WAYS TO RECEIVE OUR HEALING (PART 3)

THE ANOINTING OF OIL AND THE PRAYER OF FAITHAnother way to minister the healing anointing to the sick is to anoint them with oil and pray the prayer of faith over them.James 5:14–15 (NKJV)14 Is anyone among you sick? 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 will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.This Scripture instructs us to anoint the sick with oil. It does not tell us to have the pastor pray over the oil. To anoint means to pour on or smear on. It does not mean that the oil is anointed. When the sick calls the pastor to pray, he will smear the sick with oil in the Name of Jesus. There is no anointing in the oil. Instead, it is the name of Jesus, which is anointed. Healing power is in the name of Jesus because He is God. The pastor prays the prayer of faith in the Name of Jesus. The prayer of faith heals the sick. The word "save" comes from the Greek word "sozo", which means healing. Healing power is released through the prayer of faith in the Name of Jesus.The Book of James is one of the first two books written after Jesus rose again. Written to the twelve tribes of Israel, they were familiar with both the Law of Moses and the anointing of oil. At that time, they did not have the New Testament to read. Living in the new covenant (New Testament), James instructed them to be smeared with oil in the Name of Jesus because power is in the name. If a pastor anoints someone with oil without the name of Jesus, is there power in the oil? There is no power. What is the purpose of the oil, then? It serves the same purpose as laying hands on the sick. It invokes the law of contact and transmission in the Name of Jesus. It is a point of contact where the pastor and the sick person release their faith, believing healing power is being transmitted and received.The power is in the Name of Jesus because Jesus is God Himself. He is all-powerful. Pray the prayer of faith in the name of Jesus.John 16:23–24 (NKJV)23 "And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.Will the Heavenly Father give Jesus whatever He asks? Yes, of course. Hence, the Heavenly Father will also give us whatever we ask according to His will, in the name of Jesus.Mark 11:24 (NKJV) Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.From these Scriptures, we deduce the steps in the prayer of faith to receive healing from the Heavenly Father:1. Ask what we desire, not someone else's desire or not our desire for someone else2. Believe we receive when we ask. Believe we receive before we see the result3. Give thanks because we receive when we ask4. Then we WILL have itWe cannot wait for the medical report and then have the confidence that we are healed. If we are unsure and want to wait for the results before believing, we do not believe we have already received our healing in the first place. On the contrary, faith believes we receive our healing the moment we are prayed for in the name of Jesus.Rev. Cheong Yew KwongFaith Church SingaporePlease visit our website at faithchurch.sg#goodtoread ... See MoreSee Less

领受医治的方式（二）

用油膏抹和信心的祷告另一种用医治的恩膏服事病人的方法，是用油膏抹他们，并为他们做信心的祷告。雅各书5:14-1514 你们中间有病了的呢，他就该请教会的长老来，他们可以奉主的名用油抹他，为他祷告。15 出于信心的祈祷要救那病人，主必叫他起来，他若犯了罪，也必蒙赦免。这节经文指示我们要用油膏抹病人。圣经没有说让牧师为油祷告。膏抹的意思是倒在上面，涂抹。这不是说油本身具有恩膏。病人请求牧师来为自己祷告时，牧师可以奉耶稣之名把油涂抹在病人身上。膏油本身并不自带恩膏。真正被神恩膏的，是耶稣的圣名。医治的能力就在耶稣之名中，因为祂是神。牧师要做信心的祷告，就是奉耶稣之名为病人祈祷。这信心的祷告能把病人治好。“救”这个词翻译自希腊文单词“Sozo”，意思是得到医治。医治的能力是藉着奉耶稣之名所做的信心祷告被释放出来的。雅各书是耶稣升天后使徒最早写下的两卷书之一。这封书信是写给以色列的十二支派的，他们很熟悉摩西律法和抹油之礼。那时他们还没有新约可以读。可是在新约中，雅各吩咐他们要奉耶稣之名被油涂抹，因为能力在耶稣之名中。如果一个牧师用油膏抹一个人，却没有用耶稣之名，这油里头难道会有能力吗？肯定不会。那用油膏抹的目的是什么？这和为病人按手一样，都是为达到同一个目的，就是奉耶稣之名触发接触传递的规律。当牧师和病人互相接触时，两个人都释放出信心，相信医治的恩膏正在传递给病人，病人也领受了恩膏。能力是在耶稣之名中，因为耶稣自己就是神。祂是无所不能的。我们要奉耶稣之名做信心的祷告。约翰福音16:23-2423 到那日，你们什么也就不问我了。我实实在在地告诉你们：你们若向父求什么，他必因我的名赐给你们。24 向来你们没有奉我的名求什么，如今你们求就必得着，叫你们的喜乐可以满足。天父会不会把耶稣所求的都给祂？当然会。所以凡是我们照着父的旨意奉耶稣之名所求的，无论是什么，天父也都会赐给我们。马可福音11:24 所以我告诉你们：凡你们祷告祈求的，无论是什么，只要信是得着的，就必得着。从以上这些经文中，我们可以总结出从天父那里领受医治的信心祷告的步骤：1、去求你所渴慕得到的东西，而不是别人渴慕得到的，也不要去求你希望别人能得到的东西2、求的时候要相信你已经得着了。在看见结果之前，就相信你所求的已经得到了3、因为你已经得到了所求的东西，所以要感谢神4、然后你就会得到它我们不能等检查报告出来了，才有信心相信我们得到了医治。如果我们还不确定，想等医生的诊断书出来以后再相信，那就说明我们并不相信我们已经得到了医治。所谓信心，是相信在奉耶稣之名为我们祷告的那一刻，我们就已经得到了医治。耀光牧师新加坡信心教会请访问我们的中文播客,faithchurch.sg/牧师手札/#牧师手札 ... See MoreSee Less