It was time to fill the containers which had already been gathered at God’s direction. We need to ask God for wisdom on how to move forward, because it is now time for us to set our containers in place, because the jar is being tipped and the first drops are coming down even now.

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When The Pain Won’t Stop

Last week my wife was trying to go to sleep and she had hip pain that was keeping her up. In and of itself that is a problem, but she is a victim of long-term mercury poisoning, and suffers from a number of additional secondary medical problems as a result—thyroid problems, cognitive challenges that have worsened over time, and massive inflammation to name just a few of the many. It is actually far more common than one might realize due to the use of amalgam fillings in teeth—the ones that look silvery. Without going deep into the medical aspects of it, let me just say that if you have them in your mouth, they are poisoning you slowly whether you know it or not–and many other nations have banned that particular type of filling. We have spent tens of thousands of dollars in the past few years on dental work to remove them so she can begin the process of removing the mercury from her cells, but it is slow going.

At any rate, last week as she lay in bed writhing in pain, nothing I did helped it go away—and I’m pretty good at making it stop. Sometimes massage helps; other times using a chiropractic activator to realign her hips, sacrum, and low back does the job. At times we do energy-work or inner healing prayer and the pain either goes away or at least lessens to a tolerable level so she can sleep. Regardless of the method, that particular night was hellish because literally nothing worked. No amount of massage, adjustments, energy work, or prayer seemed to do a single thing. So we both just cried.

Those of you who know me well know that I am a staunch believer in both physical and inner healing via divine prayer–and that I get decent enough results praying for others to be healed. The one serious difficulty I have had over the past many years, a problem echoed by many faith healers, is that we cannot seem to get our own spouse healed—and on some level it is maddening. It is certainly upsetting, to say the least, and on this particular night it was horrendous. I thank God that she was eventually able to fall asleep and that none of the flare-ups since have been as bad, but she is in constant pain every day, and has been for years.

I am in the middle of a fast that includes, among other things, praying for her complete healing, but there are times when the most we can do simply doesn’t seem like enough. Why? Because the pain still won’t stop. No matter what we do it seems there is still one more problem or cramp or pain or issue that doesn’t get fixed, and it is frustrating. I usually try not to let my wife see me upset about it, and often I think I push down my own emotions on the matter to avoid adding more stress to her (no wonder I’m having low back pain . . .), but it can be really difficult. And because I don’t generally go around complaining about it, especially on social media, it’s something only our friends know–and even then they don’t know the extent to how bad it is at times. Over the past many years I have reduced my own activity to more closely match her ability level because she simply cannot keep up with me between our pre-existing age difference and her gradually increasing joint pain.

I don’t share all this for pity, although if you say a prayer for her that would be nice. I know there are many of you out there reading this who are either that one in pain or the family member of the one who is, and you wish there was something more you could do to make it all better. When this sort of thing happens, there is really only one solution, because giving up is not really a choice. We don’t really have the option of bowing out and quitting. At the end of the day, giving up is the only thing guaranteed to make things worse because even if we give up, the problem hasn’t gone away. The only solution is to continue to press forward and continue to believe in the goodness of God.

Due to a dream I had last week, Sunshine and I went to a meeting last night hosted by Precious Daughters, a local women’s ministry in the Portland area, who had invited Deborah Gliebe of FireGate Ministries International to speak. What I heard greatly encouraged me, but I sensed that this held a theme many of you need to hear.

God is birthing something in you. He isn’t doing it because He is testing you, but He is using all bad things to work them for good in your life. God isn’t done with you, hasn’t given up on you, and is not withholding His goodness from you for any reason. When the enemy comes in to steal, kill, and destroy, it is our job to continue to stand firm and hold up the shield of faith. Ephesians 6:13 says, “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” Sometimes all we can do is to continue to stand. Sometimes that standing doesn’t look like it is doing a single blessed thing for the situation, but that doesn’t matter. We don’t have a plan B and retreat is not an option.

For every single one of you who is reading this and you are struggling, or you are the spouse of someone who is, continue to stand firm. Gird yourself up with the armor of the spirit, buckling that shield of faith firmly in place. You are strong in the Lord and in His mighty power (Eph. 6:10) and you cannot be moved. He has sent His angels to surround you and lift you up, protect, and guide you. God has set His Holy Spirit to dwell within you, and this same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is even now sending His life-giving flow into your body (Rom. 8:11). God is still the Healer, still the Deliverer, and still the One who gives us hope when we have lost all hope. God has not given up on you—don’t you give up either. And in case you are wondering, no, it isn’t your fault, and no, God does not afflict us with disease.

God is here to minister to your broken heart-—because that is what many of us are experiencing. Our hearts are broken because of the pain we have seen. We have to continue to stand in the gap of intercession and lift up our voices in praise to destroy the powers of darkness when they are in our midst. It is neither easy nor fun, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar, but there is grace to make it through, and we WILL make it through. One way or another, we will ALL break through. You are not alone, no matter how bleak it may feel right now. Whatever the situation and whatever the problem, there is a way out. There is a way up, and you will make it—you will live to tell of the goodness of God in the midst of your pain and problems. Continue to stand strong and fight. Continue to pray and pursue wholeness. Continue to pursue because Jesus died to take your pain upon Himself. Jesus literally handed his life over and laid it down to take your infirmity on Him so you would have it no longer. God has never planned this problem for you, but He is standing right beside you and walking you through it.

