Be Healed and Stay Healed: Practical Tools, Key Principles, Proven Prayers, Faith-Building Testimonies
By Ed Rocha and Randy Clark
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When Ed Rocha began his walk into the healing ministry, he discovered a sad reality: Not everyone he prayed for was healed, and not everyone who got healed stayed healed. Armed with faith in the comprehensive work of the cross of Christ, Rocha began to seek biblical answers for the conflicting realities. The spiritual tools he discovered will help you
· pave the way for healing through an atmosphere of faith and love
· overcome frustration and failure
· offer petitions and commands effectively
· cancel the power of demonic affliction
· and more!
If you want to see results when you pray, let this practical guide help you connect with God's heart and move in His supernatural power.
Ed Rocha
Ed Rocha (www.edrocha.org) holds a degree from the International Bible Institute of London and is currently pursuing a master's in theology. Ed's direct impartation for the healing ministry set him on a path of speaking and teaching around the world, where he has seen dramatic healings occur. He and his wife, Dani, split their time between the United States and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they are planting a church with the Global Awakening network.
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Be Healed and Stay Healed - Ed Rocha
© 2016 by Ed Rocha
Published by Chosen Books
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"Be Healed and Stay Healed is a transparent look at Ed Rocha’s personal journey into learning how to partner with heaven. This book is full of faith-igniting testimonies that fuel our love for God and create in us a hunger to see greater breakthroughs in our lives. Read this book with expectation, as the author activates your faith to see the Kingdom come as promised."
Bill Johnson, senior pastor, Bethel Church, Redding, California
This book is so very real and honest. We all can easily identify with Ed on his journey in learning God’s ways in healing. In this very effective teaching approach, anyone can actually learn to move from ‘desiring earnestly the best gifts’ to operating confidently in the joy and power of our Lord Jesus to see real results—all to God’s glory. This is my kind of ‘healing book’!
Jon Mark Ruthven, professor emeritus of theology, Regent University; doctor of ministry mentor, United Theological Seminary
"Be Healed and Stay Healed is a book I am confident to recommend. Ed weaves powerful truths through personal testimonies of victories and failures in his pursuit of God’s healing power. In addition, he addresses issues from which others often shy away. Everyone who reads this book will feel encouraged and inspired to heal the sick."
Dr. Tom Jones, executive director, Global Awakening Ministries
"Ed Rocha’s stories of healing and breakthrough will stir your heart to believe for more. Be Healed and Stay Healed is a must-read if you long to be a part of seeing cities saved, nations transformed and those around you marked by the presence of God. With great humility and wisdom, Ed calls us to step out of our comfort zones and into all God has for us."
Banning Liebscher, director, Jesus Culture
"Ed Rocha’s Be Healed and Stay Healed is a book I highly recommend. Ed not only gives you keys to healings and miracles but also shares some of the most astounding testimonies of healings and miracles I have ever heard. This book will definitely challenge and motivate you to pursue the power of God to be healed yourself and to heal the sick. I love it when I read a book that leads me to an encounter with God."
Cal Pierce, director, Healing Rooms Ministries
"Be Healed and Stay Healed is a practical unfolding of what Ed Rocha has witnessed firsthand. Each chapter offers profound wisdom that comes from a lifetime of walking supernaturally with the Lord. Ed combines sound biblical truths and insights with honest, vulnerable testimonies that will release great faith in your heart. If you desire to see healings, signs and wonders, I highly recommend that you read Be Healed and Stay Healed from cover to cover."
Georgian Banov, president and co-founder, Global Celebration
Loved the book for three reasons: First, Ed is full of faith, yet humble, delightful and approachable. Second, the book is simple to read and comprehend. Third, it raises people’s faith level so they can be healed and stay healed, and so they also can heal others.
Happy Leman, senior pastor, The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois
I want to dedicate this book to my wife, Danieli, the greatest love of my life, my best friend and life partner, for all her support and for bringing the How to my What.
In Memoriam
In memory of my loving mother, who—not without difficulty—made sure that I learned English as a second language. If not for her, I would never have worked for Randy Clark, I would not have become his spiritual son, and I definitely would not have written this book.
