How You Can Exercise God's Megaton Power Now

Chapter Eleven

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When You Pray for The Healing, Prosperity and Well-Being
God Promised You and Your Family in The Abrahamic Covenant

 The subject of this last chapter is how to pray for things with power.  There is a way in which we must deal with certain situations in life.  If we deal with them God's way, then we can get on top of the problem quickly.  But if we try to take short cuts, we won't get the results that we would like to see.

 I want to direct the teaching in this chapter specifically to prayer for the sick.  There are provisions for healing contained in the Abrahamic Covenant.  So when I preach on the Abrahamic Covenant, I aim it toward the sick.  When I finish a message many people respond and are healed, because God taught me how to deal with sickness.

 Many people have written me for a copy of the prayer I've prayed on TBN when I've prayed for the sick.  I don't have a copy of that prayer.  However, this chapter explains what I do when I minister to the sick and also how I do it.

 The first thing I do in ministering to the sick is Praise the Lord.  The Bible says that God inhabits the praises of His people.  So I praise the Lord to bring Him on the scene.  If He inhabits the praises of His people, then I'll bring Him in with praise.  So I say to the Lord several times "Bless you Lord.  Bless you Lord.  Bless you Lord."  Then when I feel in my spirit that he is there with me, I go on to actually pray for the sick person I'm ministering to.

 Look at John 16:23-24

 John 16:23-24

 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

 When somebody comes to me to be ministered to in the area of healing, the second thing I do is go to God in prayer.  I ask God for two things.  Number one, I ask God to remove all the pain and discomfort from that person's body.  I ask Him to do that even before I ask Him to heal the person, because sometimes they are hurting, and they need for the pain to leave.  I will address the pain, and then ask the Father in the Name of Jesus, "Father, in Jesus' Name, I ask that You remove all the pain and discomfort in this person's body now."  Then the second thing I pray for is that God will heal the person with a complete healing.

 I was in a meeting once and had a most unusual circumstance happen.  I had a young lady with a curved spine come forward for prayer.  Her spine was in the shape of an "S".  I began to pray first of all that God would remove the pain that was in her body, because she was experiencing severe pain, and it immediately left her body.  Then I asked Him to straighten and heal her back.  Well, with the pain gone, I assumed that she was completely healed.  However, at least for the time I was there, the curve in her backbone did not disappear.  This told me that in time, if she would continue to do what I taught that church to do (and what I'm going to teach you to do in this chapter), her backbone would straighten OUT.  This was a new experience for me though, because I had never seen someone who was in that much pain be delivered from the pain without the healing being totally manifested.  So, the second thing that I do when I'm ministering healing to someone is pray, "Father, take away the pain and heal this person's body."

 The next thing that I do is turn my attention to the Devil.  Once I pray to the Father, then I have some things to say to the Devil.  So, I pray to God, then speak directly to the Devil.

 Let's look at Matthew 12:28-29.

 Matthew 12:28-29

 28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

 In ministering healing to the sick, I have learned that the Devil is the strong man.  I have known this theologically for years, but it's only been in the last year that I have actually begun to apply it in my own healing ministry.  I didn't think it was necessary.  But since I have learned to apply this truth in praying for the sick, the results in healings has actually doubled, which means that you cannot leave something out.  It may seem unimportant to you, but if it's in the Scripture, it's important.

 But, I left this particular concept out when praying.  What exactly are you talking about, Brother Jay?  Simply this - you bind the Devil in that person's body, specifically in the area of their sickness.  I talk to the Devil and say, "Satan, I bind you in this person's body in the Name of Jesus.  Specifically in the area of this sickness, I bind you.  I render you powerless.  There is nothing more that you can do to this person.  You are bound in Jesus' Name."

 Now having done that, what does that enable me to do?  It enables me to enter his house and spoil his goods.  His "house" is the person who is being messed with in the area of their health.  His "goods" happens to be the disease that he has caused in their body.  The "housekeepers" over his house are demons.  So after I pray to God, I immediately bind the Devil.

 I was preaching a meeting for a Baptist pastor outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma a few weeks ago.  The largest part of the membership of this church was Spirit-filled and believed in healing.  This pastor had seen me on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.  He called and wanted me to come minister to his church.  The second night I was there, I looked out at the congregation and saw a tall, handsome young man watching me with great interest as I ministered healing during the alter call.  Early the next morning he called me and asked if he could spend an hour with me.  I said, "Yes."  He met me in the pastor's office about 10:00 A.M.  This man told me that he was from Australia.  He said that he had heard of people being healed but had never been in a meeting where he could watch it happen.

