OK, there’s another event on this coming Monday (30th August). I’m not crazy about organizing events coz it takes time, but Mike’s one of my favorite speakers. And I’m passionate about bringing together other Christians interested in moving in healing so that we can encourage each other to step out and grow. Since the last meeting, a number of us have gotten to know each other better and have been encouraging each other and going to the streets together and that’s what it’s all about – growing together!

Anyway, my cell group leader (of an inter-church cell) has managed to get Mike Reyes to come to minister to those of us who are passionate about healing – learning about healing and ministering healing to people. Especially for those who are already hitting the streets and praying for people and those who want encouragement to step out in healing.

Mike’s very grace-based, passionate about healing and believes everyone can do it – not just the specially anointed. So we’ll be getting him to share about his journey to encourage us and also a Q&A session as I know many people have questions about ministering healing. While he’ll definitely pray for people who needs to be prayed for, the main purpose of this event is really for those who want to receive something from him so that they can grow in their own healing ministry.

This meeting will be held at the same place as the previous healing meeting mentioned on this blog. If you’re coming and haven’t informed me, do email me at idealist at stillhaventfound.org.

Date and Time: 30th August (Monday), 7:30pm. No food will be provided so have your dinner first :)

Location: Teresa Ville Condominium function room 2.

How to get there: Teresa Ville (1001 Lower Delta Road) is a condominium near both Harbourfront MRT (VivoCity) and Tiong Bahru MRT. To get there from VivoCity, take bus number 65 or 855 opposite VivoCity. The bus stop has a big green grassland behind it. Stop 4 stops after you get on.To get there from Tiong Bahru MRT, take bus number 123 or 195 from opposite Tiong Bahru MRT. Stop 3 stops after you get on.

P.S.: If anyone left a comment over the last few days which didn’t get published, do leave that comment again because I didn’t get it – some server problem ;)

It’s been a pretty crazy week or so of healing – and along with that learning and reflection. I’ve been getting bolder since Saturday’s meeting and have prayed for tons of people everywhere I go. It’s also been good gathering with other brothers and sisters who have been running with this healing message and encouraging and challenging each other to pray for people.

At Church

The past two Sundays (15th and 22nd August), I prayed for about 5 people in total from New Creation and all of them (at least according to what they said) received healing or felt better in one way or another. Approaching church people and Christians is easy because you know they’ll definitely be open to receive prayer. Of course most probably don’t actually expect anything to happen when you pray!

On 15th August, I entered the service, saw wheelchairs and thought I’m going to pray for these people after service if I have the opportunity – I didn’t have the opportunity later as I was praying for someone at the end of the service. During the time when the invitation to receive Jesus was given – a time when some people leave – I saw a lady leave the auditorium limping. I hesitated for a while then just left my seat and ran out to approach her. I prayed for her and commanded pain to leave her shoulder and it did. We exchanged information and I’m hoping to visit her house with my friends to continue to pray for her and her family. Later in the evening I approached another lady limping and using an umbrella as a walking stick to walk. I found out she was an usher from New Creation and I commanded pain to leave her knee till it left and she was able to walk much better – without using the umbrella.

And last Sunday (22nd August), I prayed for a lady on wheelchair recovering from a broken/fractured ankle in a cast. She didn’t really have pain unless she moved her foot at some positions. After prayer, I got her to try moving it to see if there is any pain and she said she couldn’t feel any pain anymore. I approached a guy carrying a Rock bookstore plastic bag who was limping in the MRT. While waiting for the train, he shared with me his physical problems resulting from an accident years ago. One of his legs was very slightly shorter than the other and so I got him to sit down and stretch forth both legs and I commanded the left to grow. I believe I saw it grow, though I told him to go back and confirm that with me. I also prayed for his right leg that had many problems. We exchanged contacts and so I’ll follow up with him.

Crazy Monday

The previous Monday (16th August) was a crazy day with about 8 people being touched by Jesus’ healing love – all while I was just going about my normal daily routine. I met Alastair in Chinatown before he left Singapore in the afternoon. On the way there I approached a foreign worker with a bandaged thumb, prayed and all the pain left. Before Alastair and I left McDonald’s, I approached a guy with awkward/restricted hand movement that I had been observing in Macs. I commanded pain to leave his hand a few times and he could lift it up above his shoulders. Later in the afternoon outside my office, I was talking to a friend on the phone. A guy limping walked past and I immediately stopped him and asked him about his leg. While still on the phone, I prayed until the pain was completely gone and he was able to walk normally. During my break I went to Bukit Merah Central (as I normally do) and I prayed for a guy selling tissues whom I had prayed for a few weeks ago. Pain left his knees and then his eyesight dramatically improved according to him. The funny thing is that I came back two days later (Wednesday) and he said the pain and his eyesight returned to what it was before – and I had to get that fixed again. I’ll be following up with him.

At the Central, I approached a person who was limping and after asking about his pain, I asked if I could pray for him. He was hesitant and wondered why someone who help him for free. I told him I’m just there to pray and I’m not asking for anything in return. I prayed and the pain left. Later, I bought some stuff at NTUC FairPrice and saw an Indian cashier lady talking openly to her customers so when it was my turn I struck up a conversation and asked her if she had any pain in her body. She said she had pain and I prayed for her shoulders till pain completely left and then started on her ankle. But because she was a bit uncomfortable as she was meant to be working, she invited me to visit her to pray for her and her husband after hearing that my friends and I would go anywhere (including homes) to pray for people.

After work, I saw an old lady limping when walking along an overhead bridge. In my best (not very good!) Mandarin, I asked her if she had pain and then asked if I could pray for her. She said, “No”. I started to walk slowly ahead of her (she was walking in the same direction as I was) and then looked back and commanded the pain to leave her legs in English. She saw what I was doing of course and then I said to her in my pathetic Mandarin, “It’s better right?”. She kind of nodded, then that opened an opportunity to lay hands on her legs and continue praying for the complete healing. I left after and while I can’t be totally sure if all pain left, I know she felt better.

On my way back home close to midnight, I approached a guy on my path and asked him if he had pain in his body. He said yes and I prayed for him as I walked a while with him. He was very open to me praying and placing my hands on his shoulders as we walked towards his car. By then, there was only about 5% pain left according to him.

At a hospital

On Tuesday (17th August) and Wednesday (18th August) night, I met up with one (17th) and three (18th) other friends to pray in a hospital. On Tuesday morning, I prayed for a Christian colleague of mine and sore and pain completely left his hand. Interestingly, I found out later that just like when I prayed for his hurting back/hip which I mentioned here, while the pain left completely upon prayer, it came back again for a short while but then left forever soon after.

At the hospital, my friend and I prayed for a few people in wheelchairs with diabetes, liver cancer, etc. There weren’t any visible manifestations. We met a young guy who’s attended FCBC for many years. We prayed for his high blood pressure. He said he’s homeless and jobless and I gave him some money when he asked. I prayed over it and asked God to bless the gift and that he’ll be able to get a job soon. I also left him my contact and asked him to contact me if he needs anything and he’s called me a few times since (he told me he’s found a job!). I want to help him more and yet I don’t know how to. I know most people and even Christians would just say that we should be careful that this person doesn’t depend on us and all that nonsense. These people may be a burden to society and even Christians, and yet I know Jesus deeply loves the outcasts and marginalized of society.

We approached a young lady who was on a crutch. Her knee was broken and completely dislocated. It looked very awkward – not just a fracture or break, but it was quite out of position. To be honest, I didn’t know how to pray for her. We prayed and I commanded the knee/leg to be totally normal and in place but nothing visible happened and we just left her. I felt bad in a way. There has to be more – like a miracle that sorts out the problem totally. I’ve been kind of thinking how to pray for such a thing in future. I heard Curry mentioned he prayed for this person with club feet and something else and he got her to get out of her wheelchair and walk after prayer and soon after walking, every step got better and her feet was back to normal. So who knows, maybe I should just get the person to walk and expect the miracle to manifest as the person walks!

