No Eye Hath Seen

This merits a jump and shout bigger than those old Toyota commercials!!!  Oh my goodness, how awesome is our God!!!!!  Lord, I stand amazed in awe of You.  

And now, in their own words...  :)

from Jan D - 

Amanda's reports of the glory of the Lord coming over the School of Healing and Impartation are not at all exaggerated!  With each day came an increased awareness of God's Presence and His love, and with that the confidence that we were hearing His voice and walking in obedience. I believe it was the second day of the conference that the Lord impressed on me that He wanted to bless Randy Clark with a healing of his back. However, I thought how presumptuous it would be of me to suggest that to Randy, who is daily surrounded by apostles who are probably praying for his back. On Friday evening, the impression became quite strong and I was literally standing about 12 feet from Randy in a room where the very sick were being prayed over. Randy was praying with a woman and there was another intercessor laying his hands on Randy's back at the same time. I thought of joining them, but the Lord indicated it was not yet time. The next afternoon, we attended a session he taught called Acts of Obedience: Keys to Unleashing Healing. If there's one thing I do well, it is walking in obedience, simply because I tried the other way and never, ever want to do it again!  At the end of the session, Randy was telling a story of his young son being healed of asthma when a praying friend told them to put two slices of toast on his chest and cover it with a towel. Randy and DeAnne's son then vomited and the asthma attack was over. As he finished, I felt again the enormous sense that the Lord wanted to bless Randy with healing, and the time was NOW!  I said, "How, Lord?  How do you want to do this?"  Immediately he gave me a picture (not a surreal vision as I sometimes have,but a picture in my mind) of Randy lying prostrate on the sanctuary floor, with his intern Chad's right foot placed on Randy's back. I saw the entire assembly in an enormous circle around the room, joining hands and singing "Standing on the Promises of God".  I thought to myself that this was probably outlandish enough to be from the Lord and not of myself, so I asked HIm to confirm it and I dashed to the front of the sanctuary. I told Chad what the Lord had shown me, and Randy overheard and said, "I think we should do it." We then got the media dept. at The Encourager Church to put the words to the hymn on the screen, and within a matter of minutes, the vision was fulfilled. The Lord even brought confirmation when a pastor (Paul Hubbard) shared that the Lord had impressed a similar vision on him!  After we sang, Randy got up and said, "Well, I'm at least 80% better and I feel 15 years younger!"  There was a roar in the room and everyone praised God for His gift of healing!  He used every grateful heart lifted in adoration with faith to participate in Randy's healing. What greater joy is there?!

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Noah had his one year old check up on Friday and his ears are still clear and beautiful. I thank God every day for this. How He cares for us even when we don't recognize His love for us! 

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This week was so awesome...so encouraging!  I love to hear what came of previous prayer, and I got so many good reports last Sunday.  (skin condition better the morning after prayer, ear tubes that weren't draining right and causing problems began to work correctly and the little girl got a good report at the doctor, little boy who was supposed to have tubes but whose parents chose to trust God instead has had no more ear infections, relational family/work issues improved and even resulted in a ministry opportunity at work before being offered a new job, friend's child was healed in prayer...sorry, I forget some stories and details!  I'm leaving things out, I know.)  Yesterday I heard another amazing testimony of a friend who was healed on the way to the ER...! (Checky...write it up please!:)

At McD's one evening, there was a man with a leg brace, and I couldn't tell if he had an artificial limb or not.  He stepped out after getting his food, and after several anguishing seconds of indecisiveness, I followed him out.  I told him I felt led to pray for him, and he said that he also was led to pray with me.  So we both took turns there on the McDonald's sidewalk...he was mainly praying for the nation and the church...pretty cool.  

Then we got to witness all kinds of miracles at the healing school this weekend.   I got to meet Solomon, the little boy from Oklahoma who was healed at a healing school in Abilene last fall...check the blog to find the testimony.  There were about 50 people healed daily, and they let some of the 'biggies' give their testimonies...my favs were a girl who had 14 years of memory restored after having amnesia for years after a four-wheeler wreck.  She was given a prophecy that the Lord was going to 'shower her memories back' over the weekend, and He did!  By Friday night, they'd all returned!  Also, an older man was healed of Parkinson's.  He has a prison ministry and talked about how he would hide his shaking hands behind the podium while he preached...he'd been to Global's healing school before and had Randy Clark (top gun) pray for him, but had not yet been healed.  Friday night they had a special healing time, and he came in to have Randy pray again.  Instead, there was a 16 yr old girl, Liberty Rose (?), who'd been crying out for God to use her...she asked if she could pray for him, and he agreed.  She saw a tall angel standing behind him and knew he was about to be healed...without telling him of the angel, she spoke the Lord's healing over him, and sure enough, he was healed!  One more I'll recount...a word of knowledge was given that there was someone with the middle two toes on the right foot curled up and not having circulation (or something like that).  Later a man gave testimony that those two toes on his right foot had been broken for a decade (or 2?), and they'd been curled up and had calcium deposits on them...but all of a sudden they straightened out and relaxed...healed!!  There were so so many miracles, and not just healing miracles!  You'll have to ask me about those in person;)

Even Randy Clark was healed!  His back had been giving him problems, but just after teaching the session on Obedience: The Key to Unleashing Healing, my dear friend Jan was given a vision for his healing, and she was obedient to act on it.  That's all I'm going to tell...  I would love for you to hear that in her own words!!!!  

