I was at Cheddars eating dinner with a few friends, just enjoying being together over dinner. I finished paying and walked out of the restaurant. A man was standing to my right, smoking a cigarette. As I walked out he said to me, "Are you wearing a green peacoat?", I said, "No, it's grey." And he said, "That's weird, it looks green in this light." I thought to myself, "I should probably try and get a word for this guy seeing as he is randomly talking to me." As I was thinking that, I felt the Presence of God on my shoulders and a sharp, pinching pain in the bottom right side of my back. I ask him his name and then said, "Hey man, do you have pain in your shoulders that kinda goes into the bottom of your back with a sharp pinching pain there?" He looked at me astonished and said, "Yeah, I do have pain in my shoulders and I have sciatic nerve damage in the lower right part of my back." And then I said, "Well, this is probably going to sound weird but sometimes God gives me sensations in my body when He wants to move in healing, and I was feeling that pain and I feel like He wants to heal you. Can I pray for you?" At this point my friend had walked out and I introduced him to the guy and then we laid hands on him and prayed. I prayed for healing, releasing the Presence of God on his shoulders and lower back and my friend gave the man a prophetic word about favor in the work place and with his manager that the man seemed touched by. After we were done with our short prayers I told the man to test it out and move his back around, he started moving his back around, twisting it and bending over and he said all the pain was God! I told him God loved him and for him to have an awesome day. The kingdom is at hand, even when we're eating a leisurely dinner with friends!

In the last six months, the Lord has answered my prayers by placing lots of people of peace in my life and has given me real friendships with them. I have watched the Holy Spirit move in the hearts of some of these friends as they are making steps to Father God again. It’s fun to see how much Father God loves His people, and how He never gives up on anyone.
I have also seen God move in the way He provided a husband (soon-to-be) for me. Through that relationship, the Lord has softened my heart and shown Himself as provider in jobs, finances, friendships, etc. I could not be more excited about what is in store for us in the next seasons.
I also have been blessed to see God move in the hearts of the children in our community as they have knowledge of Him beyond what they “should” understand.

A new guy started working out my job the other day. I was listening to worship music and praying as I went about doing my job, and being entirely antisocial. As I was praying, I started feeling unusual pain in my lower right back. Since I have seen the Lord heal several people of back pain in the last week and a half, I wondered whether it was Him or me. Part of me figured I was just making it up because I really want to see Him move in more and more power. I figured I needed to act on my impression, whether it was me or not, because the only way I would know whether it was God speaking or my own imagination is by testing it out. As I was about to bring it up, I felt like the Lord told me to just talk to the guy for a while and be friendly. So I turned my music off and started asking him questions about his life. After a while, I felt like I was to pray for the dude and since no other employees were around it felt safe. I went up to him and said, "Hey man, this might be a weird question, but do you have pain in your lower right back?" And he said, "Yeah.. I do.." With a look that seemed both shocked and freaked out. Then I said, "Well, sometimes I get these sensations in my body when God wants to move in healing, and I've seen several people healed of back pain in the last week and a half. Do you mind if I pray for you?" He said that was fine, so I went over asked if I could lay my hand on his back and prayed a short prayer thanking Jesus for His healing power and that whenever He speaks, He always fulfills His word. After I was done, I felt like I was supposed to leave it (especially since we were on the clock). I told him to try it out and let me know later how it felt, and he thanked me for praying for him. After that we talked about other stuff- normal life stuff, music, career aspirations, etc. At the end of the day, I said goodbye and then asked him how he felt. He said that most of the pain went away but there was still some tension. And then as I was walking out of the room I said over my shoulder "That's awesome. Well dude, see you later! I'm sure all the pain will be gone soon! " and he said to me, "Dude, seriously, thank you so much." It was awesome that the Holy Spirit spoke to me at work, it was awesome that I was able to relate to this guy on a friend level, but my favorite thing was that after I prayed for him, he felt something. That's going to mess with him and I'm believing it's going to open up doors for God to move in His life in even more miraculous ways. Father's word never returns void!

My mom had a softball sized malignant tumor in her abdomen and cancer cells in lymph nodes all over her body. Doctors removed the tumor one year ago and new tests show no signs of cancer anywhere. Praise God!

After coming out of a season of “dryness” in community, I feel really grateful for this body. For the things we have learned and the ways we have grown including but not limited to:
· Integrity in relationship
· Consistency in meeting together
· Being thankful for each others victories
· Being sad with each others losses
· Experiencing the sacrifice of relationship but it not feeling heavy.

Thank you Jesus for the way that you have heard my heart in this last season. You know the desires of my heart and you have provided. Thank you for the new life that is on the way and a new son or daughter to love. Thank you for this miracle. Thank you for being the Author of our dreams and allowing them to happen. Thank you for allowing my husband to experience a dream of his in this last season and how sweet that has been. You are so good. Thank you for hearing our hearts and being so faithful.

The people in my house church have always stood behind me and prayed for me in my illness. My health issues are improving and I don’t have to take all the medications I used to take and I am feeling a lot better. God has given me the strength and peace through my body. He has shown me that everything will be alright, that it is in His hands, and that I need to give it all to Him. That sickness is gone in my body. I know that the power of prayer is so powerful I believe that now. I believe praying to Him, receiving the Holy Spirit, and letting Him in me has changed me into a better person.

The Lord has blessed our family greatly this year! He has guided us through several real estate transactions related to our marriage, and put us in the house He intends us to live in. God has also put us in a house church full of amazing and loving people. We are a small group, but continue to learn from one another. He has guarded our health, jobs, and children and for that we are truly thankful! Praise God!!! He continues to demonstrate His love and power in ways I used to see as coincidence but now I’m starting to see these things for what they truly are. He has also impressed on me the importance of relationship. I hope I can continue to grown in the way he would have me. He is a wondrous and amazing God! He is most deserving of our worship and praise.

My wife and I have been reminded time and time again of God’s goodness. That the Father is always good!! We are thankful for the opportunity that we have had for me to start pursuing my dream of starting a carpentry business.

For several years my husband has been unhappy with his job. We’ve been praying for a couple of years about what he could transition to doing instead of engineering. There were a couple of times we almost went forward with plans to quit his job and start a business of his own, but the Lord stopped us – it wasn’t the right timing. This year, Jesus opened a door for him to quit his current job and start a carpentry business. For me, someone who is naturally inclined to worry about finances and God’s provision, this has been a huge season of God’s proving ground for His love for us. He has provided lots of jobs for my husband!

We've been trying to get pregnant for nearly a year. Through 2011, we had lots of friends pray for us, and share words, dreams and encouragement about having a second child. And our hearts were steadfast in hope. But at the end of a Mom's Prayer time in late September, my wife was telling a friend about our hopes and frustration, and another sweet friend overheard. This friend later told my wife that she felt like the Lord was saying "two months". After two cycles had passed (but not two months), we felt confused again, but our hearts remained hopeful for the God who cares for us and knows our hearts. Then again at another Mom's Prayer time - late November – a third friend walked in a said she felt like they needed to pray protection for a fertilized egg. She didn't know it at the time, but God did – my wife was already pregnant!!!

After we found out, our friend who had given us the word about “two months” had not yet heard. But she called my wife and told her that she'd had a dream that my wife was pregnant, prayed about it, and felt like God was saying that Lane was pregnant, and Lane was able to tell her, "That's because I am!!!"

We are now expecting our second child in August!

I have seen the Lord totally transform my heart and mind when it comes to being content with my circumstances. Even though I may not be where I thought I would be at this time, I’m where the Lord wants me; therefore, I am happy and content. I have also seen the Lord speak direction for my life and provide a job for me. He has also provided me with my fiancé who is greater than anything I could have imagined.

The other day I was with my friend who doesn't know Jesus yet. She began sharing with me how she was battling this overwhelming feeling of fear that was actually upsetting her physically. I asked her if we could pray for it to leave. She said sure. We began to pray and as we did (we were outside) the wind picked up to an unbelievable gust. It just kept gusting and she started laughing. It was a deep, deep belly laugh and I was laughing right with her. God completely released heavenly joy into the moment, almost like He just blew it in from heaven on the spot. It went on for quite some time. After the wind and our laughter calmed down a bit she (with a totally changed countenance) said, "What was that?" I said, "That was God and His sweet Spirit." She said, "The fear is gone! It’s gone! I feel so free!" Totally, totally fun! His perfect love casts out fear!!!!

I'm in a place where I want the Lord to do whatever, wherever, however. And, He's been faithful to do that. My work has been a place where I've seen His favor in ridiculous amounts and has really put it on my heart to encounter Him there. We got news that my boss's sister was having really bad internal bleeding and didn't know why, and couldn't stop it. They thought she was going to die, and as soon as I heard the news, I felt in my bones that this was the place the Lord wanted to move. So I immediately started praying, relayed to my d-group and family so their church could be praying, and left it at that. The next night I was with part of my d-group before Prayer Furnace, and they asked if we could all pray together for her. They laid hands on me like I was her and we prayed, and I felt the Lord. I saw a picture of her sitting in the hospital, grabbing the covers and throwing them over to the side and walking out just fine. The next day I talked to my manager, and she tells me her sister stopped bleeding!!! She was stable and waiting to figure out if she would have to have a really risky surgery. And then, the next thing I find out, 4 days later, is that she's home, stable and just waiting to find out whether or not she'll have the surgery. I'm still praying that she won't need it.

