Testimonies...
Powerful! This lady was a believer...God has feelings too! Praise the Lord for His mercy, kindness, and His eternal dominion (no more serving two masters!)
'I just stopped at McDonald’s before work and an older woman with a knee brace was standing there I saw the her drink cap wasn’t all the way on so I said something,she said thank you so much. I asked what happened to your knee, she said I have arthritis and it’s killing me. I said can I pray for you she said sure I’m a believer, so I laid my hand on her knee and told the arthritis to leave and told her Jesus loved her and asked her to bend it and all the pain was gone she was undone she hugged me, and then told the manager what happened as I was looking back at her she looked crazy. Well I’m getting into my car and she chased after me yelling Shawn I have back pain and a back brace, so I had her sit on the wall and both legs grew out and then she stood and I laid my hand on her back and she said it’s like electricity is pulling stuff out of my back and knee I can feel the pain leaving. She had on a bunch of jewelry and the Holy Spirt said to me have her take the peace sign off I find it offensive. When I told her she said she couldn’t. I said I don’t know you and I don’t care what you do but God just healed you and finds that offensive, then it clicked she said I’ll take it off immediately. I don’t know why He found it offensive, but this is one happy lady' -
Shawn Hurley
'I was in line buying some clothes and preaching the Gospel...as I felt the Holy Spirit flowing out of my mouth I heard Him say very sternly 'Victor, I will not tolerate any other gods, you must worship me and me alone, tell my Church that I will not tolerate any other gods...' wow...Let the fear of the Lord sweep the nation! Jesus Christ is still KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS! He's still seated on throne of GLORY! (I love how God's timing is so not coincidence, He's on the move, living and active!)
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'I learned something harsh today. I prayed (actually started out having someone else pray for her) healing for a woman's knee infection/arthritis and she felt a powerful wave of healing and electricity go through it...then I preached the full Gospel truth and she said the healing diminished a little bit.
The Holy Spirit had me preach the full truth (in the Spirit of love) that we need to accept the kingdom of God out of thankfulness for what He did...she was saying I believe but as soon as I preached the good news of a new life of righteousness in Christ...her faith wavered and she said the healing felt less than it was...so this is what I learned from the Holy Spirit today.
Yes He will heal anyone at any time but a mere profession of faith from the mouth doesn't mean we mean it from our heart and mind. When the Kingdom of God is offered to the lost and they reject it, they are rejecting God. I continue to believe and pray for everyone's repentance and growth in the faith but Holy Spirit must be obeyed and holiness and obedience shows that we really love God!
See now they have knowledge of the Truth that sets us free and it's not my responsibility to force anyone to love God, if they don't want Jesus Christ and the Gospel. We plant the seed and another waters it but only God gives increase and growth. God's really been emphasizing His sovereignty and dominion lately, He's jealous for His glory and we can't be walking in darkness and say that we love or know Him in Truth'
'Another testimony from today, I prayed for a man named Victor (not me but we joked about the shared name lol).
I digress. A cool side story is that I bought $5.00 in pins from Him, He handcrafts His own work and sells it to make his own money and I felt the Holy Spirit wanted me to bless Him...later found $5.00 on the ground at gas station ( I never find money at a vacant gas station lol...I told Him this and we laughed and talked about how good God is). The Lord's had me bless Him more than once. He has a cool group page to fight against poverty, and He's an awesome guy who's a hard worker and has a good heart.
Anyway I felt to lay hands and pray for Him and He said 'Thanks bro, it felt good' so the Holy Spirit just wanted to shower His love on Him in a tangible way to let Him know that He was pleased with Him and wants a deeper relationship. I didn't even know power and living water was flowing out physically like that until He told me after we were done praying...God is so good. Jesus Christ loves His children.'
'I prayed for a lady on my way back to my car...I asked if she needed prayer for anything and she said no and that she was fine.
Then the Holy Spirit had me gently say to her 'Don't lie to me now' (in a concerned and loving way, my flesh thought I was about to look like a fool because it had no idea why I would say such a thing to an older lady) and she confessed that she did have pain, and she was going blind. I know it was the Holy Spirit boldness because I would never say something like that on my own.
So I asked her permission to put my hand on her shoulder, she said yes and I prayed for her and also prophesied life and words of knowledge to her and it really encouraged her as well (She already knew me from when I worked at an ice cream store - UDF).
She said 'I never knew you prayed for people out here' and the Holy Spirit had me say 'Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love'...so she was really encouraged and she felt the love of Jesus Christ and I never planned for any of this but the Holy Spirit gave me the words of the Father to speak at the right time even though I didn't expect them to be so weird (to my flesh) yet accurate and effective...praise God.
Yes, we MUST operate out of a love motive and not a condemnation and judgment motive...if we are not operating out of love and genuine compassion we are not abiding in Christ and we need to repent. However, whatever the Holy Spirit tells me to say, I will say it because I know He is Lord because He is the fullness of God living inside me. I know that He will always have a solution.
It's not always so simple to set rules, protocol, and guidelines for evangelism and case by case circumstances...we need to know the Holy Spirit and be in covenant love relationship with Jesus Christ to know His will for our life. This is the only way to hear His voice and know what He wants us to do, how to do it, and how He feels'