Pastor
Albert Kang, Malaysia
Coordinator for Elijah Challenge Asia
Miraculous healing at Haggai Institute in Hawaii
Regional Elijah Challenge Affiliates
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"Brother Abraham is my room mate at the Haggai Institute and he is a church leader from Cameroon. Yesterday, after class, he joined the some participants in a soccer match. However, to his dismay, he twisted his ankle and returned to our room in pain. I have been sharing with him and some other participants of the 'authority' to heal and have been receiving cool reception to this 'new' idea. Moreover, the worst thing was that I caught cold and cough and have been sick. Thus whatever message of the 'authority' to heal had to be placed in the back burner until I was healed.
Still nursing the tail-end of a cold, I asked Brother Abraham if I could 'pray' for him. He was visibly in pain and I did not know if his church background would permit me to even heal him in the name of Jesus. Brother Abraham was very receptive to prayer and he immediately agreed. Seeing such faith, I laid my hand on his sprained ankle.
I DID NOT pray for him. Instead I took 'authority' over his sprained ankle and commanded it to be healed IN THE NAME OF JESUS.I commanded the pain to leave immediately and not to come back. I did not say "Amen" because I was commanding the infirmity and not praying to God. I had used the Kingly Authority to heal the affected area.
Just a little explanation to the brethren who may have heard this for the first time - we all have Priestly Authority which is praying. We pray for our church and ourselves. We also have Prophetic Authority which is preaching and prophesying. However, we must recognize that the Lord has also given us the Kingly Authority. That is the authority to heal the sick and cast out demons in light of preaching the gospel. We seldom use the Kingly Authority because we either do not believe in miracles or believe that we ourselves do not have the faith to exercise it.
In the Gospel, never once did Jesus ask us to pray for the infirm but only to heal them. In Luke 9 and 10, He gave the apostles and the ordinary disciples 'Authority to heal the sick' but never to 'pray for the sick'. Only in James 5 that we learn about praying for the sick but that is to be done in the church context.
The 'authority to heal' is different from the 'gift of healing'. Ordinary Christians can heal the sick by faith so as to prove to the non-believers that Jesus is really God. Therefore the churches today do not need 'Superstar Healing Ministers' to come and conduct healing rallies. The Church as the Body of Christ can use the authority to heal and effectively reach out to their own community.
Anyway, after I laid hand on Brother Abraham and commanded the pain to go... praise the Lord that it left immediately. I asked him to get up and walk around... to test the healing. He did so and declared that he was completely free from pain. All glory to God! When we exercise our faith, God will definitely heal.
Let's praise God for his wonderful love and mercy.
We must always remember that He is the One who heals us but we have to be the ones to exercise our faith to believe.
May we have faith to believe!
Amen."
Testimony by Pastor Albert Kang
Coordinator of Elijah Challenge Asia.
Haggai Institute
31 May 2009
Brother Abraham & Pastor Albert
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Luke 10:9 "Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.’"
