Isaiah 61:1 (TLB) The Spirit of
the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed (chosen) me to bring
good news to the suffering and afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the
brokenhearted, to announce liberty (deliverance) to captives, and to open the
eyes of the blind.
I am part of two healing ministries as I have shared with
you recently. The most recent is the
Healing Room at Faith Bible Chapel. This
is not something I decided to pursue just because I made a decision to join
this ministry. I’ve had a heart to bring
healing to God’s people for many years, but I had to wait for God’s timing to
allow me to be part of the healing ministry.
God is in control, not me.
God had to prepare me for this ministry. Over the course of the past eleven years He
allowed me to receive teaching, training, education, and experience needed for
this ministry that included:
- Spiritual Warfare – Knowing the enemy in the spiritual realm and how they come to destroy for 11 years.
- Pastoral teaching – Pastor Lou and others for the past 11 years.
- Spiritual root cause of disease – Three and one half years.
- Learning the love of God and how His love came in the form of His son who is the great healer.
- Being brought into brokenness for 3 years that allowed me to experience humbleness to do this work.
So, although I wanted to heal people, it took 11 years of
preparation before God presented the opportunity. First with the healing team at the altar
prior to service at Redeemer Temple the last 4 months and now with the Healing
Room Faith Bible Chapel.
The key to where God wants us to be in ministry is to wait
on the Father to put us where He wants us to be. He knew the passion I had for the needy, but
He had to prepare me and I thank Him for doing this for me. Praise Him.
I go out into the world and know without a doubt that God
can and will heal and allows us to heal.
He gives us power to and authority to do this as it says in the Great
Commission.
Mark 16:15-18 And He said to them, “Go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not
believe will be condemned. And these
signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they
will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink
anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
He tasks every one of us as disciples of Jesus Christ to
carry out the Great Commission. This is
not an option. Why are there so few when
we need all the help we can get for all that are suffering?
Thank you for hearing my story.
Tony Sanchez
