Divine Healing Made Simple: Simplifying the supernatural to make healing & miracles a part of your everyday life (The Kingdom of God Made Simple Book 1) (29 page)

What struck me as strange was the fact that some of the stories I recorded were a second testimony to replace ones that had been destroyed. I knew in the dream that every testimony was very important and none of them were to be discarded or ignored. This was the basic content of the dream.

One thing God revealed in the dream is the fact that the enemy is not only trying to prevent the work of God, but he is trying to destroy and discredit our testimonies. The other thing is that our testimonies are extremely important to Him.

If you study the patriarchs of Israel, you’ll note that whenever God did something amazing for them, or when He revealed something of Himself they’d never seen before, an enduring landmark was built. Often a pile of stones was erected which served as a reminder to future generations of the works that God had done.

The Lord asked Moses to build a portable box called an ark in which the nation of Israel would carry three things – the tablets of the law given to Moses on Mount Sinai, a jar full of the manna that God provided as their food when they lived in the wilderness for 40 years, and the staff of Aaron, which miraculously sprouted buds. The contents of the ark were an ever-present reminder to them about who their God was and what He had done. Our testimony today serves the exact same purpose.

Testimonies of what God has done through us are between Him and us. The issue of pride is between Satan and us. We shouldn’t let the issue of pride stand in the way of our responsibility. God requires us to testify. It’s up to us to do it with humility and integrity. No doubt everyone used by God will struggle with pride from time to time. We need to confidently walk in our identity as sons and daughters in the kingdom. But we also need to walk in the humble knowledge that it is the Lord and not us, who is on display. We are merely instruments in His hands.

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HE TREND TOWARD EVERYDAY PEOPLE
operating in divine healing isn’t slowing down – it’s gaining momentum. What started out as an oddity has become a powerful movement. God has given me a number of dreams foretelling what the future of healing might look like.

On June 8th in 2010 I had a dream that contained two scenes. In the first scene I watched a presentation in which a new kind of airplane module was being demonstrated. It was built using advanced technology. The module was designed to withstand any type of crash. It held a small crew of no more than five people. The crew that would occupy this module received diverse training, but their primary function was as a medical team. They were given advanced equipment to use for their mission. The module was to be retrofitted to all passenger airliners. In the dream, it was a known fact that airliners would be crashing in the future. The retrofit of the module was to ensure the survival of a handful of people when the airplanes crashed. Once an airplane crashed, the module would separate from the airplane fuselage and open. The crew would be unharmed by the impact. They would get out of the module and survive wherever they were.

Part of the demonstration I watched in the dream explained the training the crew went through, which allowed them to survive, even in the most hostile environment. It was known to everyone that the airplanes would crash in hostile territory. This was the end of the first part of the dream. In the second part, I watched the technology for the new module being developed. It was a very long and detailed dream. I didn’t recall any of those details.

In dreams, commercial airliners typically represent large groups of people, either within the church or in society. A crash represents a sudden change that results in the loss of something. The fact that all airliners were going to crash speaks of an event that will impact nearly everyone. The module represents a protective enclosure crafted by God that allows a few individuals to live in close proximity with others, but provides on a moment’s notice, isolation from them, and protection from harm. (Perhaps they would need protection from others due to something like increased religious persecution or civil unrest.)

The dream reveals that sudden, major changes are coming to society, the church or both. The cause isn’t clear. It seems to be something that will happen suddenly and with little warning. It’s important to note that the airplanes crashed at different times, not all at once. I’d interpret this as a series of small events, rather than a single, large one. If the crash speaks of society in general, it may be due to natural disasters or man-made events like war. If the church is the subject, it could portray large scale changes in how the body of Christ meets or functions. The important point is that God is making preparations in anticipation of these events.

The training for the survivors included a variety of disciplines, but the main focus was medicine. Since the dream was symbolic, this is probably not a literal reference to medicine, but a symbolic reference to divine healing.

I’ve believed for some time that the realm of divine healing, which is optional for most of us today, will become an essential survival tool in the future. It may be that the health care system will ultimately fail, leaving millions of sick people without any treatment, except primitive or natural medicine and divine healing. It may suggest a global war or some large-scale natural disaster. In any case, those who will survive must develop a diversity of tools to work with. The survival teams in my dream went through intense, long hours of training. Perhaps this speaks of operating in all the manifestations of the Spirit like healing, miracles, prophecy, words of knowledge, etc.

A major emphasis in the dream was on “new technology.” I believe God has many new things waiting for us. By “new technology” I’m not referring to things that aren’t found in the Bible or things that weren’t practiced by the early church. In the area of divine healing for example, most of us have only scratched the surface in understanding how to heal people effectively. We have far more questions than answers. I believe God wants to give us the answers we’re looking for.

The airplanes crashed in hostile territory. The territory didn’t suddenly become hostile. It was always that way. But traveling in the airplanes provided protection and isolation from it. That protection is going to be removed. How that will happen is debatable. The resulting situation will be catastrophic for most of us and difficult, even for those who are prepared for it.

On July 4th in 2010 I had another dream that took place in the distant future. In the dream, divine healing was seen as a scientific and highly organized field. I was a specialist in one type of healing that involved seeing the medical condition of a patient and praying for healing out of what I saw. I had a job in this profession as a healer. When I came to work I would login to a workstation and review a video file of the person’s condition that I was going to pray for. I would pray for them from the visions I saw and my prayer was recorded. It became part of their permanent record. Four different specialists were involved in the healing process. Each specialist prayed in a different way. Every patient received prayer from all four kinds of specialists and everyone was healed, without exception.

