Testimonies


These are some of our ministry stories. These stories are all true. Most of these have been taken from our newsletters. Some names have been changed. The stories are listed from newest to oldest. There are some incredible stories that you will not want to miss so read through them. Remember, God is no respecter of people. If He did it through us, He can do it through you. Have fun and be blessed.

Three Words of Knowledge and a Salvation- California July 2008 
Every Wednesday I serve in the healing rooms at our church and we always send out a team of two to go out and bring the healing to the streets. Yesterday I went out with a lady named Shirl and we had amazing encounters. Before we left we asked God to tell us where to go and what He wanted to do. I received three words of knowledge; one for a breathing problem, one for a left knee and the other for a right knee. These were words from the Lord that indicated what He wanted to heal in the people we would meet. Of course, you never know if the words are right until you go out and go for it.

We went to the first place God told us to go and were able to pray for a Jewish woman and another mom and daughter. They all were very encouraged and we felt for sure that it was a divine appointment. The other place we felt God lead us to was Target. We walked through the store listening to the Lord and He told Shirl, “There is the man.” I walked up and said, “This is a strange question but do you have a problem with either of your knees?” He looked back wide-eyed and said slowly, “Yes.” I asked him which one and he replied that it was the left one. (The word I had received from the Lord was very strong in my left knee.) I told him how we knew and what we were doing. He would not allow us to pray for him in the store but he walked away knowing that God loved him and was seeking him out.

I saw another woman and felt that she was the “right knee” person. I asked her if she or anyone in her family had a right knee problem. She said no, so I told her what we were doing and then told her that I was wrong often and this was obviously the case. She then said, “Wait a second. My boyfriend just broke his right knee.” Although he was not there, we prayed for him in the middle of Target with some employees eyeballing us.

As we walked out of the store, I saw a Target employee sitting on break and felt led to speak to her. I told her about the two previous accurate words and asked her if she was the one with the breathing problem. She replied that she was and told us that someone from our church had approached her in a similar way the day previous. I replied that it was obvious that God loved her and was after her and I flat out asked her if she knew if she died today, would she go to heaven. With tears beginning to roll down her eyes, she replied, “I don’t know, but I would like to”. Through sobs, she asked the Lord into her heart. She told us that her mom was a Christian and prayed for her every day. We prayed over her, blessed her and blessed her breathing. With tears running down her eyes, she began to laugh and say, “I have to go to work like this.” We never did find out if she got healed, but we know her spirit was raised from the dead. We all walked away amazed at the hound of heaven and His love.

Burma June 2008
One of the first days we were there, we were riding in a taxicab in between meetings. I was busy looking out the window taking in the scenery. I was not being spiritual or even thinking anything spiritual, when I suddenly got a pain in my right knee. I immediately thought of the taxi driver. I asked him if he had a problem with his right knee. He responded that he did not so I asked him if anyone in his family had a problem with their right knee. In amazement, he responded that his mom did. I told him that Jesus had told me about the problem and wanted to heal her. He then proceeded to tell us that his dad also had cancer. After praying in the cab for his parents to be healed, I asked if he had ever heard the good news about Jesus. He said that he had heard of him but no one had ever explained enough for him to understand. I explained the gospel to him and asked if he wanted to accept Jesus as his savior. He said, “Yes, I want to.” In the taxicab, he invited Jesus into his heart. He had some friends that were Christians so we told him to tell them what he had done. When we got out of the taxicab, he was smiling broadly and thanking us. He was so ready to accept Jesus. He just needed to hear clearly. Out of love, God interrupted my sight seeing with a word of knowledge to save his taxi driving, Burmese son.

Another Driver the Next Day
The following day while riding in another taxi, I got a word of knowledge that the driver had stomach problems. When I asked him about it he said, “Yes. How did you know?” I responded, “Jesus told me and He told me because he loves you and wants to take away your pain.” His eyes got very wide and his mouth slowly dropped open. He kept saying “Jesus?” real slowly three or four times. The consequence of my statement was setting in. If what I was saying was true then Jesus is real, loving, personal and powerful. We all could feel a sense of awe descend in the taxi as the driver processed in shock what was happening. The driver was not feeling pain at that exact moment so when we prayed we could not know for sure if he was healed or not. We also tried to explain the gospel to him but his English was not good enough to understand. He did understand though that Jesus broke into his world with a personal touch of His love. We could all tell that this word of knowledge was going to drive this man to seek Jesus. God is always looking to reach out to His kids.

God is Real- USA- May 2008

On Friday night we went to the Irvine Spectrum and I started talking with a security guard. His partner was speaking with someone else about ten feet away. I asked the man if he or his partner had any pain in their right knee because I felt that the Lord told me that one of them had pain there and that He wanted to heal it. The man asked his partener and to his surprise he had pain in his right knee. I asked the man, "What did I just say?" (I like to get non-believers to repeat the Lord's words to get them involved as much as possible.) He told his partner, "God told him one of us had pain in their right knee that He wanted to heal." They both were tripping out. After some prodding he let me pray and since he didn't have pain unless he ran, we couldn't tell if he was healed or not. They both were on duty and couldn't hang around to hear the gospel but they saw that God is real, loving and cares about what His kids care about.

We worked a lot with orphans in Bosnia and one day one ofthem came to us for prayer. Even though she was a Muslim she knew that when we pray Jesus answers. She was physically abused every day by a worker at the orphanage. This worker had a long history of abusing kids. When we prayed a spirit of faith and righteous anger came upon us and we bound the lady's hands in Jesus name and declared that she would never touch another kid again. The spirit lifted off of us as quickly as it came and left us feeling a little strange. Our orphan friend left and didn't come back for four months. We saw her almost every day so we knew something was not right. She was forbidden to come to our house so figured that she got caught and was in big trouble. One day, four months later, she knocked on our door and we asked her what happened. She said that she did get caught but that the teacher never touched her again. After several years the teacher had still not touched her since the day we prayed. What power to bring righteousness on the earth do we have that we have not come into a full revelation about? If this is any indicator it is much more than most of us ever come close to putting into practice.

From The Mouth Of Babes- USA- May 2008                                                                 Recently we took our children on a family outreach. We met with three other families to pray before heading out. The idea is to do a treasure hunt with the Lord. We all pray and ask the Lord to tell us where to go and who we should minister to. As we prayed and told the children to listen to the Lord, He began to give us words and pictures.Remarkably, the children were the quickest to receive the words and the most confident of what the Lord was saying. Here they are:

• Gray walls with houses behind it
• Green benches
• Dinosaurs
• Several visions about birds
• A vision of a vulture picking at a person
• Miranda
• Mark

These words seemed very odd to us but as we prayed, we felt we were to go to the “dinosaur park” in Laguna Hills. It has dinosaurs, green benches and gray walls with houses behind it. Right next to the park there is a skate park that me and another guy went to with our babies. While we were there, a young man stood out to us. He had gotten in a fight earlier that day and had a big scratch mark on the side of his face. We had just figured that “Mark” was a name and not a “mark” on someone’s body. As we spoke to him further, we found out that he had testicular cancer and was a Mormon. After some convincing, he allowed us to pray for him and share the gospel with him. We don’t know if he was healed or not and he did not accept Jesus on the spot but he was very thankful for our prayers and love. He even called us old guys with babies “cool”. We were also able to share the gospel and pray for another guy that he was hanging out with. He was also positively impacted by our prayers.

