Category: Healing
Louise Teaching on Healing, Tuesday Nov. 7, 2023
This lesson is on healing, across all our boundaries.
A foudational verse is found in 1 Peter 2:24
1 Peter 2:24 New International Version 24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
The pursuit of healin is not simply in your physical body, but across your existence spiritually, mentally, in all ways that affliction attacks you.
Louise emphasizes in praying not simply for yourself, but for others as well.
Disappointment has led people to give up on healing. But God is not the problem. We are. Where did I miss it Lord? You need to ask yourself certain questions regarding:
1. Unforgiveness in your life.
2. Need to do it in faith. Know what God promises.
Need to ask the Lord, “take me back to the basics Lord.”
Louise wants all to learn the basics of healing for themselves and apply them.
We have to be patient as we learn. God will hear you out if you put faith in his promises and words.
You have to do the great work of healing by learning and applying God’s word every day.
How you handle adversity, for example, is going to remake you into an overcomer in Christ Jesus.
For every problem God has an answer. God has answers for all your problems, but you have to keep your eyes on Him.
Louise Teaches on Knowing God’s Works versus Gods Acts, Sept. 8, 2023
Louise teaching today on the differences between knowing God’s ways versus knowing God’s acts. There is a difference. See Mark 1:40-45 for example.
Mark 1:40-45 New King James Version
Jesus Cleanses a Leper
40 Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
41 Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” 42 As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed. 43 And He strictly warned him and sent him away at once, 44 and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
45 However, he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the matter, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter the city, but was outside in deserted places; and they came to Him from every direction.
A number of texts from different books in the Bible employed by Louise as text. Why, for example, did we all have the Red Sea experiences in our lives?
Psalm 143:5
New International Version
5 I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works
and consider what your hands have done.
Mark 6:1-6
Hebrews 3 also used by Louise:
Hebrews 3
New International Version
Jesus Greater Than Moses
3 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”[a] bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Warning Against Unbelief
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”[b]
12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. 15 As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”[c]
16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
Psalm 106
1 Praise the Lord.[a]
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
2 Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord
or fully declare his praise?
3 Blessed are those who act justly,
who always do what is right.
4 Remember me, Lord, when you show favor to your people,
come to my aid when you save them,
5 that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones,
that I may share in the joy of your nation
and join your inheritance in giving praise.
6 We have sinned, even as our ancestors did;
we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
7 When our ancestors were in Egypt,
they gave no thought to your miracles;
they did not remember your many kindnesses,
and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.[b]
8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
to make his mighty power known.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
he led them through the depths as through a desert.
10 He saved them from the hand of the foe;
from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
11 The waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them survived.
12 Then they believed his promises
and sang his praise.
13 But they soon forgot what he had done
and did not wait for his plan to unfold.
14 In the desert they gave in to their craving;
in the wilderness they put God to the test.
15 So he gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them.
16 In the camp they grew envious of Moses
and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it buried the company of Abiram.
18 Fire blazed among their followers;
a flame consumed the wicked.
19 At Horeb they made a calf
and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
20 They exchanged their glorious God
for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
21 They forgot the God who saved them,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22 miracles in the land of Ham
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23 So he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him
to keep his wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they despised the pleasant land;
they did not believe his promise.
25 They grumbled in their tents
and did not obey the Lord.
26 So he swore to them with uplifted hand
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
27 make their descendants fall among the nations
and scatter them throughout the lands.
28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
29 they aroused the Lord’s anger by their wicked deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was checked.
31 This was credited to him as righteousness
for endless generations to come.
32 By the waters of Meribah they angered the Lord,
and trouble came to Moses because of them;
33 for they rebelled against the Spirit of God,
and rash words came from Moses’ lips.[c]
34 They did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them,
35 but they mingled with the nations
and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols,
which became a snare to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to false gods.
38 They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was desecrated by their blood.
39 They defiled themselves by what they did;
by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
40 Therefore the Lord was angry with his people
and abhorred his inheritance.
41 He gave them into the hands of the nations,
and their foes ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed them
and subjected them to their power.
43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were bent on rebellion
and they wasted away in their sin.