We came across two Indian ladies in the food court who were not patients. Both of them got completely healed of knee pain and one of ankle pain as we prayed and then asked them to walk to test it out. One thing I’ve been learning is getting people to try it out like we did for these two ladies. We got them to walk around and then pain completely left. That step of faith completed the process of complete healing in a way.

We approached this guy with a neck brace and talked to him. He seemed genuinely happy and open to talk as he told us about his neck/spine problem. We prayed for him then arranged to meet him the next day as we were coming again Wednesday.

We also prayed for three men who were patients and back pain left in one and almost all pain left in another person’s leg. We also prayed for their other conditions without any visible/tangible manifestation.

Outside the hospital, we approached a lady with a bandage on her wrist. All pain left. The same for a guy we approached along an underground walkway with a bandaged knee. In a shopping centre near the hospital, I saw a young guy limping a bit. I put my hand on his shoulders and asked him about his pain. He didn’t really want to be prayed for but too late – I pointed to his ankle and commanded pain to leave. After hitting it twice, it left. Then I told him Jesus loves him!

The next day (Wednesday) at the hospital and outside, we saw pain leave a patient’s head and another patient’s knees. Pain in the hips of an old lady left and a young girl on a wheelchair had pain leave her fingers. The four of us also spent some time with the guy we met the day before with neck/spine problems. We had a good talk with him, prayed for him and managed to share God’s love with him. I know he was definitely touched to see strangers spending time talking to him and praying for him. I’m hoping to meet up with him at his house this coming week to pray for complete healing for him before his operation.

Other healings

During the rest of the week, we prayed for other people individually in the course of our daily lives and saw healings – mostly pain leaving. One healing that encouraged me was when I prayed for my domestic worker who was coming down with a fever/cold. Nothing happened when I prayed but I told her not to take the medicine, but to wait a while. And after a while she felt completely well! Haha. I’m getting her to listen to Curry Blake’s Divine Healing Technician (DHT) training and I told her that she’ll be healing people when she returns to Philippines!

Some thoughts

Pain seems to be the easiest to see go away. This isn’t always the case for I’ve commanded pain to leave but haven’t always seen all pain go away. But it happens most of the time.

My friends and I want to grow and see greater healings. We’re not contented with just seeing pain leave. We thank God for how far we’ve come and yet we’re not satisfied. We’re spiritual gluttons and want to see God’s healing power move in a greater way through us. There are people suffering from different types of conditions and Jesus has paid for their healing already.

Now, of course I’m taught that one healing is the same as the other and there are no harder healings. But then, I’ve seen pain leave so easily, but I haven’t seen much else – yet! It could be my mindset limiting my faith to see other healings which could actually just be as easy as the rest? Something to think about.

Going to hospitals is definitely challenging. We hope to visit a hospital one night a week to pray and learn along the way. In the hospital you see so much greater need – much more than just the need to see pain gone. I dunno how to deal with a lot of what i see but God will teach me along the way.

One thing I’m still reflecting a lot upon is whether I should be concerned if there’s no visible or tangible manifestation upon prayer. On one hand, I have to remind myself that this doesn’t mean that the person won’t recover. There are many cases in people’s healing ministry whereby the person gets healed or recovers soon after and not immediately upon prayer. On the other hand, I also hear instances of immediate manifestation and healing when one prays – not just a simple few seconds prayer and then end the time there, but an extended prayer time that results in a definite manifestation and healing (e.g. heat, electricity, actual moving of bones, etc.). This extended prayer time doesn’t mean prayers are long, but that we pray short prayers (of command) then wait and do this over and over again until we see the manifestation. The point is to pray and wait until something happens – and not to end things straight away after a simple prayer. I watched this YouTube by Pete Cabrera and noticed that parts of the video was edited out for the sake of time. I asked Pete how long it actually took from the time he started praying/commanding till the actual manifestation and he said 10 minutes tops.

As mentioned above, I want to visit the person with the neck/spine problem and just pray and command his bones to be normal until something happens – and not give up too quickly. Regarding the person I prayed for with polio I mentioned here that didn’t get her leg lengthened, I wanted to carry on commanding until something happened, however the couple wanted to stop so I stopped. However, I believe that had I continued, the leg would have grown.

One thing I’ve noticed is heat coming upon a person sometimes when I pray and lay hands on them. That’s something new for me as I don’t think this has happened through my prayers/laying of hands before. But heat is always good! It shows God is working.

I’m also still struggling with my own healing and not seeing results, but pushing on and pressing in! Not giving up on anything because this is just the beginning of an exciting journey and I truly believe that as I continue to seek God in this area, He will teach me and I’ll learn more and more things.

Overview

9 people from a few different churches participated in our first meeting on the 14th August. We met at 5pm in a meeting room in the CBD area and chatted about various topics for about 1-2 hours. Joanne, a student at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) shared about her experiences there. We discussed about healing and different opinions on certain things related to healing. We shared some testimonies on healing and then talked a bit about practical matters when going out to the streets. Most people there were already familiar with street healing – having either done it themselves or seen it done on Youtube! We left around 7pm and walked to Chinatown. There we met two more people, had a quick dinner then split into smaller groups that went their separate ways. Some suggested going to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and in the end we did end up seeing each other there about 9pm or so. There, there was a debriefing session among some, while others continued on at Orchard Road.

Testimonies

The below is a compilation of testimonies from the different groups:

• A middle-aged guy who had ulnar nerve damage and numbness over his little and ring fingers – and that side of the arm until the elbow – felt circulation (he said “blood moving”) upon prayer. Although feeling didn’t immediately return, his countenance was markedly different after that and said he would give thanks to Jesus.
• An elderly guy on his bike who was smoking and had trouble breathing (from his medication, it looked like chronic bronchitis / chronic obstructive lung disease). Because he spoke Hokkien, the group wasn’t sure what happened after the prayer but some of them felt that the man felt something emotionally (e.g. peace).
• One of our friend’s mother who has suffered from a heel spur for 5 years and has been in pain constantly of late had the pain significantly reduced and felt warmth on her thigh.
• In SGH, a few of us prayed for this guy who injured his ankle during a soccer match and had to go for a surgery. There was no way we could tell if anything improved as he didn’t have any pain to start with.
• An lady outside SGH on a wheelchair was prayed for with pain being significantly reduced.
• A cleaner in the lady’s toilet was healed of her neck pain.
• A guy on the wheelchair had pain significantly reduced. He felt a bit awkward and left hurriedly before experiencing complete healing but said thanks.
• A Christian girl in Dhoby Ghaut who had recently broken/fractured one leg and was recovering had pain completely leave her leg.

Thoughts on stepping out and failure

I think everyone thought it was a good experience. Some were there to observe as this was all very new to them, while at least one stepped out for the fist time and saw her first healing. We prayed for more people than the above. Sometimes there were no results while at other times a language barrier prevented us from knowing if anything actually happened. We also approached some people who rejected us.

Let me share something. I approached a lady in SGH who had one leg clearly shorter than the other. She was with her husband and both were Christians. I asked to pray for her and they hesitated. When she told me she had polio, I told them that I saw God grow a person’s leg out who had polio a few weeks ago and I said I believed God could heal her. I got her to sit down on a sofa then started to hold her legs and command one of them to grow longer. My friends were all around there and there were others at the hospital looking too because one of the counters was nearby. I felt a bit awkward and pressured, but not so much because I’d done this before and so I know all this is part of the package. It may feel weird, and people will think you’re crazy, but that’s all part of stepping out. I’ve learned to be more bold as I do more.

Well, in the end, I don’t think the leg moved one bit after probably 5 minutes plus of commanding it to. I prayed for the polio and left my contact with the couple and said I’d like to pray for them again and that I believed God would heal her. I dunno if they’ll call me. I don’t think so. I felt sorry that they had to go through all this and I felt a bit embarrassed for myself, but I know that ultimately it’s about obedience. I didn’t see any result then and obviously I was terribly disappointed but I still hold on to God’s Word for His Word is above my experiences. If there’s a failure, it’s not with God, but with me. But when I say this, I am not condemning myself. I am secure in God’s love enough to know that His love never leaves me when I fail.

