All are invited to join us for our Healing Schools. Teachings are from “The Lord Healed Them All” Healing Ministry Manual. The sessions of the Healing School include: Building Faith in the Healing of Jesus, Praying for Physical and Inner Healing, Overcoming Barriers to Healing, Sacred Scriptures, Church Teaching, and Practical Instructions. Notes especially the scriptural references from Session 1 are given below following information about the Healing School instructor and the Healing School.
About the speaker
Patti Brunner has been in healing ministry since 1997. She and her husband have served on prayer teams during diocesan events in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri and during multiple parish Healing Masses and retreats. She has attended numerous training sessions provided by international speakers. She has been given permission by her pastor to pray for parishioners after Sunday mass monthly at St. Vincent de Paul and by the Arkansas Bishop’s liaisons at diocesan events. Patti Brunner is an author, a podcaster and main speaker on the Truth of the Spirit YouTube channel produced by Padua Podcast Network. She and Monsignor David LeSieur hosted a radio show “Living Seasons of Change” on KDUA. A former CPA, she has dedicated her life to various ministries of the Catholic Church as a lay person. Patti was first recognized by Catholic leaders as having a charism for healing at the Living Life in the Spirit Seminar in 1998 and the Give Glory to God prayer group in 1997 that was bestowed by the Holy Spirit at Cursillo October 1996.
About “The Lord Healed Them All”
“The Lord Healed Them All” is a privately published manual written by Patti Brunner to share information about the healing ministry with the deacons of northwest Arkansas. It includes information from various healing schools, conferences, retreats, books and personal experiences. She is currently revising it for the general public.
About the Healing School
In this Healing School, we will begin with strengthening exercises for our “prayer muscles”. This will allow us to become aware of the will of God for healing, the abilities the Lord gives and our acceptance through faith, hope, and love. Each session we will share the tools the Lord has given us to bring healing to others.
The Healing School offers training in following the examples of Jesus in offering healing ministry to others. When you set out on this course you’ll probably ask yourself “Am I worthy?” During mass we repeat the prayer, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you; only say the word and I shall be healed”. The mass prayer is based on the centurion’s prayer in Matthew 8:8 “The centurion said in reply, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.” He asked not for himself but for his servant. The centurion became a healing minister and so can you. Know this: The Lord is worthy. Jesus is worthy. By the Holy Spirit you shall see the glory of the Lord as the grace descends upon the people and lives are changed.
The charism of Healing is the easiest to accept by those who trust in the Lord. When you seek physical healing and receive physical relief – immediately – God is praised for his Goodness. Yet there are many types of healing that God bestows on those who seek his healing power and grace. Inner healing of the mind and of the soul are also gifts from God. Healing of memories and overcoming regrets build up the Body of Christ. Healing of marriages and relationships are frequent prayer requests. The gift of peace that overcomes stress that causes many illnesses is but one way that the Lord gives His healing grace to his people. Another way is to speak specifically to the physical need. In the name of Jesus, through the grace and presence of the Holy Spirit, we can command body parts to come into alignment with the will of God and the perfection of creation.
John 14: 12Truly, 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 the Father. 13Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
Session 1
Healing School Session 1
Opening prayer:
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. “We dedicate these moments to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and implore Him to put upon us the ‘armor of God’. Amen.”
Welcome to Session 1 of the Healing School. You are here because the Lord called you to be here!
(1) In this first session we are goingto reveal to you how easy healing is.
During the Easter season, we hear a lot from the Acts of the Apostles during liturgy. (2)We will use the word “ACTS” to recall God’s plan for healing like this:
A Ask Jesus tell us to ask for healing
C Commission As disciples Jesus commissions us with the power and sends us forth to heal.
T Trust By our gift of faith Jesus calls us to trust in him.
S Scripture Jesus gave us the Sacred Scripture to build relationship with Him, to teach us His Way, to remain with us, and to allow the Holy Spirit to guide us. Scripture allows us to bring the presence and healing power of Jesus to others.
(3) We are going to share with you some exercises to strengthen your “Prayer Muscles”. Our first session will help you build your faith towards the Lord’s gift of Healing.
We will share some scriptures for you to memorize like this:
Matthew 18:19 Jesus said, “Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.”
We will share other scriptures of the examples of Jesus as He teaches us the importance of healing in sharing the resurrection power and the power of the Holy Spirit activated in our lives.
