The Healing Power of Jesus

Wow where to begin on what has been happening here! Its hard to explain everything that God is doing because some of it is just so unreal. But anyway I will try to explain; so last week we talked on the Holy Spirit and we had a lady come to our DTS that is so anointed with the Holy Spirit.  She shared her testimony with us and then asked the Holy Spirit to come fill the place and oh man did he come! All of  a sudden a weight came over my whole body and it felt like something was almost pushing me down.  I couldn't keep my head up and I couldn't move. I tried lifting my arms and I could barely do it. I was so weak. I then just started crying as pictures of my life flashed before my eyes and then my mind was just went blank and I heard a voice say "Be still in Know that I AM God" God then continued to tell me that I am not in control of my life and to stop worrying about the pointless things because He already knows what is going to happen so I don't need to be worrying.  And then I just started to laugh uncontrollably I was so filled with the Joy of the Holy Spirit I couldn't control myself.  Well it took awhile for me to regain my strength, but I left feeling so free and so much at peace. The funny thing is that the week before that I kept asking God why he felt so distance from me and why I couldn't feel his presence as strong as before. Well God sure does come on His own timing.

Later that week we had someone come and speak that has a healing ministry and his gift is healing. This is when I really was just blown away.  So I was healed a few years ago; my knee had been injured by a horse and it never was the same.  It hurt to run, it hurt to stand for long periods of time, and to even walk sometimes, I constantly had to rub my knee and just try and deal with the pain.  At small group my group prayed over it and I'll I kept saying is that I faith that God can do this I don't have any unbelief I know he can heal me. My knee started popping and I felt like a warmth come over my knee almost like it was on fire and a tingling sensation.  God had reached down from heaven and placed his hand on my knee and fixed whatever was wrong inside of it. Ever since then my knee has had no pain and I have been able to run and stand normally! Praise the LORD. Anyways back to the speaker He was talking about how we don't necessarily have to lay hands on people in order for them to get healed but by just saying "Be healed in the name of Jesus" can be enough.   I have a really bad shoulder and my spine is crooked in one place and it makes cutting hair sometimes really difficult.  So I raised my hand saying that I could get healed from that. So he spoke out those words and I went on with the rest of my day thinking my back wasn't in that much pain, but not really thinking about my spine.  Well that night I was prompted to feel my spine so I ran my hand along the top of my spine and it was straight! I jumped up and felt it again there wasn't  a crooked spot in it anymore.  It was like the bone got put back into place, but it happened during the day like I didn't feel anything it just happened.  I waited to morning to tell anyone and to make sure that is was going to stay like that and it has.  My spine is straight and I gave a long layered haircut the next night and I had no pain when usually I would!  Haha God is soooo good.


So this is when you might not believe me, but I saw this with my own eyes.  So on Friday I got into my small group here and the speaker was in our classroom  healing people if anyone felt like God was telling them to go get healed. So some of my group went to get healed.  One girl went but when she got  there she felt like God told her to have her group pray for her.  So she came back to us telling us that. And before she even told us what was wrong with her I felt the Holy Spirit come on me and I got so excited to see this girl healed. Then she told us that one of her legs was longer then the other...yeah I know crazy huh? But I didn't care so we sat her down put her legs up and sure enough there was at least an inch or more difference, which was causing her to have a lot of back pain. So we started praying and then checked and sure enough it started to grow!!! So then we kept praying and it grew all the way out! We had her stand up and her knees matched and she no longer had any back pain! I was soooooo amazed I literally saw a huge difference between her two legs and now there was none. It amazing that anyone that has Jesus living inside of them can pray for someone and watch them get healed.  It doesn't have anything to do with who is praying for them, but with faith and exception God wants to use us to do the things He did.  He didn't create us to have things wrong with our body and He wants to heal us just because He loves us and doesn't want us to see us hurting, but we got to believe that He can!

I am so excited to go on outreach and see God work in miraculous ways! I am expecting God to do some big things that are going to stretch my faith in a crazy way!

Fallin in LOVE

So I have been a christian all my life and I love Jesus.  However, I never let myself fall actually IN love with him. This past week I have falling completely truly, deeply, madly in love with Jesus. I got set free from my past and the grip that it had on my future.  This last week I got baptized in the ocean. This is time is marked as a New Beginning for me and my life.  I understand now what the cross truly means and what Jesus did for me on that day. I gave up my rights to my family, to friends, to money, sleep, and etc... and declared that nothing is mine, but everything is His and that I'll give up anything to follow Him.  The most amazing thing happened this week and that was i truly learned how to forgive and the importance of forgiveness.  I got rid of so much bitterness that I had let build up over time.  Without forgiveness it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to be close and have a relationship with Jesus. It all made so much since I thought to myself "Wow no wonder why I couldn't get close to God" So I totally got rid of so much un-forgiveness and confessed so many things to different people. I truly can say what I never thought I was going to say, but I feel like a completely different person.  The things that I used to want are not the same things that I want now, the way I think about things are not at all the way that I used to think about stuff, and my opinions on things have changed so much.  I am starting to see through God's eyes.  Everyday I can hardly wait to see the next thing God is going to show me.  I am finally content with it just being me and God and having him control my life.  Its amazing how much God can do in just a few weeks and how your whole heart can be changed. Its hard to explain all the things that are going on here.  I feel like I am suppose to come back here and staff a DTS and then come to their Counseling School sometime next year or either in the fall of this year.  But this is something I am still praying about, but I love everything about this island and YWAM has so many connections and a great ministry program to get involved in. I encourage everyone that reads this to dig deep into the word and do whatever you can to hear God's voice!