I began to cry out to the Lord for myself, my family and the House of Prayer for renewal to come. Over the next few weeks I felt different inside. I was walking toward some glass doors enclosed in large plate glass windows on my way into work one day. I saw my reflection in the window and although I didn’t look any different than I have in a while… I heard a voice say in my head, “You look really good!”.  I was shocked! I kept thinking to myself that I had never heard that voice before and it made me actually chuckle out loud.

That night I went to the prayer room and after my set was over I told my team and it was solidified by my confession… I am okay with who and how you made me Lord!!! Wow!

That same night I found a small jewel on the platform during worship which I felt like it was the Lord just saying… I am His jewel, small, sparkly and clear.

Four days later on Friday night during the EGS I was sitting with some little girls who belong to a friend. My neck, which has 3 fused vertebrae was hurting profusely at the time when I heard Gary say that one of the young prophetic men in the hop had brought him a word that the Lord wanted to heal people who’s bodies were being held together by plates and screws. Would we stand for prayer? I stood, all the while thinking about how many times I had asked for prayer in the past and how nothing had ever happened. I had no faith! Some sisters from the prayer room came around me and prayed. Gary asked for people to see if they had more flexibility than before. I just still had pain and nothing had changed.  They prayed again and I felt my neck become very hot… sweat broke out and I asked one of the girls to touch my neck and feel the heat. She did and can testify that my neck had intense heat in it. Then, almost immediately the pain left and has been gone ever since.

I personally believed that the Lord wanted me to sense His emotions for me and how much He loved me… then the healing came.

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The night before I was scheduled to see the ear specialist, I was in the prayer room and I asked Jen to pray for me about the way my parents dealt with me being molested as a child. She prophesied over me and it was awesome! There was pain in my stomach and heart and I just cried and cried. I feel like I had real deliverance! She also included that God was fine tuning my ears and removing static. She had no idea that I had an apt the next day.

I went to my apt with the ear specialist and went into a sound-proofed room where she performed many hearing tests. She also looked into my ears. She concluded that I have no loss of hearing, in fact I have above-normal hearing and she does not know why I would even be able to tell my ears are different from each other which indicates perfect hearing. She said my ears also looked perfect! Praise God! My ears are healed! I wanted to call my doctor and ask if he truly saw scar tissue….but never got around to it. Last night, I had a dream and in the dream I questioned him and he said, ‘yes they really were messed up.’ haha!

We have got to keep pressing in for more healing! There is more than this!

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After this prayer time another woman called me over to pray for me.  She said some very specific words from the Lord that hit me right in my spirit.  Then I sat down and after about 10 minutes I suddenly realized that my knee was not hurting and was not stiff!  I felt God tell me that I was healed but I didn’t believe it.  Later, I went back up with the worship team to sing and decided to test if I could kneel.  There I was, on the stage, kneeling then standing up, over and over!!  God has totally healed my knee and my depression!  During the winter I use a full spectrum light therapy lamp to ward off the seasonal depression.  I have not used it once since this night!  And God is doing a good work in other areas such as forgiveness and acceptance.  God is so good!

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My name is Lucas. I sent in a prayer email several days back.

I went to a meeting at IHOP NW last night due to an amazing friend forcing me to go. For most of my teenage life, I suffered from depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, ADD, self hate, suicidal thoughts. I even tried killing myself about a year ago. I never felt loved by people or God, or felt joy in my entire teenage life.

Before things began last night, a lady came up to me and told me “God has a message for me to give you. He will take all the pain and sorrow you’ve had in your life and replace it with joy.”

When the night started my friends laid their hands on me and prayed for me. It turned into a group of about seven people or more, praying for me.

God tore my heart and took out all the crud. He filled it with so much joy and healed my heart last night. I started laughing. I laughed hard, nonstop, for four and a half hours, until I finally fell asleep laughing. God gave me so much peace and healed me yesterday. I woke up laughing five or six times throughout the night. I woke up this morning at 6am. I heard God’s voice with my own two ears. He said. “Do you know me, Lucas?”

For the first time ever, I felt God’s love. I feel joy so much right now it makes me cry from happiness. God is amazing! All the prayers have been answered. I feel peace in my heart and mind. Thank you Jesus!

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Listen to Session 2, “The Beatitudes, the Beginning of Poverty of Spirit,” in Gary’s series on the Sermon on the Mount entitled “Grace-Empowered Living.”

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