Invisible Barriers to Healing – Derek Prince Sermons. This is an original Bible Study, teaching by Derek Prince: God provides healing as part of the atoning work of Jesus on the cross. But what do you do when you don’t see the healing manifest in the physical realm? Derek Prince discloses six common barriers to healing—and how to overcome them.
John 16 versus 13 14 and 15
however when he the Spirit of Truth
that’s one of the titles of known a
spirit and noticed that he’s a he
brothers and sisters the Holy Spirit is
not an it he’s a he he’s a person and he
wants to be treated as a person when he
the Spirit of Truth has come he will
guide you into all truth for he will not
speak on his own authority but whatever
he hears he will speak and he will tell
you things to come now Jesus is speaking
he says he will glorify me Jesus for he
will take of what is mine and declare it
or reveal it to you then he says all
things that the father has are mine
therefore I said that he the Holy Spirit
will take of mine and reveal it to you
so everything the father has is invested
in the son and all the wealth of the
father and the son is disposed of by the
Holy Spirit
he’s the steward he’s the keeper of the
storehouse let’s make friends with him
it’ll pay us no I want to say one thing
I realize that in the present state of
the church riddle as it is with so many
spiritual problems and so much unbelief
there will be very wonderful sons and
daughters have gone who do not receive
healing let’s be honest and face that
fact I’ve seen thousands of people
healed over the year but I’ve seen some
of God’s choicest children who didn’t
receive their healing now I want to tell
you I can’t explain that
all right there are things I can’t
explain
but as I’ve pondered over this and
thought God about it God gave me a
scripture and I want to read it to you
it’s Deuteronomy chapter 29 and verse 29
Deuteronomy 29:29 that’s an easy text to
remember the secret things belong to the
Lord are gone but those things which are
revealed belong to us and to our
children forever that we may do all the
words of this law there are two kinds of
things they’re the secret things that
belong to God and there are the things
that reveal that belong to us that we
may do them that we may act them now God
has called me to be a minister his word
I don’t cry into God’s secrets the thing
that God keeps secret I don’t try to get
to know but the things that are revealed
it is my responsibility to minister to
God’s people and to act on
that’s what with the help of the Lord
I’m going to do tonight now over the
years in ministering to the sick I have
discovered and roofing I’m being made
particularly conscious of this in the
last few years if there are any barriers
they are not on God’s Son when Jesus
died the veil of the temple was rent in
two from top to bottom and every barrier
on God’s side was removed but we have
learned by experience that there are
often barriers that remain within the
hearts and lives of God’s people that
are barriers to healing and in order to
be able to minister effectively we have
to deal with these barriers so in my
teaching this evening before we begin to
minister I’m going to work
systematically through the common
barriers that
vent people from receiving healing I’ve
discovered that this saves endless time
when we come to minister to individuals
we as it were clear the ground first we
don’t have to check with each person
that each person has met these
conditions because we’re going to do it
with all of you collectively and so far
as were able we’re going to remove all
the barriers before we begin to minister
I’m going to give you now a list of
about it so happens that I’ve got seven
in my list but that could be more common
barriers to receiving healing and the
first is ignorant ignorant of God’s Word
and God’s will and I’m sorry to say that
this is a tremendously common barrier in
the church today multitudes of
Christians do not know the clear simple
truths and teachings of the word of God
in Isaiah chapter 5 and verse 13 God
says therefore my people have gone into
captivity because they have no knowledge
no knowledge of God’s Word no knowledge
of what was accomplished by the death of
Jesus on the cross ignorant and then in
Hosea chapter 4 and verse 6
the Lord says something very similar
Hosea four and six my people are
destroyed for lack of normal now we
can’t educate you tonight in one service
but I believe last night and what and in
what I’ve recapitulated tonight I hand
laid a basis of knowledge of the Word of
God and the provision of God that should
help to dispel your ignorance so I want
all of us collectively to confess to God
our sin of ignorance the fact that we
haven’t sought gone we hadn’t studied
his word we hadn’t taken the time to
find out what God is saying and we want
to ask God to forgive us tonight and we
want to commit ourselves so far as is
possible to seek to know the will and
the word of God will you join me in that
all right I’m going to invite you to say
a short prayer after me would you say
these words O God we acknowledge
that in many ways we are ignorant
of your word and of your will through
our own fault tonight God we confess
this as a sin we repent on it we ask you
to forgive us and to help us to seek the
truth from this night forward more
diligently in Jesus name all right the
next barrier is also fearfully common in
the church it’s rather related its
unbelief in many of our churches we
regard unbelief as a kind of harmless
weakness well I don’t believe but after
all does God really expect me to the New
Testament doesn’t call unbelief a
harmless weakness it calls it a sin and
when we see that we’re ready to get rid
of unbelief and to open the way through
believing dawn to receive what he has
