Dr. Jay Snell Newsletter Feed and Free BonusesChapter Six
Dr. Jay Snell Newsletter Feed and Free Bonuses
The question is, "What do I do when I have had hands laid on me and I am still not healed? What do I do when I have been anointed with oil and I am not healed? What do I do after I have been prayed for and I am still not healed? What do I do?" In this chapter, we will answer these questions. Look at verse 36 in Hebrews, chapter 10.
Heb 10:35-36
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. (KJV)
We must ask ourselves, "What is the will of God that I am to do concerning healing? If I am sick, what is the will of God that I am to do? The Bible teaches us that there are eight ways in which God administers healing. One of them requires absolutely no faith on the part of the people. That one way is just a move of God in which He sovereignly touches someone, and as a result, that person is healed. This way of healing requires no faith on their part. It requires no believing on their part. It requires nothing on their part but to be there. The Spirit of God just sovereignly makes up His mind who He wants to reach out and touch.
The other seven ways require faith on the part of the person being healed. It requires faith for you to know the will of God concerning your healing and your willingness to act on what you know.
Since faith is required for you to be healed these other seven ways, I must explain to you just what faith is so that you might obtain it and exercise it. Faith is nothing more than information. Faith is the revealed will of God. Faith is God enabling you to know in advance what He is about to do. Faith is information that you receive from God for you to act upon. That information will come from reading the Scripture, or it will come from the Spirit of God communicating with you directly into your spirit man. But faith is knowing the will of God in advance. Faith is information that you receive from God pertaining to a given subject that you are to act upon. Now these other seven ways of being healed all require faith on your part. That is, you have to know some things. You have to know what these seven ways are and then you have to act on one of them. When you act on one of them, that's doing the will of God. That's the will of God that you are to do pertaining to your healing.
For instance, the Bible says that believers shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. You are sick. OK, you are going to act on this. You are saying to yourself, "I will get a believer, who believes in healing and walks with God, to lay hands on me so that I might be healed." When you do, you are doing the will of God for your healing. The Bible says, "After you have done the will of God, you have need of patience that you might receive the promise."
In addition, the Bible also talks about anointing with oil (James chapter 5) combined with prayer.
James 5:14-15
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. (KJV)
The Bible says, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick." (This is prayer based on information we receive from God for us to act upon concerning our healing.) You see, the anointing with oil combined with the prayer of faith is also the will of God for you to do for your healing. So you act on it. You do it. You have done the will of God. Therefore, you need some patience so that you might receive the promise. You see, there may be a time span between the time when you act on God's promise (when you literally do the will of God), and the time that promise is fulfilled for you. In other words, you may have hands laid on you tonight and you may be instantaneously healed, or it may take an hour or a day or a week. You must understand that a gap may exist between the time you act on the Word of God and the time when God actually performs His promise. During that internal, the Bible says that you need patience so that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
I want to add something else to this patience thing. What do I do while I am waiting? Do I just sit here and let the devil bang me around? No, I do not. This is where the great majority of Christians miss it. We have been taught to be passive, when in fact, we ought to be the most aggressive people on the face of this planet. The Bible says we are the army of God. We are the army that is bringing in His kingdom. An army must be prepared to go on the offensive as well as the defensive. During the interim period, from the time you have acted on the Word of God and the time that the promise is fulfilled for you, you must do some things as an army.
What must we do while exercising this patience? When I have been prayed for and I still am not healed, when I have been anointed with oil and I am still not healed, when I have had hands laid on me and I am still not healed, while I am waiting, what must I do? You must do four things.
In Deuteronomy 2, we find the principle of warfare. In this passage, the children of Israel enter the promised land. They have come through the wilderness experience. Now, they must take that land. In so many words, God said, "See all that land? I promised it to you. It belongs to you. It's yours, every square inch of it, but there are heathen living on your land, the land that I gave to you. Those are not My people, and that's not their land. You are My people, and I have given you that land. Therefore, here is what you must do. It's yours, but you must go in there and kick them off. You must go in there and take it. You must contend with them in battle for that which is already yours because they are trespassing on it. They are occupying your territory. I never gave it to them. I never told them to go in there. They are just there. Go in there and get them off." And the battle was on.
