Kenneth Copeland - Release Your Faith for Healing
We're here in the book Mark Chapter five. "And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live". That's the last thing Jairus said. And Jesus went with him. My, he's easy, isn't he? Okay, I'll go with you. "Jesus went with him and much people followed him and thronged him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said..." Huh?... Here it is. Whosoever shall say unto this mountain. "For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway, immediately the fountain of her blood dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague".
Immediately it dried up, and then she felt it. So she believed it first. "Jesus immediately, knowing in himself that virtue or power, immediately knowing in himself that power or anointing had gone out of him, turned him about in the press and said, Who touched my clothes? His disciples said unto him, You see the multitude thronging you and say, Who touch me? And he looked around about her to see that had done this thing. The woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth". Now that's how we know that all of this that had happened to her because she told him. So now Jairus has a problem. What's he going to do? She lieth at the point of death. So Jesus is standing there listening her to tell about all these physicians and that she'd had this all these years. Nothing better, but rather grew worse. So she must have forgiven the physicians because faith won't work in an unforgiving heart.
So Jairus is just standing there listening to all this. "The woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, Your faith has made you whole, go in peace and be whole of that plague". Now not only she was made whole. So that means that all that she had, she evidently was a woman of means. She spent a lot of money on physicians. Didn't get any better. Just got worse. How long? 12 years. So figure out how old Jesus was when this started. He wasn't even in the ministry yet. The woman that was bowed over for 18 years. That started before Jesus was in the ministry, but the devil did it. Well, the thing of it is the leader of that synagogue could have ministered to her over 18 years, but he wouldn't do it. And he got mad at Jesus because he did. Because it's in the covenant Book. The healing for all of these things is in that Bible. But they were so focused on the law instead of the blessing. It already said, I'll take sickness from the midst of you. Can you see that?
Well, there's a whole lot of Christians are doing the same thing today that are hung up on the curse instead of the blessing. But here we are. "While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of synagogue's house certain which said, Your daughter's dead". So the death messenger came. "Why troublest thou the Master anymore? Soon as Jesus heard what was spoken, he said to the ruler of the synagogue..." Now notice what he did where death was concerned. In Luke he said, "Fear not or stop the fear. Believe only, she'll live". Don't be afraid. Only believe. Jairus didn't say anything. "And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when he was come in, he saith unto them..." Now Jesus is speaking by faith. "Why make ye this ado, and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out..."
He had to get all of that... He had to get those grieving spirits out of that room, he removed them. And they probably were fussing about it when he did. You can just hear you know, I mean the mother in law and dad in laws are in there. Can't you just imagine? I told you not to marry this guy, now he's running around with this heretic preacher. But that didn't last all that long. They laughed him to scorn. He put them all out except the mother and the dad and entered in where that little girl was lying. And she's lying there dead. He took her by the hand. Well, he did just exactly what Jairus said do, put your hand on her and she'll live. So he did that. He just took her by the hand "and said unto her, Talitha cumi; he said to her which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And immediately the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat".
What do you mean no man to know it. "That goes in that same line of go show yourself to the priest". Well, of course they're going to know as she's walking out of there alive, that whole family's going to know it. So what's the deal here? You give God the credit for it. Don't you even bring me up. For it's the Father within me, he did that. I didn't do it. Don't talk about what I did or what I said. He wasn't talking about, don't tell anybody she's alive. I mean, that is senseless. They see that. But he's saying don't go describing all this. Just give the Lord the credit for it. This is the leader of the synagogue and Jesus is thinking she's going to be going to synagogue with you. And you go into all of this and tell them that I did it.
Now they're going to get mad and want to throw you out. But you didn't have to tell anybody. He didn't tell that little girl not to tell anybody. And she's going to go out of there and she's going to tell everybody she can think of. You know what, I was dead. I saw angels and I saw Paradise. And this man spoke to me and I woke up. I woke up. Now she grew up. We get to heaven. I want to know what that woman's name is with the issue of blood. I want to know this little girl. But, hey, we'll leave here and we'll only be gone for seven years. Then we come back and we'll be here a thousand years. In the millennial reign, the glorified ones. And we'll have all kinds of conversations and plenty of time to do it, because she's one of the glorified ones. And the woman that used to have an issue of blood and the woman that used to be bowed over. Oh, glory to God, I said glory to God, glory be to Jesus.
