Day 14—Acts 9:23-43

As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the Lord’s people who lived in Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years. “Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and roll up your mat.” Immediately Aeneas got up. All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord. (Acts 9:32-35)

I have seen God move in power in my life.  I have seen Him touch hearts so deeply and bring healing to bodies that hundreds of people have been touched by what occurred.

I have told this story many times, but back in 2008 a man named Jimmy Fraser came into the church I was a part of in Kinburn, Ontario.  He had cancer and had been suffering with it for some time.  The cancer was in his mouth and he was about to go into surgery to try to have it removed.

There was a guy in our church that invited him to come to a Friday night healing service.  Seven times he was asked and would not come.  On the seventh time Jimmy’s wife, Linda said, “Jimmy what do you have to lose? You have tried everything else.”

Well, Jimmy came to the church that Friday evening and we prayed for him.  He went down in the Spirit and we were told later he had an encounter with the white light of God’s glory.  He went home that night completely confused about the encounter that he had had.  He tried to duplicate the white light with a bright floor lamp in his garage, but he soon realized the light he had seen was brighter than any earthly light.

Well, he was touched so powerfully by God that within the next few years his testimony was heard by thousands of people.  He led about 130 people to the Lord the last time I asked him.

And even though I saw this occur and can tell the story, I am always praying that God will lead me to the Jimmy’s in every town that I encounter because I know that if they get touched by the power of God and the sound of it goes out into their communities, then entire regions will be saved for the Lord.

Let’s pray together today and ask God to reach those who need healing and those who need deliverance.  Let’s pray that God touches them so radically that they are forever changed.