California Tidbits

Hi guys!
I feel like I have no contact with the outside world! Somehow I got stuck in intern land and can’t seem to get out (Yes I’m still cell phone-less) =) But I do like it here. Anyway, some juicy tidbits for other bloggers…
Normally I don’t really share these stories but they’re just so fun I thought that maybe if any of you are suffering and sick, you can take these as your own and see God ‘bust a move’ in your life.
So I’m hanging out outside church one Tuesday night, I’m suppose to be a “welcomer” (not my favorite job) but I make the most of it. Suddenly a man walks by assisted by a cane. I stop him and as we’re talking I find out he has a spinal infection and is in extreme agony. I start telling him testimonies of times I’ve seen Jesus heal people and ask him if I can pray for him. He sort of shrugs his shoulders in agreement and I put my hands on back asking God to come and take his pain away. Afterward I asked him what he was feeling. “I feel warmth all inside and my back... my back doesn’t hurt anymore!” Jesus healed him right on the spot!!! Isn’t God AMAZING!!!
Another story. So I’m walking with the other interns down the street and there’s a park on one side of the street. I look and there are about ten homeless men lying on the grass trying to get some shut eye. My heart literally felt like it was being ripped out of me and I knew I couldn’t just walk by. Turning on the tips of my toes I made eye contact with one of the guys lying down. I go over, sit down beside him and introduce myself. We start talking and he’s obviously very uncomfortable and confesses he has arthritis in his hips and can barely walk. He’s been in severe pain for over a year. I explain that Jesus LOVES healing people and HATES sickness and ask if I can pray for him. He was quite open and at the end when I asked him how he felt he got very quiet then looked up at me and said “I feel God”. I thought that was a good start and made him stand up to do the healing dance (lol when you make them move and do whatever they couldn’t do before) So he climbs to his feet and his jaw drops, “My hips, my hips are healed!!” I started jumping up and down laughing hysterically as once again God radically showed up and changed some guys’ life. After my leader came up to us and we started explaining the story. She agreed that our relationship shouldn’t end there and we decided on dinner and are still friends today. lol
And just one more healing that I want to write. Ok. So this time I was in a team of about four, walking the streets seeing what Jesus wanted to do when we stumbled across a little “event” at a park with a bunch of people hanging out eating, watching some singer or something. When suddenly…(lol) my friend Bryan sees a lady in a wheelchair. He gives me the eye and asks if I want to go pray for her. I give the smile back and we walk over to her ( the “eye” and “smile” is having part of your brain know that God is big enough to heal her and wrestling with the other part that knows she’s pretty comfortable in that wheelchair) So we start talking to her and go right into testimonies of God healing people, before we could even finish telling stories she looks up at us and says “Well can you pray for me?” She had bad problems in her feet so we crouched down on the grass and cupped her heels in our hands. We asked Jesus to show up and bring his Kingdom and then turned to the lady, “How do they feel?” “Well I have to test them out!” So we carefully helped her out of her wheelchair and she starts hobbling around. She then stopped, looked at us and said “They don’t hurt” as the realization hits, her eyes like bulged out of her head “They don’t hurt!!!” She started walking faster and jumping and we all started celebrating. (After being confined to a wheelchair for two years she was pretty pumped) Bryan then asks if anything else is wrong with her. Well turns out she was pretty much deaf in her right ear. So we pray for her and she wasn’t completely restored but due to a series of tests (covering one ear and whispering in the other) she said she could hear better then she has heard since she was seven (now in her 60s ish)!!! Isn’t that amazing!!! We then told her that God could use her and she ran up to someone with a walker to pray for them (turns out the man didn’t speak English and was a little annoyed that she was talking to him but still!) She was so cute cause even as we were walking away we turned around and saw her dancing around doing this little booty dance, she just kept saying “This made my year!”
So God is good and I love seeing him ooze out on the streets.
Gotta run tho, will update more another time!