Day 74 - Praise Reports

           I've been hearing praise reports all day today from other people around me who are experiencing God's healing power in their lives and in the lives of those around them.  Two of my friends have had excellent testimonies of God's goodness and grace this week.  A lady who goes to my church had been praying for a young woman who had cancer and was sick with infection and bed ridden.  After praying with her, the woman is now healed and able to move around and is infection free! GO GOD!
      
          My friend Tiffany in Florida called me tonight and several different healing testimonies that she shared with me.  Her cousin was diagnosed with endometriosis just a couple of weeks ago and when she went back to the doctor for an ultrasound, the endometriosis was completely GONE!  Over the weekend she was working at an outdoor festival and a woman who had had terrible back pain for 3 years fell.  She asked the woman if she could pray for her, God touched her and the woman has had NO PAIN since Saturday!  The best part of her story though was how she shared her testimonies and gave glory to God for them.  She attends a Bible study where she lives.  The majority of the individuals in the group have never seen God's power and love manifest in healings and miracles.  Saying they are skeptical of it is an understatement!  She felt led, however to share with the group what had happened over the last week.  This opened a door for seeds to be planted about God's goodness and His willingness and desire to care for His children!
           
           I have been really blessed to attend a church where we have been equipped and trained to take our faith in God and step out and use it.  To be the hands and the feet of God.  I was sitting and talking with my ten year old son at bed time tonight when he grabbed his Bible to look up a name.  The section he turned to happened to be Mark 3:14-16.  In verse 14 it says, and this is my paraphrase, that Jesus called the 12 disciples and gave them power and authority to pray for the sick and see them healed.  I love the fact that Jesus is still deputizing us today!  Later He says that the works that we do will be greater even than His because He goes on to be with the Father.  This to me is still far beyond my comprehension.  Several places in the Bible say that where Jesus went ALL were healed.  I can only imagine going somewhere and seeing God heal everyone single one!  I know that is God's desire though.  How blessed we are that we get to participate in it with Him!