Last Sunday morning we had an incredible outpouring of healing in our church. On the Saturday night before, my wife Kerry was suffering from an attack of rheumathoid arthritis, so much so that she was unable to attend church the next morning. I arrived at church ready to lead worship and my brother Mark was rostered to preach, but was so dizzy he could hardly stand up straight!
I had the sense that we were under attack as a church, and a couple of songs into the worship I really felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to go into a more intense approach to the worship, declaring by faith the faithfulness of God.
As I did, I felt the Lord show me streams of healing being released to the church – so I called people forward who needed healing.
Straight away people began being touched by God’s presence, and the following testimonies attest to God’s healing power -
- My brother Mark was able to preach with no ill-effects from the dizziness.
- Robyn (another church member) had been in a car accident the previous Wednesday and had come to church with a lot of back pain. As she came down the front in reponse to the altar call she felt a “crack” in her back and was immediately healed from all pain.
- When I got home, my wife (who had been unable to get out of bed that morning), was bouncing around the kitchen making lunch – all her soreness had been healed, and her joints were no longer swollen. She told me that at about 10:30 am (the time I made the altar call for healing at church), she felt a sudden presence of the Lord and was immediately healed – praise God!
We minister together, so I also needed to prepare, but a hectic work schedule found me on Saturday morning wondering at the last minute what to share on, and what God wanted to do – I was in the driveway of our house cleaning up my bike, thinking about the following day’s upcoming ministry, and it started to rain. I was preparing to carry the bike back into the garage, when I felt the Lord say to me “Turn around”.