I decree that even now, fresh hope is rising up in your heart. Fresh grace is being released from Heaven to carry you forward and give you strength to stand. I release the oil of gladness over you right now, flowing upon you even as you read these words. God is binding up your broken heart and is bringing gladness in place of mourning and despair. I command all sickness and disease to bow to the mighty name of Jesus, and I command you to go! I rebuke every unclean spirit and everything that causes infirmity, pain, sickness, and disease and I command you to loose off of those reading this now! I break every assignment of the enemy that is sent against you to destroy your hope and cut off your faith, and decree now that a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit is filling and strengthening you now. I send a fresh fire to reignite the smoldering and extinguished flames within your heart. And finally, may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of the Father, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all (2 Cor. 13:14). Amen.

For those of you who want to know more about mercury poisoning and/or are unsure if you are experiencing this problem, this website is a good place to start.

If you are seeking emotional healing and don’t know where to start, you might begin with my blog “5 Steps to Emotional Healing” that outlines a series of things you can to do jump-start the process.

If you seek physical healing and nothing has worked yet, consider my lengthy but informative 9-part blog series Divine Healing That Works. It should provide some keys on how to move forward when what you have tried is not getting the job done.

DID Self-Healing: Integrating Fragments and Alters

I have been working with a prayer counselor for over a year now to work on what could be termed soul-healing. While I have discussed in previous articles about what fragments are and why they are important to address, I have not as of yet discussed how to heal them when you don’t have a prayer-partner available to help. The benefit of this for me is that I can accelerate the integration process, using the work I do with my counselor as a base to pursue further prayer work on my own. Thus, I will attempt to explain my own process of fragment self-healing.

When I first learned about and started working in this area, I realized I had already done some self-healing fragment work but didn’t know at the time that I was working with fragments. All I knew was that what I saw in the spirit seemed to be effective so I would do it from time to time with no terminology for it. Since then I have developed a slightly more defined method that works well for me, and hopefully it will work well for you. If not, my hope is that it provides some insight that you can use to develop your own method.

I used to begin by imagining a large space with a platform in the center. On that platform was a pillar of gold or blue light, with a small version of me in the middle. I view this as my “core self”. I would envision lots of people standing outside the pillar–other versions or aspects of myself that needed to be brought into unity and wholeness. I would then mentally intend or will for those fragments to line up and walk up the steps of the platform and into the light. As they would walk into the pillar, they would be sucked inside my image of my core self. One of the things that surprised me when I did this was just how many fragments were milling around outside the light pillar–hundreds, possibly more. Even when I had them line up and integrate, there were usually still many more that wouldn’t get in line and join together.

This was one of the things that showed me I was on to something. Typically, when I daydream and imagine something, I am fully in control of what happens because it is all inside my mind. When I engage spiritual reality, not everything responds according to my will simply because there are other sentient beings involved whose choices I can’t control. In this case, those fragments who chose not to integrate were those who were either not ready or not willing to do so. I would at times try to make them integrate, but that only worked minimally as I could sense them fighting against me.

Fast forward years later, I still use an integration method that is similar, but I have added a few components. First, while I still make use of a “fragment plain”–the open space filled with fragments–I have changed the way I visualize the location. Now I often imagine myself in the throne room of God with the fragments and my core self in front of the Father. Jesus is there and I ask Him and the angels to help me integrate the fragments, which they do. I begin by asking Jesus to separate all the fragments who are ready to integrate at this moment, and to have them come join my core self. Then I ask the angels to minister to all of the fragments who are close to being ready, but who aren’t quite there yet. As I do this, and give it a few minutes, sometimes they will choose to integrate as well. Finally, I ask Jesus to work on the ones who aren’t ready–and most especially to reveal Himself to the fragments that don’t know Him.

The most recent time I did fragment self-healing was while driving to work. For some this may seem dangerous but I have become accustomed to engaging the visionary realm while doing other activities, so it was relatively safe and easy for me. What surprised me was that on this particular occasion as I began to have the fragments integrate, I began to cry. This is significant to me because I have found when working with fragments that crying indicates healing and integration. In the natural our bodies release tears when negative emotional energies are released, and the physical composition of our tears are different from when we have something in our eye. Thus, when I found myself crying it further confirmed to me that this method actually works and isn’t a figment of my imagination.

The main benefit of self-integration is that I don’t have to wait for someone else. Jesus is the Master-healer and if I let Him guide the session it tends to be effective. Previously when I didn’t understand what I was doing I tried to force the fragments to integrate via my will, and while it worked for some, there were others that simply wouldn’t respond and nothing I did could make them. When Jesus loves them into submission, they willingly go where He leads, and as He is the Good Shepherd, they are able to trust Him with their safety and well-being when it comes time to integrate.

The other important thing about being Spirit-led in this process, and letting Jesus run the show, is that He will often do more than I expect. Most recently He took three fragments with Him that He indicated needed special attention–and far more help than I was going to be able to provide them on my own. From what I was able to discern, these particular fragments were under heavy demonic bondage. He assured me that in the right time He would integrate them with me, but that He was going to do a deep work in them and set them free.

