Crash Course in Healing Ministry - Art Thomas Ministries

[@benjamingates512]

Halleluyah

[@jimAKAscooterturtle]

This is encouraging, Art. I remember when you came to the Great Lakes School of Kingdom Ministry a year or two ago. That was great!

[@blumucci]

Go around the hospitals and heal everyone...You would be all over the news and the most important person on earth

[@blumucci]

Challenge: go around to all the hospitals and heal everyone to prove you can heal people

[@HisWordisLife4U]

I love it. The two have to be in agreement the pray er and the receiver. Pitcher and a catcher. and satan is OUUUUUTTT!

[@marichdelosreyes]

Hi art, thank you for all the videos you made i'm exciting to watch everytime i want. I love the way you talk i love the way you act, :) Your sense of humor i love it make me laugh a lot. God Bless you all.

[@bigplayz4596]

Amen Jesus Your truly kind

[@carolynlouise8659]

🤗

[@yahnahlynn128]

THANK YOU LORD !!!

[@blumucci]

If you can heal people go to the hospitals heal everyone and it would be all over the news and you'd be the most important person on earth

[@ArtThomas]

Thanks for taking time to comment. I’ll copy/paste here my response to a similar comment below: While I appreciate the critique, it seems you don’t understand the full scope of what you’re suggesting. (1) As far as I know, Jesus is the only one who has ever operated in 100% results all the time. Interestingly, He didn’t spend all His time at the pool of Bethesda in John 5, even though many sick and diseased people used to lay there seeking healing. Instead, He slipped away into the crowd and moved on to other things. Jesus was only one person, and He had a mission that included healing the sick but also was not exclusive to healing the sick. He could have spent all day every day healing people and completely failed His mission. (2) Because no one else has 100% results all the time, we can’t exactly decide who we want to heal. If we could, I must admit that I probably wouldn’t be at the hospital; I’d be healing all my friends and loved ones. Why would I go first to strangers when there are so many people I personally know who need ministry? (3) A lot of miracles happen instantaneously. But there are also many that happen only after significant time persevering in faith. I’ve seen some miracles that happened after 30, 40, 60 minutes or more of persistent ministry. And I’ve seen still other situations that involved multiple visits of an hour or so of ministry but didn’t result in a miracle. In other words, it’s not as simple as walking into a hospital, racing into a room, and tapping patients on the leg before racing out. (4) Similarly, in Matthew 25, when Jesus talked about the final judgment and compared it to separating sheep from goats, He said, “I was sick and you cared for me.” He did not say, “I was sick and you healed me.” When you and I stand before the Lord, we’re not going to have to answer for whether we worked any miracles, but we are going to have to answer for whether we loved. Even Jesus knew our limitations and didn’t require 100% results from us. He requires that we love. So we do visit people in hospitals, and we sometimes see miracles. But it wouldn’t be logistically possible to spend all day every day wandering the halls of hospitals when Jesus has assigned us to love so many other people. (5) Finally, are you a Christian? Do you believe that when people die in their sins that they spend eternity in hell? If so, hospitals are full of people whose eternity hangs in the balance. Why don’t you spend all day, every day, preaching the gospel to everyone in the hospital? The answer is basically twofold: (a) you’re only one person, so the demand would be unreasonable, and (b) how many hospitals are going to let a random person walk in off the street and walk into every patient’s room? I’m not aware of any. These same two reasons stand for why Christians don’t spend all their time in hospitals. Not to mention, I do believe that eternity hangs in the balance for so many, so even if I were to somehow get into a hospital to heal people, I would be spending more time preaching than healing. I would be taking so much time in every room, that I might only be able to get to one or two people each day. Meanwhile, all my other responsibilities and assignments from the Lord would be neglected. The only solution is obedience. If the Holy Spirit leads us to do something, then we should do it. Whenever He leads me to visit someone in the hospital, I do. And if there’s someone else in the room with my friend, I generally pray for them too and share the gospel with them. The rest of my day is spent being obedient to the Lord in other places and in different ways. All that to say, the fact that no one is spending all day every day emptying out hospitals does not disprove healing ministry. If anything, it is exactly what I would expect to see play out in the real world if the way I understand healing ministry is true.

