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June 14, 2008

Ulcers and Knee Healed

Last night I prayed for people after the service at Bethel and we had 2 healings.

First of all, Matthew Root asked me to join him to pray for his friend Omar, who just got saved last week in an outreach last weekend. Omar told us he had ulcers in his stomach as well as anemia of the blood, which means a lack of iron. We started praying for him, and he began to feel this tingling swirling sensation in his stomach, and all the pain left his stomach! I asked him to describe what was happening in his stomach...what did it feel like in his stomach now that God is touching him? Omar said he couldn't describe it...

Then we started praying for the anemia, and Omar's face started turning red and he was shaking his hands because he was getting hot all over! We believe his anemia was healed too.

Then later I prayed for a lady named Jennifer whose right knee was in pain. As I prayed for her, I sense a wave come over her. She felt it herself, and all of her pain in her knee left! Then her friend Marianne got touched by God too and felt peace come all over her.

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June 09, 2008

Healings Over the Weekend

Here's a couple testimonies of healings that happened this weekend while praying for people at Bethel.

The first one was Saturday morning in the healing rooms. Theo Eggenberg and I were praying for a man named Frank who had back pain for several years. And he messed up his neck from playing his guitar too long. We think it was the muscles in his neck that were out of whack. We began praying for him, and he started having a very interesting experience with Holy Spirit! He said he was feeling like his back wasn't even there anymore! I didn't quite understand what he meant, but then I thought about it, and it made sense. Normally if you don't have back pain, you don't really feel your back, right? It's just there, doing its job. Frank was stunned at what God was doing. By the time we finished praying, all his back pain was gone, and his neck pain decreased significantly to the point that it was hardly there anymore. I saw him a little later right as I was coming out of the building and he was still amazed at the healing he received!

The other healing happened Sunday morning (yesterday) when people came forward for prayer. An older lady (I think she told me she was 83) named Paula came up to be healed of both skin cancer and arthritis in her knees. I invited Holy Spirit. And He came! Paula was really being touched by God...I asked her if she felt anything in her body change at all. Her husband Peter came up too. I had them both sit down so I could pray specifically over her knees. After praying, she said ALL the pain in her knees was GONE! Come on, another arthritis bites the dust! I don't know if the skin cancer got healed or not, but I asked her to call Bethel and let us know if she did.

The peace of God really touched her and she received more than just healing, but a sweet touch from God.

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June 03, 2008

I Want to Burn

I'm watching Todd cry out in Lakeland, FL for more fire, more presence, more boldness, more of God, and I am so aware of the complacency in my own heart.

God I want to be hungry again. I don't feel that hungry for You at the moment. It's so easy to be dulled and lulled and to be cooled off. Set me on fire. I want to encounter You. I want to experience You. I want to be set on fire. I want to be set on fire. I want to be set on fire. I want every trace of religion and man pleasing burned out of me. I want all unbelief to be rooted out. I want all pride to be chased out of my heart. I want encounters, glory, signs and wonders, boldness to declare the gospel without fear of man, I want transformation for America, for Africa, for the whole world.

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June 02, 2008

Healing in the Library

Today I've been doing some work in the library, and as usual, it seems that there's so many people here who are in wheelchairs, using crutches and canes.

I was on the phone in the lobby area, and I saw a boy rolling into the library in a wheelchair with a pink full leg cast on his left leg, going from his thigh all the way down to his foot. I went up to he and his friend, and I asked him what happened. He said he broke his leg in 5 places from jumping off a cliff! Dang. He couldn't have been more than 12 years old. He was with 2 friends of his...his name was Levi, and his friend was Austin.

I asked him if I could pray for him, and he said sure. So I laid my hand on his cast, released the Presence. After about a minute, I asked him how he was feeling. He said that the pain left! He was all excited. Then his friend Austin pulled up a chair and said, "My knee hurts." He obviously wanted me to pray for him. He said it was hyperextended. So I laid my hands on his knee, and he felt the pain go down! Come on Jesus! Austin was the same age, 12 at the oldest.

Part two: I saw them again just now and asked Levi how his leg was doing. He said better. I sat down and was just hanging out with them, and I prayed for him again. It was funny because Austin said, see if you can figure out where he broke his leg at (in which places). So I ran my hands up and down his leg, and I felt tingling increase near the foot and asked him if he broke it there. Yep, sure enough he did. They were amazed. I asked them if they'd ever felt the Presence of God before. Austin said yeah. I asked him what it felt like? He said it felt like this tingling thing inside of his stomach!! Ha ha.

Then I said, "Do you want to feel it again?" He said no. But Levi let me pray for his leg again, and after that, he was able to move it like he couldn't before! He was surprised! Then he stood up out of his wheelchair by himself and put all his weight on the broken leg! The pain left! Yay God! I'm so excited about this.

I told Levi to pray for his friend Austin's knee since he was just getting healed himself. So he did. Austin put his leg up on Levi's wheelchair and laid his hands on it. Oh it feels so good to empower these guys to pray for the sick! They are so unreligious...and don't have hindrances and fear. I was spurred on by them. They're fearless youth, and there's millions more just like them all over the world.

Anyway, so Austin felt the pain decrease (it might have totally gone away...not sure though). AND THIS WAS FROM HIS FRIEND PRAYING FOR HIM!!! Yes.

Some other kids came over too and Levi and Austin were telling them about what was going on. I also prophesied over Austin...heard the word "wizard." I saw that he has the gift of figuring things out and giving people advice and wisdom. It was totally right on...he said he is good at that!

It is so fun to empower young kids like that. They're so open to the supernatural. They can sniff religiousness a mile away, but they love the real stuff.

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St. Helena, CA Firestorm Trip

A team of 8 of us just got back to Redding yesterday from a Firestorm trip we took to St. Helena, CA right in the middle of the Napa Valley wine country.

John Sturges led our team, and we went to spread revival and the Presence of God to Calvary Christian Church, which is led by Matt and Trish DiMarco, whose son Jordan was in 1st year school of ministry this year too.

We saw numerous healings, but also there was this sweetness of the peace and rest of the Holy Spirit's Presence that really showed up this weekend. Even as soon as we walked into the church building, I could smell a fragrance of the Presence of God in the place.

One of the words of knowledge that I had during the Sunday service was for osteoporosis, and when the team came forward to give our words of knowledge, I called it out. There weren't many people there, probably 50 at the most, so it was somewhat of a risk to call this word out. Sure enough, when I said it, a lady raised her hand letting us know that she had osteoporosis.

Even before we all started praying for people, the lady came up and said that she believed she was healed of it!

On Saturday, we broke up into teams and went out on treasure hunts, and activated them to do prophetic evangelism. We estimated that about 75 people got loved on and touched throughout the town in a period of about an hour and a half!

The people in the church were really hungry...I could feel it. I believe that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is coming to the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys of California will spill over into the Napa Valley as well.

I also got to speak on Sunday on freedom in Christ, and the thing that Holy Spirit really put on my heart is this: "The place of freedom is the place of rest." One we begin to rest and really believe that we are who God says we are, then we all of a sudden experience the freedom of God like we never thought possible! Getting "centered" in our peace is so important in order to walk in freedom.

It was a good trip, especially with John leading...the laughing drunk.

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