for us I want to read from Hebrews
chapter 3 verse 12 and 13 and this is
addressed specifically to Christians
Hebrews 3 12 and 13 beware brethren lest
there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief in departing from the Living
God but exhort one another one it is
called the Dane lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of
sin you know is what the writer calls
unbelief he calls it evil and he calls
it sin so I want to ask you to join with
me in asking God’s forgiveness for our
unbelief and proclaiming our faith you
see in dealing with these spiritual
conditions what we have to do is replace
the negative by the positive so first of
all we are going to forgive our unbelief
and there’s not one of
here tonight myself included that
doesn’t need to ask for forgiveness for
unbelief and then we’re going to
proclaim our faith very simply we’re
going to proclaim our faith in God in
Jesus in the Holy Spirit and in the Word
of God and this can change the entire
atmosphere in this auditorium from this
moment onwards there can be an
atmosphere of faith so I’m going to ask
you to join me again my prayer we’re
going to go through this let me just say
this is a little bit like when you go to
the doctor nowadays in the old days you
just tapped you on the chest and said
open your mouth and say ah and stuck
something down your throat and then
reached up and gave you a box of pills
but that’s not the way it is now no when
you go he takes your blade blonde and he
takes various other things from various
parts of your body and he sends them all
to laboratory and after a while when
they be through all the tests they come
back well this is where the problem area
is well what we’re trying to do is do
that as it will go through all the tests
and eliminate the problems you see what
I’m saying I told you that we were very
practical but just on a different basis
but we’re just as practical as the
doctor or the dentist so we’re going to
confess the sin of unbelief and we’re
going to ask God to forgive us we’re
going to renounce it and we’re going to
proclaim our faith
you ready Oh God we come to you in Jesus
name
and we confess our sin of unwilling we
do not try to excuse it we are
responsible for it we are sorry for it
we ask you to forgive us and to deliver
us from it and impart to us your faith
and tonight we want to declare each of
us individually I believe in God the
Father
I believe in Jesus Christ his son I
believe in God the Holy Spirit
and I believe in the Bible the true
authoritative Word of God
I believe Lord Jesus what you saying
God’s Word is the truth amen
all right did you feel better now I tell
you there’s a different atmosphere in
this place a lot of nasty little demons
of unbelief had to sneak out of the back
door we come to the third barrier which
is not in every life but in many it’s
unconfessed sin proverbs chapter 28 and
verse 13 lays down a principle proverbs
28:13 he who covers his sins will not
prosper you made time desperately to
succeed in life and you may seek many
things but if there is covered
Unforgiven sin in your life you will not
prosper he who covers his sin will not
prosper but whoever confesses and
forsakes them will have mercy I don’t
know but in the lives of many of us I
suspect there are sins that have not
been acknowledged they’ve not been
confessed they’ve not been repented of
we’ve covered them up we’ve hidden them
away you know in dealing with people
about the confession of sin which is so
important I’ve discovered that a lot of
people think this way well if I don’t
confess my sins to God you’ll never know
about them really I found lots of people
think that way let me tell you God knows
already and God is not asking you to
confess in order to find out what you’ve
done God is asking you to confess
because when you do that he can help
see it’s for your good it’s not failures
information and let me tell you – when
you’ve told him the worst about yourself
you haven’t shocked him and you knew it
all before you told it and I tell young
people there are things you might never
be able to tell your parents because
you’d be too embarrassed into a shame
but you can tell God and God is never
embarrassed
isn’t that wonderful so I’m going to
give you and each of one of us here
tonight an opportunity in the presence
of the Holy Spirit to see if there’s any
unconfessed sin in our hearts and love
and then very simply very quietly not
out long confess any sin that the Holy
Spirit shows you the Bible says if we
confess our sins he is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness
so if you will confess God is committing
himself in his faithfulness and his
justice to forgive you and to cleanse
and no matter what they might be on your
conscience so in your heart tonight if
you in faith in God’s faithfulness will
confess those sins or that sin
you can go out of here later this
evening just as if you’ve never
committed a sin in your life because
when God forgives on sins he blots the
moment he doesn’t hold them against us
ever again
now this we’re not going to do publicly
but just going to take just a few
moments I invite each one of you just to
shut you something for a moment with God
and let God show you is there something
that I have done or sent maybe some
years back the Holy Spirit brings it to
your remembrance and you respond by
saying dawn I’d long I’m sorry forgive
me
lenses in the blood of Jesus let’s take
a few moments of quiet
now I don’t want anybody raising their
arms for the heads
but if you want to just proclaim
triumphant later you’ve confessed
something and you know God has forgiven
you feel so good about it would you just
raise one hand for a moment for some
testing god bless god bless
that’s right now remember you’re not
only forgiving your playmates there’s
