The great thing about the World Race is you really do get a chance to see the Scriptures come to life. That’s exactly what happened last week for four of my teammates – Robby, Kelton, Matt and Nate. Let’s just say Matthew 10:8, “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, DRIVE OUT DEMONS…” takes on a different meaning for these guys. Here’s what Robby wrote on his blog about that life changing afternoon in the refugee camp.
Daisy starts speaking and saying that when she closes her eyes she sees a “beast”- automatically I start questioning her; how long, do you know why, does this “beast” speak to you? All these questions coming out of me and I had no clue why- She said that since the earthquake it had begin and that it was starting to tell her to follow her and believe him. She had been raised in the church, sang in the choir, but then had stopped going because a lot of people were ‘hypocrites’ —they were acting one way in Church and another when they stepped out of Church. She was just angry with the Lord.
So, I felt that we needed to get this ‘demonic spirit’ out of her and that it could no longer be there. I just couldn’t bare the thought of leaving this house and this in her… NO WAY! So we just began. We walked over, laid our hands on her, and started to just pray in the Holy Spirit that this ‘demonic spirit’ would leave her in the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST! Wow…the intensity level went through the roof! The Lord spoke to me and told me never to close my eyes, to keep looking at her, to keep being authoritative and never let down until it was gone and that she didn’t really need to know everything we had to say, because this was on a level that was spiritual—not man.
Well, here we are- 4 guys who are just average ‘Joes’ to say the least, who had never done this and now it was time…we came together with the Lord and while we were praying for this to get out, Daisy just sat there with her eyes shut the whole time. Then, we started telling her to open her eyes and there would be freedom, the release of this spirit- the Lord was obviously telling us to do so, because we were all agreeing together. As we were doing this, her eyes were moving so fast you could see the eyebrows moving fast, I can’t even imitate it. Then as we were speaking life into her (which is the Truth in Christ), we were telling her to open the eyes, and she would start ‘twitching’ and shaking her head NO! We didn’t give up because we knew that it wouldn’t be gone until she opened the eyes. Then all of a sudden she opened up her eyes and it was gone! We could see it, so much happiness, singing and shouting to the Lord. GOD IS AMAZING! Light was so prevalent now in her life, the house was even lighter. I loved it! Then Daisy asked if we could pray for her mother. I have known them for 2 ½ weeks now and never had seen her mother smile. So, a prayer was to be joyful and that she would break through that sadness and receive joy and smile…she did in the end and then couldn’t stop it! God blew me away yesterday!
We all have this in us. We have His power to do such things. I challenge you to pray dangerous prayers that will stretch you to the limit like this and that you will be used in mighty ways! We are His feet, His hands, His mouth, His smile, His touch, His legs, His arms – HIS! There is nothing that we can’t do through Him and Praise Be To God for that! I hope that this is an encouragement for you as it was to me, though I did experience this, I hope that you can see and feel Christ through this story and that you can see that God is so alive and active (Hebrews 4:12).
Do not ever under estimate the power of Christ…it is our strength and gives us life!
“For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”
2nd Timothy 1:7
The Lord is so good!
Robby
Here is Matt, Kelton, and Nate’s blogs
Folks, let me tell ya, you should have seen the look on these guys’ faces when they got back here to the camp to tell their story. It was great. That day these four men truly stepped into the authority Christ has given each of us. For them, the Bible is no longer just a collection of postcards from the past.
