Irene and I (Andrew) have been going
through the process of buying a house recently. It has been a lengthy and
stressful process getting the various reports done, organising lawyers, finance
and insurance. It is especially hard because neither of us have done anything
like this in the past. We also have had to juggle parents who want to give us
feedback every step of the way, with very little of it being constructive. In
the midst of this, it has been so easy to let kingdom matters fall by the
wayside. I realised the other day that I haven’t prayed for anyone or shared
the gospel for over a week! I felt horrible and resolved to do something about
it. I rang up a mate of mine named Zion so we could organise a time to go and
pray for people. Some friends of his were going to set up a tent for prayer at
the local markets the next morning so we thought we’d go check that out.
When we got to the markets we quickly
decided that we would walk the streets to find people to pray for rather than
waiting for them to come to us. The first few people we approached were very
chatty but didn’t have anything that we could pray for. Then we saw two young
men standing by a shop window and offered to pray for them. One of them was
very enthusiastic in telling us about his sore hand, while the other one walked
away. The one that stayed was called Huckston, and he had injured his hand
playing league the day before and said the pain was 7/10. Zion prayed for him
once and the pain went down to 0 or 1. Huckston was completely blown away by
this and we shared a bit about repentance with him, but it was clear he wasn’t
ready to give up his life of sin. We left him and went to find some other
people to pray for. One man rejected us, another lady let us pray for her until
it became clear that we actually expected her to be healed right there, and we
talked to another man about the reiki healing that he does. Once he found out
we were Christians he immediately started playing the ‘all Christians are
narrow-minded’ card. We tried to talk more but he wasn’t prepared to listen to
reason so we carried on.
Zion mentioned that his back was sore while
we were walking along so we stopped and I prayed for him. He said it felt a
little bit better afterwards but it was still sore on one side. He said that he
thought one leg might be shorter than the other so we checked it out. I could
see quite clearly once we found a park bench that his right leg was shorter
than his left leg by about one inch. I commanded the right leg to grow and
within about 10 seconds both legs were the same size. He then checked out his
back again and could definitely move more freely. As he was doing this a lady
sitting directly opposite the park bench selling some merchandise asked us what
we were doing. She couldn’t have had a better view of what happened if she
tried. We explained to her what was going on, and she said that she has a sore
back on one side too. So of course we measured her legs and then prayed for her
legs to be the same size and they did. She said she felt something move in her
body and she could move more freely after that too. We told her that it was
Jesus that healed her but she wasn’t prepared to accept that. We tried talking
more with her about it but she had to go.
Straight after that Zion talked to a man
who didn’t have any pain, but said that his missus was in constant pain. So, we
prayed for her through him that she would be healed. We approached a few more
people after that but nothing else exciting happened.
