Kelly's Encounter

(For and understanding of "Encounter" please see the post "Introduction to Encounter")

Last night I went to Encounter for the first time since it began. Don spoke about the voices in your head. He called people up on 3 separate occasions for different "voices". I am not perfect at defectling those negative voices yet, but I am certainly getting better. I never went up front, I just sat their and prayed for the people that did go up.

After this, Don asked if anyone needed physical healing to grab a prayer team member and get prayed for. I still sat, waiting to see who would be available, not knowing if I was going to ask or not. For the past 3 months I have had a terrible back problem. It is not constant, but when I sit for awhile, usually while doing school, my lower right back would kill. The pain would radiate down my bottom to the front of my thigh and down to my foot. The pain so excruciating at times that I could hardly stand up straight. I think God was telling me all night that He wanted to heal me. I heard Him, but was like, yeah, it's just a bad back, there are other people here with more serious issues, I'm sure. So I sat.

Then I got up and walked into the aisle, still not really knowing if I was going to ask for prayer or not. There were 2 friends standing there and they asked me if I needed prayer. I said "well, my back is killing me" They put their hand on my back, one said a quick prayer and that was it. I still felt some pain, but kept believing that God had healed it. When we got finished with school today, I felt no pain whatsoever. NONE. I feel only heat back there right now. God is faithful even when we aren't sure we want to listen to Him-how amazing is that?!

I am blown away by His love for me.