Healing conference aftermath

Hey all. It is Sunday and this week Randy Clark was in to do a healing conference with Bethel students and church members. Leading up to the conference I had decided that I was going to get my eyesight healed whilst it was going on. I took every opportunity I could to get prayer and I stood up for all the corporate prayers, but in the end my eyes were no different. (On the other hand, there were about 200 others in the meeting the last night (out of 1500) that were healed, some of very terrible diseases.) So, I did not get healed this week, but that does not mean that I am discouraged. Indeed I am not, instead I am encouraged and inspired. See, this is not the first time I thought I was going to get my eyesight healed. In Christian conferences before I have been so sure that I broke my glasses as an act of faith that I would not need them any longer. Other times I "pressed in" to God for a few weeks always getting prayer and nothing happened. It has been hard and discouraging at times, but it has brought me on a journey that has served to inoculate me against that discouragement. I have had to go through enough disappointments that I have  learned (not quite perfectly) to separate my experience away from what I know to be true. I know that God wants to heal me, I know that my eyesight will be healed, and so I am going to keep going after it until I get healed. So, my journey now is to continually get pray and keep praying for myself until I have perfect eyesight. I do not know what could be in the way of me getting healed or how long it might take, but I know that God loves me, wants me healed, and I am going to get healed. He is so good! I will keep ya'll posted on how it all goes.

In Redding

Last weekend I got back into Redding, it was a long journey that took a bit longer than 30 hours total, from door to door. Apart from that the 9 hour time difference was not fun overcoming. A week later I am still going to bed early and waking up early. Part of that is I got sick on Saturday with a collection of fever, nausea and other digestive problems. Was not fun at all. I think the worst thing I have ever experienced is throwing up and the feelings directly before. Not the worst thing that someone can experience I know but it is the worst that I have. Yet, in it all, God is good and awesome, He got me through, with lots of help from my girlfriend, Helen, nursing me back to health. It was a great exercise in not falling into self-pity and continuing to war against the sickness, whilst depending on others to help me out and take care of me. All told, I am glad I am over it, I am still a little sick but the worst is behind me.
This week, starting today, we have an incredible treat, Randy Clark is doing a healing conference and the students actually get to go! Normally we are told not to come so as to make room for the normal church people, but this time it is mandatory that we go. I am really excited, and my reasons are two fold. First I am excited to learn all about Healing in church history and the intricacies of how it works. Second I have several things in my own body, eyes, aches and pains, and residual sickness, that I would love to see get completely healed. Whoohoo! No more glasses for me! I will keep you posted on the results of what I learned and what got healed at the end of the week.