A Prophetic Word Regarding A Coming Wave of Miracles
Several years ago I was given a prophetic word regarding the coming wave of miracles and healing. This prophecy was given to a specific region. However, it is an example of the prophetic style of healing ministry.
"I am about to release the miraculous in greater measure. The first thing you will see is authority over bones, joints, muscles, sinews, nerves, and connective tissues. This will result in the healing of arthritis, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and aches, pains, T.M.J, muscular disorders, necks, backs, shoulders, and limbs. This will signify the calling together of the dry bones of my church. Ezekiel 37.
"The next wave of the miraculous will bring about the healing of lungs and hearts. You will see healing of respiratory disorders; asthma, heart conditions, and blood disorders, stress induced sickness, anxiety disorders, and fears. Hearts and lungs will be healed. This will symbolize that I changing a heart of stone into a heart of flesh. I am prophesying to the breath to bring life to the church. Ezekiel 36 & 37.
"Then you will experience a simultaneous wave of healing in eyes and ears. Healing of: vision, corneas, diabetes, glaucoma, astigmatism, blindness will all be healed. At the same time, ears will open up. Deafness, dumbness, hearing loss and inner ear problems of every kind will be removed. This will show that I am giving them eyes to see and ears to hear. They will see me and follow my voice. Ezekiel 12
"Next there will be a great wave of healing of limbs and growths. Limbs will grow and growths and tumors will disappear. This signifies that the body is being built up and maturing into full measure. Ephesians 4
"Then I will give authority over life and death. Barrenness will end. The dead will be raised -- my church will be alive and well. Through the miraculous, I will restore and resurrect my body."
I share this with you so that you may see the correlation between the prophetic and healing. Each category of healing was a demonstration of what God was doing or preparing to do in His church.
The Prophetic Message Associated With Specific Healings
This is not to say that God is limited or that we are limited in healing. But in the prophetic style of healing, healing is used to demonstrate a specific truth or accomplish a specific goal.
God has at different times; given me messages about barrenness, vision, hearing, heart conditions, breathing and other spiritual and physical conditions. Each time He has had me deliver those messages, He has responded by healing those specific conditions. Barren wombs are opened. Vision is healed. Hearing is restored. Hearts are rejuvenated and lungs are cleared. I can expect, when I am instructed to preach those messages that something is happening in the life of the church and in the bodies of those present.
Jesus declared in Luke 4:18 that He was sent to preach and proclaim, among other things, the recovery of sight to the blind. This is not just spiritual blindness, but also physical blindness. When we are instructed to preach about a spiritual condition, we are also empowered to heal a corresponding physical condition. This is prophetic healing.
Here are a few examples of spiritual conditions and the corresponding physical condition that I have seen God demonstrate. This list is, by no means, comprehensive. The sign of barren wombs being opened may accompany all of the follow: intimacy with God, evangelism, or prophetic impartation. Dealing with a rebellious spirit, impartation of greater spiritual vision, and impartation of greater revelation may be accompanied by healing of eyes. Dealing with a spirit of unbelief, impartation of faith, and impartation of revelatory gifts may be accompanied by hearing being healed.
This does not limit God's healing power. Nor does it indicate that those used in prophetic healing are limited in their faith or ability to be used in healing gifts. It is just an indication that God is putting His finger on a specific condition at a specific moment.
I have found that when I obey God and choose to limit myself to concentrate on healing of a specific condition. The atmosphere of the miraculous increases and many more miracles and healing take place.
Before taking a closer look at prophetic healing in the scriptures I will give one more example. I have a friend who is used prophetically in his local church. He does not operate in the office of a prophet, but his prophetic gifts are recognized in the local church. He was shown that six women would have a child within the span of a year. Several of those women were barren. After receiving clearance from his pastor he shared the word with the women and the church. This sign came true and the church experienced a great period of re-production, physically and spiritually. Within a year the church grew, not just by those six babies being born. But many spiritual babies were born into the Kingdom. That is what I call church growth! If you want your church to grow start praying for physical wombs to open, and I guarantee you that spiritual reproduction will take place as well. I have seen it happen more than once. That is prophetic church growth.
Prophetic Healing in the Bible
Prophetic healing is physical and spiritual!
Anger, Bitterness and Impatience all produce words that are like poison to the church and the physical body (Psalm 140, Romans 3, James 3). It was just this kind of poison that Moses confronted in Numbers 21:4-6. "But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!' Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died." (NIV)
The poison that came from their mouths resulted in a poison unleashed on their bodies. Today many people are in a poor physical state, but this is only a result of a spiritual condition. The words they speak, the attitudes of their heart, the habits they perform are all contributing factors to their sickness. A physical healing would only be a temporary cure, they need a spiritual healing as well. In this story, a physical condition came upon the people that was a direct result of a spiritual condition. The cure called for not only physical healing but also spiritual healing. This is the ministry of prophetic healing. Moses dealt with the physical condition, by erecting a bronze snake. When the people looked on the snake, they were healed.
Everything about this encounter is prophetic: The disease, the cure, the material of the snake, and the act required for their healing. Ultimately this encounter is a foreshadowing of Christ being lifted up on the cross for our healing both physically and spiritually.
Characteristics of Prophetic Healing
Prophetic Healing Brings Deliverance And Victory!
In 2 Kings 20, Judah was under attack as was the body of King Hezekiah. The King of Assyria was perpetrating the military attack. It had been a slow methodical attack designed to destroy the morale of the nation before plundering its cities. The nation had been the subject of attack and under siege for several years. King Hezekiah would give in to some demands and then the King of Assyria make more demands.