In this first session we will start (4) we will start teaching you how to pray! And as we continue the Healing School we will help you to avoid quenching the work of the Holy Spirit.
A armor, C cleansing, T thanksgiving, S sealing
During the sessions of the Healing School we will show you models of “preparation prayers and ending prayers of protection, cleansing, thanksgiving and sealing.
In this first session we will start (5) sharing God’s healing and some of his methods of healing by His Spirit with you.
As we continue we will teach you about the various kinds of healing leading up to physical healing in the final session. In the middle session we will address inner healing and we will touch on deliverance prayers to help those who have addictions.
ACTS Ask, Christian, Truth, Salvation
Recall that the power is the Lord’s yet He shares it by commission to His disciples, the believers.
Lesson 1. Reveal how easy healing is.
Back in 1998, when I first started ministering healing the Lord told me,
“Do you want miracles? They are easy. What is hard is to get people to accept them, to believe them.”
Something we as Christians have to understand, to step into our role of healing ministers, is that miracles are easy; what is hard is to get people to believe and accept miracles. And we ourselves are the first ones we have to convince. Jesus tells us we have not because we ask not. So we turn to Jesus and our first prayer is teach us how to ask, how to receive!
As a Christian we are called to imitate Christ, to do the things he did. During this session we will show you that Jesus heals all kind of issues. Jesus is the Truth, the Way and the Light. And through salvation we are within the Body of Christ.
Lesson 2. God’s plan for healing
A Armor of God: Our opening prayer was a way of putting on God’s Armor. Protection of Helmet of Salvation, Breastplate of Righteousness, Shield of Faith, Shoes of Peace, Belt of Truth, Sword of the Spirit aka the Word of God. When we pray protection prayers they rooted in the base of these.
C Cleansing ; Jesus helps us to get rid of infirmities. Jesus also helps us to be cleansed from spirits that are attached to infirmities and sin.
T Thanksgiving Thank the Lord for the amazing grace He pours upon us. As we pray for healing we can thank the Lord for the healing even before healing manifests in the natural by having faith and hope. God speaks truth.
S Sealing This isa way to ward off doubt that allows the deceitful one the opportunity to steal the good the Lord has done. Sealing can be done with encouragement, with sharing of affirmations, and certainly with scripture. Sealing can also be done with acknowledging the Presence of God and the recognition of the power of God and a closing prayer.
Lesson 3. Exercises to strengthen your “Prayer Muscles”.
Let’s stretch our prayer muscles with a few Scriptures to memorize.
1 John 4:4 “For the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.”
Repeat that with me. Now change the ‘you’ to ‘me’. “For the One who is in me is greater than the one who is in the world.”
John 14:14 Jesus said, “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.”
What is your number 1 prayer request? How often do you ask in the name of Jesus? Are you afraid that your need is beyond the power of Jesus? “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.”
Philippians 4:13 “I have the strength for everything through Him who empowers me.”
Paul didn’t write,” I have strength for 1 or 2 things.” He said “everything”. Paul didn’t write “since I am educated, rich, healthy and eat right I have strength.” He said, “I have the strength for everything through Him who empowers me.”
Romans 10:17 says, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God…”
The Word of God includes scripture, prophetic words, the whispers of God within your mind and heart, the recognition of God in creation that was spoken into being by God, and Jesus who is the Word of God.
Lesson (4) sharing his method of healing with you and by His Spirit we will teach you how to pray! Jesus healing
Healing Ministry is the Church healing the Church and the world.
Do you need healing? Do you feel a call to pray for those who need healing? The best starting place for understanding our call to minister and receive healing is to study Jesus. What did Jesus think about healing? It is quite obvious when we read the Gospel of Matthew that a major part of Jesus’ time was given to healing. Whether He healed because of his great compassion and love, to witness the kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, or to draw people to hear the truth there is no doubt that Jesus provided temporal and spiritual healing during his ministry years. Through his death and resurrection He then provided the ultimate healing of everlasting life. What many forget is that He also trained his followers to heal and challenged believers to continue to provide healing.
We are like the men who lowered the man through the roof to Jesus. Healing ministry involves bringing people into the healing presence of Jesus through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Experience has shown us it is easier to pray for people to accept their infirmity with grace as ‘God’s will’ than to risk our self-esteem by asking God to heal. Somehow we think it is totally up to us whether the person is healed or not, that in some way we are the healer. Jesus says we have not because we ask not.
