Trained in the Ministry

It will be 17 years this November 5th that my life changed somewhat. Our youngest daughter had a diabetic coma, stroked the left side of her brain destroying it, was declared she would die but never did, and came out of the coma four days later as a “newborn” ten-year-old. She learned everything all over again. She left the hospital on Nov. 30th being able to see energy (auras), the spirit world—both light and dark, and a four day NDE with the Lord Jesus Christ under her belt. Needless to say our life was never the same.

I was intrigued by all she had become and experienced. The first thing I “played” with was her ability to see energy. We would go to the mall just to be around people and she’d share with me what she saw around them. Real quickly I became aware of the energy around us, though I couldn’t see it at the time and what it meant on a very elementary level. Individuals that did “energy work” or energy healing seemed to be attracted to her like she was a little magnet. In that way I was introduced to this fascinating world and I soon decided that I too, wanted to be trained in the ministry of energy healing.

Though I had much desire to be part of what these people were doing and prayed for permission to be part of it, the Spirit always denied me. That really bothered me as I knew what a fool I was and knew it would require training to understand and do those wonderful things I was seeing. Well, at least I believed they were wonderful. Some individuals seemed to be helped immensely by what was done. When allowed, I asked some of these people to “work” on me. Fascinating. There have been many articles written about men and women that do what some could call energy or faith healing. I read one about an UCLA law professor and prominent corporate bankruptcy lawyer that had practiced energy work on the side for some seven years in 2004. While utilizing more than a half dozen healing methods he has experienced much success helping people. Even hospitals around the country have energy healers on staff in addition to Western medicine. A children’s hospital in Southern California has two energy healers in its pediatric pain program. It has become more mainstream over the years.

Several years after our daughter’s coma experience we moved to Central Utah to live. What a blessing to be away from the large population centers up north. The town we moved to was blessed to have more than a few women that had done this kind of work for many years and were actually quite gifted. I was blessed. Many days I’d find myself sitting in a circle as these women talked and shared experiences. One such time was recorded in our last book, I See…..Arise!, where the Spirit had asked me to do energy work on a spiritually sighted woman that had had a broken back with nerve damage along with kidney issues.

Previously I had facilitated a few workshops for people that taught different aspects of energy work like the one mentioned in my last post where I wrote about spoon bending and such. But I had never actually worked on someone and didn’t want to. The Spirit was quite insistent and I “powered up” and asked her. She agreed. Following are some of her comments about the Padawan that worked on her:

“Being the guinea pig for the experience of someone having never even attempted using spiritual energy, who is totally ignorant of how much power they actually possess, can be rather disconcerting. Holding his hand several inches above the body was a kindness. Doug had two settings: On and off. It was either nothing or 100% on. Shielding helped. Nevertheless, for a highly sensitive person, that flow of power was a little much like live electric wires dragged down my body. Little children love to experiment on living objects to see what happens. In this case the ‘guinea pig’ was pre-warned as well told the experiment was a necessity for a gifted padawan to have his first lesson working with ‘The Force!’ The padawan was clueless of being highly gifted. Just because we are not aware of, nor use, the God given gifts or talents (we are born with) does not mean we have none.”

I had no idea this was the start of any training and no idea of what I was doing other than I was told by the Spirit to “run energy” on her. My idea of being trained in the ministry was to attend a three day workshop where someone that had received a revelation about how to heal themselves, a spouse, or someone else actually did what they were “inspired” to do. They told others and found that some wanted to learn how to do what they had done. Soon it became an industry where hundreds would show up wanting to depart with the five hundred bucks in their energetically hot little hands ready to be trained. Trained they would become and then go out to help the world, inspired to help all they could literally get their hands on. Like I said, I wanted in. It seems that some are a flash in the pan so to speak, and then they quietly go away or just have a few devoted followers that remain to do their work. I have watched several with a lot of fascination.

