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ANOINTING SEMINAR SERIES HEALING ANOINTING PART ONE This morning we want to look at the subject
of healing anointing. Most Christians have not understood aspects of the
healing anointing. Sometimes my heart cries when I see people trying to
minister healing by faith when the healing anointing is not there. Sometimes
wheelchair bound people try to rise up to their feet and they fall back again
because there was no healing anointing. They were just trying to walk by
faith. But the healing anointing and walking by faith are different
operations from each other. Trying to get healing by faith and getting it by
the anointing are two different ways. There are two ways you can get healing
from God. One is by personal faith and confessing the word. The other is by
the healing anointing. Sometimes it is God who decides which method
He uses to release healing to you. If I don’t sense the healing anointing to
heal a person that way, I would encourage that person to go on the word and
receive healing through exercising faith in the word. Regardless of which
methods God uses, it is always His will to heal. It is always God’s will to
heal. If Jesus Christ were to be right here this
morning, people won’t have any problem believing to receive healing. The
bible did say in Matt. 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together
in My name, I am there in the midst of them. We serve the same Jesus. Sometimes in services, we see a river of
life flowing out that makes the lame to walk and the blind to see. However,
at meetings where the healing anointing is not present, after the meeting the
lame go home still lame and the blind still blind. There is the presence of
something somewhere that we need to grapple with. That is called the healing
anointing. Please turn with me to Mk. 5:25 Now a
certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many
things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no
better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus she came behind Him
in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, “If only I may touch His
clothes, I shall be made well.” Immediately the fountain of her blood was
dried up, and she felt (I want to emphasize that and she felt) in her body that
she was healed of the affliction. That’s the healing
anointing. Notice the words here And Jesus immediately - it didn’t
take long as it was immediately. Jesus didn’t take ten sentences of prayer.
It doesn’t mean that the longer you pray the stronger you get. And Jesus,
immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around
in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?” Jesus Christ felt a power
flowing out from Him. We are not talking about getting healing by faith. We
are talking about getting healing by the healing anointing. And when there is
a healing anointing, it is very easy to get healing. But there is a way to tap on the healing anointing.
There is a way that the healing anointing flows. We must be sensitive to know
when the healing anointing is not present so that we can switch to
ministering by faith. The healing anointing is tangible. Tangible means it is
touchable. The healing anointing is some force that you can feel and touch.
When you minister under the anointing, you better be sure that you know and
recognize the anointing when it comes. If you do not sense the anointing,
then you cannot minister by the anointing. You have to minister by faith. I make sure I do not minister under the
anointing unless I sense the anointing. If I don’t sense it, I would get
twenty people to keep worshiping until the anointing comes. But the anointing
is tangible. It is touchable. You can feel it. The woman felt it when it
flowed into her. Jesus felt it when it flowed out from Him. There is a
certain atmosphere about the anointing. Notice that the woman had exercised
her faith. Earlier on she said, “If I touch His garments, I shall be made
well. She had gone through the normal process of faith. “Firstly, she had
heard about Jesus. She had heard all about the miracles of Jesus. And she had
received a certain measure of faith. When she heard about the miracles of
Jesus, she started believing. When she believed, she said, “Oh, I wish I
could see Him or touch Him. I believe all those miracles that happened.” She
had met the blind, the lepers and the lame people who were healed. The
testimonies were coming back to her. Notice people need to hear first. And
before they hear somebody must speak. If there were no speakers, there would
be no hearers. That is why if God has done something in your life you need to
share with others to glorify God and bolster the faith of others. When you
share your testimony, others are encouraged to have faith in God. Faith comes
by hearing and if no one speaks, there is no hearing. Confessing by faith and sharing your
testimony are different from each other. Testimony is sharing your story when
you have already been healed and everybody can see you are healed. Confessing
by faith is saying the same thing as the word, “I believe I receive,” even
before the healing is manifested. That’s a confession. But testimony is
different. When God had done something in your life, you need to go and
share. And when you share God’s wonderful work in you, people’s faith is
built up. I want to encourage each one of us here to
remember to share and tell. If every Christian shares with one other person
per month, the church would double in congregation every month. In The woman heard the word. Then she started
confessing her faith and I don’t know how often. Another person comes and
shares with her another testimony and she said, “I wish I could be there. If
I could only touch the hem of His garment.” If I were to come behind you and
touch your sari, you wouldn’t feel anything at all, unless there are nerve
endings embedded in your clothing and connected to your nervous system.
