Friday October 17, 2008
Tonight in Redding was the big RIVERBOWL high school football rival game between Shasta High and Enterprise so there were hundreds of people there! A team of four of us from the school went to go see what God wanted to do there! We were walking around the crowds of people (mostly high school kids) and found a girl with crutches who was with her boyfriend. We approached her and asked her what happened and if we could pray for her. She had an infection in her foot and she had pain when she put pressure on her foot. We prayed for her (she was pretty embarrassed too lol but her friends were so cool about it and wanted her healed too) She felt a little pain leave but we ended up running into her 3 or 4 times (even amidst the hundreds and hundreds of people) and prophesied over her boyfriend and prayed for her later; she had a little pain reduce but we told her best friend to keep praying for her to be fully healed.
We decided to walk over to the visitors side and we ran into a Shasta High JV football player (his name was Sonny) with his left arm in a sling. We went up to him, asked him what happened – football injury obviously but it was a messed up tendon around his rotators cup in his arm where it hurt really bad barely lifting his arm up at all. He said he was out for the season and was planning on having surgery. We asked him if he we could pray for him so he could play in the game next week! So we prayed for him and he could lift up his arm a little higher than he could before: his pain on a ten scale of 10 being a lot of pain and 0 being no pain a 6! We asked him if we could pray again so he could be fully healed. Prayed again and he told us he felt a “wind” go through his arm – HE FULLY LIFTED HIS ARM, FULLY HEALED! He took his arm out of the sling and we were like “Dude! You just got healed, Jesus just healed you!” and he didn’t really know what to do because he was kind of in shock! We told him, “why are you putting that back on you just got healed bro!” and he realized that he really was healed and thanked us, got our number and told us he would go to the doctor to get X-rays and call us how it went!
So we walked literally like 50 feet towards the visitors stand and we ran into another high school kid with his left arm in a sling from a biking accident (a torn rotator cup that hasn’t healed the past 3 months). We told him what happened like 2 minutes ago with Sonny and he was down for us to pray for him. After the first time, his pain on a ten scale went from like a 10 to a 7. So we prayed again and it stayed about the same but he said “It felt good when you guys laid hands on my shoulder while you were praying” – he tested it out and he gained some mobility and loss of pain. He thanked us and we blessed him and watched the rest of the close game (Shasta lost though!) It was a really fun night – the other team there with us healed a different football player’s fracture in his arm – he gained a significant amount of mobility and pain loss; also they prophesied over a high school girl who was near the football player (they had a real accurate word about her life) and then 8 other girls lined up and said “Do me! Do me! I want to hear too!” It was sooo much fun to spread the joy of Jesus around at a big entertaining close football game!
