The Bible Heals-It's Powerful Yo.

Good morning. Can't sleep due to the 3 hour nap I took earlier today, so I figured instead of laying in bed trying to sleep, I might as well blog from bed :)

I guess over the course of my past 2 year journey with the Lord I've heard people say that the Word of God (aka the Bible) is powerful. However, I never realized just HOW powerful it is. Until now! (and I believe I've only just begun.....)

Proverbs 4:20-22

"My son (that's us!), attend to my words; consent and submit to my WORD. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who FIND them, HEALING and HEALTH to all their flesh."

Do you want to know how powerful the Word of God is? It heals your flesh. Aka your body. Let's think about this. God spoke the world into existence, right?

Genesis 1 "and God SAID, let there be light." "God CALLED the light Day...." "God SAID, God SAID, God SAID."

So God created this entire world we live in PLUS the animals and people here by SPEAKING His Word. Everything God SAID came to pass. And this is still true today. If we SPEAK the Word of God (the Bible) into our lives..... it comes to pass. Why do you think the devil works so stinkin hard to keep you from reading and studying the Word for yourself? Because it's POWERFUL!

Testimonies: In Ephesians 3 the Bible mentions us being FULL of God. That has a whole new meaning for me now that I'm in Bible College, listening to the Word of God for roughly 4 hours a day. Plus the studying, reading and listening of teaching I do outside that 4 hours.... plus the ministry I give on the phones for the ministry which is ENTIRELY based on the Word of God. It adds up to a TON of my day being spent in the Word of God. So here's what's happening with me, and as previously stated, it's only just begun!

1. I've lost weight.

Now I'm not talking about a diet plan, exercise plan or what have you. I seriously was NOT trying to lose weight. I didn't pray about it. I didn't ask the Lord to take my desire for food away. I didn't even consult Him on the matter. So, here's how it's happened...... As I became FULL of the Word of God (Eph. 3) my fleshly desires went away. This is going to sound strange to you if you've NEVER been submerged in the Word for extended periods of time. But I'm telling you, the Word WORKS! As I grow closer and closer to Him through His Word and relationship with Him, my desires of the flesh disappear. Yes, I'm still eating, but food is no longer my REFUGE, SAFETY, or COMFORTER. It apparently used to be, since I gained a lot of weight in the past 4 years. God is now my REFUGE, SAFETY and COMFORTER. And He doesn't make me gain weight :) hehe

2. I'm happy :)

John 6:63 "It is the Spirit Who gives life, the flesh conveys no benefit. The WORDS that I have spoken to you are spirit and LIFE."

John 10:10 "The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, but I have come that they might have life and have it in abundance."

What is your definition of a good life? Mine is: happiness. The Word of God brings life to you. Makes you come alive. Makes you joyful, happy, and excited!

3. My mind is being healed!

Ephesians 4:23

"And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind (having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude)."

Romans 12:2

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the entire renewal of your MIND....."

Wow, this revelation literally came to me tonight as I ministered to someone over the phone from 2 Timothy 1:7 about having a "sound mind". I have not always been well in my mind. I guess the one area I kinda thought I couldn't keep the devil out of was my mind, so I had, in a way, opened my mind up for him to play. Without going into too much detail and making this 14 pages long..... the major thing I realized tonight was that all throughout school, I knew I learned things differently than others. In order for me to "study" I've had to read and re-read my notes many times to retain anything. If I had text book reading, I had to be in a super quiet room with zero distractions and even then I had to read it multiple times to retain anything. It always frustrated me that I couldn't read with anyone around making noise. Also that I had to read things many times to understand them. What a waste of time! I also would tune out most teachers and hear nothing they said. This got a bit better once I got to college because I was able to choose my classes and study things I was interested in, so I paid a little more attention.

Now that I've been in Bible class for 2.5 months, I notice that I don't have these issues as much anymore. My mind has been healed! I have closed the door to the devil and the Word is healing the parts of my mind that he destroyed. The best part is it's a painless process, the same with losing weight. The word is healing my flesh and it's completely without my cooperation! Pretty powerful!

--Thank you God for the Bible! Thank you that this blog inspires people to research more scriptures that talk about the POWER of your Words! AMEN!

Perhaps I'm not as "great" at blogging as I previously predicted.....