If fragment self-healing is something you are interested in or have been seeking, consider trying the method laid out above. If the idea of using the throne room of God doesn’t work for you, try another location. The fragment plain is always a good option, and you can fill it with healing power and glory light in prayer before you assemble your fragments there. The benefit of the light pillar is that it acts as a protective mechanism for your core self–keeping it inside the pillar and having the other fragments come to it is an act of submission and/or subservience, which really just ensures that no other personalities take over during the integration process. While it is not extremely common, it can happen, so the protective screen seems prudent to me.

If you try this out, consider commenting and sharing your experiences below. Share what worked, what didn’t work, and any new things you learn along the way. If you have another method that works well for you, share that as well–because I firmly believe when we share what we know, together we grow. Blessings!

These techniques I used are now available with additional techniques and advice in my new coauthored book Broken to Whole: Inner Healing for the Fragmented Soul . In this book you will learn not only how to identify fragmented parts of your soul and spirit that need healing and integration, but you will uncover why and how they got broken to begin with, as well as what problems they have been causing in your life. I believe that many readers will find a light-bulb goes on in their minds as they read this book. You will begin to uncover contributing spiritual factors behind frustrating life patterns, physical ailments, and more, as well as techniques and solutions on how to fix them. I encourage you to pick up a copy of Broken To Whole today to kick-start and accelerate your healing journey.

For those interested in additional help, you can use the “Fragment Finder” flower essence by Freedom Flowers as an adjunct. alongside the book to help move your emotional healing journey forward even faster.

In Light of His Preeminent Goodness

A few weeks ago, October 26th-29th 2016, Hearts of Fire International led by Dr. Aaron Winter (of which I am a volunteer on staff) hosted the Northwest Prayer Summit–a four day conference focused on transforming the region through prayer. The focus of the meetings was on prayer and thus there was not much in the way of personal ministry through most of the conference. The last night we held a fire tunnel after James Goll spoke on “A Goodness Revolution,” stating that God is changing our view of Him in light of His preeminent goodness.

For those who aren’t familiar with it, a fire tunnel is a fun-sounding name for a prayer line–almost a prayer gauntlet of sorts where a group of people line up facing each other in pairs and everyone else passes between them and receive prayer and laying on of hands as they walk slowly through the tunnel. This particular fire tunnel started sometime after 10pm, and as part of the staff hosting the event, we had over 2 hours of cleanup left once we finished–and with over 500 people present, the fire tunnel was going to take a while. This fire tunnel was incredibly impromptu and unplanned, taking even the staff by surprise, but attitudes were mostly pretty positive in spite of the additional hours of work it would involve (all told we arrived home around 2 am).

About halfway through, with my wife and I the first pair people passed between, an older woman stopped before entering and asked for prayer for healing her right-sided sciatic pain. I stepped out of line with this woman to keep from blocking everyone else and began to pray. After about ten minutes of working with her, praying and rechecking her pain frequently, doing some emotional healing, and asking Holy Spirit each step of the way what the next move was, her pain was completely gone but she still had numbness in her feet. At that time I sensed the Spirit telling me to send her through the line, and moments after someone came to get me to fix another problem elsewhere, pulling me away from the prayer line.

A bit later the woman found me and informed me that the numbness had left as she went through the line, but that wasn’t all. It turns out she had this pain for a few weeks, and had been asking the Lord for healing throughout the entire 4-day conference. As I stated before, we had only been doing minimal personal ministry throughout the event, and to make matters worse I had gotten a word of knowledge in the previous session for sciatic pain–but on the left side. God, in light of His preeminent goodness, decided that this woman wasn’t going to go home from the event without being healed. She received her healing at the end of the last session of the last day during an unplanned prayer tunnel. I was literally in tears when she told me this, and couldn’t help but start crying as I shared this story with others for days after.

I can’t explain why it is that God’s goodness brings me to tears, but there is something about how incredibly kind He is that overwhelms me at times, and healing is a surefire way to get the waterworks flowing. John 3:16 says that “God loved the world so much that he gave his only son that whomever believed in him would not die . . .” Sickness is simply death-in-process, and healing is a manifestation of God’s love–because God doesn’t want us to die. I am so thankful that Aaron heard and obeyed God that night when he called for the fire tunnel because I know it was an answer to this woman’s incessant pleas for help. And how loving was it of God to ensure that His daughter didn’t leave without getting her need met? Astounding.

If there is one thing that will radically transform our worldview, it is when we get a revelation of God’s goodness. The Bible is chock-full of verses that demonstrate God’s kindness, mercy, and love, but many of us have been brought up with a focus on sin, wrath, and judgment. When we start to see how stunningly kind God is, especially through events such as Him healing that woman’s sciatic pain, it shifts how we expect God to act in the future, raises our faith, and alters our experience. I encourage you to take a few moments and reframe a recent life event in light of His preeminent goodness. It changes everything.

5 Steps to Emotional Healing

One of the results of learning and teaching others about healing is that we discover both what works and what doesn’t. When healing doesn’t work, the natural question to ask is “why”, and the street healers have dealt with this for years, often with an “I don’t know” as the answer. And as uncomfortable as that may sound, the truth is we often don’t know why healing doesn’t occur in a given situation. This problem has set many of us on a quest–to discover why we don’t heal and how we can. And what we have found may surprise you: Emotional wounds are probably the number one reason why people don’t get physically healed.

