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Leg grew out before I prayed.

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Not actual legs that were grown out.

We are here in Whitehorse, YK, Canada. It has been an incredible experience and this Sunday was no exception. I got to pray with Nancy Turner, for a lady who told us she had a severe hip pain. While she was talking I thought, “We should check her legs!” so I interrupted her and said, “Have you ever had your legs checked?” She said, “No?” We proceeded to check out the length of her legs and the one was shorter than the other. I asked if she could see the difference and told her that Jesus was going to grow out her leg. Then I looked down and He already started without any prayer. Her leg grew out to the right length. She said that she could totally feel it growing. We had her stand up and test it out and all her hip pain was gone! YEAH JESUS. Then she quickly started adding things to pray for she asked us to pray for her lungs, I agreed and asked her to stretch our her hands in front of her and rotate them up and down. I did this to break the expectation of “how” it was going happen. Then I said OK now test it out breath in deep. She did and remarked that she hadn’t been able to do that before. God is sooo gooood. It doesn’t take a special prayer or words to unlock the power, it just takes exposure to His Spirit. He is the healer, and all we owe people is an encounter with Him. Ah God makes me laugh.

Blessing and Increase!

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Well it is time to tell of all that God has done in the last few months and to declare a renewed vision for the future. Remember when you hear this testimony that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy! This means the very testimony you hear of Jesus touching some else’s life has the power in it to do it again. So take this testimony as a prophesy for your situation.

Several years ago, while attending a Bethel Church service, Pastor Bill was moved by the Spirit to have us all pray for those who were having financial struggles. Well we had moved there to attend BSSM and were completely strapped financially having used up whatever cash we had and all of our credit. So we were in desperate need of some prayer and money. As my friend layed hands on me to pray for our situation I had a vision of people putting money into my hands, then the vision changed and I saw people pinning  money on my back, then the vision changed again and I was standing in front of the mail box collecting a check that would pay off our debt. This was exactly what I needed to encourage me. Well right after he was done praying people started putting money in my hands while I was standing there. Then later that month I got a job working for Loving On Purpose, right at the point where had no money left, it was amazing.

Now I knew that the first two parts of the vision had come true, money donations were coming in and I was getting money for my labor. I longed to see the third part come true, but nothing. My wife started seeing the numbers 555 frequently. The number 5 means grace and Bill had an encounter where the Lord showed him that the cancellation of debt was upon us and the number was 555. So every time we saw that number we claimed it as the cancellation of debt for us. It was crazy how often we saw it. I mean ridiculous. I would see the number, reach out my hand and claim the promise as ours. Well Kris Vallotton says the word you hear the most often can be a sign of the resistance you will face before you see that promise come to pass. This was a real test for our faith, especially when we felt financially strapped after going to Nicaragua and reducing our salary to only 6% of what I was making when I was working as a video game project manager. God was faithful and provided all the way. There were times in Nicaragua in the middle of the month, when all we had was a bag of oatmeal on the shelf and people came, without knowing and paid to feed us for 3 days, etc. It was truly amazing! Always there, always at the last moment, God came through. However the debt was always there as a nagging temptation not to believe God as the creditors kept calling.

The external pressure to not believe the faithfulness of God to fulfill the promise was intense and just last month it came to a head with a creditor when they threatened legal action. All sorts of questions come to mind like, did we hear God right, were we foolish in giving it all up to follow what we felt God was telling us to do, am I being an irresponsible father, etc etc. It was rough, but no matter what we felt, experienced or perceived we kept reminding each other that the God who answered our prayers in the past is the same God who will answer our promises in the future and that He is more than capable to do what He said He would do. Then in the middle of last month, a couple we know sold their house and gave us check of $20K to pay off our debt. PRAISE GOD! He is faithful to fulfill all that He promises.

Healing released in Diriamba

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It was an amazing weekend in Diriamba. The Holy Spirit came faithful to His promise to show up whenever we call on him.

