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WHISTLER MIRACLES. SHOULDER HEALED AND SALVATION
Barbara and I went to one of favorite restaurants, Pasta Lupino on our final evening at Whistler Ski Resort. Our waitress whose name is Mary came over and visited with us and remembered that we had been to this outstanding restaurant before. Even though it was crowded and people could hear us and Mary was very busy, I felt led to pray a blessing over her when the check arrived. However, one of the other waitresses brought our check to my surprise. I thought that perhaps we had missed our opportunity. Immediately, I asked the other waitress to ask Mary to come to our table.
I told her that we were in ministry and could we pray a blessing over her? She said yes and I asked her if she had ever accepted JESUS in her heart. She said that her friend had been talking to her about the Lord, but had not. So, I simply asked if we could pray right now even though it was a little awkward and she said yes. We prayed together and she thanked us and was beaming with joy and tearing up. Before praying a blessing over her, I asked if we could pray for any medical problem and she said that she had hurt her RIGHT SHOULDER just today, I believe. Barbara and I laid hands on her shoulder and prayed one simple prayer commanding the shoulder to be healed in Jesus Name. I asked her to move it around and she said it felt good. I asked her again to make sure everything was great and it was. We finally prayed a blessing over her as we all held hands and she was overjoyed even though my prayer was far from eloquent in my opinion. It’s really the heart attitude sometimes and not the eloquence. What a great way to end up our final evening of vacation. Praise the Lord!
These are blue footed boobies found in the Galapagos Islands, about 1000 KM (600+ miles) to the west of Ecuador.
THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. HEALING OF TOE AND LARGE BLOOD BLISTER DISAPPEARS
This was the end of our first day aboard a 65 foot boat with 32 plus other people, very crowded and no privacy other than the restrooms. Anyway, one of the guides, Wayne had stubbed his big toe and was in quite a bit of pain. In addition, he had a huge blood blister encompassing his whole toe. I inquired if I could pray for him and he agreed. So, I simply put my hand on his foot after getting his permission and commanded the pain to go in Jesus Name. After a couple of prayers, the pain diminished and he was appreciative that I had prayed for him. The next day, I asked him how his toe was doing and he said that it was much better and that the BLOOD BLISTER had totally disappeared. I told him that was a miracle, as I have seen blood blisters at times never disappear and if they do, it usually takes a couple of weeks, not overnight. It really was amazing.
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL MIRACLES (DENTAL VAN). SALVATION, SHOULDER HEALED, FEET HEALED
Today, we did our dental clinic at New Hope Church near SeaTac airport. We could sense the strong spiritual warfare against us today, as the enemy hates what we are doing for the Lord and tries to discourage us. It turned out to be a great day regardless of Satan’s resistance to everything that we were doing. There was one miracle that happened with a surgical tooth extraction that I will not elaborate upon, but turned out to be well for us and well for the patient.
At the very beginning of the clinic, I prayed that the Lord would show up along with His holy angels and minister to us and the patients. Hebrews 1:14 states that all His angels are ministering spirits sent forth to minister to us who are heirs of salvation.
On the dental van, we often have doctors, assistants, and hygienists that do not know the Lord. Today, I took the opportunity to pray with my assistant, Mark who is from Moldova situated between the Ukraine and Romania, and led him in a prayer of SALVATION. I also prayed for his physical illness that I hope to hear good report on in the future. Interestingly, at the end of the day, he asked where I would be at in future clinics, as he said that he enjoyed working with me. I was surprised as it was a very challenging day, but obviously the Lord was working in him already.
We prayed for a number of other patients also, but two stand out when prayers were answered immediately. After finishing with Linda, a Christian from Kenya (I believe), Barbara and I prayed for her LEFT SHOULDER. We prayed two or three times and each time her shoulder would get better when she tested it out. When we were done, Linda's shoulder felt great and she was very tearful and greatful for what the Lord had done.
