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Holy Spirit has done a lot in my heart and spirit today as I've been spending time in His presence resting, worshipping, praying, and dreaming with Him about stuff.

I feel an increase of strength happening in my inner man, the ability to rest in His presence and not strive. I'm building my spiritual muscles in the place of being able to wait on Him and rest in Him and not work for His presence but to just be. It feels good to not have to try to make Him come, but to just invite Him and believe that He IS going to come and be with me, and that He wants to be with me! In that place of connection and abiding is where I'm hearing His voice get stronger in my spirit. I can feel that colaboring thing happening while I'm resting in His presence. It's hard to tell where He starts and I stop. Just now as I was worshipping and asking Him to invade Redding with revival like what's happening in Lakeland, FL with Todd Bentley right now, I felt my spirit begin to dream with Him about things I want to do this summer. Honestly, most of this year, I haven't hardly dreamed at all. I've felt like that part of me has remained dormant, and it's been hard a lot of times because I've heard so many people get excited about the things they want to do in impacting this world with God, but here I am still recovering from spiritual abuse and burnout on the mission field. So for me to feel dreaming happening today with Holy Spirit is a huge deal! I remembered something Bill says...when Jesus said whatsoever you desire in prayer, you will receive it...it means what you desire WHEN you pray...that's one way God speaks to us! Well God just spoke to me! It's so refreshing. I'm getting ever so slightly back into the habit of waiting on God for a fresh word every day and practicing His voice more.

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During our trip to Mexico City, we lost count of how many people got healed and saved. In the 1st day alone, about 112 people were saved, and 37 confirmed healings.

Altogether, we believe over 1,000 people were healed of something and hundreds of people saved, possibly also over 1,000. The church Pan de Vida is already experiencing lots of new growth as a direct result of the street outreaches and healings and salvations that happened all week. Many youth were activated and powerfully touched by Holy Spirit, hundreds in fact. The youth there were empowered to combine their bold evangelism with words of knowledge, treasure hunts, and healing! The people there are so hungry!

Here's a list of some of the diseases and illnesses healed this week: Lupus, breast cancer, bone cancer, broken legs, torn ACLs, legs shorter grew out, fibermyalgia, deafness, blindness, heart attack stopped, skin rashes, stomach infections, throat/lung infections, fevers, bone spurs/calcium deposits, tunnel vision, stomach cancer, shingles, circulatory disease, glaucoma, paralysis, diabetes, kidney problems, and I can't remember all of them!

Thank You so much God!

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We (our team of 34 people) just got back to Redding today from Mexico City after experiencing 10 days of action-packed revival!

We saw literally hundreds of healings and hundreds (possibly over 1000) salvations, so many people touched by the love and power and Spirit of God. For us students that went, we were activated to move deeper in the supernatural in ways that left us awe-struck! It really felt like the book of Acts. We lost count how many people got healed, not just in the church services, but on the streets, stores, markets, hospital, restaurants, homes, airports, and planes! I'm posting a few of the stories of healings on the blog to give a glimpse of what God did!

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Today was probably the biggest highlight of the whole trip for me. We led both services at Pan de Vida church. During the 2nd service, I saw a guy who was on crutches with a cast on his left leg.

Towards the end of the service, John Sturges started releasing the joy of the Lord and lots of people were laughing and getting touched by God. The team of us were going throughout the audience to lay hands on them to impart the joy of the Lord. I went to the guy with crutches and his mom looked desperate. She asked me to pray for him (almost in tears)...she wanted him to be healed so bad. I couldn't understand very well, but managed to tell her to come up after the service and we will pray for her son and God will heal him.

So she brought him up, and Victor translated for me. Turns out that her son (Francisco), broke his knee to the point where there was a piece of bone chipped off and it was growing back wrong. Lots of pain. AND, his ACL was torn, so he had lots of pain in his left foot too, hence the cast/bandage thing. I felt a gift of faith come on me in such a way that I had absolutely NO doubt whatsoever that God was going to totally heal him. In fact, when I first saw Francisco during worship, I remember having the thought, "He will leave this service totally healed."

