Contents Introduction 1 Good Things Come from God to You 2 First Things First—Worship 3 God's Will Is Praying 4 Get Scriptures to Cover Your Case 5 Do What the Holy Spirit Says 6 Keep God's Word Before Your Eyes 7 It Takes Only One Verse of Scripture 8 Talk Right 9 Confession Brings You Possession 10 God Will Send You on Missions for Him 11 You Take Authority Over the Devil 12 You Must Say "No" to the Devil 13 Be the Head of Your House 14 Show God You Trust Him 15 Stick Close to the Blessings 16 Stick Close to the Gifts of the Spirit 17 Stick Close to the Laying on of Hands 18 Put the Gospel First 19 Face to Face with Total Victory 20 Jesus Wants to Heal You Now Introduction God doesn't want you to have any diseases. He wants you to receive His miracle-working power and be totally free. In writing this book, I'm doing my best by God's power to drive out and to demolish every disease in every person who reads this book. And the same principles taught here regarding disease can be applied to all critical cases— financial, emotional, social, spiritual or physical. Think about what God's Word can do for you while you're reading the following prayer. Heavenly Father, I come in Jesus' name on behalf of the precious person reading this book. You know, Jesus, that I'm not a healer—but You are. Just within myself I have no power to heal; but Jesus, You do, and You live inside me. I claim Your healing and miracle-working power to flow from this book, like a river, into the body of the person reading it to drive out and destroy every disease. And in Jesus' name, Satan, I bind you and I command you to take your hands off God's property, this precious person. I command this person to be free from disease. He has a right to be healed because he has been born again. I claim his healing to be so in Jesus' name. Thank You, Lord, for doing it. And, Jesus, I give You the praise and glory for everything that's done, because we're a needy people and we need You. Within ourselves and without Your name, Jesus, and without the Holy Spirit of God, we are nothing. Amen. 1 Good Things Come from God to You You can receive miracles, and you can have authority over sickness and disease. Know this once and for all: all bad things that come to visit you are from the devil—all bad things! They come from hell—not from heaven. The Bible says all good things come down from the Father of lights to you. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17 That means God sends good and perfect gifts from heaven down to you. Not one heartache has ever come from God. Not one weak day or one defeated moment has ever come to you from heaven. God knows no defeat or sickness. Heaven knows no pain. I've been to heaven twice, and I can hardly wait to get there for the last time and forever. The air is full of peace. There is no sickness in heaven. There are no worms in the apples in heaven. The grass is about ten times greener there than it is on earth. You think you've got beautiful flowers here? I've got news for you— in heaven, those beautiful flowers never die. There are no seasons in heaven—no dying, shivering or suffering. There is only life. Everything in heaven is alive. Everything is full of life, power and love. It saturates you all the time. Heaven is not a misty place out in the air, where a bunch of little spirits float around wondering who they are. It's a real world! When you walk around heaven, you can see rivers, gulfs, trees and mansions. And you can walk in on Sunday morning and hear Jesus preach! You think you're hearing good messages now, just wait until you get to heaven. Glory to God! But right now I'm excited about the good things from heaven that we can enjoy in this life. Good gifts, perfect gifts are coming down from heaven, from the Father of lights to you. 2 First Things First—Worship Only after you worship and praise God, do you have a right to ask God to heal you or do anything else for you. If you don't know this, it can cost you your life! When I tell people this, some say, "But, Brother Norvel, I love the Lord." That's not good enough! A lawyer came to Jesus one day and asked him, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? (Matt. 22:36). Jesus answered: . . . Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment (vv. 37,38). In other words, Jesus was saying not to have any other gods before Him. He's supposed to be number one in your life. And when you worship the Lord, you have made Him number one in your life. You can't love your church more than you love God. You can't love your family, your business, or your money more than you love God. If you do, you're in bad trouble. Learn to worship God first. When you do that, you have a right to ask Him for anything. And He'll give you what you ask for. One of the reasons why so many church people get in trouble with the devil is because they don't worship Jesus. You have to worship God for yourself. Just singing a song or two in church isn't worship. That doesn't honor God. If you run to church real quick for that, it's a wonder you even find the church. And one of these days you won't, because the devil will attack you so much. Did you know the devil goes to church every Sunday? That's right. He'll help you sing, and he'll help you teach a Sunday school class. He'll sit beside you if you've got cancer and pat you on the back. He'll tell you, "You're a perfect Christian—don't change. You'll just have to die." But, if you'll put first things first, there's no such thing as the devil killing you. He doesn't have the power to kill you, if you'll worship God. You Can Know God, Have Power and Still Lose Out Maybe you've been a Christian for twenty years and know God real well. But realize this: the devil knows God. And he knew God real well too. Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering .... Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou was created, till iniquity was found in thee. Ezekiel 28:13-15 In fact, the devil had lots of power. He went upon the holy mountain of God and walked up and down the stones of fire. What iniquity was found in Lucifer, the anointed cherub, that caused his fall from heaven? How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground . . . (Is. 14:12). The devil started doing his own thing, going his own way, and that caused his fall. For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Isaiah 14:13,14 The devil's downfall can be yours, too. How? You could have been the best Christian in the world for twenty years and won thousands of souls to God. But if you turn your head away a little bit from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and start doing your own thing, you'll fall just like the devil did. You could build a church of five thousand people and win one hundred thousand people to Jesus. You could be sharp and strong for twenty years of your life. But if you start getting settled and satisfied and start doing what you think needs to be done instead of what God tells you, you've had it! If you don't watch yourself, even though