nothing between you and dawn from this
moment onward in that respect let’s just
say out loud to God thank you God thank
you though
thank you for forgiving me go and you
say then thank you for forgiving me
though I receive your forgiveness and
one more thing you may need to do you
may need to forgive yourself sometimes
that’s the hardest say this God because
you’ve forgiven me
I forgive myself I mean now we are going
on with the next barrier which is
closely related it’s an attitude of
unforgiveness to other people this is
terribly common in the body of Christ I
want to show you what Jesus said in mark
chapter 11 and verse 25 mark 11 and
verse 25 and whenever you stand praying
if you have anything against anyone
forgive him that your Father in Heaven
may also forgive you your trespasses
alright this is an when we are in the
attitude of Prayer Jesus says before you
start to pray check
is there anybody you’ve got something
against why does he say that because if
you pray with resentment and
unforgiveness in your heart that
resentment and unforgiveness are a
barrier to the answer to your prayer so
Jesus says if you want a clear
communication channel with God and
openness to receive what you pray for
before Ukraine if there’s anything in
your heart against anyone and that
leaves out nothing and no one
forgive then pray I want to tell you
that forgiveness is forgiving is not an
emotion
it’s a decision it’s a decision of the
wind I’ve explained to people sometimes
it’s like heading io u–‘s from somebody
else forgiving is tearing up the IOU
that’s what it is
I was teaching once in a place and I was
speaking particularly to wives who’ve
been mistreated or abandoned by their
husbands and I pointed out that even
though they might have been very wrongly
treated they had to have an attitude of
forgiveness toward the husband and I
said to some such imaginary wife I said
you may have in your hand
a handful of IOUs from your husband to
you I owe you love I owe you support I
owe you care I owe you provision in many
areas which he hasn’t provided now I
said those IOUs are legal
they’re absolutely legal you can hold on
to them but before you decide to do that
remember that God up in heaven has in
his hand a lot of IOUs from you to him
and God says in so many words let’s do a
deal you tear up your io u–‘s and I’ll
tear up mine
but you hold on to yours and I’ll how
long-term I’m well in one of the
parables the proportion that Jesus gave
is somebody owes you $17 you owe gone
six million so you know forgiving people
isn’t being super spiritual it’s
enlightened self-interest anybody that
won’t let seventeen dollars go for the
sake of being forgiving six million
that’s hidden there hasn’t any business
since that’s all so I said if you want
gone to tear his IOUs from you you tear
up your I’ll use whether it’s from your
husband or your parents or whoever it
may be when at the end of my message I’m
just finished preaching and I didn’t
find the ones gonna do next and down the
middle aisle came a very smartly dressed
young lady I would say about thirty
years old very sophisticated and
self-possessed
she marched right up to me look me full
in the face and she was radiant and she
said Mr Prince I just want to tell you
that while you were preaching I got rid
of about thirty thousand dollars worth
of our youth turn round and walk out she
got the message he didn’t need
counseling she didn’t need prayer she
done the right thing all right so we’re
going to take a few moments now to deal
with resentment and unforgiveness in our
hearts this is the way we’ll do it we’ll
just take a few moments and I’m going to
pray for the Holy Spirit to show you if
there’s some hidden root of bitterness
in the Bible says if there’s a root of
bitterness and it springs up it will
deform anything and then you’re going to
make a decision to tear up those I owe
you many of you young people may feel
that your pair
7:3 did you write unfortunately that’s
very true in many circumstances today
but let me point out to you that the
first commandment that carries a promise
with it is honor your father and mother
so again it’s a question of enlightened
self-interest you don’t have to agree
with everything they do but you have to
have a attitude of respect toward them I
have never known a Christian truly
blessed in gone who had a wrong attitude
to his parents never it is an essential
requirement for the blessing of God I’m
not speaking only about a wrong attitude
to parents or husbands or wives but
those are some of the Communists so I’m
going to pray now and ask the Holy
Spirit to show us if there are areas of
unforgiveness in our hearts and lungs
then I’m going to lead you after a few
moments in a prayer of forgiveness Holy
Spirit we ask you now in Jesus name
speak to the heart and each one here
show us the areas of bitterness
resentment and unforgiveness and make us
willing to forgive
now the home spirit may give you a
specific name or name or a specific
situation now I want you to say this
prayer
Lord if there has been any resentment in
my heart
any unforgiveness
any bitterness I renounce it now
I lay it down if anyone is unharmed me
or wronged me I forgive them now as I
would have gone
forgive me Lord I forgive them
in your name Lord Jesus and I believe
you forgive me
thank you Lord in Jesus name
all right we’re going to go on the next
which is terribly common today the next
barrier is account involvement being in
some way or having been involved in the
occult in things like fortune-telling or
Ouija board or horoscope or any of the
innumerable different ways in which
superstition and satanic cults have
invaded our contemporary culture those
are invariably a barrier to healing and
the reason I have experienced this
innumerable times people come for