 He came back to the service that night, and I noticed that when I gave the alter call, this man came down and stood right behind the person I was praying for.  He was looking over their shoulder at me, watching everything I did with my hands and listening to everything that I said.  He had a yellow legal pad and a pocket full of pencils, and he was taking notes as fast as he could write.  When I finished praying for that person and went to the next, he would go with me.  He did this every night of the meeting.

 The last night he came to me and said, "Brother Jay, 99% of the people that you have prayed for this week have been healed.  There have been 50 people healed, I counted them."

 How did this happen?  Because I learned that I cannot short-change the method that God has given for dealing with the sick, or any problem for that matter.  I was trying to enter the strong man's house and spoil his goods when he was still in control of it.  And Jesus said, "How can you do that until you bind the strong man?"

 So, I learned it the hard way.  I finally started binding him, and God began to do things through me that He could not do before, because I was leaving out the third major step after asking God to heal.  Once the strong man is bound, then I am absolutely free to pillage his house and his goods any way I want to.  Verse 29 says that when the strong man is bound, then he will spoil his house.  Do you see that?  Then he will, he will.  I began to think about that and said to myself, "O.K. I'm going to bind that sucker, and then I WILL spoil his goods."  So I did.  I bound him and then said to him, "Now I'm fixing to spoil your playhouse, buddy!"

 When I got saved God placed inside me an absolute reverence for Scripture.  Once I'm convinced that I know and understand what it says, I'll walk out on it; I'll stand on it.  I have never had God let me down, and I have trusted and proved His Word many times in my life.  My life depends on God's Word. The promises of God have sustained me for many years, absolutely sustained me.  Someone once told me that he felt I was a little slow in grasping certain things about God's Word.  Maybe I am, but you can bet that when I DO get it, I'll know absolutely without doubt what God said, and I'll know how it applies to me.  Once I KNOW what God Almighty has said about something, I won't go off half-cocked, but I WILL walk it out.  I'll risk myself to stand on it.  I've never had it blow up in my face.

 After I bind the strong man, then I begin to deal with the things in his house.  The first thing I deal with are his housekeepers.  Who are the housekeepers?  They're demons.

 However, you won't get very far with the demons until you bind the strong man; because the demons don't have any authority, but the Devil does.  The demons get what authority and power they do have from the Devil.  So, let's deal with the demons.  Turn to Mark 16:17.

 Mark 16:17

 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

 If Jesus says that I can cast out devils or demons in His Name, and demons are the housekeepers in Satan's house, then what am I going to do next?  Well, many illnesses are caused by demonic activity.  You would probably be surprised how many illnesses are caused by plain, old demons.  So, I have to deal with that sickness based on my rights in Mark 16.  I'll clean the house by calling out or casting out the demons.  I say, "You foul spirit of infirmity, I command you in the Name of Jesus to come out.  Take your pain and disease, damage and discomfort, go to the pit and stay there."  I'll labor on this point until I know the demon has heard me, because when I have his attention he must do what I tell him to do in Jesus' Name.  So I say, "I cast you out, in the Name of Jesus.  Come out right now."

 Then I will say to them, "Do not relocate and hide elsewhere in this person's body."  They will try and do that.  I've seen the place where the demon is located in the body turn red.  It might not have been red when they came for prayer, but it'll turn red, as if I've embarrassed the demon.  The red spot will sometimes move around to another place.  The pain, rather than immediately coming out, will move to another part of the body.  That's why I tell it not to relocate and hide.  I've seen it work, and the red spot leave the body.

 The next thing I do is deal with the sickness itself.  The Scriptural justification to do this is found in John's Gospel.

 John 14:13-14

 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

 Look at the word ask in verse 14.  This is the Greek word AITEO.  I talked about this in a previous chapter, but let's look at it again - its important.  That word, when it relates to a thing, should be translated "command".  When it relates to God, it should be translated "strongly ask".

 Look at the word whatsoever in verse 13 and the word thing in verse 14.  In the Greek language these words are direct objects of the word ask.  The word ask can be used in relationship to God, but we do not command God.  The Greeks had more than one word for ask.  There is the regular word for ask, then there is the one which means ask as strongly as you can.  But when it relates to an "object" or an "it", the word should be translated command, because you cannot ask an "it".

 Here we are told to ask for a whatsoever in one verse and a thing in the next verse.  Therefore, the word ask should be translated command.  Notice what Jesus says in verse 13, "Whatsoever you shall command in my Name, that will I do."  Then in verse 14, "If you shall command any thing in my Name, I will do it."

 So my next move, based on the Scripture, is to attack the sickness by telling it what to do in Jesus' Name.  Is sickness a "thing"?  Is it a "whatsoever"?  Is it an it, a "thing"?  Sure it is.  So I attack it in the Name of Jesus, commanding it to do something.  What do I tell it to do?  I command it to die.  Die at the roots, dry up, release the person, and come out.

