Chinese, anyone?

Well, what started as a meeting of some old friends at a Starbucks on Wrightsboro Road, ended in four hungry chicks at a Chinese restaurant. The funny thing about God is that it's never really about going out to eat. It's always about a Divine Appointment.

I met up with an old friend that was visiting from Texas named Sherri, who had come for a three week visit with another old friend named Melony. As I sat with these two godly women, sipping on what amounts to a $5 chocolate milk with ice, I was listening to them relay stories of recent "God Encounters." This subject naturally has me enthralled, but the really cool thing is that another lady in the store sitting nearby had over heard Melony proclaiming the goodness of God, and the next thing we know, we have asked her to pull up a chair and join the conversation. Her name is Seleste...with an "S". What a sweet woman! And just to show you that God doesn't do anything by accident, it turns out that Seleste just so happens to have been strongly desiring to get involved in some sort of street ministry or a ministry of working with the poor. How fun! So the four of us sat there for the next 5 hours discussing the unbelievable power of God. Finally, we moved our power talk to a restaurant up the street.

Now I love Chinese food. And this was a buffet, so even better. As we sat eating our very late night dinner, we continued talking about our beautiful Saviour and the good things about Him. Probably about 11, Seleste had to go home to be with her children and the restaurant was getting ready to close. So Melony, Sherri, and I resumed our conversation in the parking lot, and eventually in Melony's van. And a night full of Kingdom conversation and good fellowship culminated in a healing/deliverance service right there in the parking lot! The three of us sat in the van praying, praising, singing, and fellowshipping with our sweet Jesus. As we all confessed strongholds to each other that the enemy had in our lives, we felt the cleansing power of His love just pour over us while we were praying and ministering to each other in the spirit of love.

Well as we are enjoying the Power of the Holy Spirit consuming us, Sherri mentions that she needs healing for a goiter that is very apparent on her neck. So we start praying for healing on that thyroid and as we are praying and commanding her body to line up with God's Word and be healed, right there before our very eyes, that lump on her neck began to shrink and shrink and shrink. Both Melony and I sat there with our mouths wide open! I don't know why I always get so amazed when God does something like that, but I do, it is us just amazing, nearly unbelievable! So we eventually had to tell Sherri we were going to stop praying because pretty soon she was going to have a pencil neck...LOL! What an awesome night! God's healing power reaches EVERYWHERE! Go lay hands on the sick...they shall recover!!!

By the way....Seleste ended up coming to A Church Without Walls the very next Sunday to be a part of God's work. Is that just not the coolest thing?