Hey, I got my first big failure – in a sense. The wonderful thing is that I have no need to fear for any failure in future because I’ve already experienced a big one. I just want to go out in obedience to lay hands on the sick and trust God. If another potentially awkward situation like the above presented itself, I would still go for it because I’ve already experienced how embarrassing it could be! Haha! And anyway, I believe God is pleased with my obedience and the devil knows I mean business! Having said all that, seeing failures just makes me want to press in more and learn more about healing and how to be more effective in it. There’s no reason why there should be failures because the Word of God doesn’t allow for any.

I know Jesus loves the lady and I know He doesn’t want to see her in the state she’s in and I know Jesus wants to move through us to see her healed. I don’t know why nothing happened then but I know it’s not God’s fault. I will continue to learn and I want to offer myself as a vessel every time I see a person suffering from something that they should not suffer from because of what Jesus Christ went through for them.

Thoughts on the prophetic and healing

I’m not strong on the prophetic like others but I want to improve in this area. Some of us thought that it’ll be good to practice our words of knowledge and even prophecy. Now, we mostly approach people that we see have some visible pain/sickness. But if we try and step out and seek words of knowledge about people, we can approach more people. I think it’s a way to step out in the prophetic too. I’ve stepped out a lot in healing, but I also want to do so in the prophetic.

We can just ask God for words for people we see have no visible condition and step out and ask the person, “Excuse me sir/mam, do you have pain in (fill in part of your body) or (fill in condition)?” or “Excuse me sir/mam, is your name (fill in name)”. The worst thing that can happen is that they say, “Nope” and give you a weird look. But people give you a weird look even when you ask them about their visible pain so it’s pretty much the same thing – no greater embarrassment! I’ve learned to be bolder now so I don’t really care what they think! Haha. Anyway, we can then just follow up with a, “Do you have any pain in any part of your body (or any sickness)?”

Another way to practice the prophetic is through Treasure Hunting. I’ve never been on one before though I’d like to – one day I’d like to organize one. However, one thing to note when doing it is not to bypass the other people on the streets that need healing but who are not our ultimate treasure. We should pray for everyone who needs healing. I think that’s one of the potential weakness of treasure hunting – that people may only seek their ultimate treasure and forget that we should be laying hands on all the sick we come across, not just our treasure. But it’ll be cool to meet at one place in different groups, get words from God, then each group moves as God leads us to our treasure, but still pray for every single person we come across that need healing. That would be fun :)

Future meetings

Since Saturday, some friends and I have continued to meet up more regularly. We understand that while it’s about a lifestyle (and we do approach people when we’re going about with our normal day activity), we are just hungry to learn more and move more in this area. Therefore we are meeting regularly and intentionally to find people to pray for and heal.

At least four of us are going to a hospital tonight. I went with a friend yesterday night and we saw many healings. Not big ones like people coming out of wheelchairs, but about 9 people were healed either fully (most of them fully) or almost completely in at least one area – and many of them I know were touched that we spent time talking to them and praying for them. On Sunday and Monday, I saw over 10 people healed just going about my daily life and not really specifically looking for people. It’s so exciting – I will share more soon!

At this moment, we haven’t planned next meeting. Some of us are already meeting regularly to pray for people. One friend mentioned about having no solid teaching on healing on Saturday. Yes, it was a more informal discussion and sharing session. But I’m glad he mentioned that because I’m big on teaching! Haha. I think it’s so important to renew our minds with the Word of God as we grow in this area. I’m now thinking of a more formal monthly meeting with good teachings (someone sharing or playing a DVD of which I have a few in mind) that is open to people who have not stepped out before but want the encouragement to do so. We want to help people to get started and then when they see how easy it is, they will start to develop healing as a lifestyle. Then they will eventually disciple others in this area.

OK, I’ve got so much more things to say but that’s for another post :) I’ll end with an SMS I received from a friend. When I said I’m so happy that he’s passionate about this and that we shall encourage and challenge each other, he replied:

Passionate. Yes. I guess you can put it down to anger. Righteous anger. Been robbed and lied to for too long. The devil will pay. I know my rights and authority now.

Amen! That’s the kind of attitude I love and that encourages me even further.

Around noon on the 10th July, the third day of Curry Blake’s DHT training at Arkansas and after having just spent two amazing nights at Walmart with friends healing people and an incredible morning in a home healing an Argentinian couple and seeing them touched by love, I decided to buy a journal to record my healing journey. I was excited at what was happening and made a commitment to start praying for as many people as I can on the streets and everywhere else whether I see any success or not. If Todd White had to pray for over 500 people before seeing a breakthrough, I thought I may as well get my journey started and learn as much as possible straight away!

My first experience of God’s amazing power working through me alone was at the San Francisco Airport which I described here. I arrived back in Singapore at midnight. The next day (16th July), I approached a lady selling tissue papers at Jurong East Interchange. She was in a wheelchair. I just prayed then left. On the 23rd, I prayed for another tissue seller at Bukit Merah Central and he reported that there was less pain or pain left, though that was hard to confirm. On the 3rd of August, I was with another friend and prayed for a old lady on a wheelchair without a right leg. After commanding her leg to grow, she also complained of pain and that left after commanding the pain to go.

Perhaps my first really big breakthrough was on the 5th August when a colleague of mine jumped from a high level and injured his ankle. He was brought to me and I commanded the pain to leave and it significantly improved. I commanded about two more times and all the pain left. My colleague was from Myanmar and a non-Christian. He told me he was very surprised! I told him Jesus healed him. The next morning a bit of pain came back and I commanded it to leave and it left. The same thing happened at the end of the day. His ankle is pain free till today.

On the 7th August, I was walking back just after midnight and approached a security guard who was walking awkwardly. I asked him if he had pain in his legs. He said he was OK. I asked him if he had pain anywhere in his body and he showed me his hand and pointed to cramps in his fingers – he couldn’t move them. I commanded cramps to go and he started to be able to move his fingers. He seemed shocked and said, “Thanks a lot” and I just told him that Jesus loves him. We didn’t get to talk further as he had to do his work.

On the way to meeting a friend on the 11th August, I spotted a young boy with a cast. He was standing near me on the MRT but I was a bit afraid to approach him with so many people around so I followed him till he got off (he got off at the same stop as me) and approached him on the escalator going up. I asked him if he had pain in his arm and he said it was OK and that it’s healing. He allowed me to pray for him so I commanded the pain to go away. There was less pain after the first round. So I commanded complete healing and all the pain left. I told him Jesus healed him and I asked him if he was a Christian and he said not yet. I left him a name card and asked him to contact me.

The following day, a Christian colleague told me he had a hurting back/hip which caused him to limp a bit. I commanded the pain to leave and it left completely after hitting it twice.

Besides the above incidents, I approached and prayed for many others. Sometimes I was rejected on the streets. I also prayed for people whereby there was no clear improvement after the prayer. That was of course disappointing but it’s not going to distract me from further healing people I can.

Here are some thoughts:

1) To be honest I didn’t think I’d get to see results so quickly. I wasn’t full of faith before every successful healing! And that’s reflected through the fact that I was probably nearly as shocked as the person who got healed was! But my few experiences have definitely put more confidence in me now.

2) Right now, I go into a situation expecting pain to go when I command it to. This is based on my experience and that of others. I dunno why this is so – just like growing legs seem to be something that is so easy to many people.

3) I have to acknowledge that when I prayed for my Christian colleague, who has been a friend of mine for about 15 years, I wasn’t really full of faith at all! This is someone I’ve known so well and long and who’s a Christian. I think sometimes it’s easier to pray for strangers and perhaps non-Christians. This shouldn’t be my mindset of course!

4) I have to think about following up more. This is early days still and sometimes I’m so surprised after seeing the person healed that I don’t know what to do! I’m going to get a name card especially for the purposes of following up and keeping in contact with the person prayed for. I’m also in the midst of creating a website.

