How To Remove the Hin­drances of Heal­ing such as Doubt and Unbelief

(Notes from John G. Lakes Ministry)

1. The first major power hin­drance of God in a person’s life is SIN. This shouldn’t even have to be addressed. If you are a Chris­t­ian you are steadily “mor­ti­fy­ing” the deeds of the flesh. If you are a Chris­t­ian, you have cru­ci­fied that flesh and the lust thereof.

a. Rom 8:13Rom 8:13
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mor­tify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.  

WP-Bible plu­gin — For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mor­tify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (KJV)

b. Gal 5:24Gal 5:24
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
24 And they that are Christ’s have cru­ci­fied the flesh with the affec­tions and lusts. affec­tions: or, pas­sions  

WP-Bible plu­gin — And they that are Christ’s have cru­ci­fied the flesh with the affec­tions and lusts. (KJV)

c. I John 2:1John 2:1
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
2 ¹ And the third day there was a mar­riage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:  

WP-Bible plu­gin — My lit­tle chil­dren, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advo­cate with the Father, Jesus Christ the right­eous: (KJV)

2. The sec­ond major power hin­drance to the power of God is unbelief.

a. Unbe­lief can also be clas­si­fied as sin, but we will look at it sep­a­rately at this time.

b. Unbe­lief is noth­ing more than call­ing God a liar. Most peo­ple see unbe­lief as not knowing.

c. Unbe­lief is not “not know­ing”, it is “know­ing” but choos­ing not to believe.

i. Matt 13:57–58Matt 13:57–58
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not with­out hon­our, save in his own coun­try, and in his own house. ⁵⁸ And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbe­lief.  

WP-Bible plu­gin – 57. And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not with­out hon­our, save in his own coun­try, and in his own house. 58. And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbe­lief. (KJV)

ii. Mark 6:3–6Mark 6:3–6
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
3 Is not this the car­pen­ter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sis­ters here with us? And they were offended at him. offended: scan­dal­ized in, or, by him ⁴ But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not with­out hon­our, but in his own coun­try, and among his own kin, and in his own house. ⁵ And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. ⁶ And he mar­velled because of their unbe­lief. And he went round about the vil­lages, teach­ing.  

WP-Bible plu­gin – 3. Is not this the car­pen­ter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sis­ters here with us? And they were offended at him. 4. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not with­out hon­our, but in his own coun­try, and among his own kin, and in his own house. 5. And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. 6. And he mar­velled because of their unbe­lief. And he went round about the vil­lages, teach­ing. (KJV)

d. Strong’s #570 apais­tia (ap-is-tee’-ah); From 571; faith­less­ness, i.e. (neg­a­tively) dis­be­lief (lack of Chris­t­ian faith), of (pos­i­tively) unfaith­ful­ness (dis­obe­di­ence): KJV – unbelief.

i. If you have had teach­ing con­cern­ing the will of God in the area of heal­ing, and you know that it is always God’s will to heal in answer to faith.

ii. If you are not liv­ing in sin.

iii. If you are not in unbe­lief, but are rather in belief, trust­ing God to honor His Word.

iv. If you are Avail­able to God to be used.

v. If you are Bold to speak up con­cern­ing God’s desire to heal.

vi. If you are Com­pas­sion­ate, walk­ing in the love of God for people.

vii. If all these things apply to you, and yet you still do not see God’s power in your life, there can be ONLY one reason.

viii. You are not spend­ing enough time in prayer.

Prayer: The closer you get and the longer you stay there the more sat­u­rated you become.

1.  The more power you receive

2. The longer you are out in the cold win­ter weather, the longer it will take for you to warm back up.

3. The more you stay in the atmos­phere of this world, the longer it will take you to “warm up” to God. This is why we wor­ship and pray to start church ser­vices. Since many peo­ple seem to live most of their time in the nat­ural / flesh, etc., it some­times takes a long time to enter the pres­ence of God. Some peo­ple attend church and never get into the pres­ence of God, because the only time they pray is in church.

How can you pray with­out ceasing?

1. Make sure every­thing you say could be used in prayer.

2. Begin to carry on a con­ver­sa­tion with God.

3. Ver­bally ask God to reveal things to you. Ask God to answer your ques­tions, to bring into man­i­fes­ta­tion the wis­dom of Christ that has been placed in your spirit.

4. Begin to ask God to reveal things to you in the Bible.

5. Ask God to man­i­fest the gifts of the Spirit in your life so that you can help oth­ers. The fastest way to receive from God is to share with oth­ers what God shares with you. (Make sure you give Him the credit for shar­ing it with you.)

6. Live in the pres­ence of God. When you wake up in the morn­ing say Good Morn­ing Father, Son and Holy Ghost. When you lay down to go to sleep at night, say, Good Night, Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

7. Before you go to sleep, always ask God to talk to you in your sleep, and tell you the things that He couldn’t get across to you while you were awake. When I began to do this, instantly God began doing mighty things in my sleep. My dreams are spir­i­tual, I receive rev­e­la­tions and I never have night­mares or bad nights sleep (or a bad next day for that mat­ter). My life is daily becom­ing more and more full of God.

8. Pray in tongues. Pray strong and loud.

9. Remem­ber, you are not ready for the bat­tle­ground until you have been on the Holy Ground.

10. Pray every­where, all the time. You can­not pray too much. Prayer is like scar­ing the crows away from your cornfield.

It will keep Satan’s doubts and temp­ta­tion away. Then when you see some­one need­ing a touch from God, you will be in the right “frame of mind” to give them that touch, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Remem­ber, some peo­ple will never get any closer to God than when they have crossed your path.

Set­ting Cap­tives Free From Dis­ease Mind Body Spirit

Traci Morin

Infor­ma­tion above is from a free ebook called “Divine Heal­ing” — pdf