I went to a John Crowder conference on the 29th of January, 10 hours round trip in one day but it was worth it. In the aftermath of these meetings I have realised that God actually wants to heal people. I don't have to convince Him to do it cause Jesus paid the price and it's already done! I realised that before, even though I thought that God wanted to heal them, I felt I had to somehow work for it, pray hard or work with some sort of halfway anointing to garner enough favour with God so that people would get healed when I prayed for them. What ridiculousness that is! Ever since this revelation I've pretty much been healing everyone I'm praying for, cause I know God wants to do it. At church yesterday someone came to me about neck pain, got completely healed. (Maybe the tiniest bit of stiffness left, I'm not sure) Today, while I was playing soccer I prayed for a friends thumb/hand, got healed as well. (Maybe a little bit left, I'm not sure)
Before I was pressing in with prayer so that I could see miracles like teleportation and walking on water. I'm not pressing in any more, I'll just believe and see it happen. I'm ready to experience some Supernatural Craziness!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
God and Gambling
Here I share a quaint little story of my including God whilst doing the secular, in this case, playing poker. Before I share it though I'd like to make a couple things clear. First, I only put three dollars in and I would gladly of put that in simply for the experience. Second, this testimony is a little subjective so I'm not expecting it to be used as a proof of God's reality, like the previous stories could be. Third, it wasn't cheating cause I cleared what I did with everyone else.
I was invited by a friend to play some poker with him and his friends, I decided that I would play the game completely dependant on the voice of God, when to fold and when raise. It was so good! As far as I remember, every time I heard that my hand would lose it would be worse, and every time I heard I'd win I would indeed, be the winner of that hand. There are two mini stories that come to mind. At one point I prayed to God that I would win the next hand, then I get dealt and Ace and queen of the same suit. I was really excited but it turned out that the dealer messed up somehow and those cards had to be scrapped. In the next deal I got a 9 and 5, and everyone else was betting real high, all that I was hearing from God was Him reminding me that I had prayed, and my friend was pressuring me to fold cause of the high bets. I did, but it turned out that I would have had two pair and no one else had anything! In the second story I had an opportunity to win a whole lot if I almost went all in, I asked God about it and all I heard was, "I love you, go for it." I went and ended up totally losing, with the consoling revelation that I didn't actually have to win. Those three dollars were a paltry sum to pay for the amount I learned about God's voice this last evening.
I was invited by a friend to play some poker with him and his friends, I decided that I would play the game completely dependant on the voice of God, when to fold and when raise. It was so good! As far as I remember, every time I heard that my hand would lose it would be worse, and every time I heard I'd win I would indeed, be the winner of that hand. There are two mini stories that come to mind. At one point I prayed to God that I would win the next hand, then I get dealt and Ace and queen of the same suit. I was really excited but it turned out that the dealer messed up somehow and those cards had to be scrapped. In the next deal I got a 9 and 5, and everyone else was betting real high, all that I was hearing from God was Him reminding me that I had prayed, and my friend was pressuring me to fold cause of the high bets. I did, but it turned out that I would have had two pair and no one else had anything! In the second story I had an opportunity to win a whole lot if I almost went all in, I asked God about it and all I heard was, "I love you, go for it." I went and ended up totally losing, with the consoling revelation that I didn't actually have to win. Those three dollars were a paltry sum to pay for the amount I learned about God's voice this last evening.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
God just loves to heal
Last Thursday I went on outreach into my community and whilst I was on my way to a specific house me and my friends came upon a trio of teenagers just off from high-school. Turns out they were all Christians and had visited Bethel a few times, so we were just able to prophecy over them and tell them who they were in God's eyes. After a while of talking with them, I had left and came back, we discovered that one of them had broken his hand punching a wall a couple days earlier, he couldn't even close his hand! We prayed for him real quick and he clenched his fist like it was nobody's business, all pain was gone! A few minutes later our group leader came over and told us that as he was visiting a house they were greeted by a guy from the floor because his neck hurt too much not to lay down. After they prayed for him he was able to sit up just fine!