Now Brother Hagin used to say, "Plug in with faith, make an effort". That's what the Lord told Brother Hagin when he was paralyzed. Been on that bed for months and months, 19 months, and he stayed in Mark 11:22, 23, 24 and 25. And the Lord told him, in his spirit, he said, "There's power in this room, but you have to find..." I can see an outlet over there on that wall, but the power is dormant. Why? There's nothing plugged in to it. There's enough power in this room if you plug into it to heal everybody in the room and all the dead in town. Amen.
So stand to your feet, please. We were in Peru. I was preaching right down these same lines. And we were in a large arena there. And right next to that arena, there's a large hospital. Now, I didn't know it. I was unaware of it at the time. I was preaching right down the same lines. Stanley Black was interpreting for me. He and I have been together many years and we knew there was an unusual anointing in there. A lot of people were healed. A woman came back the next day and gave her testimony. She was next door in the doctor's office. She had cancer of the throat. He's examining her. And she said, "I'm on fire. I'm on fire, I tell you". And then she just started turning red all over. She said, "I am on fire". It frightened that doctor. He didn't know what to think about it. And she said, "I'm burning up". She just got up and left. Scared her, went home.
Then the next day she realized she's healed. She went back to the doctor. No more cancer. She left, well the next day we were having a service and she heard what was going on. And so she just walked in there and she said, This is the same thing I had happened to me yesterday. So she came in there and got in touch with the prayer workers. She got born again, baptized in the Holy Ghost, the glory fell and it was over there the same as in here. It's right there where you are, just the same as it is in here. But you have to plug in. You have to keep the switch of faith turned on.
Stand up on the inside. I heard that and learned that from Oral Roberts, in the invalid room my first time. I'd been studying on the power and authority of the name of Jesus. That's what I was preaching in Jamaica when a young woman was raised from the dead there. And this was my first day in the invalid room, and Colin Steele, who was manager of all the campaigns, the tent, everything. He came to me and he said, "Kenneth, I want you to help the Reverend in the invalid room, because now you know, you're a grown man. You're 30 years old. And I can... See he likes to have somebody help him in there. But I can take people that I need somewhere else and you go in there. You'll have about 5 to 7 minutes".
My job was to go over what he just preached and then go over the points, and that was one of them. And if you can't stand up, stand up on the inside. Do something, move something. So you're going to release your faith this morning. I'm going to release my faith this morning. I want you to raise your hands and close your eyes and say these things with boldness:
The Gospel that I have heard is the power of God unto my salvation. I confess Jesus Christ as Lord over my life, spirit and soul and body. I receive the power of God, to make me sound, whole, delivered, saved, healed, now. I act on the Word of God and receive the power of God. Sickness, disease, pain, I resist you in the name of Jesus. Sickness, weakness and pain you are not the will of God. I enforce the Word of God on you. I will not tolerate you in my life. Leave my presence. I will never allow you back. My days of sickness and disease are over. I am the saved, I am the healed, the power of sickness has been broken over my life. Jesus bore my sickness. He bore my weakness and pain. I am forever free. Sickness shall no longer lord it over me, sin shall no longer lord it over me. Fear shall no longer lord it over me. I have been redeemed from the curse... I have been redeemed from the curse of the law. I proclaim my freedom in Jesus' name. Today the Gospel is the power of God, to me unto salvation, I receive the Gospel, I act on the Gospel, I am made whole, in Jesus' name.
So act, praise, move, see, hear. Straighten up, be delivered, be free, be sound, do things you couldn't do. Now this is me. I take authority over every sickness and every disease. I take authority over every demon of sickness and all the power of the devil everywhere in this room and everywhere in the sound of my voice. You be made whole. You be made well. I declare you healed. I declare you whole. I declare the pain gone out of your body. I declare every sickness and disease from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. I declare that you're healed from bronchitis. I declare that you're healed.