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    How Jesus Heals: Then and Now
    How Jesus Heals: Then and Now
    How Jesus Heals: Then and Now
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    How Jesus Heals: Then and Now

    By John C. Fenn

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    Taught as a class on the ways of healing, rather than a teaching on the doctrine of healing, this is a study of how Jesus moved people into position to receive their healing, how you can re-train your body to obey the command to be healed, and John's testimony of how he received healing from severe allergies, broken foot bones, and learned to walk in divine health day to day since he was a teenager.

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    PublisherJohn C. Fenn
    Release dateDec 22, 2015
    ISBN9781310259029
    How Jesus Heals: Then and Now
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    John C. Fenn

    John and Barbara Fenn were born in Kokomo, Indiana and grew up just a few miles from each other. They attended the same kindergarten, went to many of the same neighborhood birthday parties growing up, and had mutual friends. Barb even attended John's confirmation in the Episcopal Church when they were twelve years old. They began dating as teenagers and were born again together and baptized with the Holy Spirit at age sixteen. Each attended Indiana University after graduating high school and were then married in 1978. In early 2002 John and Barb founded the Church Without Walls International of Tulsa (CWOWI), a house church network, emphasizing relationship-based Christianity. The seeds of CWOWI were planted in 1992 during a time of prayer. The Lord Jesus appeared to John in a visitation and shared some of what He would be doing in the future. Part of the Lord's plan was an exodus from many of the "para-church" organizations that were raised up after the Charismatic renewal of the 1960s and 70s. This would produce a movement of more "para-church" organizations, home prayer meetings, and also home-based churches. On November 4, 2001, during an evening church meeting in Edmonton, Alberta, Jesus appeared again to John. As both John and the host pastor fell to their knees, Jesus laid hands on John and told him to start a home church network "based on my Word and the things you've learned through the people I've brought across your path this year." The Lord said He wanted it to be called The Church Without Walls International. The next month, CWOWI began meeting in the Fenn home, and is growing and gaining affiliate house churches as relationships develop. Known for teaching with anointing and by revelation and flowing with the gifts of the spirit, his heart's desire is to make known the ways of the Father God. Church Without Walls International (CWOWI) is dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ through the establishment of a network of related house churches around the world.

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      How Jesus Heals - John C. Fenn

      How Jesus Heals

      Then and Now

      Copyright 2015 John Fenn

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      Unless indicated, quoted Scripture is taken from The King James Version.

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 —It is Already Provided

      Chapter 2 —Dealing with Unbelief

      Chapter 3 —A Life of Its Own

      Chapter 4 —It is From the Inside Out

      Chapter 5 —Looking For Mercy

      Chapter 6 —I Keep My Body Under

      Chapter 7 —Faith is Rest

      Chapter 8 —Power Vs. Authority

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      Dedication

      With thanks and love to my wife, Barb, whose spiritual strength and character I admire so much.

      _______ Chapter 1 _______

      It is Already Provided

      God’s power has already provided everything you need under the heading of godliness. That covers how to live the Christian life, how to grow, forgive, walk in love, and do all the things that are so difficult. God’s power has already given to you everything that pertains to your growth in godliness. But notice it comes through the knowledge of Him who called us to glory and virtue.

      2 Peter 1:3, says according as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue.

      Jesus went through the cross, the resurrection, and the ascension, and now looking back, you can say He has provided everything through that. The common thread is that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. What we see is that the way He ministers is what has been provided.

      Let me make it clearer. Jesus dealt a lot with unbelief and in several instances He said according to your faith be it unto you. A lot of times people came for mercy, but He brought faith out of them. One time He appeared to be rude to a Syro-Phoenician woman, but then turned to her and said, great is your faith. He pulled the faith out of her. So, when we read that everything that pertains to life and godliness has been provided, we know that Jesus still ministers today just like He did in the Gospels. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

      We receive it from the perspective that it is already provided. We place ourselves in the position where He can pull that faith out of us; we place ourselves in the position to receive. You might say, you mean there is more than just saying, okay, I believe and I receive? There are different ways that different people receive. For one guy he spit in the dust, made mud and put it in his eyes. That was one type of healing. To ten lepers he said go show yourselves to the priest. Today, we would say those ten lepers had a gradual healing. They received the Word and as they went they were healed.

      Jesus still heals like that today. We receive it from the perspective that it has already been done, it has already been paid for. His methods are unchanged. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. So when we look at all the instances in the Gospels where Jesus healed, it is not from the perspective of Oh, Jesus, please do this for me today in this way, it is, rather, thank you, Lord, that you have provided already! Now I have to figure out how to receive that finished work. His methods do not change.

      Remember, Elijah in the Old Testament and the multiplying oil? He said, go gather all the pots you can. He multiplied oil, didn’t he? Another instance was with the flour. What happened? We read in the Gospels about the loaves and fishes being multiplied; same methods, different circumstances, but same principle. Sometimes when it comes to healing we get it in our mind that it is only in a certain way we can receive it. We think if I have Tim Storey, Benny Hinn or Reinhard Bonnke or Kenneth Copeland lay hands on me I will receive. That may or may not be right. The Lord may give you a word and tell you to go show yourself to your pastor. Or, it could be that there is a creative miracle that He will do. His methods are unchanged through the millennia.

      One of the things I heard the Spirit tell me during Word Explosion was that much of what Jesus healed was injury. I thought that was interesting because it had bothered me that all you ever hear about is sickness and disease being healed. When someone gets healed of injury we make a big deal over it, but often those with injuries haven’t been able to stand on any particular scripture because they couldn’t see any precedent set in scripture.

      At a Ray Boltz concert, I was sitting with my son, Chris, next to me when the Lord just walked up on my left side and started talking to me. He picked up the conversation where I had heard the Spirit say earlier that much of what He healed was injury. He said, usually with the healing of an injury it requires the person to move that part of the body which was injured.

      I said, give me an example, please, and He said the man with the withered hand, I told him to stretch forth his withered hand. He went on to explain that palsy—which is a paralysis—can come through sickness or injury. He challenged me to look further in Matthew 15 and at the maimed in particular. He said that physical therapists operate in an element of this when they require the person to move the injured limb or body part. I found that fascinating.

      So, there is a scriptural precedence for healing injuries. The methods are unchanged but what we receive on this side of the cross is something which was already provided. I am convinced that many people with injuries are looking for a sovereign touch that involves no movement at all. When you feel His anointing on you, maybe the next thing you need to do is move. In Acts 3, what did Peter and John do? They pulled the guy up, and then he received strength.

      Turn to Romans 5:8, this is a simple scripture and one that you might not necessarily think is a healing scripture. It says God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. That is grace. While we were yet sinners, His power has already provided everything that pertains to life and godliness. Praise God, you can forgive that person who has been so difficult because His power has already provided everything that pertains to godliness in your life.

      You can walk in Galatians 5:22, the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, gentleness, meekness, long suffering, patience, and kindness and against such there is no law; because His power has provided the ability to do that. That power is grace. That means faith just appropriates that which God has already done. That is what faith is. When it comes to grace, there is nothing more God can do.

      We are caught up in this: if I just do this, then God will do that. I tithe because I want to bless God and I want His blessing and umbrella of protection, but I do not do it because of bondage or if I don’t tithe God will curse me. No! Jesus took the curse; Jesus took the wrath of the Father. It is the same with healing, many times we think we have to jump through a series of hoops to get God to heal us. God has already provided everything that pertains to life through His power. Therefore you can’t get any more grace by being good or any less grace by being bad. The same grace that saved me as a teenager was available in World War II to save Adolph Hitler, in that Jesus died for us both!

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