God’s Heart for Healing the Sick #3: The Prayer of Agreement and the Name of Jesus

Healing the sick is part of every believer’s assignment, and in this third message of God’s Heart for Healing the Sick, Dr. William P. Hohman teaches how to pray for it: to the Father, in the name of Jesus, and in agreement with other believers. He explains why Jesus’ name carries the authority to draw on heaven, why unity multiplies power, and why signs and wonders are the dinner bell that brings people to salvation in the last days.

This message continues from God’s Heart for Healing the Sick #2: Greater Works and the Power of the Name of Jesus. Below you will find the video, a summary, the Scripture behind each point (NKJV on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline and practical steps.

Sermon at a Glance

This message was posted in July 2024 as the third part of a series that Pastor Hohman describes as mostly a teaching on prayer. The first week covered God’s will that everyone be healed, and the second covered using the name of Jesus. This week adds the prayer of agreement.

He ends the service by doing what he taught: praying in agreement with the congregation for restored relationships and for physical needs, and then speaking a blessing over the church.

Healing Already Purchased by His Stripes

Pastor Hohman begins by reviewing the first message. Isaiah 53:5 says Jesus was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities, and by His stripes we are healed. After the cross, 1 Peter 2:24 puts it in the past tense: by whose stripes you were healed. The whipping Jesus took purchased our healing, so it is already ours.

He compares it to buying a car and then walking everywhere while telling everyone about it, because you never went to pick it up. Healing has been purchased by the stripes of Jesus; you have to accept it and say, “I have been healed.”

Healing the sick, then, is not about persuading God. Near the end of the message he says he does not fight sickness or lack at all; he fights the good fight of faith and lays hold of eternal life (1 Timothy 6:12). God is not the source of any problem, he insists. He is the fixer of problems, and the work He gives believers is to enter His rest and say yes to what He has already done.

He also asks why so many Christians believe anyone can be saved, no matter how bad, yet assume a coma or stage four cancer is beyond God. The things which are impossible with men are possible with God (Luke 18:27). You may not see it right away, he says, because faith has to be built up.

Praying to the Father in the Name of Jesus

The second message was about the name of Jesus, and he reviews it here. In John 14:12–14, Jesus says that he who believes in Him will do the works He did, and greater works, and that whatever we ask in His name, He will do. Jesus made the lame walk and the blind see and raised the dead. Greater works will be done by believers, but not by those who never open their mouths.

He uses a bank to explain why the name matters. If you ask to withdraw $1,000 and the teller asks your name, answering “my name” gets you nothing. A signature carries the authority of a real name. In the same way, believers withdraw from heaven by the authority of the name of Jesus.

He is careful about the order. In John 16:23–24, Jesus says that in that day you will ask Him nothing, but whatever you ask the Father in His name, He will give you. So believers pray to the Father in the name of Jesus. Through Jesus we offer the sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips giving thanks to His name (Hebrews 13:15–16), because He is our High Priest, as Aaron was under the old covenant.

We are commanded to believe on the name of God’s Son (1 John 3:23), so the pastor urges the church never to use that name frivolously or in vain. It is the most exalted name there is. Using it with honor builds faith, as with Peter and John, who told the lame man at the Beautiful Gate to rise up and walk in the name of Jesus (Acts 3:6). At that name every knee will bow (Philippians 2:10).

Whatever you do, do it in the name of Jesus (Colossians 3:17). The more often believers use the name of Jesus with honor, he teaches, the more their faith grows in the authority it carries.

Greater Works and Healing the Sick in the Last Days

The series began with Luke 21:25–26, where Jesus describes signs in the sun, moon and stars and distress of nations with perplexity. Pastor Hohman reads this as nations getting into messes with no way out. The world has no hope, but believers have the blessed hope of Christ’s return and the catching away of the church, which he says is what the word rapture means.

The church is the salt of the earth, preserving it now. After the church is taken, he teaches, the Holy Spirit will still be here and people will still be saved, but there will be great tribulation. That is why the church must reach people now, and he asks how Jesus reached them: with signs, wonders and miracles.

Jesus did what the religion of His day was not doing. The religious leaders kept the Word to themselves and added condemnation, but Jesus said He did not come to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved (John 3:17). He healed the sick, cleansed lepers and raised the dead, and He told His followers to do the same. It was not a question; it was a command.

