Last Thursday, JD, Ashley, and I went over to a local gathering (simple church) just down the road. The two folks that basically make it happen are named Doug and Michelle. They are awesome! In total, there were about 15 kids there and it was very obvious that Doug and Michelle were like a big spiritual Mama and Papa to them. It was awesome to see how they nurtured the Body of Christ in that way.
JD brought over Furious Love, and we watched that. While the movie was playing, I was silently talking to God, wondering what to do after the film. As far as I knew, nobody in the group had ever had any exposure to the Kingdom-stuff. So I knew their reactions would be interesting...
After the film, one of the girls approached Doug and said something of the effect that she felt like they should all pray. I took this as an opportunity and told Doug that we regularly see people healed and God show up and perform miracles, and that we could do that tonight. I was beginning to ask Doug if he'd be okay with that, and one of the girls in the group (Doug's daughter) approached me and asked about us doing the miracle-stuff. Before she could get another sentence out of her mouth, she began to cry and said that she had been doubting God.
I knew at that moment we had entered into something divine. JD asked her to sit in a chair so we could all lay hands on her and pray. As we prayed, Ashley began to prophesy over her. I don't remember it all, but Ashley said that God thought she was adorable, and loved her creativity, and Ashley could see her painting and Jesus helping her. The girl began to cry harder and said that she was just painting the night before! Boom, Ashley nailed it!
After that, I figured we could just ask God to grow a leg out so everyone could watch and be encouraged. I asked if anyone had back problems and guess who did... yup, the girl. We checked her legs and one was about an inch and a half short - she had bad scoliosis. We prayed, and God grew it out (thank You Papa!).
After that, Michelle took her into the bathroom and they checked her spine. She said it was waaay different.
Praise God! He's so good! He'll just show up and love on anybody. It's so amazing. Time after time God is faithful.
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That was last Thursday. Yesterday, I prayed for a friend at work, and God grew his leg out and healed his shoulder (he had a cyst or something in it). He said he felt intense heat coming off of my hand.
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Today, Nick Smith (met him at the DHT in Arkansas, he's the founder of Lyfestyle Ministries) was in town for a conference at IHOP-KC. He came by, picked me up, and we headed over to the Plaza to pray for some peeps - yay for Christian recreation! We went over to the Tennis Courts and just started making rounds. We saw about 5-6 legs grow out, and many people with pain had a slight decrease. Not sure why the pain didn't just break off of people.
I don't understand why we have results sometimes and other times we don't. Today, we prayed for probably 15 - 20 people, and all we really saw healed were the 6 legs. Now, I'm very, very, grateful for what we did see. I mean, it's supernatural to the bone! However, Jesus is the standard and I want to be like Him. He healed them all instantly! I'm still pressing in on this and wrestling this out.
Either way, Nick and I, frustrated, decided to regroup. We decided we were just going to walk around and love on folks. Instead of asking if they had any pain and walking away if they didn't, we were just going to see if people needed prayer in general. The first guy we asked had just gone through a divorce. We prayed for him, and God kept speaking to my heart about him. It was a good opportunity to practice prophesying, so I did. I saw that he was a good father, and that his kids were athletic, and that he trained them, and that they were young, and that he had a bold heart. We prayed for his marriage, restoration in relationships, and that God would protect his kids from the effects of it. He was thankful, and blessed.
After that, we left the tennis courts and went down the strip. The next folks we ran into, Andrew and Kristin, were so cool! We asked if they needed prayer, or if they had anything physically wrong, and they said no to the physical stuff but that they had some marital things they wanted prayer for. Now - no joke here - we talked with them for about an hour and a half just on the sidewalk alone, then we went into a coffee shop and talked for another hour or so. It was so cool for Nick and I to be able to love on those guys and edify one another. They were really cool folks and we walked out of so blessed.
They said that they definitely thought it was a miracle that we ran into them. Now, just think of that! If we had only asked them if they had physical pain, and then walked away if they hadn't, we totally would have missed an awesome opportunity to teach about the Kingdom of God and build each other up.
Come on folks! All you have to do to be a God-moment in someone else's life is go. That's all it takes. Go be fire carrying, Kingdom advancing, hell smashing warriors for Jesus the King! Yeah!
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