I EXPERIENCED HEALING.
Once upon a time in the boonies of Georgia, a group of young, upcoming missionaries entered into this week called Training Camp. If you'd like to read a quick recap of the week, you can check out my previous blog, The DL on Training Camp. I felt as if I needed to go much more in depth with what I experienced personally, because I am a first-hand witness to my Abbas's healing touch.
[setting: stormy, down pouring, night in a large auditorium with 200+ individuals being taught on their Father's healing power]
"Ok guys so I want you all to form small groups, and ask & pray for healing over one another."
Alrighty. Welp the only thing I can really think of needing healing for is my lactose issues and incredibly spazzed out digestive system problems that I've been dealing with for way too long.. Some healing for that would be amazing since dealing with all of that while on the Race is going to be an ever-occurring pain.
So I told this to the group of three other girls I was sitting with, but as they began praying, their words reflected none of the above issues…
They began praying words of healing over me for spiritual and emotional issues that I didn't realize how much pain I had been experiencing over. Boundless love, acceptance, freedom, rest in His TRUTH! At that moment I felt the breaking of chains of perfection, control, negative self-image, finding worth in others, judgement, the need to earn love & acceptance, feelings of constant confusion, being not good enough or accepted.
And that was only the beginning!!! The next night we asked the Holy Spirit to come & minister to us, and oh my gosh He certainly did! As I stood there praying like I never have before in the Spirit, I felt as if I was being filled up, up, up to the brim inside with just love & peace- then something odd happened..
I got this extreme heat on my lower stomach & lower back, and I mean throbbing hot heat. So I didn't know what else to do but place a hand on each and continued praying in the Spirit. The heat eventually went away, and I can't even explain the way I felt after it all.
I have literally never experienced anything like it but I felt the most complete than I ever have in my entire life once it was over. I then felt the immediate urgency to begin laying hands & praying for those around me to experience the deliverance & supernatural healing I had just received.
Flash forward to the return from training camp a few short days later….I HAD ICE CREAM, CHEESES, YOGURT, MILK, AND EVERYTHING THAT USED TO PUT ME IN SO MUCH PAIN WITH NO PROBLEMS AT ALL!!! I was completely healed.
The most incredible part is how first, He healed me of all my spiritual and emotional crap because that is the part that He cares the most about- our relationship with Him. After all we are just spiritual beings renting out these bodies for a period of time on earth before the real deal. However, after I was healed and renewed spiritually, He did touch me physically as well taking out my old, weak digestive system & tummy and completely replacing it with a military steel tank.
–>SIdenote: Could those issues have been developed from what was going on spiritually..? As a physical manifestation linked to those deeply rooted spiritual ailments? Did it take me having to open up to a teammate about a sin I had been struggling to hide from everyone to finally receive release & in turn healing? Confession of sin and heart preparation are important, since our physical well-being is never separated from or made primary above our spiritual health. James 5:15-16 tells us that "The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much." I experienced a revelation of the power of confession to another believer in Christ, followed up with prayer, and finally experiencing total and complete FREEDOM & healing.
How amazing is this Father we have the honor to serve??? My mind is blown, and to experience His healing touch first hand just excites me and prepares me all the more to go out and pray for anyone else wanting that love & deliverance that he freely offers us! I caught a glimpse of the radical things He truly does & my appetite has just been fired up for what's to come, time to see Jesus set some peeps free!!!