After a while we realized that there had been a confrontation with “mark” and some other guys on the other side of the skate park. They were talking on their cell phones and staring at “mark”. All of a sudden, 4 or 5 gang members showed up with tire irons and huge, sharpened screw drivers. They surrounded “mark” and were going to beat him in the head with their tire irons before I stepped in while holding Eagan. To our surprise, the gang members stepped back and said they couldn’t kill him in front of us and all the other little kids. After a little scuffle, everything was over. I can’t imagine what would have happened to “mark” if God had not sent us there that day. Afterward, we realized that “mark” had a spirit of death over him and that is what the vision of the vulture attacking a person was.

Just a couple hundred yards away at the dinosaur park, Casey and some other women got to pray with a lady named Robin. She happened to have a daughter named Robin also that had a mysterious hair loss problem. (That fulfilled the birds vision.) They got to minister to them both and share the love of Jesus with them. We still had one more word that had not been fulfilled, so I went looking. I found a group of Mexicans that were having a picnic and asked them if anyone was named Miranda. There was no one. Then I remembered that there was a Mexican drink called “Mirinda”. When I inquired about it they said it was true but they didn’t have any. It led into an opportunity to share Jesus with them and Casey and I were able to pray for a lady that had been trying to get pregnant. They were all very blessed. We got very blessed as well because they gave us authentic, Mexican, carne asada tacos and homemade cake.

At the end of the day every seemingly wrong vision that the children had turned out to be right and all of them even came to pass. We again were amazed and encouraged at how eager the Lord is to speak to His children and how much He longs to do anything to reach His lost children out in the world.

Miracles in Sin City- USA-December 2007
A couple weeks ago, Gage and I had the privilege of going to Las Vegas with some friends and two junior high students from Gage’s church class. We spoke and ministered at a ministry school there. We shared stories and prayed over the students. We saw a leg grow out, migraines disappear, curvature of the spine healed, pain in the ankles healed, pain in the forearm healed, chest congestion healed and many other physical healings. We also prophesied over the students and spoke out destiny and confirmed callings and spiritual gifts. Almost every time we spoke over someone prophetically, everyone in the classroom laughed because they knew each other and were amazed at the accuracy of the words. We were all very encouraged, especially me. All the students felt affirmed in their identities and reinvigorated to go out and take sin city for Jesus.

Miracles in Tijuana- Mexico-December 2007
Our ministry school went to Tijuana to minister at a homeless shelter. I had the opportunity to preach along with two of my fellow students. 20 people gave their lives to the Lord, several were physically healed and a few others were delivered from demons. One of our team that had never seen someone healed, prayed for a lady that could not walk because of pain in her legs. After he prayed, she stood up and could walk with no pain. I prayed for a lady that had pain in her right shoulder for two weeks. I laid hands on her, commanded the pain to go and it left. Another lady reported that her uterus had collapsed and she had pain there. We didn’t quite know what to do with it but when we prayed she reported that there was no more pain. Praise Jesus! Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. We felt so privileged to be able to preach and demonstrate the gospel to the poor.

Set Free from Fear, Anxiety, Paranoia, Self-Consciousness- USA-November 2007
(This is a testimony of a friend of ours that she wrote to us after we had prayed for her several summers ago)
For me it all started 2 years ago, summer of 2005. I remember we were all at the dinner table and I was saying something about knowing that I live in fear. Even though I had been saved for 11 years I just figured it was part of life and hoped that someday maybe I wouldn't have to live that way anymore. You guys told me that if I was up for it we could pray together later that night. And so we did…for almost 3 hours we did! I remember being scared about what God might show you guys about me, being that I was ashamed of so much, even ashamed in admitting that I lived in fear because it made me feel like I wasn't a "good" Christian, you know, like I should know better.
My dad died when I was 13 and shortly thereafter I started having anxiety attacks in crowded places. Even if I didn't have a full-fledged attack, I was still nervous to be out in public, even then as a 27 yr old woman. I was extremely self-conscious and always paranoid that people were staring at me. Even though I'd had to be responsible for myself since I was a teenager (due to the life my mom chose after my dad died) and was known for being "strong" and "independent" all this responsibility had taken a toll on my mind. The longer I was with my husband and knew I could trust him to be there for me, the more I became unable to make decisions about my life, so I would just ignore, avoid, whatever it took to pass time and not make any decisions. I think I went into survival mode and got by on the bare minimum. I was a procrastinator in the worst way. I felt overwhelmed by having to make a decision about the LITTLEST thing, let alone big important decisions! It sucked.
I don't exactly remember details, but I do know that we went back to my childhood, to a time when I felt very out of control, watching my dad lose control in spanking/punishing my little brother and not being able to stop him, not being able to help my brother at all, I just stood in the hallway and cried for my dad to stop. You guys led me through some steps of forgiveness and repentance. I had to forgive my dad for what he did, repent to Jesus for sinning by holding onto that fear and unforgiveness and then forgive myself as well. It amazed me that we need to repent for "ignorant" sin, sins we committed as children not even being aware that we were sinning. We went through this process for quite a few other events in my young childhood as well. Towards the end of the prayer time Casey (I think) said that she had an image of me as a little girl walking with this HUGE backpack on my back, too loaded for me to even walk with. It was loaded with all of my burdens/sins. You told me to ask Jesus to come and then asked me if I could take off my backpack and give it to Him. This was emotional for me, but I did. I handed over my big backpack of sin. We ended the prayer time there, I remember opening my eyes and I actually felt physically lighter. The next day I had a new joy, I had new thoughts actually. I felt a renewed sense of calm. My anxiety was gone. I could go to the grocery store alone now. I felt confident that I could go back to school, find a new job, basically I felt like I could do anything I wanted to. I was no longer PARALYZED BY FEAR AND ANXIETY! Praise the Lord!
Now, 2 years later, I have realized that fear in my life is all about layers and the Lord is still working on me. That night with Stacy and Casey was the beginning of a new journey. The Lord opened up my eyes to some of Satan's lies. It felt nice not to be depressed for weeks at a time, to be able to shop alone, to eat alone, to not constantly feel anxious about everything in life and to go back to work and make some friends, oh and my husband appreciated the fact that I was less of a control-freak now. I learned a lot more about the theology of demonization this last time you guys visited and for that I am eternally thankful. A new light shines in my life, even more of Satan's lies have been exposed. Even more demonic strongholds have been broken off of me, off my husband and even off my mom, as a result of your ministry. I am blessed by the fact that you, Stacy and Casey, have willing and obedient hearts and that you learned these truths and came into our home and shared them with us. We have been set free by the truth that yes, even as Christians who love Jesus, we still live according to lies of the enemy and need deliverance. It may sound crazy to some Christians but all I can say is that in my personal experience I know it to be true, the same way I knew it to be true the day a friend shared the Gospel with me and I realized I was in need of a Savior. I knew myself before I got saved and I saw the fruit of the Spirit after I got saved. I knew myself before deliverance and I saw the fruit of the Spirit after that demon was gone.

