HEILUNG  -  HEALING

Every Friday night our ToTheStreets team goes out to Frankfurter Tor, which is a busy intersection in our neighborhood and where people can catch a Tram or the Underground train.  We put up a big banner that says, "Heilung" and we set out chairs for people to sit in who would like prayer for healing.  Sometimes we pass out  fliers to people passing by, which explain what we are doing.

Two weeks ago, I was very discouraged.  Passerby's had been giving me these pitying looks which seem to say, "You poor dear.  You are so miss-guided and brain-washed."  I can handle the out-right anger and the ones who give me a friendly smile but a no shake of the head but the ones who look at me with pity are very hard to take.  On this night, no one was wanting to take my flier and it was cold and I was wondering what I was doing.  I finally said to Jesus, "I am so discouraged.  Don't You ever get discouraged with these hard and stubborn people?"

"I am encouraged in you, my daughter.  You encourage me by your obedience to Me," was the sudden and startling, warm reply that went deep into my heart.

I smiled.  "Well, okay Lord.  I can handle this.  If I am pleasing to You, that's all I need."

Not fifteen minutes later, I was complaining again.  "Lord, please, I just need a bit more encouragement.  If this is what you want us to do, please send someone that wants prayer before we are ready to stop.  Just one person."

At 8:15pm just 15 minutes before we stop a couple were suddenly right there, talking to Thilo.  They came over to the chairs and Thilo said, "She would like prayer for healing in her knees."

Inside, I was rejoicing.  "Thank you Lord!  You sent me my encouragement!  We didn't even have to chase them down, You just brought them right to us!"

It turned out that they were Christians, had been walking by on the other side of the street, saw our sign and came over.  The woman asked, "Who do you pray to?"  and Thilo replied, "We only pray in the name of Jesus," and she said, "Well, okay, I would like prayer then."

When I started praying for her, I just had to let her know that she was MY answer to prayer!  She laughed in glee and then we prayed for the healing of her knees.  After this, her husband decided that he wanted prayer as well for his migraines.  So, the Lord sent us 2 people to pray with and we got to know some new Christians who live right near us.

The next week, it was just BreAnna and I that went out because Thilo was home sick.  This was hard for us but even harder was the extreme cold.  It was our first time to have the weather below 30 degrees.  Even with our long-Johns, scarves and hats, it felt cold.  We decided to just sit in the chairs, not pass out fliers and pray in tongues.  Within 5 minutes, a tall, dour-looking man came right up to us.  He acted like it was the most normal thing in the world that we were there, in the cold, offering prayer for people.  He said he would like prayer because he grew up in a very abusive home and he could not find his base.  He looked to be about 40 years old.  He said he was going to go turn in some bottles and then he would be back for prayer.  He was back in about five minutes and as Bre poured him a cup of coffee and conversed with him in German, I asked the Lord if He had a word to give me for Uva.  Immediately Jesus spoke into my heart and said, "Tell him that I am his base," and with those words, I saw a picture and knew exactly what I was going to tell him.  Bre did the translating and I told him that Jesus had spoken a word into my heart for him.  I said, "Jesus wants you to know that He is your base.  He is the home that you have always been looking for.  He is the only one who loves you completely and who will never disappoint you.  He wants to come into you and you go into Him and He will be with you and love you."  When I was finished, Uva said, "This is just what I was talking about."   (Thank you Jesus!)  I prayed over him that he would come to know how much he is loved by Jesus and I asked the Holy Spirit to come upon him right then.  Bre prayed for him in German and as she was praying, I watched a big tear well up in his eye and then spill over and roll down his face.  After this, I gave him a German New Testament and opened it to the book of John.  "If you read just this book, you will learn everything you need to know about Jesus who loves you."  Bre gave him a der Garten flyer and we encouraged him to come in and talk to us.

After he left and Bre and I had prayed for him we both felt that the Lord has sent us one of His chosen ones, a man that he had been calling for some time.

Next we had two teenage boys come up to us and ask what we  were doing.  Bre said, "We are offering prayer and coffee,"  (in German, of course).  They both said they wanted coffee and one of them, Emre said he would take both!  We sat them down in our chairs and Emre told us he would like prayer to stop smoking so much marijuana.  The first thing Emre said to Bre was, "I'm an atheist but I do believe in God...".  Bre said, "Well, you're not an atheist then!"  I asked him what he believed about Jesus and he said, "I believe that he was a good man, a prophet."  Then I told him that we believe Jesus is God and we would be praying for him in the name of Jesus because we believe all power comes from Jesus.  I also told him that I would like to pray that he would stop smoking pot all together and he assented that this would be okay.  We prayed for him, me in English and Bre in Deutsch.  He was smiling and seemed to be warmed by our prayers.  When we were done, I asked his friend if he would like prayer.  The friend said, "No" and Emre said, "You should.  It feels really good!"

We invited them to our cafe and as they walked away, I was so thankful that we had made the choice to go out on the street that night. 

Jesus is so faithful to encourage us and show us that He is with us and that He is doing all of the work through us.