The emotional roots of physical disease are a long-proven notion that is generally accepted in both psychology and spirituality. Anecdotal stories abound of people who let go of bitterness or other negative emotions and found both inner peace and physical restoration. The reason this works is that the body is a repository for emotions–and if these emotions don’t find a healthy release, they will find a painful one. Chinese medicine has an understanding of what organs store which emotions, and some of their herbal, acupuncture, and other energy treatments are designed to help restore homeostasis to organs that have become imbalanced with negative emotions. While this is a viable option, there are other methods that can help.

In my blog series Divine Healing That Works I have attempted to answer the “why” question as best as I can. I discuss some factors that can contribute to physical healing, and how we can increase our success rate. I cover a variety of topics including emotional healing, dealing with demons, and more. The biggest problem I see people have with emotional healing is that it feels difficult to access. With a cut or scrape, we know that we can clean the wound, apply various ointments or salves and over time our bodies will naturally heal. We can see the progress so we know we are getting something done. Inner healing doesn’t have any of these convenient options available, so it can be difficult to feel we are making progress, much less know where to begin.

I believe we can use a few simple, practical methods to get started, and as we do this and uncover new layers of inner wounding, we can pursue additional help as needed. My inner-healing prescription is the following Five Steps:

1). Forgive. Make a list of everyone you believe you have something against, praying for God to guide and remind you of people who should be on the list. Forgive them in prayer, and speak with them to resolve and reconcile if applicable.

2). Start taking flower essences. You can find essences that cover a very wide range of emotional problems at Freedom Flowers. I currently don’t receive any monetary benefit for sending you there–I just believe in the owner/manufacturer and the quality of her products, as well as the part flower essences can play in emotional healing. If you are just starting out, I recommend her Aftershock, Heart Healer, or Confidence essences. You can order a Custom Combo that comes with a consultation to design an essence specifically tailored to your needs. She has also written a book called Flower Power that will help you get started in the world of Flower Essences, and her website has a free e-course you can sign up for as well. If you do choose to purchase essences, consider noting this website as the referrer.

3). Read books on the subject. I recommend three different ones. First, get Praying Medic’s book on emotional healing–it has a simple prayer you can use to help deal with problem emotions as they come up, and as you go down this road they WILL come up. You can find the book on Amazon at Emotional Healing in 3 Easy Steps. The book is only $0.99 and I both own the book and use the prayer script regularly. Second, get the book Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman. This is another book I use that has some really great prayers. This book has scripts you can pray that help identify and address emotions that you may not even be aware of. It also has some catch-all prayers you can use to jump-start emotional self-healing even if no specific problems come to mind. It also has a really great reference section at the end that can help pinpoint emotional roots of various physical problems.

4). Dig even deeper with a book I have coauthored, titled Broken to Whole: Inner Healing for the Fragmented Soul. This book goes deep into the subject of inner healing, dealing with demons and harmful belief systems, but focusing mostly on how broken parts of our souls, often referred to as fragments or alters, can negatively influence our lives. This book also provides helpful and highly practical advice on how to recognize and heal them so that you can become a whole person.

5). Connect with an inner healing counselor to take you further. There are probably hundreds out there, and they may or may not meet your particular needs. Alice Arlene, Ltd Co. is one counselor you can turn to who may be able to help, and you can get in touch with her here. You can connect with DeBalm Ministries who also regularly does prayer work. Paul Cox and Aslan’s Place Ministries also specialize in inner healing largely via the gift of discernment of spirits. They do it themselves either in person or online, but may be able to put you in touch with someone more local as well. You can find their “get started” information here, contact information here, and can also access many prayer scripts for free on the right side of their website.

I have done all or a variation of all of these steps myself, and I can tell you that without a doubt it is one of the wisest choices I have made in how I approach my life and spirituality. It is impossible to be significantly effective in healing ministry without major blowups over time or get any kind of personal growth without some measure of inner healing. And while God will always work emotional healing in our lives, it happens much faster when we pursue the blessings He has for us. Jesus let his heart be pierced so that He could heal yours–I encourage you to step out and see how inner healing can help you go further!

DID Self Healing – Integrating Fragments and Alters

Healing with the Seer Gift

When the Pain Won’t Stop

Divine Healing that Works – Part 6

Divine Healing that Works – Part 7

Overcoming the Fear of Death

How My New Puppy Healed My Heart

Healing With The Seer Gift

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I do a moderate amount of prayer for physical healing, mostly for family, friends, and coworkers. Over the years I have learned the ways that tend to work for me, and while occasionally I pick up a trick or two, I’ve pretty much got my method down. I have come to realize that I do it a bit differently than most people seem to, and that’s healing with the seer gift.

I’m not big on titles, so I don’t really consider myself a “seer”, but by rights I suppose I could. When I work to heal others, I usually see energies in their body in my mind’s eye and get an idea of what needs to be fixed, where demons are and what they are doing, and what I need to do to heal the person. Yes, it is always prayer in Jesus’ name, but the seer gift gives me visions of the problems and shows me how I can partner with God to get the job done.

As I said before, I often see energies–swirls of black, gold, blue, red, and green are the most common. To me, each color denotes a type of problem. Black is death and bad-ness while red is more inflamed or irritated. Gold is God’s glory, blue is healing energy, and green is life-energy. Yes, technically they are all aspects of the same things but the seer gift is how God shows me what He is doing in the client’s body.

