I didn’t know we could do that!

Recently on a trip to a poor neighboring country we had opportunity after opportunity to pray for the sick and minister prophetically. A medical doctor who serves the poorest of the poor, took us to the neighborhood where these people live. The place is rampant with sickness – people die from simple diseases that are easily treatable.

On our way into the neighborhood I got a word of knowledge for a back problem. We approached two Muslim men and one of them had the problem I described. We laid hands upon him and all the pain left his body. He had another problem in a different part of his back – we prayed for that and the Lord touched that problem too.

I got another word for a finger problem and by this time a group of children had gathered around us. One of them came forward and we prayed for him. He was healed. We ended up praying for three other children with hand and finger problems and the Lord healed all of them.

We then were taken to a man’s home to pray for his wife who was very sick. We initially didn’t seem to get very far praying for healing and then one of the team said to me, “she really needs some kind of a major lift”. At that point, I had an idea. I would pray for her to see a vision. I asked this Muslim woman to close her eyes and then I grabbed her hand (which is culturally unacceptable – but we were desperate!). I began to just pray and release the Kingdom into this woman and asked the Lord to open up for her a vision or some other kind of supernatural experience – little did we know what the Lord was going to do. As I prayed, the Spirit of the Lord came upon her and she was clearly having some kind of major spiritual encounter.

Afterwards she told us that someone appeared to her in a vision – she didn’t know who it was, but our guess is that it was the Lord Himself. Next, she said that the Spirit of God came and opened up her chest (actually she said that it was ‘torn/ripped’ open) and then He filled her completely. She couldn’t open her eyes for a long time. In the wake of this experience, she was a completely different person.

We did the same for two other women and one man – in all the cases, the Spirit of God came powerfully upon these Muslims and healed their bodies and gave them special encounters with Himself. One felt like electricity was flowing through her body. We also gave them prophetic words.

The doctor afterwards said that he really had a lot to think about in terms of what he saw as we ministered to these people – he said, “I didn’t know we could do that!”. Honestly, nor did we. Who knows what God will do when Spirit-filled believers get their hands on unbelievers and ask the Kingdom to come! Try it out – you will definitely be surprised.