44 Yet he took note of their distress
when he heard their cry;
45 for their sake he remembered his covenant
and out of his great love he relented.
46 He caused all who held them captive
to show them mercy.
47 Save us, Lord our God,
and gather us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.
48 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord.
Psalms 119:33-35
33 Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees,
that I may follow it to the end.[b]
34 Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law
and obey it with all my heart.
Louise Teaching on Healing Tuesday Aug. 29 2023
Louise’s “Fireside Chat with the Bible.” Teaching on healing from various books, like Proverbs, Mark, Matthew, etc.
How to be healed her subject this morning, still with Book of Proverbs.
There are doors we can open and we can close in the area of forgiveness.
Mark 11:22-25:
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[a] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
Apostle Mark
Forgiveness is one of the doors–the main door–that opens up to healing.
Unforgiveness is like a clog in the pipeline–and you need Drano–to clear the pathway to God and allow God to hear you.
Forgiveness is God’s mercy. As God shows us mercy, we need to show mercy to others.
Forgiveness is a main door to healing.
In her jail ministry, unforgiveness stops the process of healing. Need your metaphorical bottle of Drano to unstop unforgiveness and allow for healing.
Mercy is the key to forgiveness.
There are two types of forgiveness.
One, forgiving others. Tough to do. But it is necessary to get right with God. You have to put aside a “get even” attitude. That is not the mercy and love which God wants you to walk in. Once you have truly forgiven someone, you can move forward. But it you have been bullied or picked on in much of your life, and if the other person won’t admit to saying or doing something wrong, you need to put that person aside, they are not friends. Let it go, don’t retaliate.
You may need to put up a barrier against people in all sorts of relationships that may be harming you. God does not want you to live in an abusive relationship
The second type of forgiveness is where the person who insulted or took you down also accepts her role as someone who has asked for forgiveness for her acts. Both you and the person who hurt you have moved forward in forgiveness.
If one does not forgive, you can develop a sense of rebellion. King David often was hurt and insulted, but he forgave, and God accepted him back into His embrace. God’s character was often reestablished in Paul’s life due to his forgiveness.
God always has an answer. But it you are stuck in the past, you will never move forward into God’s plan for you.
Louise also touched on forgiving one’s self. God will forgive everything. Read 1 John 1:9
King James Version
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Mark 11:23-26
King James Version
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Don’t Blame God, Louise Teaching Sunday October 23, 2022
This bible lesson started out with the title “Why Does God Allow Things to Happen?” Read/listen on for a great message on God’s presence in our lives, his promises, and his expectations for how he expects us to receive his gifts and powers.
There’s a deception out there in the Church community. We ask ourselves why does God allow hurricanes, wars, cancer, Corona virus, etc.? If he’s such a good God, why does he allow all of this to happen?
My God is, however, all and always Good. See John 10:10: he thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Satan came to kill, steal, and destroy. God does not do these things.
Pastor Louise begins with Adam, who disobeyed God and so opened the door to Satan.
Satan’s temptations made to Jesus in the 40 days in the wilderness meant that Satan owned the earth and was all evil. Jesus turned down all he offered with his answers.
God sent Jesus to win back what Adam had lost, so Jesus is often called “the Second Adam.”
When Jesus returned from death and resurrection, he gave us authority to do right, to reject Satan and his temptations. To be “born again” describes this gift from Jesus to us.
See Acts 10:38. “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.” and Matthew 4:23: “Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.”
And read Matthew 8, 1-4 again: “When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 2 A man with leprosy[a] came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
The leper is like all of us. God can do anything, but we need to let Jesus know what–like the leper–we need or want.
Continue with Isaiah 53:4
“Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.”
Look up “grief.” The original was translated from the Greek as “grief,” but it also means physical sicknesses and illnesses.
Jesus bore all our sicknesses and illnesses at the Cross, the Atonement. This meant not just spiritual, but ALL physical illnesses.
The biggest weapon that Satan has against us is our ignorance. God has given you the weapons to defeat Satan but YOU have to draw on Scripture or the Word to bring it to pass in your lives.
