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THE
LAWS OF
GOD
on
DIVINE
HEALING
by
Pastor
Max
Solbrekken,
D.D.
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"Verily
I say
unto
you,
Whatsoever
ye shall
bind on
earth
shall be
bound in
heaven:
and
whatsoever
ye shall
loose on
earth
shall be
loosed
in
heaven."
"Again
I say
unto
you,
That if
two of
you
shall
agree on
earth as
touching
any
thing
that
they
shall
ask, it
shall be
done of
My
Father
which is
in
heaven."
"For
where
two or
three
are
gathered
together
in My
name,
there am
I in the
midst of
them."
(Matthew
18:18-20)
THE
LAWS OF
GOD ON
DIVINE
HEALING
There
are
spiritual
laws in
God’s
Word
that are
as
binding
and even
more so
than any
other
law in
God’s
universe.
And
they
work
just as
effectively
as the
natural
laws of
gravity,
wind
currents,
aerodynamics,
the
circulation
of the
blood as
well as
the law
of
conception
and
child-birth.
LAW
#1 -
LAWS OF
GOD ON
DIVINE
HEALING
- THE
LAW OF
BINDING
AND
LOOSING
Law
1
is found
in verse
Matthew
18:18.
I
call it
the ‘Law
of
Binding
and Loosing’.
Notice
Jesus
said, “Verily
I say
unto
you...”
The
word verily,
means
certainly,
surely
or
assuredly.
In
other
words,
Jesus
was
giving
us the
assurance
that He
was
telling
the
truth
and that
we can
“bank
on
that”.
WHAT
WOULD
JESUS
WANT US
TO BIND
AND
LOOSE
The
question
we must
address
is, “What
would
Jesus
want us
to bind
and
loose”?
The
answer
is,
“The
same
things
He bound
and
loosed
when He
was upon
earth”!
Jesus
came
against
five
things
in His
earthly
ministry:
1)
Sin, 2)
Fear, 3)
Sickness,
disease
and
death,
4)
Poverty,
5)
Demons
and
Satan
himself.
JESUS
FORGAVE
THE
SINNER and
shed His
precious
blood
save
the
lost.
He
gave the
great
commission,
calling
His
servants
to
preach
the
‘gospel
of
salvation’
to the
ends of
the
earth: “Go
ye into
all the
world
and
preach
the
gospel
to every
creature...”
(Mk.
16:15)
JESUS
BOUND
THE
SPIRITS
OF FEAR by
speaking
peace to
the
troubled.
He
constantly
stated: “Fear
thou
not!
Peace
be unto
you!
It
is I!”
(Matthew
14:27)
JESUS
HEALED
THE SICK
&
DISEASED.
And
He
raised
the
dead!
Jesus
drove
out
infirm
spirits
and gave
us His
power to
do the
same!
“When
the even
was
come,
they
brought
unto Him
many
that
were
possessed
with
devils: and
He cast
out the
spirits
with His
Word,
and
healed
all that
were
sick:
That it
might be
fulfilled
which
was
spoken
by
Esaias
the
prophet,
saying,
Himself
took out
infirmities,
and bare
our
sicknesses.”
(Matthew
8:16-17)
JESUS
WAS
COMPASSIONATE
TOWARD
THE POOR
AND
NEEDY.
He
proved
His
compassion
by
feeding
the
hungry,
multiplying
the
loaves
and
fishes
and
giving
to the
poor.
Judas
carried
“the
bag”
and was
a thief
(John
12:6;
13:29),
but many
were
ministered
to
through
the
generosity
of Jesus
Christ.
When
Jesus
met the
funeral
procession
outside
of Nain,
He
had
compassion
upon a
widow
who
had lost
her only
son and
means of
support.
He
raised
the
young
man back
to life
and gave
Him to
his
mother!
And
finally,
Jesus
gave us
the
KEY
TO
PROSPERITY
and
ABUNDANCE:
“But
seek ye
first
the
kingdom
of God,
and his
righteousness;
and all
these
things
shall be
added
unto
you.”
(Matthew
6:33) “Give,
and it
shall be
given
unto
you;
good
measure,
pressed
down,
and
shaken
together,
and
running
over,
shall
men give
into
your
bosom.
For
with the
same
measure
that ye
mete
withal
it shall
be
measured
to you
again.”
(Luke
6:38)
JESUS
CAST OUT
EVIL
SPIRITS
FROM THE
TORMENTED,
SICK,
SUFFERING
AND
DEMENTED.
