Saturday, January 29, 2011

Sled accidents and miracles

Miracles are easier than we think, of course God wants to show up in power always. He is so in love with His kids!

Today I was out sledding with my revival group and I being adventerous and daring decided to go down this steep bumpy hill with my friend Emily. Often I just get very exciting and do things without thinking this was one of those moments. With our revival group looking on and a couple of words of advice from a friend on sledding we decided to go down this dangerous hill. I thought if we lost control all we would do is ditch the sled and roll. Our ride did not go as expected. Maybe 40 feet down the hill Emily flew off the sled we were both on, as we hit a really really hard bump. I remember seeing her behind me 3 feet in the air.  I went flying on the sled completely losing control and unable to ditch the sled, next I landed on my neck bounced and hit my head and back. I remember blacking out for maybe 10 seconds and looking up to see people come check on me. Over the next 20 minutes my back and neck hurt a lot and I wasn't thinking super clearly which involved a random paramedic, weird questions, almonds, prayer and very horrible neck and back pain. On a scale of 1 to 10 my pain was like an 8. Anywho as my friends prayed my mind went back to normal and all the pain left and I could move my neck again!! COME ON!! That was really good news because some people were thinking maybe I should go to the hospital.

Then my RG and myself went to go get espresso, pizza, and other dishes where all the snowborders prepare to hit the snow. At this time I was pretty fired up after my back and neck feeling better. So my friend Dawn began to pray for a man's knee and I saw the woman behind the cash register had a cast I prayed for her and prophecied over her. She couldn't tell if her arm was better because she currently didn't have pain. I encouraged her the pain wouldn't come back.
Then me and Dawn went outside and prophecied over some women just telling them how God saw them. They were rocked by God's love for them and laughed and hugged us for a few minutes. Next I felt like there was a person who had knee and lower back pain so we went for a walk. I looked over during our walk to ask two men if they had back and knee pain. One of them said his neck hurt. The other guy asked why we were asking. I told him because we had seen God do miracles just a few minutes before and felt like maybe one of them had that pain. He said he had neck and back pain and ended up telling us it was chronic and at a level 9. We prayed a quick prayer over him. We asked him to get up and do something he couldn't do before and looked at us shocked that all the pain was GONE!! Both his neck and back completely healed. His friends neck pain went from a 5 to a 1. We had to leave with our RG so we quickly told them God was so in love with them and would continue to encounter him with His love.


I think sometimes we think of representing God to the world as this hard thing. That bringing His kingdom to earth involves lots of travail, pushing, and effort or maybe even that God only uses certain types of people. I would like to propose to you that it is a lot easier than we think to live a supernatural lifestyle and that is available to EVERY Christian. I would love to inspire you to take new risks and ask God what is going on with the people around you what pains might they have in their bodies and what He loves about them. And ask them if they have those pains and tell them what God says about them. You can't fail! God will always show up.. and the world is so hungry to encounter God's love! Go for it!

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