What could be greater than raising the dead? Getting people born again, the pastor answers. Jesus could not do that during His earthly ministry, because it was not yet time. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul (Matthew 16:26)? Family members need to be saved, and fear of offending them is no excuse.

Miracles, signs and wonders are “the dinner bell,” he says, which is why crowds followed Jesus while the Pharisees could not understand it. Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17), and on the cross He said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). In His righteousness believers carry the authority of His name and are empowered for healing the sick, not as churchgoers but as committed believers.

The Lenticular Cloud: Danger That Looks Calm

Pastor Hohman shares a lesson from his pilot training. Learning to fly over mountains, he studied weather patterns, including the lenticular cloud, a smooth, lens-shaped cloud that looks harmless against a blue sky. It signals powerful winds that drive straight down toward the ground.

Flying in southern Colorado, he and his companion spotted one and landed at a small country airport. A pilot who had flown the Rockies for over 40 years told them, “I’d never go today, don’t do it,” so they turned back. He then recounts how, while searching for a missing skilled pilot in the Rockies, searchers found dozens of other crashed private planes, and that is how the danger of these clouds became understood.

The world is like that, he says. It looks innocent, but some believers get so close that they cannot get out, and they crash and burn. He has seen Christians start compromising to make more money or fit in with a crowd until they were no longer living for Jesus. The problem is a lack of spiritual discernment: judging only by what the senses can see and feel rather than by the Scriptures.

This is why 2 Corinthians 6:14–18 says not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. He has unbelieving friends and shares the Lord with them a little at a time, never forcing it. But he refuses to sympathize with bitterness, arrogance or hatred. Come out from among them and be separate, he says, and touch no unclean thing: no lenticular cloud. God’s people perish for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6), so do not blame God for a crash.

The Prayer of Agreement

The heart of the message is Matthew 18:18–20. Whatever believers bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever they loose will be loosed. If two agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done by the Father, for where two or three gather in Jesus’ name, He is there. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God (Psalm 20:7).

Agreement must be real, he stresses. Anyone can say “I agree” while doubting. He reports seeing three people raised from the dead, and tells of a hospital visit where a relative scoffed at the idea of the man in a coma being raised up, so he stopped. That, he says, is why Jesus often sent people out of the room and kept only Peter, James and John with Him.

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 says two are better than one, and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. One shall chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight (Deuteronomy 32:30). He calls it synergism: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The prayer of agreement is not ganging up on God; it is standing together against the enemy to loose what God has already done.

Jesus sent disciples out two by two (Luke 10:1) so they would build each other’s confidence. Testimonies do the same, and keeping quiet about what God has done, he says bluntly, robs people. Believers overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony (Revelation 12:11). He reports that the church regularly sees people healed of cancer as they pray in agreement.

He then shares a testimony. A local young man addicted to meth had been beaten with a baseball bat and was in intensive care, not expected to recover. The Lord told Pastor Hohman to go, so he and Paul stopped at the hospital in Wausau. They prayed in agreement for about thirty seconds, commanding life and restoration and thanking the Father that healing was his by the stripes of Jesus. The man’s eyes opened. The pastor told him his sins were forgiven, because his own house had been one of those the man robbed. Years later the man, now married with children, hugged him in a restaurant and thanked him.

He adds the four friends who tore open a roof to lower a paralyzed man to Jesus (Mark 2:1–12). Prayer of agreement, he says, rips the roof off: it tears down the barrier of unbelief, bitterness or unforgiveness between people and God so Jesus can bring His healing in. The Spirit who raised Christ will give life to mortal bodies (Romans 8:11).

Unity and the Commanded Blessing

He has the church read Psalm 133: how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious oil running down Aaron’s beard and like the dew of Hermon descending on the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

The oil, he teaches, is the anointing for the church when believers gather in Jesus’ name. The dew is for everyone, but it does not reach ground covered by a tree or a barrier. The prayer of agreement brings that refreshing to places the dew is not reaching, including people outside the church and believers who have set up barriers through disobedience. Grace does not mean living however you like; grace teaches you to live right.

He encourages husbands and wives, friends and families to start using the prayer of agreement: hold hands, declare that Jesus heals, and command healing in Jesus’ name. Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers (3 John 2). Thank God every day for His promises.