Unless somebody pulls your sari, then you feel the force pulling you. The
woman merely touched; she didn’t pull. Yet Jesus felt a spiritual
force flowing out of His physical body. I want you to know that there is a difference
between exercising your faith and tapping on the healing anointing. See the
woman was constantly confessing her faith and there was no manifestation
until she touched Jesus. People don’t realize that there is a difference
between belief and faith and they tend to mix them up. When they said they
believe they thought that that’s it. But faith is a tangible force. It has to
do with the healing anointing. The faith in question here is not your
personal faith. I know some people illustrate by saying you need to have
faith in everything. You must have faith in the chair that the chair will
hold you up. But I want you to know that faith in God and
God’s faith in you are two different types of faith. You cannot compare
natural faith and belief with supernatural faith imparted by God. Your faith
in God is different from God’s faith imparted in you. Remember Heb. 12:2 looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Author and finisher means
that Jesus is the one who begins your faith and He is the one who ends your
faith. Jesus is the one who imparts your faith. And Mk. 11:22 says have
faith in God but in the Greek
bible, it says have the faith of God. There is a world
of a difference there. Have faith in God means to believe in God. Have the
faith of God means when God’s faith comes into you then there is something
that works. That’s the healing anointing. When the healing anointing flows into you,
you don’t need somebody next to you to tell you that you are healed. You know
that you know that you are healed. When the Spirit of adoption came on you,
you know that you are a child of God. The Spirit bears witness with your
spirit. When the healing anointing comes on you, you know that you know, that
you are healed. Something moved inside you. There is a tangible sensing of
God’s power. People don’t differentiate the two - the healing anointing and
exercising of faith. Sometimes your heart can weep for those
people seeking for healing. I mean people who are needy and suffering. Most
of them don’t want their sicknesses. Sometimes instead of waiting and getting
on the healing anointing to flow we try to minister healing by our belief.
What people mean by belief is usually trust. But the healing anointing and
the faith of God are different from your faith in God. Remember that man in the wheel chair Sandra
used to bring? He has come here before in our services and I have never asked
him to stand up. However, the day the healing anointing comes, I will ask him
to stand up and he will. But when there is no healing anointing, you cannot
simply give a command. You grieve the Holy Spirit. And my heart feels grieved
when a wheelchair bound man came and people asked him whether he wanted to be
healed. He said he just wanted Jesus. He told them to bless him in Jesus.
Just because he wanted blessing, everybody wanted to push healing on him. The healing anointing works stronger when
people are seeking for Jesus and not seeking for healing. But when you are
getting people to exercise faith for healing, people need to believe that
healing belongs to them. See the healing anointing requires a different type
of operation altogether. My heart feels grieved because I see people not
flowing with the healing anointing properly. When the healing anointing is
present, they do not sense it and attempt to minister healing through
confessing the word and exercising their personal faith. No, when the healing
anointing is present, you hear the instructions of the Holy Spirit and act
accordingly. If you just keep confessing the word when the healing anointing
is present, you block the Holy Spirit from speaking to you. That is why I am grieved. That is why the
Holy Spirit is grieved and He can lift His anointing up when the leaders do
not wait for His instructions. That’s why when the healing anointing has
descended on a congregation, I am not too concerned whether anyone in the
crowd is born again or not. The
healing anointing comes as a free gift. Please note these words that when the
healing anointing comes it is the gift of God working. A gift is not
something you deserve. A gift is something freely given to you. It’s a gift of His grace to you. And grace
is not something you earn, not because you confess the word many times or you
do enough good works. But the gift of God is where God just showers His gift
on you. And when it drops on you, you know that you know that you are healed.
