The Healing Hour By Hugh Clark
The Healing Hour is my response to a prophetic word from John Paul Jackson to the effect that ‘there was a fresh wind of healing blowing in my direction and that wheel chairs and crutches would be on the wall of the church building’.
The Lord confirmed this to me by the Spirit and the Word and encouraged me to 'Build an Altar for Healing', and that if I would build it, He would come in power.
As a result I felt led to:
1. Offer to the community a daytime healing opportunity each Wednesday morning from 11am till noon and then a further healing opportunity each Thursday evening from 7pm till 8pm.
2. We advertised on the local newspapers.
3. We wrote an article for these newspapers.
4. We placed Posters is key places
5. We prepared Invitation cards and leaflets for the congregation to use.
The service is built around an expectation that the Presence of the Lord would be the key ingredient and that He would be present to heal.
The service is very simple and non-religious.
1. We use a comfortable, carpeted room with seating well spaced to allow access to the people for prayer ministry. We make refreshments freely available.
2. Music is playing throughout – Benny Hinn’s ‘The Master’s Healing Touch’ – Instrumental only – no lyrics.
3. There is a warm but laid back welcome to the people. There have been new people at every Hour. The ratio of ‘own’ people to ‘visitors’ is about 50 – 50.
4. I will give a very short, 10-minute, encouragement from the Word to stimulate faith in the people.
Use of a Gospel story in which Jesus was healing someone. Always pointing people to the cross – Isa53 and 1 Peter 2:24.
5. We then play the track of a CD from Hillsongs – worship series - ‘Amazing love’ – The song is entitled ‘Jesus won it all’.
6. The people are then encouraged to sit in the presence of the Lord expecting to be healed and are encouraged to check out their condition, their symptoms to see what God is doing for them.
7. At this time we have been able to move in the Word of Knowledge to great effect.
8. When the moment is right we release our healing team to go and offer to minister to the people. I will already have trained these ‘healers’ and will have encourage them to ‘bestow’ healing on the people on the basis of Jesus words in Luke 10 and with the conviction that in the Baptism in the Spirit we have received power which we and thereafter to release to the sick.
9. When everyone has been ministered to we offer to pray over and anoint handkerchiefs which can be taken to friends of those in attendance.
10. We announce future Healing Hours and invite them to return to receive further encouragement and especially to make it known to their friends.
11. We offer to pray for people by appointment either in the church or in their home.
12. We invite them to go to an adjoining room for coffee and chat and there establish a relationship with these new people.
Report to date.
1. There have been healings in every service covering a wide range of conditions including physical injuries resulting from road accidents to deep depression.
2. We have received a walking still from a woman who no longer has need for it.
3. We have seen one woman being helped in on crutches and going out unaided. She is now attending the church with her children attending the Sunday school.
4. We had a woman rise from wheel chair and then for the first time in many months sit on a regular chair for the rest of the time.
5. Now some are turning to the Lord for salvation.
6. It is likely that we will draw these new friends into a Teaching Hour and/or a Friendship Hour to ensure spiritual as well as physical improvement.
7. We have held a couple of Celebrations with a Healing emphasis and these have also been powerful times.
8. The key ingredient is the wonderful sense of God’s presence in these services.
The ministry element seems easy and minimal in comparison albeit directed and faith
filled.
9. It’s early days but we are greatly encouraged
Article Date: 1st May 2006 |