In the same manner, God said, "The victory is assured, but you must go to war. You must take the land away from the devil's crowd." Now, here's where it all breaks down. Many people go through all of the motions. They act on the Word of God part of the way. They act on the Word of God by being anointed with oil, getting prayed for, and getting hands laid on them. They will act on the Word of God by partaking of the bread in the LORD's Supper, believing it to have healing power in it. But they stop at this point, and they are still not healed because they do not kick the enemy out of their territory.
In other words, they are just not through doing the will of God. They have done well as far as they have gone. They just don't finish the job. As long as the enemy is there, the laying on of hands, the making of prayer over them, and the anointing with oil is only the beginning. As long as the enemy is still there, I have things to do. As long as that sickness is still in my body, I still have some things to do. I have to go in there and kick the enemy out. I have to go in there and kick him literally off my territory because a healthy body is a promise to me from God. That is my territory. The devil has no right in my territory. Therefore, I must boot him out.
The enemy will sit on your shoulder and whisper in your ear that it is really and truly the will of God for you to be sick. Don't listen to this nonsense. It is not the will of God for His children to be sick. Never believe that line of garbage that comes straight from hell, which declares that God is using sickness to deal with His child. That is the most bizarre thing I ever heard. The Bible says that the devil smote Job. In this statement, we see the origin of sickness. God does not originate sickness. Sickness came straight from the devil, and it's the devil's will for you to be sick. It is not God's will for any Christian to be sick. Never let any well-meaning person tell you otherwise. It is not the will of God for His people to be sick.
When I get hands laid on me, have prayer made over me, and get myself anointed with oil, if I am not up and well shortly, I have some more things to do. What, then, must I do? I have started doing the will of God, but I am not through. I have done what God said to do to make the point of contact, but after I have made the contact, then I must go into battle. The war is on, and I must engage the enemy on whatever turf is necessary. Clothed with the Word of God and the will of God, and armed with the Spirit of God and the name of Jesus, I am not afraid to take him on. The battle is joined. But how do I fight him?
How do I fight the devil to get him out of my territory? Here's how! I am going to stand on my promise and what I stand on I am going to talk about. I am going to say with my mouth the same things that the Word of God says on the written page. In other words, if God led me to get hands laid on me, I will repeat Mark 16: 18 to my sickness, to my pain, to any scoffer that comes in my face, to the devil, and to any demon. Every time that I hurt, I will say what God said. He said, "They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." Therefore, I will confess that I am recovering. I will drive the devil out of my territory by quoting the Word of God.
This is exactly how Jesus dealt with the devil. In Matthew 4, the devil approached Jesus when He was in the mount and he tempted Him. He says first one thing and then another. (He takes just enough truth out of the Scripture to hook the unwary.) But Jesus was not unwary. He gave the devil some Scripture lessons every time he came out at Him. Jesus quoted the Bible to him and got him out of his face by quoting the Scripture. Therefore, when I have had hands laid on me and I am still not healed, while I am waiting to receive the promise, I will engage in battle by watching what I say. I will not talk about how I feel. I will not talk about my problems. I will not talk about what is wrong with me because that is just reconfirming the work of the devil. Rather, I will talk what God talks. I will quote God's Word to my own pain, to my own sickness, to my own problem. I will quote what the Word of God says. I will say, "They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. They laid hands on me. Therefore I am recovering. I may hurt a little bit but I am recovering. This thing will not knock me out because I am on the way up."
Change what you say. Line up your speech with what God said with his speech. You will find that when you say what God said about your sickness, your health will change and line up with what God said. But as long as I talk my feelings, as long as I talk where I have been, as long as I talk how I feel, as long as I talk what the doctor said, as long as I talk how everybody has given me up because I have a terminal disease, that disease will indeed, prove to be terminal.
Do you want us to lie? No. But I want you to say what the Bible says. "They shall lay hands on the sick. They shall recover. I am sick but they laid hands on me. Therefore, bless God, I am recovering. I am recovering. I am recovering." Every time somebody gets in my face that is not a believer, I will get them out of my face. They will talk what the devil talks. They won't talk what God talks. They will talk what the devil talks.