JESUS
MET
SATAN
FACE TO
FACE IN
THE
WILDERNESS
TEMPTATION
AND
OVERCAME
HIM WITH
GOD’S
WORD.
AND
FINALLY,
JESUS
TOTALLY
DEFEATED
SATAN,
THROUGH
HIS
VICARIOUS,
SUBSTITUTIONARY
DEATH ON
GOLGOTHA
AND HIS
GLORIOUS
RESURRECTION
FROM THE
DEAD
THREE
DAYS
LATER.
“Forasmuch
then as
the
children
are
partakers
of flesh
and
blood,
He also
Himself
likewise
took
part of
the
same,
that
through
death
He might
destroy
him that
had the
power of
death,
that is,
the
devil;
And
deliver
them who
through
fear of
death
were all
their
lifetime
subject
to
bondage.”
(Heb.
2:13-15)
JESUS
HAS
GIVEN US
POWER TO
CAST OUT
DEVILS
AND SET
THE
CAPTIVES
FREE
“And
the
seventy
returned
again
with
joy,
saying,
Lord,
even the
devils
are
subject
unto us
through
Thy
name.
And
He said
unto
them, I
beheld
Satan as
lightning
fall
from
heaven.
Behold,
I give
unto you
power to
tread on
serpents
and
scorpions,
and over
all the
power of
the
enemy:
and
nothing
shall by
any
means
hurt
you.”
(Luke
10:17-19)
“He
that
believeth
and is
baptized
shall be
saved;
but he
that
believeth
not
shall be
damned.
And
these
signs
shall
follow
them
that
believe;
In My
name
shall
they
cast out
devils...”
(Mark
16:16-17)
WHAT
DID
JESUS
LOOSE?
He
freed
those
who were
bound by
the
power
and the
influence
of the
enemy!
We must
do the
same.
LAW
#
2
- LAWS
OF GOD
ON
DIVINE
HEALING
- LAW OF
AGREEMENT
Law
2
is found
in
Matthew
18 verse
19.
I
call it
the ‘Law
of
Agreement’'.
“Again
I say
unto
you,
That if
two of
you
shall
agree on
earth as
touching
any
thing
that
they
shall
ask, it
shall be
done for
them of
My
Father
which is
in
heaven."
This
is such
an easy
law to
apply.
All it
takes is
two
people
agreeing
in
prayer,
regarding
a
request
or
petition.
A
prophet,
apostle,
evangelist
or
pastor
is not
necessary.
It
can be
any two
people
agreeing
in
prayer.
Jesus
specified
“any
two” agreeing
(a
pastor
and
parishioner,
a
husband
and
wife,
two
children
in need)
in
faith.
And God
will
grant
that
petition!
He said,
“Again,
I say
unto
you...”
Why did
He use
the word
‘again’?
Jesus
knew
that
“repetition
is the
mother
of
learning”.
It
was so
important,
that He
repeated
this
injunction.
“I’ve
told you
before
but
I’m
going to
tell you
again.
Don’t
forget;
this is
important”!
Do you
need a
miracle?
Jesus
wanted
us to
know
that any
believer
in need
of a
miracle
can
unite in
prayer
with
another
believer
and the
miracle
will
happen!
Hallelujah.
St.
James
builds
on
Jesus’
invitation:
“Confess
your
faults
one to
another,
and
pray one
for
another,
that ye
may be
healed.
The
effectual
fervent
prayer
of a
righteous
man
availeth
much”.
(James
5:16)
LAW
#3
- LAWS
OF GOD
ON
DIVINE
HEALING
- LAW OF
GOD'S
PRESENCE
LAW
NO. 3
is found
in
Matthew
chapter
18 verse
20.
I
call
this the
‘Law
of
God’s
Presence’'.
“For
where
two or
three
are
gathered
together
in My
name,
there am
I in the
midst of
them."
“Where
the
Spirit
of the
Lord is,
there is
liberty.”
(2
Corinthians
3:17)
“Thou
wilt
shew me
the path
of life:
in
Thy
presence
is
fulness
of
joy;
at Thy
right
hand
there
are
pleasures
for
evermore.”
(Psalms
16:11)
Jesus
said,
“...I
will
never
leave
thee nor
forsake
thee”.
(Hebrews
13:5)
And
“I
will be
with
thee
until
the end
of the
world
(age)”.
(Matthew
28:20)
In the
original
Greek
the
meaning
is even
stronger.
He
says: “I
will
never, no
never,
leave
thee. I
will
never, no
never,
forsake
thee.”