The number four seemed significant in this dream. The dream occurred on July 4th and each person received prayer from four different specialists. I looked up the number four in
The Prophet’s Dictionary
by Paula Price. Here’s part of the entry for the number four:

“The number of world impact by way of the four corners of the earth. Prophetically, the number represents something with worldwide impact primarily signifying the four compass points – north, south, east, and west – in its intent or affect.”

This dream could be a glimpse at the global state of healing 25 years from now. Unfortunately, many Christians can’t imagine Jesus delaying His return that long. We’ve stood too long looking at the sky, waiting for His return and in doing so, we’ve lost our vision for the future. Some of us can only see increasing darkness and depravity covering the earth – thinking the return of Jesus is our only hope. I once thought this way. But I don’t any longer.

God has given me a vision for the future of healing that is far better than what we see today. It’s so grand that it will take more than my lifetime to accomplish everything He wants to do. I’ve decided to build a legacy in healing that my children and grandchildren can carry on long after I’m gone.

The future of healing has virtually unlimited potential. The only restrictions that exist are those we’ve created in our minds. Whatever we can imagine as the future of healing, God can accomplish through us because there are no limitations on what He can do. I would encourage you to dream big when it comes to healing. Our past doesn’t dictate our future and our future could be far better than we’ve ever dreamed.

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ESUS TOLD
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IS DISCIPLES THAT
the works they would do would be greater than the works He did:

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ”
JN. 14:12

During the two millenia that have passed since Jesus spoke these words, they have challenged just about everyone who has read them. Jesus clearly indicated that His disciples would do even greater works than He did. Some people take this not only as a command, but as a prophecy that must be fulfilled. I don’t know anyone who has been able to imagine what these “greater works” might look like. What human could ever claim to have done even greater works than Jesus?

Not wanting to deny Scripture, but neither wanting to believe what He said to be true in a literal sense, some people have twisted His words, suggesting an interpretation that explains away the obvious meaning. They explain: “He didn’t mean greater works in quality, He meant greater in quantity and since the Church has added countless millions of believers over the millennia, we have fulfilled His calling to do greater works.”

What rubbish.

One glance at the Greek text reveals that Jesus was referring to greater works both in quantity
and
quality. The body of Christ has not yet done these greater works. But I believe we will do them before the Lord returns.

A few months before this book manuscript was finished, I received a call from my friend, Michael King. He asked how the writing was going. I told him it was moving along nicely. We talked about a chapter that I’d recently added to the manuscript. He shared a prophetic word, asking that I would be open to one last bit of revelation from God as the completion of the book drew near. He didn’t give me any more details – just a cryptic suggestion to be open-minded. Not wanting to miss something important, I asked God to share with me anything else He wanted to include in the book. A few weeks later I had the following dream:

I was standing in a room with other people that I didn’t know. We had volunteered for some kind of mission. We had no idea what it involved. A man began to speak with the group. He said he would tell us why we were there, what our mission was and how it would be carried out. He talked at great length about many things, but nothing he said clearly described what the mission was or how it was to be carried out. He gave hints and suggestions here and there in vague terms about what we might do, but he never described anything in detail.

I was confused and bewildered listening to this man who was one of our leaders. After we listened for a while, other men appeared in the room. Their job was to assist in our training. Soon after they entered the room, they began to attack us. Some people were shot and others were beaten. Some tried to hide from the attackers. None of us had weapons and I saw no way out of the building, so I decided to pretend as if I were dead. Two men found me and believing I was dead, they left me and looked for someone else to attack. At this point in the dream, I just wanted to get out of the building. This ended the first scene.

In the second part of the dream, I found myself on a mountaintop in Sweden, with three men I’d never met. The four of us got in a small car and began driving down the steep, snow-covered slopes of the mountain. I was in the rear seat of the car. As the terrain became almost vertical, we traveled at a frightening speed, almost out of control. With the scenery whizzing by, I remember thinking the car was going to flip over and crash. But the car continued on its path, which became a level plateau. We drove for a while saying nothing. But soon, we reached another steep down-hill slope and began to lose control, flying down the mountain at break-neck speed. Again, I remember thinking we were going to flip over and crash, but we didn’t. We continued driving the tiny car through the deep snow, hanging on for our lives with no idea where we were going. This was the end of the second scene.

The third and final scene brought the four of us to a countryside dotted with small villages. We weren’t in the car any longer. And we weren’t walking. Something had happened to us. We had the ability to travel wherever we wanted, merely by willing ourselves to go there. As soon as we decided to go here or there, we quickly went in that direction as if we had no physical body. We were very much like angels. The bodies we inhabited had a luminescence and transparency to them that was similar to the bodies people have reported seeing in heaven.

We traveled quickly to the nearby cities and encountered many people in need. Some needed healing, some deliverance, some were poor and others were hungry. As we encountered each person, we released the resources of heaven that met their need. I would gesture toward a person with my hand and a brilliant flash of multi-colored light exploded above them. As soon as this happened, their need was met and I would find another person in need and do the same for them. The four of us scoured the cities in what seemed like a few minutes, finding everyone in need and taking care of them by releasing the resources of heaven. A brilliant light flashed each time one of us released something from heaven. Nothing was delayed. People and their circumstances were changed in the blink of an eye.