Appendices

1. Prayer Request Slip
2. How to use the interview Sheet
3. Prayer Team Interview Sheet
4. Reading List
5. Release Agreement for Team Members
6. How to Use the Prayer Ministry Questionnaire
7. Prayer Ministry Questionnaire
8. Release Agreement (For Prayer Recipient)
9. Deliverance Prayer Model
10. Names Of God
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Guidelines for prayer teams in group settings
13. Building and training a healing prayer team
14. Spiritual warfare and healing
15. Scheduling a Conference
16. Order form for manual and news letter
17. Endnotes

All Scripture quotations, except when specifically noted, in this publication are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS
Throughout the text of this manual, the person requesting or receiving prayer ministry is referred to as she. This has been done to avoid the repeated use of the phrase he or she, which can become tedious in reading and studying. It is not intended to infer or imply anything else about those who come for prayer ministry.

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Inserts from Each Chapter of the Manual

I Biblical Basis for Healing Ministry

The Centrality of Healing in Jesus' Ministry

Bringing healing and wholeness on many levels in people's lives was absolutely central to the ministry of Jesus Christ when He was physically present on earth. There are 41 distinct instances of Jesus bringing physical and/or mental and emotional healing in the Gospels, including the following:

• Man with unclean spirit (Mark 1:23-27)
• Man with Leprosy (Matthew 8:2-3)
• Man with withered hand (Luke 6:6-10)
• Widow's son raised (Luke 7:11-15)
• Gadarenes Demoniac (Matthew 8:28-33)

As Jesus was preparing His disciples for His departure He specifically instructed them to continue to do what He had done on earth.

I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father John 14:12

II The Role of Faith and Authority

When a new believer becomes a new creation in Christ, he is born of the Spirit of God. In this realm of God’s Spirit abide "faith, hope and love", according to 1 Corinthians 13:13. Faith is a spiritual substance and when we become a Christian, God gives us a measure of faith. A key area we will look at in this section is the role that faith plays in the ministry of healing.

The Authority of the Believer

In addition to comprehending the role of faith, the prayer team members need to have an understanding of the authority that has been given to us in Jesus Christ. We will explore the nature of the believer’s authority and how we have been given authority to heal.

Through creation, God gave man a relationship, identity and position with Himself. This gave man authority (Genesis 1:26,27). Through deception and sin, man was deposed and lost his authority; Satan became the prince, ruler and god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). Jesus was sent as a man to re-establish God’s authority over the earth by disarming all powers and principalities and saving man from their authority through His death and resurrection.

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III Physical Healing

Introduction to Physical Healing

To pray for Physical Healing requires that we take risks. It is scary to step out in faith, take the authority of Jesus and pray for the healing of someone standing there before you. Although Jesus commands us to heal the sick, we often respond by saying, "That's not my gift." If that is your response, you're right. But, it is a gift the Holy Spirit gives to us, and it is given as we step out in faith to exercise that gift. He increases its use and manifestation in us. There are many approaches to take in praying for healing. This section will hopefully provide you with some helpful tools to use in a healing prayer ministry.

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IV Repentance

Repentance Is Vital

Why is repentance so vital for those who minister with prayer teams? The answer is that un-repentance gives Satan a place where he can and will operate in our lives.

And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home - these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day … Jude 6

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment, …2 Peter 2:4

When we harbor sin, the light in us is then in darkness. "Satan has a legal access, given to him by God, to dwell in the domain of darkness. . . .he devil can traffic in any area of darkness, even the darkness that still exists in a Christian's heart." Francis Frangipane, The Three Battlegrounds, (N.P., Advancing Church Publications, 1989) p. 4. God will bring things into our lives to change these dark things, but we have to open the door, by faith, and let Him in to work.

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V Inner Healing & Forgiveness

Introduction to Inner Healing

Often when we are praying for people we discover that there is a need for inner healing, that is healing in the emotional core. The Bible refers to our emotions as our heart. So put very simply, inner healing is healing in our heart.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me….Psalm 109:22

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit….Psalm 34:18

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.Psalm 147:3

All of us who live on earth have been subject to some degree of pain in our lives. Certainly it is not measured out in equal doses. Some people cannot even recall a time in their lives when they were happy while others appear to have pretty smooth sailing most of the time. However, nobody gets by without any pain at all, and it is not unusual for hurtful incidents of the past to affect us physically, psychologically and spiritually in the present.