Monday, January 10, 2011
I'm posting!
As promised, here is the second weekly post of mine.
This week was an amazing one. When I got back I realized how much I had missed being in Redding. Vacation is nice but I thoroughly enjoy having my own place to chilax and put myself in order. Anyway, on to supernatural craziness.
Last Thursday I went out on community activation, where a group of us students go into a specific part of Redding's community and build relationships with people whilst sharing the love of God with them. Before we went out I started to have an overwhelming sensation that God wanted to demonstrate His power that afternoon and I was reminded of an old lady in our community that was in a real bad place, she needed a walker and breathing tubes up her nose, bad news. So I decided that I would dedicate my time that day to hanging with her and helping anyway I could. When my friends and I got there it turned out that she was taking a nap, but a family was staying in her house helping her so we talked with them. I struck up a conversation with the 13 year old son (Alberto) and started prophesying (telling him what God thought of him/his destiny in life) and praying for him. Then my group leader came in and asked Alberto if he wanted to be taller. He said yes so, after measuring him against a wall, we sat him down and commanded his legs to grow. After doing this and measuring him against the wall again he was undeniably taller, at least 3/4 of an inch! Pretty amazing. On top of that, while this was going on my friends led Alberto's sister to receive Jesus! And this was only my first week back, there's four more months of this stuff!
This week was an amazing one. When I got back I realized how much I had missed being in Redding. Vacation is nice but I thoroughly enjoy having my own place to chilax and put myself in order. Anyway, on to supernatural craziness.
Last Thursday I went out on community activation, where a group of us students go into a specific part of Redding's community and build relationships with people whilst sharing the love of God with them. Before we went out I started to have an overwhelming sensation that God wanted to demonstrate His power that afternoon and I was reminded of an old lady in our community that was in a real bad place, she needed a walker and breathing tubes up her nose, bad news. So I decided that I would dedicate my time that day to hanging with her and helping anyway I could. When my friends and I got there it turned out that she was taking a nap, but a family was staying in her house helping her so we talked with them. I struck up a conversation with the 13 year old son (Alberto) and started prophesying (telling him what God thought of him/his destiny in life) and praying for him. Then my group leader came in and asked Alberto if he wanted to be taller. He said yes so, after measuring him against a wall, we sat him down and commanded his legs to grow. After doing this and measuring him against the wall again he was undeniably taller, at least 3/4 of an inch! Pretty amazing. On top of that, while this was going on my friends led Alberto's sister to receive Jesus! And this was only my first week back, there's four more months of this stuff!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The Blog
Ok, I have to say that I'm all out ashamed of how little I have posted on this blog. So I am making a new year's resolution to post a post about the stuff God's doing in my life and through my life at least once a week. I have no school Mondays so I think I'll be able to grab the time to do it then. You have my promise, I won't let you guys down.
Some supernatural crazyness for this post.
This Christmas break I went to Jamaica for a family reunion. While I was there it was very windy and I discovered about half-way through the trip that it had been that way since September and was hurting the tourist economy, nobody wanted to go out if it was cold and windy. So I rounded up some family members that night and we went out on the beach and commanded the wind to stop in Jesus name. The next morning it was significantly more calm. So far I'm not sure if it was just a fluke (I don't think it was) or if our prayers/declarations actually changed the weather. I'm going to contact our Jamaican friend in a couple weeks to check out how much less windy it has become.
Some supernatural crazyness for this post.
This Christmas break I went to Jamaica for a family reunion. While I was there it was very windy and I discovered about half-way through the trip that it had been that way since September and was hurting the tourist economy, nobody wanted to go out if it was cold and windy. So I rounded up some family members that night and we went out on the beach and commanded the wind to stop in Jesus name. The next morning it was significantly more calm. So far I'm not sure if it was just a fluke (I don't think it was) or if our prayers/declarations actually changed the weather. I'm going to contact our Jamaican friend in a couple weeks to check out how much less windy it has become.
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