healing but there is some dark shadow of
the occult
still over their lines and it comes
between them and the healing they seek
there are many forms of the archons a
lot of contemporary music hard rock and
so on is really satanic it has demonic
power in it and if we’ve exposed
ourselves to it we could need
deliverance from it drugs
I cannot take time tonight to make a
list I’m going to trust the Holy Spirit
to show you but let me just tell you one
story with Ruth and I were in a certain
place we came to the point of
ministering to the sick and a young
woman of about I suppose 18 came up for
prayer
and as we looked in her eyes we saw that
glazed look which nearly always is the
outcome of involvement in the account
and so we wanted a helper before we
prayed for her and I said to her have
you been involved in the occult she said
no and I thought she was being honest
but I wanted to probe I said you haven’t
been to a fortune-teller and played with
a Ouija board no none of those have you
had
your horoscope read no and still there
was this battery and then gone gained
truth the word annoying and she said
rock music and the girl went flat on her
back but I hope praying for her that was
the barrier after that she could be here
so we are going on to do the next stage
we’re going to renounce every content
with the outcome before we do that let
me read to you from Exodus chapter 23
Exodus the 23rd chapter
verses 24 and following now these are
instructions from Moses to the children
of Israel as to how they were to deal
with the Falls of worship and religion
that had been in the land of Canaan
before they came back and Moses warned
them they had no part whatever in such
satanic practices so he says in verse 24
you shall not bow down to their gods nor
serve them nor do according to their
works but you shall utterly overthrow
them and completely break down their
sacred pillars in other words is to be
no association with any of those kinds
about out practices now on the basis of
that Moses gives them these wonderful
promises so you shall serve the Lord
your God and he will bless your bread in
your water and I will take sickness away
from the midst of you no one shall
suffer miscarriage or be barren in your
lane I will fulfil the number of your
Dame’s what wonderful promises no
Berenice no miscarriages no female
problems no sickness a guaranteed full
lifespan who wouldn’t want them but
brothers sisters don’t detach it from
the context it’s only for those who
break totally with the account in every
form let me give you a very simple
example years back I was in a typical
charismatic house screaming I found
myself next to a young man who was
actually I discovered later from a
Catholic background and I was just
talking to him I said are you baptized
in the Holy Spirit and he said yes but
now when anybody says yes but to that
question you know what the butt is don’t
– but I don’t speak in tongues so I say
another trunkless elephant
I didn’t discuss this with him and I had
no no no plan I just said did you ever
go to a fortune-teller oh he said yes
once when I was a boy about 15 but I
just did it as a joke I didn’t believe
in it but I said you didn’t go he said
yes I said would you be willing to
acknowledge to God that that was a sin
and ask him to forgive you and release
you from its consequences
well I don’t think he was impressed by
my argument but more or less just to get
me off his back he said okay so I let
him in a little simple prayer lord I
confess that I went to a fortune-teller
I should not have done it I realized it
was a sin I asked you to forgive me and
release me from its consequences in
Jesus name then I put my hand on him and
prayed for him and he spoke fluently in
Kunduz see that was the invisible Bend
it’s um not just a barrier to the gifts
of the Spirit it’s a barrier to you so
tonight if you will cooperate and I
can’t do anything against your will not
even God can do anything against your
will if you will cooperate we will
renounce all our involvement
alright are you ready now I would guess
that we’ll cover 50% of the people in
this auditorium
that would be my estimate I may be wrong
but this is so subtle today there are so
many different ways you can go into a
souvenir shop and pick up some little
Idol and take it home as a little
ornament I think I have to tell you one
other story because I’m sure that you’re
convinced how serious this is
some years back in the United States I
ministered to a lady who was a lady
judge she was a member of the Supreme
Court of the state of Virginia she had
had them some kind of intestinal problem
for ten years she’d had surgery
she was never free from pain and I was
ministering to people in as a Methodist
Church and I was putting people in the
chair and praying for them as I
sometimes do and she was standing there
and God’s power was coming on then and I
said to her are you ready she said no I
don’t think so
so I said well when you’re ready let me
know about ten minutes later she said I
think I’m ready so I sent her in the
chair held her legs one leg was short
grew out God’s presenta and I mean she
was out of this world
for forty-five minutes she told me this
person when she came to for the first
time in ten years she was free of pain
later she discovered this when they
operated on her surgically and her
intestines they put metal clips in to
hold things in place when gone healed
that you removed the clip there was no
further evidence of clips
well after that her lady friend in some
competition won a free trip to Mexico
for both them so they went down to
Mexico for a vacation
came back I’m the friend phone my wife
and me desperate she said this lady is
just trying to commit suicide
come over and help us so we went over
posthaste
and we started to talk to them
apparently nothing at change I said
