INTERCESSION

February 25, 2008

“Methods of Prayer and Healing”

We take authority over weather.  We always pray God's peace so that the   weather will not harm anybody.  We have many tornadoes coming over Omaha.  The whole community does this and they go right back up.  It was interesting one time when a tornado was coming over actually Bellwether.  The media was all out there with their cameras and you could see the finger coming right down and the community took authority and right in front of the cameras, it just went right back up.  We never had a tornado touch down since 1975 in Omaha, Nebraska, for which we are very grateful to God.  We always pray God's peace. 
 
If it storms in your area, some storms can be from God, they can be wake up calls.  There can be different other reasons, but many of them may not be from God, so we use that authority as God has taught us. 

We use also the Mass.  It's so powerful, particularly for people that are hurting, people that are infested with evil spirits in any way.  We bring them to Mass when we go.  We bring them there in spirit and we put them in that chalice that they can be delivered by the blood of the Lamb, that they can be healed, that they can have new life.  We do not hear a lot of sermons about the blood of the Lamb.  Oh my goodness, it is so powerful.  It is the same blood that was shared on Calvary. 

We use the sacraments and sacramentals of the Church tremendously.  Blessed salt is wonderful.  In one way it is more powerful than the water because the Church has deliverance prayers on blessed salt.  It is just amazing what happens. 

 There was a man on an airplane one time looking at a pornography magazine.  He was up a little bit and you could see what he was looking at and then he got up to go to the restroom and so we just had a little salt there and just threw it into his seat.  When he came back, he never picked the magazine up again. 

 There was a woman whose husband used to come home from work and he would change clothes and then go out to the bar.  She used blessed salt and she put some in his shoes and he was back within the hour and she said, "Honey, you are back so soon!" He said, "Yeah, my feet hurt. ‘ 

Of course the sacrament of reconciliation, it is so healing.  It is the sacrament of the Father.  It is so healing and it sets us so free.  We were in a Church not too long ago and people were going to confession.  We were watching them all lined up.   I never noticed the difference in their faces when they went in and when they came out.  When they came out there was just an aura about them.  They were just beaming.  There was a peace.  There was a joy.  I realized that this is tremendous power, the healing power of God, because He is visiting his people.  This is what intercession and spiritual warfare ministry is all about.  God is visiting his people in his beautiful mercy. 

We use the angels. We use the angels all the time.  They do not automatically go about doing these things.  We saw St. Michael one time atop of our roof with a bunch of other angels.  They were in armor.  We had been interceding for something going on in Rome at the time.  We stopped the prayer and we said, "What are you doing?”  In other words, why aren't you here helping us?    Michael said, "We are here to be sent.  We have had our battle with Satan and we won.  This is the battle of the Lamb now.  We are here to help.  Send us, use us.”  Isn’t that amazing? They will not interfere unless they are asked.

We ask the angels to do things all the time.  Ask your guardian angel to do things. 

Sometimes we have a hard time getting our dog in.   Sometimes he will obey, sometimes he does not.  So, we just send our angel out every time we let the dog out and say, "Come and please bring the dog in.”  Within about two minutes, the dog arrives home.  Angels find parking places, they are just wonderful.  They do all sorts of things for us. 

Use your authority.  Jesus said, "All authority in heaven in earth has been given to Me.”  If Jesus Christ is within us, why wouldn't He share his authority with us?  It is His authority.  We are chosen in him.  We are called to set the captives free.  All this is the work of the kindness of our God who continues to visit his people in mercy, mercy, mercy. 

Excerpt from Mother Nadine’s, “Spiritual Warfare,” Corpus Christi, TX 2006