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THE
LAYING ON OF HANDS
(Updated on 01 01 2024)
The
laying on of hands is a biblical and spiritual practice, which consists
of
praying for people, or blessing people, by laying hands on them. It is
a very
important spiritual act and also very risky. The laying on of hands
involves
the transmission or transfer of power and authority. In other words,
between
the one laying hands, and the one on whom the hands are laid, there is
always a
transfer of power. This is what makes the laying on of hands a great
spiritual
danger. The danger of the laying on of hands is all the greater that
God has
found it necessary to warn about it. This is what we read in 1Timothy
5:22. "Do
not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people's sins; keep
yourself pure." This teaching is part of another very
important
teaching called "Deliverance",
which you will find on
mcreveil.org website.
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What happens during the laying on of hands
The
laying on of hands is above all a spiritual warfare. And as in
all spiritual warfare, opposing spiritual powers are in conflict, and
the
greater power wins. There are several situations in which the laying on
of
hands occurs. Let us examine them:
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If the one laying on his hands is a true child of God, and if
the one on whom the hands are laid is also a child of God, the
transmission of
power is done without a hitch. In other words, the prayer is done
successfully
on both sides. He on whom the hands are laid receives the power that is
transmitted to him, and recovers his healing or his deliverance; and he
who
laid on the hands receives from the Lord a renewal of the power and of
the
anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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If the one laying on his hands is a true child of God, and if
the one on whom the hands are laid is an agent of satan, there will be
conflict. The transmission of power can either be done with difficulty,
or not
at all, or rather in the opposite direction. This means that if the
agent of
satan on whom hands are laid is more powerful than the Child of God who
took
the risk of laying hands on without discernment, this agent of satan
will
transfer his satanic power to the one praying. The one who prays can
then be
possessed by the demons that the agent of satan has transferred to him.
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If the one laying on his hands is an agent of satan, and if the
one on whom the hands are laid is a true child of God, there will be
conflict.
Here too, the transmission of power can either be done with difficulty,
or not
at all, or rather in the opposite direction. This means that if the
Child of
God on whom hands are laid is more powerful than the agent of satan who
took
the risk of tempting God, the power of this agent of satan will be
annihilated
by the power of God, and the Child of God will escape this attempt of
initiation into witchcraft, and by the grace of God will not receive
the demons
that the agent of satan wanted to transfer to him.
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If the one laying on his hands is an agent of satan, and if the
one on whom the hands are laid is a child of God who is not spiritually
strong
enough, the agent of satan will transfer the power of satan to him, and
possess
him by demons. This Child of God will then be initiated into
witchcraft, and
will be possessed of all the unclean spirits that the agent of satan
has
transferred to him.
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If the one laying on his hands is an agent of satan, and if the
one on whom the hands are laid is another agent of satan, the more
powerful of
the two will draw the power of the other, to complement his own. Do not
forget
that in satan, it is competition that reigns. Everyone wants to be the
strongest and the most powerful. They very often wage war on each
other, and
often even destroy each other, to become more powerful. Satan's camp is
a real
jungle. The strongest devour the weakest.
This
is in fact what happens when hands are laid on. So it is not
for nothing that the Lord warns His children against the hasty and
undiscerning
laying on of hands. Children of God should avoid laying hands on people
in any
way. It is then important for every Child of God to know when to lay
hands,
whom to lay hands on, and on what occasion or circumstance to lay hands.
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The laying on of hands and deliverance
While
you can actually afford to lay hands on almost every possible
situation, it is important to note that there are some cases that do
not
require the laying on of hands. This is the case of deliverance, which
consists
in driving out the demons that possess a person. For this type of case,
the
word of authority alone is sufficient. Therefore, Children of God,
remember
that you do not need to lay hands on people when the problem of these
people is
only demonic possession. This is what we see in the following passages:
Matthew
17:14-18
"14And when they had come to the
multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15"Lord,
have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for
he often
falls into the fire and often into the water. 16"So
I brought
him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him." 17Then
Jesus answered and said, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long
shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to
Me." 18And Jesus rebuked the demon,
and it came out of him;
and the child was cured from that very hour."
Acts
16:16-18
"16Now it happened, as we went to
prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination
met us,
who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17This
girl
followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, "These men are the
servants
of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation." 18And
this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said
to the
spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out
of her."
And he came out that very hour."
