The first way to help is by admonition. You show the brother the way of
4 Spiritual Judgment: Healing
The Way to Healing After you have used the spirit to touch the conditions and problems of the brothers and sisters, you may begin to diagnose and show them the way to healing. This is easy to say, but in real situations it is rather hard to convince people. In order to help them towards deliverance, you yourself must have sufficient experience that can enable you to speak so clearly and thoroughly that it gives light to them to be delivered. The difficulties in helping people are: one, our insufficient experience; and two, our inadequate words. If our experience and words are ample enough, we shall be able to cause people to see light.
I recall many years ago when in Shanghai that I had no way to help a certain brother. This was due to my insufficient experience. His will was extremely strong and he was proud and quick-tempered. Some people are quick-tempered, but they are not proud. This brother was strong-willed and quick-tempered. So he was not easy to deal with. For a person whose will is strong, yet whose emotion is not easily stirred, his problem remains in himself. If a person like this loses his temper, a simple confession will usually come forth and the problem is resolved. But a strong-willed and quick-tempered person is also very subjective. When he is aroused, he maintains that his temper is justified. Therefore, he will not repent. Such a combination creates a major problem.
Some persons may have only one problem, others may have two or three problems, which can impinge on one another to aggravate their difficulties. In medicine, sometimes a combination of diseases makes a deteriorating physical condition difficult to cure, because each disease affects the other and heightens the overall sickness. Yet this is also true in human nature. You need to understand the interaction of different characteristics. A strong-willed, proud and quick-tempered individual needs very intensive handling.
Now after you have apprehended a brother's condition, you have two alternative ways by which to help.
1. Admonish The first way to help is by admonition. You show the brother the way of deliverance. This one has never seen light, so he is ignorant of himself and no
one has ever spoken frankly to him. As you talk with him, you will present before him what you have seen. You will tell him your own experience. You advise him to allow himself to be dealt with by God, to accept the discipline of the Holy Spirit. For his way is not straight: he lives by his mind and emotion, his spirit is weak, he has flaws before God, and he has refused the Spirit's discipline on many occasions. If your light is sufficiently accurate, you can rescue him. But you yourself must not be confused. Light always brings in deliverance. Light also brings in release. You can invite him to come and have pointed out to him those things about which he has rejected the discipline of the Spirit. Your words of admonition need to be positive. They must not be casual, but be always exact. You prove your words by citing several instances wherein he has refused the discipline of the Holy Spirit. Few make errors by chance; instead, most commit temperamental errors. The slow are always slow, and the quick are always quick. Temperamental error is a human problem. So, you offer help to rectify his temperamental error, not his occasional fault.
Now in our giving help, it cannot be general but needs to be specific and with definite procedure. Number one, take down the facts. You should prepare a notebook to record the facts. For example, let us say that a brother speaks inaccurately or tells lies. The first time you heard him do so you wrote down what he said and where he said it. For if this is a flaw in character, he will again say inaccurate words or speak falsehoods. You record his inaccurate or lying words time and again, perhaps up to ten or twenty times. By this account you will know that this is his character flaw. And then, as opportunity presents itself, at the right time you will be able to show him how inaccurate or false have been his words.
Number two , you yourself must be strengthened within. You need to be built up before God before you have the strength to help others. As the records in your notebook mount up, your inner strength needs to be increased. You must climb higher and higher, your strength becoming stronger and stronger till your inner fortitude is sufficient enough to deal with him and render help.
Number three , wait for an appropriate time to talk with him. In the meantime, while waiting, your inner burden can keep increasing. You ask God to arrange an opportunity to speak with him. Then, as you talk with him, pay attention to the following points: (1) Say to him, "I wish to speak a few words with you. You need not even answer. Yet whether what I say to you is right or wrong, you need to go before God to consider what I have said." Do not give ground to him to argue. (2) Say also to him, "All these words are spoken for