Well, be sure to thank "Praying Medic" from FB for finally getting me to update this blog! I've been saying I'll update for the past month when people have asked me, but he wanted to share other people's blogs on his Facebook page so his readers would be encouraged and I posted my link and said "yup, I gotta update it now, don't I?" Haha, it's not that I don't enjoy writing, because actually I really do..... I think it's just the TIME that it takes me. Anyway, here we go!

A lot has happened since the last post. God continues to bless me (as He does ALL His children) in ways that amaze me :) So I'm going to start by speaking of more recent things and we'll see if I opt to make this super lengthy or not.....

(on a side note: July 21st-24th the Power and Love Conference was here in CO Springs, my friend Dawn flew out here to see me and to see Todd White, Dan Mohler and Bob Hazlett at this conference and she and I were changed FOREVER, wow, talk about powerful.... I should probably do a post just on some of the truths we learned from these awesome men of GOD.)

Ok, finances.... oh finances..... Andrew just spoke to us on Finances Thursday at school. It was powerful. One of the things he said that struck me was "if you aren't faithful with little, you won't be faithful with much" He was referring to Luke 16:10. He spoke about how trusting God with your finances is the smallest use of your faith. It should be step 1 in our Christian walk. If we can't trust God with our finances, how can we trust Him for healing, deliverance, job provision etc. We've got sowing and reaping which is a proven tactic when it comes to finances, so we need to be trusting God with money before we can TRULY trust God with anything else. Andrew spoke about how our hearts are attached to our wallets. We're always fearful that someone might take our money and it's hard for us to give it away, especially when we think we need it most.

Well, I moved out here to Colorado 2 months ago. I had saved money from my great teaching job this past year, so when I first got here I was thinking "oh this is fine, I trust God, it's going to all work out." Really though, I wasn't trusting God in that sense, I was trusting the number in my bank account. I KNEW that I had enough money for a few months. The month of July was a breeze, it was gone before I knew it. I felt confident with that "large" number in my checking account. Now I knew I was going to pay for the first year of Charis Bible College in cash, so technically that amount was spoken for, but still the number deceived me because once I paid the tuition, and got my last check from my teaching job..... I realized quite quick that this wasn't going to last me like I thought. I trusted in the wrong thing. I didn't trust in God. So I determined to change. After I paid some bills, I looked at that number and did some quick math and realized "hmmm I better go find a job." Well I searched in apparently "all the wrong places" because after 3 good weeks of applying places and not getting hired my lightning fast mind, as Andrew would say, realized something was wrong. I asked the Lord what I should do and I heard Him tell me "just rest and stop looking". Pffffff that wasn't what I wanted to hear. So I kinda justified myself to the Lord saying "well ok God, if you've got that perfect job for me, then cool, but it's not going to hurt if I still keep loooooking.....". Wow, what a waste of my time that was, note to self: listen to God next time. Looking for a job, when you're not supposed to be looking for a job, is a major let down. I knew I wouldn't be hired at any of these places because in my heart God had told me to rest and to stop looking. Somewhere in the beginning of this 3-4 week process, my roommate had forwarded me an add from Craigslist looking for tutors. I had told the Lord I wanted nothing to do with teaching this year because I was burnt out. Well, usually when you tell the Lord "I won't do blah blah blah, He has you do that." haha, and really it's because you know in your heart He's leading you to do "that" but your flesh doesn't want to. God blessed me with the ability to teach, so duh, makes sense He'd use me in that here :) So I applied to be a tutor because I looked at the hourly rate compared to the hourly rate of the "other" jobs on Craigslist and was like "well yeah my degree might as well pay for itself here...". I got a reply right away saying this company was interested in me. I set up an interview and was hired on the spot. It's a "temporary" tutoring job, so I continued looking on Craigslist and found yet another tutoring company, applied with them, they offered me a job. I went into Wells Fargo, chatted with the bank teller, found out her daughter needs a tutor and gave her my number. So, yeah God is providing, but not in the way that I thought He would. Funny how that works, isn't it?

Now, God has also been teaching me to not depend on the number in the bank account. That's subjective. It can change at any moment. According to the account I don't have enough money to last me this month. According to God I have MORE THAN ENOUGH. Some of you might be thinking "Oh Amie, that's a nice thought, but you might want a plan B incase God doesn't come through." You don't understand..... there is no plan B. God is plan A and there are no other plans. I have to trust Him, I have NO other options. And guess what? He's coming through for me, as He ALWAYS will because I TRUST HIM. Without faith, you cannot please God (Heb. 11:6). I have faith. I didn't have faith in God for my finances before, I had faith in myself and my bank account and my good job.

