Living Hope Community Church

Hello friends!

Just a quick prayer request for you. This Sunday, March 29th I will be speaking at Living Hope Community Church in Cable, WI. I am very excited to be able to go there and share some of my journey and testimony of God's healing work in my life.

I would appreciate your prayers as I finish preparing and also for Sunday morning as I share. I want to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit and just be the mouth He uses to share His message of hope, love and compassion.

Thanks for praying!

A New Kind of Healing

Hello friends!

I've been wanting to write to you for a while now, but it seems as if suddenly life is quite busy again. It's amazing the things I can do now that I am feeling better! The last three days of February my mom and I attended something called the College of Prayer. These are all over the world and our church is the campus for the Upper Midwest. This is the first one we have been able to attend and it was amazing. The topic was Divine Healing and I was able to share my testimony of healing the first night.

God really touched my heart over those three days. The teaching was excellent. There are a couple of things that really impacted me that I would like to share with you. One of the things that presenter Ron Walborn said was "Let's not get trapped in our pathetic lack of experience!" I liked this because as a follower of Christ, I am often skeptical of things that seem "out there" or things that I have never seen or experienced personally. That doesn't mean that God isn't working that way!!

Another thing that radically impacted me has to do with Christ's divinity and humanity. I know that Jesus was fully human and fully God at the same time. I even know that He limited Himself and lived a fully human life here on earth. But I never fully understood the implications of this. When I think of some of the amazing things Jesus did on earth, I automatically think, "Well, that's because He was God." That is an incorrect way of thinking. Everything that He did on earth was through the power of the Holy Spirit in Him, the same Holy Spirit that is in me! "If Jesus ministered in his Divine power and then told his disciples to do the same things, it would have been a mockery. But if he ministered out of his Spirit-anointed humanity, then his disciples could do the things Jesus did by the authority and power of the same Holy Spirit." Wow! John 14:12-14 is true, it is for us, and it is for today! How is this going to change the way I approach life? How is this going to change the way you approach life?

So, you're probably wondering why I've titled this "A New Kind of Healing" as I haven't talked about that yet! That is the most exciting part of the weekend! God really met me at the College of Prayer. I heard His voice and felt His great love for me. You see, God healed me physically in January, but I needed emotional healing as well. I am going to be very honest with you. This past year was very difficult for me. Even though I tried to be joyful and stay strong and put on a good face, I was dry, I was tired, I felt awful, I wondered why God would prepare me to serve Him and then take it all away. In one way I clung to God this past year, my faith grew, I learned so many things. But I also felt distant from God at the same time. The intimacy we had previously shared was no longer there. At the College of Prayer, that intimacy was restored. I felt the love of God pour over me. I was prayed for and really feel like I have been anointed for ministry again. I have my joy back, the kind of joy that can't be faked or fabricated, but can only come from the overflow of my relationship with Christ. For those of you who know me well, you'd be surprised at how the tears flowed that weekend. Just ask my mom, she has never seen me cry so much in my life...but they were tears of joy!

I was able to share again on the last day my testimony of further healing. I wanted to share it with you as well. I would be cheating you out of something very special if I didn't share this with you, my dear prayer warriors. You see, God is a God of compassion and mercy. He loves you and I so much. He is not content to just heal the body. He wants to heal your broken body, mend your broken heart and fill you with His love, joy and peace. May you know His love today.