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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Aphiémi Healing, Part
5
November 22, 2013
Howdy!
Growing up in a traditional Pentecostal environment with parents
who walked and talked the life, the ministry, the gifts and the fruit of the
Holy Spirit, there was plenty of talk about the Azusa Street Revival at the
turn of the 20th Century and the absolutely stupendous displays of the Glory of
the Lord.
For much of my life I've heard about one of the displays from
that period of time in which the Glory of the Lord manifested in the form of a
cloud. People such as Aimee Semple
McPherson (who later founded the Foursquare movement) played hide-and-seek (she
was a young girl at the time) with other children in the cloud that filled the
room.
This past weekend, Rich Warren and I led worship at a men's
retreat at Miracle Ranch (located on the Olympic Peninsula in western
Washington). There was a sense of unity
among the worshipers that was fabulous and it contributed to a flow of the
presence of God like we were in a river.
On Saturday morning, we were engrossed in the worship and just basking
in the presence of God when someone commented on the mist that was beginning to
fill the room.
A couple of the guys referred to it as "smoke" and one
of them opened the connecting door between our conference room and the kitchen
to see if there was smoke coming from some cooking but the kitchen was as clear
as could be. Somebody else said,
"Well, maybe it's the fireplace."
I looked over at the fireplace, but the fire wasn't a wood fire; it was
a gas log, and there was no smoke coming from it.
I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it at the time, but
realized later that there was no smell of smoke. The air was dry in the room so there was no
reason for any fog or mist in the air, and yet when I looked up at the overhead
lights the mist was very visible.
Because we were so enveloped in the worship and in the very thick
presence of the Lord, in the back of my mind it was one of those things that
make you go, "Hmmmmmmmm.........," and yet I didn't really focus on
it.
Not until Sunday afternoon when we had arrived back in Yakima
and were sharing with our own fellowship did the significance of what took
place really grab our attention. Our
oldest son, Chris, had gone with us for the weekend. During a time of sharing, he commented on how
he watched the mist fill the room during the ongoing worship. Several of the men had commented to us later
on Saturday, and again on Sunday morning how thick the presence of the Lord
was, but we had missed the significance of the increasing mist in the room
during that time.
All I can say is, Hallelujah!
What a phenomenal thing to see take place. Our prayer is that we will see not only the
demonstration of the presence of the Lord with these kinds of signs, but also
that we will get to see the blanket healings as the worship intensifies!
Let's
take a slightly different approach to aphiémi healing
today. I'm sort of going around the horn
but I will get back to the instruction that Jesus gives us in Mark 9. Today I'd like to focus on the power there is
in the blood of Jesus and how His blood provides the legal authority for our
healing and the eradication of the legal basis for the disease, sickness, pain
and infirmity many folks suffer.
Revelation 12:10-11: "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is
come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before
our God day and night. And they
overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the death."
The
next part of this picture is in Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews:
Hebrews 1:1-3: "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath
in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of
all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the
right hand of the Majesty on high."
The
Table of the Lord, as we well know, consists of two things: The Bread (The
Word), and The Cup (The Blood).
In
previous discussions we’ve already noted the fact that when Jesus rose from the
dead and appeared to the disciples, his comment to them was that a “spirit
hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”
He
didn’t say to them, “a spirit hath not flesh and blood, as ye see me have,” and the reason was
that Jesus had already spilled His blood as part of the act of redemption. (Note: This is my personal
conviction. It isn't something I can
prove definitively from Scripture.)
Blood
was replaced in Him as the source of life and power by the Spirit. Consider again the fact that when God
breathed first life into Adam, he became (according to the Hebrew context) “a living, speaking spirit.”
When
Eve was taken from Adam’s side, he said, “This
is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.” (See Genesis 2:23)
It
is my growing conviction that Adam and Eve lived and breathed by the Spirit
when they were first created, and that the Spirit was replaced with blood when
sin came. Whether that is true or not is
debatable, but it is certain that from the moment Adam ate of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil, blood contaminated with death was flowing in his
veins.
Consider
now the statement John makes when he says, “And they overcame him
[Satan] by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony.”
We
sit at the Table of the Lord. Each time
we eat the Bread and drink the Cup, we take into ourselves the Word. That Word is made alive, energized, put into
force and sustained by the same Life Force that raised Jesus from the
dead. Paul put it like this:
I Corinthians 11:26: "For
as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death
till he come."
Let
me digress for just a second.
“Ye do show the Lord’s death till He
come.” Show who? The world?
Our friends around us? Our
family? The family of God?
Maybe,
but in this instance they aren’t the ones who count. We put on display a reminder that Satan
crucified the Lord of Glory — and he’s the one being reminded.