5) I’ve learned never to settle for less than complete healing whenever possible. After praying once, pain would go down but I’d hit it again until there’s complete healing.

6) I find that when you see someone, it’s best to just go for it rather than wait and think. You’ll think yourself out of approaching the person!

7) For a person like me who doesn’t speak Mandarin well, it’s good to partner someone who does.

8) Anyway, it’s probably better overall to go in pairs as this would be less intimidating for the person you approach. But of course, as a lifestyle you try to approach people everytime and everywhere you are and not just when you’re with someone. And it can get very exciting to do it alone :)

9) I still dunno how I should approach a situation whereby nothing happens after prayer. I’ve prayed for people on wheelchairs, a person with Cerebral Palsy, a lady with a huge goiter in her face and a guy dying of TB. I don’t want to just say a simple prayer and not see anything happening and then move on. I hate praying for people and leaving them unhealed. However, I’m also trying to understand that healing could occur after a while and it doesn’t always manifest straight away and so I shouldn’t always think that if nothing happens that means my prayers didn’t work. By thinking this way, it may be doubting, which may be a self-fulfilling prophecy and prevent any healing to occur in future. On the other hand, I also don’t want to go away from a situation and not following up to see if there’s improvement later on. Every stupid thing must bow to the name and power of Jesus Christ because He is above every name and power. If I don’t see this happening, then I don’t want to just move on. I want to see people healed! Anyway, I’ve lots of thoughts about this and will talk a lot more about this in future posts.

10) I’m still thinking of what words to use to pray. While words are not all-important, they do matter in a way and do reflect what one believes. Through Curry and most people I’ve seen, they just say a very simple prayer in Jesus name – often lasting a few seconds or less: “In Jesus’ name, I command pain to go and ankle to be healed, etc.”. That’s the way i normally pray now, though sometimes I change. The above way reflects authority/dominion dimension and that it’s a spiritual war – you speak to the problem, not to God about the problem. But then I’m learning from other Christians into healing about the importance of proclamation prayers. You proclaim the gospel as you pray. You don’t ask God to heal the person, but you declare the gospel in your prayers because in Scripture it seems that the gospel of the kingdom of God was always linked with healing – both came together. So while you may not have time to preach the gospel, you can kind of do it in your prayers through proclamation prayers. I’m still learning about this and will share more in future. Whatever kind of prayer you use, some people do also address and acknowledge their connection with God. Like Todd White sometimes says, “Father, I thank you in Jesus’ name”, then he goes to commanding. In this way, there’s this acknowledgement of God’s presence. One may also praise and thank God through one’s prayers. There are no magic words or ways of praying, but thinking through the words I use helps me to reflect upon what I believe and what I should be conscious of as I pray for people. But one thing I’ve realized through the various people I’m learning from about healing is that their prayers are not long and they are not of the intercessory begging types. That’s Old Covenant.

I shared the above experiences to encourage you all to go out and start doing it. My experience with the various groups of young people in America encouraged and challenged me greatly. It’s because of them that I’ve taken that step to pray for people on the streets. And that’s why I’m bringing people together to create a culture of going out and learning together. We’ve got so much to learn from each other. And we can do so much to encourage each other early on in our journey.

Of course before you step out and do all this, make sure you spend a lot of reading Scriptures and fasting and praying. If not, don’t expect God’s power to flow through you….

NOT!

Haha. It’s not about preparing yourself. Seriously, over the past few weeks, I wish I could have spent more time with the Word of God and praying and even fasting. But no, I haven’t fasted for a while. I haven’t spent a whole lot of time reading or meditating over Scriptures or even praying. I haven’t spent more time on all this than I have in previous months! I didn’t actually “prepare” myself!

You can do this because God qualifies you in Christ. He has given you authority and power, the anointing that abides and His promised presence with you always. I haven’t lived a perfectly holy life and I’ve definitely sinned during all this time. I probably didn’t even have the best of motives as I do all this – who knows! In fact, I don’t even care so much about my motives or whatever failures I may have because I know the devil puts stupid thoughts in my mind to try to make me think that I shouldn’t be approaching people because I’m not yet good enough. God doesn’t disqualify me – only the devil or I myself do that. My focus is not on what disqualifies me, but on Him who qualifies me and how I’m already qualified in Him. The more I focus on Christ and how He sees me, the more I become like Him. That’s why understanding the grace of God is so foundational. And adopting a New Covenant mindset that emphasizes how qualified you already are in Christ is so important too.

I believe in the importance of good teachings and renewing of one’s mind with the truth and Curry’s teachings have been instrumental. However, we won’t be perfect in this area so let’s just get going. The most important thing I’ve come to know is that I have everything in me (the anointing, the presence of God, the power, the authority, etc) – and you have everything in you – needed to get started. If our mindset is that we need to get more or prepare more, then you’ll be missing out in getting started. I think that pleases the devil so much. Now, I believe there is a place for getting more and preparing more, but that will come later. Now, you’d be amazed how much life can flow out of you already, just as you are – having Christ in you! You got the anointing of God when you got born again! Get started, and before long, I promise you, you’ll be seeing results.

Date: Saturday, 14th August
Time: 5pm to 7pm (study healing, discussion and dinner), 7pm to 10pm – hit the streets or go to the malls or hospitals or wherever!
Location: 137 Telok Ayer Street, #07-04 (near Tanjong Pagar or Raffles Place MRT).

There will be a meeting for people interested to go to the streets to heal people. Many people have expressed interest and I know it’s going to be very difficult to arrange a time when everyone can make it. But we’re going to go ahead with this first meeting and work from there. Future meetings may be on different days – weekday nights or Sundays.

I’m hoping to have these more “formal” meetings about twice a month that would include about 1 to 1.5 hours of studying healing (teaching/sharing) and discussion because i do think it’s extremely important to renew our minds with what the Word of God says regarding healing – especially since the moos (i.e. sacred cows) need to be slaughtered! It’ll be a time of learning together from different resources, asking hard questions, sharing testimonies and experiences and just working things through together. Then after that, we go out to the streets in pairs for a few hours to heal people! If you’re interested, do drop me an email at idealist at stillhaventfound.org to confirm your attendance. The room available is not very big so I’m hoping for a small group first!

Some of us also meet informally as and when we feel like it – normally after work. We’ll just SMS each other and see if others are free then meet up and hit the streets. If you guys are interested to meet together with others after work and just go to the streets (or shopping malls or hospitals!), then drop me an email at the above address and we’ll keep you in the SMS loop! Cheers!

An overview of the meeting

We had an awesome meeting on healing and JGLM last Saturday with a whopping 65 people turning up from different churches – of which probably half are either from New Creation or formerly from New Creation. I shared a little about my journey into healing and my experience in the States meeting different groups of young people living a lifestyle of healing, then Alastair and others also shared about their journey and involvement with John G. Lake Ministries (JGLM). We also shared a bit about what we learned from Curry Blake and the sacred cow doctrines related to healing he destroyed for us – and how that affected our thoughts on, and practice of, healing. We had a time of Q&A, prayer for healing and then most importantly a time of fellowshiping and connecting with others interested in healing.

The idea of an informal meeting first came about when I asked Curry for his contacts in Singapore so I could find people to learn with and put into practice this message of healing – and also with whom I could invite Curry to Singapore in future. Curry referred me to Alastair (an Australian who’s the representative for JGLM for Western Australia and Asia) who said he’d be coming to Singapore. He knew a group of Singaporeans (including Michael, Wilfred and Eddie who shared on Saturday) who had been to a Divine Healing Technician (DHT) training in Perth in May. He told me to organize an informal meeting for those interested in Curry’s teachings and so I planned for a meeting and invited some of my friends – some are familiar with Curry’s teachings, but most had only heard a bit about Curry through me. I’d initially planned for about 15-20 people, but many more than expected showed interest and people started to invite their friends and there were a few who came (whom I didn’t know before) who got to know of this event solely through this blog. There were people from around four independent (inter-church) cell groups, two of which focused on the prophetic, another on grace and another on healing. Then there were people who came who were involved in the School of Supernatural Ministry. While not everyone knew much about Curry and JGLM, I think almost all knew of Bethel Church and Bill Johnson – and John G. Lake. We had a few students who are either starting or continuing Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry this coming school year and some who are going to Randy Clark’s School of Healing and Impartation in Sydney later this month where Bill Johnson will also be ministering.

