If you don’t believe God still does miracles…

you may not want to read this update.

 About two months ago a family in our fellowship had some relatives arrive from their home country of India. Annie was excited about seeing her parents since it had been years since they had all seen each other.

About a week after arriving, our new friend, Paul became quite sick. He was unable to keep any food down. Of course, I made some bad joke about tourists and that they should not drink our water. (Yea, fully aware of my lameness.) Paul is not a large man to begin with and by going weeks without eating was beginning to lose a lot of weight. He also went to see a doctor and found out that he had some severe nerve damage and he might have to cut his family visit short and return back to India. His family was heart broken to hear this.

For a few days God put this man and his family on my mind. Our family prayed for him daily, but I felt like God was saying to do something more. The scripture that kept going through my mind was that of James 5. In this chapter, James tells us to call the elders together, annoint with oil, and pray over the sick. I’ve never done this before, but I knew that God was telling me cordinate this special prayer time.

On Monday, two weeks ago, I called the family and asked their permission to pray over Paul in such a way. They were very glad to hear this and gave us a green light to show up any time. I also called four men in the area and asked if they would join in. All four said yes.

 We showed up a couple hours later. One of the sweet things about this was another family showed up just to visit Paul and bring food. They are a believing family from another church and wanted to join in the prayer time. After visiting for a few minutes we read the James 5 passage, surrounded Paul and prayed for God’s healing. The prayer time was powerful and everyone felt God’s presence in a powerful way.

On Wednesday Paul went to see his doctor. Paul had been feeling a lot better and had not vomited since the prayer time, but wanted to see the doctor about the nerve damage. That day, the doctor ran the tests and came back with the news that Paul looked fine. The nerve damage was gone and the doctor saw no problems with Paul’s stomach.

This experience has been wonderful for our church. What a testimony of God’s power! What an easy way to share the story of God with our friends and neighbors! Look at how awesome God works in our lives when we live our lives in a biblically way!

Join us as we thank God for healing our brother. Pray that God will encourage our people to tell this amazing story to everyone who has ears. God is still a God of miracles and that needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

 Life is good,

Billy