Articles
Mike Miller, Father's House Ministries - a Northern Colorado grace Church in Fort Collins, CO.
New Testament Healing Week 2
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May 2, 2007
Pages: 4
The Lord told Mike that some people will receive manifestation.
Examples in the NT of immediate healing:
Matt. 15:28 (NKJV) 28Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Mark 5:29 (NKJV) 29Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.
Mark 5:42 (NKJV) 42Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they were overcome with great amazement.
Mark 7:35 (NKJV) 35Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.
The immediate manifestation is heard to achieve, so the body of Christ struggles and wonders 1) if God is not willing to heal us, or 2) if our works aren’t good enough. So we are beginning a quest to learn God’s will, what works.
The problems in this area are largely corporate. The corporate mind as well as the individual mind need to be renewed in so many ways. With healing the problem is often with us; but the mind needs to be renewed. An unrenewed mind will push books, tapes, etc.(??????)
We are trying to believe at a level we have never attained to. There will be hindrances to achieving the next level.
Take heed what you hear.
Mark 4:24 (NKJV) 24Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
Take heed how you hear, what filter it goes through.
Luke 8:18 (NKJV) 18Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”
Christ was the first body of Christ and we are the second body of Christ to occupy time and space. He is the head and we are the body.
Col. 1:18 (NKJV) 18And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Mike had a vision of Jesus at the grave of Lazarus. It was the body of Christ that walked the earth in that day. The body of Christ today should be doing everything He did. He was one mind, one will, one emotion with the Father. We want to be able to say that.
Every individual has a strategic position in the body. Every part does its share unto the edifying of itself in love. This must become more than head-knowledge.
Eph. 4:15 through Eph. 4:16 (NKJV) 15but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
The remedy is simple, getting people to “take the medicine.” Mike wishes to stay violently resolved that sickness and disease won’t take his life. We should not accept what the world accepts concerning those things. But, the body of Christ has accepted the medicine world.
He said to all who would come to Me . . . .
John 17:20 through John 17:23 (NKJV) 20“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Glory = view and opinion of God which is reality.
Why would Jesus pray this prayer if oneness was a forgone conclusion that we would be one? Or so that they may be complete in One.
One mind perfectly joined together, speaks the same thing. Jesus prayed this prayer because He knew the original eleven would not be one body.(?????)
1 Cor. 1:10 (NKJV) 10Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Get free! Paul urged us to be one mind, etc., but didn’t tell us how to do it, but John begins to in John 17:20-21. I’ve given them the glory—the view and the opinion of God which is reality.
Imagine we are hearing these words of reality. Still breathing fresh air; they’ve got everything they need. Deception doesn’t help; reality helps. He is saying to get them set apart from the world.
Heb. 10:9 through Heb. 10:10 (NKJV) 9then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
The remedy is simple. We need to agree with God. We need an open conduit between the natural realm and the spiritual realm.(?????) Jesus was the conduit.
Healthy cells beget healthy cells. The more immediate and resounding results that will be achieved.
The air you breathe in is not the product of your activity alone. You may not contribute to the problem, but you do partake. The same thing happened with doctrines of demons.
The hand is affected by a wound in the foot.
Answer.
Mark 6:1 through Mark 6:6 (NKJV) 1Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. 2And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! 3Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” So they were offended at Him.
4But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” 5Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.
Jesus marveled at their unbelief. Then He went around and around and around in a circuit—a circuit preacher giving them His view and opinion of God which was reality.
Acts 19:8 through Acts 19:10 (NKJV) 8And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God. 9But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. 10And this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
For three months Paul spoke and reasoned in the synagogue. They didn’t believe. He departed from them. For two years he reasoned daily in the school of Tyrannus so all in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus.
Mike’s demonstration:
An empty bucket with a hole in the lid for a hose. Hose was inserted in the hole full blast. You could feel the air being driven out by the water. Water is the word. Satan is the prince of the power of the air.
3 John 1:2 (NKJV) 2Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
The gradual principle. Seed, time and harvest.
Gen. 8:22 (NKJV) 22“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
Amos 9:11 through Amos 9:14 (NKJV) 11“On that day I will raise up
The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12That they may possess the remnant of Edom,
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the LORD who does this thing.
13“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
14I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
We elongate the time by questioning.
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Q & A Period:
You will know when your mind is renewed. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Rom. 12:2 (NKJV) 2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
What is the expectation of your heart? Am I ready to live without health insurance?
The law of faith.
You have to know where you are in your own heart.
Satan doesn’t care what your mind is on as long as it’s off Jesus.
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