Blessings to you all!
My son had just picked me up at the airport after a trip to Nicaragua where I had just seen the beauty of God's touch through the students of our School of Supernatural Ministry. To see the joy of a mother and father over the healing of their 2 year old son who had a brain disease that left his face paralyzed and contorted and now completely normal left us all bawling like babies. That had followed the healing of a woman at least 80 years old, her arm unlocking at the shoulder and deaf ear popping open as the students prayed. Some of our students are 14,15, 16 years old and this has been the normal fare for months now all over Nicaragua.
This world wide outpouring ushering the body of Christ into the normal Christian life, going about to do good and heal all that are oppressed as Jesus modeled is filled with stories that just bring such joy to the heart and stun you with how beautiful the touch of God is upon those He loves.
I was sitting at the restaurant and my son, 25, was telling me of what happened a few days prior to my return to the Palm Springs area. My wife and I had been in Redding a few years prior for a 3 month period and our lives were deeply impacted and we had been sharing the books Pastor Bill Johnson had written with our son and he was beginning to become renewed in his mind and was being transformed right in front of us. We had just given him a book by Kevin Dedmond of Bethel Church, The Treasure Hunt, about receiving input from the Holy Spirit about individuals, places etc. that led to encounters and ministry to people, loving them through the clues which opened their hearts.
My son had a home group and began sharing the gospel of the kingdom with them and then the principles of the treasure hunt. Well, one night they decided to do it and go out and none of them had ever prayed for anyone outside the walls of a church, much less in it, for healing or operated any of the gifts of the spirit period. That night saw a display of God in healing, salvation and it changed their world. My son also preached his first sermon in that church 3 days after the treasure hunt and a gal that had gotten healed in a Barnes and Noble Bookstore of a broken leg, (took off the brace, jumped up and down), came to the service with a friend and got up and gave her testimony in front of the church. No one had even invited her.
The whole night was like that and still going on weekly but one thing that happened was just too much. As I was sitting there in the restaurant, my son was telling me about praying for 2 guys at a Von's supermarket and how the brother with him kept getting "a hole in his heart" about the one guy they were praying for. This brother had never had stuff like this happen but just boldly prayed that God would "heal the whole in his heart". While my son was telling me this, his wife called and had just received an email that was sent to the pastor of their church and he forwarded it to my son and his wife. I did not know what it said and my son started crying and could not speak for about 10 minutes. She sent it to him and he read it to me when he settled down. This is amazing and shows the incredible beauty of God and also what happens when we just go about and love.
"My brother, S.,was formerly a Lutheran pastor who instead became a professor of psychology at San Diego State. He married a Jewish girl and left Jesus. He had not attended a church for 10 years. He was not retired and divorced and had said a few days before that he had a hole in his heart and wanted to end his life. He and my husband were getting grocerie at Von's last week when several of your young people asked if they could pray for the two of them. They prayed for my husbands back to heal and for the back brace he wore, as he had recently had surgery. They also prayed for S.,"that the Lord would heal the hole in his heart". S. had not mentioned that at Von's. He was astounded. S. has decided to go back to Jesus, and will find a church in San Diego to attend. He hopes to go back into Care Ministry. Your young people were sent by the Holy Spirit to save the life of my brother, S. at that moment, on that day in Von's at the checkout counter. Bless you in your work and bless your young people who prayed for my brother. The Lord entered his heart at Von's last week, due to your praying people. Iris Anderson
WOW! WOW! WOW! The lost coin, the lost sheep, the lost son, what a beautiful moment.
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