Sometimes a well-meaning, but ignoramus Christian, is the greatest tool there is in the hands of the devil. They walk around with this "long Christian robe" on. They will strut themselves around, and they will talk their negative, unbiblical garbage. They will unravel your faith and leave you there to die. They will give you platitudes about "preparing to meet your Maker," but I don't want to prepare to meet my Maker because of a sickness, since I have learned what the Bible says about healing.
God does not will any member of the Abrahamic Seed Group to die by sickness. If you are a child of God, you have some rights, and the Word of God says that being well is one of them. Therefore, I will talk the Word of God during the interim, from the time I get hands laid on me until the time I am healed. I will tell everybody in this world that I am recovering. For the Bible says, "They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." I was sick. They laid hands on me. Therefore I am recovering. That's fighting the devil. That's driving him up the wall. That's driving him absolutely nuts.
During the interim, be careful what you concentrate on. Hebrews 11 talks about Abraham. It talks about him looking for a city that he never saw with his physical eye. Nevertheless, he knew that city existed, and he spent his entire life looking for it. In this passage, the Bible makes a statement that will absolutely blow your mind, if you will just concentrate on it.
Heb 11:10
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (KJV)
Heb 11:15
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. (KJV)
The Bible says in verse 15 above that if those people, Abraham included, had been mindful of that city or country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to go back to it. Now let that soak in just a minute.
In other words, Abraham had some promises from God who said, in so many words, "I am going to show you a city that your eyes have never seen. I am going to put you in a land where you have never been." That was the information. Well, what is Abraham going to do with this information? You see, this information became his faith, because faith is information we receive from God for us to act upon. Now, Abraham's information declared that a city and land awaited him. What is he going to do about it? He acted on it. The Bible said that Abraham got up and left the land of Ur of the Chaldees, the land of his father. He left, not knowing wither he went, but God guided him a day at a time and a step at a time.
While on that journey, looking for that city, looking for that land, how many times do you think he had opportunity to think about the homeland he left? How many times did he have opportunity to think about the land of Ur of the Chaldees, which was where he was born, his home, the place where his father lived.
You have to keep this in mind. Abraham was a heathen. His father was a heathen. How many times would he have had opportunity to think about where he had come from? He could have been very mindful of the cities that he left. But do you know what the Bible seems to indicate? He watched what he thought about. He guarded his mind. He thought about where he was going, but not where he came from.
The converse is true with the children of Israel when they left Egypt. The Bible says they missed the flesh pots of Egypt. Things got a little rough for them and they thought about where they had come from. They remembered that they had been slaves, but after all, it wasn't that bad. They wanted to go back to the flesh pots of Egypt.
Not Abraham. He guarded what he thought about. He wouldn't even think about where he had come from. He was not even mindful of it. He kept his mind occupied with the place that God promised him. He thought only about where he was going.
The New Testament tells us we need to "gird up the loins of our mind." This is a very simple illustration. They wore loin clothes back then like we wear some athletic garments or a girdle today. They just girded up their loins with a loin cloth. This kept them tight, secure and firm. In like manner, Peter talks about girding up the loins of your mind. What did he mean by that? He meant watch what you think about. In other words, cinch up your thoughts so your mind can't think whatever it wants to think. But gird them up.
1 Pet 1:13
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (KJV)
When you have acted on a promise of God for healing, and a gap exists between the time when you act on it and the time when you are healed, you must not only quote Scripture, but you must gird up the loins of your mind. Concentrate on the solution, not on the problem. Concentrate on the Word of God, the promise of God, and not on the sickness. Watch what you think about. Think more about what God's Word says than about what's wrong with you. When you concentrate on what is wrong with you to the exclusion of what God's Word says about it, that is being mindful of "the country" from which you came out. If you become mindful of it, that is where you will end up. So, we have to gird up the loins of our mind.
Jonah, in the belly of the great fish, faced the same choice. In the belly of the fish, all was lost. Everything looked bleak. I think everybody would say Jonah had a case of terminal illness. How else can you consider it? Jonah, in the belly of the fish, faced a choice. Does he consider where he is? Or does he consider the fact that he had some promises from God that would get him out of that impossible situation? What does he do? He makes a statement that all of us should heed.