So the tutoring companies have told me I won't start tutoring until mid to end Oct. And like I said above, my bank accounts (where they are at right now) will not last until then..... so here's how God has provided so far and He's NOT DONE! The one tutoring company that is "temporary" called me and wants ME out of all the tutors (yay!), to accompany them to promote the company at a "tutor fair" next week a few days and I'll get paid to do it! That check will come JUST in time! I'll get money in other ways too..... the thing is, I'm NOT WORRIED! Worry is the opposite of faith. And remember FAITH pleases God!

It's really nice resting in God. There is a peace here that I'm not sure I can really explain, you kind of have to experience it yourself. I suppose it's a peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). No one can shake me out of this peace and this rest. Not my bank account, not friends, not family, not the devil. NO ONE can shake me. I stand on the solid ROCK of Jesus Christ. Man this is a great place to be.

God's provision, wait, is it for ME? You can't mean ME? Really?

Ephesians 1:7-10 (MSG) Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we're a free people-free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of EVERYTHING, PROVIDED for EVERYTHING we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

Wow- isn't that powerful. I emphasized a few important words there. EVERYTHING and PROVIDED. God has provided everything. You see, I chose to go to Bible college because I heard the Lord suggest it to me in Oct. 2009. However, God began making provision for me before I was even born. God took DELIGHT in making the plans for my life that He wanted me to follow! How cool is that?! Pretty cool :)

I now know I am walking in that plan that God took delight in making for me. How do I know? His provision is here. I am blessed beyond what I could even fathom. Now this isn't to say that God doesn't provide for you if you're not walking according to His plan. He does bless all of His children and He is constantly trying to get us back on "track" in the plan He so intricately designed for us. As Andrew Wommack says "God's at least as good as a GPS, He can recalculate" :)

But let me tell you, when you know that you know that you know that THIS is what God wants you to do RIGHT at THIS MOMENT..... it's probably the best feeling, ever?! So, how do I know? Let me tell you.....

1) I feel complete and total peace being here.

Col. 3:15 AMP: "And let the peace of God (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ's] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always].

2) I have a GREAT apartment to live in, all my "things" fit in the apartment and I have the sweetest roommate and neighbor!

Psalm 37:4 AMP: "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.

Eph. 1:11-12 MSG: "It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. (Gosh that's good) Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone.

You see, my roommate is someone that God worked out FOR ME! She is part of God's plan for ME! He loves me SO much! (He loves you just as much, fyi ;) )

3) I got free internet.

Gonna go with Psalm 37:4 again on this one! I desired the internet. It's one of the ways I am growing in Him. I am on Facebook a lot and my Facebook is ALL ministry. I Skype with people and I pray for people over both FB and Skype. God knows this. He knows all things. He KNEW I would need internet at my apartment in order to continue doing these things.

After I spent a day driving around trying to decide how I was going to get internet, I came home, sat down and decided to stop thinking about it. Went over to my neighbor's apartment that evening and she says to me as she opens the door, "Amie, the Lord just told me to give you my wireless password so you can use my internet for free!" I offered to pay half and she said "no, no I want to bless you." Well, ok then! Thank you JESUS!

4) I've already made INSANE connections at the college with the "RIGHT" people. I put "RIGHT" in quotes because they aren't "right" for everyone ;) God has a purpose for ME, remember! All of the "important" people for me to meet in regards to the Bible College and the prayer ministries that I want to be involved with just "happened" to be in the foyer of the conference I attended with my neighbor Friday evening. They were all there AT ONCE. Coincidence. Nope, no possible way.... that has GOD written all over it. My neighbor introduced me to all of these people and I spoke with them.

2 Corinthians 9:8 AMP: "And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work].

5) I've received money from a few people who want to "plant a seed" by helping me out!

2 Corinthians 9:8 and Philippians 4:19

So, am I "worried" about money, housing, jobs or anything else the "world" worries about? No way. Why?

Philippians 4:19 AMP: "And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

You see, God WILL supply every need I have. In fact, He already HAS supplied every need before I even have the need. That's my God. That's my Abba. That's my daddy :) He's got me covered. Oh what peace that brings, to KNOW that God loves me unconditionally and has taken care of me totally....... forever.......

Until next time, in which I just KNOW I'll be able to add more examples of how God has blessed me, I trust this blessed you! God LOVES YOU! He'll do the SAME for you as He has for me...... if you believe :)

How Amie decided to go to Bible College!