Contents
Cover 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Endorsements 5
Dedication 7
In Memoriam 8
Foreword by Randy Clark 11
Acknowledgments 13
A Word Before: Nothing Stronger Than the Cross 15
Part One: The Testimony of Jesus
1. The Deaf Hear: Be Motivated by Love 19
2. The Blind See: Faith versus Fear 34
3. The Lame Walk: Hear and Obey 48
4. The Lepers Are Cleansed: Words of Command 57
5. The Dead Are Raised: Atmospheres of Faith 73
6. Miracles 86
Part Two: Hindrances to Healing
7. The Issue of Sin 105
8. Demonic Affliction 113
Part Three: Stay Healed
9. Believe the Word 125
10. The Power of Belief 139
Appendix A: Prayer for Healing 145
Appendix B: The Miracles of Jesus: Healing by Command 149
Appendix C: The Miracles of the Disciples: Healing by Command 154
Notes 158
About the Author 160
Back Cover 161
Foreword
by Randy Clark
Ed Rocha’s Be Healed and Stay Healed is a wonderful read, filled with powerful stories of what the I Am
is still doing in the world today regarding signs and wonders. This is not a book about the I Was
or the I Will Be,
where the powerful acts of God are relegated to the past or put off until the millennial reign. Ed is a masterful storyteller who recounts the testimonies of those people he personally has seen being healed in our day.
I have known Ed Rocha for almost ten years. He has traveled with me all over Brazil and has been with me in the United States. He has served as my interpreter, and he has received a strong impartation for ministry in the supernatural. He also moves prophetically in times of impartation. His powerful prophetic word to Rev. Marcelo Casagrande about his healing crusades throughout all of Latin America was fulfilled to the letter within a year.
Be Healed and Stay Healed is not a report from secondary sources. It is a firsthand account of what Ed has experienced. I can verify most of these reports myself because I was there when many of them occurred. I saw many of these miracles Ed tells about happen, and I know them to be true. Reading these reports, the testimonies of what Jesus has done, resulted in increasing my faith.
I believe these stories will challenge anyone who has a skeptical or cynical predisposition to unbelief. Such stories challenged my enlightenment training—the worldview that nothing supernatural is possible, and the idea that to believe in the supernatural is superstitious, not based on scientific investigation. Due to experiencing miracles, I had to give up my enlightenment training early on in my theological training! I believe that is the kind of effect Ed’s stories will have.
I recommend Be Healed and Stay Healed to you as a book. I recommend Be Healed and Stay Healed to you as an experience of God’s empowering presence. I am proud to have Ed Rocha as my spiritual son, and his wife, Dani, as my spiritual daughter. Ed is also one of my few associate evangelists at Global Awakening Ministries, and I recommend his ministry to you.
Go ahead—take a look into a world that may be very different from your worldview and experience. I challenge you with the same words the Holy Spirit challenged me with: Do not be an experience-based preacher who only preaches what he has experienced. Do not lower My Word to the level of your experience, but let your experience rise to the level of My Word.
I want to encourage you to believe that Jesus is the same today as He was when He walked on the earth, except that now He lives in and through us.
—Dr. Randy Clark, founder, Global Awakening Ministries
Acknowledgments
I want to thank Dr. Randy Clark, my mentor and spiritual father, for tucking me under his wing and helping me in this incredible journey of finding out who I am in Christ. I also want to thank him for awakening me to my destiny.
Many thanks to my friend Dr. Jon Ruthven, whose insight and supervision were instrumental in helping keep this book theologically sound.
I also want to thank my friend Susan Fleming for encouraging me to write when nobody knew that writing was on my heart.
Many thanks to Tracy Shuman for helping me with the first edits of this project.
I would also like to thank the Red Arrow Media family, especially Jennifer Westbrook, for the excellent editorial work.
A Word Before
Nothing Stronger Than the Cross
Since I started my journey into the healing ministry almost ten years ago, I have seen all sorts of healings take place. I have seen everything from headaches to cancer disappear. The blind have seen, the deaf have heard, the lame have walked and the dead have even been raised. I have also seen that there is a sad reality in the healing ministry: Not everyone who is prayed for gets healed, and not everyone who gets healed stays healed. I wrote this book to tackle these issues because I fully believe that nothing is stronger than the power of the cross—not sin, sickness or even death.
God wants everyone to be healed and stay healed. When we turn our affections toward God and connect our hearts to His, we become catalysts of His presence and His miracle-working power. When we engage with God, we become Kingdom partners, seeking to establish His will on the earth.
God wants you filled with His miracle-working power so that you can carry it with you wherever you go. He wants to empower you to push darkness away as you shine forth His light and claim territory for our King.
If you picked up this book, chances are that you believe strongly in the supernatural power of God for healing and want to experience it. You may need healing yourself, or you may want to participate in the healing ministry for others who are afflicted. Either way, physical healing is one of God’s promises for us, His children. Healing is our inheritance. God not only wants to answer your prayers so that you can be healed and stay healed; He also wants to use you as an ambassador for Jesus.
Every Christian is called to build the Kingdom of God and glorify the name of Jesus through the operation of signs, wonders, healings and miracles. Jesus commanded us to do these things. Understanding physical healing is essential in order to see His good and perfect will fulfilled in our lives. As children of God, we ought to be prepared for the healing ministry. We ought to know how to use the spiritual tools and weapons God has provided to effectively destroy the works of the devil in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
In Be Healed and Stay Healed, I will equip you with some key