Habilidades Cognitivas

As forerunners like the Bakers and David Hogan speak of their stories, many people are being inspired to move out in the presence and power of

God. Middle-aged couples are selling their homes and moving to the mission field while an army of young power brokers is being raised up through schools of supernatural ministry launched through various pastors and min-istries around the world. Through the efforts of Randy Clark and others, a new missionary movement of power brokers is being launched that is depen-dant not on mission boards and programs to send them, but on the presence and power of the Holy Spirit leading them into various arenas in the world and in the workplace.

Randy Clark, a former Vineyard movement[see inserted footnote about the Vineyard] pastor turned revivalist after God used him to spark world-wide revival beginning in Toronto, has launched a series of healing schools across the nation. Clark’s motive for launching the healing schools is to clear away the debris of wrong theology and to equip the saints to heal. “I believe that we are going to see another healing revival so I wanted to establish a school where there could be a solid biblical basis for both the models and the theology behind healing and power evangelism. People like the models I learned in the Vineyard and the balance so I do expect that there will be a multiplication of healing in churches, communities, and nations as a result of our healing schools.”³

Through his healing schools, conferences, and international ministry trips, everyday ordinary believers are caught up in a new dimension of super-natural healing and power. Many individuals receive not only a biblical un-derstanding about the gift of healing, they also receive an impartation of faith and power to lay hands on the sick and heal them. Ordinary believers become extraordinarily transformed after experiencing ministry trips with Clark’s Global Awakening ministry. Clark, in fact, has been used to impart greater gifts of healing to Heidi and Roland Baker and Leif Hetland, a Norwegian pastor, during critical points in their ministries.

According to Clark, not everyone can lay hands on another for imparta-tion of healing gifts. “This [impartaimparta-tion ability] is a gift, and within Chris-tianity it is done under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and accompanied often with a prophetic word. This cannot even be done by the person when he/she wants, but has to be initiated by the Holy Spirit.” And during those

Holy Spirit-initiated moments, Clark was moved to prophesy a great release of anointing and impart, through the laying on his hands, an ability to heal beyond what the recipients had ever experienced before.

As an unassuming young senior pastor of a small Baptist church in Sand-nas, Norway, Lief Hetland had no idea that he would one day find himself leading hundreds of thousands of Muslims to Christ during the most tense decades of Mid-East and Western relations. Although he had some experience with global mission work—primarily in Africa and Eastern Europe—he con-sidered it more of an accident when miracles happened.

Struggling to understand the role of both Word and Spirit in evangelism while burning out in ministry, he heard that Randy Clark was coming to Nor-way and decided to attend the meeting. To his surprise, Clark prophesied over him and released an impartation for increased miracles and anointing that would become evident within the coming years. However, immediately after the prophetic word, Hetland was in a serious car accident that left him flat on his back for a year. During recovery God revealed His heart for Muslims and a strategy for Hetland to minister in Muslim nations.

“I had to see that Muslims were a promise that can only be received, not a problem. Second, to not live by fear but live by love. Love is a more powerful language, the language that blind eyes will see and deaf ears will hear. The people will not know how much you know until they know how much you care,” Hetland explained.⁴

“After this impartation I had different glasses on and saw very clearly what was the Father’s heart for unreached people and that miracles were key tools to bring the Gospel. To proclaim the Gospel I had to have a demonstra-tion of the Gospel in a lot of places,” Hetland continued. It was while minis-tering in Pakistan that he noticed God sovereignly healing individuals who were unknown to Lief but well known in their community. The demonstra-tions of God’s power turned many hearts toward Jesus and the barrels of many guns away from Leif.

Clark and other healers and power brokers believe that everyone can heal the sick. In fact, the Lord specifically commands and commissions us to pray

for the sick, cast out demons, cleanse the lepers, and raise the dead as part of the apostolic commission of the New Testament.

According to Clark, “We don’t expect the liberals who deny the supernat-ural dimension of life to pray for the sick. Neither do we expect the Cessa-tionists who believe that it’s no longer possible to pray with faith to heal the sick. But we do expect those Charismatics and Pentecostals and third-wave evangelicals who believe praying for the sick is still for today to pray for them. Because if not you—who? Who is God going to use? More people will find God’s power increasing in the Church when they are stepping out and releasing God’s power.”

In the meanwhile, the power of the Holy Spirit to heal has been continu-ously mocked and ignored by both professing Christians and unbelievers throughout the world. Instead, many gravitate toward the counterfeit heal-ing techniques of demonic power brokers and healers.