In this Q&A video, Pastor Bill shares his thoughts on why some healing doesn’t seem to last. We’re reminded of the importance of stewarding the authority God has given us and filling our lives with His presence in the wake of a miracle.
somebody has a question about folks who
experience a healing but the healing
doesn’t last
or the pain that goes away in the moment
comes back
and this person was asking do you have
some thoughts on
why you know some healings don’t seem to
last what’s going on
how can we address that situation and
everybody i know that’s ever been
involved in praying for the sick has
that question
i mean all of us are riddled with that
one yeah there are answers
but there’s not a cure-all yeah you know
i can point at some principles one
is the passage in luke where jesus said
uh the evil spirits are driven from a
house the house is clean and swept
that evil spirit comes back basically
sees there’s nothing in its place he
brings seven
of his friends yeah and the last state
of that man is worse than the first
there are several things that it implies
to us one is when the enemy is vacated
from a place he seeks reentry
and so it ought to be a given now
by this i don’t mean every sickness or
every physical problem is demonically
inspired but i do think more
than we give credit for and so because
of that when something’s broken off of
somebody
we know automatically from that from
that passage that
says he seeks re-entry yeah so it’s it’s
not demons it’s just a one-time victory
and it’s over
yeah yeah it’s there’s maintenance yeah
you know you you
you won the battle uh you drove the
enemy from the
place yeah and now we set up the
necessary protection so there’s
so there’s no re-entry yeah he he has to
use legal means
you know for any so if there’s a broken
spot in a person’s life
you know that has to be fixed
unforgiveness you know issues like that
sometimes people it’s strange but
unforgiveness
um you know a person lives with a sense
of responsibility for
other people’s mistakes sins bad choices
and and they have no responsibility but
they they feel that weight
yeah i think it has the same effect on
the body as unforgiveness
i think i think they’re related
emotionally
and so sometimes people just carry the
i’ve i’ve actually walked people through
uh where they had to forgive themselves
or they had to
they had to repent from self-examination
uh deep self-examination because they
were so critical of themselves
yeah you know i’ll ask them i said are
you critical of other people no
i said well what gives you the right to
be critical of yourself to be critical
of one god is forgiven
you would never do that towards somebody
else why would you do that towards
yourself
and it actually brings people into into
healing
so i think that’s one i think the other
that paul talked about was
had to do with communion that the person
who partakes
of the bread in an unworthy manner
um the whole the cup in the in the bread
unworthy doesn’t mean i’ve qualified
because i’m good
it just means i’m i’m out of alignment
with what he’s saying
what he’s doing i’m either showing
disrespect to the people of god
i don’t value what’s in my hand the
bread
i don’t recognize that it’s the body of
christ that’s being imparted to me
there’s something supernatural that’s
taking place
that there that ritual sometimes people
actually
draw stuff on themselves spiritually
through
sometimes ignorance but oftentimes a
disrespect at the table of the lord
or the table of the lord in the sense of
the people of god that
place of value that i have for you yeah
if i don’t discern the body correctly
you’re the body if i don’t recognize and
value you
as a favored son of god then i’m going
to miss out on what you bring
to my life and so it’s a it’s actually a
testimony against us
when we segregate and reject and despise
and
so anyway that’s a part of the that’s a
part of the healing package too
in the context is kind of when when
something returns or something happens
again and like
you know in our healing model and and we
don’t we’re not looking for those things
at the beginning
of the journey you know we’re not we’re
not generally looking for those things
and so
a lot lots of times we’re not uh
thinking that the the
breakthrough and healing has is going to
come because of this we’re just we just
expect the breakthrough to come
but so but when it keeps coming back or
the enemy keeps
trying to get re-entry these are some
places that you learn to look exactly
think about
it talks about that that whole idea of
um but the the goal of
war is to it you know is to uh to win
the battle but then there has to be an
occupying of
the land in some ways yeah it seems like
people’s inner world isn’t
they don’t occupy it again with holy
spirit or
with a different kind of thought life or
a different sort of perspective
or expectation yep and um that house has
to be filled once there’s a
that’s the real point yeah is is is
something was broken that brought it
about sometimes it’s not something
they’ve done sometimes it’s done against
them but the point is there’s something
broken and it needs to be fixed jesus on
at least one occasion i think it may
have been two
when he brought about a healing and a
deliverance he forbid
it to return i don’t know
he didn’t do it every time so i don’t
know that we’re supposed to do it every
time
but i but i i tell you what i feel i
feel like there’s sometimes people are
so broken
that they they don’t know enough to stay
clean
they just don’t know enough and as
fathers we come
in and say listen no more no more i
forbid
a re-entry of this affliction i’ve done
this on a few occasions where i felt
like
no i i don’t we can’t see it for three
days
and talk through all the issues that
need to be fixed in their life
they’re just a broken individual and
certainly god’s grace covers this
and so it’s the the problem’s never on
his end
and so it’s it’s stewarding the
authority that god’s given to so when i
pray for them i say
all right spirit of affliction you’ll
not re-enter again this
this person is now off limits and again
i don’t know if
if we have the liberty to do that every
time i wish we did but
but at least from jesus’s lead uh i
don’t know that we do but i
but i think there are times we can say
this person’s self-limits and i’ve seen
it
yeah i’ve seen people that you know
they’re as broken afterwards
but it never comes back and uh and the
lord just
he just puts that grace around him so i
think that’s an option maybe it’s one of
those other times where you’re
what’s the presence of the lord doing in
this particular moment is he leading
into
the sort of deal or yeah or not you know
we oftentimes
want to just make a formula and uh
yeah well in our own healing rooms i
think our our
teams they they’re they enjoy the