It doesn’t stop there. I will see demons residing in organs and tissues, as well as other objects–swords, knives, arrows, and all other weaponry, vices, armor, clamps, pins, screws, and other metallic-looking items that really have no place on the body. I have seen gobs of pus and goo that need to be removed, ropes, chains, and other long, string-like items that I have to pull out of the person, and more. It’s not just as simple as imagining them gone, because I can imagine them gone all day long and they stay there. I have to actually remove them. Sometimes this is a physical pantomiming, other times I do it in the spirit, watching myself remove the objects with my mind’s eye. It varies from time to time how I work, but the method is the same–look with an expectation to see something, see it, and address what I see by either opposing and removing it, or helping it correct a problem.

I have more recently been reminded that things go much more easily when I get angels involved to help me, so I have started doing that. If I pay attention I can see angels sending glory-light into the person as well–it’s usually gold-colored. There is a lot of trial and error involved, and sometimes I simply don’t know either what to do, or I do know what to do and don’t know how long it will take to fix it. I am often fighting in the spirit against objects that appear to have sentience and resist being removed. I sometimes will have to do things in segments because I simply can’t do it all at once. Healing with the seer gift isn’t hard, but it’s not often taught.

To hear more about this idea, listen to a short healing interview with Daniel Thomas on the Heal the Sick Podcast by Dominion Fire where he discusses this same concept–and with similar experiences to my own. If you have had these types of experiences, share your thoughts and comments below! If you want to learn more about this, let me know that as well–it will help me to gauge interest for future books, webinars, and teaching material. Blessings!

The Coming Wave of Healing

For many years, prophets have spoken of a “Third Great Awakening” coming. I can’t agree or disagree having not had revelation on the subject one way or the other. What I have seen in the recent past is the latest Wave of Healing. In the past seven or eight years, street healing has become THE new thing God is doing in regards to healing. By street healing, I mean where believers politely ambush unsuspecting sick or injured people and heal them in Jesus’ name then continue on with their day. This Wave of Healing has raised up many champions who continue to faithfully teach and train an army of street healers who can heal in the community as easily as they can in church. I have recently felt nudged that there is a new healing wave about to crest–the Wave of Inner Healing.

The journey to physical healing can be a long one–full of anguish and very real pain, sometimes fraught with disappointment and even despair. Health is one of the largest industries worldwide and people spend billions upon billions of dollars each year to be in good health. Healing prayer is on the rise, but God is after something deeper–and more effective. What we street healers have discovered is that healing can be prevented–often by demons who block our healing efforts. These demons have come in through a variety of means, but often they can stay because the door that let them in is still open. We can command them out all day long, but if we don’t get to the root of the problem, they will continue to cause physical problems and block the healing. Even if we kick the demon out and heal the injury, it may resurface hours, days, or weeks later as the door is still open and the hidden problem is still there.

Inner healing is the solution to this problem. Many–and I daresay most–physical maladies have an emotional component behind them. Even with physical trauma such as car accidents, there can be an emotional issue that set up the conditions in the spirit realm that made room for the enemy to come in and create the physical trauma event. When the emotional wounds are healed, the physical injury becomes much easier to heal, and the risk of that injury returning significantly lessens. When I pray for physical healing I start with the physical problem, but if that doesn’t get rapid results, I quickly start to ask God for revelation on emotional contributors and deal with them before praying for healing again. When I do this, I find the success rate goes up.

The Lord revealed to me recently that the new Wave of Healing that He is releasing is that of Inner Healing. While this isn’t a “new” wave per se, the last wave wasn’t really “new” either. Waves are rhythmic, undulating, and repetitive. When one wave crests, another is returning beneath it, and another one follows close behind. The reason an inner healing wave will almost always follow a physical healing wave is for the reasons shared above–when physical healing fails, people start to ask questions, and when we ask the right questions, God shows us how emotional healing can play a part. Since the Street Healing Wave seems to be riding high and even cresting, the Inner Healing Wave is following close behind and God is raising up an army of Inner-Healers–usually from the ranks of the Street Healers.

If you have been getting discouraged with failed street healing, there is a reason and God is calling you to something deeper. If you have felt that God is moving you out of street healing and in another direction, don’t be surprised–there is a good chance God is trying to take you to the next level. If you are excited about physical healing and want to learn all you can, then now is as good a time as any to learn how inner healing can transform the physical body. This is not meant to discourage physical healing in any way, as it is still very important and something I do regularly–however, God is taking people a step further, expanding the healing arsenal, and taking us deeper.

If you want to learn more about how emotional healing can help you heal others, or maybe you just want to get healed yourself, check out my blog series titled “Divine Healing That Works”. In this series we will start to connect the dots between physical and emotional healing, and provide some keys that will help you get your healing and get others healed as well. May the Lord bless you in spirit, soul, and body, and may you go ever deeper in His love for you as you tread the path set before you.

The Weight of Sorrows – Emotional Roots of Physical Disease

I talked to a coworker recently when she shared that her back hurt, but as strange as it might sound, she thought it hurt because she was stressed about her divorce. More specifically she was having a hard time filing her divorce paperwork due to issues converting scanned files into appropriate electronic format to file and this was causing her great stress. I told her I didn’t think it was strange at all, and began to explain about the emotional roots of physical disease and how our bodies store emotions.

