Many times God’s people lay sick in the hospital with a fatal Doctor’s report flooding their mind, bringing a storm of fearful thoughts. Ministers from their church come and lay hands on them, and pray the prayer of faith, but to no avail and the sick one dies.

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One of the methods of healing is found in the following scripture:

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James 5:14-16

     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.

     16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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One of the problems when this method is used is that sick folk call for the elders of the church, and the elders lay hands on them, but the sick one neglects to examine themselves regarding the end of verse 15 and onto verse 16.

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“…and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him, Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

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When you take the punctuation out of this passage you get the actual meaning of it.  It is talking about sin committed and then we see the kind of sin James is talking about; “. . .if you have sinned against your brother, or we could say, sinned against the church, because the church is made up of the family of God, confess your fault or wrong doing against that brother to the brother and pray for each other—reunite—and you’ll be healed."

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You can’t do a brother, or a sister in Christ wrong, and expect the healing power of God to flow to you. The power of God only responds to faith. If you’ve wronged your brother, and haven’t repented, you’ve laid your faith down. The power of God has to find a match in you—it has to find a place where it can hook on, or connect with you, bringing your answer to you. However, if your faith is down there isn’t a place for the healing power to hook on to and drive out the sickness. The healing power of God must find a match, something in you that matches it to connect to and drive out the sickness. The match is your faith.

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Justus Du Plessis was a pastor in South Africa who is David Du Plessiss’ brother. David was known as Mr. Pentecost. He was a leader in the Pentecostal revival in the late 60s early 70s. Justus had a situation where a woman came to him, she was dying of breast cancer, and she said she was not going to have the surgery. They wanted to remove her breast, but she didn’t feel like that was what she was supposed to do, so she ended up at death’s door.

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She was in the hospital and the doctors called the family together, and told her that she had, maybe, a day left to live. So she called for the pastor to come, and pray over her. He took the board members who represented the leadership of the church, and they all went down there to pray for her. She was so weak she could not speak in a normal tone to be heard. She could only speak in a whisper. Before he prayed for her he leaned down in her ear and said, “Sister, I am not saying this is true about you, but in the passage that says call for the elders, the word says if he (the sick one) has committed sins they shall be forgiven him. You need to examine your heart and make sure there is not something between you, and the Lord that’s going to affect what you and the elders are believing for. So, if there’s something that needs to be confessed this is the time to do it. Just talk about it with you and God. We’ll give you a moment to do that.”

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In a moment she motioned for him to bend down, he put his ear down to her mouth, and she said, “Pastor, the Lord has shown me that because I spoke ill of people in our congregation, I sowed cancer in His Body and I have reaped cancer in my body. I wish to confess that to you and the elders as representing the church family.” He said, “Dear Sister, I forgive you, we forgive you so now you’re a candidate to receive your healing.”

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Pastor Du Plessis said the remarkable thing about it was all of the elders were available to come to hospital. It was a Friday night and they’re never all available at the same time especially on a Friday evening. He said he repeated for them what she had said asking them to forgive her. He then said, “Let’s hold hands, and then I am going to anoint her with oil, and God is going to raise her up.” He went on to say that when they started holding hands the elders started shaking, and weeping. They told the pastor that they were as guilty as her. Then they began confessing because they saw what happens when it’s not dealt with—it was right in front of their eyes. They said, “We’ve spoken in ways we shouldn’t have spoken.”

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They were letting her know, she was not alone in this—we’ve all missed it and we’re confessing along with you. Pastor Du Plessis said he got so excited. He said, “The Holy Ghost came on me, and I dumped the whole bottle of anointing oil on her.” She jumped out of that bed completely healed. They released her that night, and she was in church Sunday morning, got up and testified, and it was a warning to others. All over the congregation people stood, and repented for this same thing, and revival broke out that lasted for months. Why? It broke out because one woman got this part right; how to treat the local church, and the pastor, and how to treat one another. How you treat your local church will show up in your family because the local church is a family.

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Make sure you’ve not talked against, or talked negatively about anyone. If you’ve wronged your brother whether church family, or biological family, coworker etc. . . . make it right and hold nothing against anyone.

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Whatever you sow in the church will show up in your life and family—good or evil. Examine yourself and see if you’ve opened the door to the enemy of sickness in this way, and make it right today, and become what you’ve been made to be—the healed of the Lord! (Ephesians 4:27)

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Have a Great Week Everyone—I will see you Thursday in The Healing Room.