house church meeting - healings and prophecy
I was asked to come and minister in a friend's house Church. It was a group of radical God seekers who long for His presence more than anything. In fact, with all the different ways people describe churches (i.e. 'purpose driven', 'seeker sensitive', 'Word-based', etc. etc.) there is truly one description that seems to me to be the one every Church should give themselves to - being 'PRESENCE Driven'. I mean His presence! This was truly one of those kinds of churches.
The Lord began to speak to me prophetically about the church and also for some individual members. After an extended time of worship, I shared, prophesied and prayed for the sick. What was remarkable in terms of the healings that God did, most of them seemed to be without the laying on of hands. God would give me a word of knowledge and then we would just ask God to do it sovereignly.
As one who is passionate about training and equipping others, much of the emphasis in the ministry time towards the end of the meeting was focused upon impartation for gifts, and in particular the impartation of the gift of the word of knowledge. Others began to receive words of knowledge, people responded to the words and then the Lord would heal the 'highlighted' conditions. This is just the way church always should be!
One woman came with a chronic wrist and arm condition. We began to pray and were not seeing breakthrough initially. During the 2nd or 3rd time of prayer, the Lord gave me another word of knowledge for a back condition she had a specific part of her back. Wanting to follow God's leading and do what we "see the Father doing", we shifted our prayer towards the back condition and then it happened. As she was testing it out, she screamed, "It's GONE"! She began jumping up and down and celebrating with her husband. What a glorious moment - so much fun. At that point, we could return to praying for the wrist problem with far more faith and expectation.
I don't even know all the things that God did during that meeting. We went till well past midnight. Many people were praying for others. The healings and prophetic words that came were many. Normally I would have pulled us all back together and shared testimonies but time didn't allow for that.
Sometimes we settle for far less than God wants for our gatherings. I can tell you this meeting helped to start my summer in the best possible way - God's presence doing all sorts of things till the middle of the night. What other kinds of meetings do we want?
The Lord began to speak to me prophetically about the church and also for some individual members. After an extended time of worship, I shared, prophesied and prayed for the sick. What was remarkable in terms of the healings that God did, most of them seemed to be without the laying on of hands. God would give me a word of knowledge and then we would just ask God to do it sovereignly.
As one who is passionate about training and equipping others, much of the emphasis in the ministry time towards the end of the meeting was focused upon impartation for gifts, and in particular the impartation of the gift of the word of knowledge. Others began to receive words of knowledge, people responded to the words and then the Lord would heal the 'highlighted' conditions. This is just the way church always should be!
One woman came with a chronic wrist and arm condition. We began to pray and were not seeing breakthrough initially. During the 2nd or 3rd time of prayer, the Lord gave me another word of knowledge for a back condition she had a specific part of her back. Wanting to follow God's leading and do what we "see the Father doing", we shifted our prayer towards the back condition and then it happened. As she was testing it out, she screamed, "It's GONE"! She began jumping up and down and celebrating with her husband. What a glorious moment - so much fun. At that point, we could return to praying for the wrist problem with far more faith and expectation.
I don't even know all the things that God did during that meeting. We went till well past midnight. Many people were praying for others. The healings and prophetic words that came were many. Normally I would have pulled us all back together and shared testimonies but time didn't allow for that.
Sometimes we settle for far less than God wants for our gatherings. I can tell you this meeting helped to start my summer in the best possible way - God's presence doing all sorts of things till the middle of the night. What other kinds of meetings do we want?
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