God will not put any disease or sicknesses on us, but he will “allow’ it.
Pastor Louise then described how experiences with tennis lessons got out of hand, getting involved in strife, etc. with the ladies at the court. “I was out of God’s will,” she said. Hand pain followed, then she had to listen to God who was allowing tennis to put Louise into disobedience to his word. She allowed her flesh to take over. Then she turned away from the obsession with tennis and to God’s word.
You have to judge yourself. Be honest, then Louise gives a short description of End Times, the Rapture, Tribulation, etc.
But God DOES NOT put sickness on you. Satan wants to take you out, you, as a Christian, have a target painted on your back.
You can speak life, or speak doubt and death over your life.
Louise finishes this lesson with the story of a tornado that roared through our neighborhood on April 27, 2011. The power of God saved us.
Healing, or God’s Bootcamp on Healing and Believing, Saturday, Oct. 15 2022
In this lesson on healing, and on believing, and receiving your healing, Pastor Louise taught that you have to persevere, line up your confession of healing daily, really walk in faith and belief in healing.
Healing takes patience, one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Your weapon of warfare is God’s word. The word speaks the truth to us.
Many Christians today don’t actively believe God’s word, literally. Don’t be persuaded by continuing symptoms for example in the area of healing. They are transitory.
On many things, if you can’t keep your own word, why should you believe God’s word?
See a wonderful teaching book, Christ the Healer by F. S. Bosworth. And the Kindle edition is FREE!
If you are learning about faith and healing, and are in a church that is not teaching faith and healing as the Bible teaches us, you will probably not receive healing based on Scripture
So, where are you going to hear or read the word of God, the full word?
Pastor Louise comes down hard on the theory that God puts diseases and illnesses on us to “glorify” God and teach us patience and obedience.
God gave us doctors, hospitals and medicines to help us as we move closer to truly believing God for full healing.
The only thing that limits us is our not truly believing that God can and does heal.
We need to deal with anger and unforgiveness and other sins in us, however, before God will heal.
Louise on Healing and Our Relationship to God, Part 2, Saturday August 13 2022
Louise, more on healing using a wonderful book by F.F. Bosworth, Christ the Healer. There’s also an audio volume you can buy, Christ the Healer, Audible Audiobook.
Does God use bodily affliction to teach us lessons? Louise mentions stories she’s heard, especially in Sunday school classes, about letting a little boy die to teach his parents and friends a lesson.
A small boy died/drowned in a pool. Did God need a “new angel in heaven,” as some in the Sunday School class said/claimed? No! Is God teaching you things through sickness and death? No!
God does not use poverty and sickness to teach you. Both of these come from Satan.
F. F. Bosworth says if it is God’s will for us to be sick, then we should close the hospitals and cease going to see doctors and nurses.
However, when you are in disobedience to God, he will allow sin and sickness to come into your lives.
Fear is the opposite of faith. What is happening in your life has to be examined as you try to determine what’s happening to you.
Louise then told the story of her fanatical embrace of tennis which was not in the Lord’s will. We need to listen to God on what he wants us to be.
Louise Teaching on Healing and Our Relationship with God, Saturday August 13 2022
Louise teaching on healing and our relationship with God
She quoted Psalms 91 in several instances:
Psalm 91
1 “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[a]
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he[b] loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
There is lots of evil in the world today. It needs to be addressed, understood, and dealt with.
Today we don’t know how to study and settle–put our focus–on one thing. Instead, we text and move along rapidly from one thing to another.
People have lost the art of conversation, especially listening and hearing others.
You have an ability to discern good and evil. We don’t use it. And, as Christians, does what you are studying and learning line up with the words of God?
I’m challenging all of you to study about what I’m teaching. See it it lines up with the Word. See Psalms 91:2 for example. “2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
When you have a problem, who do you trust in? Other people? Or God? Is God your last resort? He should be your first you go to.
In a common metaphor, God is light, while darkness is the metaphor for evil.
See Psalms 103. It’s about David and his blessings.
1 Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the Lord, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The Lord works righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the people of Israel:
8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
14 for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
15 The life of mortals is like grass,
they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
17 But from everlasting to everlasting
the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
18 with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts.