Steps forward: Active encouragement of each other

Some people have asked me what’s next and Alastair and some other Singaporeans who have been influenced by Curry’s teachings have discussed how we can go forward from here. The turn out showed that there are quite a number of people interested in learning more about healing and practicing it too. I think this is super exciting – I believe it’s only in the past 5 to 10 years, and especially in the past year or two, that many Christians (especially internet-savvy ones) throughout the world have come to realize that God can use them to heal people. I think Bill Johnson and Bethel ought to take a lot of credit for that as they’ve influenced so many Christians around the world. Nowadays, you’ll be able to find tons of people who have posted YouTube videos and/or written blogs (see below) sharing how God has used them to heal people on the streets.

I’ve had quite a few people tell me that they are interested to go to the streets to pray for people. My heart is to see people encourage and challenge one another to learn more about healing and practice it in the streets and as a lifestyle. It took me more than two years from the time I started to get into Bill Johnson’s teachings to step out onto the streets and to do this as a lifestyle. Two things helped me in stepping out: 1) Curry Blake’s teachings which totally destroyed everything in me which said that I can’t or wasn’t ready yet to heal the sick 2) Being around people (in America) who were living the life, going to the streets and practicing healing as a lifestyle.

Before encountering Curry’s teachings and doing it with my friends in America, my mindset was pretty much:

This thing works but I have to learn more, pray more and work on this and that in my spiritual life. Without all this, I’m not going to get much success. I need a while more to do all this then I’ll feel ready enough and I’ll come out with a blast!

Now it is:

I am ready already because I have all things in Christ (authority, anointing, presence, open heavens, etc.) and even if I step out now and don’t see many healings, I’ll be learning along the way and perhaps the best form of learning is through practicing. I can’t wait to step out everyday and pray for everyone I see who is sick!

I am just beginning on this journey and still learning tons from other people besides Curry. But I’m still going to the streets to put into practice all I know because I don’t think I have to know it all or reach some spiritual level before going out and seeing people healed. And through going out and putting into practice all I know, I know I will learn even more.

I’ll be arranging for a gathering of Christians (I’ll post about this soon) interested to learn more about healing and also going to the streets to practice healing. I’d like to create an environment that includes the two things above that helped me greatly to step out – 1) Studying good teachings on healing (e.g. from Curry Blake, but also from others like Andrew Wommack and Bill Johnson) 2) A community that will encourage and challenge each other to step out. It’s all about learning together, encouraging and challenging each other. No one is an expert, but we don’t have to be an expert for God to use us because this is for every Christian :) That’s what makes it so exciting! We just have to keep renewing our minds by learning about healing and meditating on Scriptures and practicing it. Before long, we’ll be doing things that most Christians would never expect we could do. And we can do it simply because Christ is in us and we have His anointing that abides. Hallelujah!

Steps forward: Resources

Here are some resources that have been instrumental to my learning – and they are all free!:

1) Curry Blake’s Divine Healing Technician (DHT) training. The best foundational teachings on healing around. It’s long, but I think everyone who has heard it would say it’s well worth their time. Will transform your thinking on healing! By the way, those interested in more of Curry Blake’s stuff can email me at idealist at stillhaventfound.org and I could send you more stuff.

2) Andrew Wommack’s God Wants You Well, The Believer’s Authority, A Better Way To Pray and You’ve Already Got It. Also check out Killing Sacred Cows and Living In The Balance Of Grace And Faith.

A lot of what Curry Blake teaches in the DHT are in the above teaching sets by Wommack. There are nuances between the two on healing – I’m more with Curry when it comes to healing. But Wommack is stronger on grace and he’s probably my favorite teacher/preacher overall.

I’ve listened to most of the above teaching series at least twice. It takes time for all these teachings to sink in especially when you don’t hear all this often in churches – in fact, you hear a lot of the opposite. It’s really all about adopting a New Covenant mentality/identity in relation to everything – including healing. The church is filled with teachings based on the Old Covenant mindset and way of doing things – even the charismatic and prophetic sections of the church. The Old Covenant is all about lack, disqualification and asking for something that we in the New Covenant actually already have in Christ! Focusing on the Old Covenant doesn’t give us the faith to believe we can heal whereas understanding the New Covenant and who we are in Christ encourages to believe that we can heal people. By the way, Pastor Joseph Prince doesn’t talk a lot about healing but his whole ministry is focused on the New Covenant and that has also helped tremendously.

3) Blogs: Ryan’s Revival or Riots Ministries, Brandon’s I am a Spirit, Michael’s The Jesus Method and Nick’s Lyfestyle Ministries. I met all of them when I was in America and they’ve all influenced my life. Thank you guys and keep living it out!

4) YouTubes: There are tons of YouTubes on street healings and other good healing stuff like from Revival or Riots or Whizzpopping (Brandon above). Or just search for “Todd White” or “Pete Cabrera”. My favorite (everyone’s favorite?) is probably the disneyland healings.

5) Healing Forums: Two forums on healing that I sometimes go to are JGLM Life Teams Forum and Roger Sapp’s Christian Healing Forum.

Curry Blake’s coming to Singapore!

Yay! The date would be around Feburary 2011 :) Churches or Christians interested to be involved with his meetings here or getting him to teach at your church can talk to Alastair. Email me at idealist at stillhaventfound.org and I’ll put you in contact with him.

On my way back to Singapore from Arkansas, I stopped over at San Jose and spent two days and nights with an incredible group of young people. I got to know this group through Ryan Rhoardes of Revival or Riots Ministries. I didn’t really know him well – I only read his website and knew he and his friends (Dennis Bontrager, Brandon Lee, etc.) were doing the stuff (i.e. healing people) on the streets. So I emailed him and asked if I could spend some time with him and he invited me to stay over at his place for the two nights I was in San Jose.

First day in San Jose

Ryan picked me up from the bus station on the morning of the 12th of July. We went to a restaurant to eat and talk and when paying for the food at the cashier, he asked if the cashier had any pain in her body. She was of course a bit surprised by the question and mentioned that there was some pain in her foot. Things happened so fast that I don’t remember if Ryan asked if he could pray for her or not, but soon he pointed to the foot and said something very short like

Pain in the name of Jesus leave.

He then asked her to move her foot to see if there’s still any pain. She did and was surprised that there was no pain. I don’t remember the exact words or the exact details of the events because all this happened within about 1-2 minutes! Wow – I was amazed at how easy it all was!

Later in the day, some of us went to an upmarket supermarket. We tried to pray for people there without much success – the rich are probably less open to such things. On the way out, Brandon approached a black man who was limping. With as much ease as above, he commanded the pain in the person’s knee/leg to leave and then asked how he felt. The person said better and Brandon hit it another time and more pain left.

All this, for them, was a lifestyle. It’s not an event where they plan to go out specially to heal people. They just live their normal lives and when they see sick people, they approach them and heal them. And by the way, most of these people are not college graduates. They are in their early twenties and don’t work. They do this full time – going out everyday, healing people and touching lives. How radical!

After this, they went to a fast food place for lunch. Next to the road outside, they carried a “Free Healing” sign noticeable to cars and people passing by. A group of about 6 young girls in their teens decided to find out what this weird bunch of people were all about. They were sitting with us for about 30 minutes plus and Jayne Kim (a Korean-American recently touched by this group of people and started hanging out with them) grew a couple of legs out while Dennis prayed that a few felt God’s presence and prophesied over one girl.

