Protocol for Dealing with Sickness

Culture of the Kingdom
Today’s Topic: Prayer of Faith: Protocol for Dealing with Sickness
Scripture: James 5:13-18; Luke 13:11,12; Luke 9:38-42

Greetings Kingdom Citizens
So what should we do when someone is sick? The first thing you should do is discern whether:
1. Sickness is based upon attack by the enemy by reason of sin
2. Sickness is based on Generational Curse
3. Sickness is based on deterioration of the physical body.
Now who is to discern this? The scriptures tell us in James 5:14: “Is any among you? Let him call for the ELDERS of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.” So the elders are to discern the basis of the illness. The scripture says also that the elders are to pray over them and anoint them with oil. The Elders are empowered to forgive sin in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ because they are His representatives in the earth. The declaration of the forgiveness of sin should be done BEFORE praying. Why?

The forgiveness of the sin will cancel the authority of the enemy to oppress the person. The legal basis upon which the enemy could attack the person with the sickness is now cancelled. Now, James also speaks of anointing with oil. The anointing with oil is representative of Holy Spirit. When you anoint them with oil you place them under the protection that is in the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is not sick. The use of oil is not some magical or medicinal remedy but it is, symbolically, to put the person under the authority and protection of Christ for His healing. Two things will happen if the sickness is by demonic oppression:
1. Sin will be forgiven
2. Illness will leave

What a powerful thought! When the elders come, they should inquire into the condition of the person to determine if the sickness is the result of sin. Once that is done, the elders judge the matter and are empowered to forgive that person of that sin. Now I must say this here:
“The person must renounce the sin and the person must renounce the error they made first”
Now the elders can express to the person the forgiveness of Christ. Now once that happens the spirit that cause the illness to stay in place must depart and with it the illness. Let’s look at some examples:

Luke 13:11,12: “And, behold , there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to Him and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid His hands on her and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

Luke 9:38-42:”And behold a man of the company cried out saying Master I beseech thee, look upon my son, for he is mine only child. And lo a spirit taketh him and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out and they could not. And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither. And as he was yet a coming the devil threw him down and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.

As we can see in both of these situations we see a spiritual cleansing resulting in a physical healing. Both situations dealt with people who had evil spirits in them and those spirits cause physical illness. The elders are to exercise judgment and discernment and based upon what Holy Spirit shows you then He will through the spirit of Counsel and Power will instruct the elders to declare the forgiveness of sins and the healing of the person.

In the next message we will look directly at what the prayer of faith is and how it functions for the benefit of the believers but for the glory of God.

At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.