Jesus
used a ‘double
imperative’
to make
His
point
clear.
Notice
He says,
‘Verily,
certainly,
most
assuredly..."
Then
Jesus
says, “I’ve
told you
before
but this
is so
important
I’m
going to
repeat
myself.
Again
I say
unto
you...”
And
finally,
“I
will
never,
NO NEVER
leave
thee! I
will
never,
NO NEVER
forsake
thee!”
Jesus
could
not make
it any
clearer.
Jesus
is on
our
side.
We
are safe
in Jesus.
Jesus
Christ
our Lord
can be
trusted,
for He
is our
Saviour
and God.
Let
us draw
nigh
unto
God,
lock
into the
promise
of God
for ourselves
and
receive
His
answer
to our
prayers!
Amen.
How God Gave
Mother
A
Miracle
By
Pastor
Max
Solbrekken,
D.D.
Anne
Solbrekken
at 73
years of
age
“Let us draw near
with a
true
heart in
full
assurance
of
faith,
having
our
hearts
sprinkled
from an
evil
conscience,
and our
bodies
washed
with
pure
water.”
(Hebrews
10: 22)
As
a young
adult,
my
mother Anne
Hestikind
was
afflicted
with
severe
recurring
fevers
almost
constantly
for six
years.
These
bouts of
fever
left her
terribly
weak and
unstable
on her
feet.
The
doctors
could
not
diagnose
the
cause of
the
fevers
nor
could
they
help her
with the
many
different
medicines
they
prescribed
for her
during
that
long
period
of
sickness! She took – to no avail - as many as twelve pills a day, including the
so-called
‘gold
treatment'.
It
seemed
that she
was
destined
to be a
semi-invalid
the rest
of her
life,
until
she
heard
the good
news
that
people
were
being
miraculously
healed,
through
the
ministry
of two
lay
preachers,
Ludvik
Storm
and Haaken Monsen. It was widely reported that many had been healed of
serious
illnesses
at their
Bethesda
Healing
Home,
which
was
located
near the
city of
Oslo.
My
uncle
accompanied
her on
the
train to
Oslo
and
further
to the
Healing
Home,
which
was
located
in a
quiet
spot on
the
shores
of the
North
Sea
.
A
number
of
people
were
already
there
waiting
for
their
healing.
In
the
early
morning
hours,
they
were
awakened
by the
intense,
urgent
prayers
of Storm
and
Monsen
as they
were
beseeching
God to
manifest
His
power
and
bring
healing
to the
people.
And
each day
their
faith
grew as
they
gathered
for
prayer
and
heard
the
Scripture
expounded.
The
preachers
expounded
on
Hebrews
10: 22
to
prepare
the sick
folks
for
healing.
This was
the text
they
used
most
effectively
to build
faith in
God for
their
healing: “Let us draw
near
with a
true
heart in
full
assurance
of
faith,
having
our
hearts
sprinkled
from an
evil
conscience,
and our
bodies
washed
with
pure
water."
JESUS’ BLOOD PURGES THE
CONSCIENCE
In
order to
be
healed
we must
be
honest
with God
and
ourselves.
Our
heart
must be
true,
our
motives
pure and
our
prayers
sincere!
God will
not hear
or
answer
the
prayers
of a
hypocrite.
The
blood of
Jesus
cleanses
our
heart
and
purges
our
conscience.
The
Bible
states: “How much more
shall
the
blood of
Christ,
Who
through
the
Eternal
Spirit
offered
Himself
without
spot to
God,
purge
your
conscience
from
dead
works to
serve
the
living
God.”
(Hebrews
9: 14)
Drawing
from the
Bethesda
model
(John
5), they
asked
the
people
remain
under
the
influence
of their
teaching
and the
Holy
Spirit’s
presence
for
seven
days! On
a set
day the
sick
would
walk
into the
water,
at which
time
they
would ‘turn
their
faith
loose’
(as Oral
Roberts
said)
and
expect a
miracle.
The
blood of
Christ
was to
be
applied by
faith
for the
removal
of their
sins,
and by
faith
their
bodies
were “washed
with
pure
water”
for the
removal
of
sickness
and
disease!
Hallelujah!
It was a
two-fold
operation:
forgiveness
of sins
through
teaching,
repentance
and
prayers,
and physical
healing
through
teaching
and
releasing
their
faith
through
the
washing
of their
bodies
in the
water.
Actually, I believe that a person can be healed and filled with the Holy
Spirit
when he
is
baptized
in water
by
immersion.
