today my team and I went to a park. Before going we prayed and asked the Lord to put things on our heart that we might want to share with someone or pray over someone. We simply asked the Lord. And He spoke and showed us who to go to and what to say.
A group of us ended up talking to a group of alcoholics who seemed to be homeless as well. They got our attention and the first thing they said was “we have problems.” They were eager to tell us in hopes that we could help them. We asked them what their problems were. We knows addiction to alcohol was one of them. They then explained they can’t stop drinking and they spend all their money on alcohol and barely have money for food. They also all had family problems and their same problems brought them together as a family. The woman said she had anxiety and that’s why she drank, and one man said he had stomach pains.
We got to encourage them and pray over them.
We told them that the Lord would change the desires of their heart. Their flesh desires alcohol. But we prayed and declared that they soon would desire God and His Holy Spirit. That God would break off their addiction and that He would provide for them and comfort them.
As we prayed over them I could tell that the Lord was removing things from them and sobering them. He was loving them and they could feel it. The Lord gave them knowledge of His work in them as we prayed over them.
After we prayed the woman said with a smile on her face and in a chuckle, “I feel a weight lifted off of me. I feel cleansed and clean!” She said she felt so happy she could go dance on the street. The other men, in tears, said they felt God’s love and felt convicted. One of the men poured out his alcohol right there on the side of the street!
I started to cry and feel so burdened for them. It was as if I could feel their pain and hopelessness, and I understood on a small level how the Father felt about them too. We also got to share with them that that’s why Jesus died on the cross! To take to take their sins away and wash them with His grace. And that’s what they felt, the weight of their sin lift off of them and God’s precious gift of grace wash over them.
He was not ashamed of them, He was so proud that they knew the change that needed to happen. Romans 7:14-20 says, “So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.”
He was proud that they still can choose Him. He knows that’s it’s sin living in them that’s making them do those things.
They started to encourage us and told us not to stop what we’re doing. They said that we were God. And we explained that we aren’t God, it’s God in us and working through us. They said that no money could amount to how they felt after we prayed and they said how humbled they felt.
This is just a short story of one of the many miracles that the Lord has done. He is moving. He is working. He is healing. He is providing. He is giving. He is taking.
He took away their sins and washed them with His grace. And that’s why Jesus died on the cross! The take away our sins and the wash us with His grace!
The God in the Bible hasn’t changed, He doesn’t only do miracles in the Bible. He is the same always! He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! He is a miracle worker.
This was not us, we don’t take the credit for their healing and for feeling the Father’s love. We stepped in obedience to pray for them and encourage them and we give Him all the glory forever!
THANK YOU JESUS