presence of god and that that
the you know the pre-prayer room
soaking room it’s getting bigger now so
i’m not sure we have two different rooms
anymore but
they do they do okay so then they have
that and then um but they have a time
that they teach them afterwards like hey
here’s how to walk in this miracle that
you’ve received today and so
just trying to kind of give them the
things to think about and how to fill
the house again
it’s one of the best things that the
healing rooms do
is that follow-up meeting where they
begin to teach them
i had i hired someone wants to to do
research for me on the healing homes
of john alexander dowie and they found
records for me on we have these
newsletters that he put out every i
think every couple weeks and they found
for me
times where people would be healed and
they would stay in the homes where they
actually lived
for a period of time they would stay
there for up to 13 days
after they experienced their healing
because dowie and others would come
every day
and would teach them and they needed to
be taught
what happened the biblical basis so that
they could be a part of their own
healing and sustaining what god had
given him i think that’s that’s
incredible wisdom i think they
they no doubt figured that one out
through trial and error that they were
getting breakthrough and then
losing it and uh so i think i think what
our healing rooms are doing is really
wise i really think the lord’s gonna
help us we gotta do something we gotta
do something to help you know they’re
not
they’re not projects you know they’re
they’re people that we want to see
with sustained blessing on their life
that’s right and uh so i think it’s a
real cool thing
i’m happy about it yeah you know as
we’re talking just
it strikes me i deal with this with my
own family a little bit i have one of my
uh children who has a skin issue and
we’ve seen a powerful breakthrough
and then we’ll you know then the
breakthrough’s not there yeah and so
it’s an interesting
journey as we’re talking i just want to
be careful we don’t come under
self-condemnation again you know which
in this whole thing i like i i have to
kind of walk with a bit of mystery like
you’re my good daddy you love me
i’m doing everything i know to do and
this thing’s still going on
yeah and um i i need a breakthrough from
you but i know what i’m not going to do
is take on some sort of condemnation for
me for my family or my
my kids so there’s this this kind of
dance of kind of going
i’m listening i’m looking and i don’t
have a breakthrough but i’m not going to
walk in
in any sort of condemnation at all it’s
a real hard one when somebody asks a
question
i have this a lot when i’m one-on-one
with people
i’ll say i’ll tell them they’ll ask me a
question i’ll say i can answer if i can
answer
generally yeah if i’m answering
specifically about what you’re facing
i could give you the wrong answer and i
could send them into a tailspin where
they go oh i’m not spiritual
i’m not discerning i’m not that’s just a
wrong place to go
i can talk i can talk all day long on
principles
but application in the individual’s
lives i mean it’s
you know the things we have to face is
number one god gave the gift
the miracle to the person he didn’t take
it back number one
so it came out of his goodness he didn’t
change his mind yeah number one number
two
if it came back there’s a reason number
three
it doesn’t mean that we have done
something wrong it doesn’t mean that i
failed in my job as a dad or as a
husband or a pastor or whatever it might
be does
it that’s not the only option yeah there
are other options and
and it’s i don’t know if it helps
anybody else but it’s helped me a lot
sometimes i have to come to the
conclusion that there are realities
surrounding this problem that i don’t
yet perceive
because of that i don’t know how to
unravel i don’t know how to
to deal with accurately and so if we can
get into a mode where we say god we know
you have answers
you know and we know that they’re
practical and if we can go
after solutions without doing the
introspection and the self-condemnation
stuff
then we’re going to be better for it
because we’ll go on the journey and
we’ll get a breakthrough that we can
then impart to somebody else
or teach instruct to somebody else yeah
and so we need we need
you know i’ve got the same deal going on
uh different issues but the same process
and if we can just get people people
have got especially
especially leaders but anybody you know
let’s let’s get into the secret place
and find some answers yeah you know
because
the answer isn’t i’m a jerk
i already knew that there’s got to be a
better answer than that
so so get in there and and stay it’s
what the disciples did when they prayed
for the child
and they couldn’t get the healing or the
evil spirits out of the child so after
jesus brought deliverance they took him
aside
and asked him all right what happened
yeah
which is really cool because they’re
basically saying we’re not used to this
we’re used to this working
yeah and this time it didn’t why and
that’s what we have to do
it’s we gotta we gotta go aside and find
it all right what’s that what’s going on
absolutely and and we we worked together
on i mean we had this dialogue around
like i’ve talked to our healing rooms
teams about how they want to be cautious
about
people you know even in the carefulness
of their words that people don’t
suddenly
you know somehow get a weird message
that you didn’t have enough faith or
this is still your problem or all those
sorts of things
and we have some i think people are you
know gracious listening to the holy
spirit and
yeah good to each other talking to the
lord each other yeah
yeah it’s it’s it’s crazy how often
someone will hear you say something
that tells them they’re doing something
wrong yeah when
when it’s not what you meant yeah you
know i work hard to
choose my words carefully to not imply
or to indict
and yet i’ll get an email later i just
realized that
you know there’s an enemy out there too
that’s just trying to twist words and
and so we’ve got to teach people not
just in the immediate counsel i’m giving
you regarding this problem
but in life don’t go there yeah just
don’t go there just don’t
don’t there’s no answers there you’ll
you never you’d never come out filled
with faith so just don’t go there
you know i i mean self-condemnation
never leads to anything can you believe
that i know that’s new
i’ll ask crowds i say all right how many
of you have been introspective and they
all raise their hands i see
how many of you came out of that season
of introspection just encouraged
they always laugh because everyone of us
you know why do we keep doing it yeah if
we
if we keep coming out going uh yeah
absolutely
that’s good that’s good