On
the
seventh
day they
all
gathered
for
prayer,
ready to
enter
the bath
house
that
extended
out over
the
water.
It was
the
spring
of the
year and
the
water
was
cold. As
the
others
moved
toward
the bath
house,
Mother
lingered,
wondering
in her
heart
whether
or not
she
should
walk
into the
cold
water.
The
attendant
nurse
said: “You’ve just got
to trust
God."
While
standing
there
alone, a
voice
whispered:
“Don’t
do it.
You will
get
worse
and
die”
but
another
voice
said, “You
will not
die, you
will be
healed.”
Immediately
she
decided:
“I
will do
it."
At
that
moment,
she
heard a
sound
like the
crackling
of
electricity
and felt
a jolt
in her
shoulder.
A
warm
sensation
went
throughout
her
entire
body.
She was
startled
and
looked
around
to see
who had
touched
her.
The
nurse
then
handed
Mother
the key
to the
bath
house.
As she
unlocked
the door
the
others
followed
her in!
She ran
into the
water
and out
again,
perfectly
well.
She
boarded
the
train by
herself
and
headed
home.
They
lived 21
miles
from the
level
crossing
where
the
train
stopped,
and she
walked
home
without
any
weakness,
aches or
pains.
The
fever
was gone
forever.
Her
mother
was
working
in the
garden
when she
saw Anne
walking
toward
her.
Immediately,
she fell
on her
knees
crying
out: “God has healed my
daughter!"
The
night
before
they
took the
“march
of
faith”
into the
cold
water,
everyone
was
awakened
by the
sounds
of
someone
going up
and down
the
chimney!
As
people
discussed
it at
breakfast,
the
staff
confirmed
that
usually
such an
occurrence
happened
the
night
before
the “march
of
faith”
would
take
place.
The staff was convinced that it was the devil seeking to frighten the
people
and keep
them
from
receiving
God’s
healing
virtue
in their
bodies
and
spirits.
After
Mother’s
healing,
she
spread
the
gospel
through
song and
music
among
the
school
children.
No-one
had
heard of
miracles
in that
area and
people
still
talked
about it
in 1968,
when I
preached
the
Gospel
in my
parent’s
home
community
in Norway.
Although
my
mother
was
seven
years
older
than my
father,
he fell
madly in
love
with
her.
They
married
and had
six
children.
She
retained
her
miraculous
health
after
God made
her
well.
Before I
preached
- standing
on the
steps of
the old
school
house
where my
mother
sang
– the
old
Lutheran
Church
worker
introduced
me to
the
crowd
gathered
on the
grounds.
He
stated: “I knew Anne
Hestikind.
It is
because
of her
great
witness
for God
that Max
is
preaching
the
Gospel
here
today.”
And I
said a
hearty,
“Amen."
Dear Friend:
For the past 43 years I have
carried
the
Gospel
of Jesus
Christ
across
the
world
with
great
joy and
much
success!
The
reason
that I
can say
that is
because
“Jesus
never
fails;
Heaven
and
earth
may pass
away,
but
Jesus
never
fails!”
Will you
come to
Him
today?
He will
not fail
you or
disappoint
you! My
only
regret
is that
I have
disappointed
Him at
times,
but He
has
NEVER
and will
NEVER
disappoint
us.
He said, “Come unto Me, all ye who labour and are heavy laden and I
will
give you
rest.”
(Matt.11:
28) May
God
richly
bless
you, my
friend!
Amen.
- Max
Solbrekken
CANCER
HEALED
IN
JESUS'
NAME!
---Taken
from
Texas
Bob’s
World
Our
grandson,
Joe, is
nine
years
old.
He has
two
older
brothers,
Jake,
15, and
John
Mark,
13.
We laugh
and call
him
"our
golden
boy".....because
he seems
to take
life in
stride
and
makes
the best
of any
situation.
He
learned
to read
early on
his
own--just
because
he loved
books
and
didn't
want to
always
have to
depend
on
someone
to read
to him.
He has
always
been in
the
gifted
program
seemingly
with
little
effort,
he began
playing
baseball
as soon
as he
was
allowed....he
took it
in
stride
and now
plays
first
base,
catcher,
or
pitcher,
whenever
or
wherever
he's
needed.
He
is a
sweet
and
loving
little
boy,
always
willing
to help
anyone
who
needs
it.
He has a
lot of
friends
who
sleep
over and
he
sleeps
over at
their
homes.
