Today's the day

I preach/teach today at church (hopefully a bit of both) and, once again, it was an interesting ride. This time it was a never ending parade of revelation, right up until this morning. The Lord pointed out stuff continually as the weeks went by and it really helped my initial outline.

I'm teaching on healing and one clear thing the Lord pointed out was that the nature of the Kingdom (I'm doing a 'healing in the Kingdom' type thing) is always advancement and always increase. I listened to a few Bill Johnson sermons over the past while and heard him saying exactly, and I mean exactly, what the Lord had pointed out to me.

So often in healing we position ourselves for decrease. As Todd Bentley says, 'People don't get healed because they like being sick'. What he means is that we don't actively position ourselves for healing but for sickness. I happened to get very sick yesterday, with deep pain in my body and a fever but I felt God telling me to resist, resist, resist and not agree with it. It was an object lesson. In the middle of the night I could feel that my heart beat was quite elevated and I thought, "This sickness is really affecting my heartrate". Then suddenly I thought, "Wait a minute...my heartrate is affecting this sickness, I am being healed not becoming sick". Semantics? Could be, but Todd is right, we think sick first.

I see nothing but increase when I look at the healings of Jesus. Never do I see decrease. The only time I see him talking about decrease is when he takes away from the unfaithful to give to the faithful (i.e. the talents). The faithful always position themselves for increase.

In healing, when you're 10% healed you need to get really excited because the Kingdom of God is upon you. And if the Kingdom is upon you the healing will increase.

One last thing. Do you notice that we have the increase thing down to a science when it comes to money? Lots of wild and wacky teachings there and lots of excitement about financial increase. Need to move that over to healing too.

Pa