On the way back, we stopped by this group of about 10+ mostly Asian Americans who were Brandon’s friends and were meeting during the summer break to do the stuff! We had a cell meeting then went for dinner. I was in a car with 4 other people. When we saw an old lady in a wheelchair while driving, we stopped somewhere so some of us could go to the person to pray for her. She was Hispanic so I spoke to her in Spanish and we prayed for her. This (i.e. people getting out of the car when seeing someone whom they wanted to pray for) happened two more times before we arrived at our destination. I was very encouraged by their passion to step out in faith and pray for everyone.

After dinner, we broke up into groups of two to hit the streets to pray for people. My partner Andrew and I walked around to find somebody. In the end we ended up spending about 30 minutes with an old homeless guy. We prayed a few times over his leg and the pain went down a lot. Then we just spent time listening to him (he said he felt alone and he was encouraged by our presence) and his problems and prayed for him and encouraged him.

Andrew fetched me home after this. He’s a huge fan of Pastor Joseph Prince – his teachings have transformed his life. We prayed for each other before we parted ways. Both of us are new to the prophetic and hearing God’s voice but we tried it out. We prayed and then tried to listen. After I prayed, I tried to listen. Actually, I tried to see. I’m not a visual person but I somehow always ask for something visual because if I see anything, I know it’s not me. Whereas if I hear something, I dunno if it’s from God or just me. I thought I saw a house – a very unclear house, probably just an outline of it – and so I didn’t say anything after my prayer which included that God would provide for him (house probably has something to do with God’s providing I think!). Then we started talking and I wanted to find out if my picture meant anything or it was just me. I wanted to ask him if a house meant anything to him, but I didn’t have the guts and so went the more subtle way! I asked him if he’s living with his family and then gradually asked him if he’s looking for a house and then he shared with me that he has been looking for a house but has been discouraged recently. I told him what I thought I saw and it was an encouragement to both him and me. I think we both took it as God knows what he’s going through and God will provide. Anyway, this was a big encouragement for me as I start to slowly move in the prophetic.

Second day in San Jose

On the second day, Brandon, Dennis and I went to eat Phad Thai for lunch at a local Asian mall. On the way out, Brandon saw a young Asian guy with a brace on his right arm. He approached him and prayed for him and the pain was gone but there was still stiffness. Brandon then commanded the stiffness to leave and the guy felt so awkward about what was happening that he just left though we saw him later taking off his brace.

At night, the group had their weekly house church meeting which was televised on the Internet through Ustream. We discussed about Christ being in us and we being in Christ. Then we prayed for people. Rather than begging God or asking of God, the prayers were prayers of command and declarations, understanding the authority we have in Christ. This is something I’ve been reflecting upon the past few months – what is the role of and what is intercession in the light of the New Covenant.

There was also a place for chatting while the meeting was being screened through Ustream. One person typed out a word of knowledge about a pain in someone’s hand then typed out a prayer and the person’s hand got better. A Korean American girl later on said that she was so mad (with the devil) over a situation that she’s about the hit the streets (to heal people). I liked that!

After the cell ended, we went to a restaurant for supper. On the way out,the Korean American girl saw a table with a crutch and went up to ask if she could pray for the guy with the crutch. He said yes and pointed to his leg. I think he either didn’t have one leg or that he had a prosthetic/fake leg and she was shocked but still prayed that God would grow the leg. About 10 minutes later on the way home, she and I got out of the car for a while at a Petrol Station. We came across a person on crutches and we asked if we could pray for him. To our surprise, this person too had a prosthetic leg! So we commanded the leg to grow starting from then on.

Later that night at home, the guys (Ryan, Dennis and Brandon) decided to produce a video in response to what they believe are ridiculous claims by Christians using the power of God to stick coins to walls. The video is here.

Overall, I had an awesome two days in San Jose. I observed young Christians doing the stuff and got to practice healing with them. I had extensive chats with Ryan and Dennis about healing and the prophetic. I asked them tons of questions and I’ll share more of what I learned in future posts.

At the San Francisco Airport

I left San Jose early in the morning on the 14th July. At the Greyhound bus station, I somehow managed to miss my bus. I arrived before the bus left but due to a misunderstanding and me being absorbed in reading a book, the bus left without me! I panicked a bit (as I didn’t want to miss my plane!) but managed to get a train to San Francisco Airport. I had to pay a bit more but I claimed God’s promise that all things worked for good and believed not only to be at the airport on time, but have time to walk around healing people! I was so pumped up after the previous two days!

I arrived at the airport, checked in early and started to go through the security checks. I saw from afar a person walking awkwardly with a walking stick and with one leg obviously shorter than the other. I told God I wanted to pray for this guy although I was too far behind the line. When I passed security, he was already out of sight. I just walked around and told God I wanted to find him. I approached a lady on a wheelchair and prayed for her. I asked to pray for another lady on a walker who wasn’t interested. And while waiting to board the plane, I approached a guy with a walking stick and prayed for him.

To my great delight, I did eventually find the guy I wanted to pray for. I approached him and asked to pray for him. He said he had to catch his plane. I told him it would only take a while. He agreed and I led him all the way to a chair where he sat down. Now, I had never grown a leg out before. The first time I saw this kind of miracle on Youtube, probably a year ago or so, I was simply amazed. I thought I’d never have that kind of faith to do this kind of thing for many years. But since then I’ve heard of and seen so many legs growing out that I asked Michael whom I met in Arkansas and has grown out so many legs how come it seems so easy to grow a leg out. He mentioned that he’s never heard of a leg not growing out when commanded to. Perhaps there’s a deeper meaning to this?

So anyway, I stretched his legs out and then started commanding his right leg to grow out. By the way, I heard that 9 out of 10 people have one leg shorter than the other. This sometimes causes back pains but it may not necessarily disrupt life so people don’t realize it. Most legs need to be lengthened by maybe only around 1 inch or less. For this person I was praying for, one leg was probably about a good 3 inches or more shorter than the other.

As I commanded, the leg started to grow out. It still wasn’t the same length as the other so I continued on, getting him to stand up a few times and asking if he felt any difference. On one occasion, I could feel the power surging through his legs as it lengthened. I spent a few minutes in all just speaking to the leg and commanding it to grow out in Jesus’ name. There were people around us who probably thought I was nuts. But before I could finish growing his leg fully out, he said he had to rush to catch his plane so I let him go. But I asked him if there’s any difference and he said it definitely felt different. I walked him to his gate and he told me he was a Christian.

Anyway, I think this was my first real crazy experience doing it by myself! It’s something I’ll never forget!

YOU are invited to an event this Saturday night:

Event: Meeting for believers interested in 1) understanding and practicing healing, 2) John G. Lake Ministries (JGLM) which is starting in Singapore or 3) just connecting with others interested in healing so we can encourage and challenge each other to do the stuff together.

Speaker: Alastair Reid from JGLM

Date and Time: 31st July (Saturday), 7pm (snacks will be provided, but not dinner!)

Location: Teresa Ville Condominium function room (beside BBQ pits).

How to get there: Teresa Ville (1001 Lower Delta Road) is a condominium near both Harbourfront MRT (VivoCity) and Tiong Bahru MRT. To get there from VivoCity, take bus number 65 or 855 opposite VivoCity. The bus stop has a big green grassland behind it. Stop 4 stops after you get on.To get there from Tiong Bahru MRT, take bus number 123 or 195 from opposite Tiong Bahru MRT. Stop 3 stops after you get on.

What to expect: This is a very informal gathering of believers interested in healing and Curry Blake’s teachings and John G. Lake Ministries. Alastair, who’s helping to start JGLM Singapore, will share about how he came in contact with Curry and JGLM and how God is using JGLM to assist churches and believers in the area of healing. Through this, he’ll also share about destroying sacred cow doctrines of healing. There will also be time for praying for healing.

Who should come: Those who are simply here to find out more about healing and about Curry Blake and JGLM’s unique views on healing are most welcome to come. In fact, as long as you’re interested to learn more about healing (even if you don’t know who Curry Blake is), just come!