you’ve been down to Mexico they said yes
I said did you bring any souvenirs back
with you and this lady said yes I
brought one circular image said what was
an image on the Sun God
I said that’s your problem you’re under
a curse because you’ve brought an
accursed thing into your home
the bomber says if you bring an empiric
thing into young you want to curse it
like the thing she was a woman of action
she got up went down into the basement
broke it in small pieces and put it in
the rubbish that was the end of that she
never had another problem but it nearly
cost her her life that’s how real this
is see Dawn has an intense hatred of
idolatry I don’t think we appreciate how
the Lord hates idolatry so we’re going
to give you an opportunity if you have
ever been involved in the option and
you’ve never dealt with it in your life
if you’ve dealt with it you’re free
that’s someone but if you never dealt
with we’re going to give you this
opportunity now we’re going to let the
Holy Spirit rest upon us for a moment
and speak he’s got a very wonderful
memory he can take you back 20 years is
something that happened
alright now I’m going to help you I’m
going to lead you in a prayer but it
must be on the basis of your own
acknowledgement you I want you to say
these words lord if I’ve ever been
involved in the acha
even ignorant Lee whatever it was I
confess it as a sin and I renounce it I
asked you to forgive me and I commit
myself now that never again will I be
involved with those things
forgive me Lord and release me from
their influence right now in the name of
Jesus I’m in alright very closely
connected with that in the same chapter
of Exodus 23 verse 32 Exodus 23 32 we
come to another related problem you
shall make no covenant with them nor
with their dawn it is possible for
people to enter into some kind of a
covenant with people who have false god
and if they do that you become involved
in the guilt of those people and their
false gods now this may seem remote and
abstract to you but I’m going to specify
one particular common case some of you
may be offended but I say this in love
because I know it to be true there is a
very common covenant group a secret
society that prevails throughout the
english-speaking world which is free
nation and if you are involved in
Freemasonry you are under a curse not
only you but your family and your
descendant and I speak this from
experience Ruth and I have encountered
this we’ve dealt with it we’ve come to
the root of it Freemasonry is a false
religious system whatever you may say
it’s not a secret that’s blood the main
ceremonies of Freemasonry are known and
had been published by people who are not
freemason to take simply one example the
Royal Arch degree acknowledges a God
whose name is John bull on J a bul o n
jaw is short for Jehovah
bull is short for bail and only short
for Osiris and any system of worship
that combines the true ground with bail
and Osiris is abomination in the sight
of the Lord no matter who practiced it
even if it be an Anglican bishop or the
Archbishop of Canterbury who previously
was a freemason not the present it makes
no difference God is no respect of a
person we have seen the most terrible
consequences in lives and Families
because of this curse I’ll give you one
brief dramatic example in Australia when
we were last there we had a healing
service one morning and one of the
people who came forward was a young
woman who’d obviously been in the
subculture but had apparently just come
out of it and she had what appeared to
be a little newborn baby in her arms and
we said what do you need prayer for she
said my baby it looked about 6 days old
she told us it was 6 weeks old we said
what’s the problem she said it just
won’t take any nourishment I can’t get
it to take more than a spoonful of milk
so Ruth and I laid hands on the woman as
she was holding the baby in her arms the
power of God came on her and she went
down on the floor and Ruth caught the
baby out of her arms and held it and
then God gave Ruth a word of knowledge
she said the girl’s father is a
freemason and the people who were
ministering to the girl on the floor
came against that spirit of Freemasonry
and it came out with a long prolonged
shriek but the dramatic thing was
exactly the same shriek came out of the
baby in ruel Psalms at the same tongue 6
hours later the girl came back in the
evening service with the little baby and
she said I just want to tell you but
the evening she’s taken three full
bubble
thank God for that but that little child
would never been healed if the curse of
Freemasonry had not first been broke now
if there are any here tonight who are
involved in Freemasonry either directly
yourself all through your husband or
father or some of the relative I want to
lead you in a prayer of renunciation
there may be other similar counts secret
societies satanic organizations that are
many of them in the world the link if
you are involved in any of those things
I want to ask you now in the name of the
Lord Jesus to renounce them could we
please be quiet
settle down
now I’m not going to embarrass anybody
individually I’m just going to say a
prayer if you need to say it you say it
to God in your heart
alright you say these words Lord Jesus
Christ I want to serve you and to love
if there is in my life or in my family
the curse of Freemason or any other cult
I ask you to release me and forgive me
and break its power over me right now in
Jesus name God bless you god bless
we’re getting near the end you may see
this is somewhat lengthy but we do it
for everybody collectively we don’t have
to do it for each person individually
which takes ten times longer thus the
final barrier that I want to speak about
is the effects of a curse we dealt with
that a little bit last night I just want