But to go from dying, to stable, to home in less than a week...talk about Jehovah Raphe.

We’ve had someone in our lives that is ruled by guilt and I noticed it slowly creeping into areas of my life. I was feeling guilty and justified in it. My husband prayed against the atmosphere of guilt and I personally prayed to receive God’s forgiveness and I know I’m free from the powers of guilt! Nothing will steal my freedom in Jesus!

After working for OU for a year I had become incredibly frustrated and discouraged with my career and life in general. I realized I was at a place of accepting much less than I was meant to have. At a particular moment of frustration and desperation I knelt down and prayed for God to get me out of this; to even force me out of my place of accepting and giving less. Two days later, I had my neck and back broken in a car wreck. The medical costs were devastating and my body was a wreck. But, getting taken so low brought me into a place of clarity. I left my job and started back at school. I moved into a house and found fellowship. My medical bills were resolved and I have been met with amazing provision and blessing in so many ways. God immediately and directly answered my prayer; just not how I thought it would look.

My testimony is meeting a woman from Norman Community at the library about a year ago and God showing me how he can work through people to show his love and compassion. Since then I have started coming to house church and God has showed Himself in so many ways that I can’t even imaging ways I have never seen him work. I have never seen God’s people love like this house church has loved on my family and me. God is awesome!! I really can’t thank Him enough!

God totally answered our prayers of selling our house quickly and easily and provided an awesome new one with great neighbors.

On my birthday this year a friend told me that I would know God as the Great Provider this year. In just a week we received a lump of money and got a huge supply of diapers, Ha!

Then, shortly after that I was spending time with my friend and we were talking about how God is a provider. We read the story of the widow who gives two coins. My friend mentioned needing diapers and I began telling testimonies of how God has provided for us. As she went to leave my house there was a box from Target on my porch. When I opened it there were two boxes of diapers and a box of wipes. We started laughing and crying and praising Jesus for how good He is.

I have been blessed to experience physical healing on several occasions. The last physical healing that happened actually came through deliverance of fear. It was so bad it caused me to live in pain and I was eventually diagnosed with a chronic pain condition with “no cure.” But God showed me root of my disease was fear. Fear of anything and everything; it gripped me. But the Lord delivered me, the demonic stuff left my body, and I no longer felt pain and fear. Fear is no longer a stronghold in my life. Still a daily surrender, but it no longer has a grip on me. It is the most freeing thing every. Three weeks after I was delivered we got pregnant with our daughter, which is something we had been told would be heard because of all my health issues. And now, we sit here pregnant with our second baby. Praise the Lord.

Back in October 2010 our doctor told us that we had a condition that could possibly lead to infertility problems if we ever wanted to have children. Knowing that we were only a few months from wanting to try, he told us that he could run some tests and if that was the case, a surgery could be performed to potentiallyincrease fertility,but there was no guarantee it would work. He also saidthe condition would not otherwise affect us in a harmful way, and so we chose not tooperate at the time. In April 2011 we started trying to conceive. Month by month went by and the disappointment stung more each month that passed. At the beginning of August, we went back to the doctor to get tested for possible infertility. The diagnosis given was that there was a significantlylowerchance for us to get pregnant due to the condition. To put it in perspective, most healthy, fertile couples have a 25% chance of conceiving each cycle. Our chance of conceiving with the condition was 3% each cycle. These are NOT the statistics you want to hear when you are trying for a baby!The doctor recommended we have surgery to help correct the condition. Hearing this news seemed to be the tip of the iceberg of disappointment. As we assessed the situation in the natural, it looked like we were going to have to wait several months for a child; even with an operation, it could be November or December before we saw any improvement. The doctor scheduled our surgery for August 24. Only a couple of weeks before this, there was a message at Celebration about cultivating an expectant heart – How could we as a family posture our heart to say “Yes” to the things that the Lord has for us? He challenged us to raise our bar of expectation. In response to this, we began to open up to our closest friends about what was going on and started seeking wisdom and prayer, and believing that kids were a part of our destiny in God. We truly needed an intervention from the Lord; and we did notwant to keep this to ourselves, but to stand in faith with our community. We needed signs and scripture to stand on in belief that the Lord would give life. The word at Celebration about Gideon needing sign after sign spoke volumes, and we started to cling to the words spoken to us in the past. We recalled that in July, the Lord had given my husband a dream that we had a baby, and the infant baby was just laughing all the time. As we believed that to be enough, other signs started pouring in. A friend sent us a message saying, “while I was praying the other day my heart was filled with joy and peace for you...I felt like God gave me a little bit of information for you...that you will be pregnant and with a baby boy!” Another friend also had a dream about us conceiving. And still another friend prayed over me as well, saying that she felt like the Lord had already given me a baby in her belly! The prayers and words we received from these friends and others in this time ushered in a spirit of peace and celebration in what the Lord would inevitably do.
The morning of September 3rd we woke up to find out that we are pregnant! We had conceived a week before the surgery! The Lord had given us life when it did not feel possible in the natural! The verse that has been on our hearts is Psalm 113:9, “He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!” We are now 10 weeks along and expectant for a healthy pregnancy! We are so grateful for what the Lord has done.

My Sozo experience I had a few weeks ago has completely changed my relationship with God in an amazing way. It helped me open my heart to God and communicate with Him on a new level. My wall of shame a guilt that I allowed to separate me from Him is gone!!

God has shown me how to be at peace with any situation that has gone on in my life. I recently graduated from college in 2008 and was out of luck for over two years to find a job in my career field. The Lord showed me how things happen for a reason, through chaos, persecution, doubt, and hard times. I was offered an outstanding job at a place I love just in time to support and love our new baby girl. It pays to be content and peaceful with what situation and circumstances have been put in your life.

I was so anxious about taking the bar exam that I wasn’t sleeping and I started to get shingles. I told my dgroup about my worries and they laid their hands on me in prayer. I immediately was able to breathe much easier and my chest relaxed. During the next month I felt that prayers were being answered on my behalf. My anxiety lessened a little each day and by test day I was excited to take the exam. I had no anxiety as I sat there reading and answering the questions. It was the first test from law school in which I was at peace. Should have asked for prayer sooner!

My wife and I have watched the Lord provide financially through no efforts of our own. Provision has come through every way but by our hand for years. We’ve seen Him heal our bodies, “heal” our cars, provide places to live, and money for needs (usually the day or week it was needed). Through these eight years we have learned to trust Him, not what our eyes see.

So I am elated to share this... the Lord has delivered me from my night torment. For the first time in over 10 years I am sleeping fear-free. Here's the part I am more excited about. Wednesday morning my daughter (4 yrs. old) woke up and told me how she had a very scary dream. She was even shaking a little bit when she told me.  In the dream, my daughter and I are on our porch and there is a boy walking on the sidewalk. Then a witch comes up through the sidewalk. The dream really scared her. I knew this was a stake in the ground for our family, to declare the night as the Lord's and take back what the enemy intended for fear.  I knew this was the moment when my daughter could walk in the victory the Lord had given me as her mommy. I told her how the Lord only has rest and good dreams for us. That any other dream that's scary is from the enemy. We talk a lot about how the Lord has given her a weapon (Holy Spirit, God's word) and she needs to use it whenever she is scared. So I told her she has the authority to tell the enemy to leave, in the name if Jesus. That there is power in the name of Jesus Christ. All she has to do is tell the enemy to leave, she can even yell at him, and ask the power of the Lord to come. "Okay mom. Got it."The next day she ran downstairs and yelled to me "Mama, I didn't have bad dreams. No witches or anything! Jesus kept me safe!"Amazing.

My husband and I were paying off school debt that totaled $36,000 and someone unexpectedly wrote us a check in excess of that amount---which made us debt free! This has made me process debt in the spiritual context of sin and the debt-forgiveness that comes with salvation through Christ. I also feel like this is a testimony that this is the year of Jubilee!

One of the requirements to be a student in the school of music and be on scholarship is to be in the appropriate ensemble, ie: orchestra for violinists. I knew there was an audition coming up, but in the past there have been a couple days into the first week of school before starting auditions. I found out four hours before that I had to audition that day. I panicked.  I hadn't practiced classical violin in over a year, and had barely played the thing at all.  I thought to myself, here's my weak flesh for all to see, and then promptly told everyone I could think of to pray that worship, favor, and confidence would arise despite the glaringly obvious weakness in my preparation.  It was all on papa, and all I needed was to get in.  I went home, practiced on and off for three hours, and worshipped during my breaks.  My heart was still in a way that I have only experienced maybe three times in the entirety of my performing career.  I went in saying "Whatever you want, I want," and auditioned playing my solo repertoire nearly as well as I did that year and a half ago. That alone was absolutely miraculous. What's even more awesome is this: I am seated higher than I have ever auditioned for in my collegiate career. talk about loving kindness.