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The laying on of hands and healing
As
far as diseases are concerned, you can afford to lay hands on
each case, with discernment of course. The power of healing is in the
laying on
of the hands of true Children of God. This is the promise the Lord made
to His
disciples in Mark 16:17-18 "17And
these signs will follow those who believe: In
My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18"they
will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no
means
hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and
they will recover."
This
is what the Lord Jesus Himself and His
Apostles did during their ministries.
Mark
6:5
"Now He could do no mighty work there, except
that He laid His hands on a few sick people and
healed them."
Luke
4:40
"When the sun was setting, all those who had
any that were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He
laid
His hands on every one of them and healed them."
Acts
28:8
"And it happened that the father of Publius
lay sick of a fever and dysentery. Paul went in to him and prayed,
and he
laid his hands on him and healed him."
There
are cases that involve deliverance
and healing. In such cases, you can use both methods that God has made
available to His children: The word of authority, and the laying on of
hands.
This is what we see Jesus doing in the passage below:
Luke
13:11-16
"11And behold, there was a woman
who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and
could in no
way raise herself up. 12But when Jesus saw her,
He called her to Him
and said to her, "Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity." 13And
He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and
glorified
God. 14But the ruler of the synagogue answered
with indignation,
because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd,
"There
are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed
on them,
and not on the Sabbath day." 15The Lord then
answered him and
said, "Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox
or
donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? 16"So
ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound
- think
of it - for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?"
But
even in such cases where the word of authority and the laying
on of hands are used, you must be able to distinguish between
deliverance and
healing. When you look closely at the case of Luke 13:12-13 that we
have just
read, you can see that Jesus applied both solutions in the same case,
but in a
very separate way. "12But
when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and
said to her, "Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity."
13And
He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made
straight, and
glorified God." Jesus
used the word of authority to deal with the problem of demonic
possession,
saying, "Woman,
you are loosed from
your infirmity".
Then
Jesus laid his hands on her to deal with the aspect of sickness: "13And
He laid His hands on her".
Dear
brethren, even if laying on hands for deliverance is not a
sin, remember nevertheless that it is ignorance. You do not need the
laying on
of hands to cast out demons. Rather, you need it to heal the diseases
caused by
those demons you have cast out.
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The laying on of hands and baptism of the Holy Spirit
The
laying on of hands is a practice that extends beyond healing.
It can also be used for prayer for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. This
is what
we read in the following passages:
Acts
8:14-17
"14Now when the apostles who were
at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent
Peter
and John to them, 15who, when they had come
down, prayed for them
that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 16For
as yet He had fallen
upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus. 17Then
they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit."
Acts
19:1-7
"And it happened, while Apollos was at
Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to
Ephesus.
And finding some disciples 2he said to them,
"Did you receive
the Holy Spirit when you believed?" So they said to him, "We have not
so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." 3And
he said
to them, "Into what then were you baptized?" So they said, "Into
John's baptism." 4Then Paul said, "John indeed
baptized
with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should
believe on
Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus." 5When
they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6And
when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them,
and they
spoke with tongues and prophesied."
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The laying on of hands and prayers of recommendation
In
addition to healing cases and praying
for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the laying on of hands can also be
used to
pray and commend God's children to God for a given mission, for a trip,
or even
to raise a child of God as a minister of God. This is revealed in the
following
passages:
Acts
6:1-6
"In those days when the number of disciples
was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the
Hebraic Jews
because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of
food. 2So
the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, "It would not
be
right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to
wait on
tables. 3Brothers, choose seven men from among
you who are known to
be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over
to them
4and will give our attention to prayer and the
ministry of the
word." 5This proposal pleased the whole group.
They chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip,
Procorus,
Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to
Judaism. 6They
presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid
their hands on them."
Acts
13:1-3
"Now in the church that was at Antioch there
were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called
Niger,
Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the
tetrarch, and
Saul. 2As they ministered to the Lord and
fasted, the Holy Spirit
said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I
have
called them." 3Then, having fasted and prayed, and
laid
hands on them, they sent them away."
1Timothy
4:14
"Do not neglect your gift, which was given
you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid
their hands on
you."
2Timothy
1:6
"For this reason I remind you to fan into
flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on
of my hands."