to read the lists of common indications
of a curse over a person’s life or
family if several of these things apply
to you or your family there’s probably a
curse over you now the good news is
Jesus was made a curse that we might be
redeemed from the curse and received the
blessing but most times we need to
renounce the cause of the curse and
clean the release very quickly and
briefly here on the common indications
of a curse number one mental and
emotional breakdown if there’s a history
then in your family number two repeated
and chronic sicknesses especially
hereditary that’s the mark of a curse is
that it goes from generation to
generation
number three repeated miscarriages or
female problem and the stars rhythm I’m
concerned when we have that kind of need
to pray for we just simply automatically
treat it as a curse and we have seen
many barren women able to conceive and
bear children and we have seen many
winning with female problems delivered
tumors and other things on the female
organs disappear when the curse is
lifted
the next is the breakdown of marriage
and family alienation if a family has a
history of marriages breaking up
different branches of the family at war
with one another you can be almost
shocked this occurs the next is
continuing financial insufficiency you
never get out of the poverty see poverty
syndrome the next is accident-prone
you’re one of those people that
accidents just look for you step off the
curb and you break your ankle you close
the car door on your finger and you know
what I’m to deserve with such people
it’s just when they’re getting near the
point of deliverance that they’re
tripped up it’s just amazing I’ve held
deliverance services in the past and
people have wanted to drive as much as a
hundred miles to come but the car broke
down on the way they never got there
what was it cursed and finally a history
of suicides or unnatural deaths now
we’re not going to take a lot of time
about this but we’re all going to say
once again thank you Lord Jesus that you
were just let me do it first that you
were made a curse that I might be
redeemed from it’s all right and as you
say that let it be lifted from something
can happen to you right now you can walk
out of this place a different person
that dark shadow that’s been over your
life that’s followed you on it’s it to
when I try to describe people all the
curses like it’s like a dark shadow from
the past that just always seems to hover
over you or it’s like a hand that
reaches up from the past and every time
you’re about to make it and succeed it
trips you up if I were to choose one key
word the word
would be frustration I’ve dealt with
many many people who had all the
qualifications for success and time and
time again they were on the verge of
success and something went wrong it’s a
curse
all right now the Holy Spirit is big
enough he can deal with every single
situation that’s of that kind here
tonight you can receive individual
attention not from brother Prentiss but
from the Holy Spirit just take a moment
to ponder on your life look back over it
consider if it has the marks that I’m
describing all right now we’re going to
say it you say it after thank you Lord
Jesus that on the cross you were made a
curse that I might be redeemed from the
curse and enter into the blessed
and because of what you did tonight Lord
Jesus in your precious name I release
myself from every purse of a me and my
family and I claim the blessing that you
purchased for me with your blood thank
you Lord Jesus let’s give him a little
pray
out of the road
all right now that’s the last of the
barriers there’s one other thing you
need to be aware of when we come to pray
for the sick sometimes sicknesses either
caused by or associated with the
presence of evil spirits and the
Ministry of healing frequently includes
the Ministry of driving out evil spirits
it isn’t done in some churches but I’ll
tell you someone who does do it and did
do it Jesus that’s right let’s look just
that one example I say this so that you
become you come mentally prepared Luke
chapter 4 Luke the fourth chapter
versus
40 and 41 Luke for 40 and 41 now when
the Sun was setting all those who had
anyone sick with various diseases
brought them to him and he laid his
hands on every one of them and healed
them and demons or evil spirits also
came out of many crying out notice that
associated with the ministry laying on
the hands of the sick for healing there
was the driving out of demons because
when the supernatural power of God comes
into operation evil spirits just can’t
stand it any longer they have to come
out now there are two different main
ways in which evil spirits are
associated with sickness the first is
they are direct causes of sickness there
are spirits of infirmity of pain of
crippling and of death to name only four
that we deal with commonly for instance
many people who have some kind of spinal
curvature or deformity of the spine that
is caused by a crippling spirit and for
that person to receive full release it
is necessary for that crippling spirit
to be driven out Jesus encountered a
woman who was bent double and couldn’t
stand up straight he didn’t treat it as
a physical sickness he said this woman
has been bound by a spirit of infirmity
18 years he loosed her from the spirit
and she immediately straightened up we
have dealt with all these many times I
don’t think I can go into details now
except perhaps the spirit of death which
is very very common and the way this
works is to cause a person to be in fear
and weekly and ultimately to die
untimely and such a person somehow tends
to have a morbid outlook on life they’ll
tend to look at the dark side of things
they may tend to wear dark clothes
that’s something more biddable I’ve had