The best part, though, was entering a new personal place of worship...God is so good!!  Only His love can make my heart soar like that!  Words alone telling of God's goodness is not enough to convince the world.  Honestly, I think the majority of the church isn't even convinced of His goodness, not deeply and personally.  I've been saved most of my life and have only in the last few years thought of Him as smiling when He looks at me.  I wasn't taught that He's mad at me, but somewhere I picked that up...probably from the deceiver, the accuser, who clings to the hope that we'll never recognize the place we hold in God's heart.  We must know the Father's goodness and intentions and must display His goodness the way Jesus did and said we would.  I've tuned in to thosedisplay His goodness, and I am changing.  And I see this is one drop of an ocean.  

Read this, pouring over every word, whether you have it memorized or not...

 ²⁰Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesusthroughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. "

...the love of Christ and of the Father is one that requires power to grasp... POWER... the power that raised Christ from the dead...it's required to grasp love.  Power and love.  Not just love.  Not just power.  Love and power, power and love.  Without either, glory is not ascribed to the Father.  This is what must go to the nations...and across the street...and to our families.  The great thing is, this pursuit...one that requires more rest than running...is exhilarating!  His love and Presence are literally intoxicating.   

Father, I love You.  Thank You that You are revealing to me Your heart as I have asked.  I ask that You do the same for every son and daughter whose eyes read this.  Thank You!!

• friend got headache while eating with us at a restaurant...Johnny prayed a couple of times, and it left
• my co-worker had the beginnings of a migraine...her eyes got clearer while we prayed...I came back 30 minutes later, and she was back at her desk saying she felt good again...that used to be unheard of, as it always progressed from blurred vision to full-blown, debilitating migraines...not any more, Praise God!!
• co-worker requested prayer for continued heart-burn...wasn't feeling it at the time and haven't gotten an update yet
• prayed for a friend at life group...his pain left his thumb joints and circulation barely began to come back to his toes...awaiting full healing on that
• had lots of things healed just within our family...like headaches, tummy-aches, etc...
• right after I sent the testimonies about my back and Johnny's allergies, both of us had symptoms return. Scripture says that 'trouble comes because of the word'...whenever a word is sown, you can expect the enemy to bring trouble...he's got to get it while it's in seed form, or else it will overcome him.  This is the time to stand firmly on the word that God gave you and not let what you see or feel sway you.  He can't steal it unless you let him by putting faith in what's happening rather than in God's word to you.  You put him in his place, resist him and cause him to flee, by reminding him of the word...just like Jesus did.  We reminded the enemy of the truth, got our other life group to pray over us, and are restored.  Thank you Jesus!  You word cannot be thwarted when we hold fast to it!  
• Funny, my conversations with even strangers go just like this now...'Hi, how are you?' ...'My back hurts.'....'Hi, I'm Amanda'....'I have high blood pressure'...literally.  Like at the convenience store I was letting my kids buy candy on 'candy day' this week, and the owner had some coconut m&m's at the counter.  I commented that I'd never seen any, to which he replied that they were new.  I asked if they were good, and he said, 'I don't know, I have diabetes and they have 26 grams of sugar.  My whole family except for my brother has diabetes.'  Of course the conversation would go like that...what did I expect, for him to give me a short 'no', like any other guy behind a counter?  So while I was considering if I was to pray for him, my 3 yr old says, 'mommy, can I have this?' (Pause...last week, remember the lady at HEB near the popsicles?  Well, on that same list of 'clues' was an old coke bottle...it was the first image God had given me during that prayer, and it was very clear.  I'd wondered why nothing ever came of it that day....Unpause) Right beside me was a tub of iced-down sodas in glass bottles...a variety of them, and the one that Chase was holding was a Coke...an old-timey glass Coke, just like the image.  So I turned to the man and asked if I could pray for him.  He, as usual, was very happy to have me pray for him (actually, he's Indian and I assume Muslim because his wife covers her head...but maybe they're not, I don't know...) but didn't realize that I meant right then. :) So I prayed for him and gave him my card, telling him to email me when he knows he's healed.  TBC
• My uncle Butch had been having pain in his arm.  We (many people) prayed for his stress test to go well and show no heart trouble, which it did go well.  I had also prayed that any generational curses would be broken, since his dad had died from a heart attack.  Last I heard, he was still having the random arm pain, but said that one day his back and legs were healed!  I don't know if he'd been praying about that or not, but he'd been unable to ride horses or climb stairs without pain, and noticed that as he climbed the stairs at BSF that he'd been healed!  (I think I have my details right...daddy, you can correct me if this isn't right...)  Anyway, keep praying for his arm and thank You, Lord, for healing his back and legs!!
• friend prayed with at church the other day for skin problems and anxiety...talked to her husband who said she's been doing better with both... still continuing to pray that through to completion, praise God!
• As usual, there were many many prayed for, for things which would have no immediate evidence of healing...can't wait to hear back on those.
• if you didn't watch the promo video, watch it!!!! You'll get that spurring on that many of you are wanting:)
• When people ask where this all started for us...this link was a part of that:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLi99_hOYg (Bill Johnson on the 700 Club)
• more good links: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QE4Aao6MUQ&feature=related           Walmart treasure hunt...prefaced by good explanation
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N74j9ozVqsM&feature=related              Chad Dedmon's grocery store testimony

Stay tuned for testimonies of lost items found...God can fix even the little things! He knows where it is...ask Him!