[@queenbministries]

I like the emphasis of "nothing is impossible" and "anything is possible" 😂

[@blumucci]

If the healing ministry was true people would go to hospitals and heal everyone

[@ArtThomas]

While I appreciate the critique, it seems you don’t understand the full scope of what you’re suggesting. (1) As far as I know, Jesus is the only one who has ever operated in 100% results all the time. Interestingly, He didn’t spend all His time at the pool of Bethesda in John 5, even though many sick and diseased people used to lay there seeking healing. Instead, He slipped away into the crowd and moved on to other things. Jesus was only one person, and He had a mission that included healing the sick but also was not exclusive to healing the sick. He could have spent all day every day healing people and completely failed His mission. (2) Because no one else has 100% results all the time, we can’t exactly decide who we want to heal. If we could, I must admit that I probably wouldn’t be at the hospital; I’d be healing all my friends and loved ones. Why would I go first to strangers when there are so many people I personally know who need ministry? (3) A lot of miracles happen instantaneously. But there are also many that happen only after significant time persevering in faith. I’ve seen some miracles that happened after 30, 40, 60 minutes or more of persistent ministry. And I’ve seen still other situations that involved multiple visits of an hour or so of ministry but didn’t result in a miracle. In other words, it’s not as simple as walking into a hospital, racing into a room, and tapping patients on the leg before racing out. (4) Similarly, in Matthew 25, when Jesus talked about the final judgment and compared it to separating sheep from goats, He said, “I was sick and you cared for me.” He did not say, “I was sick and you healed me.” When you and I stand before the Lord, we’re not going to have to answer for whether we worked any miracles, but we are going to have to answer for whether we loved. Even Jesus knew our limitations and didn’t require 100% results from us. He requires that we love. So we do visit people in hospitals, and we sometimes see miracles. But it wouldn’t be logistically possible to spend all day every day wandering the halls of hospitals when Jesus has assigned us to love so many other people. (5) Finally, are you a Christian? Do you believe that when people die in their sins that they spend eternity in hell? If so, hospitals are full of people whose eternity hangs in the balance. Why don’t you spend all day, every day, preaching the gospel to everyone in the hospital? The answer is basically twofold: (a) you’re only one person, so the demand would be unreasonable, and (b) how many hospitals are going to let a random person walk in off the street and walk into every patient’s room? I’m not aware of any. These same two reasons stand for why Christians don’t spend all their time in hospitals. Not to mention, I do believe that eternity hangs in the balance for so many, so even if I were to somehow get into a hospital to heal people, I would be spending more time preaching than healing. I would be taking so much time in every room, that I might only be able to get to one or two people each day. Meanwhile, all my other responsibilities and assignments from the Lord would be neglected. The only solution is obedience. If the Holy Spirit leads us to do something, then we should do it. Whenever He leads me to visit someone in the hospital, I do. And if there’s someone else in the room with my friend, I generally pray for them too and share the gospel with them. The rest of my day is spent being obedient to the Lord in other places and in different ways. All that to say, the fact that no one is spending all day every day emptying out hospitals does not disprove healing ministry. If anything, it is exactly what I would expect to see play out in the real world if the way I understand healing ministry is true.

[@queenbministries]

Hahaha that different anointing has caused many to fake falling 😂

[@johnsueellen98]

Awesome! Love it!

[@tumoangu9959]

Love it

[@lonniesanchez6898]

Nice!

[@carolinechoten859]

It would be awesome if you can come to south east sulawesi, Indonesia

[@jaybelle1909]

Watch some of Mike Connell's ministry videos, he often ministers in the region

[@K5787W]

Amen Hallelujah!!!

[@akagregoryaka]

it would be awesome if you could come to kansas anytime!

[@ArtThomas]

I expect to be in Wichita again in June of 2015. Keep an eye on my itinerary for a link with more information when it becomes available. Here's the link: go.ArtThomas.org

[@akagregoryaka]

awesome!

[@DaLeSy.]

I thought I heard Francis or Joan Hunter in a video say they prayed for like 1,000 people before people started to really get healed. But she kept persisting until it started working. Why do you think it took her so long? You make it look so easy in this video, but in her video it sounded difficult taking her that long.

[@ArtThomas]

Sometimes it takes us a long time to discover how simple it is. I know I prayed for hundreds to be healed before I discovered that it wasn’t about feeling the right feeling, thinking the right thoughts, or saying the right words. It’s simple faith in Jesus.

[@SteppingOut957]

Francis and Charles Hunter explain that before they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, they layed hands on the sick with very little results. But when they received the baptism, they received power and began to see awesome healing miracles. The key was the baptism of the Holy Spirit and receiving power.

[@DaLeSy.]

@@SteppingOut957 I wonder what that really means in non-Christian lingo. They were living more out of the Spirit (love) rather than ego (fear). And when you're living out all that love you have more faith perhaps that all things are possible. Maybe that is what it means.

[@kathleenh7498]

How can I heal someone who is an unbeliever won't let me lay hands on them ?

[@yeshuaourlivingmanna5393]

Kitty Kat That can be done according to Tom Fischer and Pete Cabrera jr. who performs healings to unbelievers and without touching them, too. They got videos here on. You Tube.

[@mechaunejacobs2642]

Acts 5:15&16!

[@kyletsoodle3201]

U don't heal anyone Jesus does he does his work on Earth through people you're the believer not the one you're praying for they don't have to believe