For those who are unfamiliar with this concept, emotions are a somewhat ethereal in nature, and are somewhere between spiritual and physical in nature. As such, while they get stored in various organs and tissues, they don’t have an obvious physical form like the natural elements do. This is true of both positive and negative emotions, and the book of Proverbs has a number of verses that speak on how various emotions affect different parts of the body.

Proverbs 15:13 says, “A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.” A heart that is filled with joy is good for the complexion. Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” A cheerful heart helps keep us healthy, but our bones are negatively influenced when the world weighs us down. Proverbs 14:30 says, “A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Peace brings life to the body, but envy is harmful to the skeletal system as well–because envy is stored in our bones! The end result of emotions stored in organs will vary based on the emotions stored there. For example, someone who is bitter may very well get arthritis because they have chosen to lock in on their negativity, so their joints become locked and deformed. There have been stories of people who, upon forgiving someone and releasing the bitterness and judgments, were instantly healed of their arthritis. Likewise, many other negative emotions can be stored in the body and cause health problems. Interestingly, when someone cries because they are sad, the chemical composition of their tears are actually different than when their eyes are simply watering because actual emotions are being released through the salts in the tears.

In my coworker’s case, she felt, and probably accurately so, that the emotional burden she was carrying was making her back hurt, which isn’t surprising from a prophetic or interpretive perspective if we figure that the lumbar spine is designed for load-bearing–although not for emotional weight. If we don’t deal with our emotions, they WILL express themselves, but will trickle down from the emotional realm into the physical body, and will manifest accordingly. There are a number of different books that talk about this heart-body connection, but my wife and I use two books when we are looking up what emotions might be connected with physical ailments we are experiencing, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol Truman, and Heal Your Body by Louise Hay. These are not “guaranteed” to be correct, but oftentimes resonate with us and help us process through the emotions.

In the case of my coworker, we had some time to talk privately, so I took the time to share some things I felt like God was showing me about how she was feeling, and conversationally prophesy over her the message of life and hope that God had for her, helping remove the burden of guilt and shame that she had been carrying. Given what I have shared above about releasing negative emotions, I was pleased to see that she began to cry as I spoke words of encouragement and strengthening to her, knowing that God was helping heal the very problems that had been troubling her heart and causing her pain. While I did not ask whether her back pain improved at that time or not, I was heartened to see the goodness of God in action, as it was said of Jesus “a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out” (Matthew 12:20a).

It is important that we understand God’s nature when it comes to dealing with emotions. Jesus’s solution to problems was to “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:29-30). When we take upon ourselves his ability to rest our souls, our problems can heal and we are set free. I usually use a short prayer, adapted from Praying Medic, to help swiftly resolve negative emotions. One of the books I mentioned earlier, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, also has some really good formula-prayers to help work through and resolve negative emotions and are a good place to start when struggling with difficult emotions or when seeking physical healing for any malady.

Below are the books I referenced in the article that have useful information to help with emotional healing.

A More Excellent Way is a book by Pastor Henry Wright that deals with this subject matter as well. His book explains systematically how our beliefs and feelings influence our health.

You can also try flower and gemstone essences which are designed to assist with bringing up and resolving unhealthy emotional patterns. Freedom Flowers is the brand I use, as I have known the owner for years and trust the quality of the brand.

Power and Authority For Healing – Part 9 of Divine Healing that Works

In the previous installment of this series (here) we looked at practical ways to engage our faith, and how to use it to manifest physical healing when praying for people. In this final part of the Divine Healing That Works Series, we take a look at power and authority and how to work with them to heal, as well as some other healing tips.

When I pray for healing, I do my best to make use of both power and authority to heal. In a church service, especially during altar calls and such, there is usually a flow of power that is moving in the room. That is a fantastic time to pray for people for healing, and since everyone is facing toward the front, the energy is flowing toward the front. It’s not that there is anything more special or holy, but that’s where the power is being directed, so the wise thing to do is position oneself accordingly–go up toward the front. I have had times where even though not on the “official ministry team” that when standing up front and praying for friends, I could feel the power of God strongly descend on my body. It’s an actual sensation that feels, well, powerful, and I know that in that moment I have tapped into the flow of power in the room. Whether I have that feeling or not, I still make use of the principles I just listed above, but it’s always nice when there is a confirming sensation to go with it.

While power can change based on the dynamics of the situation, authority doesn’t. My authority as a believer doesn’t change if I am in a church or the supermarket, or even if I am surrounded by warlocks cursing me. Authority is essentially a legal state whereby I have the right to command spirit beings and even the rest of creation, and they must respond accordingly because of who I am. When operating out of authority, power is somewhat irrelevant, although it is best when the two work together in concert. When I pray for body parts to be healed, I don’t pray wimpy God-if-it-be-your-will prayers. No, I follow Jesus’ example and I command things to change. Headache, go. Leg, be made whole. Pain, leave now in Jesus’ name! I take the authority God has given me and I tell creation how it is going to respond, and I expect it to do it. If it doesn’t work the first time, I keep doing it, and usually after a few times we will start to observe changes.

