I am writing about 10 people who God touched through my outreach of healing. This was a journey to see if I could do what I saw Todd White and Pete Cabrera Jr. do through their healing videos. These people I met are mostly strangers I met in public doing normal things like shopping, working-out, and going out to dinner. I am posting these testimonies to give Glory to God. I will answer questions about the story but will not debate theology. I’m posting 1 story per day for 10 days. After that I will start posting videos of the actual encounters I have on the streets, malls, stores, and restaurants.
We needed some bread, milk, cheese, and bacon for the house so I ran to Albertson's to get some quick groceries. The night before I got to see God heal my brother-in-law from 18 years of 10 out of 10 back pain so my faith was full to the brim. I felt the Holy Spirit tell me that I was in for a "hostile encounter". My brain registered that my spirit heard that but at the moment of walking through the store, I didn't think much about it. I saw a man in a motorized wheel chair in the back by the deli counter and I knew that I could pray for him. After getting the milk I went over to him and asked what happened to him. He replied very defensively, "Why do you want to know?" I told him that I am a believer in Jesus Christ and that I wanted to pray for him to be healed. He asked how was he going to be healed, by whose name? I answered that it would be by the name of Jesus that he would be healed. He laughed in my face and said by no means would he be healed. I asked him what was wrong and he said he used to be a truck driver and hurt his knee getting out of the truck a couple of years back. He had a knee brace on and you could tell he was in pain. I told him that I fully expected him to be healed, and told him what happened to my brother-in-law last night and how God touched him. I had a boldness rise up in me and said that I was definitely sure that he would be healed. I didn't know it at the time, but he was with 2 other friends who were ordering food from the deli counter. The guy in the motorized wheel chair called to his friends and he mockingly told them that this guy (me) wanted to pray for him to get healed. His friend said to the guy in the wheel chair, "Do you think you will be healed?" The guy in the chair responded, "Hell No!" and they both laughed and high-fived each other. Gulp! I said no matter what you think, God can heal you right now. His friends now gathered around us and were intently listening to the conversation. I asked him his name and he said it was Frank. He then looked at me said, "Dude, if you hurt me I will take a swing at you right now. In front of all of these people I will take a swing at you right now!" I said that I was here to pray for his leg, not to hurt it. I prayed in the name of Jesus that all pain would leave his leg and that he would be restored in the name of Jesus. I asked him to try it out and to try to do something he couldn't do before. He sort of stood up a little for a second and then sat down again. He said that nothing happened and that he was still in pain. He said he wanted my number to call me to laugh at me and tell me he didn't get healed. At this point his friends chimed in and said that they were the lost tribe of Israel of African descent. He went on a four minute diatribe about all sorts of things related to the African tribe of Israelis. At the end, when he finished he said that he could tell I was a good guy and that even though we don't believe all the same things that he felt he could work together with someone like me. I didn't know what to say. I thanked Frank for not taking a swing at me and that I believed he would still be touched by God. My nerves were racked after that and I just left the store shortly after that. I felt that God spoke to me that He was still going to heal him and that I would run into him again, and he would be healed. That was a very different encounter without the healing being displayed at the moment of prayer. I believe that this will come to pass in the Name of Jesus.
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