Empowered Believers Do Empowered Things!

Man, it was awesome today to meet with Kevin Jeffrey​ at the Purple Door Coffee.  While I was waiting for him, I had the chance to pray for a 9 month old baby boy.  I had the impression that he was born with birth defects, and found out from his nanny that he had been born with a muscle disease.  I asked if I could pray for him, and as I was praying he was smiling and laughing the whole time.  I even felt movement behind his little shoulder blade by his back.  I know God's doing a work on that little dude's muscles!  Plus, I know it was awesome for the nanny to see that even if she was a little weirded out!
  While we were having coffee and talking about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and miracles and healings, we saw a guy walk in with an oxygen tank and a cane.  His tank had smoke coming out of it so I went to ask him if it was normal.  He explained it was because of the condensation and such.  Well, I asked him what was causing it, and he said that if anything can go wrong with the lungs that he had it.  I asked him about emphysema and he said yep.  I also asked if he had hurt his knee or his hip, and he said it was his hip.  So, I told him we were Christians and asked if we could pray for his healing.  Well, Dan had been a Christian for 25 years and he told us and he believed in the power of prayer.  We pulled up a chair for him and said we are gonna pray for you right now.  So we did, and he was at a 6 on pain scale.  I had him stand up, and reminded him about the story where Jesus prayed for the blind man, and after the first time he prayed for him, the guy saw men walking around and they looked like trees.  Jesus then prayed for him again, and the man was completely healed.  I said, "Dan, if Jesus, the Son of God, gets to pray twice, then I figure that we get to pray about a hundred times.  Can we pray for it again?"  Dan said, "ok!" So, we commanded healing to his hip, and the pain to go in the name of Jesus.  Then, Dan let us know that he had dropped to about a 3 in pain.  So, guess what?  We went for it again.  We commanded the healing several more times, and it stayed around a 3.  We are still believing for healing for Dan's hip, and his lungs.  Dan sat down and we talked about church and Jesus for about 25 minutes.  He told me about his daughter who lived in Aurora, so I gave him my card to give to her so she could check out our church.
   God has divine appointments set up for us everywhere we go, if only we'll tune into His voice, and His heart for people!  I gave Kevin a ride back to the place where he was staying and we continued our conversation about the Holy Spirit.  His church is also actually going through a series about the Holy Spirit as well (divine appointment!!).  I asked Kevin if he wanted to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues, and he said, "yeah."  I shared with him from our "script" on praying for people to receive the baptism, and led him in the prayer to receive, and then we both began to pray in tongues.  Kevin said he had never experienced anything like that, and boy was he going for it!  This guy has been growing a ton ever since he accepted Christ back in September through watching an online service from Elevation.  It's great to see Christians grow and receive all that God has for them!
  I'm doing a teaching on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit on June 7th at Good News Church, so be there at 5 pm if you want to learn more!  Maybe you'll get filled that night, too!  Come out even if you aren't ready, because God has something more for you!  AMEN!

Hit Or Miss

I have been inspired this week by a new friend to step out with words of knowledge for people.  While at the gym yesterday, I felt led to pray for these two guys and just bless them.  I didn't know what the Lord wanted to say until I started praying. I even felt like my prayer was insignificant.  I remember praying for the one fella's wife to be fruitful and praying for her womb.  I have no clue why I prayed that!  When I got home I couldn't shake the feeling about he and his wife trying to get pregnant. I tried to just let it go.  Another friend messaged me the same night to ask me to pray for he and his wife to get pregnant.  Odd coincidence?

  Well, today at lunch I felt an impression for the waitress, and I didn't get a chance to share it with her before we left.  Someone (ahem! Me!) forgot their iPad at the restaurant, so we had to go back...and I asked to see the waitress.  I shared a word I had for her about her being motherly, and asked if she had kids..."No," was the reply.  It felt like a total whiff, but I prayed for her and celebrated the risk all the way home.

  I'm back at the gym this afternoon, and I'm on the lookout for whom God wants to use me to speak to.  I see my friends from yesterday and think, " I gotta ask him about his wife!"  I waved to him from the bike, he waved back, and we each continued on our sweaty way.  Then, I saw this other guy in a red shirt and I got this picture of him in my head.  I saw him as a runner, and he was running trails, and I saw him hurting his leg.  I couldn't shake it the rest of the workout.  I'd see him bounce from machine to machine.  He didn't look injured.  No leg brace, no cast, no limp.  I thought, "I must be crazy!"  As he was leaving, I walked up next to him to ask about his workout, and then I jumped in.  "This may sound crazy, but I'm a Christian, and sometimes God gives me words and pictures about people. I saw you working out and I had this picture of you," I said.  "This may just be me making things up but tell me if this means something to you."  I shared the image that I saw and asked him if he had hurt himself running a trail.  He told me, "yeah, I did.  Actually this is my first time back to the gym in two weeks!"  I was like, "Wow!  Do you mind if I pray for you, I believe God wants to heal you!  He wasn't in any pain at the moment but I prayed and commanded healing.  He couldn't check it but said the pain usually comes in the evening.  So, I told him I'd be looking for him at the gym to ask him about it.

  Well, I then tried to track down my friend from yesterday, and he was nowhere to be found.  I texted him (yeah, I get guy's digits at the gym) to ask this: "Are you and your wife trying to get pregnant?"

  I see him coming out of the locker room reading his phone, and he starts laughing.  I approach him and he said how crazy it was about me praying for his wife yesterday.  He told her how I had prayed and she said she had a dream three nights ago that she was pregnant and that she wanted to have another baby, but he wasn't sure that he wanted to have another kid.

 Wow!  God really desires to use us to speak into people's lives and take risks!  Hit or miss, we celebrate the risks and the results!  Actually, what may seem like a miss could mean something to someone.  We have to step out and watch God work!  Praise the Lord!