to say to several young ladies I suggest
you don’t wear black any longer you may
think this is strange but there’s
association between the two I’m not
saying people should never wear black
we’re just some people for whom it isn’t
altogether wise to wear black Ruth and I
probably had built with hundreds of
cases of people who need deliverance
from the spirit of day and I think we’re
going to do something that I didn’t plan
we’ve discovered as always the right
thing to do is replace the negative by
the positive see one way the spirit of
death comes in is you get discouraged
dishearten oppressed and you say I might
as well be dead I wish I had a me what’s
the good of living well will you say
then that’s an invitation to the spirit
of death come in take over and it
doesn’t need many invitations one of the
most dangerous things a person can ever
say is I wish I were dead
well we’re going to unsay that we’re
going to give you an opportunity to
revoke the negative things you’ve been
saying about yourself psalm 118 verse 17
the psalmist says I shall not die but
live and declare the works of the Lord
that’s a positive decision all right you
say that after me the first time when we
save together until we make this place
full of positive thing now don’t try to
say it with me to start with after me I
shall not die
but live and declare the works of the
Lord now you’ve got good memories if you
said with me this time I shall not die
but live and declare the works of the
Lord
I suggest you stand up and say there’s
something about being in a standing
visit I’m not gonna lie down under the
devil I’m not going to let it trample
over my emotions in my attitudes all
right the third time are you ready I
shall die but live and declare the works
of the Lord no it’s wonderful to say it
into the end say to me I’d like to
suggest that everyone of you tends to
somebody next to you looks them full in
the eyes and says to them I shall not
die but live and declare the works of
the law
the Lord
Oliver Allah Muslim
a lot of run the serial re a Shanda
Honda let’s make a proclamation of
planes on the basis of that phrase
I mean
and
thank you lord
thank you lord thank you Lord Jesus
hallelujah you’re so good now feel free
to be seated if you can we’re going to
come to the actual ministry to the sick
there are many different spiritual ways
to minister to the sick but we are going
to follow mark 16:17 these signs shall
follow them that believe in my name
jesus said they shall lay hands on the
sick and what happens they shall recover
what shall they do the other doesn’t say
that all of them will be instantly
healed
sometimes healing is instant sometimes
it’s progressive but it comes when I met
Ruth in 1977 and she was virtually an
invalid on her back I laid hands on and
prayed for and I said now keep the plug
in stay with your plug into God’s power
outlet and I said the way to keep the
plug-in is keep thanking him until the
healing is completed that was in June
she kept the plug in till November and
in November her healing was instantly
completed she had a ruptured disc in her
spine and a spine that had been curved
from childhood no she has no ruptured
discs and she has a straight spine
but she didn’t get an instant miracle
she got a progressive work Jesus says
they shall recover but he doesn’t say
how long it will take
sometimes it’s instantaneous praise God
but not always some of you will be
instantaneously some of you will get a
healing that begins if it begins
keep your plug in if you say as you walk
out of the auditing I didn’t get healed
nothing happened you know what you’ve
done pull the plug up and nothing more
will happen after me if you say they
laid hands on me God touched me I’m
going to keep thanking him till it’s
complete it’ll be completely now the way
we’re going to do it and it’s rather
difficult let me just let me just check
something out first of all the people in
this auditorium how many of you here
tonight would wish to be prayed for well
you see that brothers we’ve got a busy
evening ahead of us I told you it would
be like that all right what we’re going
to do our best more than our best we
cannot do Ruth and I here to minister to
you and we have seven other teams either
couples or threesomes all of them call
to the ministry with proven ministries
and anointed at dawn and they and we
together are going to minister to the
sick by the laying on of hands we’re
going to lay hands on you in the name of
Jesus now this is not going to be a
counseling session so don’t come with
your life story or even a medical
history all we want to know is arthritis
a weak heart a bladder infection I can’t
have children menstrual cramps whatever
it is try and say it in one short
sentence after all we’re not going to
heal you God is
and God knows your problem even before
you stated come with this attitude that
in coming to these ministers of the Lord
I’m obeying God’s Word I’m doing what he
told me to do and I’m not looking to
brother Prince and Ruth or to any of the
other teams my healing I’m looking
through them to Jesus who told them to
lay hands on the sick please don’t
focus on human personalities because
they can’t do much for you when it comes
to healing Jesus can do everything now
we’re going to seek to maintain an
atmosphere of word of prayer and worship
if you’re a child of God I don’t want
you to be just a spectator I want you to
be prayerfully involved have the same
attitude as if it was your brother or
your sister or your parent who’s up here
being playful and we will with the help
of our worship leaders from time to time
have periods of praise and worship we’ve
learned by experience that in an
atmosphere of worship it is much easier
for people to receive healing so please
let there be no spectators don’t any of
you get involved in a lot of idle