The Church repeats this teaching in James 4:2 saying, “You do not have, because you do not ask.”
John 16:24 Jesus said, “Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.”
Asking God for something is called petition prayer. Why do we pray? We pray because we have faith in God and we know that God listens to the desires of our hearts. We know that God grants prayers and gives goodness to his children. We pray because we have deep needs that are beyond us and so we surrender our needs to the Lord. A model for the prayer for healing we can follow is faith, hope, and love.
Faith, Hope, Love
We pray because we have faith that the God who created the universe can do all things. We pray in faith because we read the Holy Scriptures and we see a God of healing. We know that Jesus heals. He can heal all. He does heal all on several occasions in scripture. We believe Jesus is still able to perform these healings. Our faith helps us to understand that healing begins on earth and is completed fully in heaven.
We turn to prayer in hope. We know that there are barriers in receiving healing. In hope we turn to the Lord to overcome these barriers. We turn to the Lord in hope that our will is aligned with the will of God. We pray his will be done when we surrender our own will to his. Healing ministers stir up hope, and then the Lord shall stir the faith in his people as signs and wonders manifest. Whenever the issue of healing arises, confidence in the Lord our God also arises especially after you have tested the Word of the Lord and found it true. So, continue to hope in the Lord for those issues for which you pray. Certainly God hears your prayers. When you obey the will of the Father you shall see the benefit extend not just towards your own family but an outreaching effect upon others.
Love is the basis of all prayer. Love brings us to the Lord to ask. Love helps us to recognize that sometimes suffering draws us closer to God. The Kingdom was not earned by Jesus so that we could suffer – “the Kingdom was earned through suffering but was not earned for suffering. Its purpose is for joy and peace which are based and found in love.” It is not up to us to decide that Jesus wants us to suffer instead of asking for healing. We offer our suffering to the Lord until we are healed. It is up to the Lord to decide the timing of when healing takes place. Sometimes healing is by layers.
Our love for others causes us to be intercessors to bring their needs before the Lord and to cause a communication of love between hearts that allows the presence of God:
- Love can ‘break through’ the barriers caused by sin and pain, and by lethargy and denial ,
- Love can break through barriers caused by ignorance and by selfishness or unforgiveness.
These barriers are difficult but not impossible to be broken. When the people pray together in one heart and one mind then the mind of Christ also enters in as we are one with him. God’s love for us is without limitation—on his part. Through the gift of freewill we can accept, reject, or limit his love.
Psalm 147:3 “He heals the broken-hearted, and binds up their wounds.”
The Lord calls a ‘hope-filled’ people to come to him for healing!
Who do you think gave doctors the ability to minister healing in the first place? Beyond the abilities given to doctors and nurses, Jesus, the Divine Physician, gave us:
- Baptism, for the healing restoration of the soul to God,
- The Eucharist, the source and summit of our faith,
- the Sacrament of Reconciliation, that repairs relationship with God and community, and
- the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick which is a direct source of healing to body and soul.
The Catechism identifies the Church also as a sacrament of the Life of God [CCC932], Sacrament of the mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit [CCC738], and the universal sacrament of salvation [849, 780].
The Church community is commissioned by Jesus to provide healing ministry among themselves and to others to witness his compassion, mercy, power and love. St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Rogers, Arkansas, has offered healing ministry services since 2002. We do this because through his gift of healing, Jesus comforts those who mourn and those who yearn for changes in their lives to bring them happiness. Jesus heals the sick from their infirmities; He offers hope to the disillusioned. The Lord honored our requests and healed the people.
Certainly in heaven there will be Divine Healing-there will be no depression, no cancers, no missing limbs, no sickness or infirmities of any kind. Jesus gives us a foretaste of heaven as He shares healing grace on earth and heals all. He established healing sacraments so that we will come to Him when we are in need. In the various types of healing He develops relationship with us and reveals his love to us. Jesus also clearly calls us and commissions us to continue his ministry of healing.
Say to the person next to you: “we are going to see how Jesus did it!”
We are going to quickly share a range of scriptures from the Gospel of Matthew that reveals God’s plan of healing as a tool to share his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. By staying in the same book of the bible and following Jesus on his journey of preaching and healing you begin to comprehend the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Healing everyone was not a rare thing for Jesus to do.