One of the best-kept secrets of healing prayer is persistence. There are multiple references in the New Testament in regards to persistent prayer. “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” “Pray and keep on praying” “When you pray, pray believing you have received it and it will be yours. Do not be double minded, for the double minded man should not expect to receive anything from God.” “

Another tip in regards to healing prayer is that when in doubt, stall for time. What I mean by that is oftentimes when praying for someone for healing, it takes a few seconds or even a few minutes for the healing itself to manifest. I think that can at times be attributed to what I will call the Daniel Effect — where the angel bringing the answer from God was held up by demonic resistance. Persistence in prayer is so effective because oftentimes we are breaking through a spiritual blockade set up by the enemy to keep angels from bringing healing from the throne of God into that person’s body. As we continue to pray, the healing should come. What I refer to as stalling for time is literally to continue to stay in a state where I am mindful and expectant that God will heal, but continue to engage that person to keep them focused until the healing comes. After a few minutes if there is no change at all the person will usually get tired of praying, and at a certain point you will need to move on. While this can be disheartening, this happens far more often than I like to acknowledge, and is one of the main reasons why the method I have outlined here, dealing with the underlying factors that prevent healing, is so important.

Because it is important to help people stay engaged in the healing process, and as a means of helping engage their faith, have the person check out and test their former injury if possible. There are situations where one simply has no way to test it, but check to see if their pain has changed or if they can do something they could not do before. I always have people rate their pain or even mobility on a scale from 0 to 10 before I pray, and again after I pray. If their pain stays the same, I pray again. If it gets better but isn’t all the way healed, I tell them that God is healing them right now, which again activates and encourages their faith, and I pray again. If it gets worse, then I start to command demons off of the body part in question, as pain does not naturally get worse unless an active force worsens it. If I am praying for healing, there is no reason for the pain to worsen unless a demon is causing it, and I use that as an indicator in prayer. When someone is getting healed and is partway there, I encourage them that Jesus didn’t die for them to be partway healed, and plans to heal them completely. I remind people this because they are often far more willing to accept partial healing than one would think. When someone gets partially healed, it often comes right back because we never completely fixed the problem–so I try as hard as I can to get people to stick through to the end.

While much of what I shared in the previous paragraph deals with “street healing” where we randomly pray for strangers we pass in the store or on the sidewalk, the principles apply to any healing situation. Do a pre-test for their injury if possible, pray, engage their faith, recheck the injury for changes, pray again if needed. The actual prescription for healing the sick is pretty simple, but there are a lot of tips and tricks along the way that help us be more effective when we can get people in the right frame of mind, get them to focus on heaven’s power, get them to act out their faith by testing the body part for changes, and then persisting in prayer in that moment, even stalling for time as needed, to see the breakthrough come.

While I cannot claim that this method is 100% fool-proof, I do not believe I am far from it. Healing the sick through prayer is an age-old conundrum, and the ever-present question of “How do I get it to work?” is nothing new. We as believers, and people as a whole, have been working to answer that question for centuries. While I cannot say I have the complete definitive answer, I do believe that there is little out there in books, seminars, and audio teachings that will successfully address any physical malady with more success than this method. While I do understand that this is a long, ongoing process I suggest, and is by no means a shortcut answer to getting healed, I do not see another more effective means of healing. Many have run from place to place, meeting to meeting, and man of God to man of God seeking faith, power, and anointing for healing, but it will rarely be more effective than engaging the inner transformative process that Jesus desires to bring in us, and as a result of that inner transformation, to then bring His power to bear and create external transformation to go with it. I hope this series has been helpful to you, and I wish you Godspeed on your journey to healing.

For other information on healing, consider the following books:
Divine Healing Made Simple by Praying Medic

The Essential Guide to Healing by Bill Johnson and Randy Clark

Power Healing by John Wimber and Kevin Springer

Healing the Whole Man Handbook by Joan Hunter

How to Heal the Sick by Charles and Francine Hunter

The Healing Breakthrough by Randy Clark

Divine Healing that Works- The Complete Series

Part 1 – The Root Cause

Part 2 – Demons and Deliverance

Part 3 – Fragments

Part 4 – Limiting Beliefs

Part 5 – Casting Out Demons

Part 6 – Emotional Healing

Part 7 – Triggers and Healing Fragments

Part 8 – Faith For Healing

Part 9 – Power and Authority For Healing

Faith for Healing – Part 8 of Divine Healing that Works

In the previous installment of this series (here) we looked at emotional triggers, their relation to soul fragments, and some basic means to work with them on our own when there aren’t prayer ministers conveniently available to help us work through our triggers. Now we (finally!) get to the part where we do the actual “stuff” –the physical healing.

This is the part everyone wants to learn and get good at, but I have become increasingly convinced it’s not as effective if we don’t do the stuff I’ve been talking about before it. Yes, there are many situations that don’t lend themselves to this depth of prayer work and sometimes all we have is a one-minute emotional-healing prayer, but equally as often we are around friends and family members who are contending for healing over time and simply are not getting healed regardless of how much we pray. While inner healing, fragments, deliverance, etc. can work for acute problems, they work particularly well for chronic issues that often didn’t appear overnight and have been unhealed for a long time. If healing prayer doesn’t work, once those other issues are addressed, return to praying for physical healing.

