NNEC Prayer Retreat October 2015 Overview Our world is a vast lazar house a scene of misery that we dare not allow even our thoughts to dwell upon Did we realize it as it is the burden would be too terrible Yet God feels it all In order to destroy sin and its results He gave His best Belove ID: 545395
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Ministry of Healing
NNEC Prayer Retreat
October 2015Slide2
Overview
Our world is a vast lazar house, a scene of misery that we dare not allow even our thoughts to dwell upon. Did we realize it as it is, the burden would be too terrible. Yet God feels it all. In order to destroy sin and its results He gave His best Beloved, and
He has put it in
our power
, through
co-operation
with Him, to bring this scene of misery to an end
.
{
Ed 263.2}
"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15), is Christ's command to His followers.
. . .
all
may be workers with Him in giving the "glad tidings" to their fellow men
. To
all
, great or small, learned or ignorant, old or young, the command is given. {Ed 264.1}Slide3
Healed from what?
Diagnosis?
Is.1:5&6
Everyone’s
head is
sick,
and
everyone’s
heart faint.
From
the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is
no
soundness
only
wounds and bruises and open sores,
not
cleansed or bandaged or soothed with ointment.Slide4
Healed from what?
Jer.17:1 -
sin
is
written
with a pen of iron;
With the point of a diamond
it is
engraved
On the tablet of
(our) heart
,Slide5
Healed from what?
Damage – Wounds – Violation – Abuse – Manipulation – Injury – Guilt – Shame – Fear – Depression – Sadness – Discouragement – Failure – Pride – Insecurity – Etc.
Comission
and Omission
Environmental and (Epi)genetic
Victims and Perpetrators
Individual and CorporateSlide6
Damaged Together & Heal Together
The interests of the different classes of society are
indissolubly united
. We are all woven together in the
great web of humanity
, and we cannot, without loss, withdraw our sympathies from one another. {GW 331.2}
We are all woven together in the
web of humanity
. The evil that befalls any part of the great human brotherhood brings peril to all. {MH 345.1}Slide7
Do we know our condition?
Jer.
17:9 - The heart
is
deceitful above all
things
, and desperately wicked:
who can know
it
?
Rev.3:17 – you
say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and
do not know
that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and nakedSlide8
Biblical Terms for Healing
Salvation (
soterios
) – “salve”
SALVATION = HEALING
Saved (
sozo
)
Justification = healing begun
Sanctification = healing in process
Glorification = healing completed
E.g
. “being
justified (healed)
freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ JesusSlide9
Biblical Healing
New Covenant = healing
in relationship
I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts
; Jer.31:31-33
Restoration
“the
times of
restoration (healing)
of all
things” Acts 3:21
Reconciliation
Relational healing – with God/others
2Cor. 5 – God committed to us ministry of reconciliation (healing)
Freedom and RedemptionSlide10
Biblical Healing
Righteousness =
Right-doing = Healthy Living
Living as a Healed person
Righteousness by Faith & Justification by
Faith = Healing
by faith/trust (heart appreciation
)
E.g. Forgiveness:
“God’s
forgiveness is not merely a judicial act by which He sets us free from condemnation. It is not only forgiveness for sin, but
reclaiming from sin
. It is the outflow of redeeming love that
transforms the heart
. {
Pr
298.1} Slide11
Biblical Metaphors for Healing
Cleansing of the Sanctuary = Healing of the heart/mind – individually and corporately
Cleansing is Healing
Investigative Judgment = Diagnosis to facilitate healing
Latter Rain = Outpouring of truth/power to heal
E.g
.
“he
will
turn the
hearts of the fathers to the
children, and
the hearts of the children to their
fathers” – Mal. 4:6Slide12
Biblical Words for Healing
Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years,
26
and had suffered many things from many
physicians
(
iatros
).
She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse.
27
When she heard about Jesus, she came behind
Him
in the crowd and touched His garment.
28
For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be
made
well
(
sozo
).”
29
Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in
her
body that she was
healed
(
iaomai
)
of the affliction
. . . .
32
And He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
33
But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.
34
And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has
made
you
well
(
sozo
).
Go in peace, and
be
healed
(
hygies
)
of your affliction
.”
Mark 5:25-34Slide13
Biblical Words for Healing
Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not
be
healed
(
therapeuō
)
by any
,
Luke 8:43Slide14
Salvation is Healing
Matt.1:21
– “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will
sozo
(save/heal) His
people from their sins
.”
Lk
7 – Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has
sozo
(saved/healed) you
. Go in peace
.”
Jn.3:17 – “For God
did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be
sozo
(saved/healed).
Rom.1:16 - For
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto
soterios
(salvation/healing) to
every one that believethSlide15
Healed how?
Heb.12:1 - let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset
us
Heb.12:2 -
looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
faith
2Cor.3:18 - we all,
beholding
the
glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same
image
1Jn.3:1 -
Behold
, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon
usSlide16
It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature, that
by beholding, we become changed
.
The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence. Man will never rise higher than his standard of purity or goodness or
truth. . . The
grace of God alone has power to exalt man.