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The laying on of hands and blessings
The
laying on of hands can also be used for blessings, as this
passage from Matthew 19:13-15 tells us "13Then
little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them
and
pray, but the disciples rebuked them. 14But
Jesus said, "Let
the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is
the
kingdom of heaven." 15And He laid His
hands on them and
departed from there."
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Dangers of the laying on of hands
What
happens during the laying on of hands
highlights the dangers of this act when it is done in haste, and
especially
when it is done without discernment. By allowing anyone to lay hands on
them
during moments of deliverance or prayer, Children of God expose
themselves to
many dangers including initiation into witchcraft, curses, and
incantations.
Indeed, when a sorcerer lays his hands on you, it is his demons that he
sends
into you, and not the Spirit of God. And of course it is not God's
blessing that
can come from these demons, it is the curse.
Children
of God must also understand that by laying hands on
people, they expose themselves to two great dangers: on the one hand,
the risk
of demonic possession if they fall into the trap of praying for agents
of satan
more powerful than themselves, and on the other hand, the risk of
participating
in the sins of dishonest people who use trickery and lies to ask for
prayer,
while hiding their sins. If you lay hands on hypocrites who voluntarily
live in
sin, and choose not to confess their sins, you will be sharing
in their sins.
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Women and the laying on of hands
Children
of God, who know that God in the Holy Bible has formally
forbidden women to teach or become elders in the Church, often wonder
if a
woman can lay hands on people. We have just studied what the laying on
of hands
implies. The laying on of hands is not only a ministry of spiritual
warfare,
but it is also a ministry of authority. It is therefore not the work of
women
who belong to Jesus and desire to enter Heaven.
All
you women, true sisters in Christ who belong to Jesus Christ
the true God, never imitate these mermaids of the waters
who have
created ministries and who call themselves "servants
of God",
usurping the titles of pastors, evangelists, etc. All these Jezebels
are agents
of Hell, sent to seduce the ignorant and pollute the Church. If you
copy what
they do, you will burn with them in Hell. Remember once and for all,
that all
these Jezebels that you call "women pastors", "women
evangelists", "women teachers", women prophetesses who have
their own ministry, "women apostles" or simply "women
elders", are witches. They are demons sent from the world of darkness
to
seduce and lead astray as many people as possible.
If
you value your salvation, flee from all the churches led by
these witches, and flee from all the demon pastors who appoint them. If
you
were baptized by such witches, if one of them ever laid hands on you,
if one of
those witches ever prayed for your deliverance, know that you have been
initiated into witchcraft, and that you are possessed.
Another
question that brothers often ask is whether a woman can at
least lay hands on her children. I will answer this question with other
questions. Does she want to lay hands on the children because there is
no one
else to do so? Is there no mature brother to do it? Can't she just pray
for the
children without laying hands on them?
Even
if nothing prevents a woman from praying for her children by
laying hands on them, you must keep in mind that the danger of laying
hands
remains the same. If the so-called child on whom you want to lay hands
is an
agent of satan, (and these kinds of demons so-called children are very
numerous
nowadays in families, including Christian families), you woman laying
hands on
him will pay the price. If your child on whom you want to lay hands is
an agent
of satan more powerful than you are, expect the serious consequences of
your
thoughtless act.
Children
of God, never fall into the trap of praying for people who
ask you to lay hands on them. They are agents of satan. All
those who ask
you to pray for them, by expressly asking you to lay hands on them, are
agents
of satan, who are setting traps for you. If you
fall into the trap of
laying hands on them, not only will they suck all your power, they will
cancel
the anointing of the Holy Spirit on your life, and will be able to
reach you
through their incantations. Remember that no true child of God can ask
you to
pray, and tell you how you should pray for Him. This is therefore an
element of
discernment with which you will catch the agents of satan. And if you
know
so-called Christians who have made such requests to you in the past,
you will
recognize them now. They are demons.
The
laying on of hands is not limited in its use. It ranges from healing
and blessings,
to praying for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and praying for the
commendation
of God's children to God for various reasons. Only its application
needs to be
supervised. In other words, the laying on of hands
should not be a matter
of pride, glory, demonstration of power, or entertainment.
Any serious
Child of God, in order to engage in the laying on of hands, must be
assured
that he is spiritually strong enough to do so safely. Never
engage in the
laying on of hands without discernment. "Do
not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in
other people's sins; keep yourself pure."
1Timothy 5:22.
Grace
to all who love our Lord Jesus
Christ with an undying love!
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