He’s
the one seeing our display.
He’s
the one who sees our change from corruptible beings to incorruptible.
He’s
the one who sees us eat the Word and drink from the Spirit, changing from
mortal beings with the curse of death upon us to immortals with the Spirit of
Life in Christ Jesus flowing in our veins.
The
Table of the Lord is a constant display to the Enemy that we are eating from
the Tree of Life, demonstrating that the results -- the curse of death,
disease, sickness, infirmity, etc. -- of Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
are being negated and eradicated.
Satan
is the one who visibly sees that his scheme has failed.
The
Table of the Lord is the means by which we crush the serpent’s head.
It
is also the means by which we take to ourselves that very same force by which
all things are upheld, energized, given force and power, made effective and
sustained. The Greek word that Paul uses
in Hebrews 1:3 where he writes “upholding all things by the Word of His Power”
is phero. This word parallels the Greek energko — the two words
having the same root.
The
word phero
means: to carry, to sustain, to bear up, to bring forward, to activate, to move
from one place to another, to apply, to endure [in the sense of lasting and
lasting and lasting]. Phero
also means: to bring forward in or by speaking, to activate by the speaking of
a thing. (You probably already are
seeing another application, but we’ll come back to this word momentarily.)
Its
companion word, energko, means: to energize (we get our
English word “energize” from this word), to put into force, to activate, to
bring to life. Again we return to the
apostle Paul’s phrasing in Hebrews 1:3: “upholding
all things by the Word of His Power.” Notice that he
doesn’t say, “upholding all things by the power of His Word.” We know that the Word of the Lord has power,
but that’s not the right emphasis.
This
is the same power — the same energizing force — that existed at Creation. This is the power that was behind and
energized the words, “Light BE!” Light
WAS because there was an activating power and force that caused those words to
have creative manifestation.
That
activating and energizing force was faith.
Faith is that creative force.
Faith existed as substance before the first words of Creation were
spoken. Thus Paul writes:
Hebrews 11:3:
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear.”
Faith
— in and of itself — is invisible to the natural eye. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have
substance. It does. It is!
Faith is a spiritual force, a creative and substantive energizer which
brings into this natural realm the reality of that which is spoken. That’s why Jesus said to the disciples, “Have God’s faith!” (Mark 11:22)
Again
we go back to the way that Paul described this in writing to the Romans.
Romans 10:17:
"So then faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
The
Greek text actually spells it out more clearly.
“So faith is (and comes into being)
by audible report; but the report is the rhema [the spoken and audibly delivered Word] of [and
from] God.”
Are
you now seeing the distinction?
Faith
IS substance in the same way that the worlds came into being. God spoke.
With His spoken Word came the creative substance which caused the earth
(and all the planets, stars, galaxies, etc.) to suddenly appear. Behind God’s Word was the power, the
energizing force, the activating substance that gave life and impetus to that
Word.
THAT,
folks is what we partake of each time we eat and drink at the Table of the
Lord! We are NOT eating of the Logos — the
all-encompassing body of all that God said.
We are eating of the Rhema — the direct, empowered,
activated and placed into force Word by Jesus command!
We
are eating of His body. We are eating of
the very substance of the Lord Himself.
The Word is becoming OUR flesh because there is sustaining power and
force to make it so!
The
life force that makes it so is in the Cup.
Each time we drink, we bring to remembrance the fact that Jesus shed
blood that was filled with death, disease, sickness, weakness and poverty.
What
we drink of, however, is the Spirit of Life that is in Christ Jesus. (See Romans 8:2) There is no death in the Cup. There is no disease or sickness in the
Cup. There is no poverty in the
Cup. There is no weakness or infirmity
of any kind in the Cup. The Spirit of
Life in Christ Jesus literally embodies that energizing force which “upholds
all things.”
THIS
is the power — the dunamis (explosive
power and force) — that sustains, that makes effective, that embodies the force
within the Word. We are eating of the
Word Himself.
We
are drinking of the power that makes the Word come alive in us.
We
are being changed from Glory to Glory.
Transformation is taking place.
Change is occurring in our spirits.
We are metamorphosing into eternity-based beings. We are being restored to the very image in
which God first made Adam.
Now
we have the ability to overcome Satan “by the Blood of the Lamb,
and by the Word of our Testimony.”
THIS IS THE TABLE
OF THE LORD!
THIS IS OUR HEALING
AND RESTORATION!
This
is where true remittance -- true forgiveness -- aphiémi healing occurs,
with the eradication of all of the previous legal basis for sickness, disease,
infirmity, poverty and weakness.
See
you next week.
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conference calls on either Monday, Wednesday or Friday of each week at 7:00 PM
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Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
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