A woman who had MS for 30 years and was in a wheel chair with only the use of her right arm was healed this morning at the healing rooms at Bethel, she pushed her own wheel chair out of the healing rooms! YEA JESUS! There is video on my facebook page if you have facebook!
I will paste the testimony:
This happened on October 31, 2009 at the healing rooms at Bethel Church. This is the best time to be alive!!! --- This is the story she gave to the testimony writer. --- Terry from Redding, CA In March, she was given 6 months to live. She was diagnosed with galloping Multiple Sclerosis about 29-30 years ago. She wou...ld have a burning skin sensation like running an iron over a bad sunburn (pain level 10) constantly, no painkillers would work. She had limited movement/mobility with her arms, and her right hand was clenched up in a fist (for the past year). She had lost her sense of balance, and would often fall, so she also has had 5 years of back pain (level 10). This morning, she didn’t take any pain medicine, and after she came in for prayer, she felt a healing warmth over her back (she could tell she was getting healed). ALL the burning pain left, she can raise up her hands all the way up, side to side, her right hand was no longer clenched! She can open her hand wide and touch every finger to her thumb. She regained her sense of balance and she then she was able to stand up and dance! Her husband, Jeff, said that earlier that week, Terry was feeling very hopeless, because she felt unworthy to ask God for help and healing. She was near the brink of taking her own life until she finally decided to yield herself and came to the healing rooms! Terry plans to go to an MS center in Sacramento to get all her tests redone to share the goodness of Jesus!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
a promise
just wanted to share this promise,
Psalm 112:1-4
Praise the Lord!
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who delights greatly in His commandments.
His descendents will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will blessed.
Wealth and riches will be in his house,
And his righteousness endures forever.
Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Blessings, heavenly encounters, grace, and deeper revelation of Father's heart to all who read this.
Psalm 112:1-4
Praise the Lord!
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who delights greatly in His commandments.
His descendents will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will blessed.
Wealth and riches will be in his house,
And his righteousness endures forever.
Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Blessings, heavenly encounters, grace, and deeper revelation of Father's heart to all who read this.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
responding
The past few days there has been a magnified intensity it feels like of God's attention on my life, on the things that I've been crying out for, it's incredible and exhausting. The past two days at school were the most incredible days of responding to and crying out for the presence of God in community I have ever been apart of. It was a glimpse of what revival is going to be like. There has been this momentum building of hunger for God for His glorious presence. You could feel this anticipation and expectancy in the air at school.
On Thursday of this week we were worshiping God, the music was great and people were encountering God like they usually do, but something shifted in the room and in the worship and as a body we just decided spontaneously and harmoniously that there was about to be a violence in our faith (matthew 11:12) our worship became a cry, a plea, a sacrfice, a celebration before Him. It was beautiful everyone was dancing before God like David did, singing in unison and then in their own language, I can only imagine what God saw and how He felt about His kids worshiping Him.
The room felt so sweet and just JOYOUS! The stage and the aisles flooded with students dancing wildly. You could feel burdens and strongholds in people's lives just breaking off. It was incredible.
And then the next day, Friday, a student was sharing an incredible God story from her weekend where this guy that she had met was heavily into Satanic worship but just saw her encountering God in so much joy that he asked her what she was experiencing and she told him it was the Holy Spirit and that if he wanted he could experience it to. He told her that he did and so she prayed for him to encounter the Holy Spirit and he did! He just started laughing uncontrollably with joy and he said he wanted to know Jesus after that! It was crazy! Something was just released into the room while she was sharing this story. When she finished we just shouted out to God to be rocked by the Holy Spirit! And well...He came into the room and we just busted out into worship(you couldn't help it) and encountering the Spirit, some people were shaking from His presence, some weeping, some laughing and shouting praises. Bill Johnson was about to start speaking to us but he just stood there at the podium and let us respond to the Spirit's presence...for 40 minutes! We were praying, and singing just broke out, no instruments no leader nothing just His kids singing and loving Him. And it ended as Bill just lead us in "Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him" . It was so powerful and I got to feel the Holy Spirit like I never have before my spirit was fluttering within me. And there was nothing else for your being to do but worship, it was instinctual and outside of my control. Shear joy and goodness was penetrating every part of you that caused your spirit to bend to the Source of it all, whose very nature is love, joy and only good.
My prayer is for God to teach me to recognize His presence, it is too sweet to miss and something we weren't created to live without.
God is too good to be true all the time.
psalm16:11 In Your presence is fullness of joy;
psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord,
psalm 149:2-3 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name with dance; let them sing praises to Him.
psalm 30:11-12 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.
2 Samuel 6:14 Then David danced before the Lord with all his might
On Thursday of this week we were worshiping God, the music was great and people were encountering God like they usually do, but something shifted in the room and in the worship and as a body we just decided spontaneously and harmoniously that there was about to be a violence in our faith (matthew 11:12) our worship became a cry, a plea, a sacrfice, a celebration before Him. It was beautiful everyone was dancing before God like David did, singing in unison and then in their own language, I can only imagine what God saw and how He felt about His kids worshiping Him.
The room felt so sweet and just JOYOUS! The stage and the aisles flooded with students dancing wildly. You could feel burdens and strongholds in people's lives just breaking off. It was incredible.