19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven,
and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Praise the Lord, you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
who obey his word.
21 Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts,
you his servants who do his will.
22 Praise the Lord, all his works
everywhere in his dominion.
Praise the Lord, my soul.”
It’s all about David and his blessings. His reliance on God’s blessings, including healing. David finds the absolute truth in God, not in man’s teaching or ways.
Then Louise speaks to arrogance and pride in man’s way of thinking, rather than turning to God’s teachings and Words.
Doubt and unbelief in prayers or healing are addressed.
Louise Teaching on Receiving Your Healing, Friday August 12 2022
Louise teaching on Receiving Your Healing, Friday August 12 2022. The broad subject is Divine Healing, and Louise is teaching more on healing in this sermonette, especially, “so you act on its promises.” See Matthew 8:16
16 “When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.”
What Christ did for us on the Cross–the Atonement–and healing is prophesied in the Old Testament. See, for example, Leviticus 16:24
24 “He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.”
In Matthew Jesus specifically teaches us that he bore our sicknesses in the Atonement.
Jesus healing a blind man.
Today we tend to live in a “sense” world, like the Apostle Thomas who wouldn’t believe that Jesus had risen from the grave until he actually saw Jesus for himself.
Then Louise told of some personal experiences, that she’s been going through in dealing with symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in her hand. She understands that Jesus already healed us in his atoning sacrifice on the Cross. “I am a healed persen refusing sickness,” Louise summarized her learning, and leaning, on Jesus.
When you receive Jesus by faith, you are saved across the entire board of our experiences and lives. When you talk about salvation, for example, you are talking about the whole person, not only your Spirit, but your body and soul.
You have to renew your spirit and your body daily. In other words, stay in the Word, studying and applying it daily.
This week she went to her doctor. Her doctor, a woman with a distinguished pedigree in medicine and well recommended, told Louise about the various types of arthritis, etc. The first doctor she had seen, a month or so ago, in another office, another city was all gloom and doom. But her new doctor at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham told her, as part of her analysis, “this may very well go away in time.”
God wants Louise healed and has provided for her healing by the Atonement and promises of Jesus. This may take time, and Louise used the “healing bootcamp” metaphor. Like soldiers, and sailors, and Marines in bootcamp, you are being programmed and are in a process. She has been healed, but the symptoms may only gradually be extinguished. Faith has action. And in summary, Louise made four points:
- Identify your problem
- Speak to it
- Take authority over it
- Quit judging your process by symptoms
Louise Teaching on Healing, Part 1, Thursday August 4, 2022
Louise teaching on healing, Part I, Thursday August 4, 2022.
“The nuts and bolts of healing”
There are three or four main topics to this teaching.
The first one is to be “teachable.” If something is not working, study what God wants to say to you about your issue.
The second topic is to have “a steadfast look.” Don’t let up but stay with God’s promise and his Word. This lesson uses the metaphor of our Standard Poodle, Dudley who can be VERY steadfast in his demands made on us.
You cannot doubt God’s word, his ability to do it, his desire to do it; but some days you’re going to feel defeated. But put those feelings aside.
The metaphor of U. S. Marines Bootcamp is referred to. It takes discipline and lots of learning to make it through Bootcamp. So, like in Bootcamp, do not give up for in the end you will have learned what you need to learn to have your faith work in your healing. Learning to obey God for is like the learning and training and the discipline that’s required for human Bootcamp.
Louise then confesses what she has been going through in her own healing experience. Keep a steadfast look on God’s word
The third principle is to “guard your heart” following the first two –be teachable and have a steadfast look. You have to guard your thought life. She then describes how Satan uses pain to wear down your resistance.
Jesus took a terrible beating and was tortured in the making of the atonement and told all of us for all eternity that I have suffered for you and taken all your pain and illnesses on me.
Some books that you may wish to look are:
- Kenneth Hagan, Christ the Healer
- Virtually all of E. W. Kenyon’s books many of them specifically on healing
And the lesson ended expressing the principal that this is a process that takes time to learn.
Bible Study With Louise Clayton 