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!