Her Husband's Testimony- USA-November 2007
(Two years after we prayed for his wife, when we came to visit, our friend asked us to pray for him. Here is his testimony.)
“Stacy and Casey Long have been a big impact on my life. The time we shared effected how I view the Christian life and understand the spiritual world. I have been a Christian since I was a little boy, I grew up in the church, I had been taught a great deal and felt I was well versed but last summer I was taught some things about God that opened my eyes, that pushed me further in my Christian walk and showed me I can always go deeper with God.
When Stacy and Casey came to visit I had planned to enjoy hanging out and at some point get together and pray for me. The last time my wife was the lucky one to experience a prayer time with Stacy & Casey and it changed her life so I was looking forward to see what would happen to me. One of the things I wanted to bring up was my addiction to alcohol. Most people that know me would not say I have a problem but I knew in my heart that I enjoyed the sauce way too much and was convicted of it. I did not want to admit it but if I was being truthful I would have to say I had some bondage to the juice.
When it came time to pray we sat in my living room and we asked God to reveal what He wanted to speak to me about. We went to my childhood and ended up praying about things I had no idea would be influencing my drinking. Instead of just praying that I would not enjoy drinking anymore or something like that we got down to the roots that were motivating my addiction, and broke them off. God also showed me how a spirit of rejection was affecting my life and relationships with people closest to me. God revealed to me that this went back for generations so we broke that off also, LOTS of forgiveness needed here.
Casey also prayed that God would loose my tongue. My wife says that it has definitely been loosed! Stacy also explained how we as Christians believe the lies of demons and that gives them a foothold in our lives and when we believe a lie it effects what decisions we make. Instead of believing these lies we need to hold on the truths of God and this is what sets us free. I also needed to forgive a lot of people in my past and I asked for forgiveness for the lies I believed and forgave myself.
It was a truly freeing experience. Since that night I have not had a drink and the desire to drink is no longer a problem. I feel more confident when I speak with people and no longer struggle with shame. My words flow clearly, just as I think them in my head and before I would struggle to articulate what I was thinking in my head. I thank the Longs for letting God use them and sharing the truths that all Christians should know.”

Healings & Salvations in Yemen- May 2007
During the last week of the trip, I (Stacy) was able to go with several of the conference speakers and some other missionaries to Yemen again. I am falling more and more in love with the place. I wouldn’t want to live there but it is a great place to visit. Our big team split into two and my team went down to a southern Yemeni city to minister to the missionaries and to release God’s kingdom. God touched many of the missionaries and one Yemeni Muslim came to Christ. Everyone was encouraged, especially the two missionaries to Yemen that accompanied us.
My personal highlight was when my friend and I got to minister in an Ethiopian church in the capital city. We called out words of knowledge and many people were healed without anyone even touching them. After we preached we laid hands on people and prayed for them for healing, freedom from demonic oppression and miscellaneous other things. We saw at least 30 healings at the church service. Later that day we had an open house where people brought their sick friends for healing. We saw even more healings and two women come to Christ. God is so good and we are so thankful for the opportunity to minister alongside good friends in the Middle East.

Middle East Healings & Prophetic Words- May 2007
Our family went to the Middle East to visit our friends and do ministry. Casey, our friend and I ministered at a Sri Lankan church. Casey saw 2 ladies in a vision and called them out of the church members. The first, we prophesied that she was a queen, a leader of women and she confirmed that she was a leader in women's ministry. The other had ringing in her ear and she was healed when we laid hands on her. A lady with chronic headaches and pain down her shoulders and arms was also healed. Casey called one man out of the congregation and we prophesied that he would be a preacher. He confirmed that it was his desire. One person was healed that had pain in his right shoulder for two years. A knee and ringing in the left ear were also healed. Another lady had difficulty breathing and when our friend cast out a python spirit she started to choke. Our friend and I prayed some more and she was glassy eyed and non-responsive. We weren’t sure what was going on. We left her for a bit and later she confirmed that she saw Jesus and he came into her and filled her with peace and joy.

Major Healing From a Major Car Accident- Bosnia-May 2007
Today my friend and I went to one of my neighbors houses. He told me that I had prayed for him several months before on the street. I had forgotten but he got in a major car accident and had internal injuries. I saw him walking slowly in pain down the street. I leaned over the fence from my yard and asked if I could pray for him. He allowed me to so I leaned over, put my hand on his shoulder and prayed for about 30 seconds. He walked away and I forgot about it because I didn’t see him for several months after that. Apparently, he couldn’t sleep before I prayed because he had so much pain but after I prayed he slept very well and woke up with no pain whatsoever. He had no problems after that. He said that he had major injuries and that this was a big miracle. Praise Jesus!

Preaching in a Muslim Refugee Camp- Bosnia-April 2007
My favorite event of the week was when we went into the Muslim refugee camp. We came with enough barbeques and chevapi, (Bosnian sausage) to feed 150 people. We barbequed, hung out with them, played soccer, did dramas and gave testimonies. Early on in our time there, I met a man who had been shot during the war and was having strong pain in his leg every time he walked. We talked a little bit and he allowed us to pray for him. After we finished praying I asked him to walk to test it out. He walked about a hundred feet and there was no pain. About two hours later, I asked about the pain and there was still no pain. By the time we left four hours later, he still had no pain. He was hugging me and thanking me with tears in his eyes and asking us to come back.
After all the food, soccer and dramas I stood in front of about 60 Muslim people and preached the gospel to them. Two little girls, the daughters of the lady that we give food to there, leaned over to Casey and told her “What he is saying is true.” It was the beginning of a dream of mine to preach not only to the villages in Bosnia but also to Muslims anywhere. To my friends’ and my own knowledge there has not been anyone in recent times that have preached the gospel to a Muslim village in Bosnia. It was a huge step not only for us personally but also for the body of Christ in Bosnia. I know that it is the first step of many more to come.