This is my first attempt at a video..... we'll see if it works and if you can see me! I'm sorry it got so long.... I tried to redo it and kept messing up, so this is what ya get for now until I learn iMovie :)

This video basically goes quite well with my previous post.

Amie's journey with healing!

It's been too long my friends, I apologize. It is the end of the school year and this group of children is particularly challenging. But hey, I have 12 teaching days left! I CAN DO IT! :)

Ok, so I wanted to write out my journey with healing and how I got started. Perhaps it will help you, or you can relate. This is also for myself so that years down the road if someone asks me how I got started, I can simply find this post and remember "all" the details :) Blogs are awesome!

Once upon a time...... or as one of my students wrote once a pond a time....... Amie graduated college (2007) and chose to move to Kansas City, Missouri to teach. (switch from 3rd person to 1st)

I felt a lot of peace about moving from Minnesota. At the time I didn't know that it was "peace" I felt or what it was exactly, but I KNEW that the Lord wanted me in KC, MO. So, I moved in with my fantastic Auntie for a few months in KC. I immediately got my first teaching job, miraculously, and taught summer school for 8 weeks. I also worked part time at Linens N Things (may it rest in peace, bankruptcy). August rolled around and I didn't have a teaching job for the "school year" yet. I was thankful I wasn't paying rent.... and that I had a part-time job at LNT. The entire time, I wasn't worried about getting a job. That is what was "strange" (it was God, obviously) about the whole thing. I wasn't worried.... I had this confidence in my God, that He would provide for me.... He always has. I've never experienced "lack" in my life and I've always been protected.

I was at summer school one of the last days and I had a missed call and voicemail on my cell phone. I listened to the VM and it was a principal of a school in KC asking me to interview. I called him back and he asked me if I could come in Saturday at the school to interview with him. It was for a 4th grade position. I said "YES!" and met him that Saturday. We sat in the flippin hot school (no AC in Missouri.... in August....) and he interviewed me, telling me that he would know by the end of the interview if he wanted me or not. It was a bit of pressure. I immediately liked the man and he hired me right after the interview! He then showed me around the school and this is where I began my teaching career.

Amie, what does this have to do with healing? Ah, let me tell you!

So while in Kansas City, I got hooked up with a church and met my girlfriends. We started hanging out and I was so grateful to God for these girls! Carrie, Danielle, Noe, Jess, Jennifer, I owe this journey to you! Thank you for helping me grow in the Lord!

Alright, so there is one friend in particular who helped me in my journey. Carrie, I'm forever grateful. Thank you for loving me enough to show me the TRUTH! Carrie and her fantastic mom brought me to a church over on the Kansas side once that preached about healing. I hadn't really been taught anything about healing.... so I didn't have any preconceived notion either way, so I was open to it. I immediately got hooked on this teaching! The pastor graduated from Rhema Bible Institute and I began listening to other people from that "realm" such as Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Charles Capps and Willie George. After being in this church for a few months I noticed these people prayed in "tongues". I had heard of that, but didn't know what it was. I asked Carrie and her mom if they prayed in tongues they said "oh yes! It's wonderful". I began to wonder and a few weeks later, I went up to a woman at the church and she prayed over me to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I began to pray in tongues. Carrie's mom gave me a teaching from Willie George on praying in tongues, and I listened to it and saw the truth. I prayed in tongues all the time for a few weeks.... it was good!

As I listened to this teaching on healing.... I questioned..... I wondered and I believed with all my heart that it was true. I saw things in the scriptures that I didn't see before. Scriptures jumped off the page at me, I had never really experienced this before like I did in Kansas City. My pastor taught that healing WAS God's will..... every time. That everyone should be healed. I had the typical questions that anyone new to this or anyone reading this who isn't healing has..... "why are there sick people?, why isn't everyone healed? why aren't pastor's preaching this?" etc.