We started praying for his knee, and within a minute or 2, the bone chip totally disappeared and ALL pain left his knee! Next we went after the pain in his foot. We prayed over his foot and after a few times praying, all his pain left his foot too!!! I was so overjoyed I just raised my hands and shouted to God. This compassion washed over me for the whole family (both his parents were up there with him). I asked Francisco if he could try to walk without crutches. He started to walk and there was absolutely NO pain in either his knee OR foot OR leg! He walked without the crutches! I was in awe of God.

The next thing he needed healing from was tunnel vision. Meaning, he couldn't see anything peripherally...just straight in front of him. Victor waved his hands to the side while Francisco looked straight at me, and he couldn't see his hands. Basically he was blind on the peripheral vision. We started praying. I knew God was going to heal him.

We prayed, time after time. Each time he checked it out, but no change yet in his vision. But we kept at it. After praying numerous times, Francisco opened his eyes again to check them, and he started crying. I will never forget the look on his face. For all his life he suffered from that detestable disease, and now for the first time he opened his eyes, and Victor waved his hands off to the side, and Francisco saw them! His dad stood beside him then behind him and Francisco could see him too!! Oh my gosh, then his mom started weeping and they embraced.

I just about started crying too. Something happened in me right there. I had this flood of compassion and love straight from God come over me for them. It's one thing to move in healing, and to pray for the sick and see them healed. It's a whole other thing to move in healing and compassion and love too. Oh my gosh. Awestruck doesn't even approach how I felt.

As if that wasn't enough, Francisco's mom had glaucoma and needed healing. She asked us to pray for her too. We did. Her daughter had it too...it was a generational sickness. Uhh I hate sickness. We prayed several times. No change was happening. The way she would know she was healed was if she could read fine print up close. We had a small Bible handy so she could try it out. Then we prayed again and she started looking at the Bible, and this time she could read it!!!! God healed her of glaucoma! Oh my gosh.

Francisco walked out that afternoon without his crutches, totally healed. Wow, wow, wow God.

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A team of 10 of us joined with about 10 others from Pan de Vida church to go to the hospital tonight. So much happened. Every week, a team from the church goes to the hospital to pray for patients and invite people to believe in Jesus.

It's an established ministry in the hospital, which is amazing because in America, that's rare for a hospital to allow you in like that unless you're a chaplain. They needed somebody to preach in the emergency room to invite people to receive Jesus, and Josh and a couple others encouraged me to do it, so I did. Sal translated for me, and there were about 50 people in the waiting room. I think most of them were family of people actually in the hospital. Man these Mexicans are so open and hungry for God. I shared a simple message, and announced that if anybody wanted to follow Jesus they could pray with me. I also said that if anybody needs healing in their body, we are available to pray for you and God will heal you.

A man came up to me named Alberto and looked kind of desperate. He invited us to go visit and pray for his mother who was in the hospital because of diabetes. So Leslie, Yelitza, another girl from Pan de Vida, and I went with Alberto back to the room. The hospital rooms there were like they are in Africa. About 8 or 10 people in a big room and there are just curtains separating the beds. Hardly any privacy, and quite primitive conditions.

We met Alberto's mom...her name was Enendina. She looked very sad and in lots of pain. We laid our hands on her and there was such a peace of God in the room. Tangible. We didn't really do a lot of praying honestly, just laid hands on her and released God's presence. A few minutes into it, Enendina started moving her right foot, toes, leg, and right arm. We didn't think anything of it until Alberto told us that she had been paralyzed in her right side of her body, and she couldn't do that before! Come on God, she got healed of paralysis!

Then she pulled her sheets back and showed us her left foot that was bandaged up. She said that it felt like ants were crawling all over her foot when we were praying! She had an ulcer on her left foot. That was her way of describing the presence of God touching her foot. All her pain left that foot.

