Monday, March 17, 2008

Miracles

Miracles March 13-15
This was the weekend that bethel came to FIRE and it was super powerful I want to just recount some of the stories.

1. Cody had "green hat, short beard, toys and he saw a bridge" another girl saw a dragon. Theo had "right knee". All for the treasure hunt and they went to Toys R' Us and they right away saw a guy with a green hat and a short beard. They talk to him but he doesn't want them to pray for him. But they show him "right knee" on their treasure hunt and he lets them. He walks away with out really seeing anything different. But then they see boxes of bridges and a dragon right beside. But they saw him again and showed him the other clues and he said "To be honest the second I walked away I felt a tingling and all the pain went away".

2.I saw an angel feather float on us at Applebees

3. God told me to be ready to preach if Wade asked me at Jackson park. And that night he asked me to preach that night. I had three dreams the night before that gave me total confidence. I wasn't nervous at all, and I felt like God anointed the message. I didn't ask Wade to let me preach but I let God bring it about like Jason Upton. And God did.

4. Cody and his friend were in a store and he was giving him a ride home and it was starting to rain. But they said "Hey we don't need to run to the car. We're christians so they asked God to hold off on the rain for them. They walked to the car with no rain on them and at the truck they saw rain 15 feet on either side of them but no rain at all hitting them. When they got inside the truck they prayed "Ok God, you can let it rain now" And that second it just poured on their car.

5. Bethel has a fire tunnel every friday night and one guy came in with a glass eye. And by the time he was out of the tunnel God turned his glass eye into a real eye. He could completely see out of it!!!

6. Cody just got radically saved, and his friends quit all of their after school activities and just prayed 6-7 hours a day. They started praying for "winds of change", and he had grown up 16 years there and never seen much wind but as soon as they prayed that the windows started shaking with the wind and that week huge trees were getting lifted out of the ground and crazy wind the entire week.

7. For his engagement he was setting up the beach with these tiki lights and a candlelit table. They were doing it four hours early and they saw these ominous looking clouds and they prayed against it and the clouds split and moved on either side of the beach. Then he saw a 2 foot puddle like a meter and a half wide. It was right before the boardwalk, and so she would have to walk over it so he asked God to take the puddle away every time he passed it. And by the time she got there it was completely dry. Even though there was no place for it to rain.

8. Also this weekend we learned one of the most beautiful and compassionate forms of evangelism I have ever heard of. It's called treasure hunting, we get a piece of paper and write five categories: Names, Locations, Appearance, Prayer requests, and Unusual. And we ask the Holy Spirit where he wants us to go and who he wants us to pray for. So we put five things in each list. Then we get together and go to the locations. Then we show the people the things about them that the Holy Spirit showed us and that they are God's treasure, God loves them so much and he sent us just to tell them that. And if they have any sickness on our list or otherwise we pray for them and they often get healed just to confirm that God sent us.

My friend Cody had "green hat, short beard, toys and he saw a bridge" another girl saw a dragon. Theo had "right knee". All for the treasure hunt and they went to Toys R' Us and they right away saw a guy with a green hat and a short beard. They talk to him but he doesn't want them to pray for him. But they show him "right knee" on their treasure hunt and he shows them his scar on his knee where he got hurt and he is pretty amazed so he lets them. Then he walks away with out really seeing anything different. But they see boxes of bridges and some dragon toys right beside where the guy was standing. Then they saw him again and showed him the other clues and he said "To be honest the second I walked away I felt a tingling and all the pain went away".

It's like the least offensive and most heart-warming thing that God would send a group of people to a specific person just to bless him/her. My group saw some ladies have tears streaming down their face and say they felt the presence of God in the grocery store really strongly. And one lady who had three surgeries on her ankles God totally healed and her knee as well.

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