Healings Break Out in a Muslim Refugee Camp- Bosnia-April 2007
Last week I (Stacy) along with two visiting Austrians went to a Muslim refugee camp to deliver some humanitarian aid. The lady we went to see was not home but we were invited into a neighbors house to have coffee. Everyone in this refugee camp is very poor and most of them are single moms with 4 or 5 kids. As we sat and listened to three women’s stories of hardship and poverty one woman asked us for money to pay for her medicine that she takes for her heart condition. Every woman had a look of hopelessness and despair on their faces. I told the woman that we didn’t have money to give but that it would be better that she got healed than to receive money to pay for her disease. She agreed so I asked if I could pray for her. She agreed so I laid hands on her and began to pray in English. I cast out a demon of fear, asked the Holy Spirit to touch her and after several moments she began to smile. She looked at me and said, “Wow, I feel so much better.” Then she turned to her friends and told them that she felt something leave her heart and out of her chest. She did not know any English and had no idea that I actually cast out a spirit.
After seeing the results of prayer the other two women asked for prayer. They both also felt joy and peace flood them. There were three girls watching all of this happen so I asked if we could also pray for them. One girl had epilepsy and heart problems also. I grabbed her hand and we prayed. A big smile came over her face and she said that she felt electricity go from my hand up her arm into her body. She went outside, rode her bike around for about five minutes and came in panting. “I feel like 20 pounds was lifted off me,” she said. “I feel great and I still feel electricity running through my whole body.” We prayed for her friend and she reported that she also felt electricity go up her arm. As we left the women and girls were smiling really big and hugging us and asking us to please come back.

Miracles in the Middle East- January 2007
Most of you don’t know, but two days after Christmas Gage and I (Stacy) went to one of the poorest Middle Eastern countries for ten days to join a ministry team with some of our friends that live in the middle east. A healing evangelist named James was also with us. He has been all over the world and has a special heart and call to Muslims. He has seen thousands of major healings but among the more unusual he has seen metal dissolve out of people’s bodies well over 100 times. Sometimes it even ends up as a pool of liquid metal in his hands. Since Gage has a metal rod in his leg and will have to have it removed in a couple of years, we felt that we should go to learn, minister and receive prayer.
We saw God do so many things it would be impossible to share them all.
We saw:
• a man deaf from birth in his right ear get healed
• a man so demonized that he was chained up get free and healed of deafness
• many, many physical and emotional healings
• many, many missionaries get encouraged and set free from some of their bondages
• and so many other amazing things

I will share mostly some of the things Gage and I personally saw and experienced. I have prayed for the gift of words of knowledge like I have seen other members of the body of Christ operate in. They will feel pain or a sensation in their body that corresponds to where Jesus wants to heal someone else’s pain or a problem in their body. While in the Ukraine in September, I felt that I was getting words of knowledge and I gave them, but the group was so large that I had no way of confirming whether they were accurate or not. While in the Middle East on the last several evenings, I also felt that I was getting words of knowledge again. The only way to find out if they are right or not, is to share them and risk being wrong. So, I shared about five words of knowledge and four out of the five were confirmed to be accurate. I prayed for all four and all four conditions were healed. One lady had a back problem and as we prayed she felt electricity shoot down her spine and then several of her vertebrae popped into place. She was healed and I learned that God is a good chiropractor.

The next day I gave four or five more words of knowledge at a different meeting and they turned out to be accurate as well. I was so encouraged to know that I was hearing from the Lord and seeing people healed through my hands. We have seen healings before but it just never gets old. Back here in Bosnia, during worship in our church service I received another accurate word of knowledge that applied to two women. One of the women got healed with no one even praying for her. I hope this is a sign of more to come.

Prophetic Challenge
Our friends that we went on this trip with have been practicing hearing God’s voice for other people and they have gotten very good at it. They both were able to point out into a crowd of people and “read their mail”. My friend pointed to one lady and said you are a nurse right? It was right. They were able to tell people God’s heart for them and encourage them tremendously through prophetic words. One lady stated, the day after she was prophesied and prayed over, that “you saved my life yesterday.” I can’t go into details but God did save her life that night through a prophetic word. It was so exciting.

Casey and I have had people prophecy over us and we have, at times, prophesied very accurately over other people as well. The impact can be life changing. Since we are all trying to grow in hearing God’s voice my friend announced during one of the church services “When you come up for prayer don’t tell us what you want prayer for. We will listen to God and tell you what you came up for. If we are having problems hearing God or if we get it wrong please help us, but let us try to tell you first.” My first thought, (being the man of faith that I am) was “Oh great! Thanks a lot. What a friend.” I am so glad now that he said that. I saw one woman standing around watching us pray so I asked if she wanted prayer. She said yes so I asked what she wanted prayer for. She said, “You’re supposed to tell me.” I laughed nervously, took her hands and looked into her eyes, trying to sense or see or hear anything. Only one word came to mind, “direction”. I said, “You came to get direction for your life right?” She said in a surprised way, “Yes”. Believe me I was much more surprised than her.

Gage Prophecies
Gage also was giving prophetic words for people. In one meeting, Gage saw fire over peoples’ heads and then a door open in all of their chests. Some bad things were coming out of their hearts as God put good things in. When this process was completed the fire on their heads, changed colors, got larger and then exploded with white light. All the people were then dressed in white clothes with a pure white fire over their heads. The vision spoke to the team very personally. They were also encouraged and challenged that if an eleven year old can see visions from God that they could as well. “I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophecy, Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions…” It is awesome and humbling to be out-ministered by your 11 year old. And although Gage was not healed, his faith has been strengthened and he is eager for more of God.

Healings in Ukraine-November 2006
My trip to Ukraine was wonderful. I met many amazing people of God and was refreshed, encouraged and challenged in my walk with Jesus. Our team had twenty people and over the week, we saw over 100 healings. One of the most significant physical healings I personally saw was an old lady maybe 60, or 70 or even 80. She walked sort of bent over and came for prayer for a long term hip and knee problem in her right leg. I prayed for her and apparently, she felt something because she began to stomp her leg on the ground surprisingly hard testing it out. She started to yell and jump up and down very high for a woman of her age. She was completely healed! Her fellow church members who were in line behind her for prayer, began crowding forward in greater expectancy. I prayed for four more people after that with physical problems and they were also instantly and completely healed. It is so fun to watch Jesus pour out His love on His kids!

Demonic Manifestation and Public Deliverance- Bosnia-September 2006
This is a story that happened a couple of weeks ago that we did not include in our last newsletter. We have sent it to select people for fear that some will be totally freaked out by it. We hope that you will rejoice with us that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and that this story could have been put right in the middle of the gospels or Acts and would be consistent with the rest of what was happening.
I got a phone call from Steve's landlord and she was freaking out. I couldn’t understand most of what she was saying but I gathered that something was wrong with Steve. From what I understood, it sounded like he was manifesting a demon. I took my two sons Gage and Nick with me so they could learn more about casting out demons. As we approached the house where Steve is a tenant, there was a big crowd outside. His landlord, who lives in the bottom two levels of the house, was having a party when they all heard screaming and yelling. They ran upstairs to find Steve on the floor with scratches all over his body and his shirt ripped off. He was freaking out and couldn’t speak normally. They assumed that he had overdosed on drugs so they called the police. The police refused to come and told them to call the paramedics. When they described the situation to the paramedics they refused to come and told them to call the police. Since no one would come they called me.