Jonah 2:1-10
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. (KJV)
He made this statement in his watery grave, in the belly of the fish. With the sea weeds wrapped around his head, he said in verse 8, "They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy." Let that sink in a minute. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. In other words, there he is with sea weeds wrapped around his head, up to his neck in sea water and stomach acid, inside this huge fish, with no way to get out.
He must make some choices. Does he observe these circumstances, or does he observe what God said? He said, "God has made some promises to me, but my circumstances are getting in the way of those promises. Do I observe these circumstances, or do I observe what God said?" For Jonah, his environment was a lying vanity, and he refused to let it interfere with what God had called him to do. He said "I will yet turn my eyes toward Jerusalem, and I will yet sing thanksgivings to God, because this is a lying vanity." Furthermore, he said, "If I occupy myself with this lying vanity, then I forsake my own mercy."
A sick person has to make the same choice. You can concentrate on your illness and how bad they say it is. But why? That illness is a lying vanity which the devil stuck on you. It is a lying vanity that he put there. The word "vanity" means "emptiness of results." Your sickness is "emptiness of results" when you know what to do about it. If you become occupied with these lying vanities, and do not concentrate on what God said, they (the lying vanities) will cause you to forsake your own mercy.
You see, healing is promised to every child of God in the Abrahamic covenant. That same Abrahamic covenant is equated with the term "mercy." The psalmist David equated the Abrahamic covenant with "mercy." Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, equated the Abrahamic covenant with the term "mercy." Mary, the mother of Jesus, equated the Abrahamic covenant with "mercy." Therefore, when Jonah said, "They forsake their own mercies," he is talking about forsaking the Abrahamic covenant promises that God made for us all. Do not concentrate on lying vanities.
What is a lying vanity? A lying vanity is your environment. It is a circumstance. It is a person. It is a doctor. It is a preacher. It is a church. It is anything that gets between you and the promise of God being fulfilled for you. Whatever does so is a lying vanity. Don't you concentrate on it. The moment that you give that thing a place in your mind, you have forsaken your "mercy," that group of promises called the Abrahamic covenant. When a person says to himself, "I am at the end of it all, I must cast myself on the mercy of God," that person is casting himself on God's promise to heal in the Abrahamic covenant. There is no mercy of God apart from the Abrahamic covenant, for it is equated with God's mercy in the Scriptures.
If you forsake your own mercies, you have forsaken the Abrahamic covenant. When you forsake that, you have lost all hope of building faith to be healed because the Abrahamic covenant guarantees healing.
Therefore, during the interim, when I have done the will of God, when I have been prayed for, when I have been anointed with oil, when I have had hands laid on me, and I am still not healed; there are things I have to do. I have to go to war. I have to say nothing with my lips except what God said with His. I have to say what God said. I have to quote Scripture to the critics, to the scoffers and to the doubters. I have to quote Scripture to my sickness. I have to quote Scripture to the devil. I have to say with my mouth what God has said in His Word. God said, "They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." I was sick. Hands were laid on me. Therefore, I am recovering. I am recovering. Every time I feel the pain, I will say, "I am recovering. I am recovering. I am recovering. I am recovering." And the first thing you know, you are recovered.
In the interim, I will gird up the loins of my mind. I will not concentrate on the lying vanities. I will not become unduly preoccupied with circumstances. I will not be mindful (like Abraham) of that city that I left. But I will only occupy myself with that place where I am going. Where I am going is the land of perfect health, right here and now. God's will for you is to be well. It is the will of God for you to be healed. When you learn what your rights are, you will kick the devil and his usurpers out of your land. When you know how to do it and you do it with a vengeance, you will turn your whole situation around. You will see the person that medical science has given up on, get off that sick bed and walk out of the sick room.
It is not the will of God for you to be sick. It is not the will of God for you to die prematurely with an illness. It is the will of God for His children to be well. It is the will of God for you to glorify God in your body. You cannot glorify God in your body if you are sick. God has made every provision in this world for His children to have divine health. You need to learn what your rights are and how to get them.
