The move of God in our lives is escalating! I am still doing what I have always done for the past thirty-five years as far as delivering people out of bondage, healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons, declaring the Gospel, decreeing God's will, activating, demonstrating and imparting the things of the Kingdom into the lives of God's people...but the intensity and the frequency has increased because God is ready to reveal His Kingdom like never before.
Last weekend July 31 - August 2/Friday - Sunday, I was in Albemarle, NC celebrating the First Anniversary of Pastor/Dr. Felicia Barringer and Great Is His Mercy Ministries. As I shared, I moved in my anointings of demonstration, activation and impartation which the Lord assured me would be my portion thirty-five years ago when He spoke to me through Apostle Paul from I Corinthians 2:2-5...4)"And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5)That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."
I am not privileged to preach the Gospel everywhere that I go, but I can certainly demonstrate the Spirit and power by simply being on the scene. God promised me as He brought me through great purging and pruning over the years that if I adhered to His process for my life and walked holy before Him that I would just show up and He would show out, and I have watched Him do it repeatedly over the years with many witnesses.
So, this Saturday after having such a grand time in North Carolina last Saturday, Father needed me to execute His will on the street for several people. Therefore, after leaving a surprise private celebration for one of my sisters at the beautiful Hattiloo Theater here in Memphis my spiritual daughter, Talisha Coward, and I were taken on a deliverance mission through the prestigious business district of Union Ave. We stopped at a fast food restaurant to get a quick snack before going shopping. When she went in to place our order a young man, mid 30's, came up and stood at the door of the restaurant smoking a cigarette. He wore a red cap and t-shirt with dark jeans, and he had a number of tattoos. He looked very hard and mean, but through that demeanor I saw someone who was very tired and . Immediately, Holy Spirit began to overwhelm me with the hewornart of God concerning him...love, passion and care. God wanted him then! As I was contemplating how to approach the situation, he finished his cigarette and entered the restaurant. Well, it certainly wasn't over!
When my daughter came out with our order, I asked her to step back in and tell him that I needed to speak with him. He followed her outside to the car without hesitation ( I will explain this authority at some other writing.) As I greeted him, I immediately began to express the love of God to him and told him what God was saying to me about his call upon his life while he was standing at the door smoking his cigarette. While he was just staring at me, I asked him if he had had lunch. He said "No" so I handed him $26 at which he starred with great surprise. He relaxed and began to share with me that lately people had been saying something to him about God, and he was wondering what was going on. He said that he used to believe in God until he had been shot so many times, stabbed, hit by cars; etc...but that after one terrible incident where he should have died he did start back believing. I reassured him that it was satan who wanted him out of here and not God. That God had a heavy call upon his life that He was ready to redeem. I began to demonstrate with my hands as I addressed every bondage upon and around him, declaring liberty and freedom through Christ Jesus. He began to look like a new version of himself, smiling and looking surprised and thanking us repeatedly. I declared the things that would happen in his life from that hour forward, and I have no doubt.
Well, little did I know that Talisha had purchased an extra large drink for a man that she had seen lying on the ground as we drove to this location. So, we went back to find him. He was actually occupying the entryway of a bank as if it were his dwelling place for the weekend. She called to him that she had a drink for him, and he came over to the car. As we began to reassure him that God cared about him and his situation and that change had come to him that day, I also handed him $26 which set off fireworks of Heaven's deliverance. God has always instructed me to put my money where my faith was, and He follows faith. Well, this man's countenance also changed immediately as he thanked us and began praising God. I perceived that it was not so much for the few dollars, but for the concern shown him by two ladies.
He immediately began to point across the street to a woman that he said needed some help bad. He called to her and she came where we were as he explained that she had been raped the night before, beat up and burned with cigarettes over her arms and kicked in the ribs. It was just terrible! She had bruises and burns and knots and face messed up and everything, and she acted as if it was no big thing. we were nearly in tears. She said that she couldn't go to the hospital because she had been blackballed by some criminal element (?), and that she had just gotten out of jail two days earlier. She admitted to having been a drug dealer and then an addict.
We loved up on her, spoke healing to every bruise and pain on her body, declared that deliverance had come to her that day as she just held onto us. When I gave her her money she began to laugh and cry and to hold it up toward Heaven as she asked God for a hundredfold for us. When we started praying they knelt on the ground beside the car because the man told her that they were in the presence of the Lord. I spoke to the woman that her mother's prayers were being answered, and she just laughed and cried. When I began praying in tongues so did she as if she were a seasoned prayer warrior. Then she said the 91st Psalm in its entirety. She continued to hold the money toward Heaven as both of them asked God to bless us. These two were Caucasian, and the first man was black. Had we possibly entertained angels unaware!?!
When we drove off a distance, we just pulled over and wept for those souls. If they were real people, their lives were changed forever in every aspect because this is the grace of God through me.
Surely, we practice what we preach...
