Healings in Walker

As a Christian I know that God is able to heal, I know this to be true, as God has healed me. However, I still struggle to actual believe that God will heal when I take a step of faith and pray for someone. So I often argue with myself when I am out to actually talk to people and offer to pray for healing.

On Saturday (19^th May) the team I am leading at the moment were helping some of the local churches in Walker, which is in Newcastle, to run a marquee and football cage in the Walker Festival. The festival is not actually a Christian run event, but the churches in Walker come together to do things in the festival to connect more with the local community.

 Our time was going to finish with worship in the marquee, and so we spent the hour before hand walking round the festival praying. God has been challenging me recently to be offering the blessings of the kingdom to all I meet. So after a bit of time walking round and praying, and noticing lots of people on crutches. I went to find one of the other people we are working with to come and speak to people and offer prayer. I had done my normal arguing, but got to the point where I did not want to argue with myself any more. I do not want to be afraid of blessing others.

 The first lady we spoke to had injured her foot the night before, and was in quite a lot of pain. She said we could pray for her after a bit of hesitation, but she told us nothing had changed when we finished. We were not to be discouraged, and headed for another small group of people, one of whom was using a crutch. This group were very eager for us to pray. Not only the older woman who was using the crutch but others also, they were a family. The older woman suffered from arthritis of the hips, which she needed an operation for, but had been told that due to her epilepsy an operation would be too dangerous. So we prayed for her and the change was immediate. She told us that the severe pain that had been in her hips had gone. She then walked away toward a bench but quickly came back to tell us that she was no longer limping! Her daughter then told us she had bad knee pain, and swollen ankles. So we prayed for her and she told us that she felt really light as we prayed, and that the pain, which she had described as heavy before, was lifted. She wandered off to join her mother and a couple of other members of the family. The woman’s son stayed with us longer and told us about losing his father and how hard he had found it since. He also wanted prayer so we prayed a blessing over him, and the change in him was incredible, when he wandered away he almost floated. He was at a complete lose for words after we prayed, which he had not had any problem with before.

After this we headed back to join the others for the worship that the churches wanted to finish with. It was really encouraging for me to see God do amazing things when I take that tiny step of faith and reach out with the blessings of his kingdom.