Well, I was in the church for about 6 months (2009) before I felt the need to move BACK to Minnesota. I moved back, got a teaching job (God appointed) working in North Minneapolis 5th grade. I found a church near by that taught on healing and speaking in tongues, so I attended there and they introduced me to Andrew Wommack. As soon as I discovered Andrew's teaching of the Word, I couldn't stop listening..... I loved this truth. I had always felt like sickness and disease was evil and I never, NEVER thought it was from God. I'm so grateful that I never was sucked into that lie, that God gives people sicknesses to teach them things.... how awful. Not my God :)

Ok, so I attended this awesome church for a year (2009-2010).... but I still wasn't healing others. I was just healing myself. I realized that God wanted me well, so I spoke to my body and told it to be well. I had heard Andrew talk about commanding and telling the sickness to go, so I was doing that with myself. I had also begun networking on Facebook and finding people who believed that healing was FOR us and that we COULD operate in it. I was pumped. The things I healed myself of were : Asthma, hip pain, knee pain, numerous sore throats, numerous headaches, back pain and other random pains that would come and go. But I hadn't tried healing anyone else. I was scared.

The summer of 2010 is where things skyrocketed for me in regards to healing. I mentioned that I had started networking on Facebook. I went to Andrew Wommack's FB site and started befriending people who went to his college (Charis Bible College). I befriended Brian Doolin. Brian and I started chatting about healing and he shared with me how he was out healing the sick everywhere he went. I asked him how he was so passionate about this and how he decided to just "get out there and do it". He introduced me to John G. Lake Ministries (JGLM) and I began listening to this teaching called the DHT (Divine Healing Technician) training. I LOVED it and realized it was the truth! Just like how I had felt when I listened to Andrew Wommack. This Curry Blake guy who taught the DHT sparked something inside of me..... inside my spirit. I realized I HAD to help the world. Our purpose in life was to help and impact the world. We're not just dropped here on the earth so we can make a mess of our lives and then die. We're here to preach the gospel, heal the sick and cast out demons (Mark 16:15-18). I was determined to override my fear of approaching others in public. It's now been almost a year and I am still overriding that fear, but it's easier every time..... practice definitely helps!

In October 2010 I found a "life team" here nearby and I had just decided to no longer attend my church I was attending, so I began attending this "life team" on Thursday nights. Now before I get into that I should mention that I met the McCoys through Facebook and went to stay with their family in Iowa in October. I blogged about that experience.... it was life changing. Thank you McCoys. That experience pushed me over the edge, if you will, with healing other people.

It is now May 2011 and I've had quite a lot of healing under my belt. My confidence in the Lord grows every time I see another person healed, every time I read the Word and every time I share the truth with someone! This life team is so incredible. These amazing men and women of God preach the gospel and desire the truth from God and only the truth. They research things, they challenge me and each other, we study the Bible together to determine, what the truth is for us here in 2011 :) I am so thankful for all of these people that the Lord has placed in my life to help me grow! He is so good! I have had many friends who have helped to steer me in this path when I seemed to get a bit off track, so to speak.... Thank you! They know who they are :)

As I sit and reflect on the past 2 years of learning about healing, I realize how the Lord worked it all out to teach me. He knows me better than anyone else, obviously. The Lord just slowly introduced me one baby step at a time.... so I wouldn't freak out and say this stuff isn't real. Thank you Lord :)

Catholic Convention Miracles

So I get invited by my friend Jeanne to be on the prayer team at this Catholic conference. Now, I'm not Catholic and have always viewed Catholics as "excluding" people, meaning that you can't go to their church if you're not Catholic etc. Then there's the whole Mary, mother of Jesus and Saint so and so business that I never really got. Shouldn't Jesus be our focus? So anyway.... I had to PUSH all of that aside to agree to be on the prayer team. Then I had to take a few thoughts captive. Thoughts like "they'll find out I'm not Catholic and kick me out" or "they'll think I'm weird, I don't exactly pray the way that they do..." but I quickly cast those out and actually was quite looking forward to going. I arrive in record time, listening to rap, traffic was zero and personally I think God translated me a bit.... that'll be a talk for another time.

I walk in and find Jeanne, she was going to speak for 30 minutes at the conference and be on the prayer team as well as one other man. There were about 40 Catholics at this convention. I'm telling you ALL of this background stuff about me to let you know that there is no "perfect" way of going about this. I make mistakes. I have pre-judgements I shouldn't have. Despite my weakness of the flesh from time to time, God is still able to work through me!

I had the BEST time at this conference. I was met by extremely friendly and receptive people. I was able to lay hands with Jeanne, on at least 10 of the 40 people there, get them healed..... then be able to lay hands on 3 people to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and they spoke in tongues! Way cool. Had never done that before. Also had never grown out legs.... so let's begin with those testimonies.

