Going to another level

My roommate Jeremy and I just got back from the mall. We went with the sole purpose to pray for people. After I approached a man with some fairly serious injuries due to being shot many years ago we decided that we would step out in the word of knowledge on each person that we approached.

Speaking of the word of knowledge, someone has a problem on the left side of their chest, perhaps the ribs, but I believe that it is the left lung. God wants to heal you right now.

Jeremy felt like if we had told the man that he had been shot (through a word of knowledge) that he might have been open to us praying for him. But without it he shot us down. There comes a point when being polite does not do anything for you.

Soooo, the next "legal target" we saw we did not approach for a few minutes as we asked God to show us things about him. Well, when Jeremy went to talk to him he just forgot the words he was gonna give and went right into asking if we could pray for him. :) Well, we ended up praying for him, but there wasn't anything that he could do to test it out. We were also discouraged (not really, but something like that) to hear him say that he believed that Jesus only came to save and not to heal. He then said that he believed that when Jesus returned he would take away sickness. We believe though that God is bigger than this man's beliefs and will heal him anyway.

We had a woman laugh at us when we were praying for him. We are gonna get a word for her one of these days to make sure she knows that God loves her. Additionally, the man's wife conveniently walked away as we prayed. It is so sad that Christians are embarassed to be seen praying in public.

Next we went into Macy's. After getting turned down. I thought I got word of knowledge for the collar bone. So I approached the clerk that was nearby and asked her. She didn't have that problem but that immediately opened a door to talk to her as she asked if we were from Bethel. We then rattled of a dozen words of knowledge. They were all wrong. Haha. She was fun though. She was just happy that we were stepping out in faith. Just after we started to pray for her she got a phone call and we could tell it was someone in the store. So, we got asked to leave. Haha. We got kicked out of Macy's.

So that was it. We decided that we would press in more for words of knowledge and we are believing that as we step out, God will take us to another level. Redding is going to be transformed!