“As Doug moved his fully charged hand, the energy was all too well felt, UNTIL he reached the damaged area of the spine. It was as if the gift was promptly shut down. There was nothing at all. His hands were still there. The strands of energy could still be seen flowing down the body. Yet, nothing could be felt. As soon as the damaged area was moved past, the sensation was substantially reduced. About plowing through the poor defenseless, damaged, kidneys. It was like having a cat claw peeling sunburned skin off. My jaw had a good workout from clamping the mouth shut. The Savior requested no emotion be shown or Doug would become even more frightened. Soooo, the guinea pig stayed as silent and as expressionless as able. Thankfully, the Savior eased back the all-out blast of the energy flow so respiration could, reasonably, function.

Living energy is, most often, blue and white in color. It can also be silver, pink, light violet and green, depending on use or need. Evil uses coal black and deep red colored energy. Flowing clean water, streaming from a hose or pipe, gives a good idea of what energy appears to the sighted. Of course it is more ethereal, but the idea is quite close.”

If the Savior had told me the pain or torture I was causing this dear friend I would not have done any of this. But He decided the experience was required. I still wanted to attend any workshop to learn. The closest I came was to facilitate workshops with people like Robert Bruce from Australia, Stephan Schwartz, a good friend from Arizona, and many others. I learned much attending them. Though nearly all of them had one thing in common, they hardly ever mentioned the Lord Jesus Christ, the True Healer. Some modalities will come close and talk about “Source.” I suppose they mean God or maybe our Savior.

Several years later when the counselor friend called me to help with casting a rather large entity out of the girl’s apartment, the young woman asked for a blessing. I have written about this but will mention it here as well. After a short bit of time with my hands on her head she bolted from the room. I soon found out that the energy from my hands was burning her head. She was quite sensitive like my friend quoted above. In fact I called that friend to see what the problem was. She told me to turn down the power. Not knowing how to do such a thing, as I was not trained, I imagined a knob where my navel is and actually put my hand there and turned it down. It worked for the left hand. (I was turning with the right hand.) After putting my hands back on her head she said the right hand was still burning her so I looked at it and told it to tone itself down. Now days I would just ask the Savior to allow only the energy needed for the blessing to come out and it would be done.

If I have learned anything these past 17 years after our daughter’s coma, it’s to always do things the Savior’s way. He will teach us if we ask Him. And we will learn to do it His way and become an instrument for Him. I mentioned this post to Z and had her read it as I knew at that point it didn’t feel quite finished. She asked if I was going to mention certain points about our Lord Jesus Christ and healing. She wrote them down and since what she said is so good I think I’ll let her say it:

“Now the only problem I see in all the information and teaching is kindly show where Christ is the main healer and where does He come in all of this? There may be names for many modalities, but none exemplify Christ nor give Him the honor or thanks for any of it. All that “energy” actually comes from Him through us. True we can transfer our own physical life force energy to another person with some rather debilitating consequences if done too long, however, the main one doing the true healing is actually our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

By far the greatest majority of the world’s population either are horribly ignorant or flat love the accolades and completely ignore what He does for us. We are to solicit Him for the strength, love, and power to heal according to His dictates, not our own. Then we are to thank Him for giving permission and for using us as an instrument.”

Like I’ve said in the past, it isn’t about us, we are not the healers, He is. It is to be done with His permission, using His energy, while doing it His way. If that includes part of a modality, awesome. But He will dictate how it is done. I was driving back from Arizona last year and decided to dissolve some clouds. I did one and realized it was really hard. All the sudden I realized I had used my own energy. I asked permission and asked Him to let His energy flow through me. He did and the clouds melted away. We could do so much more if we’d just get out of the way and be the “conduit” we should be.