Scriptures from Matthew:
Matthew 4:23-24 “Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. (Emphasis added)
4:24. So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he cured them.”
Matthew 8:3 “Leprosy was cleansed”
Matthew 8:14-15 Peter’s Mother-in Law “The fever left her”
Matthew 8:16-17 Jesus entered Capernaum. “That evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and cured all who were sick.’” (Emphasis added)
Matthew 9:7 “paralytic rose and went home”
Matthew 9:20-22 A woman with hemorrhages for twelve years was healed.
Matthew 9:29-30 Jesus opened the eyes of two blind men.
Matthew 9:35 “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness.” (Emphasis added)
Jesus will travel to our town too!
Matthew 12:15b “he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them,” (Emphasis added)
Will you follow him too?
Next Jesus went to His hometown.
Matthew 13:58 “And he did not work many mighty deeds there because of their lack of faith.”
Ah-oh! They even tried to throw him off a cliff! Did Jesus give up? No. The next chapter, we hear:
Matthew 14:14 “When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.”
He has pity on us too.
Matthew 14:34-36 “When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. After the people of that place recognized him, they sent word throughout the region and brought all who were sick to him, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.” (Emphasis added)
Matthew 15:29-31 “great crowds came to Him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb, and many others, and they put them at His feet, and Jesus healed them,”
And after all this healing of so many, Jesus told us:
Matthew 17:20 “if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Remember:
Matthew 18:20 Jesus said, “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”
Matthew 19:1-2 “When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. Large crowds followed him, and he cured them there.”
Until we get it in our heads and hearts that Jesus healed all the people we will limit him just like the people of his home town.
How can we have the faith that Jesus will heal today if we don’t comprehend the magnitude of his will for healing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of the people?
These scriptures chosen from Matthew show the degree of healing Jesus gave to those who asked.
Jesus came to heal body and soul. Through Baptism our soul is healed from original sin that is worse than any inherited disease because it separates us from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
As Jesus healed all of physical illnesses He pointed us toward the truth of the Kingdom of God. He was preparing the people to receive the healing power of the Resurrection that would restore all who asked to be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no infirmity, no depression or oppression, no lunatics, no paralytics, no pain. Jesus taught us to pray “Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.”
Jesus began his ministry among those willing and ready to accept help in all of Galilee healing every disease and every infirmity among the people. He healed all the sick of various diseases and pains. He healed demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics.
There is nothing too big, too desperate, nor too overwhelming for Jesus to heal. Today if one in a hundred is healed we praise God. Would 100 out of 100 not honor him more completely? That’s what Jesus did. And Jesus only did what his Father taught him to do. And Jesus continues to teach us to do what His Father taught Him to do. His Holy Spirit instructs us.
The Lord wants his people healed. That is clear from what Jesus did. When we battle sickness of body, soul and mind we are kept from abundantly enjoying God’s love for us. Over and over and over, Jesus shows us the will of the Father for us to be healed in body and soul. These examples give us hope. They give us expectant faith that what Jesus did for them He will also do for us.
Nowhere in scripture does Jesus refuse to heal. When He delays healing it is only to engage the person in need like in the story of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15. As she persisted to ask, her faith was unmistakable.
The key place of limitation for miracles was the unbelieving leaders and the home town of Jesus where their lack of belief kept the number of miracles down. Lack of belief kept them from asking Jesus for a miracle.
How often are we like these people? We think we know Jesus, too. And we decide that Jesus won’t do anything, that all that He did in scripture just doesn’t happen anymore. We might think it’s too much to ask or that it is too petty to ask.
After all, we should be taking care of ourselves!
And so Jesus does “not work many mighty deeds there because of their lack of faith.”
Lesson (5) sharing God’s healing. Healing School: Stepping out of your comfort zone.
We can accept that Jesus heals. After all Jesus is God. We believe that. We can even believe that the Lord healed them all. Where we run into trouble and doubt is when we find out that Jesus taught the Church to continue to heal. He commissions the Church to heal. He provides sacraments of healing.
Matthew 21:22 “Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive.”
John 14:12
Jesus said, “12Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.”
Matthew 18:19 “19 Again, (amen,) I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. .”
