Street Healing Ministry: God Moves in Winnipeg

with a few of us venturing out on our own at times and then meeting again in

the Food Court area.  We ministered to approximately 4 people.  The ones I

remember the most were Josie, an elderly aboriginal lady with a cane who

approached us when we walked into the mall.  She immediately came to us and

told us that she needed some prayer for her knees, legs, feet, and wrists

because she was in some amount of pain.  It seemed at the time that she had

pain in most of her body joints.  So Annette led us in praying for Josie and

as we prayed the pain level almost immediately dropped.  While we were

praying I decided to give out some loaves of bread that we had received earlier at

the church, and then a few of us started to pray for John (a friend of Al’s

who had come to the mall to watch and see what our teams were doing

firsthand).  As it turned out John had some amount of pain in his lower back

and legs and he appeared to be walking with a significant limp.  As we prayed,

his limp almost disappeared and his pain was noticeably lessened (see story above).

In the Food Court, we encountered a few people that we engaged, but not too

much happened. Part of our group was ministering at some tables with John G.

While Susie, Annette, and Susan and I, went outside to the front of Portage Place to Portage Avenue looking for Corky whom we had met last week.

She was not there and so we walked to the bus shelter and outside engaged a man with an unusual bicycle. Lots of people coming and going. Later on we went back inside and walked back to the Food Court.

Josie came back to us and was quite excited! She told us that God had healed her body!

And she was walking around with a kind of spring in her step (LOL – sounds weird I know, but she was so happy!!)  She kept telling everybody she met that she was healed (we found out earlier that Josie was already a believer).

So she was sharing her testimony with people who would listen! Very cool!! [Note from Al –  Josie kept telling me that the prayer team was amazing, and I kept reminding her that it was Jesus who was amazing.]

Engaged a few others but don’t remember their names, and I left the team and

saw a couple of young aboriginal women, sitting at a table, one in a wheelchair with a cast on her left leg.

Apparently, she had broken her leg at the knee joint and had just had been released out of the hospital. She was not in any pain when I asked her.

As it turned out she was heading back home to Norway House. I felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to offer to buy them some food just to bless them.

The one girl initially refused my offer, but the young woman in the wheelchair, though a bit startled, accepted. So

I asked what she wanted and went and brought back some food for her.

As I handed it to them, she looked at me and then announced, much to my surprise, “Today is actually my birthday!”  And she was quite delighted, yet a bit overwhelmed that I would do that for her on her birthday.

I was blown away that God even cares about our birthdays like that! 🙂  Pretty cool. Then I blessed her, left and went back to the other main group.

I prayed with two ladies who had come to Winnipeg from Lake St Martin when it flooded 6 Years ago. They had many health difficulties and wanted prayer for their families.

Although I didn’t see any marked difference in their bodies I was able to encourage them, especially Bernice who I felt had been holding on to feelings of guilt because her 12-year-old granddaughter who was in her care committed suicide.

Dillon also had a word of knowledge about her son which she confirmed.

Definitely, the most impactful part of the night was talking with Yogi. We were able to break off the lies that Yogi was believing and invited him to accept the Holy Spirit of Truth into his life.

We were the recipients of many group hugs and Yogi couldn’t understand why he kept crying. He is a very special guy.

I must say I was emotionally spent by the end of the evening. I think my physical mind has a hard time keeping up with what the Spirit is doing.

Sancho, Aurora and myself teamed up. Sancho decided we should go to Central Park but as we were just outside the mall’s door we saw 5 young ladies (Pam, Kristen, Jaran, Marie & Rachel).

I immediately prayed for the Holy Spirit’s leading. I motioned Sancho & Au to move closer to the 5 young ladies and just say “Hi”.

They were waiting for their taxi to pick them up and bring them to the bus depot. They were all from Neepawa they said and were going home for the long weekend.

Sancho asked them if they needed prayers as they traveled home and/or if they need any healing. They said “No”.

Then I asked them again if they want me to just pray over them and bless them, and they said “Yes”.

As I begin to pray I noticed that one of them started to get so worried, she said that they should be at the bus depot at exactly 8:30pm to get on the Greyhound bus.

I told her not to worry because God has appointed that specific time for us to meet them and pray for them.

Then we prayed. It was already 8:15 pm. I just felt God’s embrace around those 5 young ladies! Then they started to just be calm and relax not anxious anymore. I told them to just trust the Lord.

He’ll provide a ride for them. Their taxi never came, so we had a little more time to share the gospel.

Eventually, Sancho offered to drive them.  When they left. I was able to get Rachel’s contact number. That night I texted her and asked how they were. She said they arrived safely to Neepawa by God’s grace.

Now, when Sancho left us at the mall, we went back inside, as we were coming into the doors I saw this young fellow (Kean) standing at the corner, meters away from us.

I told Aurora that God just told me to approach the young man and pray for him. And so we did. That very same hour he accepted Jesus as His Lord & Saviour!

He joined us today for a short fellowship here at our house and he said he’s coming to church this Sunday. Amazing God!

Back at the food court I met Ron.

Ron was experiencing lower back pain, prayed over him the 1st time and asked from 1 to 10, he said the pain was around 9, then prayed again then it went down to 6, and prayed the 3rd time, and it went down to 3! praise Jesus!

I also met Edna, she said she was so disappointed and downhearted that night, she was also in great fear. I prayed that all these negative feelings would be gone. And she felt something heavy just got lifted, she felt better after.

Also, earlier this afternoon Sancho met Tina & John’s dad– Henry (Tina & John were the 2 young people we met after 1 on Thursday, they accepted the Lord Jesus). Henry wants to be visited and ministered to.

He said he used to be a believer/follower of Christ, but backslid. He wants to come back to the Lord. Please pray that as we meet with him and his family again they will be restored.

Soli Deo Gloria!