I was at Lion's park, hanging out with my friend, and she wanted to sit at the gazebo, I didn't because there was a person already there who I didn't know. But we went to the gazebo and the girl who was there already was just watching us have a conversation. To make it a little less awkward, I said hello and made small talk. As I did, I felt intense burning on my shoulders (looking back, I know it was the Holy Spirit telling me He was there, and wanted to touch this girl) and I thought she might have back pain, so I asked her if she had back pain, and she said "no, but my throat and neck hurt." She could hardly swallow, eat, or talk without pain. I asked if I could pray for her, so I prayed a quick prayer-- as I did I felt this very, very faint tickle in my right ear-- it could have been mistaken as an itch--but I asked her- "Do you have pain in your right ear?" and she burst out laughing, "Yes! Hahah! How did you know that?" I said, "God told me." So I prayed for her ear- and when we were done, all the pain left her ear and throat!!!! Then she asked me to hang out with her, and introduced me to her mom, and now we are hanging out, and Jesus is loving on her! Praise God!!!!

I was recently in a season of letting go of striving, and during this time, all I wanted to do was pray and love God. Any time I tried to minister to someone, I wouldn't feel grace-- it felt like striving. It was crazy because every time I was in a public place I would feel burning in all these random parts of my body, and I knew they were probably words of knowledge, but I didn't know how to respond to the lord--it was like I had the gift/tool, but needed the Holy Spirit to show me how to use it. So... I told the Holy Spirit- I need you to initiate this (ministry to others), and I'll know it is time to respond. On July 10th, I was about to go camping, and I was emailing la friend. As I was typing I felt tingling in my wrist. So I typed something like -- "This is weird, but do you have pain in your wrist? If so, be healed in Jesus' name. All pain go." that morning I read my email—my friend responded saying, "My wrist has been bothering me for weeks! I have had really annoying pain, and I woke up today and pushed around on it, and it didn't hurt anymore. I was screaming when I found out!” In another instance I was at Subway in some random place in Oklahoma, and I was in the ladies room-- this lady walked in and I felt fire on my right ankle. I was super freaked out and didn't want to say anything, but then reality hit me, "I have nothing to lose here. If God did this with my friend, he can do it again. And I'll probably never see this lady again." So I made conversation with her as we washed our hands and found out she was on her way to California with her boyfriend who is a truck driver. I said as we were leaving the bathroom, “This might sound weird, but by chance does your right ankle hurt?" She said, "No, why do you ask?" and then I told her about how God speaks to me through sensations on my body, and she responded-- "Wow! That's an awesome gift-I would love to have that gift." I told her about how my friend was healed, and she said, "Actually, my ankle does hurt." I was so excited! I found out it hurts when she sits for a long time. So I prayed and asked if she felt anything. She said, "It feels tingly," and I said, "That's good, God is touching your body. He loves you." Then I asked her if she felt pain, and she said "NO." I asked, "did it hurt before I prayed?" and she said, "Yeah." "God just healed you! He loves you!!" she was super grateful, and a little baffled. She introduced me to her boyfriend--it was super sweet. One thing I loved about this was it just took probably 5 minutes-- in my mind before, every ministry opportunity took hours and hours and couldn't be apart of my normal day, because I didn't have all those extra hours! It was a great learning experience.
That following Sunday I was at celebration, full of faith because of all that God did, and I was feeling burning on my right knee and right shin-- all of celebration-- I talked to our pastor about it, and he had it announced, and two people came up with pain in those places!!! I was jumping up and down ecstatic! I prayed for a girl, and she was able to bend her knees without them crunching, and ran a couple days later without shin splints! so amazing!!!!!

I'm still learning how to partner with the Holy Spirit in words of knowledge, and they've been right about half the time, and when it’s not, it's humbling :) and I have to keep trusting that the person of the Holy Spirit is leading me and guiding me, and its not about results, but responding to Him, loving Him, and loving others.

My neighbor came over yesterday. She said she was fearful regarding some situations with her family. I asked her if she wanted to pray about it. We got done and she said, “That was so wild, I felt tingly fire up my arms from my hands." She said she actually sensed the fear "break off." Praise God!! His perfect love casts out fear!!!!

A guy that sits behind me at work had to go home because of pain in his back. He was gone for the rest of the day and the next. When he came back he wasn't his usual self, joking around with the other people in the office. He just sat silent with his headphones in trying not to interact with anyone. I asked him what was going on and he said that he was still in a lot of pain, but that he just got too bored sitting at home in pain so he decided to come to the office (yeah!). I told him that I have seen people healed when they are prayed for and I asked him if a friend and I could pray for him. He said yes and I went to get someone else in the office to pray with us. He described the pain and his condition and let us pray for him. My friend spoke some words about holding onto the promise that God heals and that when Jesus healed He always looked for faith. After we got done praying he didn't feel anything different. But we had prayed that ever hour he would feel better. After lunch I came back and he was talking to people in the office and interacting with everyone. I sat down to work and he said, "Hey, my back is feeling a lot better. This is weird." I smiled and laughed and told him how awesome it was. I saw him the next day and he was saying how weird it was that his back hasn't been hurting nearly as much. This has really provided me with opportunity to share with this guy and bless him in the name of Jesus!!

I have been looking for a job in Norman for 6 months now. Its been the huge pre-cursor for me coming back and finishing school. I have been working at Pier 1 in Edmond for awhile now, and they had been sharing me with the Norman store. The Lord has been giving me so much favor with them! They are excited to have me, and I feel a huge sense of refreshment. I walked into a job fair, applied and was hired on the spot!!! And, I was hoping to work extra in the summer to have padding for the times I couldn't work in the fall because of school. This new job WANTS us to work more until the store opens, and then have less hours (around the time school starts). Transferring was a breeze and I even get a week to volunteer at a camp!
Praise the Lord for provision. I read another testimony about provision and took it for my own; a week later I'm giving mine for you to take.

My family has never had much money, and for the most part we are very content, though at times it can be a little rough. We were going through such a time a few months ago... I was counting out change and having to choose carefully which clothes to wash for my boys due to a lack of funds. I had managed to gather just enough quarters to do four loads of laundry, which I did two at a time. When I went to get the first two loads out of the dryer, there was a crisp ten dollar bill laying just on top of one of the loads... normally I am very aware of every cent that I have, but I dismissed this as an overlooked bill in a pocket, until when I went to get the second two loads out I found another ten dollar bill in the same spot on top of my laundry in the same dryer. I knew that there was no way that I could have missed two separate ten dollar bills and then realized with much excitement that it was the Lord's miraculous supernatural provision.

I had spent time this morning specifically asking God to reveal a greater measure of his glory to me. It felt like a significant moment as I was praying. This evening after the prayer furnace, my friend came up and prayed over me, he said he felt like the Lord wanted me to know that he wanted to give me a greater amount of his Glory and Power. He proceeded to pray that the glory of the Lord would be revealed to me and I felt the presence of God, his glory, on my physical body for an extended period of time, right before, during, and after he prayed over me.

My back began hurting one evening in an unusual spot. It felt like something was pinched and was starting to bother my walking. People from my community came over that night to pray for our house church so I asked for prayer. Not much physically happened at the time although I was personally encouraged by the faith-filled prayers. The pain lessened through the night and was completely gone when I woke up in the morning. Praise God! I love my praying friends.

My wife and I have had two stories of financial provision from Jesus over the past 8 months. The first came off the heels of me having to have surgery on my knee. Before surgery I had to sign my financial payment agreement with the hospital. They projected based on my insurance coverage that I would owe about $400 a month for the next year. I had no choice but to sign this hefty agreement. About two months after my surgery I received a bill from the hospital for $700. My first reaction was that my monthly agreement had turned out to be more than expected…bummer. I investigated the matter a bit further and it appeared that this might actually be the only bill they were going to send me. I called the hospital and sure enough, it was not a monthly bill, but my only bill! If you do the math, that is a savings of $4,100! Whoa, God is awesome!

This next story is more recent. My wife and I had our first child this past February-hooray! Along with that came a new round of hospital bills. I was on top of our potential expenses by keeping up online with our insurance. I had figured out our needs months ago and have been waiting for those particular bills. Then, wham, out of nowhere comes an unaccounted bill totaling around $3,700! I quickly get online to check this out; low and behold there is a spot on the website that showed this amount, and in a far right column are the words “NOT PAID.” I then go into business mode of thinking of all the people I need to contact to figure this situation out. Before doing this I decide I want to take one more look at this line item, so I hit the back button on the window. I now see that there is a new line item at the top of the page… it is highlighted in green, it is the same line item that had just informed me I was to pay this bill, except now the column that said “NOT PAID” says “PAID!!” I check to see why it is in green and the legend states that green means recently finalized! Praise God, he cares and provides! Take this story as yours, as Jesus for breakthrough in financial areas, He can do it in a matter of second!

My friend was told three months ago that her baby she was pregnant with would not live longer than two weeks after she was born. The family has been pretty hopeless for a while. I have been telling them that the Lord has life for baby Reese even though the doctors basically guaranteed death. Well, last week baby Reese was born and does not have the disease the doctors thought, and is healthy and home now!

