Two nights ago, Thursday July 29th, I saw God move/work once again. We had a church service outside on the newly purchased property of the AG church that will be built in a few months. Pastor Manny is only 23 years old, but has a passion for God and has been connecting with the community while waiting for an actual building. I joined with some of the Texas XA team and Tom, our host missionary. For about 45 minutes we walked around and invited people to the service that we would be having at 7pm. Out of nine of us, four went and did children’s ministry while the rest of us did the service. We provided acoustic worship, testimonies, and the word all in the dirt under the starry heavens. There is currently only one lady who has given her life to Christ and she is in her 80’s, but that night about 30 people showed up to service and about 25 kid’s too.
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| Tom telling the kid's a story |
Richard would be one of the young adult’s who showed up. He is 18 years old and when he first came, he was a distant bystander, not really sure if he was going to come and sit down. He was there, but not really there. We watched him before service, making reference to him and the story of the man who climbed up to the roof to hear Jesus speak. Richard was a punk/gangster kid we could see from his clothes. During the message, Richard got up and left his chair. Nick and I were both praying that he would come back. God fought with Richard and he eventually came back. We called people up for prayer or for those who needed healing. Richard would be one of them, but not till Tom pointed to him in the back row and called him out saying that God really wanted to move in his life. The crowd parted and Tom told him that he was just like Zacchaeus, just looking on, but Jesus wanted to meet him. You could see Richard physically wresting with this as he grabbed his head and hung on, removing his hat. He was fighting, but stepped forward for prayer and for a hole that he had in his lung. Nick would end up praying for him and being able to relate to Richard’s story!
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| Richard in the white shirt & hat |
God also moved more that night and healed three women that came down for prayer. I prayed for a lady that had an ear infection and it was moving into her neck and causing great pain and burning. She was healed almost instantly! We also prayed for two others one with a kidney infection and buring in her lower back, and the other one with swollen glands in her neck that you could see her neck was enlarged. We laid hands on and prayed for both of them and the swelling in the lady’s neck disappeared, and the other one no longer had the intense burning in her lower back. It was awesome to see God move in such an incredible way that night. I am thankful for Manny and his heart for these people.