{
GC88 555.2}Slide17
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that
. . . .
That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore,
it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming
.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSlide18
Healed how?
2Cor.4:6
– God is
the one who
shined (
communicated
) in our
hearts to give us the
light (
truth
)
of the glorious
knowledge (character)
of God in the
face (life)
of
Jesus Christ
.Slide19
Healed how?
“
Behold
! My Servant whom I uphold,
My Elect One
in whom
My soul
delights
!
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles
.
He
will not cry out, nor raise
His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the
street.
A
bruised reed
He will not break
,
And smoking flax
He will not quench
;
He will bring forth justice for
truth.
He
will not fail nor be discouraged
,
Till He has established justice in the earth
;
Is.42:1-4Slide20
Healed how?
The Spirit of the Lord
is
upon me,
because
he hath anointed me to
preach
the gospel
to the poor;
he
hath sent me to
heal
the brokenhearted,
to
preach deliverance
to the captives,
and
recovering
of sight to the blind,
to
set at
liberty
them that are bruised,
and
that the time of the LORD’s favor has
come.
Luke 4:18-19Slide21
Healed how?
“by
His stripes we are
healed”
Is.53:5Slide22
Healed how?
1
ST
chapter Ministry Healing?
1
st
chapter Steps to Christ?
1
st
chapter Desire of Ages?
1
st
chapter Patriarchs and Prophets?Slide23
Healed how?
The one thing essential
for us in order that we may receive and impart the forgiving love of God is to
know and believe the love that He has to us
. {MB 115.1
}Slide24
GOD WITH US
The Hoarded Love of EternitySlide25
Phil.2:5-7
5
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6
who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,
7
but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant,
and
coming in the likeness of men.
8
And being found in appearance as a man
, He humbled Himself and became obedient to
the point of
death, even the death of the cross.Slide26Slide27Slide28Slide29Slide30Slide31Slide32Slide33Slide34
7 Billion (7,000,000,000) suns would fit in
Canis
Majoris
7 quadrillion (7,000,000,000,000,000) earths would fit in
Canis
MajorisSlide35Slide36Slide37Slide38Slide39Slide40Slide41Slide42Slide43Slide44
16
For
by Him all things were created
that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17
And He is before all things, and
in Him all things consist
.
Col.1:16-17
Upholding
all things
by the word of His
power
Heb.1:3Slide45
Empty Space or Inhabited Universe?Slide46
Who has in these last days spoken unto us by
His
Son
. . . by
whom also he made the
worlds
. Heb.1:2
By faith we understand that the
worlds
were framed by the word of
God. Heb.11:3
the
rulers and authorities
in the
heavenly
places
– Eph.3:10
I call
heaven
and earth as
witnesses
today. Deut. 30:19
Listen
, O heavens
, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth
. Deut.32:1
Hear, O heavens
, and give ear, O earth
! Is.1:2
the whole
family in heaven
and earth
– Eph.3:15Slide47
How big is the family?
“thousand
, thousands
ministered” and
“ten-thousand times ten-thousand stood before Him
” – Dan.7:9-10
“host of heaven cannot be numbered
” – Jer.33:22
“
millions
of worlds above”
{
RH, March 1, 1881 par. 17}
“Every eye in the unfallen
universe”
{RH, September 29, 1891 par. 1}Slide48
Peace and joy, in perfect submission to the will of Heaven, existed throughout the angelic host. Love to God was supreme, love for one another
impartial. Such
was the condition that
existed for ages
before the entrance of sin.—4SP 316,
317
. . .
pure
contentment
, the peace, the
exalted happiness
and
unalloyed joys
, of the heavenly abode
. .
. the satisfaction of the full approval of God. ST Aug. 4,
1887
. . . heart
was filled with love and joy in serving
(the) Creator
.—ST Sept. 18, 1893Slide49
Phil.2:6
“Who
, being in the form of
God”
Though
the divine nature was His from the
beginning
He has always been God by nature
He
had equal status with God
Possessing
the fullness of the attributes which make God
God
T
hought
it not robbery to be equal with God:
He
did not cling to His privileges and rights as God’s
equal
He
did not consider (feel, think, regard) equality with God something to be
held on to.
He
set aside the privileges of Deity
He
did not see, in the rank (position, status) of (divinity), an (honor) to be desired or coveted.Slide50
Phil.2:7
But made himself of no
reputation
He emptied Himself
Stripped Himself of every
advantage
He
gave up
His
divine privileges
Stripped
Himself of His glory, of all His privileges and rightful dignity Slide51Slide52Slide53Slide54
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.Slide55
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our
posturings
, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves
.
-Carl SaganSlide56
“This is the only time I’ll ever be in the
news.”
“I’m
so insignificant,” Slide57
When God gave His Son to our world, He
endowed human beings with imperishable riches
--riches compared with which the treasured wealth of men since the world began is nothingness. Christ came to the earth and stood before the children of men with
the hoarded love of eternity
, and this is the treasure that, through our connection with Him, we are to
receive
, to
reveal
, and to
impart
. {MH 37.1} Slide58Slide59Slide60