A few weeks before girls’ rush had begun a few of us from Greek house church were prayer walking on campus. As we walked we decided to spend a little time praying for Rush specifically. As background, the weather the past few weeks had been miserably hot, but as we prayed I felt like the Lord said he was going to make it cooler during Rush… which is infamous for its super hot and/or rainy weather. So we just started praying that, and further more I felt like the Lord said there would be a breeze during that week and that it would be a reminder to girls how much He cared about them and the little things in their lives. Also, the week prior to rush we had a prayer/worship night to pray for rush again and I felt the same word from the Lord about there being nice weather. So we prayed it again and just started believing that the weather was going to be nice! Rush came and sure enough it was much more pleasant than it had been. Still warm, but probably 10 degrees cooler than the previous weeks and there was a great breeze! Also, on bid day (which starts about 2p) it rained all morning and so we prayed again for good weather. By the time the girls arrived at their houses the weather was perfect! It was sunny and the rain had brought a little coolness with it too! He is in control of the WEATHER! That doesn’t just mean He knows what’s going on, it means He controls it! Praise the Lord!

I went with a friend of mine to hang her art up at Universe City. We ended up meeting a lot of people who seems totally broken and oppressed. It was like you could see the clouds of darkness surrounding them. It was crazy. But one of them in particular names Mason started engaging my friend and I. I had written some Christian lyrics on my leg “Speak to me and breathe in my new life” as a petition to the Lord. Mason was really intrigued by the concept and started to talk to us more in depth. He told us how broken, hopeless, and homeless he was, and how he desired to have a relationship with someone that he could just be with, that he could just talk to. He started painting this picture and it had the caption “Need Love Now” and a heart. It was a really dark painting. I had already begun interceding for him, asking the Lord for his heart for Mason. Then Mason handed the painting to me and said, “I want you to work on this, I think you know exactly what to do with this. You know what’s going on.” I was baffled. So I started working on the painting, and fixed it to say “Have Love Now” and began painting it in blues and greens, trying to brighten the picture and put life in it. Colors are always really prophetic to me. And Mason just kept talking about his life and how he really doesn’t feel like he’s living and he’s worthless… and the lies kept coming. I was painting in blue, and started to explain to him that the colors are important and that I wanted to put hope, and renewal, and joy on this painting. I began telling him the struggles that I had with feeling unworthy and dead and that the Lord was the one that changed that. I told him that it’s possible to engage with the Lord on a personal level and talk with Him and to be loved by Him. He told me he knew that the Lord loved him, but that he didn’t feel like he could go to the Lord, that he wasn’t good enough and would be bothering Him. I told him it was a lie and that the Lord is eager to be with him, that God created us to be with Him and continued to prophesy over him. I told him about how the Lord has been providing for him and desired to talk with him all the time and loves him and thinks he is worthy and wants to be his friend. I asked him if it made sense, and he said that it made more sense than he even wanted it to. I left while he was having an artisan jewelry maker make him a cross to wear. I feel like the kingdom covered Mason in revelation and protection. I’m going to continue to intercede for him. The Lord is so awesome!

Over the summer I had my first laughing-because-the-Lord-make-me-so-happy experience. As the semester has progressed, this has become more common in my life, to say the least. What is hilarious is that I can no longer contain it to church things. In my music history classes, the majority of the repertoire we are covering is ancient Christian hymns, masses, etc. Sometimes, when we are listening to ancient music, and I’m reading text in Latin or German, I get a Holy Spirit fit of laughter in the middle of class!

I was sitting at home and was really anxious about my pregnant wife and child. I was just realizing no matter how much I tried I couldn’t protect or control everything, but also wrestling with the idea that God gives his children the authority to “move mountains.” That night a storm hit OKC and tornados were headed to Norman. The sirens went off by our house and the news guy said it was time to take cover. I felt faith rise up in me, and I began to pray that he would move the direction of the storm and that it would start to dissolve. Immediately, the tornado made almost a right turn, and all the “red” on the radar turned green and began to dissolve. The meteorologist started shaking his head and saying, “Well, I’m not sure why this happened but the storm has changed directions and started to dissolve.” I felt the Lord say that I should credit to m account in “faith.”

I tend to worry to the point of obsessing, at times, about the future, politics, and all of that. This week I was having a conversation with two other believers about the future of the country and I was feeling myself get super down in spirit and worried. All of a sudden I heard the Holy Spirit say “Jesus is in control.” I stopped right there and stated that Jesus is in control to my two friends and they both stopped too, and agreed with me. It really gave all three of us perspective and gave me a real sense of peace. Since then there have been other times when a sense of the Lord’s authority has flooded my heart and driven away my fears. It’s awesome.

I was at work and got a text from my sister. She has frequent stomach pain that sometimes causes her to leave work. She also has not been diagnosed with anything any physician has been able to figure out for the last several years, so the situation is painful and confusing. She asked me to please pray for her right then because she was at work and the pain was very intense. I prayed that joy in the Lord’s presence would replace her pain. I didn’t hear anything for the next couple of hours and then got an e-mail from her. She asked if I had prayed whenever she sent me the text. I told her I had, to which she replied that not 30 seconds later the pain completely left. Glory!

I was sitting around on Sunday and felt like the Lord was giving me dreams to increase my expectation of what He wants to do. I had a picture of going to Wal-Mart and praying for someone to be healed. Then after they were healed… a lot of healing would break loose in the building! So I decided to go to Wal-Mart and figure it out. I went in and had some shopping to do and had with me a treasure hunt list from a few weeks ago. I saw a lady limping (clue) and went up to talk with her. She said she was limping from a motorcycle accident that developed some sort of skin disease on her leg (skin disease was another clue). I showed her the list and asked her if I could pray with her. She said she wanted all the help she could get. I prayed for her and asked about her pain levels. I then prayed again and she said it felt better, from an 11 to a 3! I told her the kingdom was near to her and that she was the Lord’s treasure, that He loved her and wanted her to know that.

Having the testimony of the Lord’s presence being seen and experienced I thought I would see how this would work with a larger group. I checked out and saw a friend from house church and asked him if he would stick around a bit and pray for people if they wanted it. This was awesome because I wanted someone else with me! I then looked at the checkout lines and announced that someone had just been healed on aisle 14 and that the kingdom of God was here for healing, that if anyone wanted prayer for healing that my friend and me were here to pray. Everyone just kind of starred and an employee approached me and just starred (like I should be leaving or be quiet). Then after I had made that announcement I just stood around. No one came for prayer. But I felt like I learned something. That we’ll have in our minds an idea of how the kingdom of God is going to come and a lot of times it won’t be exactly what we imagine. I need to surrender my idea of what will take place but hold onto the expectation for His presence.

Monday, as I am on my way to pick up carpool I am driving down Lahoma as I often do on my way to Boyd Street. I see several people; one woman in her garden digging in her soil, the Father begins to give me words to pray for her. Then I see an Asian man walking and He gives me words to pray for him. Then He takes my eyes to an OU flag outside of someone’s home. He immediately begins to tell me He gave the colors red/white to Oklahoma in the University’s founding days. He gave them to the University as a prophetic declaration over this city.
Crimson: representing His son’s precious blood being poured out
White: representing His Holy Spirit, the white dove, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead
That every time we see red/white we should be reminded of His prophetic declaration over the city Norman… that He, God Almighty, longs to pour His Spirit out over this city in greater measures. He loves Norman.

Within my ministry at a sorority there was a falling out between two people that I really care about. They were both hurt by one another, and in a sense the friendship they had was damaged. I have been caught up in the middle of this.

On Monday, I hit my elbow really hard, you know when you hit your funny bone it hurts really bad but then it goes away. Well, it definitely did not go away. It swelled up, bruised, and I could barely raise my hand to touch my nose! At the time I thought I had broken my arm! Well, then I had to leave for huddle so on my way in the car the Lord puts it in the back of my mind that this pain that I’m feeling in my elbow was not for me but for the friendship that had been broken. I was kind of like okay… and just moved on and didn’t really think about it. I had some people at huddle pray over it, but the pain did not go away at that moment. During the receiving time, the Lord put that thought back in my mind again. I just began praying that the Lord would wash away all the pain and hurt my two friends were feeling. That He would restore what was broken, and heal it and make it better than what it was before, and I just continued to pray. After I got done praying, I moved my arm and I was actually able to move it!! The pain was pretty much all gone! The Lord spoke to me promising that He would heal this friendship, it would be restored, and the hurt and pain would be washed away! God is amazing; He not only healed my arm, but promised to heal a friendship as well!

God has been speaking to me a lot through physical pains over this past year. Ever since I had horrible back pain in January and God put five people in my life that had back pain. All of them God healed, and when all of them were healed, God healed me! Kind of crazy, I know! God loves to speak to His children, in whatever way that looks like; I still have a lot to learn.

I recently took a trip to Africa. The first two nights I was there, I was completely stricken with fear. I was almost paralyzed in fear. I did not sleep and stayed up all night in agony. At one point I had decided that I needed to go home and end the trip early because I could not handle the fear that had taken over. I knew this was an attack from the enemy and did not want to stand for it. I sent a quick e-mail home asking someone in our community for prayer. She got several others involved to fight for me in prayer. From that day forward, I did not have any fear! I slept through the night ever night and the experience of my trip was changed drastically. The Lord heard their prayers and moved in my life. He is victorious over all things!