On thursday night, I shared a testimony of a twisted foot being healed. The presence of Holy Spirit was on me so strongly. I knew God wanted to do it again. The leaders in the class were reminded of a guy, Francisco, who does maintenance for the church. He had a twisted hand. Someone went to look for him and returned to the classroom a few minutes later. I planned to teach the leaders the healing model so took this opportunity to demonstrate it to them. I was holding Francisco’s twisted hand with both my hands while I prayed a simple prayer. As I prayed, I could feel his whole hand pivoting in mine while his wrist remained still. It was amazing! When we finished praying I asked him how it felt. His hand was still twisted, but the pain was gone! So I asked him if I could pray again. Once again, while we prayed I could feel his hand pivoting in mine and his fingers and knuckles straightening. It was so good. The translator and I could barely believe our eyes.

This demonstration of God’s love set the stage for an awesome encounter with God. The faith of the leaders was growing as they heard the testimonies and watched God touch Francisco’s hand and heal a woman’s back pain. I spoke with them about words of knowledge and how God highlights a particular thing that he wants to accomplish in that moment. Everyone waited on the Lord for a word of knowledge and several things were called out like bone disorders, bronchitis, ear problems among others. People raised their hands and then I encouraged them to start praying for one another, to invite the Holy Spirit to come and minister to them, to command any pain to leave. It took a few minutes of clarification and reminders to keep it simple and suddenly you could see the joy start to erupt as people realized that they were healed and those praying realized how God had just used them in power. As testimonies came forth, more of the leaders came forward for prayer and I welcomed those who were just healed to pray … And more testimonies came forth … and more requests!! It was like supernatural dominoes as pain and affliction bowed at the name of Jesus. At least 9 people were healed in the meeting that night (knees, forearms, bronchitis, sore throats, ear problems, backs). The joy was bubbling over as they gloried in the demonstrations of God’s love.

On Friday night, I shared with the leaders about SOZO, focusing mainly on the father ladder. I walked them through the tool corporately to give them a taste of the healing that it brings to walk through forgiveness of people and see the Godhead in a different light. Afterward, I took them on an encounter, a “first date” of sorts, to start their journey with the person of the Godhead that they felt least connected to. It was beautiful to see so many men and women touched by the presence of God, completely surrendered in the hope of knowing Him more. Many people testified after, through tears of joy and release, of a love that they had never felt, a sense of being in a place that they had always longed for. What a privilege it was to listen to their intimate love encounters.

Saturday was the icing on the cake. We learned together about Supernatural Evangelism, getting drunk and then taking the love out to the world. The healing that they experienced over the past few days and weeks had evidently become a new wine skin. The people were courageous and filled with a sense of hope and adventure as they dipped their invisible cups in the river and drank as much as they wanted. They were excited by the accuracy of their hearing when they went out with treasure maps to find the treasure that Holy Spirit was leading them to. One guy in particular, was dancing in the park with excitement when his treasure found him! A man matching several of the clues on his map approached us and asked us to pray for him. He was healed immediately and it glowed in the smile on his face. The team was as happy as he was. Back in the classroom we shared testimonies of people healed and treasures found and the leaders were filled with excitement. They couldn’t believe all that they had encountered in the past few weeks.

No matter how many people you touch or encourage, I’m realizing that every outreach is an inreach because every time Holy Spirit moves in power you are once more in awe of the mystery revealed again … “Christ in you, the hope of glory!”

Prophecy and Encounter week…

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Well it was another exciting week this week in Diriamba, Nicaragua. The leaders were tired this week because they are planning an anniversary for the first week of March and they have been going non stop since our team arrived in January. So with Chris’ wisdom I decided to keep the teaching light and the encounters high. I taught on prophecy this week, the gift and the office.

Leaders doing prophetic art

We welcomed the Holy Spirit at the beginning of class as always, but ended in practical applications of prophecy. We did ‘words of encouragement’, ‘words of knowledge’, ‘Holy Spirit games’ and their favorite, ‘prophetic art’. This week was also the week I taught about the importance of getting drunk in the spirit, what it looks like and how to do it; so we got drunk. Well just a little:). I think I will repeat that next week!

We closed this week off with a trip to heaven where people went into the heavenly palace, through all the rooms and before the throne where God gave them tools, weapons and clothing for their purpose on earth. Hearing the testimonies was one of the most amazing times I have had teaching.