But more than this, generally I hate meetings that only result in talk and no action. I love discussion, but I also love practicing. Healing is to be practiced, not just talked about. And I’m not referring to practicing healing during the meeting – Alastair and many others would be glad to pray for any healing. But if you’re serious about connecting with people who desire to encourage and challenge each other to show God’s love to the world through practicing healing as a lifestyle – be it with JGLM or otherwise -, do come and meet other like-minded Christians.

If you’re thinking of coming, just drop me an email at idealist at stillhaventfound.org

I wrote the above details first because I know many people may not bother reading the below :)

The impact of the teachings of Curry Blake and JGLM on my life and others

Readers of my blog would know that I’ve been talking a lot about Curry Blake and healing recently. Just under 15 years ago when God changed my life, I read (and watched) a lot of Benny Hinn and Kathryn Kuhlman, famous healing ministers. I was amazed, but that was about all. I didn’t aspire to be like them. There was no way I thought I or any ordinary Christian could be like these and many other famous healing ministers.

About two years ago, I was introduced to Bill Johnson and Bethel Church and since then, I’ve become increasingly interested in the healing ministry. Bill Johnson and his church have influenced so many people around the world and made them believe that we ordinary Christians can actually go around healing people on the streets. I’ve been absorbed in the issue of healing for the past two years but never dared to step out and actually practice it. A few months ago, I came across Curry Blake’s Divine Healing Technician (DHT) training on mp3. I listened to all 19 mp3s (and then very soon another 19 mp3s from a different training) – his teachings have really transformed my thinking. Bill Johnson and Bethel got me passionate about healing and moved me away from the far side of the continuum of believing that only anointed ministers could heal people. Curry Blake completed the process and brought me to the other end and made me believe that you and I could pray for healing and expect and see healings occur.

During my trip to the States recently, I attended Curry Blake’s 3-days Divine Healing Technician training. Even better than that, I met different groups of people greatly influenced by Curry’s teachings who were going out on the streets and into shopping centers praying for, and often healing, whoever they saw. That was a super amazing experience that I’ve shared a bit on this blog (see my previous post) and will be sharing more in future.

Since coming back from the States, I’ve started to step out in faith and pray for people I see on the streets who need healing – with some clear results and some not so. I’m still learning and this is the beginning of my journey of stepping out. I still have a lot of questions, but I’ll still step out in faith believing in God’s healing power. I have no doubt that I will heal the blind, see people in wheelchairs walk, see cancer and other deadly diseases destroyed and the dead raised. If you’ve read my blog long enough, you know I’m not given to hype and so I don’t say the above lightly. I am someone special – I’m a King’s child – and so are you and I believe you can do exactly the same thing if you believe it and really get into all this. I would never have said the above a few years ago or even 6 months ago but listening to Curry’s teachings opened my eyes to see certain things in the Bible that now make me believe the above.

I dunno if I’ll agree with every single thing Curry says (I’m still new to this journey, have many questions and I’m still learning and formulating my own views on healing) and I believe in drawing and learning from different teachers (e.g. Joseph Prince, Andrew Wommack, Bill Johnson, Roger Sapp, etc) when it comes to healing and things related to healing, but I believe Curry probably has the best teachings in the world on healing. Many people would agree with me on this. Mike Bickle thinks that Curry’s DHT manual is the best on healing. Kobus van Rensburg loves Curry’s teachings. But perhaps one of the greatest testaments to the impact of Curry’s teachings is not that famous Christian leaders love Curry’s teachings, but that ordinary Christians like you and me have been so influenced by his teachings on healing that they’ve started stepping out and healing people on the streets. I’ve been with different groups of young Christians who’ve been practicing healing on the streets and they’ve credited Curry as being the most influential teacher in their healing ministry and whose teachings have increased their success rates tremendously. By the way, I greatly respect people who do it on the streets because I think these people are the real deal. They are putting their beliefs into actions and so they know what they are talking about.

First night of healing at Walmart

The first two nights, my friends and I went to Walmart after dinner to heal people. Before we went to Walmart, we ate at a fast food restaurant and here’s Caleb spending time talking to some youth and keeping his covenant to God (as he told me) to pray for everyone he sees that needs healing:

After dinner, we spent about 1 hour in Walmart. Michael and Ashley prayed for someone who had an injured leg. He came to get some medicine for the pain and left without needing any medicine as the pain had left:

At night, he called Michael, telling him that the swell on his face that was also prayed over had decreased significantly in size. JD also had the opportunity to pray for someone using a walking stick also and shared the gospel. For me, I approached 3 people but they didn’t really want to be prayed for.

When we reached the hotel at night, the five of us spent some time just worshiping God and soaking. They also prophesied over each other and over me. When they asked me if they could pray for me in any way, I mentioned my eyesight – I’m short-sighted. The four of them spent about 20-30 minutes just commanding the eyes to be healed in Jesus’ name. They didn’t just pray/command once, but continued for some time and took it upon themselves to see my eyes healed, though it didn’t heal. This may sound stupid and most of us probably wouldn’t think God would heal something like this, but we’re all convinced that if God can heal other diseases and other things, He can heal something like myopia. (More on this and contending for, and persevering in, healing in future posts). We ended the night by watching a video of Todd White, someone we all looked up to because of his ministry combining power (healing), love and the prophetic.

That night was the first time I’ve ever done this (praying in the streets or in shops for total strangers) with friends. It was definitely an experience for me and I learned to be more bold in approaching people!

Second night of healing at Walmart

On the second night at Walmart, we were joined by about 4 other young people, two of whom  (one was Nick) spent the previous night healing people in other parts of the city. We spent about 1.5 hours there in total and saw many healings – especially at the Shoes section:

In the afternoon, Michael had already grown a person’s leg during one of the training session breaks:

In Walmart, we approached a Hispanic lady on a wheelchair. We talked a lot to the Hispanic family and saw a few legs growing out, pain leaving from people’s bodies and lives being touched as we listened to them and told them about Jesus.

I spent time talking to my friends, seeing them in action and walking around Walmart looking for people to heal. I dunno if there’s an impartation of anointing, but what I definitely know is that when you hang around people who are experienced in this area and just talk to them, see them in action and join along with them – when you do that, you learn and grow bolder. There’s definitely growth by association.

Healing in a home on the morning of the third day

The first Hispanic lady we met at Walmart the previous night invited us to her house after just a few minutes of talking to us. So on the third day morning, we spent about 1 hour + at her place. We talked to the lady and her husband (they spoke mainly Spanish so two of us were doing most of the talking – one of the two was a Chinese Singaporean!). We prayed for both of them and pain in her shoulders and back left, her legs were strengthened enough for her to walk around without her walking stick and pain in his foot left. She started to shake her side in happiness and disbelief that pain had left her back and also cried. It’s such a sight to behold when you see people healed and they are so surprised yet full of joy! That’s Jesus touching their lives! Her daughter came and later we prayed for her and two people prophesied over her.

Overall, the three days going out with other young people (probably all in their twenties) and healing the sick was just totally awesome! I’ve seen all this in Youtube and read so much about how even ordinary people (like you and me) went to the streets and the public to heal people and demonstrate God’s love and power, but living it out together with others was just a crazy experience! These experiences alone were well worth the cost and time of the whole trip! I had even more experiences later on in my trip which I’ll write about in future posts.

After attending Bethel Church (Redding), I spent nearly two weeks in Colorado. I’ll share more about that next time but fresh on my memory now is my time in Arkansas for Curry Blake’s Divine Healing Technician (DHT) training from 8th to 10th July.

I’ll start by saying that my three days in Arkansas for this training contained times that were easily some of the best of my trip – and perhaps in my life – and yet also some of the worst of my trip.