A week or so ago I received an emergency call from a friend. His daughter was quite ill and asked if we’d come and help. I called my sighted friend and we started to fast. The next day we went to see this family. As we pulled up we realized we needed to close the many portals on the property or any healing may be negated. After that was done we talked to the family and the daughter that was ill that had requested a blessing. I voiced the blessing, casting off all that was causing her problems. It was quite interesting, but that isn’t my point. After I was done the Savior had my sighted friend ask permission of the sick young woman to hold her hand. She knelt in front of her holding her hand and allowed the Lord Jesus Christ’s healing energy to flow through her to the young woman. That was what the Lord had told her to allow Him to do while she talked to her. I am thinking about naming this modality….. Sorry, couldn’t help that one. It’s free for the taking, just ask Him, no charge.

I am not writing this to disparage any that have been trained in the ministry. Only to caution them to not just plunk one note on the healing/energy modality piano. Ping, ping, ping. There are one hit wonders in the musical world and one note wonders in the energetic healing world. It might be wise to have the Lord Jesus Christ as our teacher. If He honestly tells you to attend a workshop, awesome. Put that modality in your quiver and then ask what He would have you learn next. He did whatever His Father told him to do in all things, which would include using energy to heal others. He had and has a rather large quiver to choose from. Years ago I went to a woman that does cranial sacral and had the most amazing vision of my Dad’s birth mother. This woman is very gifted with sight and does as the Spirit tells her in the moment and has many arrows in her quiver.

If you have been trained in the healing ministry that is awesome. Please don’t be like the several ministers I’ve met over the years who have been trained in the religious ministry. Years ago when we were doing the Ezekiel Seminars the Savior had me invite a Baptist minister to come and give several talks. He was great. We all quite enjoyed him. At one of the last talks he gave I noticed his binder that he had taken up to the podium had many pages in it. I looked closer and saw that he had his talk written out, large print and double spaced. We had one subject at those seminars and that was the Lord Jesus Christ. Also all the speakers had been asked to come and talk by the Spirit. It amazed me that he wasn’t doing that, his was a “canned” presentation. He even cried on cue several times in his talk. There was much emotion present which many mistook for the Spirit. For a while I got caught up in the moment and then I realized that he had been to divinity school and had literally been trained in the ministry. He was quite adept at giving prepared, canned talks. There is a formula they use to drop you down emotionally and then bring you back up. And yes, they cry on cue. A good friend explained it to me once as he had used it many years ago with great results. He made the comment that by using the “ministry training” you can get the audience eating out of the palm of your hand and afterward they will feel great—for a few days or hours.

What happens if you are trained in the ministry in our one or two modalities? Do you listen to Him at that point or will your training even allow that? Can you hear Him? Do you want to? I’ve seen more than a few modalities get really “hot” and people are excited over it. Then as the newest flavor of the week comes along many will jump to that ministry as it is the latest and greatest. All the while, the Lord Jesus Christ is here waiting to train you in the only modality that really matters, that has true power and is lasting—His.

You might want to learn to hear Him, the Lord Jesus Christ and follow what He tells you to do. It might do you good to exemplify Him and thank Him, realizing He is the True Healer. And remember to keep that dirt and spittle handy, you never know when the True Healer might require you to get out of that modality box and do something excitingly off the wall. Though He is never “showy” about what is done. Seems he healed many privately or quietly and then asked them to not tell anyone. Some have asked to watch us close portals and I tell them they’d be bored to death. We stand and don’t say a word out loud or really move until we go to the next one to take care of it. Quite the show really……well it would be if you had spiritual sight and could see what was actually going on. Right now the only way I get to see what goes on is the report done by my sighted friend for each portalcism. What goes on with the unseen is amazingly wild at times.

It seems like our Lord Jesus Christ is that way, just quietly does His work. Makes me wonder when I see some healing modalities with arms flailing, rote prayers being done, people being slain in the spirit as they call it, etc. Does being trained in the ministry make it harder to follow what the Lord Jesus Christ wants us to do in each situation? How come so many that I have met are not willing to even say His name as my friend said above or give Him credit? We are not the healers, He is. His training is individualized for each person according to what He wants them to know and understand, their ability to assimilate His lessons and most of all, their faith to ACT and do what He says. It might behoove to us be trained in His ministry and become one mind and heart with Him and our Father.