Testimonies of Healing

This is one of my early healing testimonies tha took place before I was used to seeing God heal though me. This account took place in San Francisco at a renewal meeting on September 6, 1994. (I was on the ministry team for the renewal meeting and a lady named Jan was an apprentice to the team and praying with me.)

The ministry time was fairly powerful and the Lord was deeply touching people. I led most of the prayer, but Jan prayed as well. A couple of times I did not know exactly what to pray for a particular person and Jan seemed to get exactly the right thing. When that happened, the Lord led me to put my hand on Jan's shoulder and silently pray for an impartation for her to minister. The Lord reminded me that He was anointing me to impart the ability to impart into others. It was exciting watching that occur with Jan.

One lady came up to us quite upset. She was sure that she was demonized because she had been present once when her friend stole an idol from a museum. I told her to stand there and worship the Lord and we'd be back to pray with her in a second; that we had promised to pray for someone else first. She said she'd work through it on her own if she had to. I said that we'd be happy to pray for her as soon as we were done with the other lady. Again I suggested that she worship the Lord while she waited.

We went to pray for the other lady, who was a friend of Jan's. The Lord touched her very powerfully and we stayed with her for about 10 or 15 minutes. The Lord continued to move Jan's friend and touch her, but after about 5 minutes, He did not show us anything else to pray for her. He did, however, speak to me about the lady who was waiting for us to come and pray for her. He said that He wanted to assure her that His power to protect was greater than the enemy's power to harm. He wanted to establish her trust in Him. He did not want to deal with demons at all, but He wanted to bless her.

As we walked back to this lady, I told Jan to let me take the lead on this because it was not going where she though it would be. Jan was more than willing to honor my request. We got back and I started praying over the lady what the Lord had shown me to pray. The lady opened her eyes and was very excited. She said that the Lord had shown her that this was just an attack of the enemy to try and steal her blessing and she had decided to let the Lord bless her anyhow.

I continued to pray for her. I noticed that she kept her eyes open and looked at me the whole time. I suggested that perhaps she would be able to receive more if she closed her eyes and concentrated on worshipping the Lord. She said that she was deaf and had to keep her eyes open to read my lips to know what I was praying.

I suggested that we move to where the light was better then, so that she could see more clearly. She agreed and we found a spot. As I continued to pray for her, I could feel a very strong healing anointing come on me. My hands were tingling and warm, and the light pressure had returned on the top of my head. I don't know how it I knew it, but I knew that Jan was experiencing the same anointing and sensations.

I started praying for an increase in the healing anointing. The lady we were praying for went down. I touched her ears and asked the Lord to open them. Then I asked Jan to put her hands on the lady's ears and pray for her. The lady broke into the biggest smile and tears came to her eyes. I asked her if she could hear what Jan was praying for her. "Yes," she replied, "I can hear her. I can hear!"

We prayed for her a little longer and then moved on. We were, of course, both excited about what the Lord had done for her. I mentioned to Jan, "You know, we had nothing to do with that. That was the Lord healing her." Jan nodded. Then I went on to ask Jan if her hands had been tingling and hot when she prayed for her. Jan said yes. I told her that was a healing anointing, and she should learn to recognize it because the Lord wanted to more of this. Jan said that matched up with some prophesies that Kim Clement had spoken over her. I remembered the Lord telling me that Jan was experiencing the same things I had, so I asked her if she felt a pressure on top of her head, as though someone was lightly touching her there. She said that she did. We both assumed that was God's hand on us as we ministered for Him.