As soon as I saw Steve I knew that he was manifesting a demon. I had seen him manifesting in a similar way before. Although Steve had gotten free from homosexuality and occultism he was still not free from other things. We had prayed so many times and every time he would manifest but not really get free or get free for only a day or two. Casey and I had gotten very frustrated and confused to be honest. After seeking the Lord for several months, the Lord told us “Steve has major self-pity and he actually doesn’t want to get free. Steve is afraid that if he gets free you all will stop praying for him and he will not get attention anymore.” We knew that this was the answer and so about a month earlier we told Steve what the Lord told us but he told us it wasn’t true. He had manipulated us for so many months and had not gotten free that we had no choice but to tell him that we weren’t going to pray for him any more.

So here he was manifesting in his living room floor surrounded by a crowd of people. I leaned over and asked him in English what happened to start all of this and he told me he was sexually tempted so he laid on the floor and cried out to the Lord to set him free. The spirit of God came very powerfully and he felt incredible love and peace but then he started to manifest because something in him didn’t like it. He had been stuck on the floor manifesting for over an hour. Gage and I laid hands on him, commanded the demon to leave and after about ten seconds he was completely normal. I told him to go in his bedroom and put and shirt on. Everyone in the room was shocked because they had been sure that it was a drug overdose. They asked me what happened and I told them it was a demon. Their eyes got huge and several of them left the room. We sat down with Steve's catholic landlord and shared some bible scriptures about demonized people and how Jesus set them free. Steve shared his testimony with them of homosexuality and occultism to help explain how he had gotten demonized. I don’t know if she believed any of it but since this incident Steve has been free and has grown in amazing ways with his self pity and rejection issues. Praise Jesus!

Drinking Beer and Healing the Sick-Bosnia-June 2006
Last Sunday the two pastors from Canada that were visiting came with me next door to visit with Stefi’s two sons, Daniel and Bernard. We brought over some beer (because that’s the polite thing to do in this culture) and we sat in their living room eating and drinking and talking. Bernard was checking his blood pressure about every ten minutes so we asked him about it. We found out that he had been in the hospital the night before with chest pain and dangerously high blood pressure. He had been having chest pain around his heart for four days. He allowed us to pray for him and his chest pain left immediately. He kept checking his blood pressure and it kept going down and down until it was around normal levels. We also could see that he had a headache so we prayed again and his headache also left. Both of the brothers sat stunned and Bernard commented, “I can’t believe that we are sitting here drinking beer and God is answering our prayers and healing us.” He figured that you had to be very religious to get a prayer answered and that you had to earn something from God by acting holy. One of the pastors asked the boys if they wanted to know this God who heals and gives his love freely. They responded that they do.

Deliverance from Seizures-Bosnia-December 2005
On Tuesday Steve (a Bosnian who came to Christ a week ago) was in the city and he saw a lady fall down because she was having an epileptic seizure. As she was shaking Steve ran over and grabbed her hand and prayed, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I command this spirit that is causing this seizure to leave!” Guess what? It left immediately and she stopped shaking. She smiled at him the entire time as he walked her to her house telling him, “Thank you, thank you.” The woman was a Bosnian gypsy and it turns out that some of the missionaries here know who the lady is. I am so encouraged that Steve has been a Christian for less than a week and he is already acting in faith and doing things that most Christians would hesitate to do. He has become acutely aware of the demonic realm and wants with everything in him to set others free from the deception and the works of the enemy. Praise God for simple faith!

Allergies and Back Pain Healed by God's Presence- Bosnia- November 2005
In the last several weeks as well there have been major transformations in some of the other missionaries here. There are six to eight missionaries, not counting ourselves, that attend our worship evenings. About three weeks ago we prayed for more of the Holy Spirit and for each other. Nothing crazy or amazing happened, people just reported a lot of peace and joy, but I said the proof is in the fruit not whether or not there is any kind of manifestation.

One missionary lady has had severe allergies to cats and dogs. She cannot sit in a room where a cat or dog has been for more than five minutes without sneezing, eyes watering and difficulty breathing. She sat in our house with a dog and a cat in the room for about six hours and didn’t have one problem. She also was not able to be in her friends’ house for more than five minutes because of their cats and dogs. We celebrated Thanksgiving at their house and she was there for about four hours with no medication and also did not have one single problem. She also had been having bad back and neck pain since coming to Bosnia and she didn’t realize until a couple days later that her back didn’t hurt anymore. She got healed of severe allergies and back and neck pain and we did not pray for any of those things. We only prayed for more of the Holy Spirit on her and this was some of the fruit.

Another amazing fruit is that she either received a prophetic gift or it was stirred up when we prayed for her because she is “knowing” things that she shouldn’t know. One girl came to our worship night and this missionary “knew” that she had had sex with her boyfriend and was feeling a lot of shame and guilt. The girl left at the end of worship before prayer time started and the missionary caught her in the hallway and said, “You are leaving because you slept with your boyfriend and you feel very guilty and ashamed.” With a look of shock the girl said, “How did you know?” We prayed for her and she confessed and repented of her sin and the Lord restored her. This missionary is experiencing these words of knowledge on a regular basis and is encouraging the body here in incredible ways.

Freedom from Demons and Homosexuality- Bosnia-November 2005
Two weeks ago we met a Bosnian guy named Steve. Steve quickly opened up his heart to us and shared that he was very depressed and suicidal. He very often cuts his entire body with a knife and showed us the scars when he had tried to kill himself 3 times before. He had lived in Germany for several years and while there he tried to start a cult and was calling down demons on his followers. He had been in a mental insitution, in straight jackets three times.

Steve has been practicing homosexuality for all of his adult life and almost every evening had horrible nightmares and torment. He shared some other facts about his past and we were not surprised that with all he had been through in his life that he was suicidal and depressed. It was very obvious to us that he needed deliverance. After teaching him about how demons operate and about walking in truth he agreed to let us pray for him. He knew some things about the Bible and thought that he was a believer.

So on Thanksgiving evening after spending some time with some other missionaries we met with him for prayer and deliverance. He confessed, repented and renounced all his sins that he could think of. Casey and I began to cast out the demons that gained access through his sins and as we did his face became like an angry dog. He was showing his teeth, growling and breathing extremely fast and heavy. During pauses in the deliverance he would return to normal and say, “I don’t know what is happening to me. I can’t stop myself from growling and making this face.” We continued to minister to him until early in the morning and agreed that we needed to pray again the next evening. He came back the next night and I asked him, despite his Bible knowledge and thinking himself a Christian, did he ever actually confess Jesus as his savior and make a decision to follow Him and Him alone. He shared that he had not and that he wanted to follow Jesus and Him alone and needed Him to come and save him. (The demons manifesting in him really opened his eyes to the deception that he had been under.)