My husband and I recently sold our house but had been unable to find a new house to move in to. We had moved out of our house and were planning to live with friends until we found a house. After looking at over 30 houses, we started to become very discouraged. We had planned a trip to Africa and were really hoping to find a house before we left. We wanted to go to Africa without the worry and stress of needing to find a house. Our house church one Sunday was talking about testimonies and their power and that next week we were all going to come with a story of how the Lord moved in our lives that week. My friend spoke up and shared that we needed a house before we left for Africa. She said that although finding a house in a week seemed impossible (especially when we felt like we had looked at every house on the market), we were all going to pray and believe for a house by the time that we came to house church the following week. My husband and I, along with our community, stood in faith that the Lord was going to provide a house for us. The following weekend, we went for a final look at houses before the weekend ended. Two hours before we walked into house church, we signed a contract on our new house! The Lord provided in his perfect timing.

After a meeting late Friday afternoon, one of the people in my office came in and wanted to ask some questions about Easter. She came in with the office secretary and another employee cause they all wanted to talk about it. They had been discussing it earlier that day. I got to share why the scriptures from the start provide the story of why we need a savior on the earth, one sacrifice for all. It was such a great time just to "let loose" all that I had in my heart about Jesus and the gospel. I work for the public sector and I feel like I have to watch what I say at times, but I kind of just let them have it since they had come into my office; and it was sweet. Such a great blessing to share with the office on Good Friday. I'm looking forward to future discussions with everyone. Praise God!

I have been babysitting for a family in Oklahoma City. They have three girls, 3, 5, and 7 years old. The parents are going through a divorce that has been very hard on the girls and they have been acting out, fighting, and being over dramatic. I went prayer walking early on one of the mornings and prayed over the day and that the Lord’s presence would reign over the day and that He would be nearer to these girls! That morning was okay. The girls did have some rough moments but He brought peace and joy. In the car I got to play some worship music that they got to sing along with and loved! That afternoon the girls were sharing and giving like never before and even apologized for being mean and screaming! So the Lord totally blessed our day and showed up in these girl’s lives! He is showing them grace and love!

My d-group decided to go on a treasure hunt one night and we ended up at Wal-Mart. I had gotten the picture of a long brown braid, and while walking around, I saw a woman working for Wal-Mart with a brown braid wrapped up in a bun. Initially I told myself it didn’t count, since it was in a bun, but I felt the Lord calling me back to her so strongly I had to give in. I told my d-group what I’d seen and what I felt from the Lord and we went back to talk to her. We told her who we were and asked her if she wanted prayer for anything. Sure enough, she had a shoulder that was hurt that was preventing her from doing her work at Wal-Mart and was causing discomfort. We all got around her and prayed for her. Then she thanked us and we went on our way. Sometime later, a girl from my d-group’s roommate went on a treasure hunt to the same Wal-Mart. She came back and told my d-group buddy that she had gotten brown braid for a clue, which led her to a lady who worked at the store. She asked if she could like prayer for anything and the lady said something along the lines of, “Of course you can pray for me! I met some people from your church who prayed for my shoulder a few weeks back, and I was totally healed!” So not only did the Lord heal her, but He also used people from our church to let us know about it! How Great is He!?

A good friend of mine posts the following on facebook:

Does anyone know of a good chiropractor they would recommend? After having back and hip pains since my son was born I realized today my right hip is quite a bit higher than my left…I don’t think it’s supposed to be like that :)

My response was:

Just come by the house when you’re in town and we’ll pray for it…Decide which you’d rather have: higher left hip or lower right hip. I’ve been wanting to see some limbs grow out for a while so it looks like you’re the one. See you soon. By the way, I’m not kidding… come by.

So we wind up meeting at Johnny’s for dinner. A few other pray-ers were there so we went after it. I forget which leg we told to grow but we told a leg to grow and hips to align and they did! Here is her facebook post today:

Thanks for all the prayers at Johnny’s! My hips were in perfect alignment within an hour of you guys praying for me and I have had NO PAIN in my back for over 2 weeks. Who needs a chiropractor when we have Jesus!

Praise God! He’s so good. He’s so darn goooood.

I meet with some friends on Mondays at lunch. We get food or coffee and talk about what the Holy Spirit is doing, then if we feel like we have a word for someone, we go up and strike up conversation and deliver the word. On this particular Monday, I was in line at the coffee bar and I felt the presence of God start to make me a little light. I could feel his presence, as if someone was praying for me at house church. As I got my coffee, I struck up a conversation with a guy bussing tables. I asked him how his day was going (I’ve seen him before, but haven’t had many conversations beyond “hello”). My friend had talked with this guy for several minutes and didn’t really get past, “How’s the weather?” But, as I asked him about his day, he goes on to tell me that he’s been anxious since he woke up that morning, for no apparent reason. He said he hadn’t been able to shake it yet. I told him that I used to be anxious all the time, then some friends prayed that the anxiety would leave, and it did. He was busy, so I told him where I was sitting and that if he wanted prayer, I’d be happy to pray that he would not have anxiety. So I went over to my table, still feeling the presence I had felt since I had come in. As I sat down, my whole body was overwhelmed with peace. I felt so relaxed and peacefully, but was having trouble getting my thoughts out and interacting with the people at the table. I realized through a few more events that the peace I was experiencing was from God for me to give to the guy bussing tables! On my way out the door after lunch, I asked him if he felt any better, to which he said, a little bit. I touched his back with my hand and said, “More peaceful vibes for you, sir!” and went on my way. What a crazy experience! A total stranger confiding in me that he is totally anxious on the day that I feel an overwhelming presence of peace on me. I can feel a new horizon in evangelism for our community.

I met a guy about a year ago who was pretty rough around the edges and did not know much about love. After praying for him for those two years, he finally went to a church camp and really experienced the Lord for the first time, but did not commit his life due to hesitation. About two months later, I received a text message from him asking me if I could baptize him! Praise the Lord!

I volunteer at a summer camp and during the middle of the week a camper had side pain that left her in her bed. During worship one night, I felt the Lord tell me to get my campers and pray for healing. So, we crammed about fifteen people (most children) in the nurse’s office and prayed for God to heal her side. After praying for ten minutes nothing happened. So we prayed again and experience the same result. After we left I was discouraged and was wondering why she was not healed. While I was pondering, the camper came out, walking around like nothing ever happened. She claimed that the Lord healed her!

I wanted to share once quick story. This fruit is your fruit.

For most of my life, I have felt stuck in a cycle of melancholy/discouragement. My case is not the most extreme, but it’s definitely been a pattern for a long time. I’ve been able to recognize it for almost just as long, but even when I have recognized it and prayed, I have experienced little breakthrough. I’ll be doing fine, and then I’ll get this foreboding sense that I’m climbing out on a limb and, at any moment, the limb will snap. I usually feel pretty awful before that feeling lifts as mysteriously as it came upon me. After we gathered and some friends prayed for us, something awesome happened. About a week and a half later I was feeling the onset of an “episode.” I talked to my wife about it, and she simply asked me, “What are those lies you’re believing about yourself?” Sitting in my living room I responded, “That I’m la…la… lay…lay—zee…” And CRACK, right then, I began laughing harder that I thought possible, tears streaming down my face, my stomach muscles cramping from the intensity. And five minutes later, that was it. I was finished. No fear of the limb breaking. No source-less discouragement. No foreboding sense of will-less-ness. No lies about me being lazy or inconsistent. I just laughed it away, then I got up, went about my day, sat down to study (something I could never do if I were struggling with an “episode”), and refused from that day on to walk under the influence of those silly lies. Amazing! I’m going on a number of weeks now walking in new freedom. As I said, amazing! The joy of the Father has cracked the darkness, and I cannot walk unhappily anymore!

This past summer we had a really encouraging house church meeting. We spoke about the idea of a testimony, we shared testimonies, and had a time for prayer. I asked the group to pray for my legs, because I had a bone in my left leg that was about one inch shorter than the matching bone in my right leg. This has begun to give me hop problems, partly because I run quite a bit. They prayed for me and I felt a really wonderful sensation and it looked like my leg grew out. The group looked at both my legs and they looked to be the same size. In faith, I stopped wearing my insole that was supposed to help make my legs the same size. It has been five months since we prayed and I have gone on countless runs. I have not had any problems with my hip what-so-ever! Praise the Lord!

My forearms and hands had some sort of tendonitis or something, which made it a chore to do anything with my hands or arms. They had a constant ache. Someone in my house church received a word to pray for someone with hand problems, so I asked him to pray for me. He did and the aching was released. For two weeks I was pain free. Part of how God blessed me was the love I felt as this brother kept asking me for an update on my arms.