At the end of the day, we prayed for Ann, our van manager. We asked what we could pray for and she said that her FEET always hurt. That’s no problem for the Lord. So, I placed my hands on her feet and commanded everything to be comfortable in Jesus Name. Immediately, Ann reported that the pain was gone and that she felt lighter. We prayed one more time for good measure. Ann was thrilled that her feet were comfortable and she felt lighter, perhaps because of more cartilage was put into her feet and ankles or simply because of the presence of the Holy Spirit. Ann was concerned that the problem would come back, so we told her that she also can command everything to be normal in Jesus Name if the condition reoccurs.
Today turned out to be an exciting and rewarding clinic.
OUR HOME. MIRACLE OF SALVATION
Dan from Spa Warehouse came by today to work on our swim spa. He was here for a couple of hours and was getting ready walk outside to write up some notes. We were standing in the hallway and he held the door open with his body. He mentioned that he had a problem with his wisdom teeth a short time ago so I took the opportunity to tell him that we did missions trips and see many miracles when we pray for people. I then asked him if we could pray a blessing over him and he said yes. First, we prayed with him to accept the Lord into his life and then for healing of his wisdom teeth and back. His back was not feeling uncomfortable today, but he did feel God's presence when we prayed for him. Hopefully, we will get a positive report in the near future. PTL
SPA HOUSE. HEALING OF ALLERGIES AND ANGELIC PROTECTION
We spoke to Dave, at Spa House regarding Dan's motorcycle ACCIDENT just a few days after we had prayed with him and was not seriously hurt. I remember that we had prayed for angelic protection for him as part of the blessing over him. This is really a great example how extremely important it is to help individuals to receive the Lord into their hearts, as nobody knows when they might take their last breath for all eternity. Dan could have easily died in this accident and gone into eternity without knowing the Lord and may have if we had not prayed for him. Dave had also mentioned how much Dan was touched when Barbara and I had prayed for him that afternoon at our house.
On another note, I had also PRAYED FOR DAVE'S ALLERGIES OVER THE PHONE a couple of weeks ago. He told us the next day his allergies were completely gone and he is totally healed. Praise the Lord. I had told him that we had prayed for other people over the phone and God had healed them also within the next 24 hours (other times, instantly).
FRIENDS' HOME. FEVER DISAPPEARS AND SWELLING DIMINISHES
Just before leaving, we prayed with Reuben and Hannah at their thresh hold (front door), as we normally do. Tonight, however, their little boy, Peter had a really bad fever plus swelling on the left side of his neck that they were very concerned about. We prayed for Peter and commanded the fever to leave in Jesus Name and the swelling to go down. I said to look for everything to improve by morning. The next morning, Reuben was watching a guest on Sid Roth, It’s Supernatural talking about when the Lord had healed her of a severe disease. At that particular moment in the show, Reuben said that Peter's fever instantly broke and the swelling in his neck went down dramatically. This is a great example of how the Lord will sometimes wait to answer our prayers at a particular time which is in our best interest and helps us to increase our trust in Him.
It is important to note that not all healing and/or answered prayers are instantaneous. The key is to pray and believe that it will happen. The responsibility for the healing or answered prayers to occur is not ours, but God's. We simply do our part and depend on the Lord to do the rest. In the above example, I believe that Peter's healing happened at that particular point in time in order for Reuben to receive the "gift of faith" spoken of in 1 Corinthians 12 to believe for the miracle to occur instantly.
In future blogs, I will discuss people that received miracles after we had prayed for them which we did not hear about until much later. In fact, one was about two years later. So never stop praying for people even if you do not see instant results. Never give up. The answer may be just around the corner!
