Friday, January 21, 2005

Sprained Ankle Healed!

During a Friday night Youth Outreach, we were asked to pray for a young man with an ankle injury. He had badly sprained the ankle at a basketball game, couldn’t walk without limping greatly and was in a lot of pain. We asked if we could pray for him and the guy said, “Sure”.

Before we pray, we ask him to rate the pain and discomfort on a scale from one to ten, with ten being the highest and 1 being the lowest, his pain is at a ten right now. We ask him to demonstrate how he can walk. He trudges off, takes a few painful steps and has a major limp, we get him back over to the truck and pray, “In the Name of Jesus, be healed!” We tell the kid to check it out. He takes a few steps with a noticeable difference in his walk. We ask him to rate the pain and he says, “It's a six”. We say, “Ok! 40% healing in two minutes, let’s pray again!” He comes back over to the truck and we start to pray again. We pray for a minute or two and tell the kid to check it again. This time, he walks with almost no limp at all! We ask him to rate the pain and he quietly answers, “It’s a 4”.

Two of his unbelieving friends walk up to him and ask him if he is just faking it. The kid with the hurt ankle looks at them, perfectly serious and says, “No guys, it feels SO much better, there’s almost no pain at all”. We pray a third time and ask the kid how his ankle is and he rates it a 3. He says that there isn’t any more pain, just the ligaments are stiff. Totally freaked out, the kid with the hurt ankle gets in his truck and takes off!

Saturday, January 01, 2005

Drug Addiction, Liver Failure and Insomnia Healed!

Two brothers from the church were called in to pray for the mother of someone that had attended the church. Not knowing what was wrong with her, they went and found her in the Critical Care Unit of a local hospital. She was in terrible condition, dying of liver failure, due to years of drug and alcohol abuse. She also had suffered with insomnia for years. Immediately, the brothers started praying for healing and the power ofGod descended in the hospital room. She felt the fire of God come into her body and gave her life to Jesus on the spot. While praying, the peace of God came on her and she fell to sleep under their hands!

The next day, she woke up energetic after her first nights sleep in over a decade. The doctors did an enzyme test on her liver and it came back normal! As she was preparing to leave the hospital, she realized that she was not even thinking about drugs. She walked out of the hospital the next day, with a brand new liver and without the addiction she had struggled with for over 25 years.