Physical healing has a number of components to it, and it is possible to be effective with any single component, but it works best when they are used in concert with one another. Faith, power, and authority are major keys, as are casting out demons from the site of the injury. In the same way that demons attach to emotional issues, they attach to physical ones. It is exceedingly rare that I don’t find a demon involved with a physical problem, and with any condition that includes pain I often find the person’s pain decreases significantly once I cast demons out.

One of the difficulties of our modern-day, western, industrialized, scientific minds is that people can get freaked out by the idea of demons. Many people believe in them but try to avoid them, and get spooked when we openly address them. Often I will simplify things, especially when praying with someone I don’t know very well and don’t know how they will respond to me praying about demons. I will pray something like this: “I command every hindrance that is preventing this healing to leave now in the name of Jesus.” I know what I am praying, and so do the demons. They know they are being evicted and they have to skedaddle. If I don’t feel them gone, I simply repeat the prayer. The other person may be able to put two and two together, but at that point their pain is usually lessened (if it’s a condition involving pain) and I’m moving on to the next part of the healing process.

Faith is a key component of healing prayer because faith is the connection between heaven’s power and this earthly realm. Our job as emissaries of God is to become the point where heaven and earth converge–to do that requires faith. When I pray for someone, I will oftentimes pray lengthy, flowery, wordy prayers. I do this for a few reasons, and not mostly because I like to hear myself talk, although that might be what it sounds like to some. No, I tend to pray long prayers because I am actually doing something in the midst of the prayer itself–building faith for them and me.

When I pray, I usually speak scripture verses that help engage my faith in that moment and have the potential to build the other person’s faith as well. In some ways my praying is more declarative than petitionary in that sense, but it helps me put my mind “in the game.” Faith as a whole is a dynamic substance–and yes, it is a spiritual substance. Faith is a creative spiritual force that causes spiritual power to function. When our faith is engaged, we have greater results than when it is not because as a force it sets spiritual power into motion.

Long-term, it is far more important that we cultivate lives of faith-building than it is to know how to stir it up in the short-term, but both have their place. Regardless of whether I have cultivated faith over time through the things I listen to, hear, and focus on, there will come times when I need to activate faith in the moment. I believe it is important for all of life, but it is extremely helpful with healing prayer to be able to activate faith on the spot.

We exercise our faith every day without realizing it. When we sit in a chair or touch a light switch, we don’t spend time wondering whether the chair will hold us or whether the light will turn on–we expect that it will operate as it is supposed to and we act accordingly. What we believe deep down is what we tend to manifest, so when I pray to enhance and activate my faith, it is to take certain beliefs I hold and in that moment give them greater priority and prominence than any limiting beliefs I still hold. I find this practice to be effective, so I continue doing it. Someone else may have other ways to stir up and engage their own faith in the moment, and if another method works well, then by all means use it.

The other thing about faith is that many people believe they have little faith, but what they don’t realize is that the problem is rarely the quantity or size of their faith, but rather what they put their faith in. Doubt is not actually a lack of faith, but it is faith that the thing we are believing for will not occur. The reason why doubt is so limiting is because it undermines the faith we engage that the thing we believe for will occur. In my book “The Gamer’s Guide to the Kingdom of God” I use this illustration:

“Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith, really, but rather it is faith in the negative. It is belief that the very thing we are looking at will not happen. To give an illustration, doubt is a little like a man who has a carriage and four horses. He attaches the front of the carriage to two horses, then sets the other two horses up as well–on the back end of the carriage facing the opposite direction. He climbs in the carriage and gives the command for the horses to begin pulling him. After all, he has places to be! After only a few moments he observes them going nowhere. He gives the command again and hears the clopping of hooves, but still feels no movement. Getting out, he gets angry with the horses and begins to whip them, urging them forward. As we all know, if at the end of the day the man doesn’t change the way he ties his horses to the carriage, he will continue to get nowhere. This man needs to repent, which doesn’t mean slinging snot and tears before some holy man or in some church or temple. That idea is incorrectly based off of the thought that repent comes from the French word repentir which means to be sorry for crimes and sins. Rather, the word used in the Bible is the Greek word metanoia which literally means to change one’s mind. All the man would need to do is change his mind about how he manages his horses, line his actions up with that different thought by moving two of the horses, and he would get different results (250-251).”

“Knowing that doubt is actually a form of faith manifested in the negative helps us to understand how faith is hindered. The most common way that faith is hindered is through our own unbelief–usually through the information that we feed ourselves in the external world and through our inner self-talk and our verbalized statements. In other words, we sow doubt into the field of our mind and then wonder why we reap a harvest of unbelief (251). ”

If we want our faith to be effective, and we want to see people healed, we have to transform our minds and change our focus. If we believe, as many still do, that God may or may not want to heal someone, it will be difficult to have faith that God will heal them. We need to understand that Jesus already paid the price on the cross one time for all creation to remove sickness, disease, pain, weakness, poverty, lack, and every other unhealthy and destructive force, and in their place releases constantly upon all of us His abundant life-giving power. To believe that God does not heal or might not want to is probably the single most effective method the enemy has used through the ages to prevent us from walking in resurrection power and to heal the sick. No, we must be willing to change our own thinking in this area and refuse any belief that says anything less than healing for everyone, every time, all the time, for all time.

In the final installment of this series we will look at how to heal using the power and authority we have been given in Christ Jesus, and cover a few tips for better results on-the-spot when praying for physical healing.