#38 – Wrecked Again by Jesus’ Love

Zion Outreach Ministry – Thursday, March 2nd – by Al Bayne

      Witnessing Jesus doing miracles never gets old.  I am again stirred to a deep depth of worship for Jesus – His unconditional love for people keeps amazing me.  About 10 teams of 30 people ministered at Portage Place mall last night.

      My team included Mel and Geraldine.  During the evening we got separated at different times, so we weren’t always ministering with all 3 of us.  I was involved in at least 9 different encounters.  Four of those people were homeless and had no place to spend the night in -22 weather – very heartbreaking difficult situations – we prayed a blessing of protection and provision for them, bought them food and gave them money.  At the end of the evening we found out, from a purposefully homeless man, that in the cold weather Salvation Army will take everyone that comes to the door no matter how late it is.

      After our first encounter Geraldine pointed-out a lady to us whose name was also Geraldine.  Our Geraldine told us that this lady’s legs had been healed a couple of months ago, and she used to have a walker.  We greeted her and asked where her walker was and she confirmed she didn’t have it as she didn’t need it anymore.  We then asked if she needed prayer for anything else.  She said, “Pray for my eyes, everything looks fuzzy to me.”  I was standing about 3 feet from her, and asked if I looked fuzzy, and she answered not at that distance.  I backed away to about 6 feet, and she said I was getting very fuzzy.  I then backed to 10 feet and she said I was totally fuzzy and I now had two noses.  We prayed, commanding healing for her eyes, and at 10 feet she said it had improved.  We prayed again, and at 10 feet she said I no longer had 2 noses and she could see my face clearly.  I backed-up to 15 feet and she said she could see me clearly.  Wow!  We then spent some time talking to her about Jesus.

    At 9 PM, after several encounters, Mel and I were ready to go home, as we walked through the mall Gaylene called us to join her and Iris.  They were engaged with a tall homeless man who was wearing khaki coveralls and one glove.  This was a very dynamic encounter which took an hour. Here are some of the highlights from Gaylene, with added notes from me in italics:

    A side note from Al: During this time the presence of God was so powerful that it began to attract other people like a magnet. People came and asked for prayer, even though they had no idea what we were doing – they were just drawn-in.  While the others prayed for Jesse , I prayed for several people, with all kinds of requests.  I don’t remember how many or what their requests were – they just seemed to keep coming.  By the end of that encounter, I was emotionally wrecked – ambushed again by Jesus – overwhelmed by Jesus’ love for people – amazed at how His presence drew people in.  I keep getting surprised by how Jesus works. 😂

Lorraine’s description of the encounter:  Mind-blowing miracle in the mall last night just as it closed:  A group of us prayed for a man with a withered, damaged hand.  No nerves, no muscles, no healthy colour, scars, etc.  He could not move it to grasp anything.  He wasn’t able to use it for years due to an accident.  Now he is able to use it–right before our eyes we saw God heal it and all the fingers moved, colour came back into the hand, it had a normal temperature and his mobility came back so he could grasp things!!!  When he left us he was so grateful that he just started to cry and hug us!  Very powerful miracle last night!!  So blessed to see Jesus do that for this man.  Wow!!  Radical God, radical love!  Do it again Lord!

Iris’s description of the encounter: Close to the end of the evening Gaylene and I began to pray for Jesse, whose hand was cold, his fingers stiff and purple. I took his hand in my hands and started praying for his hand. As I was praying nothing much seemed to happen at the start, so I did the countdown, 4,3,2,1 pain go now, and then also took my hand away. What happened next surprised me and pushed me to press in for more healing. Jesse said I could feel it, I could feel something zing me when she said that, and then I also saw his fingers start twitching back to life. After that, I started commanding the nerves to come back to life, the circulation to come back, and then Al, Mel, and Lorraine joined the healing party.

         Other reports from the evening:

15 encounters, 2 people healed

Highlights: lady with pain in her side healed; also see Highlight of the night above.

8 encounters, 3 healings, 3 partial healings

Highlights: lady with a cane had shorter leg grow out; a lady with a hernia on her stomach from a stab wound was healed; also see Highlight of the night above.

8 people encountered, 3 received healing

Highlights: Philip has not been able to eat solid foods, only liquids – after prayer he ate a bowl of thick rice soup with no problem.  A lady who had been threatened by a knife attack was experiencing great fear, after prayer her fear left.  JJ had back pain after prayer it was gone.