conversation with your neighbors
although the preaching is coming to an
end the real part of the service is
beginning and we are not too time
conscious if you need to leave at any
time feel free to go without
embarrassment but we’re going to go on
as long as we feel God would have us to
continue usually speaking including the
teaching it’s very rare that our healing
services last less than five hours we’ve
had some that lasted eight hours and let
me tell you that’s very short by
comparison of those of Jesus coz some of
his lasted three days
we Pocky Hans we’ve got the wrong
attitude about time
gone I can give you ten minutes what can
you do for me man well that’s between
you and dog all right now could we begin
to get the platform lined up move the
chance to the bank and before we
actually begin to minister those of us
who are in these teams we’re going to
unite and the center of the platform
join hands with one another and invoke
the anointing of God upon us and by that
act we’re going to acknowledge that we
can do nothing of our own self it’s only
by the grace and the power of God we can
remove the plant the pulpit
it’s a beautiful pulpit I’m grateful for
now am I still audible I am wonderful
all right could we gather those of us
that are going to be in the initial
teams would you be with your team
partners will join hands I probably need
to be at this side so I can look at the
people so that we can let’s leave that
part open so the people can see us you
have a window me we’ll do this first
okay all right now we’re just going to
humble ourselves before God in fact I
believe it would please God if we would
kneel down before you all and simply say
gone we’re putting ourselves at your
disposal and let’s each of us just pray
and console ourselves from the mercy
oh god we present ourselves before you
know as your sadness your servants in
your handmaiden
lo and we acknowledge that there is
nothing innocent it’s not by mine it’s
not by Tommy it’s by your holy Blessed
Holy Spirit we acknowledge you the third
person of the Godhead the one who holds
the key to the storm we just submit and
yield ourselves to the Spirit of God we
invoke the Spirit of God into this whole
auditorium and upon this entire
congregation Holy Spirit you are welcome
come amongst us reveal and glorify the
Lord Jesus Christ touch the people of
God manifest the mercy of God tonight
the victory that was run won by the
death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus
Christ let that victory over sin another
sickness and over demon powers be
manifested through us here tonight we
pray in Jesus name
army army army I mean Laurita God thank
you
now if you kind of line up from one end
to the other in your team just the
separate entities now we’re going to
need the help of our Usher’s the ushers
have got a very responsible task here we
are not going to call you forward by
categories we’re going to say that those
of you who want prayer will come forward
don’t move yet and listen I want you to
be very cooperative with the ushers and
with me
one thing we have learned by experience
if people become disorderly and
disrespectful of the Holy Spirit he
moves elsewhere and if the Holy Spirit
moves we might as well close this
meeting because around him nothing is
going to happen the more you cooperate
with the leadership the more you please
the Holy Spirit but before we begin this
general ministry I’m going to call my
wife forward god that has given her a
word of knowledge about someone here
tonight a specific condition now God
does this to create faith and to
encourage the person who may be
indicated because God wants to show you
that he loves you so much he’s
pinpointed your particular need tonight
he’s going to show you that he knows it
without your telling him and if you are
the person we invite you to come forward
and response right as soon as the
description is given we will pray for
you come forward expecting to be healed
let me give her just an example we were
in England about a year ago and it was
not a healing service that was just a
morning church service but before I
began to speak Ruth said I have a word
of knowledge she said
and then you know knowing my British
people I said to them now listen don’t
get stuck in your seat don’t be
embarrassed
don’t wait if you’re the one come up
don’t let Satan hold you back well Ruth
then said that somebody here to this
morning who’s afraid she’s going blind
in one eye well there was an Indian lady
in her sari in the second row before
ruthless halfway through the sentence
she was up on the platform
she said that’s me she said that’s the
only reason I came because I’m afraid
I’m going blind I said are you a
Christian she said I’m a pure Hindu
but that was the only way God could have
got that woman you see them all right
now can you speak into that we probably
need another microphone available
somewhere in duple the person that God
showed me has a blocked right ear now I
don’t know if this person is dead I’d
say it’s a man passed you’ve come up
here that’s an actual description well I
knew the man was little age all right
come right up officers if he needs to
help just open up now we are one of you
Isis just be here as a capture in case
anything happens
would you you know the Lord Jesus I do
you do are you saving him a living phone
in my hand
how long have you have this blockage in
your ear for a year
all right were you believing now that
don’t ever touch you I believed it at
all
don’t make this slightly fun now Lord in
the name which is in Jesus name
thank you
thank you lord
did you have difficulty in hearing yes
it was your right ear listen that’s the
right thing
say what you hear people thank
you Jesus thank you David
okay
you’re hearing a whistle
I do seeing about that
and who try