Gospel held a revival at my church last thursday. At this revival people were healed, prophesied over, and given spiritual blessings. God's presence met us that night in a way I'll never forget. During the worship portion of the evening, Gospel encouraged us to seek after God, to really press in on the Kingdom of Heaven. As we did we began to feel Heaven touch earth as our voices combined with the angels and we lifted these words to Heaven:
Holy, holy, holy
Is the Lord God almighty
Who was and is, and is to come!
With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of Kings
And I will adore you!
That was "The Revelation Song" a song recorded in the Bible that the angels will sing for eternity! How awesome it was to join them and lift God up!
After that Gospel had his friend and fellow prayer warrior, Tasha, hand him his little journal. From that journal he read off spoken words. These are random things that God reveals to Gospel as he's praying or thinking about the upcoming service. Among this long list was dental miracles, family struggles, diabetes, and more. Those who needed prayer for one or more of the listed struggles or sicknesses took the first step of faith by coming up to the platform and creating a line. Gospel went through the line and God worked through Gospel's prayers.
Gospel describes it like this: "I do the praying and believing and God takes it from there. That's what Jesus did, he laid hands on people said 'you're healed' and they were! you see that all through the book of Matthew."
Gospel claims no power of his own he knows that what he's doing is interceding, praying on another's behalf. Moses did this same thing for Israel many times, and Jesus does that for us now.
"I'm doing what Jesus told me to do, to 'lay hands on the sick and the needy'."
We are disciples of Jesus the second we receive Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior. Jesus told his disciples (us) that we would do greater things in His name than he did while he was with us!
"Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can't believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I'll do."
-John 14:11-14 (the Message)
Jesus said it plain as day there. We can and will do great things because of Jesus in us.
About my friend Zach, I hope this helps answer his questions. But as to why some people don't get healed Gospel replied "I don't know, that's God's part." We have to pray and know that God will do as He sees fit.
1 comment:
Hey Chris this is Zach
I read your blog and had some questions about it.
So ill reply later since your going on the mission trip so ill talk to you later
-z
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