and their first miracle is a crippled boy getting healed!!
Last night I received a detailed report about some of the things that are happening in the wake of our visit back in January to a neighboring Arab Muslim country. The very thing we pray for and the reason we believe God wants us to take these kinds of trips is with the goal of seeing some kind of "snowball effect" wherein people living there have their vision for the miraculous expanded, receive something of an impartation and then go and do it themselves. This is not only happening, it is happening amongst the local believers who are all former Muslims. Tears welled up in my eyes as I listened to what God was doing with these precious brothers and sisters who have risked everything by following Jesus.
One of the Muslim-background believing couple's had brought her father whose knee was healed after we prayed (we blogged this back in January). During that same prayer time, the husband (a believer) had received prayer for his elbow which had not enabled him to work in construction (his livelihood). I just learned that his elbow was completely healed and he was able to go back to work after that.
The Muslim father whose knee was healed is asking lots of great spiritual questions now, has been telling all his Muslim friends that the Messiah healed him and has an Arabic Bible! Praise God for that testimony going out!
The wife, who happened to disciple/lead a group of other women believers (all former Muslims) brought them together to pray for a little 4 1/2 year old boy who had never walked. After seeing her father's knee healed, she had faith to pray for this little boy's miracle.
This group of women (with no westerner Christians there) put this little boy in the middle with his mother and began to cry out to God for healing - they literally were CRYING as they petitioned the Lord to work a miracle and next day for the first time in his life, the boy began to walk - first he held onto the wall, and then a day later he was walking without any assistance whatsoever!!
According to my friend, "the women's faith grew 1000%" - this little band of local believers had laid their hands upon a crippled little boy and seen a New Testament miracle. (I told him my faith grew as I was listening to him tell the story - I still haven't seen someone who has never walked, get up and walk. How God is it that the 1st miracle these women pray for is a crippled little boy getting to walk for the first time in his life. More Lord!
What has been the result? The boldness and zeal has increased tremendously in the lives of these local believers. The husband is now challenging my friend (who has been mentoring and discipling him). Is this not how it should be?
Another Arab Muslim man was healed of his diabetes and has stopped taking all medication.
When I asked my friend if he felt these local believers had received an impartation of a gift (or gifts) of healing after we prayed for them, he said they did.
Local believers witnessing a miracle, receiving an impartation and going out to see greater miracles than those of us who prayed for their impartation - it doesn't get any better than this!!!
One of the Muslim-background believing couple's had brought her father whose knee was healed after we prayed (we blogged this back in January). During that same prayer time, the husband (a believer) had received prayer for his elbow which had not enabled him to work in construction (his livelihood). I just learned that his elbow was completely healed and he was able to go back to work after that.
The Muslim father whose knee was healed is asking lots of great spiritual questions now, has been telling all his Muslim friends that the Messiah healed him and has an Arabic Bible! Praise God for that testimony going out!
The wife, who happened to disciple/lead a group of other women believers (all former Muslims) brought them together to pray for a little 4 1/2 year old boy who had never walked. After seeing her father's knee healed, she had faith to pray for this little boy's miracle.
This group of women (with no westerner Christians there) put this little boy in the middle with his mother and began to cry out to God for healing - they literally were CRYING as they petitioned the Lord to work a miracle and next day for the first time in his life, the boy began to walk - first he held onto the wall, and then a day later he was walking without any assistance whatsoever!!
According to my friend, "the women's faith grew 1000%" - this little band of local believers had laid their hands upon a crippled little boy and seen a New Testament miracle. (I told him my faith grew as I was listening to him tell the story - I still haven't seen someone who has never walked, get up and walk. How God is it that the 1st miracle these women pray for is a crippled little boy getting to walk for the first time in his life. More Lord!
What has been the result? The boldness and zeal has increased tremendously in the lives of these local believers. The husband is now challenging my friend (who has been mentoring and discipling him). Is this not how it should be?
Another Arab Muslim man was healed of his diabetes and has stopped taking all medication.
When I asked my friend if he felt these local believers had received an impartation of a gift (or gifts) of healing after we prayed for them, he said they did.
Local believers witnessing a miracle, receiving an impartation and going out to see greater miracles than those of us who prayed for their impartation - it doesn't get any better than this!!!
DJ,
ReplyDeleteI like the music you play! Glory to God! I am rejoicing with you over this healing miracle. “He spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with Him freely give us all things!” (Romans 8:32).
Rick Samuel