Jesus did a lot of great works. He healed them all. Jesus promises we will do greater works than him. How is that possible? He sent us the Holy Spirit to do as He did and more: to reach more people, to cover more territory, to give more testimony because Jesus returned to the Father and sent us the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 10:6-8 “6 These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, … 7 And preach as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons:freely ye have received, freely give.”
In Luke 10: Jesus sent out the seventy-two disciples to “9 heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” and when they came back they witnessed “17 with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
Do you see Lord’s instruction for us to continue his healing ministry? These show us that healing continues to be a key part of the ministry of Jesus. Jesus healed in compassion and as a tool for evangelizing. A show of the power of Jesus by the Holy Spirit through healing also gives God glory. We are to imitate Jesus and follow his Way. It’s not ‘us’ performing healing—it’s Him acting through us. Jesus invites us to pray and to be one with him as we stand in the gap—standing at the gates of heaven—as intercessors and healing ministers to allow God’s grace to come upon the people.
I know that Jesus heals. He has shown me personally different types of healing. As we just heard in the Gospel of Matthew 8:3 Jesus healed a leper. I have seen Jesus heal a wart off a nose. Is this too small a healing for you to believe? In Matthew 8: 13 Jesus healed a paralytic who was in great distress. In Matthew 9:7 another paralytic rose and went home. Rich Curran witnessed to me about being paralyzed from an accident that destroyed his athletic career. Crying out to God he was healed; after being healed he became a Catholic evangelist. Curt Carpenter shared that because of quick growing melanoma cancer tumors he could not move without excruciating pain and was completely bedridden by January 2014. He and his wife stood firm on the promises of the Lord and asked believers to pray for his healing. One month later Curt Carpenter walked into Patriarch House and witnessed that God had a different plan for him.
Matthew 9:22 tells of a woman healed from hemorrhaging. I recalled this scripture when I personally was diagnosed with uterine fibroids which caused chronic bleeding. The doctor told me the only treatment was a hysterectomy. I told him I would rather pray about it now that I knew exactly how to pray. The abnormal symptoms immediately ceased.
In Matthew 9:25, Jesus restored life. In 2003 I prayed with an infertile couple at a bi-lingual healing service. Less than a year later their daughter Guadeloupe Rios was born. Another young woman we knew was told by the doctor that she had miscarried. After hearing the news, prayers of faith asked for restoration of life. A few days later the doctor told her that she didn’t miscarry after all. Her child, Daniel, was carried full term and is now a young adult; Jesus gives and restores life.
In Matthew 9:27-30 Jesus healed two blind men. In August 2003 A man who had a detached retina asked us for prayer and was healed. A woman I prayed for in May 2007 was healed of macular degeneration first in one eye then some years later when new symptoms appeared both eyes were healed of blindness.
Matthew 12:10 Jesus healed a withered hand. In 1998 we prayed for a man who had carpal tunnel which affected the strength of his hand and his ability to work. After his immediate healing he decided to attend RCIA and was baptized.
When the lame man told Jesus in John 5:9 that indeed he did want healing, Jesus healed the lame. At least four times I have seen Jesus heal the lame who wanted healing. My own knee was healed at Cursillo 1996. In 1998 I watched a young woman’s braced leg in Benton turn from a swollen purple to perfect healthy pink during prayer and all pain subside. In 1999 A young boy, Michael, was healed of leg cancer after his extended family prayed for his healing. ‘Chip’ who had prostate cancer returned to Church after we prayed with his sister, Flo, for him at a healing service in 2009 and then the Lord, without asking, healed a short ligament muscle in her leg. I could go on and on. Our God heals abundantly.
These are but a few of many examples of how Jesus continues to heal people in our time witnessed personally. Asking God to heal makes a difference. In the gift of healing decay is overcome. The ultimate healing we will receive in heaven is “hinted” as God’s resurrection power is manifested as we seek the intercession of Jesus. Limbs can be replaced, teeth repaired, cures found, cancers dissolved, hearts mended. Emotions and memories can be purified according to the Love of the Creator.
Healing is a sought-after charism and thus the easy to accept by those who trust in the Lord. When you seek physical healing and receive physical relief – immediately – God is praised for his Goodness. There are many types of healing besides physical that God bestows on those who seek his healing power and grace. Inner healing of the mind and of the soul are also gifts from God. Healing of memories and overcoming regrets build up the Body of Christ. Healing of marriages and relationships are frequent prayer requests. The gift of peace that overcomes stress that causes many illnesses is but one way that the Lord gives His healing grace to his people.
