A touch of restoration

We had the privilege of being apart of God doing the most incredible thing in Brighton a few weeks ago. We were with the team we were leading sharing with people on the street who God is. A couple of our team (Heather and John) ended up sitting and talking with a guy in one of the local cafes called Nicholas. He described the last 47 years of his life as a living hell; he had suffered with Schizophrenia and was unable to really focus on anything for more than 10-15 minutes. Heather and John spent time listening to him and telling him about how amazing God is. After about half an hour they got to pray for him, simply asking that he would know the peace of God, they also gave him a card for the church we were working with.

The next Day he called the pastor of the church we were working with and told him that since Heather and John had prayed for him that all the voices he had been hearing had gone silent and he had never known such peace and slept so well and he needed to come and talk about what had happened. This was a Friday and he agreed to come to the church early on the Sunday to meet and talk, but he would probably not be able to manage the service.

When he arrived on the Sunday Morning there was a massive change in him, the most noticeable was his eye colour. When he first met Heather and John his eyes were a grey colour, but when we met him on Sunday they were a crystal blue colour. He quickly started to describe a dream he had had on the Saturday night. In this dream he was in his room at home and Jesus walked into it, when Jesus came in He said “My name is Jesus” and He placed His hand on Nicholas’s head and then said “Nicholas, your mind is free”.

All Nicholas wanted from that point was Jesus in his life in a real way. He then stayed for the whole service and spent time afterwards talking with people. He came every week we were in Brighton and is now spending time with the pastor regularly exploring what this all means for him.