We
always
talk
about
Joe's
sweet
spirit
and good
heart...he
seems to
instinctively
know
what to
say or
do.
Almost
three
years
ago,
when Joe
and his
brothers
were
only
twelve,
ten, and
six
years
old,
their
mother,
who is
daughter,
was
diagnosed
with
breast
cancer.
She had
a
mastectomy,
months
of chemo
and
radiation,
then had
the
other breast
removed
in hopes
of
avoiding
a
recurrence.
Then,
reconstruction
surgery.
Carl
and I
spent
most of
our days
and some
of our
nights
there
helping
out.
Joe told
me from
the
first
day that
If I
needed
anything
to just
ask him
because
he knows
where
everything
is.
I told
him
thanks
and I
would be
calling
on him.
Little
did I
know
then how
much I
would be
calling
on Joe.
He
really
did know
where
everything
was.
He saved
us from
a lot of
scavenger
hunts.
His
Pop and
I still
laugh
about
when he
was
about
three
years
old and
his
parent
took the
older
children
to
Disney
World.
They
asked if
Joe
could
stay
with us
because
he
couldn't
"keep
up"
with the
others.
"Don't
tell Joe
where we
are
because
he may
be upset
and
we'll
take him
when
he's
older"
which
they
did.
One day
while
they
were
gone, we
were
cooking
on the
grill....I
sat Joe
in my
lap and
told him
he was
looking
mighty
thoughtful
and he
told me
that he
didn't
know
where
"they"
had gone
but he
was sure
he could
figure
it out.
That has
become a
by-word
with
us--"we
may have
to get
Joe to
figure
it
out"--when
we are
not sure
about
something.
Last
August,
the
thing we
dreaded
most
happened....Susan
began
having
severe
pain in
the back
of her
neck....
the
cancer
was
back......this
time, in
her
neck, in four
vertebrae,
left
hip, and
several
ribs.
The
surgeon
removed
two
vertebrae......they
would
begin
treatment--there
was no
cure--to
try to
keep her
alive.
Needless
to say,
we were
all
devastated,
but not
giving
up.
She
began
"juicing"
vegetables
grown
without
chemicals.
We
prayed
without
ceasing.
When
Susan
would
kneel to
pray,
Joe
would
come
silently
and
kneel
beside
her and
pray for
his
mother
to be
healed
of
cancer.
One
morning,
I was
home
vacuuming
when I
had a
sudden
urge to
go to
their
house.
There
was a
time
when I
would
have
finished
what I
was
doing,
but I
don't do
that
anymore....so,
I
stopped
cleaning,
locked
the
doors
and
went.
When I
arrived
at their
house, I
went to
the back
door and
our
other
daughter,
Lisa,
was
there.
She told
me that
she was
home and
she just
decided
to come
over and
help out
with the
cleaning.
She told
me that
I was
just in
time....some
ladies
were in
the
living
room....some
strangers.....others,
friends
of
friends.
They had
come for
a
healing
service. We
went in
where
they
were.
Susan
and her
husband,
Mark,
were
there.
They
introduced
me
around
and
everyone
there
had a
story to
tell....healings
of a
husband,
a
friend,
a child,
themselves.
After
the
prayer
service,
they
told us
about a
healing
service
held one
week a
month a
church
on Hwy
280.
Maraletha,
my
sister-in-law
who is
more
like a
sister,
also
went.
That
night,
when we
stood
upfront
and
witnessed
the
awesome
power of
the Holy
Spirit
touch
our
daughter
and heal
her, I
knew
that all
our
lives
were
forever
changed.....from
that day
forward,
we walk
in
faith.....after
that,
tests
showed
the
ribs,
neck,
vertebrae,
clear.....she
goes
once a
month
for bone
marrow
treatment
for her
hip......she
is the
picture
of
health
--
she
grabs
every
opportunity
to tell
all who
listen
what God
has done
for her
and all
of her
family......
we truly
are
forever
changed....
God
is good
His
mercy is
everlasting
and his
truth
endures
forever......and
we
should
never
forget
that God
hears
the
prayers
of His
people.....and
answers
them in
His way
and in
His
time.
Joe has
it all
figured
out----it's
called
Faith
and
Trust in
God's
holy
word.
Luke
17:6
And
the Lord
said,
"If
ye had
faith as
a grain
of
mustard
seed, ye
might
say unto
this
sycamore
tree, Be
thou
plucked
up by
the
root,
and be
thou
planted
in the
sea; and
it
should
obey
you."
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