Lifeteam and Ministering Healing

We have been very active, usually 5 days a week, spending all our time away from work reaching out in our community and nearby towns. Unfortunately, although we have met several people and prayed for them, nobody is interested in committing to growing in Christ. We get lots of excuses, and in our area people are telling us they are (1) already doing Bible study & outreach with their church, or (2) don't have time for anything. We have been sadly ghosted a few times, but we are pressing on to do whatever we can to reach and grow with the JGLM message.

We are continually meeting with our LifeTeam home group (Ian & Ashley) on Tuesdays at local hospitals to pray for the sick, and I have added a second day with a friend to go out lay hands. This past month I saw a woman's bent spine grow straight immediately when prayer was commanded; I saw a man with a cane toss his cane at us in joy coming back from the doctor after we prayed for him; I saw a man with a paralyzed arm gain movement in his finger when I prayed for him; a woman with arthritis told me all her pain went away after I ministered healing in Jesus' Name, and her granddaughter with a swollen tooth and pain immediately relieved once prayed over. Many more healings seen, yet hundreds more we did not see with our eyes, knowing Jesus has healed them all.

In our community I have advertised our "Home Church, Bible Beyond Sundays" and offering to pray for people. We did get one response, and went to the home of a woman with her mother, a retired Presbyterian deacon from Kenya, with glaucoma. We went over and prayed with her and spent time with her, and believe Jesus is faithful and her healing is done. We invited the daughter to come over but so far she is too busy to join us for Bible study and outreach -- but we press on.

We have joined a local community group in their Bible study and outreach, going door to door in local apartment buildings sharing the Gospel, and alternate weeks joining their Bible study. I have a feeling the leader of the group is less interested in deeply searching truth, because the Bible study is just people reading and sharing their feelings about it. Perhaps in time they will be interested in hearing DHT and joining our LifeTeam, but they seem content with their local Sunday church and weekly meeting. The group belongs to them so this is not our LifeTeam, but another's, in a way. So we can't at this point offer to lead teachings, but it's something. We press on.

The only Connect Forms we receive from HQ are from people living very far away. We did use that opportunity to connect two out in Texarkana, more than 2 hours' drive for us, and they fellowship together and have started their own small home church. We were asked to come out and teach on Biblical Healing (I did not teach DHT as I am not certified), and to help the small group know the truth. Unfortunately they are so far we cannot LifeTeam together, but I continue to encourage them to join JGLM and start an official LifeTeam, but there seems to be concern over committing or other concerns. I will press on because they really do need the support we get from JGLM.

We receive many prayer requests via email, and when close enough, we offer to come in person. One woman accepted and we visited her in her home to pray for her shoulder to heal, and we invited her and her friends to join us to study DHT with us in our LifeTeam. They unfortunately have rescheduled meeting twice --- but we press on.

The weather has been over 100 that past two months, so very few people are outside except for the public pool in our community. We have ministered healing and shared the Gospel with several people, none ever replied to our invitation to join our LifeTeam (we are just inviting them to come over for Bible study and we're not asking for commitment or anything}, but so far nobody is taking us up on our offer. But we press on.

Last week we went out with Ian & Ashley (our home LifeTeam) to a India Independence Day, joining dozens of Indian Christians to share the Gospel with people. I went up to every "new age" "yoga" or other booth offering healing to share my own healing testimony. I was able to witness to one man in depth, who hearing my testimony said, "it's a miracle". I witnessed Christ and my brief testimony, and he seemed very interested and took some literature before joining the crowd in a rush - perhaps his heart opened a little. We spent the night blessing people and offering prayer, laying hands on many sick and seeing love and gratitude in their eyes; and we believe Jesus healed them all.

We are planning, now that the weather is cooling slightly, to organize an event in our community offering to teach in a public community center on Divine Healing, and offer to pray for people. Perhaps someone will show up. Nonetheless, we press on. As long as we are going out to proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom, heal the sick, raise the dead, and cast out demons --- we are doing a small part.

However, I am praying God gives me just one person, or one family, that I can disciple into Christ. With that, I can make waves.

We press on --- for the Kingdom.