"Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner." (John 5:19).

"He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak." (John 12:48-49).

"It is the Spirit who creates-life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are Spirit and are life." (John 6:63).

Jesus’ will for us in ministry is,

"Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you." (John 20:21).

"As You did send Me into the world; I also have sent them into the world." (Jn 17:18).

"And behold, I am sending forth the promise of my Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." (Lk 24:49).

The Holy Spirit is the key to our healing and is sent by Jesus to meet our healing needs as we look to Jesus through worship and praise and in Spirit and truth. Obedience to Jesus’ dictates to us through the Holy Spirit as to how He wants us to pray on our part is the key to seeing the person prayed for healed before our very eyes.

Normally speaking, when someone comes to me with a need they want prayed for, the first thing I do, after investigating all the known facts about their need, is ask Jesus by His Holy Spirit to lead me in prayer for the need in the way He wants me to pray. This will usually immediately lead to my first praying for the need in my Spiritual language. As I am praying in my spiritual language the Holy Spirit will then begin to give me the interpretation of what I am praying in my spiritual language which is usually a word of knowledge about the need being prayed for. This word of knowledge is usually an insight into what the problem being prayed for is really centered in, the root of the problem. Once the root of the problem is established I then look to the Lord for a word of wisdom. A word of wisdom is knowing how to pray for the need in light of the word of knowledge given concerning what the problem is centered in. This word of wisdom is usually accompanied with the gift of faith.

What is the gift of faith? The gift of faith or manifestation of faith is Jesus coming to us in the person of the Holy Spirit to assure our hearts and minds that we will have, or have what we have asked for as we pray the way we are directed to through the word of knowledge or wisdom.⁴³ The writer of Hebrews tells us, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." (Heb 11:1). Faith is not something you conjure up through will-power or through so called faith confession. Faith is a gift given to us freely by Jesus to assure us that we will have what we ask for. This is why it is always wrong to condemn or accuse someone of not having faith if they are not healed of something. They cannot be healed of something until Jesus at the moment that he chooses according to His will manifests what the root of the problem is, how He wants the problem prayed for, and then gives the gift of faith so we can believe him to give us what we ask for according to His will. The writer of Hebrews states about any manifestations of the Spirit,

"God also bearing witness with them, both by signs⁵⁸ and wonders⁵⁹ and by various-works-of-power⁶⁰ and through distribution of the Holy Spirit according to His own will." (Heb 2:4).

We cannot bring about any manifestation of the Spirit or any gift of the Spirit through simple mouth confession. The gifts and the manifestations of the Holy Spirit for the common good are God’s gifts and manifestations and can only be operated and manifested as Jesus by the Holy Spirit tells us in our spirit how to pray according to His will concerning the need we are seeking him about. It is "partially" for this reason that we are never to evaluate in our own wisdom or thinking why a person has a certain problem until we have first sought the Lord’s counsel through prayer to show us what the root of the problem is, and then what His will is concerning how He wants us to pray for the need at hand. Only after we seek the Lord’s counsel about the need, in light of the four counseling principles, can we be sure that our evaluation is correct and that our advise given to the person about the need is the right advice. Anything outside of this only leads to strife. I said "partially" because other factors that should be taken into consideration are discussed in Sections 2 and 4 of this Textbook.

Because faith is a gift from God and not something we conjure up through will-power or through right confession, Kathryn Kuhlman wrote,

"We should all pray for this unspeakable gift [faith]. Because it is a gift of God, none of us deserves any personal credit for believing in Christ or for any faith we may have. We must give God all the glory, even for the portion of faith which we manifest and possess."^14/128

Once the gift of faith is manifested, when I then pray for the need according to the way I am instructed to through the word of wisdom or knowledge, the gifts of healing are automatically manifested as a result of the prayer of faith and confirmed through the visible evidence of the one being healed either immediately or soon after. So in this way you can see how in order for us to be most effective in ministry outreach and release, especially when it comes to praying for a need whether spiritual, soulish or physical, access to all the manifestations of the Holy Spirit through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is an absolute necessity if one is to be able to get to the root of the problem and then be able to properly minister the right solution to the real need at hand.

When praying for a person’s need in a group setting, which is really the best way if possible, rather than all of the manifestations of the Holy Spirit coming through one person, they will come through several of the people present who are being sensitive to Jesus through the Holy Spirit to the need at hand. As Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 12:8-11,

"For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, and to another the works of powers, and to another prophecy, and to another the discerning of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills."

In this way, all present have a part in ministering the complete solution to the person’s need, and thus the whole body of Christ gets involved in bringing Jesus’ healing to the needs at hand, and thus the focus is on Jesus, not one particular individual.

Notice that as we go to Jesus through worship and praise and in Spirit and truth about the need at hand, we do not go seeking gifts we think are necessary to minister to the need at hand. We go to Jesus looking to Him for wisdom as to how we need to pray for the need. Then Jesus, the giver, will give us through the Holy Spirit what gifts are needed to minister to the need at hand. We seek Jesus for the answer to our needs, not the gifts themselves, unless Jesus by His Spirit, as we are seeking Him about the need, tells us we need to seek Him for a certain manifestation of a gift to meet the need at hand. This would be like looking to Jesus for the gift of faith to be able to believe Him for the answer to the need at hand. Always initially, though, we seek Jesus the giver of gifts first and not the gift.