Power of Stepping OUT!

Key Scripture:  “With men this is impossible but with God all things are possible.”  Matthew 19:26

“Lord, if it’s You, command me to come to You on the water.  COME! Matthew 14:28,29

Power Point: About ten years or so ago, my prayer partner, extraordinaire, Julie and I really began to dip our toes in the water of the kingdom of God. We had begun to see and believe many of the things I share with you. Our hearts burned so brightly to be able to bring healing to others and so we began to do everything we could to make that happen. We read everything we could get our hands on and went everywhere we could to see people who had learned how to bring the kingdom of God here. One of our first big events was a conference held by Charisma magazine. It was amazing.  We had been placed on the prayer team and we were in that prayer room every minute we could manage. People were being healed as others prayed for them. It was an electric atmosphere that charged our hearts, and changed them forever.

When we returned home, I called my friend Rebekah.   She is a pastor’s wife and their family had been totally devastated for two years by her diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. I had spent many wonderful hours with her over the previous year, just introducing her to Holy Spirit and the kingdom of God (the little that I knew!) I called her a few days after we had gotten home, and in my excitement I shared every thing that had happened.  Suddenly, I realized there was dead silence on the other end of the phone. “What do you think we should do?” I asked. “Pray”, she responded.  I was at her house in 20 minutes.  First I had to call Julie and Donna and tell them to “PRAY!"

This is the funny part. I had no idea what I was doing. I grabbed my “Handbook for Healing” by Frances and Charles Hunter and took off in my car. When I arrived, I sat in the driveway, thumbing frantically through the book, trying to find out how to heal people of Fibromyalgia. As it happened of course, I didn’t need the book. I put on some music, sat with her on the floor and took her hands in mine. That’s pretty much all I did. She began to shake, I began to worry. I asked her what was happening and she said, “It’s going out the same way it came in.” And it did. She has never had another symptom.

He said, “Come!” I came. He did what He had wanted to do all along. And I got to watch!  I still get to watch. I love partnering with Holy Spirit, He does all the work and I just show up, reach out, and touch!

Power Talk:  When Jesus says, “Come!” I’m going! I don’t care if I get a little wet.  Why don’t you come too?  Come on!