Forgiveness

Most of the ground Satan gains in the lives of Christians is due to unforgiveness. We are warned in Ephesians 4:26-27, "In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold." In the parable from Matthew 18 quoted above, the unforgiving servant is handed over to the jailers or as the King James translation says "to the tormentors." In the same way when we refuse to forgive we find ourselves in bondage to and being tormented by such things as guilt, striving, fear and bitterness.

To forgive those who have caused us great pain is not an easy thing. It goes against our sense of justice. It is not fair. They deserve to be punished. However, Jesus is asking us to forgive others because of His grace and mercy in forgiving us. We deserved to be punished and it wasn't fair to Him that He had to go to the cross on our account, but He was willing to do that (John 10:17-18)

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VI Deliverance

The definition of deliverance is to liberate, to rescue, to set free, to send something to an intended target or destination. The responsibility to minister total healing and wholeness, which includes the ministry of deliverance, has been delegated to every Christian. We do this under the authority of Jesus and the Church and through the power of the Holy Spirit. We also do this with respect for the person. Deliverance is to be as orderly, loving and accepting as any other ministry to an individual. The goal is not simply to call upon God's power to fight and defeat the enemy; but to MINISTER THE LOVE OF JESUS

Demons are enemies of the gifts and fruits of the Spirit. They keep the gifts from coming forth in the Christian's life. For example, the demon of resentment can defeat love in a person's life. The person is unable to love others as they desire to and they do not understand that a spiritual battle is being waged. Instead the person takes the blame and suffers in silence, wondering, "What is wrong with me?"

Demons are evil personalities. They are spirit beings who are enemies of God and man. There is not a person on this earth who escapes their notice. Satan and his cohorts devise plans to destroy each of us. First Peter 5:8 reminds us that Satan does not play fair. He is vigilant, especially when a person is vulnerable and weak. Satan does not give time off for illness or for good behavior.

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VII Spiritual Warfare

God is sovereign (Psalm 103:19). There is nothing that is not under His authority, even Satan. Although he is defeated, Satan has been allowed to be active for the specific task of participating in our training. God is actually using Satan for His own purposes. Christ has already overcome and we must be trained to overcome also so that we are a bride ready for her Bridegroom. This training includes those things which we consider uncomfortable, painful, evil and opposed to what we want in our lives. We would love to have a life free of rough spots and pain but that is not how we learn best. It is often through adversity that we learn about God and submit to Him.

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VIII Ministry Organization

Wholeness Ministries originated as a result of God revealing to many people the need to train and equip people to function as "prayer ministers" - to minister to those in need of physical, spiritual, mental or emotional healing throughout the church and the community. Wholeness Ministries provides a safe place where ministry can occur with well trained prayer ministers in a private, confidential setting, as well as a place where believers are regularly trained to function as prayer ministers.

Bringing healing and wholeness to people's lives was central in the ministry of Jesus. Wholeness Ministries believes that His ministry of bringing healing and wholeness needs to be central to the ministry of the Church today. All believers are gifted by the Holy Spirit and called to use these gifts in ministry to others. Wholeness Ministries provides training and encouragement so that these God-given gifts come forth in people's lives.

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IX Recruiting and Training Prayer Team Members

While we believe that anyone can pray for another person, we have a responsibility to those who are coming to receive prayer from this ministry to assure them that the people praying for them have been trained and equipped and can be trusted. We do not want to wound the wounded out of our ignorance.

We are not seeking to build an "elite" group of prayers. We are, however, building and training prayer warriors who are willing to go to the front lines, wherever the lines may be: work, school, neighborhoods, hospitals, homes, youth groups, home groups, Sunday Schools, and at church in any gathering.

X Generational Healing

There has always been this awareness that what has gone wrong in past generations can influence us.  We seem to know by experience that something is wrong.  There is evil in the world.  There is some kind of evil, or sin, or weakness in us that is more than us, and we need a Savior to release us and to free us from the effects of that sin. The sins of the past generations and their weaknesses affect all of us in some way.  To stop or change this we need to be set free from those destructive patterns.

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