You have to be the Bouncer

I watched a Tom Loud video last night with dinner, and he did something pretty neat. He explained exactly how he heals people. He didn’t have a creepy seminar and charge people $300. He didn’t ask for money. He didn’t hold anything back. Very nice.

It turns out he got his start after watching another Youtube healer, Pete Cabrera. Cabrera is not a trained preacher. He was illiterate until he was in his late twenties. Somehow or other, he started hearing from God and healing people.

Loud contacted him and asked what he was doing, and he said he didn’t know.

Eventually, Loud started healing. He realized his carnal mind was in the way. It kept telling him he wasn’t going to heal anyone. He succeeded when he got rid of the blockage.

That’s interesting to me, because God showed me something a long time ago. When God cursed humanity in Eden, he gave us curses that reflected the curses we had put on him. One of them was difficulty in childbirth. The reason human beings have such difficult births is that we have large brains. Our heads are so big they stretch women’s genitals and cause tremendous pain. God showed me that our minds make it hard for us to enter his kingdom. We insist on relying on logic and proof, so entering the kingdom of heaven is like taking a camel through the eye of a needle.

Loud says we have two minds, and I know that is true. The body has a mind, and the spirit has a mind. We literally have two minds, and they fight.

He says he accepted the fact that his carnal mind would never really get with the program, so he ignores it now.

At the end of the video, he gives people a great way to silence the carnal mind and get into God’s presence. You say, “Mind, submit to my spirit. Spirit, take me to the father.”

I know this works. I have been commanding my mind and spirit for a long time. For example, say it’s time to pray, and I can’t quit thinking about something I want to do in the workshop. I’ll say, “I command my flesh, my mind, and my spirit not to think about tools until tomorrow at 10 a.m.” The tool thoughts go away. They may come back, but they do go away.

In the psalms, there are similar commands. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.” That’s not just flowery talk. It’s literally a command. It’s an example for us to follow.

We need to silence useless voices in order to communicate with God, so this information is important. Christianity is not a game with a set of rules. You don’t try to behave and then see if God likes your score enough to let you into heaven. Christianity is a relationship with a father who talks to you every day.

You should be praying in tongues every day, because God will communicate with you through tongues. You will find you know things no human being told you. You should be prophesying to yourself and others for the same reason. If your flesh won’t stop yammering or telling you it won’t work, you’ll be isolated and uninformed.

You’ll feel better if you silence your flesh. Your flesh brings worry, anger, shame, fear, unbelief, lust, covetousness, and all sorts of other things that are unpleasant to experience. Your flesh can be manipulated into feeling certain ways by circumstances. Your spirit can’t. You can literally be walking up the steps to the hangman’s noose and not be worried or even upset, as long as your flesh is muzzled. Remember Jesus, sleeping in the boat during the storm. He wasn’t just composed. He was ASLEEP.

You can tell your mind and spirit to believe this or that. Whatever you need. If you’re worried, command them to stop. If you’re angry, command them to stop. Command them to believe, love, forgive, or whatever else you need.

Your circumstances can’t control your emotions and state of mind if you use the authority God has already given you, but if you don’t try, you can be as miserable as the lowest, most defiled unbeliever.

Loud says he heals something like 80% of the people he works on. That’s pretty good. It certainly beats the typical Christian average of 0%. Healing is important, because it shows people God is real and knocks the lies out of their heads. Paul, who was highly educated and very smart, said he didn’t win people with men’s wisdom but with God’s power. He said, “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”

I think the video is very powerful, and I recommend you take a look. At the very least, watch the last 5 minutes.