As I was talking to my car after work, I noticed a young lady limping. Not just a little minor-sprained-ankle limp, it was more like do-you-need-crutches limp. Thoughts were going through my head: “Should I pray for her? Well, that would be awkward. I’m a guy and she is, well, a she. I’ll pray for her anyway. Oh wait, she is on the phone. Drat. Lord, if you want me to pray for her, I am willing. Just make it so I can be courteous.” I continued walking behind her, which was quite natural because she was walking towards my car. She crossed the street where I always do. She took a left where I always do. She slowed down and started to get in her car. Behold! No phone up to her ear. So I approached her asking, “This might be a bit weird, so feel free to refuse, but would you like prayer for your leg?” “Sure,” She said. I asked if it was okay to pray together right then and she said yes, so I began to pray “Father, if it would glorify your name I pray that you would heal this leg right now. Would you touch her leg and take away all pain and lack of mobility, in Jesus’ name. Amen.” I asked if her leg was better. She began to mover her leg around and began to smile and said, “Yeah, it is.”

I was walking on the beach after a week of being attacked by a lot of lies from the enemy. I was feeling really discouraged, like this was going to be something that I would always have to deal with… the thorn in my flesh. I felt like the Lord asked me to start dancing and worship Him. I resisted at first because it was going to be so dumb. Finally I just started dancing and worshipping the Lord and it was AMAZING! After about 30 minutes I was just standing where the water would hit me and I felt the Lord say, “You are done with these lies!” I wanted to believe Him, but my response was that this would be the beginning of a process. Then I felt like He said, “No, you are done with this! Not a process, it is done!” I felt like He asked me to get a rock and throw it into the ocean signifying that the lies were gone. Again I felt like this was a bit ridiculous, but immediately found a rock that was average size but would take some effort to get out. I felt like that represented these lies that were deep in my heart. I threw the rock and a seal appeared where I threw it! I can honestly say that I have had encounters over the last week that I could have been tempted to fall into the enemy’s lies again. Praise Jesus that I have not felt any of those lies penetrate my heart! I have seen them come at me and they have been completely been deflected!!!

Last Sunday a friend of mine had a word for healing over a lung/throat. Well, just that week the father-in-law of a guy I work closely with, who was battling cancer, had to go to the ICU. He slipped into a coma from the radiation he was undergoing for his lung/throat cancer and had contracted pneumonia. I asked my friend to pray over that and together with another friend we prayed over Mr. Brown’s coma and his illness. Monday morning at work I asked my buddy how his father-in-law had done over the weekend and he told me the doctors were calling it a miracle. Mr. Brown had woken up Sunday night about 8p from his coma all on his own and the pneumonia was going away!!!

I have been having recurring problems with my eyes due largely impart to the sawdust that I am constantly around.  They'll burn as if you had squirted yourself in the eye with lemon juice or something. Anyhow, at the last Celebration we had, I had been having the burning sensation in my right eye all day and felt like I need to come up and have someone pray for my eyes. I came up and when my friend on the prayer line prayed for me they put their hand over my right eye. I don't recall feeling anything special other than when I went to sit back down my eye didn't hurt anymore! Thank you, Jesus!

My son’s CD player has been broken for the past month. Broken in terms of when you play a CD you get this terrible “feedback” type noise that sounds horrendous. After hearing about God releasing his power over an iPod and a kid’s Leapster toy this week, I decided that while putting my son to bed tonight I was going to pray that God would fix the CD player issue. So I prayed God would release that power and I hit the play button, but it still have the feedback noise playing. So my wife let our son crawl over to me and the CD player and as he played with/tried to eat the CD player I prayed again that God would release his power and glory over the CD player so that when I hit play it would sound just like it did the day we bought it. I hit play, and there was nothing but perfect music that sounded just like the day we bought it!!! Should we expect anything less from our Father? I think not. Praise Him!

A friend and I were walking over to the cafeteria to have a lunch as we have done a couple times this semester and along the way Gerod said it was time to step up our game for the Lord at the Café. We both asked the Lord for images for a mini treasure hunt. I received the image of a guy wearing a flat bill ball cap or a trucker hat. Through a half hour of eating there I hadn’t seen a guy wearing a flat bill hat yet and Gerod had already found treasure for the Lord in a girl wearing a shirt with a mask on it and had prayed for them. I walked around the corner and spotted a guy, Steve, sitting by himself with headphones on. I sat next to him and tapped his shoulder, he took off his headphones and I introduced myself. I told Steve about treasure hunts a little bit and that Jesus wanted to release extra love and joy on him today through the image he gave me. I asked Steve if I could pray over him for anything specific, he told me that he was feeling alone and distraught as a freshman on campus and that was causing his studies to fall behind. I also asked if I could pray for his stepfather who is in Afghanistan currently. We prayed for Steve and he was encouraged with a great smile on his face. I left knowing that Steve had just received extra love and blessing from Jesus and told him that Jesus wanted him to know today that he is special to the Lord.

Upon taking my baby to his 9 month wellness check, I was told he had a right ear infection. We had previously battled ear infections for 2 months and went through 4 antibiotics along with a trip to the ENT (ear, nose, and throat specialist). His pediatrician prescribed another antibiotic, and I made a follow up appointment with the ENT fully expecting to have to put tubes in his ears. My husband and I prayed healing over his ear infections, citing numerous other healings God has done in our community. After checking his ears at the ENT appointment, the ENT asked when the baby had been diagnosed with the ear infections because that day, the ENT could see absolutely NO signs of any infection and could not recommend tubes. Praise our Great Physician; He is amazing!

A friend’s baby was born with Ebstein’s Anomaly where the tricuspid valve in the heart is abnormally formed. He also had a hole in his lung ans was not able to breathe on his own. We immediately began lifting him up to the Lord asking for the Lord’s perfect healing of the baby’s lungs and heart. Within a day of praying the baby’s lungs began working on their own…within a week he was completely off his ventilator and pain meds. An echo was done to assess his heart and again within a week, he was cleared by the cardiologist. The baby was released from the hospital Sunday, August 30. As my friend and her husband were leaving with their sweet baby, the attending looked at them and per the words of my friend, with an awed smile said, “Most Ebstein’s babies don’t get to go home.” Praise our good and amazing Father. His healing powers are abundant, and He is just waiting for us to call on them to be used!

After a few days of fasting for breakthrough we went on a treasure hunt. I got the picture of an elderly woman, grey curly hair, brown-rimmed glasses, named Cindy. I asked Jesus what he wanted to say to her and got the word that God wanted her to know he was her shepherd and to not be afraid but to trust him. So I wrote her a note and stuck it in my pocket to give it to her. We went to Wal-Mart and talked to other treasures, all the time looking for Cindy. Finally, we were by the entertainment section and I felt led to ask an employee. We asked him if Cindy, who is elderly, with gray curly hair and brown glasses was there. He said, “Yeah, but she just left. She works the day shift.” I was so excited that I just walked away. I walked up to another employee and asked the same thing. She said they were friends and so I got to give her the letter and she said she would give it to Cindy. Funny thing is, I never write words down to give to people. The Lord knew that I wouldn’t be able to give it to her in person! Thank you, Jesus!

I don't have cycles at all. I don't ovulate, produce eggs, or have periods. We can try for months and months and we have never been able to conceive on our own. Like we did with our first two daughters, we took two medicines to help me ovulate and have a period. Two medicines to have my body do what most women's bodies do every month. You can take the medicine for four months and then you have to wait six more months to take it again. After that, you are sent to a fertility specialist. We had two rounds of medicine. I went in for my routine blood work. The blood tests showed I didn't even ovulate "Not even close" were the nurse's words. The medicine had not worked. My numbers (hormone levels) were very low, meaning no egg production, etc. The nurse prescribed me another round of medicine. It's routine to take a pregnancy test before beginning the medicine. Chris was confident and unwavering, what a sweet husband I have. I was really sad and began feeling hopeless. For us, we would not pursue further treatments for infertility. Only a few close friends knew we were trying.
While this was going on our oldest daughter had been very sick for a few months so a group had come over to pray for her. A friend, who knew nothing of our journey, prayed over me...even though they were there praying for my daughter. She said to me that she had a dream that I was pregnant. Of course I cried and cried. Oh how I wanted to be pregnant. How I wanted her dream to be true.
5-7 days later.
I woke up early, took a pregnancy test and it was negative. I threw it in the trash and climbed back into bed crying. Later in the day, it had snowed a lot and our room was very bright. I was making the bed and felt the Holy Spirit say "Go look at the test." I actually argued with Him..."What, you want me to do what? No I can't. I don't want to see the negative line again. and that's really gross too." :) but I did anyways, when I brought it into the light, there it was, a positive double-pink lined test. We were pregnant! I was speechless. I came into the kitchen where Chris was and all I could do was hold it up to him. We laughed at how wrong the blood test was...SO wrong! Our third beautiful daughter was born 9 months later.
I had so much fun texting my friend and saying "Your dream is a reality!" I had so much fun calling my doctor's office to schedule my first appointment because I was pregnant!
God is SO good! We are so grateful and blessed to have all of our girls. He is SO faithful!

