How to Pray for the Sick

Here are some of my notes of a great workshop I attended on praying for the sick.

1.  Interview the person:  As the need.  Listen with two ears.  One ear to the person and the other ear to the Holy Spirit.  Pray for the real problem and not just the symptoms.  Is the root cause pride, un-forgiveness, bitterness, etc.

2.  Why do you have it?  Repentance leads to deliverance.

3.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to come.  Give a prayer of faith and declare the person healed in the authority of Jesus name.  Let the prayer come from heaven and speak words of life and healing.

4.  Interaction of Prayer:  What's happening?  Do you feel anything?  Watch what the Lord is doing (pray with your eyes open for the other person).  God is not moved by volume but by faith.  Give thanks for what God is doing or going to do.  Command the spirit of affliction to leave.

5.  Encourage the person's faith:  Thank the Lord for healing.  If the affliction comes back, tell the person to take authority and if you don't get healed, keep coming back and look with expectancy to receive from the Lord.  I can't guarantee the person is going to be healed but I can guarantee the person will feel loved.  Sometimes the greatest work of the Holy Spirit is inner healing and not physical healing.