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Is anyone willing to pay the price?
It dawned on me that our church as a whole is on the verge of stepping into a great move of the Holy Spirit. But I can not enter in with the way I have been approaching it. There are areas that I need to throw myself into head first. Pete invited anyone and everyone to form healing teams, prophetic teams, evangelism teams, etc. but nobody has. I want to be a part of a healing team. I also have been wanting to go to Wednesday night prayer again; I haven't gone in maybe two years. Prayer and healing are what I'm feeling responsible for right now.
My mom just got back from Bethel church in Redding. She had an appointment with their Sozo team. Sozo is the Greek word in the Bible used for salvation, healing, and deliverance. Yes, one word means all that. It's just the translators that split it up. So actually when the Bible talks about Jesus being our salvation, it really means eternal salvation, physical/emotional/mental healing, and deliverance/freedom from demonic oppression all at the same time. The first time we went to Bethel, Kris Vallotton, co-pastor, highly recommended to my mom that she make an appointment with their Sozo team.
Unfortunately, Bethel let's anyone who's taken the training do this. It's supposed to be one person leading you through confessing/renouncing and emotional healing while another person strictly listens to what the Holy Spirit is saying and advises the lead person, while yet another person is interceding in prayer the entire time. Well, the prophetic person didn't get anything from the Lord nor did they record important things from the appointment, which was also their job. So my mom was almost in tears that she made this appointment and the people who led her in this were either new or just inexperienced. She went through a lot to go there and she said it was essentially the same thing as Pete's steps of freedom. It's supposed to be much more than that but she said all they did was confess and renounce with her. So she bought their Sozo training materials so our church could learn from them. I've flipped through the material and it does look a lot different and much more in depth than what they did with her. It's really sad.
But this only reinforces the point that I need to press in for stuff like this. There are a lot of people in our church who have not been healed or set free and it seems that they won't be unless the people within our church step up and press in for greater healing anointing, etc. Don't get me wrong, the list of people who have been healed at HOM or by people who have come to HOM is growing longer and quicker. But there are more people who are not healed, and we need to be concerned about this.
When I start caring about others, I mean really caring, that's probably when I'm going to see an increase in healing when I pray. There are no magical tricks or secret sayings, that would be too easy. And as surely as I know God, nothing about Him is the easy way (so sorry pre-tribulation rapture theologians). No, I really believe that healing is directly proportional to how much I know and love God as well as how much I love people. And that is the "pressing in" that you may often hear me refer to.
It dawned on me that our church as a whole is on the verge of stepping into a great move of the Holy Spirit. But I can not enter in with the way I have been approaching it. There are areas that I need to throw myself into head first. Pete invited anyone and everyone to form healing teams, prophetic teams, evangelism teams, etc. but nobody has. I want to be a part of a healing team. I also have been wanting to go to Wednesday night prayer again; I haven't gone in maybe two years. Prayer and healing are what I'm feeling responsible for right now.
My mom just got back from Bethel church in Redding. She had an appointment with their Sozo team. Sozo is the Greek word in the Bible used for salvation, healing, and deliverance. Yes, one word means all that. It's just the translators that split it up. So actually when the Bible talks about Jesus being our salvation, it really means eternal salvation, physical/emotional/mental healing, and deliverance/freedom from demonic oppression all at the same time. The first time we went to Bethel, Kris Vallotton, co-pastor, highly recommended to my mom that she make an appointment with their Sozo team.
Unfortunately, Bethel let's anyone who's taken the training do this. It's supposed to be one person leading you through confessing/renouncing and emotional healing while another person strictly listens to what the Holy Spirit is saying and advises the lead person, while yet another person is interceding in prayer the entire time. Well, the prophetic person didn't get anything from the Lord nor did they record important things from the appointment, which was also their job. So my mom was almost in tears that she made this appointment and the people who led her in this were either new or just inexperienced. She went through a lot to go there and she said it was essentially the same thing as Pete's steps of freedom. It's supposed to be much more than that but she said all they did was confess and renounce with her. So she bought their Sozo training materials so our church could learn from them. I've flipped through the material and it does look a lot different and much more in depth than what they did with her. It's really sad.
But this only reinforces the point that I need to press in for stuff like this. There are a lot of people in our church who have not been healed or set free and it seems that they won't be unless the people within our church step up and press in for greater healing anointing, etc. Don't get me wrong, the list of people who have been healed at HOM or by people who have come to HOM is growing longer and quicker. But there are more people who are not healed, and we need to be concerned about this.
When I start caring about others, I mean really caring, that's probably when I'm going to see an increase in healing when I pray. There are no magical tricks or secret sayings, that would be too easy. And as surely as I know God, nothing about Him is the easy way (so sorry pre-tribulation rapture theologians). No, I really believe that healing is directly proportional to how much I know and love God as well as how much I love people. And that is the "pressing in" that you may often hear me refer to.