The main way to get healing is to act on one of those seven Healing Delivery Vehicles. Then God is obligated to heal you, provided you join the battle with Him, and kick the devil right out of your space. You do that by talking what God talks and becoming totally occupied with what God says and where you are going and what He has promised.
You have to take control over demons and the devil. If your sickness is not gone the very moment you act on one of God's seven Healing Delivery Vehicles, you must recognize that a demon may be lurking. Therefore, you must talk to that thing in no uncertain terminology. You have to stamp your foot and shout, "Demon, in the name of Jesus, you have no right in there. I'll not give you place for one minute. In the name of Jesus, get out of my system and take your sickness with you. You foul spirit from hell, get out of my life. Get out of my body. Get out of my flesh. Take your sickness, your pain and your damage with you and get out, in Jesus name." They have to flee.
So what do you do in the interim? Pull out every gun in your arsenal and fire it. There are lots of them that we haven't even talked about yet. But this gives you enough to get rolling. You don't have to put up with the devil's mess. It is not the will of God for you to be sick. God promises healing in His Word (the Abrahamic covenant).
Galatians 3 says that the Abrahamic covenant is still running full bore. It's never been set aside, canceled, or postponed. It continues even now. It is working for me. It will work for you. It is your right. You are in it since you are a Christian. You have to learn how to do what God wants you to do. You must join in the battle and take your promised land. It's yours. You must learn how to take it.
So we have seen four things:
(1) Get in the continuous battle
(2) Say what God says
(3) Consume your mind with where God says He is taking you and not where you came from
(4) Kick the devil right in the seat and get him our of your space
He's got to do what you tell him. You command him, and he will do it. Don't say, "I command you, devil." That's telling him what you are going to do. Say, "Get out, in Jesus name." That's commanding him.
What do you do when nothing has worked and you are still sick? You need to read Deuteronomy 2. Everything those people were going after in battle, God had previously promised to them. But He said, "You must possess it in battle. You must contend with the enemy in battle for that which is yours." That land was theirs, but usurpers were on it who had to be forced off. The Abrahamic Seed Group had to go to war. When they went to war, they were victorious without exception. They never lost a battle when they did it God's way. You have to follow the same identical procedure.
We have heard, "Christians have to turn the other cheek." Yes, there are times when we have to turn the other cheek, but if ever the devil has perverted a Scripture, it's this one. There are times when you better stand up and be counted. There are times when you better cover the ground that you stand on. There are times when you need to look the devil right in the eye. There are times when you better not budge. The only time you budge is when they carry you out in a pine box. Then you quit. Then you give up. Otherwise, you take you on the enemy in battle.
You must go at the devil just like that. If you don't, all is lost and you will die, prematurely, in your sickness. But if you learn what is yours and you go after the devil hammer and tong, tooth and nail, hip and thigh, and get him out of your face, he will get out and take his sickness with him. It came from him and he has no right to hang it on you and keep it there.
Many people think a Christian is supposed to be a panty waist. That's not so. He/She must be a man's man and a woman's woman. If you aren't, you will be run over by the devil. Look at it this way, if you do get run over; let him know he has been in a dog fight. Make him earn whatever he tries to get from you. Don't put up with him. You just don't have to put up with him.
Take care of your bodies. If you smoke, quit. That is unhealthy. It will kill you. If you eat too much, quit. That will kill you. If you eat too much sugar, quit. That will kill you. Get yourself under control. Exercise some discipline. Get yourself toughened up. Then when the devil puts a sickness on you, go for his throat. You say, "Devil, you are not hanging me with this. In Jesus' name, get out of my face and take your pain, sickness and damage with you!"
"Father, teach us to be bold. Teach us that there are things we have to do. Teach us, that we have to join in the battle. Teach us what you want us to do. Teach us that your seven other Healing Delivery Vehicles are conditional, that we have to launch the attack, and that our healing comes as that attack is launched. Teach us that you join with us in the battle and give us the victory, but that we must carry the battle to the enemy. Teach us to never give up. We have to hang in there. Teach us, O Lord, that there is a war to be waged, a victory to be won and that God meets us at the place of our counter attack. Lord, teach us more deeply what to do during the interim, between the time we act on the Word of God and the time when the promise comes. Heal your people. In Jesus' name. Amen."
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