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In the healing rooms today, Chuck Parry asked if Carole and I would be green dots.
This effectively means that we would be relegated to a position of team leader as we pray for people in the healing rooms.
Now although this is a great honour for us, I personally feel a little uncertain and perhaps even daunted by this opportunity. Why? I think it's the because I feel still a little inadequate in this area and although I have to keep reminding myself that it has nothing to do with me, but it has everything to do with who I am in God, whose Presence I carry and the fact that God is always good. Therefore, He can use me despite my own inadequacies and feelings of vulnerability. The other reason is that I have been quite enjoying being part of a team where I don't have to lead and where I can learn from others who have greater experience, operate at greater levels of gifting, and have seen many more miracles than me.
Having said all that, I find myself in a position now where having been asked to undertake this task, then I receive it as being something that the Lord has positioned me into and therefore He must have the confidence in me to be able to carry this mantle, so as to speak. However I do so with great humility as I recognise that I am still in training, but I am pushing myself at all levels so as to extract everything that I can from this Bethel experience so that eventually I will leave here fully activated and operational in these gifts that I have been seeking after for many years.
To this end, last night we went on a treasure hunt. This was the second time we have done this. For me, it was quite daunting and challenging and although nothing of great importance occurred on the night, ie. we did not see someone healed or anyone saved!. Nonetheless, we were able to love on people and bless them and as a result, extend the love of Jesus to people.
More importantly, for me personally, it was an opportunity for us to cross over the chicken line and go beyond our fears. I recognise that this is something that I need to do regularly so that in this area also it may become less daunting; less fearful; and I can be more ready to release Jesus' love on people.
This is especially important as we head towards our first missions trip to Ireland in April. But it is also important for us as we contemplate returning to Australia in due course so that we will also be more prepared to reach out to others in the community whether it be extending Jesus' love to them, or offering prayer for healing, or talking to them about His love.
As will be noted therefore, both of us are on a significant journey that is changing us in many areas of our lives and forcing us to confront some of the fears that we carry and which prevent us from being more effective in the Kingdom task.
TESTIMONY:
At the Randy Clark conference in January, there was an occasion where there was a young girl who was in a wheelchair with some form of severe autism. During worship I felt to pray for the girl and spent the best part of half an hour just laying my hands on her and speaking mostly to myself and praying God's favour, blessing, restoration and healing over her body. At one point I got on my knees and got her visual attention and we looked into each others eyes for the best part of five minutes. I felt a real connection at that point. As the worship began to finish I returned to my seat and thanked the care giver for allowing me to pray.
Today, being 1 February, I was in healing rooms and this woman came up to me and asked if I had remembered her. She was the caregiver at the Randy Clark conference. Her name was Rachel. I asked her how the girl in the wheelchair, Abbey, was doing? She said that she had improved greatly since that time when I prayed and she has not had one seizure since that time and her appetite for food had also significantly increased.
This was enormously encouraging for me on two fronts.
Firstly, the very fact that I felt prompted by the Spirit to pray for her and even though nothing apparently happened at the time, it was an effective prayer such that the Lord had done a partial healing work since. This then encourages me to continue to pray for the girl.She is likely to come back to the healing rooms on a more regular basis.
Secondly it reinforces the fact that even though people do not appear to get healed at the time when we pray, as I have heard many times from the healing room leaders, up to 50% of people that leave without any evidence of healing, will often return and advise the healing rooms at some later stage that a healing has in fact taken place. This certainly encourages me to press on and press in to Him. He is so good and we're regularly seeing the evidence of His goodness as he touches people, sometimes quite unexpectedly.
Is also reinforces the fact that 'it is impossible for us to pray and for nothing to happen'. In other words, God always answers our prayers.
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