Downtown Boulder + Castlerock Ministry
On Friday (June 25), we led an outreach in downtown Boulder; I was in a group of 3 (a guy and a girl both about my age).
The first person I spoke with was a lady who was in a scooter. I asked her what happened and she said she had ______ (a really complicated name I don’t remember) and it caused lots of pain and her hands to curl up.
I didn’t ask if I could pray, I just went ahead put my hand on her knees and commanded all pain to go, and her body to be whole. I asked her how she felt and she said all the pain was gone. Then I asked her how her hands were; she said there wasn’t any change.
I prayed for her hands ~5 times, until finally she said it was 100% better and her stiffness was gone. It didn’t look like she wanted to continue so she gave me a hug and was off.
Later, I saw another guy in a wheelchair, he said he had burns all over his body, he could barely talk. His left leg was amputated and his face was all distorted. One of the guys in the group prayed for him once, but there was no apparent change.
I ended up telling that guy I was going to pay for his dinner. He wanted to eat at BJ’s, so I brought him there and told him to get anything. He ended up getting fish & chips and I spoke with him for ~10 minutes.
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A bit later, I mentioned how we should try saying “The Kingdom of heaven is hand, what do you want Jesus to do for you?” (Joe Funaro from the conference told us to try it)
The guy in the group went for it and went up to a group of 3 ladies and repeated that phrase. Immediately two of them smiled and showed us cards they just bought with Jesus on it. We asked if any of them had any pain or sickness and the lady in the middle said that she had cancer. We commanded the cancer to leave her body—even though there wasn’t any apparent change, she was grateful and thanked us.
After a little while, we got bored because there weren’t many people in the area where we were at. We passed by a performer blowing a whistle and shouting for people to watch because he was about to do a stunt.
I got inspired and suggested that we do the same. My brain was freaking out at that idea, but I knew the guy in our group would be on board with it so we went for it. We found a decent place and stood up shouting to everyone in the area to come get “Free healing!”
We did that for about 30 seconds and no one approached us. Oh well.
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On Sunday, we went to visit Laura’s Aunt/Uncle’s church in Castlerock, Colorado. We were initially invited to pray for the ex-pastor’s wife who had back problems and was about to get surgery, but the wife announced it to the church body so it was “official” that a “healing team” from San Jose was going minister to church congregation.
They had us stay in a prayer room right next to the main sanctuary. After their service, people would flow in (almost like the healing rooms) and wait to be ministered to.
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There was a guy who had liver cirrhosis and some other problems with his kidneys. I held his hands and as I commanded life into his liver, I saw his stomach move (I didn’t think much of it when it happened). After I prayed for ~20 seconds, I asked him how he was feeling. He said he felt his liver moving, and Laura, who was watching, confirmed that she saw it too.
That was enough for the guy to thank me and counted himself healed. BOOM.
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There was a lady who was with a guy with something debilitating (he was in a wheelchair). The lady had issues with her right arm, there was a lot of itching and her wrist was stiff. I commanded it to go (had to do it ~3 times) and then it was completely better.
Then I asked the guy what he needed to happen. He said he dealt a lot with depression, anger, anxiety, so I commanded that stuff to go and for his body to be whole. His eyes started to tear up and he told me that he felt something lift off. They both thanked me and gave me a hug.
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I prayed for an older lady who had neuropathy in both her legs. I prayed 3-4 times and she said there was better flexibility, less stiffness, but she didn’t feel a change in terms of numbness.
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Ryan/Dennis/I took turns praying for an older Asian lady who was in a wheelchair. She didn’t have feeling in her legs and could not raise her left arm all the way up. I think we spent ~30 minutes with her, and by the end, she should raise her arm about 50% closer to full range from where she started.
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Ryan was with a lady for ~15 minutes who didn’t have a rotator cuff. She had pain, and had very little range of movement when she came in. By the time she left, it looked about 80% closer to full range from where she started.
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Ryan was praying for a lady who was completely deaf in her left ear and had a hearing aid for the other. By the time Ryan told me to pray for her, her hearing in her left ear was 70% better. We did not see much change after that.
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I took a break and went into the lobby of the building. I saw a guy who had a short leg (you can tell by how they walk) so I asked him if he had back pain. He said he did, so then I commanded his back pain to go, and then grew his leg out. He was sort of confused because it all happened so fast.
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Ryan wanted to grow out the pastor’s leg, so we went into the sanctuary. While we were there, Ryan approached a lady and asked her if she ever had back pain. She said, “sometimes,” so Ryan pulled her over and showed that she had a shorter leg and then grew it out.
We also noticed her hearing aid, so Ryan went for it and after ~5 minutes she was able to hear much better without her hearing aids:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=807282237903
A little bit after that, I asked a group of 3 people if they had any pain or sickness. The lady in the middle said she had a lot of problems with her knees (she had ~4 surgeries done already). I sat her down, grew out her leg and she proceed to tell me about her knees. There was a lot of grinding (she had me put my hands on her knees, it was pretty nasty) and she couldn’t bend down very far without pain.
I commanded life into her knees and for the pain to go and told her to check it out. There was no change.
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One of the easiest things to do when that happens is freak out, but if you do, you just let the world know that you aren’t walking by faith. We are told to have faith that does not waver. It is possible to doubt in your mind, but not doubt in your heart (Mark 11:23)
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My mind raced, but I didn’t bat an eye. I said, “Let’s hit it again.” I hit it ~4 more times and each time I had her do a squat to test her knees out, and each time it got better. Soon enough, all her pain was gone, and she could bend down without any major pain. She said that was the first time she could do that in 10 years.
Meanwhile, Ryan and Dennis were ministering to the pastor. His leg grew out and he watched his daughter’s leg grow out. I don’t remember everything that happened, but they were amazed.
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We went out to eat with Laura’s Aunt/Uncle, and Dennis healed a teenager who messed up his ankle and was on crutches.
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That night, at Laura’s Aunt/Uncle’s house, we grew out one of their son’s leg. He and his girlfriend had some kind of virus and we had them pray over each other and they got better.
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The next day, a friend of Laura’s Aunt/Uncle came in who had chronic back pain and other problems. We spent a couple of hours with her dismantling a lot of traditions and getting her healed up.
Later, another guy came in who played college golf, and he had been playing the last few years on pain meds with a broken back. Dennis and I prayed for him and pretty much all of his pain left his body.
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