you're called of God to preach, you'll get to preaching so much you'll just start floating along. One day you'll check up on yourself in your home and discover that you and your family haven't worshiped God in your house for four or five weeks! You’ll Get Weak and Lose Your Vision It's easy for ministers to get that way. I mean, I have to watch myself. But, you can't afford to get so busy that you don't worship God in your house. From that time forward, you won't go anywhere but down. You'll lose your desire to pass out tracts. You may say, "What do you mean, 'Lose your desire to pass out tracts?' I don't pass out tracts now." No wonder God has you reading this book! You'd better watch yourself or you'll get weak and lose your vision for getting people in your community saved who are dying and going to hell. You'll lose your vision for getting people healed who have cancer and are dying with nobody to help them. You can't help these people unless you know how. And sometimes if you do know how, you won't have the ambition to go and do it because you've lost your vision. Why? Because you've ceased to worship God every day. So these people in your community just die while you're living right among them with the Holy Ghost in your belly. "Remember what John 7:37-39 tells us: In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit____) He, the Spirit, knows how to get people saved, healed and set free, and He lives on the inside of you. But, He won't do very much for you or through you unless you worship God. Obeying nine out the ten commandments won't give you an abundant life if you're not worshiping God. Notice what Jesus told the devil himself: ... Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Matthew 4:10 Verse 11 tells us what happened next: Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. If you don't obey God by worshiping Him, the devil has a right to come into your house and give you cancer. I'm warning you, the devil has the right to walk in and do anything he wants to do to you, if you don't worship God. But, when the devil comes into your house and sees you on the floor worshiping and praising Jesus every day, he can't do what he wants to do. He'll leave you, too, just like he did Jesus. Notice I didn't say "once a week," but "every day." Do you want God to come and hover over your house and stay manifested in each room? When you get up in the morning do you want every day to be exciting? God inhabits the praises of His people (Ps. 22:3.) When you praise the Lord, you build Him a habitation, a dwelling place. Do you build God a habitation with your praise and worship every day? Worshiping and praising God is a way of life. Rejoice in the Lord always (every day): and again I say, Rejoice (Phil. 4:4). When Paul was getting ready to go to the Corinthians, they were talking about having power. Paul wrote them and said he didn't know if they had power or not. He was coming and, when he got there, he'd let them know if they had God's power. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. 1 Corinthians 4:19 Some people say they have godly power because their services are good on Sunday. You can find out if people really have God's power by going to live with them for a while. Watch them every day and you'll find out just who has a form of godliness. (2 Tim. 3:5.) Having God's power is a way of living every day. And you'll have God's power if you'll worship every day. Here's how to start your day off by worshiping God. Bring your hands out from under the covers. If you can't lift them very high, just lift them a little bit. But open up your mouth and say, Jesus, I love You. I belong to You and I thank You, Lord, that my name is written in heaven. I worship You, Jesus. Thou art great, O God. I worship You, Lord. There are no other gods before You, Jesus. And I just want to thank You, Jesus, because You are my Savior, and healer. Thank You, Lord, for Your divine, healing power. Oh, precious Jesus, Your healing power is flowing through my body right now to drive out every affliction, in Jesus' name. No affliction can stay in my body. I belong to You, Jesus, and I worship You. Remember: put first things first. Only after you worship and praise God, then and only then, do you have a right to ask Him for anything. 3 God’s Will Is Praying After praise and worship, prayer is a natural step. Heaven doesn't come to earth cheap. It never has! It takes prayer. Prayer is a channel that God has provided so that a man can reach heaven and see the things of heaven done on earth. God's will is praying, not just thinking about something. And wondering isn't God's will either! The most important decision you'll ever make isn't whether or not to go to college and get a degree. It's all right to do that—I'm not knocking it. But it's a lot more important for you to learn how to pray. Prayer isn't limited to anything. If you'll learn how to pray and believe what you read in the Word, you can have anything you want. Glory to God! When Saul of Tarsus was on the road to Damascus to drag Christians out of their homes and haul them off to prison, God stopped him in his tracks. Then God told Ananias to go to Saul, ... for, behold, he prayeth (Acts 9:11). God sent Ananias because Saul prayed. You may say, "The Lord would have sent Ananias anyway." No, he wouldn't because it takes prayer. Churches need to get people on their faces praying before God for three or four hours. It would be good for them. It's not the Sunday morning crowd that keeps God's church growing and the love of God abounding. It's those people who come in during the morning hours and pray around the altar for two or three hours. They cry and weep until the Spirit of God floods them. Then they pray and pray and pray. The only reason some churches have a building or get anything done at all is because of these prayer warriors. It pays to pray. You may say, "I don't have time to meet with people in the morning and pray." Then you'd better close up shop and take time to pray for two or three hours. "Two or three hours? Are you kidding? I don't have time." You'd better take time, you lazy thing. Remember that pride comes before a fall. I know a church in Cleveland, Tennessee, that's been delivered from pride. That's right. The people go out in the field and pray for an hour before church starts. When the youth choir gets up and begins to sing, God comes and visits the place. The sinners can't stand it. They jump up out of their seats and run down front. Then they fall on their face and begin to scream for help and mercy. Once the preacher never got to preach for six weeks. Why? Because the people prayed so much. If you pray, God will come and visit you, too. Pray like a house afire an hour before church service starts. When your choir gets up to sing, during about the second verse, God will hit your place, too. When the Holy Ghost takes a service over, you might as well forget it. Sit back, watch, and be nice. Let God do what He wants to do. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14