During an LTx Treasure Hunt, I had received the clues: family with small children in a shopping cart, Wal-Mart, Kids wearing pink coats, and sickness in a child. Before we set out, Aaron Jaqua challenged us to pursue the Lord and see if there was something else that he wanted to give away that night. I felt like He wanted me to bless people at Wal-Mart financially in some way.
After a few encounters at Wal-Mart, Alex Benton and I both bought some gift cards to give away to people and split up to do so. At the very front of the store, leaving the store, I spotted all of my clues in one family and ran up to them as they were leaving. It was a married couple with two little girls in the shopping cart, both wearing pink jackets. As I began to talk to them about the reason they were the Lord’s treasure that night, I found out that one of the little girls had been diagnosed with a severe poisoning in her body. I prayed for her twice and then gave the family two gift cards, they both began to cry and said to their daughters, “now we can afford to go and buy you those winter jackets you need”. The father was moved emotionally by our gathering to pray and even made the comment, “hey didn’t the bible say that if two or more people get together to pray that the thing they are praying for will happen?”. We had a fun little talk about that and how the gospel moves in power.
Less than a week later, I received a call from the mother letting me know that their daughter was healed and feeling amazing, she was also tremendously impacted by the gift cards that helped them with winter coats/clothes. Another week later, I received a Christmas card and a thank you card from the family!
God you are GOOD!

Here in Beijing, some landlords don't tend to see that they have much responsibility to keep up their property. When our heater broke last week, our landlord tried to tell us that in the middle of winter it was our financial responsibility to replace a broken heater (Beijing gets pretty cold in the winter). My wife and I prayed on Friday night that God would bless us in the situation, and as of Saturday at 2:00 pm, he had come to our apartment and paid for the installation of a new heater. Based on our experience with our landlord throughout this last year, this is truly our God's work.

The past few months I have been in prayer about my job. I have specifically been asking the Lord to show me how I can share the things He is doing in my life with others. There have been 3 different occasions when people at my hospital where I work have come to me in tears. They have been feeling hopeless and scared about the future. It was so sweet for me to be able to share that God knows their heart. He has a plan for their life and he offers joy and healing out of no where. The broken have been coming to me and I have felt so blessed. The Lord took something that has felt heavy and stressful and made it simple and sweet!

A friend of mine and I started believing in the Fall of 2009 that there would be a teaching job for me in Norman for the Fall of 2010. The Lord showed me that He had a job for me when I was asked to come interview at the school where I was student teaching, because the Lord was also blessing me with an engagement and a wedding season. I felt like the Lord said to wait to start teaching. This past fall and winter the Lord has used other teachers to encourage me that there are openings coming and some have gone out of their way to make sure I know it and that they want me there. God has been so faithful to show me He has a place for me and He is paving the way to show me my true destiny and I have learned His timing is perfect and it’s the BEST thing!

The Lord is faithful to take care of every single detail! I have been looking for a job and recently fel like God wanted me to stop trying and let him find my job. The week after I gave up control, I had 4 interviews! I had also been given the opportunity to go full time with a company I had been interning with but I didn’t really feel at peace with taking that job, even though it was a good opportunity with a great earnings potential compared to other entry-level job. The job I just accepted is on I did not even apply for but the Lord handed me through a phone call from a friend. The job description is exactly what I would want to do, and to top it off the 1st year salary is the exact same number as the other job I didn’t feel right about taking! Also, as a dance coach for 8 years, I was having a hard time accepting the fact that I’ll have to move on since I’ll be moving to a different city. One of the ladies I’ll be working with offered to introduce me to some influential people in the Tulsa dance world so I can even do some weekend coaching and choreography!

I went for a run the other day and about 30 feet into it, something twinged in my knee. I barely finished running and spent the next two days limping around, barely able to go up and down the stairs. I was feeling discouraged and sad and so my sweet husband prayed for me before he went to work that night. I woke up in the morning and kept thinking something was missing...I finally realized I had NO PAIN in my knee. And haven't since--praise Jesus!

While at work today a few customers came in. One man had a ‘southern drawl’ and another man had an oxygen tank with a regular accent. I had served them many times but rarely talked to them. As I was making one of their drinks I felt the Lord say, “They are not originally from here. They are from the east coast.”

As I was finishing the drink I said to the younger man, “Hey, this might be a weird question but-- are you and your family originally from the east coast?” He looked at me shocked and said, “Yes.. Well, I was born there and my dad spent most of his life away. What gave us away? How did you know?”

I responded, “Well, it’s kind of weird but sometimes I get impressions and pictures from God for people that turn out to be true.”

The man responded politely but picked up his drink and walked away. Although he wasn’t very open, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge. I’m hoping the power encounter will drive this man crazy with curiosity to the point of seeking the truth.

Several weeks ago I went to the doctor and was told I had an ovarian cyst larger than a golfball on my right ovary. A day later I had a group of women at friday am mom's prayer lay hands on me and pray for me. Honestly, instantly I did not have any further pain.  It was awesome. Today I went back to the doctor for my follow up apppointment and the doctor confirmed that the cyst is gone! Thank you Jesus!!!!

Tonight I was at City Rescue Mission (a ministry of rehabilitation run by a church) and was invited by a friend to share on the microphone anything that God was telling me. I felt like He said that there were people with sharp, acute back pain in their middle-lower back and that they had stretched it by either moving boxes, bending over, or reaching for something that was too far to reach. When I shared this five people waved their hands indicating that the word was for them. I then shared a word about a throbbing left ear-- sharp pain. One waved her hand and I prayed over all from the microphone.

After the service, individuals came forward and found that one lady was healed of her deaf ear, and another was healed over her back pain!

Shortly after a man come forward asking for prayer for strength in his ‘journey.’ As I prayed for him I has the impression that he was having trouble sleeping at night-- I asked if he had been having trouble sleeping or maybe having night mares. A shocked look crossed his face and he explained that for weeks he had been waking up every morning at 3 am unable to fall back asleep and was feeling completely worn out and exhausted. I prayed over him and he felt very touched.

My sister got super sick with a stomach virus on Christmas day. I helped take care of her for a couple of days and was super afraid I was going to get sick as well. I'm sure this sounds selfish, but I just had so many things going on and really didn't want to get sick. Two days later I started feeling nauseated and feverish. I took my temperature and sure enough had a fever. My husband came home and prayed for me and I took my temperature again and it was normal! In minutes, my illness has truly disappeared. I really believe the lord healed me- and I am so grateful!

For the past two and half years I have been praying for my brother who had walked away from the Lord. During one visit with him in Tulsa at Starbucks I was sharing testimonies of God's goodness but he seemed disinterested at best. At the end of the conversation he said, "Kelly, I know Jesus is real but I feel pretty disconnected and left behind." I shared some thoughts on where he was at and then asked to pray.

While I was praying for him I started seeing pictures of him leading worship in Africa started to prophesy his destiny in Africa and to the nations. He was thankful but didn't respond much.

Two years after that my family entered into a season of fasting and praying for him. We got word from family and friends that my brother was at his lowest point that he had been at yet. One morning while praying for him I the Lord spoke to me through a picture-- I saw a huge tidal wave about to sweep him away from a cliff, but at the last moment a hand grabbed the crest of the wave and 'slammed the wave into submission' (it looked like a wrestling move). I shared this with my mom and it brought us hope.

Three months after that word my brother was approached by a friend and missionary in South Africa who challenged him and delivered him a word about "his destiny in Africa." After a couple weeks my brother knew the Lord was speaking to him but didn't feel the faith for raising support to become a missionary as he was apart of no community and had been living apart from the church for several years. When we talked on the phone I felt the Lord tell me to tell him, "If you feel like God is telling you to move to Africa, then money won't be the issue. He'll provide." He sold all his possessions and began working double shifts to save up for his move. In his last week in the US he found out that someone had anonymously donated the amount of money need for him to live for 6 months abroad. He moved to Cape Town, South Africa and is about to begin a Church planting school with a missions organization called "All Nations."

Last night, on Christmas Eve, my brother-in-law and I talked to my brother about his journey. He started to tell us how desperate he had become for God and how He wanted the reality of the kingdom in His life. We share a bit of testimonies about God encountering us personally and then we asked to pray over him. We prayed and prophesied over him after which I heard with my own ears my brother's desperate cry to God for everything in his life to change, for him to taste of the reality of Heaven.

I am so thankful to the Lord for fulfilling His promises to my family over my brother and for His hope through prophetic words when it seemed like my brother would never come back to the Father. Praise Jesus!

My D-group has been rejoicing in fruitful prayer for people. We regularly pray for people and as a result: one of our wives has become a disciple, one of our neighbors accepted Christ, one of our coworkers accepted Christ, a marriage has been healed, two families have become open to the gospel, and one friend has begun to study the Bible.

It is such a pleasure to join the Spirit in bringing Our Father's Kingdom to people's hearts.

We all got our clues and decided to go as one big group to Walmart on the Eastside. I felt like the Lord wanted to invite people to step out in a way that's different than they ever have. One girl felt like she was supposed to give a gift to someone, and two guys both felt like God was asking them to be more bold. Five of us all had some sort of "financial need" clue.

