|
Healing Wells *** Digging the Wells of Healing *** 503-560-7310
|
|
Breakthrough IN Willamina Oregon June 9 –21, 2001 Sunday was an awesome day at Crossroads
Worship Center. God really touched
some people in the service. We have
had numerous healings, physically, mentally and spiritually. We have one young man named Daniel in our church that has
recently come out of a drug lifestyle. He
has had questions about revival and the manifest power of God. He asked God to reveal to him if His
power was real, and if the manifestations the people were having were real. Well, God answered His prayer almost
instantaneously. He began to be
overcome with the power of God without anybody praying for him. God has placed a hunger within in for
more of Him. God is digging the
wells of revival in the people and it’s great to see the hunger beginning to
grow. God is good, all the time!!! As we finished two weeks of
services with Hamilton, we were all very excited about the things God had done
in our lives and in our church. Betty has had an improvement in her blood sugar and
wrist and June was healed of a scalp condition she has had for several years. Even beyond the individual healings that took place
(these are GREAT, I don’t mean to belittle them) God has done such marvelous
things to our congregation. Where
there had been very little or no outside contact and fellowship with families
other than on Sundays, people are
starting to get together with each other and open their homes to one another!!!! Praise God!!!! Where there had not really been a core group to help carry
the load, God is building one. All
these things may not seem like much to some, but any Pastor will tell you, they
are significant to the growth and maturity of a body. God has given dreams and visions. One of the visions came when Janine had
left us (not physically) and was transported into the presence of God. Here is what she saw: I saw a deformed “blob” or object. This blob had some movement but it was
very strained and uncoordinated. Around
this blob I could see tiny demons scurrying to and fro setting traps and snares
around and in front of it. As this
thing moved, it would try to avoid hitting the snares and all of the energy and
attention was on not getting caught in the traps set by the demons. I asked the Lord what this “blob”
was and He told me that it was the church.
He said that we had been so busy trying to escape the traps set by the
enemy on our own strength and wisdom instead of asking Him to remove them. So as I watched, I saw what looked like
a very large foot. The foot was
actually larger than the church. This
foot began swooping back and forth in front of the church and the church began
to move in a straightforward motion. Then
the Lord took me by myself down the streets of our town. To areas of total darkness as we walked these areas, He told
me to turn my head and look into the darkness.
As I did, it was as if light literally shot from my eyes and as it did,
it caused the darkness to leave. I
was so excited that I turned to face the Lord and He told me to look again where
the darkness had been. When I did,
I was mortified to see the most pathetic looking forms of human beings I have
ever seen. I had started to move on
and the Lord told me that I couldn’t leave them there. I looked back to the place where they had been and the
darkness had returned. This was
very disturbing to me, but before I could ask why it had returned, we had gone
back to where the church was. As I
watched, I could see people moving in and out of the church, it was a very busy
place. Off to the side of the
church, approximately 30 feet or so, there was the Lord, sitting. Every once in a while someone would
approach Him and when they walked away, they were consumed with His glory. But as they went about their lives,
continuing to come and go from the church, the light of God’s glory would
fade. During this whole time of
people coming and going, the Lord had been silent. Finally, He spoke to me and told me what
had been happening in our church. He said every once in a while some one
would come to Him and He would consume them, but in their busyness, they would
lose what God had done in them. Then
the Lord told me to watch what was about to happen. As I stood there, I saw the Lord stand
up and walk over to the church. The
only way I know how to communicate what took place is to compare the church to a shell of a body with out
the skeletal system and God simply stepped inside the shell and when He did,
there was an infusion of Him and His power and glory to the deformed and
uncoordinated church. The church
became massive in size, like nothing I have ever seen. The size of the church was not from the number of people in
it but because God had infused Himself to it.
As the transformed church began to move, we walked back to the areas
where I had been with the Lord. But
instead of a process of light coming and darkness going, there was instant
dispelling of darkness even before we reached the start of the darkness. The darkness was literally running from
us. As we continued on, those same pathetic people were there,
but when the darkness left, they were transformed to healthy and strong people. I knew that the strength and health was
not physical but represented their spirits.
Then the Lord said that there must be an infusion
between He and the church. Praise
God it is coming. Pastor Randy and Janine Long Crossroads Worship Center P.O. Box 330 330 S. Main St. Willamina, OR. 97396 503-876-4424
Hamilton Filmalter |