That’s the healing anointing flowing. Do not give any specific command to any
person unless the healing anointing has descended on you. However, if there
are about twenty wheel chair cases, you may give a general command and the
gift of God may operate for three. But
the next day the other seven may be touched and healed. See the gift of God
operates differently. In Kathryn Kuhlman’s meetings, the most important thing
is the presence of the Holy Spirit. Some people may come for the first time
and they are not healed. They come again and they are still not healed. They
come the third time and they are finally healed. Why? Wouldn’t it be foolish
if the first time the wheelchair bound person comes and you force the person
to stand? If he didn’t get healed, he might feel condemned after that. That’s the way God’s Spirit will work and
move. We want to learn how the healing anointing flows so that we can be
smooth open channels for the Holy Spirit to move. I want to share something through my
experience on the healing anointing. In Acts 3:2 And a certain man lame
from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gates of the
temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who enter the
temple; And the lame man was there everyday. This is
not in the bible. One day, a Pentecostal guy came by and said, “Praise God,
you are healed.” He pulled him up and he fell down again not under the power
but under the weight of gravity. Another Pentecostal guy comes along and
asked him what sin he has committed. The apostles Peter and John didn’t do
all these things to the lame man. Remember he was in church. There you are in
Acts 2:46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple. Everyday
they held church prayer meetings there. So the lame man was there everyday in
the church. The church was there everyday. Everyday he heard the preaching of
the word. Everyday he heard about Jesus. Everyday he was worshiping God but
there was a time when the healing anointing was flowing. I want you to know
that you are to keep holding to your faith and let the sick come because
healing is not your business, it is God’s business. I want you to be
sensitive to the Holy Spirit anointing. When there is a time when the healing
anointing flows and you do your part, God does His part. God has never asked
you to do the impossible. He is the one who does that but He asked you to do
your part. Everyday that lame man was there in the
temple, he was not healed and nobody put any condemnation on him. If people
keep condemning those who are not healed in one service, they might never
come again. At a certain time there are some forces at work within a person’s
life. Sometimes at a certain stage the healing anointing rests on that
person. At that stage, healing can take place. I feel sad when I sense that
the sick could be healed if the congregation just keep worshiping and
praising God and letting the presence of God soak into him or her. Perhaps by
the fourth meeting when the worship and expectation of the people has grown
high and the Lord is pleased to release His healing anointing, then when the
command is given, mighty miracles take place all over the auditorium. Don’t be in a hurry to palm healing off to
people. He that believes does not make haste. But one day in the fullness of
time, the Holy Spirit releases His healing anointing on the congregation. I
like that word in the fullness of time because the Holy Spirit is so
gentle. How do we know when a person’s
heart is right with God? You cannot know fully. See man always looks at the
outward whereas God looks at the inward. Only God knows the intricate secrets
that go on in a person’s heart. Some time in the fullness of time a person is
ready for the healing anointing to come. They don’t come accidentally. But
there are issues inside a person’s life that God is dealing with that you do
not see. And sometimes that person reaches the fullness of time and if you
are sensitive to the healing anointing you will sense it too. This is something that Peter did that I never
understood for the first three years of my ministry. Finally I understood.
That lame man, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for
alms. Somebody said that he asked for arm and he got leg. Verse 4 I never
understood before And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look
at us.” I never understood why he needed to do that. After all, God calls
us to the preaching, teaching and healing business. He never called us to be
in the staring business. It is very rude to stare. People don’t like you to
stare at them. But verse 4 Peter fixing his eyes on him. And the first
word he says was not, “In the name of Jesus Christ, walk.” I did ask the Holy Spirit about this many
years ago. Why didn’t he just say in the name of Jesus? If he did that he
wouldn’t have been sensing the healing anointing. What Peter was sensing was
the healing anointing. I agree that if it were a matter of healing by
exercising of personal faith, then we ought to command healing in the name of
Jesus. I have seen cases where leaders try to cast out demons using their
personal faith and six hours later, they are still trying to cast them out.
