God works in the supernatural, and He gets to work through us all of the time when we step out of our comfort zones and listen to Him. When we walk in obedience, that’s where God moves–as you have probably heard before. And this past Sunday, I got be a part of this experience.
A small group of people from the School of Missions got an opportunity to go to a church that is in Tijuana, Mexico. It’s actually the home church of one of the students. In this time, we were going to be doing prophetic ministry during the church service. This is how it worked:
As we have done before, there is a designated room that our group sits in for the entire service, or part of the service depending on what team you are on. If you are an English speaker, you get a translator with you, but you typically sit by yourself in a part of the room with a chair or two in front of you. Then people come and sit with you, where you pray for them and give them prophetic words.
I was sitting with my friend Simon, who was my translator so I could share my prophetic words in proper English and not focus on trying to explain it in Spanish. During the whole time in the room, I had this pain in my shoulder, and I asked Holy Spirit if it was a word of knowledge, and He said yes. When we ask people about healing, we ask them how bad there pain is on a scale from one to ten. For me the pain was around a five or a six–it hurt kind of bad.
(If you don’t know what a world of knowledge is, it is when God gives us a picture, feeling, or something along those lines that describe another person. It isn’t a prophetic word, which is when God gives you a word to edify, console and exhort. Thanks Rancho.)
So we tried to ask people if they had shoulder pain or something like that, but none of them did. After we were done in the prophetic room, our leader Karina Rocha had some of us go up on stage to give prophetic words. So when I was up on stage waiting for my turn, I asked God for a name. He gave me the name Manuel.
And I have no idea why, but I was kind of like, “Eh… Okay, just highlight a person to me.” He did, but then I didn’t hear a word. So then I said, “Ah, well. I’ll just go with the word of knowledge I got earlier–the shoulder pain.” So when the microphone was given to me, I asked if anyone had pain in their shoulder.
I kid you not, the person that raised their hand was the guy highlighted to me just before that. It blew my mind. Like, whoa. I actually heard from the Holy Spirit. It gets crazier. I went over to the guy to pray for him, and as a formality I asked for his name. It was Manuel! And when I asked about the pain level, he said it was at a six.
Literally every word of knowledge I got from that hour was correct, and it was all one person. Even as I’m writing this, I’m still so amazed by that. But it’s not the best part.
I placed my hand on the guy’s shoulder, and I prayed for him. Y’know, declaring that the kingdom of Heaven was at hand and all of that stuff we learn from school. And when I finished praying, I was about to ask the guy how he was feeling, and he was crying. I asked him if he was okay, and he told me at that instant all the pain had left. He checked his shoulder, and nodded, and said again that it was totally gone.
I prayed again one more time–just in case. But I also added a loosening of peace and joy in his life. It was so cool for me to see this happen to another person. God really does heal.
JULIA MCKENNA MYERS 