Before the closing prayers, he speaks to people facing relationship problems. Blessed are the peacemakers (Matthew 5:9), and where there is no wood, the fire goes out (Proverbs 26:20). He tells of a church member whose daughters reconciled with him within weeks after eight years apart. Do not let pride be the roof that cannot be torn off, he says, and prays to the Father as the Restorer of the breach (Isaiah 58:12).

Then he leads the congregation in the prayer of agreement for physical needs: feet, backs, legs, heads and ears. He recalls a service where everyone with growths was healed, including a woman troubled for over twenty years. Healing the sick, he concludes, is God’s heart; He is on your side, and the only work is to enter His rest and say yes.

Praying in Agreement This Week

Here are the practical steps drawn from this message on healing the sick:

• Receive what was purchased. Thank God daily that by His stripes you were healed, rather than begging for it.
• Pray to the Father in Jesus’ name. Use the name of Jesus often and with honor, never in vain.
• Find a prayer partner. Hold hands with your spouse, friend or family member and pray in genuine agreement.
• Tell your testimony. Share what God has done so others can build confidence in Him.
• Avoid lenticular clouds. Judge situations by Scripture, not appearances, and do not yoke yourself to compromise.
• Be a peacemaker. Stop adding fuel to conflicts and pray in agreement for restored relationships.

Timestamped Outline

• 0:00 Review: by His stripes we were healed
• 1:14 Pick up the car you bought; John 14:12–14
• 3:13 The bank and the authority of a name
• 4:34 Pray to the Father, not to Jesus: John 16
• 5:38 Hebrews 13: through Jesus, our High Priest
• 6:53 Never use His name frivolously
• 8:10 Luke 21 and the blessed hope
• 10:25 How Jesus reached people
• 12:41 Greater works: getting people born again
• 14:02 Miracles are the dinner bell
• 15:16 Pilot training and the lenticular cloud
• 18:51 Turning back in the Rockies
• 22:21 Christians who crash and burn
• 23:27 Matthew 18: binding, loosing and agreement
• 25:49 Real agreement and the hospital visit
• 27:03 Ecclesiastes 4: two are better than one
• 29:36 Two by two, and the power of testimony
• 30:49 The young man in intensive care
• 36:19 Tearing the roof off: Mark 2
• 38:38 One chases a thousand: synergism
• 39:48 Psalm 133: the oil and the dew
• 44:29 2 Corinthians 6: do not be unequally yoked
• 51:46 3 John 2 and nothing beyond God
• 55:51 Praying for restored relationships
• 58:39 Praying in agreement for healing

God’s Heart for Healing Series

This message is part of a five-part series at NTC Ministries. Start from the beginning or continue:

• First message: God’s Heart for Healing the Sick #1: Wake Up and Labor Together With God
• Previous: God’s Heart for Healing the Sick #2: Greater Works and the Power of the Name of Jesus
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• Next: God’s Heart for Healing the Sick #4: Anointing With Oil and the Prayer Cloth

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the prayer of agreement a way to pressure God?

No. Pastor Hohman says plainly that it is not “gang up on God day.” Some people collect as many prayers as possible out of desperation because they lack confidence in their own relationship with God. Agreement is believers standing together against the enemy, using the authority they have been given to loose what God has already done, so that it shows up in people’s lives.

Why should I not just pray directly to Jesus?

He bases this on John 16:23–24, where Jesus says that in that day you will ask Him nothing, but whatever you ask the Father in His name, He will give. Jesus is the Mediator and High Priest through whom believers come to the Father. So the pattern he teaches is to address the Father and to ask, thank and command in the name of Jesus.

What if the person I pray with does not really believe?

He teaches that agreement has to be genuine, not just words. When a relative in a hospital room scoffed at the idea of healing, he stopped praying. He points out that Jesus often put doubters out of the room and took only a few disciples in. His advice is to pray with believers who truly agree and to let testimonies build everyone’s confidence over time.

Scripture References

All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:

• Matthew 18:18–20 — binding, loosing and agreement
• John 14:12–14 — greater works in His name
• John 16:23–24 — ask the Father in Jesus’ name
• Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24 — by His stripes
• Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 — two are better than one
• Deuteronomy 32:30 — two put ten thousand to flight
• Psalm 133 — the commanded blessing of unity
• Mark 2:1–12 — the roof torn open
• 2 Corinthians 6:14–18 — come out and be separate

How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.

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