This Weeks' Events

I heard three reports this week of people being instantly healed of cancer; one of which was stage 4. They all have no more signs of cancer!

A lady in our school of ministry class prayed for a teacher/co-worker that had a broken hand. God restored her hand and she is moving all of her fingers with no pain! Her hand was broken just a few days prior and was supposed to take several weeks to heal.

One of our youth group members, Jake, had injured his knee badly. It appeared to be a torn meniscus; with lots of swelling and pain. Jake kept praying for his knee, along with several other teens. Within a short time, his knee was well again.

This past Sunday, God really brought breakthrough for several broken relationships. God is mending marriages! Hardened hearts are being softened.

My Son's Eyes Are Healed!!!!

I am so thankful, so amazed, and really having a hard time finding the right words to express how I feel! My son just returned from youth camp and he came back without his glasses. He had terrible eyesight, previously, and the eye doctor had told me it would only get worse. Well, God thought differently.

During a service at the youth camp, the speaker was telling about someone in his church that received healing for their eyesight. While he was saying this, someone sitting next to my son decided to lay hands on my son's eyes and pray for him. My son said that a couple of minutes later, he noticed that his eyes were "focusing." He took off his glasses and he could see everything perfectly. He is normally a shy type who does not like to draw attention to himself, but he decided this was worth sharing, so he stood up in the middle of the service and got the speaker's attention to tell him that his eyes were healed! They called him up front and thanked God for the miracle.

Today, my husband and I tested his eyesight by having him read things and describe things that are far away. Before, he could not even tell who was in the same room with him without his glasses and words would appear as a big, dark spot. Today, however, he described and read everything perfectly WITHOUT his glasses!!! In fact, he could read things that my husband could not even read, and my son's eyesight had been WORSE than my husband's eyesight. We are absolutely amazed by God and rejoicing over what has happened! Needless to say, my son has been asked by a lot of people to pray for their eyesight and he is having a blast sharing what God has done. Thank You, Lord! (As I type this, he is watching the T.V. from across the room, and he is NOT squinting to see!)

Torn Pancreas Restored

A little boy in our church had a bicycle accident this month. The handlebar went into his abdomen, so he was taken to the ER where they found that his pancreas was almost completely severed. Also, his liver had a laceration. Things were looking grim and the doctors were preparing to do surgery to remove the pancreas. The father and mother prayed over their son, laying hands on his abdomen and asking God to restore everything. After having another MRI, the doctors returned to inform the parents that their son's pancreas was perfect! They could not explain how an almost completely severed pancreas returned to normal within 24 hours. Little Garrett is doing well!

New Knee

This past week, a woman in our church received a brand new knee cap due to prayer! The lady that was praying for her felt the knee cap forming underneath of her hand.

Broken Vertebrae Healed

My father-in-law fell and the x-rays/MRI showed a compression fracture in the L4 vertebrae. The doctor showed the difference between an "old break" and a new break. The doctors began preparing him for back surgery, but did a bone scan to check the depth of damage first. The bone scan revealed that there were no fractures or breaks....only an "old break," one of which the doctor had previously said was a "new break." Hmmm...well, it healed up in a hurry! Back surgery was cancelled from the plans.

God Touches a Friend Going Through Chemotherapy

In this particular post, my friend, Karol (pictured in the center), has not yet received total healing (that we know of), but she has allowed me to post what she wrote about how the Lord touched and encouraged her this past Mother's Day.

Karol writes:
Hi everyone -

I know that this is a group of awesome believers who have blessed me with their prayers and their support so I am asking for your continued support as I go forward.

Last week was truly one of the hardest weeks, after the chemotherapy, which I approached with trepidation (unlike the peace I had the previous time), I got very ill.
Not just side-effects from the chemo but the reaction apparently that I had to the drug they gave me after the chemo to strengthen my bones.
3 trips in 3 days to Kaiser without anything that provided relief.

I really wanted to get to service at Grace on Sunday and so with a lot of help from Keoni actually made it there, but I was barely hanging on. Then Michelle sent Ethan Finnberg to get me,
and bring me to children's church. she said that she really felt the Lord telling her to have the children pray for me. And so I was blessed to have little hands laid on me and little voices, some
barely raised, but all praying for my well being. One of the children started to sing, " Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, Here I am to say that you're my God."

What an incredible moment. As Michelle encouraged others to sing I felt something lift off me, I felt this shift, not like a lightening bolt, more like a little scoot over happen. And holding those little hands,
feeling their faith, my faith began to rise.

I realized that I was the only one standing in the way of my receiving the healing God had for me, that people were praying I would receive, that I did truly want in my heart, but somewhere thought that I did not deserve.
I realized that I had to put aside anything and everything that made me doubt, all things self-centered, so that healing could be mine, and like the small children who were praying for me, step up in faith and claim the promises God had made.

I started to sing with the children, what a joy what a sense I cannot describe. I felt transformed by this encounter.

I went back into regular service and when Shannon was done speaking about some of the incredible experiences that he, Michelle and Kaatee had had at Redding and at Lakeland Florida, he went through the congregation,
and when he touched my hand I could feel the power of God flowing through him so strongly, it caused another shift in me.

So, sorry this is so long, but I realized after all of this that I can't go back and do the chemo again. I have no peace about it, I feel that God is directing me to go at this another way. I am going to do everything to get
my body healthy and well naturally, as well as zealously pursuing God's complete healing in my body - so I am believing that God is going to find a way for me to get to Redding, because since Bill Johnson has called out
a cancer free zone, I beleive that if I simply enter the area the cancer will not be able to stay.

I am asking you all to partner with me in prayer and support for this to come to fruition. I know that I have to lay down everything, my life , everything I love an hold dear and am asking God to take it all and use it, however He wishes,
because without Him I am nothing, without Him it means nothing, without Him there is nothing. I want Him to use me, I long to bring His presence to people who don't know Him.

I have no idea what will happen next but I have hope and I have faith (2 things I was in serious short supply of last week) and I will do whatever He tells me to do and go wherever He tells me to go to glorify His name and to make His love a reality to people.

I love you all, and thank God for the blessings you have poured out on my life and continue to pour out on my life.

Karol

And Suddenly....

We have been praying for almost 8 months for the healing of my sister's arm. During her visit to Maui last September, she was on a boogie board at Big Beach when a huge wave pushed her into the sand, breaking her shoulder. Ever since that time, she had been unable to lift her arm up completely and it was really weak. Every day, she would try to lift it and exercise it, but it would not go beyond a certain point and it was very painful. Each day, she would give it a try. Last weekend, she initiated this exercise routine, and SUDDENLY, she had full range of motion and there is no more pain!! When I came to her house, she said, excitedly, "Look! Look what I can do." I am so joyful and extremely grateful to God for touching her arm.
We prayed for months, fervently, to see this happen. I do not know why it took so long, but when it did happen, it was suddenly. It's as if our prayers finally got through and Heaven was opened up to our cry. Thank You, Lord.