The attack on King Hezekiah's body was similar. It was not a rapidly moving disease that overtook him suddenly. Rather it was a slow moving, flesh eating, morale destroying sickness. It looked inevitable that the kingdom would succumb to the siege on its walls, and the King would succumb to the siege on his body. It was at this stage that the prophet Isaiah was sent to Hezekiah to proclaim and administer healing. He prophesied that Hezekiah would have fifteen years added to his life. He also prophesied that the nation would not suffer attack again throughout Hezekiah's reign. Both the physical and military attack was ended.
Just a physical healing in this case would not have been adequate. The nation would still have been lost. However a military victory would not have been as sweet or as long lasting had the King's life not been restored. Isaiah prophesied both. As a result, Hezekiah experienced fifteen years of health and the nation fifteen years of peace (II Kings 20:6). Prophetic healing has the power to bring about deliverance and victory, as well as physical healing.
Prophetic Healing Is More Than What You See!
Mark 8:22-26 says, "They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When He had spit on the man's eyes and put His hands on him, Jesus asked, 'Do you see anything?' He looked up and said, 'I see people; they look like trees walking around.' Once more Jesus put His hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Jesus sent him home, saying, 'Don't go into the village.' (NIV)
Jesus had just performed the miracle of the bread and fish. His disciples did not understand and Jesus accused them of being spiritually blind. It was in this context that they arrived in Bethsaida, home to three of the disciples. It was a fishing village. An I've-got-to-see-it-to-believe-it kind of town. As they entered the town a group of people brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch the man. Jesus did heal the man, but that is not all he did.
The first prophetic thing Jesus did was he took the man outside of the town. The man had grown accustomed to his surrounding and his condition. When the sense of sight is lost the senses of smell, sound and touch are all enhanced. The man had grown accustomed to smell of fish, the sound of familiar voices and the feel of his friend's hands leading him through the city.
As he felt Jesus' unfamiliar grasp, it did not take long for the soft sand beneath his feet to give way to the unevenness of the rocky terrain at the outskirts of the city. No sooner did he begin to re-gain his sense of balance when he realized the absence of the scent of freshly caught fish, the sound of the softly crashing waves on the shore and the gentle spray of the sea water on his face.
He did feel moisture on face, but it was not sea water. This strange prophet had just spit on him. But what was even stranger was that this act felt somehow, more familiar, more appropriate than the spray of sea water. It was much like a parent who cleanses its child's face with their saliva. Like a lioness cleaning her cubs. It was as if the prophet was using his own saliva to cleanse something out of the man's eyes. Then He placed His hands on the man.
Finally, the prophet spoke. "Do you see anything?" It was almost as if Jesus knew that the man would only have partial vision. He did not say, "what do you see?" or "how does it look?" He simply asked, "can you see anything?" This is our first glimpse into the motivation behind Jesus' methods. He wasn't just looking to perform a quick miracle -- a restoration of eyesight -- and then move on to the next village, the next need, the next disease. His desire was for this man's mind to be healed. Not only was his physical vision impaired, but he lacked the ability to envision himself beyond his current circumstances. Jesus knew that physical vision could be restored in an instant, but "mind sets" change more slowly.
"I see men walking as trees" replied the half-blind man. As his vision was being restored at first he only saw people walking about, and the state he saw them in was less than perfect. We should not think it strange that the first thing this man saw was people. Day in and day out he had to rely on people to feed him, clothe him, and help him relieve himself. He had become so dependent upon others that he could not see or enjoy the rest of the world that was around him.
One more touch from the prophet and his sight was restored. He now saw everything! And he saw it clearly. His eyesight was restored. If this was the case, why did Jesus command him not to return to the village? The answer is prophetic healing is not just concerned with sight, but also vision. The man's lack of physical vision had impaired his ability to see beyond his current circumstances. The solution to this was simple. Don't return to your previous circumstances because they will limit you. The prophetic has the ability to heal physical sight and lifts you out of limited circumstances into a new vision.
Prophetic healing is not concerned solely with the healing the body. Prophetic healing includes emotional, spiritual, relational, even financial healing. Prophetic healing is reparative, and it is restorative.
Prophetic Healing Sees Beyond The Sickness To The Solution
Many times when we view the current circumstances of our bodies, our church, our cities, we accurately understand the problems, but we fail to realize the potential. This is why we so desperately need prophetic healers. Prophetic healers understand that physical sickness is many times the sign of a deeper spiritual or emotional need. I have been in churches and cities where certain illnesses are disproportionately common. For instance, in a particular area where I ministered I noticed a frequent occurrence of bone and joint diseases such as M.S., lupus, fibromyalgia, and arthritis. I also noticed in this area divisiveness in the churches and even the municipalities. I am not saying that a spirit of division always causes arthritis. But I do believe that when there is a prevalent spiritual force over an area, that it will be reflected in physical maladies. I know of areas that have high occurrences of blindness and deafness. I have seen others with large numbers of mental disorders. In general there are some illness that have been growing in large numbers over the years. I know that environmental and social issues play a part in this as well. Many times, however, spiritual issues are behind the environmental and social issues. I believe that this is symptomatic of the spiritual battle that we are involved in. This is a prophetic way of looking at illness.
If we take this approach to healing then we not only take authority over bone diseases, but we also teach and demonstrate unity. If we understand that deafness and blindness are sometimes connected with unbelief, then we will preach recovery of sight and impart faith to bring people out of their current circumstances. If we realize that every healthy organism reproduces, then we will prophesy to barren wombs and empty church pews.
God is raising up a company of prophetic people, armed with prophetic healing. Some will heal individuals, others will heal churches and cities, and still others will heal nations.
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