Jim came to my wife's yard sale today on a walker and I asked him what was going on. He had not walked since March, had suffered from mini-strokes and migraines, and the doctors said he suffered from "intermittent cerebral ischemic attacks" for which he was now heavily medicated. That sounded like the work of the devil to me, so I told him God could heal him and asked if I could pray with him. He said he used to be an evangelist, but his condition kept him from ministering.
So we went to his van, I declared the Kingdom of God to be at hand, invited God's presence to rest on him and after a few minutes he said the pain in his head was almost gone. Prayed again for a couple of minutes and I noticed that his arm had stopped shaking. He said he felt the Spirit of God touching him so I asked how his legs were feeling and encouraged him to try them out.
He wiped the tears from his eyes, stood up outside, flexed his legs and said "I just had therapy today and I couldn't do that," took a few steps along the van and said, "I haven't been able to do this since March." Then he walked out in the yard with no help and said, "Praise the Lord!" About that time his wife came over, saw him walking without the walker and said, "Did a miracle just happen?" Jim bent over and picked up one of his seven children with no trouble, which (you may have guessed) he couldn't do before. His wife noticed that his speech was no longer slurred and his mouth was no longer drawn on one side.
He was completely and instantaneously healed...at a yard sale! Come on God!
6/19/09
6/11/09
A Divine Appointment
Here are some stories from a recent Friday night outreach:
-Four of us met to pray before going out and I got a word of knowledge/image in my head of a large white Ford van.
-We met up with a family we know and prayed with a young lady who had a miscarriage a week earlier. God gave her some words of encouragement, brought some emotional healing about shame, guilt and blame, and afterward she "felt a lot of relief."
-While that was going on, two of our team prayed for her husband, who got noticeably touched by God...even got a little woozy.
-Prayed with another lady who has dealt with a loss of her adult child recently, and she was touched by God and started crying. We got some words of knowledge about back pain and depression while we prayed, and afterward she said "I don't know how you knew about that stuff, but it's true." I told her we had been reading her mail. We invited the kingdom to come, afterward she said she felt "something lift off" her, and her breathing felt better.
-After walking that street, we went to another street and saw a white van in a driveway. We decided to go after the word of knowledge I received earlier, and walked up to two guys working on a boat in the yard. After some small talk we asked if anyone needed healing in the house...they looked at each other and said, "No, we're good." After pressing a little bit, one guy said "Just pray for healing." It turns out one of them had Stage 2 lung cancer, and had some apparently bad experiences in the church. I told him that God set him up to get healed, and we prayed over him. We'll find out the good news soon.
-Four of us met to pray before going out and I got a word of knowledge/image in my head of a large white Ford van.
-We met up with a family we know and prayed with a young lady who had a miscarriage a week earlier. God gave her some words of encouragement, brought some emotional healing about shame, guilt and blame, and afterward she "felt a lot of relief."
-While that was going on, two of our team prayed for her husband, who got noticeably touched by God...even got a little woozy.
-Prayed with another lady who has dealt with a loss of her adult child recently, and she was touched by God and started crying. We got some words of knowledge about back pain and depression while we prayed, and afterward she said "I don't know how you knew about that stuff, but it's true." I told her we had been reading her mail. We invited the kingdom to come, afterward she said she felt "something lift off" her, and her breathing felt better.
-After walking that street, we went to another street and saw a white van in a driveway. We decided to go after the word of knowledge I received earlier, and walked up to two guys working on a boat in the yard. After some small talk we asked if anyone needed healing in the house...they looked at each other and said, "No, we're good." After pressing a little bit, one guy said "Just pray for healing." It turns out one of them had Stage 2 lung cancer, and had some apparently bad experiences in the church. I told him that God set him up to get healed, and we prayed over him. We'll find out the good news soon.
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