And then the next day, Friday, a student was sharing an incredible God story from her weekend where this guy that she had met was heavily into Satanic worship but just saw her encountering God in so much joy that he asked her what she was experiencing and she told him it was the Holy Spirit and that if he wanted he could experience it to. He told her that he did and so she prayed for him to encounter the Holy Spirit and he did! He just started laughing uncontrollably with joy and he said he wanted to know Jesus after that! It was crazy! Something was just released into the room while she was sharing this story. When she finished we just shouted out to God to be rocked by the Holy Spirit! And well...He came into the room and we just busted out into worship(you couldn't help it) and encountering the Spirit, some people were shaking from His presence, some weeping, some laughing and shouting praises. Bill Johnson was about to start speaking to us but he just stood there at the podium and let us respond to the Spirit's presence...for 40 minutes! We were praying, and singing just broke out, no instruments no leader nothing just His kids singing and loving Him. And it ended as Bill just lead us in "Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him" . It was so powerful and I got to feel the Holy Spirit like I never have before my spirit was fluttering within me. And there was nothing else for your being to do but worship, it was instinctual and outside of my control. Shear joy and goodness was penetrating every part of you that caused your spirit to bend to the Source of it all, whose very nature is love, joy and only good.
My prayer is for God to teach me to recognize His presence, it is too sweet to miss and something we weren't created to live without.
God is too good to be true all the time.
psalm16:11 In Your presence is fullness of joy;
psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord,
psalm 149:2-3 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name with dance; let them sing praises to Him.
psalm 30:11-12 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.
2 Samuel 6:14 Then David danced before the Lord with all his might
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
It's been a minute...
It has been big minute since the last time that I shared, for a couple reasons, the main one being that the past couple weeks have been kind of hard for me and I haven't understood it all and haven't had something clear to share. We have been learning a lot about our identity and God's character. In short, a lot is being stirred up and has yet to settle. However, there is something I think of value to share.
One of the main reasons I came to Bethel was because I knew they were experiencing here the closest thing to the authentic Gospel, save things that seem to happen in my experience only in places like Africa, a Gospel of God's awesome outrageous supernatural love.
I am in a place where miracles and signs and wonders happen on a regular basis as a normal part of the Christian life, this supernatural dimension of Christian normalcy is clearly missing in a huge part of today's church. I don't say this with accusation, but I say this with heaviness of heart because it is a huge part of the Father that we as a body are missing out on. It is a place personaly that I am yet to break into, but I know for I both have seen and believe it to be who God is and who He has sent us out to be for His Namesake.
Anyway, in all this, the staff has made it clear to us that the living in the supernatural as a goal in and of itself is not the point. As in all things of God, He desires relationship, and I am learning that the supernatural is born and carried out through a relationship with the person the Holy Spirit and a lifestyle of sweet worship to Him. Also, we've talking about to never stop talking about the things that God has done and is doing, to never stop sharing testimony, for it was when Israel forgot that they stopped seeing and experienceing Him and would fall. (Rev19:10 ..Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. )The Senior Pastor Bill Johnson said in so many words the other day, being friends with Holy Spirit just for the stuff He can do or give you is just like being friends with someone for what you get out of it, they won't be friends with you very long.
Here is a cool story from class the other day:
So Bill Johnson has just finished lecturing on stage in the main sanctuary and it was Q&A time from the students. The first student stood up and ask Bill "We heard you were a worship leader before you were a pastor, what made you decide to change, how did that happen for you and would you ever consider leading worship for us?" And as he was asking the question it began raining on the stage! It was raining outside pretty heavily anyway, so my first thought was that it was a leak or something, but firstly the water wasnt falling like a leak it was falling like rain falls and secondly there was not water or wetness anywhere where it should have been landing. Bill said that he was afraid to answer the question after he saw the rain! It was so neat!
Let it rain Lord!!!! "Psalm 68:8 The heaven's also dropped rain at the presence of God"
Luke 1:37"For with God nothing will be impossible"
One of the main reasons I came to Bethel was because I knew they were experiencing here the closest thing to the authentic Gospel, save things that seem to happen in my experience only in places like Africa, a Gospel of God's awesome outrageous supernatural love.
I am in a place where miracles and signs and wonders happen on a regular basis as a normal part of the Christian life, this supernatural dimension of Christian normalcy is clearly missing in a huge part of today's church. I don't say this with accusation, but I say this with heaviness of heart because it is a huge part of the Father that we as a body are missing out on. It is a place personaly that I am yet to break into, but I know for I both have seen and believe it to be who God is and who He has sent us out to be for His Namesake.
Anyway, in all this, the staff has made it clear to us that the living in the supernatural as a goal in and of itself is not the point. As in all things of God, He desires relationship, and I am learning that the supernatural is born and carried out through a relationship with the person the Holy Spirit and a lifestyle of sweet worship to Him. Also, we've talking about to never stop talking about the things that God has done and is doing, to never stop sharing testimony, for it was when Israel forgot that they stopped seeing and experienceing Him and would fall. (Rev19:10 ..Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. )The Senior Pastor Bill Johnson said in so many words the other day, being friends with Holy Spirit just for the stuff He can do or give you is just like being friends with someone for what you get out of it, they won't be friends with you very long.
Here is a cool story from class the other day:
So Bill Johnson has just finished lecturing on stage in the main sanctuary and it was Q&A time from the students. The first student stood up and ask Bill "We heard you were a worship leader before you were a pastor, what made you decide to change, how did that happen for you and would you ever consider leading worship for us?" And as he was asking the question it began raining on the stage! It was raining outside pretty heavily anyway, so my first thought was that it was a leak or something, but firstly the water wasnt falling like a leak it was falling like rain falls and secondly there was not water or wetness anywhere where it should have been landing. Bill said that he was afraid to answer the question after he saw the rain! It was so neat!
Let it rain Lord!!!! "Psalm 68:8 The heaven's also dropped rain at the presence of God"
Luke 1:37"For with God nothing will be impossible"
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