As you may or may not know, yesterday was my 30th birthday. My friends from work wanted to go out with me so I went with them for a drink and food.
The whole evening my friends were asking different questions to our waiter, Davis, and we were having great conversations. Then he started trying to describe us based on our signs (since he found out it was my birthday). This kind of gave me a sense of him being open to new things.
Towards the end of the evening, I saw an open opportunity to practice what Alyn had just shared about healing at Emanate, so I asked him if he had any pain in his body and he said kind of. I asked where and he said his feet from standing so long. I said I was practicing something I just learned and if he wouldn't mind repeating after me to see if he felt better. He repeated the four line prayer while my coworkers observed, not sure of what I was doing. I asked if he felt anything different and he said not yet but he would return the dishes to the dish pit and come back to let me know. He had a somewhat surprised face when he returned and said his feet felt better!
My coworker asked in the midst of all of this why I hadn't done that with her for her knee. I had no clue her knee was bugging her! So she repeated the four line prayer with me also and then said it felt a little better then tested again as we got up. She said it did feel better!
I was exhausted at the end of this day, but I'm glad I chose to step out anyway and not care what my coworkers may think. From the shy and quiet person I've been previously, God has definitely brought me far.
Danielle's Story // 5.10.14 // Fire and Light Festival
So today, I had the pleasure to participate at a festival called Fire and Light that the Foundry hosts! It was basically a festival of continuous worship, praying for the city of Nashville and sending out teams of people to pray for the sick and share God's love! Definitely my kind of festival! As you may already know, I work at the School of Supernatural Life and we were hosting a booth where people could come and receive prayer for physical healing!
I am also so excited to have booths like these, because people come to you for prayer and it shows how hungry they are to see God move in their lives! With that being said, after praying with several people, three people's stories really stood out to me that day!
The first story is a guy named David. He came up to get prayer for his allergy problems that he had been battling that week. He said how he has been congested and not felt the best! As he was sharing his story, I felt like I was supposed to share my testimony of getting healed from food allergies! I told him how I got delivered from food allergies the year I went through the School of Supernatural Life and how I have not had any issues since then. After I shared that story, you could feel his faith rising and so we went on to pray for him. As we were praying, I could feel warmth in my hands, so I asked him if he was feeling anything. He said how he felt this sensation going up and down his face and that he could feel things opening up! I was so excited to hear that! God is SO amazing!
The next story that stood out to me that day, was a guy named Paul. He recently had been in a fight and ended up having to have surgery on his head. This meant that he had a very fresh scar going from the front of his head to back behind his ear. As he came up to get prayer from the team, he was having a really hard time communicating with us. We ended up just praying for him and loving him the best we knew how. After we were finished praying, he kind of wandered off and I was bummed because I wanted to continue to talk to him. He ended up coming back about an hour later and told me that he was thankful for us praying for him and he felt like his worry had gone away! I could feel the peace of God on him and he seemed to be at a much better place than he was when he first arrived to the booth!
The final story that I would like to share is about a guy named Michael! He came up to get prayer for his wrist. He said how it had been hurting and that it is not helpful to have a hurt wrist when he plays violin! So we prayed for him! After praying for a bit, we asked how he felt and he said a little better! So we thanked God for what He had already done and continued praying for more! By the end of the second prayer, he said his wrist was better and we were all so thankful! Yay God!
All in all the Fire and Light Festival was AMAZING! I am so thankful that the Foundry hosted this for our city! It was great getting to partner with other churches to focus on what God is doing in Nashville! What a great day!