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We're praising God for:
The completion at the end of February of our two 8-week Spiritual Roots of Diseases classes in AZ with 24 students finishing the course
The purchase of a home in Georgetown, Idaho in mid-February
House of Free Prayer Church paying our mortgage here until our house in Arizona sells
Our safe move March 4th and 5th and Emil’s mom being able to come with us and stay 10 days
A safe flight to Phoenix and then safe travel April 11-13 from Mesa to Georgetown on the motorcycle, through cold wind, rain, hail, snow, and sun (1000+ miles)
The enthusiasm of everyone in the church and the miracles we are seeing as people learn to minister in the gifts of the Holy Spirit
Karen’s sister, Colleen, working 6 hours a week for House of Free Prayer freeing Karen to catch up with BWB needs and to write this newsletter!
We're asking God for:
THE SALE OF OUR HOME IN QUEEN CREEK SOON!
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IF YOU’RE DOUBTING, STOP IT!
Ministry Report from Emil
She had a bad backache. When I asked her how long she’d had it, she said she was born with it! I saw her spine in the shape of an S, and the Lord showed me that her hips were tipped 10 degrees to the left. She affirmed both of these. She also had a huge lump on the back side of her right shoulder which was scar tissue from surgery in which half of her back had been fused. I had four people come lay hands on her and as I began to pray, she could feel the bones in her back moving and the people with their hands on her back were amazed that they too could feel movement! Then her hips began to sway while she was sitting in the chair. Soon her back straightened out and her hips came into alignment. She said all the pain in her back was gone and she felt for the first time she was sitting up straight. I asked the Lord if there was anything else He wanted to do for her. He said her left leg was shorter than the right; she said it was about an inch shorter. When I put my thumbs on her inside ankle bones with my knuckles pointing toward each other, everyone could see the difference. As I commanded her left leg to come out, I could feel the Holy Spirit all over her but nothing happened. After about 3 minutes of this, I asked the Lord what was wrong and immediately I saw a picture of Jesus putting all the doubters out of the room before He prayed for Jairus’ daughter (see Mark 5); then I heard, "There’s someone doubting. Tell them to stop it." I spoke it out, "The Lord says whoever is doubting, stop it!" Within 30 seconds, her left leg began to shake violently at the hip joint and her eyes got really big! Then her leg began to grow out and the shaking stopped when her ankle bones were even. I had her walk and bend and she said she felt better than she ever had in her life. When her husband hugged her, he found that the lump of scar tissue was gone off of her shoulder!
Immediately afterwards, one guy admitted that he was the one doubting. He was trying to figure it out with his scientific mind and when I told doubters to stop, he confessed and repented and immediately her leg began to shake! It changed his faith—and his life!
Within the next few days, 4 MORE MEN confessed to doubting! One said it was just too "out there"; one said he realized he didn’t have the faith to believe; one said he just plain doubted US altogether; even her husband was watching as he would a magic trick—trying to figure out how I was going to "pull it off"! The response of all 5, however, was exactly the same: immediate repentance resulting in an immediate response from God in growing out her leg and a dramatic increase in their faith!
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House of Free Prayer/Roadside Update
Our bi-monthly newsletter was due out in March but here it is April 29th and we haven’t had time to write one thing! We have been in a whirlwind! Less than a week after our arrival March 5th was our first weekly Sunday service as well as our first service in a building! It was a happy chaos!
For Palm Sunday, we borrowed a baptistry (horse trough) from a church 30 miles away and had 6 baptisms that morning in our building. Everyone cheered and clapped after each one! We will have bought our own (BIGGER) trough for June baptisms! That evening HoFP hosted for the community a free showing of The Passion of Christ. On Easter eve, Emil was a speaker at a service that drew about 75 Christians from a 50-mile radius.
We started a series in the home group in April, equipping them to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit. After the 1st week’s teaching, Emil took the 16 people in attendance step-by-step through ministry for one of the women. Everyone is excited and moving out in boldness to minister words of knowledge, healing, and miracles. After service this past Sunday morning, one of the newly-formed prayer teams saw God again do miraculous things in a woman who has been severely ill for 10 years.
God wanted to get the church up and running before the roadside, and now that it’s up and running, we’re ready for the roadside! And it looks like we’ll ALL be takin’ it to the streets—even the kids want to come and be a part of what God is doing. We’ve spent the last eight weeks teaching and equipping, and now it’s HANDS-ON training on the roadside for the many who are eager to come with us!
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