I asked if her vision was affected by the diabetes. Yes, in her right eye. We prayed over that, and she got healed! Her vision cleared up. It all sounds too good to be true, but it really happened. So much love was in the air...true love of God for her. Enendina's face went from sullen and sad to joyful and happy!

She got saved, accepted Jesus as well!

I looked around the room and noticed that the other patients were looking at us curiously, and I could sense that they wanted us to pray for them too. So we did. The nurses didn't mind a bit that we were there. In fact we felt welcome. What a contrast from America.

Leslie and the other girls went to the lady next to Enendina to pray for her...she had just had a hysterectomy. I decided to let them do that, and I went to talk to Alberto, Enendina's son. Come to find out, he had pain in his kidneys. I got to pray for him, and Jesus took away all his pain! He was dumbfounded...he was feeling around for the pain but it was gone!

Of course, Alberto ended up getting right with God too...recommitted his life to Jesus.

The next lady we went to was suffering from kidney pain too. So we decided to ask Alberto to come over and pray for her since he JUST got healed of that. But Alberto said he didn't know how to pray. We told him it doesn't matter...just pray from your heart. So he did. This lady's name was Marisol. We believe she got healed, but she was on pain medication so it's hard to tell for sure. But she did experience the presence of God and she also recommitted her life to the Lord!

Then we went to another lady to pray for her. Her name was Analberta. She had a blood clot in her left foot area. When we prayed for her and asked how she was feeling, she said she felt "fun" inside! The joy of Holy Spirit filled her.

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Today was ridiculously amazing! I can't get my head around how much healing is happening here! We can't even keep up with how many people are getting healed. Honestly.

We broke up into teams and went to the different church plants of Pan de Vida tonight. Our team went to a place called Zumpango, a good ways away from Mexico City/Izcalli. There were about 100 people there for the meeting. Expectation was high for God to move mightily. John Sturges called us up to give words of knowledge for healing, and we began to call out sicknesses that the Lord had told us that different people had. Every time we called out some sickness, people raised their hands to let us know that they had that very sickness. People started getting healed all over the crowd. The whole place eventually exploded with the presence of God because so many people were getting healed and set free that the atmosphere was just charged.

Here are a few healings I saw. (I would say that between 50 and 75 people got healed of something that night, and there were about 100 people there).

John directed me to pray for a lady who couldn't walk straight. Her right leg and foot were out of line to the point that she limped. The foot was turned inwards. I also had a word of knowledge that this lady had neck pain, and she confirmed that it was true. I started praying for her, and after praying, the lady said her pain left! She began to give her testimony over the microphone and then she started dancing with the pastor, jumping for joy, started weeping, and everybody around was so amazed because they knew how this lady used to walk with a limp and inward foot, but now she danced around with no pain at all! She got totally healed!

I also had the privilege of praying for a lady along with Ann who was suffering from tons of sickness: lupus, bone cancer, and Multiple Sclerosis. She had also been involved in witchcraft in the past. Ann asked me to come over and pray with her. We spent a long time ministering to her. Turns out we led her through forgiveness of her husband who had been unfaithful and also forgiving her daughter. As soon as she vocalized the forgiveness, Holy Spirit came in and started healing her heart from the inside out. She got so touched by God that she went from a sad, oppressed lady to full of joy, dancing, shouting because of how God delivered her. We believe that God healed her of the cancer, Lupus, and MS as well, though we didn't really have a way to verify it.

The next person who God touched was Cesar. He was brought up to be prayed for because he couldn't talk. He's 30 years old, but hasn't been able to talk his whole life. He can make sounds, but it's mostly unintelligible. We invited Holy Spirit to come. We prayed over him for a good while and asked him if it got any better, but it wasn't changing. Then I was praying over him again, and I had this light bulb moment where I realized in the depth of my spirit that God is REAL! I declared that over Cesar, "God is real," and he immediately hit the floor and went out in the Spirit and started having an encounter with God. In the end, we asked his brother if his speech had improved, and he said a little bit. I believe Cesar will be totally healed, though we didn't see it right then. But he DID have an encounter with God that was very significant.

