Broadly speaking, there are two traditions about divine healing in
the Body of Christ. There is the conservative view, which generally
believes that divine healing as a ministry has ceased since the time of
the apostles, and may only occur today essentially by an indeterminate
act of providence, totally arbitrary and not to be expected. Such a view
argues that modern medicine is the main means that God has given man
for healing today, and not miracles. There is the charismatic view,
which holds that biblical healing has not ceased. But in the main, this
view is dominated today by the belief that miracles of healing depend
essentially on being holy and perfect, or on the amount of praying and
fasting you are able to exercise.
Pastor Moses
Rahaman Popoola brings to the Body of Christ in this booklet the
revelation perspective of the grace of God in the healing of man. He
reveals clearly that mercy is the basis for gaining the kind of healing
miracle from God that you cannot lose. Merit cannot give you such
healing. Mercy means that Jesus took the bad things we deserve and gave
us the good things Jesus deserves. Performance is not a basis for
obtaining mercy from God. When we focus on our good works, it leads to
anxiety, frustrations and disappointment when we discover our
imperfections. That is what is wrong with those who believe in divine
healing on
the basis of good works rather than mercy.
Furthermore,
Popoola reveals that the brass serpent in the wilderness symbolized sin
and sickness as already judged in Christ on the Cross. That means
healing is an accomplished fact. Therefore, we need to exercise faith in
Christ rather than focus on the pain we feel or what the doctors say.
Instead of praying to be healed, we should be declaring by faith that
the healing has already been accomplished. When it seems that our prayer
for healing has
not been answered, we should speak in faith to the problem about God, rather than speaking to God about the problem.
Not
only that, Popoola reveals by the Holy Spirit that continuous prayer of
faith is the key to securing the answer that has already been given.
When Jesus cursed the fig tree,
then went and cleansed the
temple of money changers, etc, declaring the temple to be a house of
prayer rather than a den of robbers, He taught us the principle of
making our bodies,
the temple of God, to be the house of
continuous prayer of faith. Hence, the fig tree manifested that it had
withered only after the cleansing of the temple, meaning that as we stay
in faith, our miracle that had already happened as soon as we initially
prayed would then manifest. In the same way Daniel's prayer was
answered on the instant, but his twenty-one day continuous prayer of
faith secured the answer. Popoola teaches the need to continue praying
in tongues, which is praying in the spirit, until the answer to prayer
manifests, no
matter how long it takes.
What
is more, in this powerful revelation from heaven, Pastor Popoola shows
us clearly that God is not the author of sickness. Contrary to the
widely held belief that God permitted Satan to afflict Job, Popoola
reveals that Job's sin consciousness and fear opened him up to Satan's
attack. Did not Job himself declare that the thing he feared most has
come upon him? This means our attitude can hinder God from preventing
Satan's attacks on our lives. Moreover,
seeking to earn God's
blessing by keeping the law only attracts a curse. It is only our
dependence on God's grace that releases His blessings, including divine
healing.
In addition, Pastor Popoola leads us
to understand that God desires every believer to be equipped to heal the
sick, so as to enhance the rapid spread of the gospel. Knowing
ourselves
spiritually as Jesus knew Himself would help believers to be as
effective in healing others as Jesus was. Even our approach to anointing
is corrected in this revelation exposition of God's word; we should
thank God because we received anointing from the day we became born
again, even before the baptism of the Holy Ghost. We do not need to fast
and pray for anointing, because we already have it. Since Jesus lives
in us, we have anointing to heal the sick and raise the dead like Jesus;
and baptism of the Holy Ghost only enhances our ability to express the
anointing that we already have.
This book has
radically changed my perspective of the power to heal the sick, perform
miracles, and carry out God's assignments for me. Every child of God
needs to experience
the release of power that God has given
the Body of Christ in these last days as the last frontiers of the devil
are being over thrown before the Lord returns. I urgently urge you to
get a
copy and enter into your divine inheritance.
Rev. Prof. Samuel Peni Ango,
Chaplain, U.M.C.A. Theological College,
Ilorin, Nigeria.
9th May, 2013.
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