Healing Across the Ocean

Andrew has been a member of a Facebook page called 'Divine Healing Prayer Requests' for a while now. He constantly sees requests for prayers coming up. He has ignored a lot of them in the past because they were people from different countries. He didn't believe they could be healed from such a large distance away.

He decided to test his faith by praying for some people.

There was one person, T, who had really bad hip pain who was in Canada. Andrew typed in a healing prayer telling the pain to go. He didn't feel like he could leave it at that though so he asked T how he was and where in Canada he lived. Then he thought about The Last Reformation map where people from all over the world can put their contact details up who could pray for others. Andrew searched for the area where T lived and found 3 people there. He emailed them all to see if they could pray for T and one person went and met up with T and prayed for him.

Andrew asked T about it afterwards and he said the pain was actually worse. Andrew told T that was a good sign because "the night is darkest right before the dawn." He then prayed some more for T and spoke life into his body. T went to bed with 8/10 pain. The pain was "excruciating, like a saw cutting my bones." He has had it for 2 weeks.

The next morning T messaged Andrew to say that he had no pain! He has a powerful encounter with Jesus where Jesus came to him and T felt his presence so thick that the pain instantly went.

Irene got kick-started by Andrew

Dinner with friends

About two weeks ago, we were invited to some friends' house for dinner. Before we left, we asked them if there was anything we could pray for for them. The wife spoke first to say she had been having pain in her achilles. She could walk but every time she put pressure on it it was sore. So Andrew turned to me, while I was in the middle of changing nappy, to go pray for her. Before there was time for any excuses to come to mind, I made myself go towards her and started praying, even though her husband was in mid-sentence.

After a quick prayer of commanding healing the pain left her. She was very stoked. I was very stoked too, as it was the first time I saw someone healed through my prayers. I think the key for me was to not think about it too much before doing it.

Lawn mowing

We were at this lady's house to check out her lawn with the possibility of mowing it for her as a job. When Andrew tried to shake her hand to say hello, she said she was sick so wouldn't. Later, she said she had a chest infection and was going to the doctor later that morning. She was coughing and was feeling pain in her throat.

Andrew told her that, "We are Christians and we pray for people and God blesses them. We have seen people healed through our prayers. Is it ok if we pray for you?" The lady agreed. Andrew told me to pray for her. So I told the sickness to go and chest to be healed. I prayed 3 times but she said there was no obvious change for her.

Sore knees healed

Andrew walking home for lunch

There was a kick-start seminar run by The Last Reformation in Hamilton. Part of the seminar was to go out on to the streets and pray for people. The training venue was two minutes walk away from my home and I was walking back home to have some lunch before heading out to pray for people.

I heard in the training how Torben Sondergaard (who founded TLR) approaches every single person that walks past him while he is kickstarting people so I thought I'd try that out. I saw two separate ladies walking towards me and I asked them both if they had any pain at the moment. The first one I talked to didn't so then I asked the second one. She said she had sore knees so I told her that I pray for people and God heals them, and asked whether I could pray for her. She said yes so I prayed for one of her knees then asked her to bend it. She said it was a bit better. I said that I wanted complete healing so I said I would pray again. After the second prayer she said it was much better. Then she tried the other knee and she said that was still sore. So then I prayed a general prayer of health over her whole body and after that both her knees were a lot better.

After that I shared a short gospel message with her. She said that she had been thinking about going back to church for a while now but has been caught up in worldly ways. I wanted to talk with her more about healing and God but she had to catch her bus. She invited me around to her house to talk with her and her husband though. She just lives two minutes walk from my house and I have been around a few times to talk with them about God. Her knees are still great and her husband had pain in his knee too which I prayed for and that was also healed.

Family holiday in Fiji turned into a mission trip

April's dream

Mike and April (with their son, Elijah) were planning to go for a holiday in Samoa.

When April was looking at accommodation in Samoa she saw one resort that reminded her of a dream she had about a year ago. In the dream, she was at this resort but then heard the ground rumbled and saw the ground crumbled towards her. Then, she woke up.

Weeks before the holiday, Mike often saw himself praying for Fijians and sitting in their homes.

So they decided to go to Fiji instead.

Arriving in Fiji

The first few days in Fiji, they simply rested. Then they decided to look for opportunities to share the gospel. While sightseeing, they saw a lady selling fruit and asked if she had any pain or anything to pray about. She said not her, but her husband, who has had a sore back for a while. They prayed over a tissue and told the lady to give it to her husband. They never heard from the lady again.

So they kept walking to the other side of the road and saw a man waiting on the side of the road. Mike asked if he had pain but he didn't. So Mike just talked to him about Jesus.

Lela

Back to the resort, Mike was sitting at the tourism desk and chatted with a lady, Lela, about the Gospel. She said she was a believer. She had been praying and wondering about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues as she's seen some people do it. So Mike talked to her about water baptism.