First guy, named Mark (yay I remembered one name....), he was a sweet, quiet man and his friend had to persuade him to even come over for prayer. We greeted him warmly and he told us that he was in extreme pain. His entire back and he was just denied Social Security benefits, and now has to figure out what he can even do for a job to make some money. He had some depression hanging on him. He looked miserable. Jeanne and I started commanding his back to line up and Jeanne got a Word of Knowledge that his legs were uneven. So she told him to sit down and give me his feet! He had cowboy boots on :) So I grabbed his feet, notice one leg was shorter and pretty much as soon as I started to say "leg grow in Jesus name...." it popped out. Even legs. Boom. God's so awesome. He goes "whoa! I felt that!" Then we had him stand up and bend over to see if the back pain was gone. It wasn't, so we ministered again and he said he felt tingling in his back. He was able to bend and was smiling! PRAISE JESUS!

Then came Jeanne. She said, "check my legs" she had one shorter, so as soon as I touched her legs she said "oh I feel it, there it goes"! Her hip pain was gone!

Oh gosh, then one of my favorite testimonies was this woman named..... oh dear.... I've forgotten. This woman comes over and tells us she had a collapsed lung, needed a new heart, had pain in her knees, hip pain and something else.... I think. Oh gall bladder, it had been removed through surgery. Her husband was saying awful things to her out of fear, such as "you're holding me back since I have to take care of you and you can't do as much anymore". So first we ministered regarding her marriage. Prayed and let her know that he most likely was experiencing fear because he didn't know what to do since she had health problems. So then we started the healing! Jeanne got another word about uneven legs, so I took her legs and sure enough, uneven. This is why she had hip pain. Grew the legs out, she was shocked, then we got the knees healed. The first time we commanded them to heal she still had major pain when kneeling down. We did it probably 4 more times and she crouched down after each one and kept saying the pain was less and less. Until finally it was GONE! We hit the missing gall bladder, commanded it to regrow, commanded the lung to reform and the heart to beat with the rhythm of life! This woman realized just how much God loves her. She went from crying because she was so depressed to being so joyful as she hugged us both several times, then left!

One woman had a daughter who was not walking for the Lord, we'll say. In fact, she would get angry when the word "God" was spoken. Her mom, Christine, was at the conference and came over for prayer. We prayed quiet extensively for her daughter. Christine was crying and by the end felt so much peace. We reminded her that she is a LIGHT for God. That she doesn't need to say the name "God" out loud, that she represents God everywhere. We commanded the demons trying to keep her daughter from God to flee and let her go. Then we found out that Christine needed healing, not only in her relationship with her daughter, but for her blood pressure and some weird allergy of eggs, oh and damaged intestines. We began commanding and as soon as we said "blood pressure normalize" she said she felt this weight just lift off of her body. Now that is COOL! She left with so much peace and joy about everything!

Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now I have never done this before for others. I have it and I pray in tongues and I KNEW the first person I laid hands on to receive it would receive it, but I hadn't done it..... until today! Since I know that tongues is for every believer, I have no issues finding the confidence to expect God to bring it forth. It's nice to be at that place. I'm working on getting there with healing. I'm to the point now where everyone I lay hands on "feels something" which is pretty awesome! I'm excited as I grow more and more into WHO I AM IN CHRIST!

Ok, so tongues. Well, the man who explained the baptism to the people confused them. Heck, I was confused and I have the baptism already. I was NOT sure how it would go or if anyone would even WANT it after his confusing talk.... but people came forward. There were 4 groups of people praying for individuals to receive the baptism. Jeanne, myself and a man named David were a team. We were able to get David healed of tightened muscles (sore) uneven legs and hip pain, after ward. But anyway, we had 2 men first. The first man wanted direction from the Lord on what he should do with his life. We prayed for that first, then we asked him if he spoke in tongues because God gives you answers to things when you pray in tongues. He said he didn't and that he'd like it. So, we got him praying in tongues. Man was he blessed! He hugged us, we said a "Hail Mary" and he left.

Then a second man came up. He was my favorite. He just wanted the Holy Spirit and boy did he get Him! Haha, he was so great. He was so overjoyed as he spoke in tongues. He felt the power! He hugged us then, and again later he found us and hugged us AGAIN! He's changed! PRAISE GOD!

