I want to share with you how a man, who had metal in his leg, got miraculously healed yesterday.
I live with Ana Maria and Alejandro Del Campo, and Joseph in the church. Ana Maria works in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and travels there once a month, and she got back home in Quito last night, 6-21-12, with her mother and brother. Today, Alejandro and Ana Maria were showing them around the scenic parts of Quito. They visited a cool place called The Center of the World where the equator is and you can balance an egg on a nail there! One of many cool things to do there. As they got back to the house, they had to get thier things so they could go back to Guayaquil. He said we would be back at the house in 30 minutes so I said sure. It dawned on me to ask the question as we were half out to the end of the city... ´´How are we getting back?´´
You see, we were taking Ana Maria´s Mom´s car to the outskirts of Quito and we had no car of our own. So I asked them the question... ´´How are we getting back?´´ Ana Maria looked at me stunned and Alejandro said, ´´That is a good question.´´ Dear Lord, the things I do for friends. It is a good thing I listened to my gut in getting a 20 dollar bill before we left. So we all get to the outskirts of Quito and I am freaking hungry; borderline starving. I see a little hole in the wall selling candy and other things like that so I go there because I needed something to hold me over until we got back to the house and I needed change for the 20 also.
I go into the first store and it was a dud. I go to the second store and I spot their ice cream. I got some icecream while Ana Maria got us each a milkshake. So we finally get on the bus to get back to Quito and we start talking with a guy on the bus to see if he is saved or not. He said he was and he was looking for a church. He had to get off of the bus before we could give him the information for the church so we just prayed for God to send more laborers across his path.
That guy on the bus thought God was mad at him for his sins, when he didn´t know that Jesus took His sins for all eternity at the cross, and Father God blotted ALL OF HIS SINS out through the working of Jesus´s death on the cross for HIS sake!
Isaiah 43:25, ´´ I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.´´
God is so good!
As we were getting closer to the bus station, a lady offered to share a taxi with us on the way to Quito because she knew somebody. I really didn´t have a good feeling about us going with her in my gut and it proved to be good and I will you see why it was good in just a second. So we continued onward to the bus terminal. I was still so hungry, but I had a hankering for sour gummy worms and I could feel a booger hanging in my nose so I had to take of that issue first. You never want a beautiful woman walking by, seeing your brother-in-law hanging out of your nose, and waving at her. After, fixing my nose, they helped me in tryign to find the gummy worms. It was so hard trying to describe the sour gummy worms to the store clerks who had no idea what Alejandro was saying in translation because he had no idea what he was talking about! haha
Meanwhile, as we are searching, we did go downstairs to the lower level to some more stores. There was a Jesus statue around the corner where the stores were at adn people were coming to touch the statue and feel as if their sins were forgiven. They feel safe when they touch that statue, it was a shrine, really. There was one guy walking up to the statue and I said to him, ¨Jesus es mi amigo,¨ and I walked off. I thought it was rather funny to leave him hanging like that because not many people have a personal relatiohsip down here with the guy who the shrine is made after. As we are walking, we arrive at this lady´s store, her name is Maria, and I begin the conversation with talking about the statue.
We start talking more about why people feel imprtant when they touch the statue. I said it was better just have a personal relationship with the guy who they think they are touching. It really all boiled down to this question...
´´Not saying it will happen, but do you know if you would you go to heaven if you died tonight?´´
She had no idea if she was going to be going to heaven tonight if she died. The thing with this is if anyone says they do not know or they are because of any reason, besides Jesus is their Lord and Savior, they need to get born again and filled with the Holy Spirit in speaking in other tongues. The Lord revealed to me through a word of kowledge about her head having problems with her head. She said she would get nausiated wihtout any reason at random times of the day. We prayed for her and I believe she got healed because the Bibe says,
´´...we shall lay hands on the sick and they shall be healed...´´ Mark 16:18
She recieved Jesus as her Lord and Savior, we got her number, and gave her information on the church. We also told her she just made the best decision of her entire life. That is VERY important.
Here is another thing, when that person ´´notifies´´ you of their need for Jesus give them the three scripture listed below. It is very easy, direct, straight to the point, and it does not matter how you feel when you say this to them because were the justified in Christ and we live by faith, not by our feelings and the Holy Spirit is at work with their hearts, not you. Hab. 2:4, Rom. 1:17
Romans 3:23, ´´, for all have sinned in the past and fall short of the glory of God in ourselves...´´
Ephesians 2:8, ´´...we are saved by grace through faith, that is not of any works of ourselves that we may boast, but a gift from from God.´´
Romans 10:nine-10, ´´Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus rose from the dead and you shall be saved...´´
You can personalize to any other scriptures you want, as long as, they represent that salvation is dependant on Jesus´death, burial, and resurrection. I have put a link to another man´s website below for more soul wining Scriptures and tips:
Riley Stephonson is an amazing Evangelist and his ministry is an outreach of kenneth Copeland Ministries. Although, some may not agree with Kenneth Copeland and his teachings, we sure can agree on Evangelism and showigng the love of God to the lost and borkenhearted.
