The Ministry of Healing
Beloved, God desires for us to be healthy. Thessalonians 5:23 tells us, “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (ESV) Notice how God cares about our entire being. We have a responsibility to pursue wholeness (Body, soul, and spirit). The Apostle John expresses the heart of God concerning healing as he states, “Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.” 3 John 1:2 (ESV).
Jesus has given us very clear and specific instructions concerning healing, In Matthew 10:8 he tells us, “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.” (ESV) Jesus is calling us to walk in a great deal of power as we are called to heal the sick and even raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Very important to point out that we are called to do these things free of charge. We don’t get involve in ministry to make money. The moment helping people become a for profit business, it loses God’s power. That is the reason why you see so many diagnoses, but very little deliverance and healing. Keeping people sick is a very lucrative business.
In Luke 9:1-2 Jesus “…called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.” (ESV) When Jesus is speaking about curing diseases in Luke 9:1, he is addressing the sickness of the soul cause by pain and sorrow. When he speaks about healing, he is addressing the sickness in our bodies.
In our next series of articles, we will start looking for solutions as we take a close look at divine prescriptions,
To be continued…
An independent thinker with a profound call to see the orthodoxy of the church and passion for Christ manifesting together. Angel was born in Brooklyn, New York in April of 1968, he was raised on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico where he earned his B.S. degree in Sociology with a minor in Education from the Inter American University in San Germán in 1991. That same year he moved to Jacksonville, Florida. After working construction jobs for a year and learning the English language, his first job working with foster-care children in the capacity of youth care worker was with Jacksonville Youth Sanctuary in September of 1992. With JYS he was promoted several times as group home supervisor, legal caseworker, and program director.
While in Jacksonville, Angel studied a couple of martial arts styles. After earning his black belt, he became the founder of Good Fight Ministries as he used martial arts as an instrument to preach the gospel. In 2004 Angel was selected Martial Arts Instructor of the Year for the State of Florida and in 2005 Angel was inducted in the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame where he also received the Christian Spirit Award. In July of 2005 Angel accepted his call to pastor a bilingual church in Winton, NC where he served for a couple of years. Five months later he lost his first wife to cancer in December of that same year. This initiated a deep valley of suffering in his life, a mountain of costly mistakes and the embracing of lifestyles of sin that are well documented through this blog.
In August of 2012 Angel moved to Fairbanks Alaska with his wife Rayette Casiano and six children who are now adults. In Alaska, Angel continued his social work-related career and his ministry of preaching, teaching and writing. Angel is the author of two books, Hope for the divorcee: Forgiving and Moving Forward and 7 Banderas de Esperanza: La Bendición de Yokdzonot.
In January 8th of 2020 Angel and his wife moved to Arizona. On June 8th 2021 Angel started his home church, not as a starting point, but as a closer way to how the church is suppose to look like according to Scripture.
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