Spiritual Journey toward Miracles & Healing

     Yesterday the atmosphere at Living Way Church was different.  I felt as if I was not in the same dimension as everyone else as I shared the Word.  When I asked Akihiro what he felt, the only way he could describe it was "brighter.  Everything seemed brighter."  At the end of the meeting we asked the Presence of the Lord to come, for Him to show us His glory, for the Shekinah to be revealed.  I didn't know how to end the meeting.  Everyone just sat there in silence for a few minutes before anyone started talking and moving about.

     Since March of this year, 2008, we have been actively praying for people to be healed and for them to receive miracles in their finances and work situations.  Although we have not had any startling breakthroughs, we have had people get promotions, better jobs, bonuses, back pay they were not expecting, find money, and receive unexpected gifts.  Several people who had pain, some for many months, have had the pain stop.  Yesterday, we prayed for eyes to be healed and any problems with teeth, gums, and mouths to be healed.  Mrs. W. was talking to me after the meeting and suddenly stopped and exclaimed, "My pain is gone.  When I came to church this morning, my gums were hurting and now I realize it's stopped."

     One lady has tried to get her unsaved husband, Mr. K., to church for years.  He has so many physical problems the doctors have trouble treating one without interfering with the others.  He has been very hostile toward her beliefs.  Any time he found a Bible in the house he would tear it to shreds.  For years he would get very angry when she would go to church.  In the last few months he has changed.  One night she heard him reciting the Lord's prayer in his sleep.  He has encouraged her to come to church and not be late.  Sunday he brought her but got angry and left when someone told him he couldn't go in and out to smoke whenever he liked.  [That wasn't me, by the way.  I would have told him he could!]  However, he did come back at the end of the meeting for prayer.  He let me lay hands on him and pray for his diabetes to be healed.  This was a MAJOR break through!  I'll keep you posted.

     We are on a journey.  We have made a commitment we will not stop praying and believing the Living God to confirm His Word with signs and wonders and healings as He did in the first century church.  It has been almost 10 months now.  I get discouraged sometimes.  I've gotten sick and unexpectedly wound up in the hospital for 10 days!  At one point we had 4 of our foster care babies in the hospital at the same time!  But, we are pressing on.  As of today, the doctors are puzzled about the amazing progress of one baby in recovering and the slowing down of a progressive disease in an older lady.  Neither of these people is totally healed yet but the doctors cannot explain what is happening in them.  The baby should not be getting well so fast and the lady should be much worse than she is.  We Thank Our Lord and Creator for the progress and pray that we will totally confound the wisdom of the medical profession as God moves.