Another lady was brought up who said she needed prayer for breast cancer. Benjamin had just prayed for a lady earlier in the day who got healed of breast cancer. So I asked him to come over and join me. I was so in the anointing that I just flowed right into what Holy Spirit wanted to do. We began to pray over the lady. I asked her if there was anybody that she needed to forgive. She said yes. She started forgiving the person, and all of a sudden she broke down and started wailing and weeping uncontrollably, and she fell to the floor. Diane came up and the pastor's wife as well to comfort her. She wept for a long time and I don't know what all Holy Spirit did in her, but she definitely experienced the love of God and I believe she got healed physically and emotionally as well.

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Today we went into downtown Mexico City to visit the mall.

I wasn't really interested in shopping, but more interested in seeing the sick healed. A group of us were walking in the mall, and I saw a man walking with crutches, and I approached him and asked him in broken Spanish if he had pain in his body, and I tried to ask him if we could pray for him for God to heal him. Thankfully, Ann Su was standing close by, and I asked her to come and translate. Peter was standing there too. The man was with his wife and 2 small children. Ends up that his knee was swollen with pain, and he had a brace/cast on it. I laid my hands on him, and prayed for him, and the pain left! He was able to bend his knee more too. Peter told him that by the time he got to his car, his knee would be totally healed. I asked him if he knew Jesus. He said only in word only (meaning that he knew about Jesus but didn't know Him really). I asked if he and his wife wanted to begin a relationship with Jesus, and they said yeah!

Both the man and his wife got saved right there in the mall! Ann Su led them to the Lord since she spoke Spanish. I love how the whole encounter they had with Jesus was a team effort between the 3 of us.

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Today we (Zeb and I and our host parents, Victor and Cecu), were walking to the church Pan de Vida, and I spotted a lady walking with a crutch.

I immediately asked Victor if we could stop and pray for her. He said yeah. Victor translated for Zeb and I as we found out what the problem was. Her name was Maria de Jesús, and it turns out that the 5th disc/vertebrae was out of place and out of alignment to the point that it caused her left leg to be about 1 inch shorter than her right leg. She had had pain for 1 month in her leg. Her backbone was protruding because of the mis-alignment of her disc. We asked her if we could pray for her, and she didn't hesitate a bit. Zeb had her sit down and stretched out her legs and we prayed. Within a few minutes, her vertebrae literally popped back into place and then her left leg grew out almost an inch to the same length of her right leg!! She was so touched in her heart too, to the point that she looked like she was going to cry. She tried to walk without her crutch and was so amazed because she didn't have to walk with the crutch anymore!

We asked her if she knew Jesus, (it's funny her name has Jesus in it). She said she did know Jesus, but that she fell away from the Lord for awhile. So Maria de Jesús recommitted her life to the Lord right there on the sidewalk! As we walked away full of joy and amazement, we looked back towards her, and she was just crying and alive and walking WITHOUT her crutch! She was crying in amazement!

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Today during the service when people came up to receive prayer (this was our 1st day in Mexico City), a man came up to me who was totally blind in his right eye.

He had been blind all his life in that eye. We (the girl translating for me and I) began to pray for him. Each time we prayed and asked him how his eye was doing, he reported an increase of vision in his eye. At first it was about 10%. By the time we finished, he had received 45 to 50% of his vision back in that eye!

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A team of 35 of us are going to Mexico City from April 5-15--

to spread revival there, heal the sick, preach the gospel, raise the dead, activate youth in the prophetic and healing, and bring supernatural joy to the people there! Pray for us and the whole team and the church we'll be ministering at for Holy Spirit explosions!

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