This is our second teaching on; The Power of the Authoritative Command. ... I want to now talk about the dynamics behind the authoritative command. For those who werent here, let me simply say this in 20 seconds. In the New Testament, in the Book of Acts and in the Gospels you see Jesus very seldom asking the Father to heal people. The same with the Book of Acts. What they did most of the time was to command healing to come and sickness to go. They commanded cripples to get up and walk. They commanded blind eyes to open, deaf ears to open and it was done by the authoritative command. We went into detail and we looked at Scripture to substantiate that. This morning I want to talk about what is the dynamic behind that authoritative command. What can we do in our own hearts in order to nurture the outflow of the authoritative command? I learnt about the authoritative command in 1981 not in a Bible school or by reading a book or by some mentor. I learnt really by the Holy Spirit who helped me and I want to tell you this - the only way you are going to grow in effective ministry to the sick is that you have got to start! You learn on the job! The trouble with Bible schools is that they take people away from the life of the local church and then professors who have never planted local churches themselves - professors that have never prayed for the sick or raised the dead or have seen blind eyes opened or cripples walk - they teach people the academic principles and information about these things but have never done it themselves! There are professors at Harvard University who have never started a business but who teach people on how to start a business! These are just concepts! But the Hebrew model of life - the Christian model of life and the Kingdom of heaven model is about God-encounters and teaching out of experience and that is the model we need! That is why I say dont wait to go away to Bible college and get all the Bible information dumped on you and then you come out of there puffed up with a lot of Bible knowledge but it is all academic and not experiential. I have to say which Bible college did Peter, James and John go to? They raised the dead! Where did the 12 disciples go to? They went to the college of the Holy Spirit! They learned by making mistakes! If you learn to fail forward then you are going to grow! But if you are a person that is so perfectionist you will be frightened of making mistakes. And he that doesnt make mistakes - makes nothing! It is impossible to learn how to do this except by making mistakes. I had to pray for a lot of blind eyes and rebuke a lot of blindness before I saw blind eyes opening. Some people will never see blind eyes opening because they never try to do it - once! You will learn while you are doing it! So in 1981 as a young man in the ministry, there was a young lady in our church called Dawn. She came to Glenda and I and said; The doctors have just diagnosed me with breast cancer. I have got a tumor the size of a pigeons egg and they want to remove it in 3 weeks time - emergency surgery. And she was going to lose her breast. So we said come on Sunday morning where there is a corporate anointing and we will pray for you! We were very new in this and had just started out. All our background up to then had not prepared us - the church we were a part of did not pray for the sick. They were just very conservative about it. We hadnt been mentored in this. But for 3 days I had been listening to Kenneth Hagin on faith and so I had come back armed with 3 days of experience............................So Dawn came to us with a pigeon egg tumor. I had never dealt with a woman who unless God healed her could lose her breast and lose her life through cancer! So she came up on the Sunday morning and Glenda and I laid hands on her. I laid hands on her head! And we prayed Father would You please heal Dawn in the Name of Jesus?. That week she phoned and said that the lump was still there and nothing had changed and I could hear the panic in her voice. I thought Oh God whats happened? When you pray for the sick they are meant to be healed!. So I said Come back next week Dawn!. Jesus prayed for someone twice! So she came back the next week and we prayed Father heal Dawn! Heal her of this cancer! Heal her of this lump so she doesnt have to have it operated on! In Jesus Name!. The next week Dawn phones us in real panic now and says she only has a few days left and then needs surgery - her breast needs to be cut off. We are going God whats going on!?. So I said; Dawn please come and we will pray for you and He doesnt heal you then we will at least pray that He will guide the surgeons hands. If you are a woman and are going to lose a breast, that is big in terms of their sense of value and dignity or beauty - that is very serious psychologically. So she comes the next week and is due to have the operation in a few days. So we lay hands on her and I am about to say; Father please would You heal Dawn. But just before I pray I feel the Holy Spirit rise up in my spirit and He says; Dont pray for Dawn! Command the spirit that is within that tumor and keeping that tumor alive! Command that force life to go and curse what is in that tumor and demand that the tumor shrivel up and die! Dont pray for her!. And before I knew what I was doing, I said; I CURSE this tumor!. No asking! I CURSE this tumor and I demand that the very life that is within this tumour that is demonic and it leave right now and I command that it vanish and disappear in Jesus Name!. That was the first time I had prayed a prayer like that! The second I prayed it - she got smacked through the air under the power of God. So we finished the service and went home and the next Monday morning very early the phone rings. Picked it up and I answered and I couldnt make any sense because all I could hear was hysterical joy. AGGGGHHHH!!. I thought it was Cantonese! She had her sister there and they were screaming and I thought Oh no she is dying!. So I said; Now Dawn calm down - whats happening?. And she said; Its gone! Its gone! We have checked it! Its gone! Its totally disappeared!. And I am going; It has?! It has!?. Now I am getting hysterical! So she went to the doctor and got it checked out and all surgery was not necessary and absolutely unnecessary! Since then I have COMMANDED sickness to go and COMMANDED demons to go and seen greater increase of the miraculous!Rob Rufus sermon excerpt from Power Of Authoritative Command For Healing - Part 2 - Sunday 17th September 2006.
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