Two nights ago, I was soaking and seeking Holy Spirit about what He wanted (us) to do at last night’s Miracles, Signs and Wonders Meeting at Morgan’s Point United Church.

Frankly, I was taken aback by what I heard.

I wanted to make sure that I had heard correctly. So I shared what I had received with my in-home Holy Spirit consultant, aka Sulojana.  She did not bat an eyelid.

If you were expecting me to shout: “Praise God! Glory, Hallelujah!” you missed the mark completely, my friend!

What I actually felt like saying (but chose wisely not to) was more like: “Uh-oh! Now that I’ve got a reliable witness, I have to go through with it!”

 

Receiving “unusual” directives is not exactly unusual…but this one was a stretch!

 

Sunday evening came. The meeting began with a powerful time of worship.  In between songs, I scanned the congregation and noticed a new couple. She was standing; he was sitting with his head down.

 

A few minutes later, I leaned over to grab a drink of water and spotted the man heading out the door. Not quite sure what was going on…

 

We moved on from worship to a time of sharing testimonies. I watched as one of our friends went out the door and returned with the other man in tow.

 

Within moments it was pretty apparent that this man was in excruciating pain. He had trouble sitting down. He kept changing postures until he could be comfortable. It was not easy.

 

My heart went out to him…I wanted to rush and lay hands on him. All Holy Spirit would permit me to do was take a prayer cloth and ask him to apply it to the point of pain.

 

We moved on to the offering and then the message, which was essentially an elongated version of yesterday’s DWOD on the power of Expectancy.

 

Now it was time to move to ministry time. As always, we asked those who came seeking a healing/breakthrough/miracle to identify themselves.

 

Our usual pattern is to ask them to stand while others gather around them and minister as Holy Spirit directs.

 

But that was not the directive for this meeting.

 

So, we invited them all to come and sit on the front row.

 

Then, are you ready for it…we invited everyone else in the congregation to form a line and walk past them, so that our shadow could fall on them as did Peter’s in Acts 5.

 

Of course, we had made it perfectly clear that just as Peter’s shadow released what overshadowed him, namely the Holy Spirit, so would ours!

 

We asked for progress reports after the first pass…there was some improvement in the gentleman with excruciating pain. He felt some warmth in his stomach area. That’s all.

 

We thanked God for what He was doing and waited to see what to do next.

 

Two of our ministry team sensed that Holy Spirit was directing us to do another walk-past. We obeyed.

 

When we checked again, we discovered that the pain had subsided even more. Now he was sensing the presence of God in his chest.

 

We continued to praise Jesus for the progress and sensed that we needed to do one more round of Shadow Healing.

 

This time the change in his body was nothing short of miraculous. He was smiling. He was walking without pain. Wow!

 

Yeah, God! Praise You, Jesus! Thank You, Holy Spirit!

 

(You can listen to the entire ministry time, should you so desire).

 

Do you realize that you too have something in common with Peter?

 

Same shadow. Same Holy Spirit. Amen?