We led him through a sinner’s prayer and he gave his life to the Lord. We continued with deliverance and his face started to disfigure again but this time he was able to control it. That night he slept with no torment and no nightmares for the first that he could remember. He came to me with a stack of gay pornography and love letters that he had kept from his boyfriends and gave them to me to burn. He also gave me a bunch of posters and trinkets that the Lord had also told him to burn. He said that when he was around some gay men on Saturday one boy tried to hit on him. He said for the first time in his life it didn’t make him feel good. It made him feel sick. He has become a completely different person in a week and says that he feels amazingly free. He is hearing from God very strongly and has a prophetic gift that he is already using to bless other people. When he prays for people he “knows” things that only God and that person could know. It is amazing. I have never seen such a radical transformation of a person so quickly in my entire life. He went from being suicidal, depressed and homosexual to being joyful, full of peace, walking in truth and loving himself and others in a week. The Lord is sooooo good!

Healed Every Time- Bosnia-November 2005
Dragana, an orphan believer that lives across the street, was healed last week instantly when we cast a demon out of her. She started laughing because it is getting so normal for God to heal her. She has been instantly healed by God at least four separate times and she is testifying to the entire neighborhood of God’s love, truth and power. Her boyfriend’s cousin tried to talk to her about some “truths” about God and she said “You don’t know what you are talking about. You don’t even read the Bible.” A couple days later they went next door to see him and he was reading the Bible and asking them questions. Her boyfriend and boyfriend’s mother are also reading the Bible. Please continue to pray for her growth in Christ and that there would be many more like her.

Radical Healing from Deliverance- Bosnia-April 2005
On Saturday we had our tri-yearly, mission group meeting. This again was in Sarajevo. There are only a small group of people from our missionorganization here in Bosnia, but we get together every few months for worship and prayer. After the meeting, Stacy and I ended up staying awhile because there is a couple on the Sarajevo team with kids and our kids love to hang out with them. One thing that has been changing in us is that we are losing that hesitation to pray. You know when you are with someone and they mention a problem and you just want to pray for them right then, but then you hesitate? So when we talked with this couple and the wife mentioned this hip pain that she had had for a year, we wanted to pray immediately.
                                                                                                                                       Last year she woke up with tremendous pain in her hip. She had to lie in bed for days and since then has not been able to walk uphill. She lives in Sarajevo up a steep hill and hasn’t been able to go anywhere unless it’s in the car. And when there was nothing but snow she was stranded in her house. We prayed for her and God showed us the exact cause of the injury. God actually gave Stacy and I both the same picture and He gave us some specific words about some events in her past that He wanted to heal. We walked and prayed her through these things. When that was finished we prayed for her healing. Nothing seemed to happen because she said it only hurt when she went up a hill or moved in a certain way. But we wanted to see if God had healed her. She told us there is a certain stretch that she hasn’t been able to do and is in fact scared to do, but she went for it. She did this stretch and then immediately fell on the ground crying. The pain was totally gone. Then she ran outside and ran up the hill in her backyard. She asked her son, “What am I doing?” With a look of surprise he said, “You went up the hill!” She said, “God just healed me!” He started dancing around singing, “Jesus just healed my mom! Jesus just healed my mom!” 

The problem had actually been demonic. The demon had a right to be there because of some bitterness. Her team had fasted and prayed for a year up to that point but with no success. We were able to come in and bring the healing of the Lord because we were open to His voice and were open to the fact that it could have been demonic.

Leg and Insomnia Healed- Bosnia-March 2005
Through various circumstances we have gotten connected to a church in Graz, Austria. It’s one of those supernatural connections that you just know that God has ordained. The pastors are Paul and Holly Miller. They are Americans that have been missionaries in Austria for 21 years now. Holly felt for awhile that she needed to come down here to Bosnia and minister to us. Last week she came and brought Teresa, a blind lady that has been here before. We set up three days of meetings for Holly to teach at. We had our usual Monday night group show up as well as a few extras. Each night was special and unique and each night ended very late.

On Tuesday night our language teacher, Hiba was healed of a leg pain that had been tormenting her for two years straight. It was a pain that she had every single day and through every night with muscle spasms occurring often. Holly had called Paul to pray for our meetings and during his prayer time he said that he felt like someone had a leg pain that God wanted to heal. Holly mentioned it early in the meeting and Hiba practically jumped off the couch saying, “That’s me!” So when the prayer time began we started with Hiba. After about two or three minutes of prayer she said, “It’s gone!” She started moving her leg around and doing things that usually caused pain and nothing hurt. Praise God!

Now with her faith increase she also asked us to pray that she could sleep better. She had not slept well for 20 years because when her children were little they had lung problems. If they made any kind of heavy breathing noises she would wake up instantly and has since not been able to sleep deeply. So we spent some time praying as well for this. The next morning Stacy called her and she said she slept better and longer than she can even remember. She is so excited and so are we.

Incredible Visitation and Salvation- Bosnia-November 2004
It was Wednesday night, our men’s group night, and we were in the middle of worship. Some of the guys were on the balcony on their knees praying and worshipping while Mark, (not his real name), and I walked back and forth singing in the living room. He suddenly stopped and just stood there staring at the ground for about a minute. I continued to walk around asking myself if I should go over and pray for him. After several I will, I won’t, I will, I won’ts I decided to just pray for him. I went over behind him, laid my hands on his shoulders and prayed for the Holy Spirit to come and touch him.