BOAT FLOATS AWAY. What a great day, but it was not over yet. Unbeknownst to us, when Barbara and I got home late in the afternoon, we saw a note on our door which said that our boat had drifted 2 miles away into the lake and that we needed to call the sheriff! What?! We were very concerned and I immediately went and checked our boat lift and saw that the boat was right where it was supposed to be. So I thought what is going on here? We were definitely relieved, but did not really know what had happened. Barbara checked our phone messages and called the numbers given to us. We discovered that a good Samaritan, by the name of James (a Bible name) and his wife rescued the boat when they saw it floating by itself with no occupants aboard. Evidently, it was set afloat surprisingly during the night which was very calm, a fact that we could not fully understand. After, rescuing the boat, James called the sheriff who returned the boat to our lift. From our point of view, it was almost as nothing had happened.
This is analogous to what goes on behind the scenes in the realm of the spirit where you have both good forces (the Lord and His holy angels) and evil forces ( the devil and his demonic forces) that most people are totally unaware of. However, the Bible talks about this extensively. We suspect that this particular situation was actually a natural event where the Lord intervened and brought the situation under control without us even being aware of it. Surprisingly, we did not notice our boat gone when we left for our clinic early in the morning even though it had been adrift for any number of hours. If we had noticed that it was gone, we would in all likelihood canceled our clinic and set out a search party immediately. That means that all the miracles, divine appointments, and treatment for our patients would not have happened and those that the Lord healed may never have occurred. We were so grateful for what the Lord had done in our behalf!
Eastridge Church.
This is the following day after our boat was found floating in the lake two miles away and returned to us while we were at our MTI medical clinic. The service was an incredible confirmation that the Lord was working on our behalf yesterday with the boat situation. Pastor Dan spoke on Mark 4:35-41 where it talks about Jesus calming the seas in the midst of a storm, “peace, be still.” Of course, he did not know about our situation, but the Lord did. The evening and early morning, that our boat decided to take off on its own was perfectly calm and peaceful which prevented it from being potentially damaged or damaging others property. Amazing, that the sermon was on that topic. By the way, the waves were back at it when we arrived home from our clinic.
OUR HOME. BAPTISM OF HOLY SPIRIT
This evening, we had some people over for dinner as part of a church get together. Two of the individuals were from the Lutheran Church in Issaquah, Washington, Ally and Bd.
I got into deep conversation with Bd. It turns out that he is from Morocco and has only been a Christian for one month. His background is Muslim. What amazed me is that the Lord had given him a gift of agape love. Agape in Greek refers to God’s love for man as opposed to what modern man perceives as love. In speaking to him, he seemed much more mature in his Christian faith than the majority of Christians who have known the Lord for many years. Bd bought up that he was planning on being baptized in water very soon. Upon hearing this, I felt led to share with him that baptism in water is good and is a public declaration of his desire to follow Jesus. However there is another baptism which is far greater and that is the baptism of the Holy Spirit which will endue him with power to be a witness for Jesus everywhere he goes and flow in miracles. I asked him if I could pray for him to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but he seemed reluctant, so I backed off from praying for him. However, I kept telling him about the Holy Spirit, as he was expressing that he knew that God had something special for him with regard to ministry. Then without any forewarning, he asked me if I could pray for him for the BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT and I said yes. This is where it got interesting. Bd was sitting at our family room table and I asked if I could simply put my hand on his shoulder and he agreed to that. I said a simple prayer asking the Lord to baptize him with his Holy Spirit and endue him with power and then sat down. All of a sudden, Bd started shaking uncontrollably and weeping. He then started uttering syllables that were undiscernable and speaking in a supernatural language. He was completely undone by the Holy Spirit! Barbara, my incredible wife, was watching from a distance and was amazed with what was happening to Bd. It was pretty intense to say the least and the most dramatic experience that I have ever witnessed when we prayed for someone to receive the Holy Spirit. To God be the glory.
The very next day, Bd was called to preach the gospel and started having visions and dreams spoken of by the prophet Joel. In addition, Bd began to flow in all the gifts of the Holy Spirit spoken of in 1 Corinthians 12 such as healings and miracles. This is such a powerful example of how the Lord can supernaturally use an individual for His glory after he is the baptized in the Holy Spirit! Remember, Bd was a Muslim just a few weeks ago.