 Several years ago, there was a young lady in the hospital in Galveston, Texas who was diagnosed with terminal cancer.  I drove to the hospital several times a week and taught her the principles of healing which are contained in the Abrahamic Covenant.  She did not have a Charismatic, full-gospel background.  She was raised in the Baptist church.  So, she had to be taught that healing actually belonged to her.  Over a period of about six weeks, in the coldest part of the year, three times a week I drove all the way to Galveston and taught this daughter of Abraham about Abraham's blessings.  When her eyes were opened to see that healing really was taught in the Bible, then I laid hands on her body, prayed for her, and that cancer died.  There was a growth on her back that was killing her.  It dissolved and left her body.  She is still healed today, praise God.  There are only a few people in the world who have survived when diagnosed with this type of cancer.

 This lady was healed by the power of God because I commanded the cancer to die at the roots, dry up, and come out of her body.  Jesus said, "Whatsoever you ask in my Name, that's what I'm going to do," provided what I command is based on Scripture.  Can I base a command for disease to die on Scripture?  You better believe I can.  Because the Abrahamic Covenant guaranteed healing to the Abrahamic Seed Group, and I am a part of that group.  Therefore, I am authorized to give any form of a command that I can base on Scripture.

 I can give you Scripture to prove that healing belongs to Christians until you turn blue in the face. 

Someone told me the other day that they saw a preacher on television who said that all the Spiritual gifts had passed away, they are not used any more.  If I could meet this brother, I would jangle his theology so bad that he wouldn't be able to find his way home.

 The Spiritual gifts are operating now.  Every time I finish a healing meeting, and I know that I've been instrumental in seeing even one person healed, I am absolutely awed by it.  To know that God used ME, He let ME be a channel through which He flowed to touch somebody boggles my mind.  I am humbled by such a thing.  So, I tell that sickness what to do.  I'll make a command on it.  "I command you in the Name of Jesus to die."  I speak the death sentence right into it.

 After I command the sickness to die, then I speak to the pain.  I tell the pain what to do.  Is pain a "whatsoever"?  Is it an "anything"?  Yes, it is.  Looking back over the years of ministry and the meetings that God has let me do across the country, I would say that God has led me into a ministry against pain.  It amazes me.  But I've seen many people relieved of pain as I prayed for them.

 There was a woman in a meeting of mine who had lived with pain for years.  As I laid my hands on that dear lady and prayed, I saw the relief come - I saw it in her face.  She still had a small amount of pain though, so I laid hands on her again and prayed again.  I saw more relief come into her face.  The third time I prayed the pain completely left her.  She jumped up and down and began shouting, because she had not been without pain for a long time.  This woman's doctor was a member of the church and was in this service.  He stood and watched God do in a matter of a few minutes what he had not been able to do over many, many years of medical treatment.

 Attack pain in the Name of Jesus.  Tell it, "Pain, come out of this body in the Name of Jesus.  Go to the pit and stay there.  Discomfort, in the Name of Jesus, I command that you leave, go to the pit and stay there."  Pain will leave.  Why does this happen?  Because it is a "whatsoever", and I've been told by Jesus that I can say whatever I want to a "whatsoever" and it will do what I say.

 As a denominational preacher my biggest hurdle was getting enough guts to even try this.  I asked God, "What if I do this and nothing happens?"  He told me to try it anyway.  I said, "I'm scared."  He replied, "You've never been scared of anything.  Get on with the program."  So I did.  Sure enough, it worked.  The more it worked, the bolder I got.  Listen, you can get bold enough to attack hell with a squirt gun if God tells you to.

 If what I am after is a "thing" or a "whatsoever", I'll go at it.  James wrote that faith without works is dead.  You must act on the Word.  Jesus told us to command a thing or a whatsoever, and He would do it.

 The next thing I do in praying for the sick is to speak healing.

 Mark 16:18

 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

 I actually speak healing into a person's body. I say, "In the Name of Jesus, I command that you be healed."  I lay hands on them and expect them to recover.  I've seen them heal immediately as I watched; I've seen them heal through a process of time, but the point is that they got healed.

 "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."  So, I lay hands on them and touch them.  Let me give you a word of caution about this.  Men, be very careful where you put your hands when praying for a Lady.  Nobody can ever say that I ever touched a lady improperly when I prayed for her.  If a woman has an illness where your hands, as a man, should not go, you call for a Godly woman to come pray with you, and let her lay her hands on the woman.  Be very, very careful.