Mark comes from a horrible background of abuse. When he was a little boy he watched his father physically beat his mother and brothers and sisters and himself. He watched once as his dad raped his sister and then beat him for trying to intervene. Mark was 14 when the war started here. His mother had diabetes and due to a lack of penicillin during the war she had to have her leg amputated. Mark stayed in the hospital with his mom and saw countless numbers of blown up bodies being wheeled in from other cities. One night as he slept in his mom’s hospital room he heard his dad’s voice in the hallway. He could tell he had been drinking. As he opened the door he watched his father give several doctors and nurses each a handful of money and one by one turn and walk away.
Mark ran back into the corner of the room and hid. His father came in and proceeded to pull the covers and hospital gown off of his mother and rape her. She screamed in pain because her leg had only been amputated a few days earlier. His father beat her bloody, amputated stump and continued to rape her. To Mark’s astonishment, even with all the screaming, no one came to help. His mom died two days later.
I knew that his dad still physically abused him and said things like, “I curse your mom for ever giving birth to you.” Needless to say Mark had a lot of pain, anger and fear inside of him. He tried very hard to control his emotions, intellectualize everything and shut his heart completely off; and he was very good at it. As I stood there behind him, with my hands on his shoulders I simply wanted him to feel some love. To feel some sort of relief from the constant battle of keeping his anger and pain bottled up.
After about one minute of praying another man came over and laid his hands on him also. Not one minute later, with his hands completely limp to his sides and his eyes wide open, Mark fell straight forward about to do a face plant on my living room carpet. We caught him just before his face smacked the ground. He began to shake and sweat and grip our arms like he was about to fall off a cliff. We asked him, “What happened? Are you OK?”
As he continued to grip our arms tightly he said through a shaky and confused voice, “Where am I? How long was I gone? Where did you take me?” He kept looking around the room very confused. “Did you put drugs in my drink? What did you do to me?” It took us about 10 minutes to convince him that he didn’t go anywhere and had been here standing up, wide awake for about two minutes. We asked him, “What is wrong with you?”
As he gathered his wits and thought about it for a minute he said, “I was walking around the living room with you and God told me, 'Stand still.' So I stood here. You came over to pray for me and then all of a sudden I was standing in a field. I saw a big group of people standing there and there were angels over their heads singing. The song was amazing and I wanted to sit there forever and just listen. It was so beautiful and peaceful. It is impossible to make that sound on earth. I turned around and I saw a man standing by a tree. He had brown wavy hair, a beard, a long white robe and a light was shining from behind his head. He had this mean look at first but then it turned into a huge smile. I knew it was Jesus.
He took me to an endless desert and left me there alone. I was so scared that I ran and ran for hours screaming your names but I was all alone. While I ran Jesus’ voice came from the sky and he talked to me about lies and what they do. I was sweating so bad and couldn’t run any more. Then Jesus took me to my mom’s funeral. I stood there next to Jesus watching myself as a 14 year old with all my family. I watched the whole funeral exactly like I remembered it happening. As they were almost done filling my mom’s grave with dirt I saw someone from my family throw something in. I don’t remember seeing that happen when I was 14. It was only about a foot down under the dirt.
Then He started taking me back to my past and showed me all the painful things in my life that my dad had done. I got angrier and angrier. Then He took me and showed me people crying from things that I had done to them. He kept showing me more and more and more. I realized that I was guilty to. All of a sudden I was here on the ground. I have seen people blown in half and bombs dropping right next to me and I have never been so scared in my life.”
We were in shock. He sat in my living room with a blank stare saying nothing for the longest time. Then he said, “Do you have a flashlight and shovel that I could borrow?” I said, “For what?” He said, “I am going to the cemetery. I am going to look for that thing I saw that got thrown in my mom’s grave. If I find it then I know it will be true. Will you come with me?” I said, “No Way!” I was absolutely shocked that he really wanted to dig in his mom’s grave but also that he was already starting not to believe that the vision even happened. He left shortly after and I wished him good luck in not getting arrested. It was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen in my life. I have never seen anyone so confused or scared in all my life.
Early the next morning a knock came at my door. I opened and heard, “I found it!” I got huge goose bumps and almost lost my breath. He said that he went to the grave and started digging in the area that he saw in the vision. About a foot down he found it. It took several weeks for him to tell me this part of the story but as soon as he found it, being already on his knees from digging, he put his hands together and said something like, “Jesus, I know that you are real. Please forgive me of my sins and take over my life.”
We had been sharing Jesus with him for several months and he was coming to our men’s bible study and worship night but nothing was really breaking through until Jesus broke through to him. Incredible is not a big enough word. I have asked several times what is it that you found and Mark says, “I promise one day I will tell you, but not today.”
All I can say is, Mark is born again and is not the same person I met 5 months ago. Stories like this are the reason that we came to Bosnia.

Our First Resurrection from the Dead, Mostly- Bosnia-October 2004
Our Christian orphan, Dragana, has a three year old niece named Marina that has had major heart problems. Last week Dragana came to us distraught and crying. She told us that Marina’s heart had stopped and she stopped breathing. They flew her on a life support helicopter to Croatia and kept her on life support at a hospital there. Her condition was critical and the doctors told her father “She will not wake up. Her brain is working but her body is not. We will give her 24 hours but after that we will take her off life support and she will die. Your daughter is dead, she will not wake up.” Dragana shared through tears and asked if we could pray for Marina.
We prayed for about 10-15 minutes and felt led at the end to pray “Little girl wake up in Jesus’ name”. After we prayed we talked for about ten minutes and then Dragana left. About one minute later Dragana came running in screaming “Oh my God, Oh my God! My brother just called and said that about ten minutes ago Marina woke up.” We were amazed! The doctors have no explanation and are simply saying that it is a miracle. She was released from the hospital two days later with a perfectly healthy. Jesus is awesome!

Amazing Healings of Migraines- Bosnia-June 2004
A Bosnian believer, two of our visiting team members and I went to visit a family. One of the team members stayed in the car because she had a migraine headache. She had taken some very strong medication that always works but this time it wasn’t working. We went up to the family’s house and noticed the mother hanging her head with her eyes mostly closed and walking very slowly. We asked her what was the matter and she said through our translator that she also had a migraine headache. We asked if we could pray for her and she said, “Yes, please.” When we started to pray for this lady with the migraine my right hand was on her back. An interpreter was there but did not interpret our prayers.
As we continued to pray my left palm started to burn and tingle so I put my left hand on her head. We prayed for God’s power to come and commanded any demonic spirits that may have been causing the headache to leave in the name of Jesus. I told the interpreter to ask the lady to tell us if she felt anything happening. The lady said, “Yeah, my headache is almost totally gone. I don’t understand it but my head is burning and tingling and I felt something leave out of the top of my head.” (Remember, our prayers were not being translated.) Me and my praying partner looked at each other with huge smiles and kept praying. Within a minute the lady had wide open eyes and a look of shock on her face. She could not believe it. Her headache was completely gone.
We left and went to the car where our friend was laying down with a migraine also. We opened the car door and said, “The Lord just healed a migraine headache. It was so cool.” As she grabbed her head she said, “I know it’s completely gone.” We looked at each other confused. We said, “No, you don’t understand. A lady in the house had a migraine and we prayed and it was instantly healed.” She said, “Really, because as soon as you opened the car door I sat up and my migraine was gone.” We all just looked at each other shaking our heads saying “Jesus is so cool!” It was awesome! From what I understand migraines never instantly go away.

God Tells Us a Person's Birthday- Bosnia-April 2004
A couple of Monday nights ago, our worship night, Casey had a burden to pray for one of our friends' mom. Both he, his brother and his mom were in attendance this night. At the beginning of the evening I stated that one word directly from God was more powerful than a thousand of mine and that when we pray for people it is important to listen to the Lord before we pray what we think they need to hear. When the burden to pray for our friends' mom first came, Casey heard in her head “January fifth.” Casey thought that her imagination was going crazy and didn’t say anything. We continued to worship a while longer and as we were ending I asked if we could pray for her. She said yes and we began to pray for her. Casey kept hearing “January fifth” and kept thinking that it was her imagination. Finally as we were at the end of praying Casey said, “This may sound totally crazy, but does January fifth mean anything to you?” Our friend and his brother’s eyes got huge and their jaws dropped open. Their mom began to softly cry and we asked “What, what?” They said “January fifth is her birthday!” Needless to say we were all very excited! God wanted her to know, in a very personal way, that He knows all about her, He watches over her every move and He hears her cries to Him. She really needed the encouragement and we all got encouraged just seeing how good Jesus is to His people. The Lord is so cool, isn’t He!?

