"Accidental" Healing at Chosen

On Friday night, the Chosen kids were practicing praying for the sick in public through a role-play exercise where they divided into pairs, and one kid would pretend to be some random stranger who needed healing and the other kid would practice approaching and praying for that person.  In one of the teams, while the one kid was pretending to receive healing, he suddenly realized that the pain in his ankle from an earlier injury that day had disappeared!!  Holy Spirit healed his ankle by surprise!

Thank you Jesus!

Healing Testimony from Chosen Retreat

Last week I had high school soccer tryouts but a retreat with HOPE church was in the same week. I really wanted to go to both of them so I prayed that God would make a way for me to go to the retreat and still be able to make the soccer team. On the first day of tryouts we ran laps around the track but, on my first lap I rolled my ankle and I couldn’t stand on it. I knew i wouldn’t be able to tryout anymore but that meant that I could go to the retreat. Two days before the retreat my Aunt prayed for my ankle because she had a dream that she healed someone. My ankle did feel better and I was able to walk on it. When I went to the retreat, a few of the leaders prayed for my ankle and I was able to walk on it without a limp and could even jump but, there was still a bit of pain. Now that i’m back from the retreat my ankle is just about completely healed and I think that I’ll be able to get on the jv team.

Post-Jesus Culture Awakening Testimonies

Testimonies of God’s goodness on return from Jesus Culture Awakening!

-Hieju:
My co-worker was having back pain.  He pulled it while moving furniture. I asked him if I could pray for it. He said ok.  I asked him what his pain level was from 1 to 10 (10 being the worst).  He said 7.  I prayed a short prayer (2 mins). The first thing he said to me after I prayed was that his back felt better.  He said it is now a 4.  Praise God for healing in the work place. :) 

-Jessica:
I just shared the gospel with Larry my boss and prayed for him. Wow hahaha. God is amazing.

-Brock:

For those who don’t’ know I work at the Humane Society of the United States in the accounting department (which is a miracle in itself)

On Thursday after work I was talking to a co-worker. He mentioned that he was in the middle of changing cubicles, and what a hassle it was because his arm was bothering him. Apparently he had injured it last Christmas (2010), and it was never the same, being that at some point in the healing process the arm stopped recuperating. Now at first I feel like the Lord wants me to pray for this person, to which I’m thinking, “no way…I have to work with this guy!”. Of course, that prompting gets a little bit stronger and stronger. I remember a testimony at the Awakening Conference, where that man says “it’s worth 30 seconds of embarrassment to give Jesus a chance to be Jesus”. Now at this point I agree. So here I am at this point and I’m wondering “What do I do? What do I do?”. I’m freaking out a little bit. But the Lord tells me to ask if I can pray for this guy. So I do, and he agrees to allow me to pray for it. I manage to get my words together and as Jesus to be Jesus, to rebuke the pain, etc. Now I ask him to check it out and, to my surprise he says it feels better. He actually had some range of motion problems (couldn’t bend the arm all the way) and he was bending his arm, saying that it felt better!

Praise God!

A Testimony of Crooked Back Healed!

It’s amazing what kind of impact the burdens that we carry have on our well being.

Fortunately, God’s grace and freedom is even more amazing.

As of  July 8, I no longer have a crooked back.

They say having a crooked back more often than not has to do with carrying heavy burdens.

For myself, a lot of it had to do with the different expectations that I had pushed on myself - some from others, some from myself, as well as unforgiveness towards different people in my life. For the sake of privacy, I will keep it vague. It was important for me not only to release those expectations, but also to forgive the people that put those things on me.

Growing up I was constantly made aware of what I was not. Not smart enough. Not fast enough. Not thin enough, not attractive enough, not good enough, etc. This led me to fear myself, because I had an understanding that I was not what people wanted. I began to fear failure in these different areas. Now the thing about fear, is that it can become a force that controls the way we behave. I was no different. Having fallen victim to fear, I was obsessed with doing everything in my power not to fail. This of course made it difficult to bear when I did fail, and so began a vicious cycle.

Fast forward. To release these burdens, it was necessary to identify where they originated from, and ask Jesus for the truth. For each thing I brought up, Jesus said “beauty for ashes” (which happens to be one of my favorite songs). It was the understanding that God made me the way I am, fearfully and wonderfully, and that His grace is more than sufficient for my areas of lack. It was quite liberating, to move from living based on what people said I was not, to living based on who God says I am.

In terms of unforgiveness, this too is a burden. Bitterness consumes the soul. I had a few issues with people that needed to be dealt with, after which I released the bitterness.

Following all this, the Chosen youth and leaders prayed for my back to be straightened. Let me tell you, it was quite liberating. His yoke really is easy, and the burden light.

-brock

 

Video Testimony: Scoliosis Healed

Scoliosis healed at the School of Healing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgcUt0Ce_qA