Ok, then Jeanne and I saw this woman who had so many great questions about tongues. But they weren't answered from the confusing talk before hand, so we tried our best to quickly help her as we walked into the room to get people praying in tongues. Well, after we prayed over the 2 men I realized this woman had already come forward and been prayed over by a different team. We asked her afterward if she spoke in tongues. She said "no" regretfully. She so wanted to. We told her that we'd pray with her and that she will speak in tongues. She said "ok!" We explained a little more about what tongues is and she was ready. We found David, so he came and prayed with us (that man just went from praying over a lot of people in the past for tongues and none spoke in tongues to 3 in a row and all 3 spoke in tongues, COOL BEANS, he's changed). So she took a bit longer 5 minutes or so but finally she like TOOK OFF in tongues. It was crazy! She was SO SO SO excited! She wanted it so badly and probably felt like it was her fault or something that she hadn't spoken in tongues yet. She was BLESSED and walked away. Well another woman came up to Jeanne and was thanking her for her talk (which was awesome by the way) when this same woman who just took off in tongues grabbed Jeanne's hand and said, "I'm sorry but I need you." and pulled her away from the other woman. Haha, it was perhaps, a bit odd. Turns out this woman and her husband have a son who was not walking with the Lord and he was in Vegas gambling but spent all his money and had no way to get home and they had tried to reach him for days but to no avail and they were so worried. The woman wanted us to pray. Me and the other woman who had wanted to talk to Jeanne came over and the 5 of us grabbed hands and prayed for this boy to CALL home in JESUS' NAME! For peace to overtake the parents. For the boy to have supernatural protection and a way to get home! You could literally see the parents bodies change as we prayed. Weight was lifted. They were changed. Their son will call. Thank you Jesus that you are REAL and that you show up in a REAL way when people need you!

Oh, so you remember the guy who gave the tongues talk that was confusing. He was also super critical of Jeanne and I since we weren't Catholic. (Jeanne was.... but isn't anymore). We broke the spirit of religion off of him, and later, he came over and told us to pray for his back to be healed. We measured his legs, one was shorter. Grew it out, his hip pain went away but he still had some pain on the left side of his back. We prayed but then he had to go up to give that talk on tongues, so we stopped. Later he came over and told me that all the pain was gone and God bless us! How awesome! He realized that perhaps you don't have to be Catholic to do good in the world.... :)

I thank God that He gave me this opportunity. I have a new respect for Catholics now. They are good people who want to PLEASE GOD more than anything! That's awesome! Thank you God that you've made us all different and that we all can learn from one another!

I pray that the people reading this are blessed and can learn from me and I from them! In Jesus' MIGHTY name! AMEN!

(ps- I have more testimonies.... but perhaps a later time, this is plenty to post!)

Miracles! Miracles! You mean miracles happen TODAY?!

Yup. They sure do. I want to encourage anyone reading this that you, too, can see miracles if you have Jesus living inside you :)

In Oct. 2010- I went to a good friend's wedding. Was sitting with my friend Danielle. She mentioned she had a headache (she had to cancel hanging out with me before the wedding since she wasn't feeling well). I told her I'd pray quick, so I placed my hand on the back of her neck, commanded the headache to go. Mind you, she had this headache for HOURS before seeing me and within that hour it was gone. I didn't ask her how quickly it left, but she came up to me at the reception telling me it was all gone! PRAISE GOD! I love His goodness :)

Also in Oct. 2010- I went and visted the McCoys (visit their blog http://i-took-the-red-pill.blogspot.com/). See my post from Nov. 5th about that trip!

Jan. 2011- A co-worker had a toothache due to a cavity. She had a dentist appt. scheduled for a few days later. Another co-worker and I went and laid hands on her cheek and commanded the tooth to heal and pain to go. She said it was much better but there was still a bit of pain. We commanded the rest to go in the name of Jesus and it was all gone. She jumped for joy! She couldn't stop smiling! God is so good, and he touched her! She believes He is real and loves her!

Jan. 2011- My friend Jenny had twisted her ankle at work. She was in quite a bit of pain. We were walking around and she was limping. I offered to pray. She accepted, I took her hand and commanded the ankle to heal and be pain free. She walked around and said it felt a little better. I did it again, she said it was much better. I did it a third time and she was nearly 100% but had to go due to the -10 degree weather and we were outside :) I asked her later how her foot was and she said it was all better!

Feb. 2011- My friend Jenny's little boy had a cold. He had been coughing for days, so she asked me to pray. I called her that evening when he was with her and she held the phone between them and I commanded the cough to go and all remnants of that cold to GO in Jesus' name! The next day she told me he didn't cough at all that night and slept great! He was healed!