They say, “Come out.” The demon said, “No. ”Come out.” ”No.” They try
everything they have learnt from books with little success. But when the anointing comes you just say,
“In Jesus’ name.” and the demon will just go out. There is a difference when
the anointing is there. The Holy Spirit says the first words of people are as
important as the rest. Remember this man has been in the temple for many
days. They had prayer meetings everyday. Nowadays you call for prayer
meetings after office hours and not many people would come. They have church
seven days a week. Some people will say that will take my whole life. But
didn’t you tell the Lord that He is Lord over your whole life and yet, the
next moment He wants to take your whole life you say no. Your whole life has
to revolve around Jesus. The first word of Peter to this man is, “Look
at us.” I never understood why until one day we were ministering in an old
folks home in Bukit Mertajam. So at the end of the preaching we were praying
for the people. At that time I didn’t understand about the healing anointing.
But I do know that the bible says to lay hands on the sick. So we were
praying for the sick. So there was a line of old people. Some of them
received manifestations through the laying on of hands. You see you can
receive healing through laying on of hands, by the believer’s anointing and
not only through the healing anointing. You can receive healing through the
believer’s anointing but not what I call through the healing anointing. That
is part of the gifts of the Holy Spirit working. What we are talking about is
the gift of healing not the laying on of hands. You can get healing through
the laying on of hands instantly too. We came to the third elderly man. He had
injured his leg in an accident and he was limping too. But as we were praying
and talking to these people, there were two people who saw the others getting
healed. And for one moment there seems like there was a circle around him and
me. It was not something that I saw. I didn’t see. I felt it. And when I
looked at him directly, something in me jumped up like saying he is going to
be healed on the spot. When I looked at him there was a drawing what I call a
healing anointing or something jumping up in me. And I could see something
inside his eyes. I could see a certain kind of look in his eyes. There was
something about this look that says that he is going to be healed instantly.
When it came to his turn before we could pray for him and say the name of
Jesus he fell down. The second person we prayed for, we had to cast out a
demon. It was a very stubborn demon. This demon manifested, screamed, and the
demon left. So this person was watching all these things. And there was a
certain look on his eye. When I look at a person, I know whether they
have contacted God. Do you know that there is something that takes place in
your life when you have contacted God? It is not you who heal, neither is it
not I who heal but it is God who heals. So all we do is to bring people into
the presence of God. And you can tell when a person has touched God. So when
I looked into the eyes of the man who was brought in the wheel chair, I knew
he wanted to be healed. But there is something about him that has not touched
God yet. I am not talking about being born again. But there is something
about a person’s soul when you have contacted God. So when I look at that man
in the third row, there was something in his eyes that told me he has touched
God. Unless you touch God, God doesn’t touch you. I know God is a Spirit but
you can contact Him through the spirit realm.
So when a person touches God, God will touch him. So I saw in his eyes
and before I could say, “Jesus,” he started going down. When he got up, he
was instantly healed. It took only a few seconds for the healing of an
ailment of about eight years. I want you to know that God’s power is released
through the healing anointing. There is something about the healing anointing
that needs to flow. We need to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit imparting what
I call His gifts. In another incident in Acts 14 this is the
prayer of the healing anointing. Verse 8 And in Lystra a certain man
without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb,
who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Faith comes by
hearing and hearing by the word. We think that its just simple you hear you
get it. I tell you there are a lot of hindrances to hearing. I am not talking
about hearing physically but hearing spiritually. All of you can be hearing the same message
but receive different messages and revelations. Every one of us can hear the
same message and come out with different degrees of faith. That is why it is
not what we hear but as Jesus said, “Take heed how you hear.” Hearing has to
do with the attentiveness of your inner man. This man was hearing Paul very
intensely. Somehow faith got into him. We would have thought that every sick
person who comes when they hear the teaching of the word would receive faith
but not all. Only God knows the heart. He does not reveal the heart of man to
us all the time but sometimes He may reveal. There are certain things in a
person’s life that though the word is speaking they never heard it. They heard
physically but they never heard it inside. But some people can be in the same
meeting, hear the same message, it goes right into them and faith cometh by
hearing. So only God knows the heart. That’s why we need to be sensitive to
God picking up those whom He says has touched Him and He will touch them. This man in verse 9 heard Paul speaking and
Paul was observing him intently. As Paul was preaching in an open-air
meeting, his eyes were just fixing on this person. What was he seeing? The
same thing that the cripple saw. As I preach and teach I can see if people
are touched by God or not. There is something that you can see when a person
has touched and contacted God. As we worship God most of the time we close
our eyes but sometimes when I open my eyes, I can see whether people are
touched by the worship or not. And God touches those who have touched God. So as Paul was preaching and teaching, he was
observing and he saw a lame man observing intently. He saw that the man had
faith to be healed. This is not something that you can see with your natural
eyes. You need revelation to pick up that. That refers back to Peter in Acts
3 verse 4 he was looking for faith to be healed. It is a spiritual quality.
