Gods Heart For Healing The Sick #5 Laying On Of Hands

Laying On Of Hands Overview

In this powerful closing message of his five-part series on God’s Heart for Healing the Sick, the pastor brings the teaching to a compelling conclusion by examining the biblical practice of laying hands on the sick. Drawing from Mark 16:14-18, he establishes that this is not a gift reserved for clergy or spiritual elites, but a command given to every believer. He reminds listeners that in a world filled with distress, perplexity, and nations without solutions, the Church has been given practical spiritual tools to demonstrate the Kingdom of God to a hurting world. The session revisits the four previous methods covered in the series, including praying in the name of Jesus, the prayer of agreement, anointing with oil, and prayer cloths, before focusing on the laying on of hands as the fifth avenue of healing. Through vivid personal testimonies, including a man healed of bipolar disorder and another whose eyes improved after prayer, the pastor emphasizes that the believer’s role is simply obedience. God does the healing. Using illustrations from Noah, Moses, Joshua, Elijah, and Naaman, he shows that God consistently asks people to do the simple things while He does the impossible.

Laying On Of Hands Outline

• 0:00 – Series Recap and the State of the World: The pastor opens by situating this final message within the five-part series and connecting Luke 21 to current global turmoil, establishing urgency for the Church to act.
• 8:30 – The Five Avenues of Healing Revisited: A concise review of the four previous methods: the name of Jesus, the prayer of agreement, anointing with oil, and prayer cloths, grounding the congregation in the full scope of the teaching.
• 18:00 – Mark 16 and the Great Commission: A deep look at Mark 16:14-18 where Jesus rebukes unbelief and commissions every believer to preach, cast out demons, and lay hands on the sick with the promise they will recover.
• 28:00 – The Believer’s Role vs. God’s Role: The pastor clarifies the critical distinction: believers lay hands, God heals. Biblical examples from Noah, Moses, Joshua, Elijah, Elisha, and Naaman illustrate that God asks simple obedience and does the supernatural.
• 38:00 – The Korean Girl and the Family of God: A pastoral illustration about a Korean refugee who hid food reveals why Christians struggle to receive what God has already provided, rooted in a fallen-world mindset rather than a family-of-God identity.
• 46:00 – Personal Testimonies of Healing Through Laying On Hands: The pastor shares testimonies of a man healed of bipolar disorder and another whose eyesight improved, along with experiences of praying for strangers in stores, building practical faith in the congregation.
• 55:00 – Obedience Is the Key to Miracles: Using Luke 19:13 and Mark 9:23, the pastor teaches that believing is not a feeling or a spiritual state but an act of obedience, and that consistent obedience produces growing fruit in healing ministry.
• 1:02:00 – Call to Action and Corporate Declaration: The congregation is led in a spoken declaration of commitment to do what Jesus commanded and to expect God to fulfill what He promised, closing the series with an exhortation to occupy until He comes.

Scripture References

Luke 21:25, John 14:12-14, John 16:23-24, 1 John 3:23, Matthew 18:18-20, Psalm 133:1, James 5:14-15, Mark 6:13, Acts 19:11-12, Mark 16:14-18, Luke 6:46, Luke 19:13, Mark 9:23, Mark 5:22-23

Key Takeaways

• Every believer, not just pastors or elders, is commanded by Jesus in Mark 16 to lay hands on the sick and expect them to recover.
• The believer’s responsibility is simple obedience; healing itself is God’s work, just as God brought the flood while Noah only built the ark.
• God has provided five distinct avenues of healing in the New Testament, and the laying on of hands is the most direct and universally accessible.
• Holding the name of Jesus as holy and intimate, rather than common or mechanical, is essential to operating effectively in healing ministry.
• Faith is not a feeling or a heightened spiritual state but an act of obedience, and consistent obedience over time produces greater and greater results.
• Celebrating every partial improvement, even when healing is not yet complete, keeps the door open for more of God’s power to flow.
• The Church is called to use healing as a dinner bell to compel people from the highways and byways into the Kingdom of God in these last days.

Laying On Of Hands Notes

The Command Given to Every Believer

Mark 16:17-18 is not a passage reserved for apostles, bishops, or those with theological degrees. The pastor is emphatic that Jesus addressed these words to those who believe, meaning every born-again follower of Christ. When Jesus said believers would lay hands on the sick and they would recover, He was not describing an elite ministry function but a normal expression of Kingdom life. The promise attached to the action is unconditional for the one who holds the name of Jesus as holy and acts in obedience. This understanding dismantles the passivity that keeps many Christians from stepping into one of the most powerful tools God has placed in their hands.

Obedience Over Spiritual Confidence

One of the most liberating truths in this message is that the fulfillment of God’s promises flows more from obedience than from a spectacular surge of faith. The pastor makes clear that self-consciousness is the enemy of effective ministry. You are not the healer; you are simply the one who lays hands. God is the one who makes the sick recover. Noah did not produce the flood, Moses did not part the sea, and Elisha did not make iron float. They each did something small and natural, and God did something vast and supernatural. This pattern runs throughout Scripture as an invitation to every believer to simply do their part.

Testimony That Builds Corporate Faith

The pastor shares the account of Kenneth, a man battling severe bipolar disorder, who received prayer through the laying on of hands during a Minneapolis crusade. His brother Devon Mitchell later reported that Kenneth had been completely restored in his mind, was now married with children, and was running for the Lord. The pastor’s response is instructive: he deflected all credit to God, pointing to his own obedience as the only contribution. This kind of testimony, rooted in a named person and a specific condition, serves a pastoral purpose. It moves divine healing from theological concept to lived reality and invites listeners to believe that the same God can move in their circumstances.

Healing as Evangelism in the Last Days

The five-part series is not merely about personal wellness. The pastor frames the healing ministry of the Church as a dinner bell, a compelling demonstration of God’s power designed to draw in those who are without hope in a world of perplexity. Luke 21:25 describes nations in distress with no way out, and the pastor argues that this prophetic context makes the Church’s healing commission more urgent than ever. When believers lay hands on the sick and people recover, it gives unbelievers a reason to believe. Healing in the streets, in stores, and in communities is the supernatural compulsion that draws people into the Father’s house.

The Danger of Untaught Believers

The pastor addresses a tragic gap in many Christian communities: believers who have been born into the family of God but do not know what belongs to them. He uses the image of a Korean refugee girl who hid food in her new adoptive home because she did not yet understand that provision was now permanent. Many Christians similarly live beneath their inheritance because their minds have been programmed by a fallen world rather than renewed by the Word. Teaching on healing and redemptive provision is not a cause for condemnation but for liberation. Faith truly does come by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

Occupy Until He Comes

Closing with Luke 19:13, the pastor calls every listener to take seriously the command to occupy, a Greek word meaning to busy oneself with trade, to cause business to increase. The King has entrusted each servant with resources and expects them to be actively investing those resources in the work of the Kingdom until His return. In a generation prone to distraction, comfort, and spiritual passivity, this word carries particular weight. The session ends not with a quiet reflection but with a corporate declaration of commitment to act on what Jesus commanded and to expect God to act on what He promised.

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