Bold Conference (Miracles & Healings)
Bungee Jump of Faith
Ps Yang Tuck Yoong
Senior Pastor
Cornerstone Community Church, Singapore
Ps Yang began with a caution and a disclaimer, that his preaching tonight may offend some people's belief system, may challenge some common thinking. This has been his journey of faith with the Lord in the area of for praying for healing for himself and his people. He recognises that this is not for everybody, not for every pastor.
Here are some of the key thoughts of his teachings on healing :-
1) You will only attain the higher level of Faith after something radical has happened to you in your spiritual journey. It has to be a gradual learning process beginning with yourself. He shared about how God healed him in different occasion, of migraine and asthma (both over 15 -20 years) after prayer and stopping to use the inhaler as the Lord instructed him.
2) When you are sick, the default us to pray, then call for the Elders before seeing doctors (if possible, not to see doctors). This is the protocol for healing. He prays daily with oil anointing himself and others. However it is key to recognise that Prayer of faith that heals, not the oil but it is a practice of faith.So what is the level of faith required to see healing taking place ?
He prompted us to reflect on this : Why is it that people find it easier to receive salvation than receive healing?
3) You made up your mind when you have no Plan B - for those who desires to have a healing ministry. There is a price to be paid. To move into the ministry of healing, one has to arrive at the place of Consecration as required by the Lord. He should be the one who convict us of what to consecrate.
The Place of CONSECRATION
Once, the Lord impressed upon him to study the life of John G. Lake, the faith healer.
Consecration is radical and yet not fanatical. God asked him to consecrate his entire leadership not taking alcohol and for 20 years, all the church leaders of Cornerstone do not take alcohol. For he and his wife, they have given up coffee for 15 years, as a sign of obedience and consecrate to God.
Hosea 4:3
My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge.
Once you have experienced healing, you need to maintain the healing by having communion everyday with the Lord.
Hebrews 5:8
He learned obedience by the things He suffered.
Jeremiah 35
God asked Jeremiah to test the sons of Rekab with alcohol. God gave one of the greatest promise to them.
Jeremiah 35 New International Version (NIV)
The Rekabites
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord during the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: 2 “Go to the Rekabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the house of the Lord and give them wine to drink.”
3 So I went to get Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons—the whole family of the Rekabites. 4 I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God. It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper. 5 Then I set bowls full of wine and some cups before the Rekabites and said to them, “Drink some wine.”
6 But they replied, “We do not drink wine, because our forefather Jehonadab[a] son of Rekab gave us this command: ‘Neither you nor your descendants must ever drink wine. 7 Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.’ 8 We have obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine 9 or built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields or crops. 10 We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab commanded us. 11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded this land, we said, ‘Come, we must go to Jerusalem to escape the Babylonian[b] and Aramean armies.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
12 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying: 13 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘Will you not learn a lesson and obey my words?’ declares the Lord. 14 ‘Jehonadab son of Rekab ordered his descendants not to drink wine and this command has been kept. To this day they do not drink wine, because they obey their forefather’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again, yet you have not obeyed me. 15 Again and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, “Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me. 16 The descendants of Jehonadab son of Rekab have carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not obeyed me.’
17 “Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on Judah and on everyone living in Jerusalem every disaster I pronounced against them. I spoke to them, but they did not listen; I called to them, but they did not answer.’”
18 Then Jeremiah said to the family of the Rekabites, “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have obeyed the command of your forefather Jehonadab and have followed all his instructions and have done everything he ordered.’ 19 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jehonadab son of Rekab will never fail to have a descendant to serve me.’”
4) Is healing a will of God ?
Sometimes, there are Blockages from healing and there is a need for true repentance.
Jeremiah 17:5
2 Chronicles 14:11
It is the will of God to be healed. As it is in heaven, so shall it be on earth. Everyone in heaven are healthy and at the peak of their youths. Jesus healed everyone that came to Him. Sickness is not from God, it is not from Him, not for refining one's faith.
The model about God using sickness as a test or trial to refine our Christian characters came around 15th century church. There are now two models of church stands when it comes to healing.
My take-away thoughts :-
What Ps Yang has shared makes sense to some extent, there is a need to seek the Lord for the individual's readiness, season of life, faith journey, for not all are called into healing ministry. However, when we encounter sickness, what he has shared makes a lot of sense, that we refer to God first and foremost before we run to the doctors.
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