Hello Again,
Well I had such a great response with the last praise report I thought I would share this one. We've actually been keeping it under raps for the last 3 weeks, but now that we have a testimony I thought it was time. March 28th a young man named Lorenzo came up for prayer, and when I saw him coming, I really felt he needed to be anointed with oil. Well the Pastor prayed for him for a long time and than the young man went back and sat and I turned to Guido and said we really need to anoint him with oil. So Guido & I along with our friends Emily & Erik from the States who came to visit us went to pray for him. He has lymphoma and had just found out 3 days before (on his 21'st birthday). We'll we anointed him and laid hands on him and there was such burning in our hands. 3 times my hand on his back seized up and 3 times I shook my hand off. At one point Guido turned to Emily and said "I think you have something for him, do you?". She said, well I kinda felt like the Lord wanted me to punch him. We told Lorenzo what she felt the Lord told her to do and he said ok. We of course thought she was going to give him this little symbolic punch but she just popped him really hard right in the center of his chest. We were all kind of like shocked, she really punched him. She said that after she did she saw something explode inside him in that area and things falling off of him.
This young man could barely stand up, he was swaying all over the place and after about 20 minutes we stopped praying for him. He said he felt his whole body on fire and he was actually sweating. When his sister came up after wards she told us that they found it in his chest, in the exact spot Emily punched. We were all after wards laughing about her punching him and she said she had never ever punched anyone so she didn't even know how to gauge how hard or soft it would be. We told her husband that he better watch out. Anyhow later that night Lorenzo brought us to Florence for the start of the 24/7 Prayer in Italy and we learned a little bit more about this incredible young man. He has only been saved a very short time, in fact his sister & brother-in-law are very strong Christians (14 yrs older than him) and they brought him to England where he went to Hillsong and received the Lord. In October he was baptized, we were there at the time but I didn't remember him in particularly. He however had not yet been filled with the Holy Spirit, so we told him that we would have him and his lovely girlfriend over for lunch in the near future and pray with them. Thought it might be too dangerous while driving on the rode, and we got home very late after the very fantastic meeting in Florence.
So today they came over for lunch and he shared that when he found out he had cancer, that he had the incurable Hodgekins type, they told him basically he was going to die, however after he received prayer he went back for more tests and now they tell him he not only has a different form of lymphoma but one of the most curable ones. Praise the Lord. No it isn't a total healing as of yet, however he feels very secure in what the Lord is doing in his life. He is very on fire and we were so incredible blessed to pray with both of them to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit. We loaded them up with worship music and a book on the Holy Spirit.
On another note they also took the prayer time on our list from 3-4 am and were a little worried about whether they could wake up and pray and maybe an hour would be too long, but in fact they said it was super easy. We had the same experience taking the 1-2am and in fact our first night we felt such a presence of the Lord starting around the time our group went on it's shift for prayer at 4pm that when we arrived at our time to pray, we both felt such a presence of the Holy Spirit we prayed a little longer and the time just flew by. When we got up to go to bed, Guido told me to look back into the room, it actually looked foggy, but I thought it might be the candles we burn, but Guido's said it wasn't possible because we burn them every night and it doesn't get cloudy? This past week the same thing happened minus the fog and we actually prayed for 2 hours and it was effortless. We believe and this it what we shared with them, that it is a result of corporate prayer, praying in the spirit of Unity and it just being God's timing for our nation and He is enabling us to pray and cry out. When the Lord calls for a work, He also equips us, we just need be obedient.
That's it, we're so excited, we had to call Emily and tell her were going to start sending people to her house for a good punching who need healing, ha ha. Can we start the church of the punch. It's probably better than spitting in the mud or laying on top of them, imagine what people would say. Ok all jokes aside. The Lord is awesome and so good and we are so excited to be a part of something so much bigger than we could have ever hoped for or imagined. What a blessing and an honor to pray for people and to see the Lord working and moving and changing lives. Thank you so very much for praying for us and sharing with us in the fruits of this labor.
