This post is a little on the long side but it is the most exciting post I have made on this blog. Read and be blessed!
We had a regional youth rally at my church this past Saturday night. It was the goal of the organizers to have a salvation orientated rally and not a revival tent meeting. I tried to be a good boy but the Holy Ghost decided to come to church with me and you know how He likes to get His way!
At the end of service many of the people had left the sanctuary to the food outside. There were about 40 to 50 people left at the altar. I got on the mic and called for those who wanted more to come to the left side of the altar area. Almost the entire crowd moved over. What could I do?
My friend and I began to lay hands on the youth and believe God that He would meet their needs. The anointing began to get think in the room when I came back and laid hands on a certain 15 year old girl for the second time. I had seen her before and had prayed for her in the past but I did not know her. I knew she had a call on her life but had no idea of her spiritual condition or her background.
As I began to pray for her a tremendous anointing came over me. I began to prophesy a healing gift over her life and commanded it to be activated. I kept quoting Matt 10:8 over and over again. she was crying and twitching and jerking all over the place but I could not stop praying for her. I prophesied about her call and the call of the lost, I compelled her to “choose ye this day” and kept calling forth the anointing. As she was crying she kept telling God that He can have complete control of her life. It really was quite awesome. After a while she hit the ground sobbing and I moved on.
After she laid on the ground doing this laughing crying thing for the better part of 20 minutes she started to get up. I had been praying for a hard case right next to where she was so when she stood up I had her lay hands and pray for this other person. As soon as she did it was lights out. I don’t mean the peaceful kind of falling backwards into the gentle arms of Jesus, I mean as soon as she touched this person they utterly collapsed. I called another person and the same thing, “BAM!” Straight down. The budding prophetess was sitting on a pew so I had the girl lay hands on her. Immediately she began to weep. I had her lay hands on someone else and after they hit the ground I had her pray for that person some more.
Just then I noticed a middle aged woman sitting in the middle of the sanctuary and something in my spirit was stirred. I knew we could not let this woman leave. Not knowing if she was saved I walked over to her to ask if I could pray for her. She said I could so I began to bring her to the front of the church.
Now sometimes I am a little slow so I did not immediately see what God was doing. But suddenly it dawned on me so I asked the lady, “Would you happen to need a healing?” In fact she did. She did not want to get specific but she had pain in her female areas. I said, “There is a young woman with a healing gift down here and I am going to have her pray for you.”
Mind you, this girl has not stopped the laughing crying thing since I first laid hands on her a good 45 minutes earlier.
She prayed for the woman, woman hit the ground, I instructed the girl to keep praying (trying to shorten this long post). After about five minutes I have the girl pray for a couple of people and they went lights out.
After a while I had the woman get up. There were about 10 youth still around and I really wanted them to leave having a clear understanding what God did and what He did not do. I talked to her and she said that she has fibroid type tumors on her ovaries and that they were very painful. I asked her to poke around and look for the pain. She said that it felt about 50% better. I told her that means Jesus is in the building and that we would pray some more. (girl prayed, woman fell, girl laugh-cry prayed some more)
A young girl I know walked in the back of the sanctuary. I called her over and had the girl pray for her. When she went to get off the ground five minutes later she did not know how she had gotten there. I am talking lights out!
note: If you have read this far don’t get weary! The best part is still coming!
While the girl was praying for the woman the anointing began to get really thick in the room again and the presence began to get tangible. I was just waiting so see what was going to happen next when the keyboard player from the youth group band walked in. This 15 year-old boy has the sweetest spirit and comes from a family that is red hot for Jesus. I later found out that he was eating with everyone else when he heard that we were praying in the sanctuary and wanted to come play the keyboard in the background while we prayed.
One thing I have not told you about him (and that he had only told one other youth leader) is that he has muscular dystrophy. His sickness was advancing to the point that his muscles were constricting all over his body. He could only walk on his tippy toes because he could not get his heel to the ground. He could not stand up without holding on to things because his balance was so bad. He did not know what had been happening in the sanctuary but the Holy Ghost did and it was this boy’s day for a miracle.
I called him to the front and had the girl pray for him, she cry-laughed, he fell and she continued to pray for him. After a while I gave my first checkup and asked him what he was experiencing. He said that he felt strength entering his body. Here is how MD is described in wikipedia:
The main symptom of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is rapidly progressive muscle weakness associated with muscle wasting with the proximal muscles being first affected, especially the pelvis and calf muscles. Muscle weakness also occurs in the arms, neck, and other areas, but not as severely or as early as in the lower half of the body.
I knew that he had described his condition as a “weakness all over his body” so strength had to be good. Laugh-cry girl continued. A while later I asked him what was happening and he said he felt something happening to his legs. We got him on his feet and he could stand upright without holding onto anything! He was shocked. I had him walk here and there lifting his knees as he did. He walked back, laugh-cry girl prayed and he fell.
Somewhere in the midst of this the woman got up and could not find the pain in her abdomen no matter how hard she pressed.
We did the fall down get up pray fall down thing with the boy about 10 times in a row. On the next walking adventure he was shocked and amazed that his heels were touching the ground!!! He could walk flat footed, heel-toe like the rest of us. The group of kids in the sanctuary had gone to children’s church, and youth group with this boy for years and they had never seen him walk like this. There were tears of joy and amazement all over the place.
At this point I was tired. I had the kids call their parents and I talked to the girl. She did not remember much that had happened but it turns out her father is the pastor of a small Brazilian church. Her parents showed up to get her and I tried to explain what happened because every time she would start to talk about it the laugh cry thing would start again.
The next day at church I saw the boy and he was walking fine. All the symptoms are not gone. He does not have full range of motion and he is still weaker than an average 15 year old but he is walking flatfooted and in fact can lift his foot up so only the heel touches the ground. Remember, he could only get the balls of his feet on the ground in the past. I was overjoyed watching him give his testimony in the Jr. High service.
He told me that when he got home he told him mom who began screaming. His dad and sister came down stairs and he repeated the story and his sister began screaming. This family is so close and loving that it is almost weird so I can believe it. His father quickly said,
“I am the priest and prophet of this home and I will determine if you are healed. Walk across the room!”
Once he did the father declared,
“This is the work of the Lord!”
Maranatha!
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