 Let me address something else at this point.  There is no one that I have ever prayed for who can say that I shoved them to the floor to make it appear that they were slain in the Spirit when they weren't.  People who do this are trying to convince others that God is producing results through them that He's not doing.  They're trying to impress people.  They may get people lined up on the floor, but very rarely do they get anyone healed.  I do not like phony people!  Frankly, I don't care what people think about me.  I care what God thinks about me, and beyond that, I just don't care.  I'm a man unto God, not unto men.

 Let's go back to healing people, praise God.  So, I command the person to be healed.  "I speak healing into you, in the Name of Jesus. I COMMAND that you be healed."

 Let me share some more practical things with you.  There is a belief in Pentecostal and Charismatic churches that if a person is prayed for one time and doesn't get healed, then that person must not have any faith.

 That is baloney!

 When I pray for a person, I will ask that person, "How do you feel?  Is there any difference in how you feel now than before I prayed?"  Sometimes they will answer, "Well, I'm receiving my healing."  Well, that is not what I asked.  I asked, "How do you feel?"  I don't know unless you tell me.

 Sometimes they will tell me that they feel a little better.  So I'll ask, "On a scale of one to ten, how much change is there in the way you feel."  If they tell me maybe about a five, then I know I've got the job half done.  What do I do then?  First of all, I'm not embarrassed to pray again.  Suppose I pray again, and there is no change.  I'm still not embarrassed.  It's not my Word.  God is the one who said for me to lay hands on the sick and they would recover.  I'm just doing what He told me to do.  He's the one who has the problem, not me.  So, I'll pray for the person again, doing what I feel like the Spirit of God is leading me to do.  If I need to go through the entire process again - pray to God, ask Him to take away the pain, ask Him to heal the body, bind the Devil, cast out the demons, kill the disease - if I have to go through every step again, I'll do it.  Usually the second time I will not have to go through every step, but if I feel led of God to repeat every word, I'll repeat every word.  I'll deal with it, until I've done the job.

 Remember, I'm not embarrassed.  This is what I'll do.  I pray again, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, disease, I command that you die at the roots.  Dry up and come out.  Pain and discomfort, I command that you leave.  And now, I command you to heal.  In the Name of Jesus, heal."  I'll stop and ask, "How do you feel?"  By this time, everyone is getting involved, because they see that I'm involved in a battle.  I'll stay with it until it breaks, or I begin to see, by what they tell me, that the healing has begun and is on the way.  Then I'll back off and say to them, "You keep doing what you saw me do, and this sickness will completely leave your body."

 There are a lot of silly, religious clichés around as to why someone may not receive immediate healing.  I've already mentioned the one about the person having no faith for healing.  However, the problem could be the one doing the praying - he just wasn't consistent.  I would like to be able to say that I pray one time, and everyone is healed immediately.  But you need to read the parable of the importunate (this is another word for persistent) widow in Luke 18.  Find out how she received.  Brother, she stayed with it until she got what she was after, and Jesus tells us to do the very same thing.

 So, I'm not one bit embarrassed about praying more than one time for someone.  I have absolutely no patience with preachers who will pray one time, and if the person is not healed right then and there, make them feel like a dog because they were not healed.

 The point I'm making is, if you can't tell by now, don't quit, stay with it!  I'll stay with it until the healing has begun, and then instruct them to continue to do what I've been doing, and usually within a matter of days the sickness is gone.  I am firmly convinced that if a person will consistently apply the Name of Jesus Christ, that there is no disease in the world that can stand up against it.  There are many powerful diseases - cancer, AIDS, heart attacks - those are awesome sounding names of diseases.  But there is a NAME that is above every other name, including cancer or any other name - THE NAME OF JESUS!  I am convinced of this one thing - if you will consistently go against any thing using the Name of Jesus, you can melt the hinges off it's door.

 When Jesus said to make the command in His Name against a "whatsoever" or a "thing", then I have to ask myself, "Is this a whatsoever, is this a thing?" If it is, it's name is Mud, because I'm going after it.

 There is a warfare anointing that comes on me when it's time to minister to the sick.  When it comes, awesome things happen.  I've had people wait until a service was over and the anointing gone, then come to me and ask me to do for them what I was doing in the healing line.  They waited when they should have come when I asked.  I can still operate in faith for them, but when faith is combined with that anointing, then powerful things happen.  So when the anointing is present to heal, that's when you move out to receive.  That's when real miracles begin to happen.

 This is how to deal with the sick.  This is the way to get results.  It has been tested not only by me, but by others also.  It works, my brother and sister.  Take the Name of Jesus -cast out devils, lay hands on the sick, and stand back and watch them recover!

 You have the power now!  Use it!

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