Feb. 2011- my dog is 11 and has been physically fit (so to speak) always. All the sudden one day, I got home from school and she could barely stand up. Her hips kept giving out and she appeared to be in a great deal of pain. I laid hands on her and commanded her hips to be healed and to work the way they were designed to work from God. She got better the next day but had a slight hesitation to walk normal, so I kept commanding life to her hips. The day after that she was totally healed! Right after that I was petting her abdomen and noticed a huge protrusion on her rib cage. It was hard and seriously was 2 inches by 2 inches. I just immediately commanded it to leave. Nothing causing my dog pain belongs, so I stood on the word of God that I lay my hands on THE SICK and THEY do recover! Woke up the next day and felt her and it was completely gone! I love that Jesus will heal EVEN a dog. So good!

March 2011- cast out my first "known" demons. I'm pretty sure I've done it before for different sicknesses but anyway.... a friend was battling diabetes and had many complications regarding that. A good friend of mine and I went to visit him in the hospital. As we began commanding diabetes, pain and his body to line up with God's WORD, his body began to twitch. He would jerk this way and that. Every time we'd say "spirit of Diabetes GO!" his body would jerk immensely. His face was twisting and his teeth would bare like a dog. We cast them out and he was so relaxed. He said he had no idea what had happened, he was just asleep. He was able to go home from the hospital the next day and was up and walking! PRAISE JESUS!!!!!

The other demonic activity was with a friend of mine. She wanted me to command her eyes to be healed so she didn't need glasses. I began to minister and she said her eyes were zooming in and out like a telescope. Things would be clear, then blurrry, then clear then blurry. She lost vision in her right eye for a few minutes, then it returned. My other friend came over and all the sudden her muscles in her arm began to cramp and spasm and she was in quite a lot of pain. Then it moved to her side of her abdomen and she was in pain. All the while, my friend and I just kept commanding it to leave her body and within 5 minutes she began to lean forward and burp. And burp. And burp. That was the demon/demons leaving! She's FREE! Thank you JESUS :)

March 2011- A woman named Tiffany had severe tooth pain. She knew she needed a root canal because the dentist told her she had a cracked tooth. She told a friend of mine about it and my friend said "hey you should come to my life team and get prayed over". Tiffany was skeptical but said ok. She came and 3 of us laid hands on her. She felt tingling around the area of pain and the pain began to leave. The next morning she woke up with no pain. She was elated. She went to the dentist and they did an x-ray on her teeth to verify what was going on and they said "we don't see any need for surgery, your teeth are perfect!" She was blown away! She came back to the life team a week later because she had a tiny bit of gum pain (don't know if it was in the same area or a different area) but we laid hands and all of that left too and now she's got perfect teeth and doesn't need the dentist at all!!!!! Thank you Father!!!!!! Oh man I just get so excited!!!!

March 2011- had lunch with my amazing cousin Amanda. She had been sick for several days with a sore throat and headache. This was her 3rd sore throat (I think, Amanda???) in like a month. She also has been unemployed for months and really needed a job. We enjoyed lunch, I talked about the power of God and she told me what was going on in her life. At the end, we joined hands and I prayed. I prayed that her interviews she had the next day went well and that God would give her the right words to speak to receive a job. Then I commanded the sickness to leave her body. She was blessed. I saw her a few days later and she told me she GOT A JOB!!!!! Oh and she was feeling great :) God loves her sooooo sooooo sooooo much :)

I could write probably 2 pages of healing I've experienced in my own body, but let me leave you with the most recent one.

This was a few weeks ago, so the end of Feb. 2011. It was a Tuesday at school and I got my period. I was immediately in quite a lot of pain, but it subsided for the morning, then it spiked right before I brought the kids to lunch. I dropped them off and practically ran back to my classroom and locked myself in. I felt like I was going to throw up and have diarrhea. I laid down on the floor of my classroom and commanded life into my own body. Told my body that this was unacceptable and I reject any complications from having my period. I almost passed out at one point while lying there and within 20 minutes the pain subsided and I felt good. I was able to make it the rest of the day without pain. I even felt so GREAT I went to my life team that night to pray for others!

PRAISE GOD!

He gave all authority over sickness and disease to Jesus (hence the reason Jesus healed ALL who were oppressed of the devil). When I became a Christian Jesus came to live inside me (the Holy Spirit). What makes you think Jesus has changed? He's the same yesterday, today and forever the Bible says. If He healed then.... He still heals now!