Swing the Tide!

Date: 12.11.06

This Monday night was also amazing.  God was moving powerfully this week too.  There were 5 of us there this night.  I’m confident that everybody was blown away and really impressed by God.  One person cried for about 2 hours straight.  A couple others were just lying there staring up in wonder at the Lord.  It was honestly one of the best nights of my life.  Another girl named who had come to the Monday meeting the previous week for the first time got touched in a real powerful way.

After we worshipped for a little while, we started to do some praying.  I think I asked if anyone had a physical need in their body.  One of my friends asked one of the girls how her shoulder was because I guess she had mentioned something to him earlier.  Her response was one that communicated that it was messed up, but she didn’t want people to waste time praying about her shoulder.  She wouldn’t have brought it up on her own unless my friend asked.  So I asked what was wrong with it.  She said that it had been hurting her for the past 3 or 4 weeks.  Her mom told her she tore her rotator cuff, but she wasn’t positive.  She did know that it was messed up because she couldn’t even lift 5lbs with that arm.  She was at the gym earlier that day to find that out.  She also had some pretty bad pain when moving it.  So we started praying.  This happened quickly—after about 10 seconds maybe, she said that it was tingling and it felt “really peaceful in there” (her words).  We prayed a little more, and she said it was like an indescribable thing happening inside.  At one point, she moved her arm a little bit while we prayed, and my guess is… something happened.  She started crying pretty good in amazement and in happiness and good stuff like that.  I grabbed a full bottle of Tide laundry detergent (more than 5lbs) afterwards and asked her to swing it around.  She had no problems with that.  By the way, she was also amazed.

That was a really great Monday night because of other people as well.  After an experience earlier that night before the meeting, one guy told me he normally heard many thoughts and voices in his head, but now he was only hearing one.  I asked him what it was saying.  He said it was saying something like “You’re a new creature now.”  The girl that cried for 2 hours that night at the meeting told me the following day that she felt reborn or something!  God does good things.