One way that I have been trained –by others who have been anointed in the healing ministry – is to speak specifically to the physical need. In the name of Jesus we can command body parts to come into alignment with the will of God and the perfection of creation.
We always ask God to heal and allow His grace to flow in the best possible way. We also ask God to not let us to get in the way of what He is doing. We approach Healing with expectant faint and with caution—to avoid quenching the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes the Lord gives physical healing so that spiritual healing can take place! Sometimes the Lord delays physical healing to allow layers of inner healing to take place. Sometimes the Lord waits for complete healing in heaven. Sometimes the Lord heals through providing medicine and excellent doctors and treatment. Sometimes the Lord touches the soul and allows the heart to heal. I have personally witnessed hundreds of all types of healing – many in my own family and among friends. Many are small things because we turn to the Lord for every need big and small. Every Christian can ask for the gift of Healing from the Holy Spirit. The ministry of healing is when the Lord calls you to go out among His people curing their illness in His name.
We are going to close tonight with a healing service.
We are wounded healers. As people in need of prayer we have compassion for others who need prayer. Tonight we are going to ask the Lord for our own healing. When you set out on this course you’ll probably ask yourself “Am I worthy?” During mass we repeat the prayer, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you; only say the word and I shall be healed”. We ask for healing for ourselves.
The mass prayer is based on the centurion’s prayer in Matthew 8:8 “The centurion said in reply, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.” He asked not for himself but for his servant. The centurion became a healing minister and so can you. Know this: The Lord is worthy. Jesus is worthy. Stay in the Lord and you shall see the glory of the Lord as the grace descends upon the people and lives are changed.
Today the Lord promised to show you his power, his Way, and his grace. Next session you will begin to pray for others.
There are several ways to offer healing. The Lord is the source of all healing. Your uniqueness is created by God and inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Hands of God Exercise
Ask the person to hold out their hands and put all their issues in them. Tell them that nothing is too big or small for the Lord to take care of. Ask them to visualize that God the Father has his hands under theirs.
Give them a moment. Tell them that when they are ready to let God and let go of these issues to open their hands and empty all their issues into God’s hands. If they continue to struggle, ask God to come and take their issues from them.
Close your eyes. The Lord will call out a few healings. If that is your need, raise your hand and choose to receive his healing.
3 Memory Healing Exercise
Ask everyone to remain silent and seated until the conclusion of the exercise.
- First, we pray that the Lord will remind us of three events in our lives that Jesus wants to help heal.
- After recalling the memories, we then concentrate on allowing Jesus to enter the situation. Visualize Jesus and invite him to enter your memory [hints: open a door, take a ride with Jesus to the place of memory, see the Eucharist then the person of Jesus.]
- Jesus you are not bound by time. You are with me as I recall the past. Jesus, let me see what you are doing. After visualizing in our minds His presence, we then take notice of what Jesus is doing.
- Ask the Lord if there is anything else he wants healed. Ask him to reveal it.
After praying with the person, if you sense that a memory or memories might continue to come up, cap the memory of the subconscious and the conscious mind so that if a memory comes up in their sleep, it will come up slowly.
If a person cannot participate due to lack of memory and visual recall, ask the Lord what sort of memories the person might need healing. State them using ‘perhaps’ if there is more than one person receiving ministry to protect their privacy.
After the exercise invite sharing from any of the participants who are willing.
Closing Cleansing Prayer
Lord Jesus, thank You for sharing with me Your wonderful ministry of healing and deliverance. Thank You for being present today as I prayed for others. I realize that the sickness and evil we encounter is more than our humanity can bear. So cleanse me of any sadness, negativity, or despair that I may have picked up.
If my ministry has tempted me to anger, impatience, or lust, cleanse me of those temptations and replace them with love, joy, and peace. Strengthen me where I have felt weak and clothe me with Your light. If any evil spirits, powers, or forces, have attached themselves to me or oppress me in any way, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command them to leave right now and not return.
Now come, Holy Spirit, fill all the void areas in me with Your presence and renew me with Your life, Your love, and Your strength. And, Lord Jesus, please send Your holy angels to guard me and protect me from all harm, accidents, or illness. In Your precious name, I pray. Amen