When you move under the healing anointing, it is the gift of healing that God
has imparted in a general congregation. That is why worship is important. We
need to contact God first. So when you worship God and you contact God, He
starts releasing His healing anointing on the congregation and dropping His gift
of faith in individuals here and there who have touched Him. Such mustard
seeds of God’s faith imparted in them enable them to tap on the healing
anointing and receive healing. He starts operating and doing interesting
things. I know it when the Holy Spirit takes charge. But we need to touch God
first before He touches us with that precious mustard seed of faith. So there
are certain things about being in the presence of God. That’s why if a person
really wants to be healed, he ought to come for every meeting. There is
something about touching God and God touching you. So when Paul was preaching
the word, he was sensitive to the Holy Spirit imparting His gift of faith to
individuals here and there. One of them was the cripple who received God’s
faith in him and Paul saw that faith of God in that cripple’s eyes. See it’s
the faith that’s imparted. If it is your own faith, it won’t do much. But it
is God’s faith. How much of God’s faith do you need? You
don’t need a mountain of faith. You don’t need a ton of faith. Some people
see patients being brought in on stretchers and they feel they need a ton of
faith. But they are thinking of their personal faith. When the healing
anointing descends on a meeting, just a mustard seed of God’s faith imparted
to you is enough to release the healing to the people. I tell you, if you
have a ton of faith you won’t be on this planet earth. You would be too
powerful and you may even explode the whole world. The seed of God is a
powerful substance. When the seed of God comes into you, something happens.
Jesus said in Matt. 17 if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed. You
know how small a mustard seed is. Jesus was using one of the smallest seeds
known to man. If you have faith like a mustard seed, just one dot is enough to
move mountains. How much more when you have a ton of faith, which is
equivalent to one billion trillion of mustard seeds. That is why I say you
have to be very sensitive to the Holy Spirit and hear Him carefully to reveal
who among the crowd has received that seed of the faith of God. That mustard seed is important. It drops into
a person’s heart in the intricate labyrinths of the inner soul. One mustard
seed faith can move a mountain. It is like one little grain against Goliath.
By the time you have a ton of faith I say it will explode mountain ranges all
over the world and you will not have enough mountains to move. A mustard seed
of faith is already so power packed. One tiny drop of mustard faith in you
and instantly you will be healed. But then you must know when the healing
anointing is imparted. God does everything by faith. You see faith is alive
with the life of God. See it is a substance in Heb. 11:1. So the healing
anointing when it moves it imparts the life of God. And the life of God is a
life force. It’s the faith of God imparted. When the life and healing of God
is imparted to people, they feel a refreshing, a bubbling and stirring inside
them. That’s a manifestation. It’s a tangible mustard seed faith imparted.
And Paul; in Act 14 when he was preaching he saw that man lying there that he
had faith through the perception of the Spirit. When that happen you can give
a command. I am not talking about giving command when
you are being half filled with the Spirit. You know what I mean by being half
filled. It is still better than none but still, it is too small a measure to
release the grace of God or the favor of God or see the gifts of God
imparted. I am not talking about getting healed by personal faith. I am
talking about being so filled with the Spirit that your spirit man can easily
receive the gift of healing, the gift of working of miracles and the gift of
faith when the healing anointing descends. These are the power gifts. The
gifts of God are imparted like an influx. At the same time that the Holy
Spirit releases the healing anointing, He also releases the mustard seed of
the faith of God in individuals here and there to enable them to tap on the
healing anointing and receive healing. Thus, when the Spirit-filled minister
gives the command and the mustard seed faith-filled individuals hear the
command, an explosion of healing occurs in the latter. That mustard seed
faith will move a mountain of years of paralysis. God gets the glory for both releasing the
healing anointing and the mustard seeds of the faith of God. God does
everything. `We wait for His manifestation and while waiting we worship Him. I know my sister what you saw in that brother
is true. (She saw in the spirit the wheelchair bound brother getting up and
walking.) It’s coming to pass but that person must be in the presence of God.