A great bunch of friends

The night before the training, I took a flight from Colorado Springs to Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) in Arkansas and arrived about 11pm. Visiting a small city in America without a car sucks. My cab ride to the hotel cost me a good US$40! I prayed that I wouldn’t have to take a cab each day to and from the meeting place as the trip would probably cost about US$30-US$40 each way! Arkansas isn’t exactly a place to go for tourists – the most famous thing about Arkansas is Bill Clinton, who was a former Governor of Arkansas. There’s pretty much nothing to do in that part of Arkansas (except that the headquarters of Walmart is located here) and there isn’t much public transportation. I was hesitant to arrange a trip to come to this training – I knew it’d be very costly (not just air ticket but also hotel and transportation), but I guess I really wanted to come because of the impact Curry has had on my thinking. And I’m definitely glad I came.

On the morning of the first day, I got up early and waited at the hotel reception. I knew that more than 20 people staying at the hotel were going to the training so I was going to ask for a ride. Eventually, I got a ride with a group of four fantastic people (Michael, Ashley, JD and Caleb) – a truly awesome bunch, without whom my time in Arkansas would have been so much less meaningful. They were in their twenties and were from various parts of America – one completed an internship at Mike Bickle’s International House of Prayer (IHOP), another spent the previous month at Bethel Church in Redding and a couple leads a house church in Kansas City. Here they are with Curry:

Throughout our time there, we went everywhere together. We chatted extensively throughout this time about healing and all. We talked about Curry Blake’s teachings and on healing how it compared to Bill Johnson’s – I really enjoyed this part because I had been thinking a lot about all this (like in my previous post) and our conversations helped refine my thinking. They were people who prayed for people on the streets – some with more success and some with less. When Michael, the driver of the car, first heard that I wanted a lift, he asked me if I had uneven legs (legs of uneven length) because he doesn’t allow people with uneven legs to ride in his car. I knew what he meant – if I had uneven legs, he would pray that God would grow and even the length of my legs. He had grown the leg of the receptionist the night before when he first came into the hotel. I was really excited when I heard all this as this was what I wanted: to be around people who do the stuff so that I can be challenged by them and do it together with them. I wanted to do that during the Bethel Conference though there wasn’t much time in between sessions and sessions ended too late. And I really wanted to do it during this Curry Blake training too. I didn’t just want to just learn and not go out to the streets to heal people. God answered my prayer by giving me a great bunch of friends to be with the whole there days.

Conversations about healing and the prophetic

We had great conversations. Conversations I dream of having with friends, but I don’t have many Christian friends into healing and the few into healing are not familiar with Curry Blake or what he teaches. We had very constructive and thought-provoking discussions after the sessions. We analyzed Curry’s teaching (agreed and disagreed here and there), honestly wondered why some of us had so little success, wondered how we could grow in this area, etc. One guy talked about how when he was at Bethel, some students used the power of God to stick coins on the wall! I think this is probably some stuff students do and not endorsed by the leadership and I think it’s probably an immature way to use the power of God, if it’s indeed the power of God – see this video by a bunch of guys I met and stayed with after my time at Arkansas and before I returned to Singapore.

I talked with them about my struggles in moving in the prophetic and one of them shared about how a friend of his made him move out in faith by telling someone that he was gifted in the prophetic – which pressured him to step out and listen to God to give that person a word on the spot. He learned through being pushed to take risks and he suggested that I give him a word there and then. I turned the tables and asked him to give me a word (ya, I wasn’t willing to take risks in this area – I need to learn to do that!). He gave me a word and it was a pretty accurate word of knowledge. Another guy also told me about a picture he saw of me and that was pretty accurate too.

Pastor Joseph Prince in America

Every city I visited in the States, I was pleasantly surprised to meet people who love Pastor Joseph Prince’s preaching (they watch it on TV).  The same was the case at Curry’s training. I’ve probably encountered about 15 people in total throughout my trip in five different cities (Redding, Denver, Colorado Springs, Bella Vista in Arkansas and San Jose). When they know I’m from Singapore, the first thing they ask is if I know Pastor Joseph Prince! One lady told me she wakes up 4:30am every morning just to listen to him. Another tells me of how she and a relative of hers have been healed through listening and applying the message (of confessing our righteousness of God in Christ). Another spoke of how he was liberated from condemnation and guilt. And another that both Curry Blake and Joseph Prince were his favourite preachers. By the way, I heard that Curry Blake is trying to hook up with Joseph Prince / New Creation Church and I think Andrew Wommack also. If this does materialize that would be super awesome! I’m hoping that both Curry Blake and Andrew Wommack would come to Singapore one day!

Success rates in healing

I don’t want to be a person big on numbers, but numbers are important. I don’t want to overemphasize numbers, yet on the other hand I don’t want to understate the importance of numbers. While I don’t like it when a Church keeps on focusing on numbers, I think it’s equally wrong to totally neglect numbers. To me, seeing the fruit is in a sense seeing the numbers.

Before I attended Curry Blake’s training, I read people saying that he had 85% success rate in healing, which was supposedly one of the highest around. During the training, one of my friends asked Curry what his percentage of healing was. My friend was uncomfortable with Curry preaching such an absolute message of healing without any compromise or toning down of how we have the power in Christ to heal all the sick and raise the dead, etc. So he asked Curry what his success rate was – believing it has to be 100% if he’s to preach such an uncompromising message of healing. Curry’s response was that he has between 94% to 96% success rate.

I’m not going to put down Bethel because I’ve learned so much from them and Bill Johnson and gang first got me into all of this. And I’ll continue to learn from them but I also want to learn from others and finally evaluate what I’ve learned by going to the Bible. What I heard through talking to some people is that Bethel’s Healing Rooms sees only about 5% success rate. While this is through some pretty good sources, feel free to take this with a bit of healthy skepticism (I do) – after all, in a sense this is hearsay. I’d also do the same with Curry’s supposed success rate. I wouldn’t want to compare Curry’s success rate with that of Bethel’s because besides not being 100% sure of the exact figures, I also think context is important. Furthermore, I didn’t see a great deal of healing during Curry’s conference – something I’ll write about later in this series of posts.

However, I’ve talked to at least four people in the States who got started in this healing business having been influenced by Bill Johnson and Bethel. But the moment they latched onto Curry’s teachings, they saw a dramatic increase in the success rate of their healings, which they attribute to understanding healing in the way Curry teaches – as opposed to the way Bethel and others teach.

Like I said above, I don’t want to be putting Bethel down and it’s not my intention to create division and pit Curry Blake against Bill Johnson. However, as I’ve suspected since I heard Curry Blake’s Divine Healing Technician (DHT) mp3s online, there are definite differences in teachings. And Curry’s teachings have not only caused my faith to increase and inspired me to start stepping out more and more, but it’s also dramatically transformed the thinking and rate of success of others.

Dogmatic Curry

Curry is definitely dogmatic about what he believes in. I’ve listened to a few of his DHTs where you’ll hear him disagreeing with a lot of other ministers and popular teachings on healing – he’s not afraid to be outspoken and dogmatic about it. Being dogmatic isn’t necessarily bad. I’m generally not attracted to people who are too dogmatic, but I think Blake makes a lot of good sense and his message needs to be heard. A person being dogmatic wouldn’t make me not hear his message. Prophets were/are dogmatic and they were not nice people. During my trip, I heard two leaders who were prophetic in the sense of speaking forth an important but unpopular message that the church needs to hear. One was Curry and the other was David Watson, which I’ll write about in future. Like prophets of old, they have strong convictions (often politically incorrect) and tend to either piss people off or draw strong followers to their messages.

As Curry mentioned, one of the most powerful and faith-filled ministers, Smith Wigglesworth, was not a nice person and he didn’t have many visitors or friends. After all, these people aren’t out to win friends and be likable, but to speak the truth. Speaking the truth often means going against accepted wisdom of the day and being politically incorrect. Curry would probably acknowledge that he’s not a super friendly and sociable guy. He may come across quite arrogant to some and put a lot of people off with what he says and his teachings, but I’ve heard many have accepted his teachings after strongly disagreeing with them initially (because they went against a lot of things they believed in) and struggling with it for some time. I’ll definitely be writing more about Curry’s unique teachings on healing on this blog, some of which I’ve already touched upon in my previous post on two ways to minister.