After we get the lady´s contact information, we head back upstairs to find some more stores. As we did, we passed by a store that had sunglasses out front and I saw some that I liked and pointed them out to Ana Maria. We ended up staying at this guy´s store for about 45 minutes talking to him about the sunglasses and if he had Jesus in his heart.
Hang on for a second, I want you to know that we were not on some evangelistic outreach for the city at all. We were simply out doing normal things when we just wanted to ask if these people had Jesus as the Lord of their lives and the Holy Spirit launched it from there. Cool, huh? Everyone is to do the work of an evangelist. 2 Timothy 4:5
So we began asking him questions about his salvation. I asked him the question if he would go to heaven if he died tonight. He wasn´t sure. NOTIFICATION: Not saved! I asked him if he had any pain in his body. Alejandro translated for me, thank God, and told me the guy had metal in his leg, I don´t remeber why, but he could not bend his leg at all. I wanted to pray for him and he said I could. I prayed two times for him. The first time, he could bend his leg with a little bit. The second time, the pain was completely gone, he could bend his leg with no restraint, and this was before he recieved Jesus as his Lord and Savior!!!
Then, I asked him to pray the prayer with me, he did, and he recieved the Lord into his heart and got born again. Ana Maria started talking to him about something in spanish.
I couldn´t understand the half of it, but I had a desire in my heart to pray for his business.
We began to pray for him and the Holy Spirit manifested so strongly that he took a deep breathe and it was like he was shaking something off as he exhaled. Glory to God! Then, we started talking to him about being filled with the Holy Spirit in speaking with a heavenly language. He wanted to be filled so we prayed with him and he recieved the Holy Spirit right there in the marketplace!
´´If the Word of God does not work in the marketplace, it does not work.´´
- Bill Johnson
It is not hard to help someone recieve the Holy Spirit in speaking in other tongues. It is very easy when you know what God says about the thing. All they have to is believe with their heart and speak. The thing with being filled with the Holy Spirit with a person, if they have any difficulty... it is most likely a yielding problem or a doctrinal problem. They either, do not know how to yield or they need to learn more about it from the Bible. This guy had niether, which was awesome! Here are some scriptures to help you briefly explain the synopsis of tongues to another person and why it is for today:
Jude 20, ¨... Beloved, build yourself up on your most holy faith, praing in the Holy
Spirit...´´
1 Corinthians 14:2, ´´ For anyone who speaks in a tongue[a] does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.´´
What a person does when they pray in tongues is beautiful. They are knocking out so many birds with one stone, it amazes me. They build themselves up in their spirit man and pray out mysteries between them and God. They may be praying out and paving the road for something they may be walking out 20 years from now! The thing about tongues is that the person just needs to speak. They do not need to think, they just need to start speaking and BOOM! They may have some strange words or syllables come to their minds, but they just need to speak that out. I tell people this all the time; it may not be much, it may be a lot, but just speak it out and work it like any other muscle.
It was so awesome when he asked if he could pray for us. It was beautiful, it was amazing. He prayed for our families and many other things! It was so great to see a newly born babe in Christ so eager to give to others what he just recieved.
We got his contact information to follow up with him as well. We will be calling both of these people tomorrow to see how they are doing and to invite them again to church.
You see, a lot of people believe Evangelism is solely leading people to Christ, but that is only the first part of Evangelism. Evangelism is alot like owning a business. If you do not take care of the current customers you have, how can you expect to give your ´´company´´a good reputation? FOLLOW-UP IS THE KEY. Press in and track the people you have met and keep up with them. Maintain your friendship with them so they can get plugged into a pastor near. They want to know someone cares about them and not just to ´´get a new convert´´.
People couldn´t truly care less about what or who you know until they know you care about them, regardless, of the circumstances. People are crying out to be accepted and understood. Be that friend to them in time of need. They want a group of individuals who will be a family. People are being rejected everyday. be that friend that accepts them for who they are as God has accepted and loves you this very day.
I was with Ana maria and Alejandro on another bus back to the house and I looked in one guys eyes, and the Lord showed me his brokenheart. I could sense his pain and still do. I pray for him because he chose not to recieve Jesus at that time because he thought God was mad at him. It really broken my heart to see him walk away condemned by the devil. We told him that God loves no matter what and it is by what Jesus did that he is forgiven and not that of ourselves for Jesus took our sins for all of eternity. I know the Holy Spirit will be working on his heart everyday now, nagging his mind, sinse he has heard the truth about God and His love for him. God´s word does not return void my friends! So whether he recieved or not, he is getting born again because God´s word does NOT return without profit!
Isaiah 55:11, ´´... It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.´´
If you have been reading this and you feel the Lord tugging on your heart and you want to make things right between you and Jesus, pray this prayer with me.
Dear Father God,
Thank you for sending Jesus to die on the cross specifically for me and raising Him from the dead so I can have eternal life and peace with You. Please take my life and use it for purpose. Thank you for choosing me before the foundations of the world and calling me your son.
In Jesus´ Name,
Amen!
You have just made the best decision of your entire life!!!
Please email me when you have prayed this prayer and let me know how your life has been changed!
email- jeremy.wenger2@gmail.com
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