Words of Knowledge and Salvation- Bosnia-February 2004
Last Monday night, February 2nd, as is our habit, we meet with some Bosnians and some of the missionaries to worship Jesus together. It was a smaller crowd than usual but God’s presence was also stronger than usual. I could physically feel Him strongly and I had a sense that He wanted to do something powerful that night. Casey felt that we were supposed to pray for a particular young man but she didn’t want to point him out. We asked if anyone wanted to be prayed for and the man that Casey felt the Lord wanted to touch said “Yes, please pray for me.”
We told him that we were not going to just pray our mind over him but that we were going to listen to the Lord and ask Him to reveal things to us that only he and God could know. I (Stacy) received a word; ‘loneliness’, and a vision of him lying in his bed with his eyes wide open asking God “Are you real, are you there?” Casey received a vision of a little boy standing on his balcony staring up at the stars and wondering. A father figure came from behind and held him while he pointed to the sky and explained things to him. I also felt that he thought in his heart that if he found a wife his loneliness problem would go away. As we shared the things that we had received in detail with him he was completely stone faced. We couldn’t tell if what we were saying were things that we had imagined or if they were from the Lord and accurate.
After a long moment of silence, he began to tell us with tears in his eyes, that the emotion he felt more than any other was loneliness and that he thought if he found a wife it would go away. He also said that he often goes out on his balcony and stares at the stars and asks God if He is there. He also lies in his bed at night and does the same thing, crying out to God in his loneliness. (I wrote about this young man in a previous newsletter. He started coming because he liked one of the girls that was attending but he kept coming back because he felt God’s presence when we worshipped.) We shared the gospel with him and he confessed his need for Jesus to save him from his sins. He never knew God cared so much for him and he was overwhelmed by God’s love for him. He said that he could physically feel something in his body when we laid hands on him and prayed but he couldn’t describe it, only that it felt good.

Healings- Bosnia-December 2003
Several Mondays ago at our weekly worship night here at our house, we had three people that needed prayer for physical injuries. One of them was a fellow missionary woman who had fallen down her very steep and icy street. She twisted her leg and hurt her knee. The second person was Casey who had broken her big toe while carrying Braden down our stairs. One of the miracles is that Casey fell down the stairs and Braden fell out of her arms and landed flat on his feet perfectly fine. It could have been very bad.
Casey’s toe turned purple, swelled up real big and was hurting her very badly and she went into mild shock. In the past it has taken two months of hobbling around and being in pain for the toe to get better and this time also it was absolutely broken. The third person that needed prayer for a physical ailment was Gage. He had been running in a gravel parking lot the Saturday night before, fell straight on his knee and almost broke it. His knee swelled up real big and he was in a lot of pain. He had been limping around for the last two days and he couldn’t bend his knee.
This particular Monday night we had several unbelievers again in attendance and some Christians who were skeptical of God’s power. They said basically “I believe He can heal, but I don’t believe that He ever does heal.” Several others of us said “Well, there is only one way to find out.” We got out some anointing oil, laid our hands on Casey, Gage and the other woman and started to pray. Casey said that she started feeling heat in her toe and Gage just felt his knee getting better. The third woman didn’t feel anything and for reasons that we still don’t know, her knee didn’t get better that night. The purple color in Casey’s toe was starting to fade and all of us kept staring at it trying to remember the exact shade of purple that it had been.
Thinking back it must have been pretty funny to see. The purple didn’t go away completely but it was definitely better. When she walked on it there was at least a 90% improvement. The pain was almost completely gone. We were so excited! After getting prayed for, Gage started slowly pacing around the living room bending his knee and saying “It’s all better.” Gage’s friends ran up the stairs from the boys’ room and said “Gage are you coming?” I watched him go running down the stairs when ten minutes earlier he had to swing his leg out wide to get it up a step because he couldn’t bend his knee. We went back to worshipping and later when I checked on Gage he bent down to the ground and jumped up in the air to prove to me that his knee was still better. Wow was that great to see! Gage and the rest of us were so encouraged!

God's Presence in Our House- Bosnia-November 2003
Before moving here Casey and I prayed that when people walked into our house they would feel something different here, that they would feel the presence of God. We have been having worship meetings at our house every week and last Monday night we had 30 people show up. Our house was packed. There were five non-believers here along with missionaries and other Bosnian believers. Casey and I felt impressed to share that God wants us to worship Him with abandonment and freedom and joy. What followed was not typical for a Bosnian worship service. There was dancing and loud singing, clapping and shouts of “Halleluiah” and “Amen”. Even the non-Christians were dancing and singing. It was so freeing and joyful for all involved. I drove four of the non-Christians home and in the car they were singing worship songs and skipping down the road toward their house when I dropped them off. I was so excited.
One of the non-believers first came to church because he is in love with one of the female believers here. (Young people are the same the world over.) He says that he loves the “singing”. When we worship he feels warm inside and he can’t explain why. He comes not just for the girl anymore but for the worship. One of the believers here used to live in the orphanage. She was over at our house the other day and when she was walking out she stopped me and said, “The atmosphere in your house is so good.” I said, “Do you mean like the furniture or the spiritual atmosphere?” She said, “In your house I am so peaceful. Like my dreams, when I was a little girl in my house before my parents died. God is here.” I thought I was going to cry.

God's Presence Is Its Own Message- Bosnia-October 2003
Now I have to share about other things that the Lord has been doing. He has shown up in amazing ways during our church services. There is too much to say in one e-mail, so I will just tell you about the first service. Keep in mind that this was only our third day in Zenica. There were about 15 people made up of orphans, missionaries, believers, and non-believers. We all gathered in our living room at the orphanage. After a couple of scriptures were shared about what happened when the Holy Spirit came in meetings in Biblical times we began to worship the Lord with guitars, keyboards and singing. During our worship we asked the Holy Spirit to come and we confessed our need for Him. A non-believing widow with three girls was there to help prepare lunch for everyone after the service. She walked into the worship late and sat down on the couch. Sometime later I looked over at her and she was leaning on the girl next to her and was crying. We asked through an interpreter what was wrong and she said, “I have never felt so much love in my life.” The presence of God was so strong that non-believers were crying.

After the worship we sat and waited on the Lord, just listening and asking Him what He wanted to do in the meeting. Someone got an impression that the Lord wanted us to pray for four people that needed healing. We asked who needed healing and exactly four people raised their hands. We sat them down in the middle of the room and laid our hands on them and prayed. The Lord spoke amazing things that only He and the person getting prayed for could have known. I am not at liberty to share what was said but it was awesome and somewhat fearful (in a reverent way) to see the Lord speak so clearly to encourage and heal His children. We were all very aware of His presence. As our little prayer team made their way from person to person one of the prayer team members got a sense that one person was going to give their life to Jesus in the meeting. The very next person that we came to said “I want God to forgive me of my sins.” We didn’t even have a message. She was convicted by the presence of God alone.

 
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