There will be a day where the Spirit will speak by revelation and say, “Today
is the day.” Not only will God speak to you, God will also speak to him. I am talking about the healing anointing
and not about exercising personal faith. When the healing anointing is
present, there is something imparted into your spirit man and there is a
knowing inside you. When it is imparted, healing takes place instantly. Many
of the healings of Jesus Christ are full fledged, complete and instant
healing and not partial healing. He could function that way because it was
the gift of God freely given to people. In the same way when you are talking
about faith you need to believe that you are healed by His stripes etc. and
you need to believe that you have received. All these are important when
talking about personal faith. But when the healing anointing comes, there is
an impartation in your spirit man, and that you know that you know that
something is done. It seems to contradict the word of faith
message but if you believe for healing by faith you have to believe that it’s
already done and start giving thanks. But here we are taking about there is a
knowing that comes saying that at the appointed time, the healing is going to
manifest. It is just like this you can be praying for your loved one. I
prayed for my father’s salvation for one year. Many times I would be on my
knees crying and crying away. I remember every time when I was alone with
God, I would say, “Lord God, I want to see my father in heaven. O God I claim
Acts 16:31 my whole household shall be saved.” Then one day while I was
praying something dropped into my heart and said it is done. See I was
praying, I was believing and I was confessing. But there was a day that
something dropped in my spirit. The end of that year when I went back home
from the seminary, my father dreamt a huge cross and he was at the bottom of
that cross. I found out that a month back he was praying the sinner’s prayer
every day until he had that dream. I said, “Papa, Jesus had answered your
prayer. You are saved.” Something dropped in my heart even before I met him.
It is that knowing. This is what Jesus felt when the woman
touched His garment - He knew something had happened. The woman too felt
something happened when she touched Jesus. If you minister under the healing
anointing, you need to know the anointing tangibly. If you receive healing
under the healing anointing, you will feel something tangible. It is
touchable - God comes down into the
human realm to let us touch His power. In Acts 4, I never understood why the
apostles prayed like that because their prayer seemed to contradict the word
of faith teaching. I want you to know that I am firmly grounded in the word
of faith teaching. I believe and I confess all the promises of God. And under
the faith teaching, I know that healing had already been done two thousand
years ago. And I do know that in the New Testament, you don’t ask God to heal
under faith teaching because God has already done it by the stripes of Jesus.
No point asking God what to do when He had already done so. But that faith teaching must be balanced, vis
a vis with the teaching on the healing anointing. In Acts 4, I want you
to look at their prayer in verse 30 what they prayed there seemed to
contradict the faith message at first. But if you understand the healing
anointing, you know that their prayer doesn’t contradict; it compliments. In
other words, people need to understand faith all the time. They need to
exercise faith all the time. But there is also a healing anointing which is a
plus in what they can exercise. In verse 29 Now, Lord, look on their
threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak
Your word. They say, “God, give us boldness to speak Your word.” How do
you do that, in verse 30 it says by stretching our Your hand to heal. How
many of you know that God has a hand? When you minister by faith you don’t
pray, “Jesus, heal” but you say, “Receive your healing.” You don’t ask Jesus
to come and heal. But I want you to know that when Peter was in Lydda when he
ministered there in Acts. 9:34 he used the present tense. Peter said to
him “Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you.”
He didn’t say, “Aeneas, by the stripes laid on Jesus you were healed.”
But he is talking like Jesus has personally come. And I tell you He does when
the healing anointing is released. I am not talking about exercising faith.
Sometimes God wants you to receive by faith and not by the anointing. Now
turn back to Acts 4 again to the same passage where we left off. Acts 4:30 by
stretching out Your hand to heal. The healing anointing is when the hand
of God comes and literally imparts faith.
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