Mike preached the same sermon as pastor's prepared sermon

The next day, Mike and April went to a Pentecostal church service, mostly in Fijian language. The visitors were then invited to share. Mike had a clear vision to share about sowing and reaping and the importance of sowing the Gospel. The congregation listened attentively. If you sow money you will reap money but you can't take money to heaven with you. But when you sow into the Kingdom of Heave you will reap eternal fruit. Later, the preacher stood up to preach his prepared sermon in Fijian. Mike and April found out later at lunch that the sermon was also about sowing and reaping.

Healing the waitresses

It is now two days before they were due to leave Fiji. Mike prompted April to ask the waitress, Talia, at the resort whether she had any pain. She said back and shoulder pain. April prayed for her and she went away to carry on with her job.

Few minutes later April saw another waitress limping, her face was really in pain. She had stopped in the hallway unable to move because of the pain. This time, April told Mike to go pray. Mike called for the waitress to come over instead. "Are you in pain?" he asked, "Is your foot sore?" April said, "Mike can pray for you." So Mike prayer for healing. April prompted him to pray for the pain to go as well. Then they told the waitress to try out her foot. She did a stomp! Then looked at them and smiled! Then she stomped a few more times! Mike told her it was Jesus, Jesus.  She wasn't limping anymore.

Mike then met Ritah, who had been cooking eggs over the counter for them. She handed the plate of eggs over to Mike but didn't let go of it. She asked, "What are you guys doing?" as she had been watching them pray for the lady who was limping a few minutes ago. She asked Mike if they could go to her house to pray for her husband.

Baptising waitress and husband

Ritah's husband had a stroke and was left with a shoulder pain and could only work two days a month. Mike prayed for his left arm and shoulder and each time the pain decreased.

Ritah explained to them that she goes to the Methodist church. There have been Christians who have come to their house but they couldn't understand what they were saying about the Bible. So Mike explained the Gospel to them through a visual demonstration using cups. This was the first time they had heard the Gospel in this way. Mike told them to be saved and be obedient. Repent, be water baptised and be filled with the Holy Spirit. So both Ritah and her husband wanted to be baptised. Mike baptised the husband first then straight after that Mike asked him to baptise his wife, Ritah.

After the baptism they both received peace and clarity of their eternal destiny. They now know where they're going after death.

Mike prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit. But he didn't see them speaking in tongues straight away.

April's massage lady

One day before they were due to leave Fiji, April went for a massage. As she was lying down, she was debating in her mind whether to share the Gospel with the lady, Karish, who was giving her the massage. April wanted to relax so she asked the Lord whether she can just have a break from preaching the Gospel.

Five minutes before the end of the massage, Karish asked April how she has liked Fiji. "I'm so glad I came to Fiji. We were planning to go to Samoa but God warned me in a dream not to go there." Karish grabbed April's hand and said, "You are a blessing to be here!"

She continued to tell April that her husband was in prison in Samoa, serving a really long sentence and it was only his second year. She also had a two year old son. Due to pressure from her family she left Samoa and moved back to Fiji where she was originally from. Her family was Buddhist, Karish was the only Christian. "God is my only strength, please pray for me." Her family had been pressuring her to divorce her husband but she didn't feel that was what God was telling her to do, and she still loved her husband. But just to please her family she sent for divorce papers but her husband never got them.

By this time, April really had to go as her time was up and Karish had another client appointment. She told Karish, "God has heard your prayers. I'll keep praying for you. Don't let go of Him." Then Karish praised God and felt like there was a relief, as if this was the first she had shared this burden with anyone.

Lela's baptism

Later, April saw Lela from the tourism desk. She told her about the baptism that happened last night. Lela was very interested. She has a sister who had been reading the Bible and wanted to be baptised. So she went to the SDA who willingly baptised her. When Lela heard about this she wanted to be baptised too but couldn't find anyone to do it for her.

April explained the Gospel to her. Lela wanted her family and children to be baptised too. So April explained to Lela that once she is baptised she can in turn baptise her own children but also that God deals with us individually. Lela was baptised later that evening and prayed for the infilling of the Holy Spirit too. She was very happy and was thanking God constantly for the new creation.

After Lela's baptism, Mike and April were invited to her house. Days before this, she was shy about showing her house because it was only the size of a shack. But they told her that it was her family, not her house, they wanted to meet. Lela's children sang to Mike and April. However, they were singing songs that had a sorrowful spirit, pleading God to do something. Mike rebuked that spirit and preached the Gospel to them using the chessboard concept, that we no longer need to plead God for anything. That He is more than willing. They were very focused in listening.

All this time, Mike and April's driver had been watching and listening to what had been happening. Though he showed no interest at the time, turned out he was excitedly telling people what he had seen!

The day Mike and April were leaving Fiji

The next day, Lela seemed changed and was happy. She said to April, "I am free to go anywhere now to worship."

April saw Talia again and spoke to her about baptism again. But as they were leaving in two hours they weren't sure whether there would be time to baptise her as Talia was still working. Nevertheless, April encouraged her to get baptised.