A friend and I paired up because we had the same clue of "Hope". We went looking and found two clues "lawn chair" and "backpack" both on one aisle with a guy standing in the middle of the aisle. My friend walks up to the guy and says, "Excuse me, we were just at our church praying and asking God for clues of people that are on His heart so we can share the Kingdom with them" and the guy (Ryan)says a few times, "you gotta be kidding me". Then, with tears in his eyes he explains that he is at the end of his rope, doesn't know if he and his wife are going to make it, has four kids and is getting letters from DHS, unemployed because two discs in his back are injured. Wow that's a lot- My friend shared that we both had the clue "hope" and that this is the Advent week of Hope and I shared the phrase I had written down as one of my clues that someone was thinking "Am I going to make it?" Ryan teared up and said that this is amazing and he kept saying he couldn't believe that God would do this and send people to him. Ryan then explained that he hadn't been close to God but has faith. Then, Ryan asked us if we would pray with him (um, hello!) So, I shared that we have seen people miraculously healed, shared my testimony about God providing even when I lost my job, and that we felt specifically that night that God wanted to bless people financially. I told him if he had any needs we would like to help him with them. He didn't comment on the finance part but we prayed for healing, his marriage, family, provision, etc. We exchanged phone numbers and he put my friend and I in his phone as his "walmart angels" - haha! We told him that God was inviting him back into relationship and has been thinking about him. He was super touched and kept thanking us.

So, yesterday I get a voicemail from him. Ryan called to say thank you again for talking and praying with him. He said, "You have no idea what has happened since you prayed for me. You mentioned that God wanted to bless people financially. Well, my wife went to work and a woman gave her an envelope with $2,500 cash inside for our family to have a Christmas!" - I listened to the voice mail as I walked out of the Business College and all I could do was pump my fist in the air and almost start crying at out powerful God is!!!

A guy who is an athiest neighbor of ours has started wanting to hang out a lot with our community. He has expressed wanting to be our friends and be a part of community. We’e had several get togethers, spiritual talks, and he even let us pray for him and his dad who both have health problems.

My dad and I have been really distanced for a few years. Our beliefs just don't really line up like they used to. And so I've had to learn to give our relationship to Papa God, and receive that Fatherly pride and affection from Him. But my dad has all of a sudden started telling me he loves me all the time, in passing, randomly, whatever. He started a text the other day asking me to pick up some dish soap, and ended it telling me how proud he is to be my dad. Papa God is restoring our relationship even after asking me to give it over!!!

Our family is fortunate enough to have no debt (other than our house) but definitely feel the sacrifice and weight of one income providing for 3 children and a stay-at-home mom. In the last year, here are a few ways the Lord has provided in the year of Jubilee:
- We called to place a $1000 deposit on our first family vacation and our deposit had already been paid for!
- We had a friend watch our kids for 5 hours and when we came home, she didn't charge us...$50
- When OU won against OSU and got to go to the Big 12 championship game,my husband automatically got a bonus of several thousand dollars!(How sweet for the Lord to use his favorite thing to provide for his family)...
- A sweet friend has been living with us and providing our babysitting for 11 months now...over $1,320 savings
- And the biggest praise, my husband hit his sales goal at work...so he got his bonus money plus a free Ipad. Praise Jesus!

God has freed me from the lie that I am not worthy of His extravagant love or anyone’s love for that matter! He has spoken identity over me. He has brought restoration to my heart and through that beginning restoration with my relationship with members of my family. Praise Jesus!

Our neighbor was an alcoholic. He has been at different levels of drunk for the last 20 years outside of his 8-5 work hours. As a missional community, we have been able to bless him with groceries, spare work, praying over him, deep spiritual converstaions about the nearness of God and community. He reached his “absolute” bottom and was at the end of himself this summer. Every possible family member relationship was ruined, all his friends abandoned him in his ugliness, and only our community and one other lady are the only 2 people he can turn to. He has now been free of alcohol for almost 3 months, and is in a rehab program in OKC. God has brought wonderful, godly men into his life at the program to speak to him about his identity in the Lord and how He can be trusted. He still celebrates every day being alcohol free, and tells us it is “a step at a time.” We believe God is going to totally deliver him and he will be leading a d-group someday.

I have spent two years in a job where I felt unvalued, unappreciated, and under a significant amount of stress. I was working long hours and I was weary and was watching my joy fade away. I felt hopeless that it would ever change. One night I stayed up late with the Lord and had a pwerful encounter with him. I gave everything to Him and committed to choose joy , to see work as an opportunity to bring light to darkness and hope to the hopeless. I have him all of my frustration. I laid everything at His feet. THE NEXT DAY I had a converstaion with my boss where I was able to release everything. I was filled with hope and freedom. My role changed and the burdens have been lifted. I also received a promotion. He is so good. It has never been the same.

Being a “people-pleaser” and somewhat of a “yes-man”, I’ve struggled with boudaries my whole life. I’ve been reading the book Boundaries the last year taking in a few pages every few days. Slowly I have been changing in a way that is a miracle for my life and for all the lives that I will touch. One of the BIG things that is changing right now is my discovery of what I want on a day-to-day basis and what I want in general. This carries over to my journey with God. I’m shedding the reasons I have been faithful that were out of a guilttful heart. There is much of a fun journey ahead but I’m on a path to fulfillment and freedom.

Coming out of a SOZO my whole body felt lighter and I couldn’t stop laughing. I was filled with the joy of the spirit and it was so intense I couldn’t drive.

About a year ago the Lord really laid on me a heart or foster children--for working with them, loving them, and advocating on their behalf. I was not sure what He specifically had a store for me with this. Upon graduation with my MSW, the Lord opened a position through very unusual circumstances at the Bair Foundation, a christian therapeutic foster care agency. The position wasn’t working directly with foster children and I felt extremely hesitant about taking it. I accepted the job but it was not working out the way I hoped and felt very discouraged. I felt the Lord continuing to call me there and within a matter of a few weeks a new position opened up in exactly what I had hoped for. The Lord provided a job where I am able to share His love and heart with these precious children who long to encounter the Lord’s love and with families who know and love the Lord and have a heart to see His kingdom made known.

I painted a picture of a spine while I prayed for God to speak. For the first time I thought maybe God would use my artwork as some kind of intercession or healing for someone. It was about the lower back. The next evening I went to Prayer Furnace and all during it my back was hurting (lower back). I never een thought of asking for prayer or the painting. After prayer a guy got up and asked if anyone needed prayer for healing. I got prayed for buy this guy and two girls. I felt a tingly warm sensation and had to urge to arch my back a lot. After two times of prayer I was completely healed! The painting of the spine may have been for me—the bginning of my quest to explore prophetic art has begun.

A neighbor and I were talking about life and it turned toward stpiritual topics and I decided to respond to Jesus and tell her my favorite thing about God was how fun he is and how much freedom we have in him. That surprised her and she told me how she wanted to feel that kind of feedom. I told her that He wanted her to have it so just to keep seeking and she’d find it.

After three years of working and going back to finish school, I will graduate this December with my degree and have already accepted an offer for a job!! God has helped my wife and I do this debt-free and He provided a job in the midst of a hard economy. Plus, he hooked us up with my job being IN NORMAN!

We have a neighbor who is an older man who is jaded from the church. In the past few months, he has grown closer to me and my wife as we’ve spent time with him while walking around the neighborhood. Also, he has expressed interest in going to Celebration.

Man, God is so good and continues to grow me more. And so much of that comes from this community. I see so much joy and peace and faith in my life that has been spurred from discussions/prayer furnaces/retreats/worship times. Something specific has been rejoicing in the Lord always. Through reading “Possessing Joy” I have seen such a growth in my joy in the Lord, that has set me free from worries and anxieties. Praise Jesus!! Also, Norman Community has grown me in boldness to speak truth to others, and see the joy through it!!

This past year has been incredibly stretching and an amazing period of growth in my life. Trusting in the Lord and His promises will never feel the same. From waiting for medical test results to applying for jobs all over the country, trusting He would place me perfectly where He wants me I have learned to surrender. I remember thinking at one point, “Lord, am I giving you too much? Are those too many balls to be juggling at one? Want me to take just one off your hands to work on?” Then, laughing at the idea that I could have just one thing and not have een close to the perfect outcom that the Lord could have taking care of every detail. The outcome of the situations were definitely NOT as I had planned and I am still discovering why He has me here now but I hae an entire new peace and strength through trusting the Lord.

This past year has been incredibly stretching and an amazing period of growth in my life. Trusting in the Lord and His promises will never feel the same. From waiting for medical test results to applying for jobs all over the country, trusting He would place me perfectly where He wants me I have learned to surrender. I remember thinking at one point, “Lord, am I giving you too much? Are those too many balls to be juggling at one? Want me to take just one off your hands to work on?” Then, laughing at the idea that I could have just one thing and not have een close to the perfect outcom that the Lord could have taking care of every detail. The outcome of the situations were definitely NOT as I had planned and I am still discovering why He has me here now but I hae an entire new peace and strength through trusting the Lord.

The Lord has been so faithful! This semester has been super overwhelming trying to graduate while at the same time working two jobs. There have been a few situation where I have had appointment cancellations at work which is normally a bad thing, but every time it has happened it has been a situation where I was over-booked and really neeed it! The Lord has been so thankful in knowing exactly when I needed an extra hour! Such a good Father!