Miracle at the Gas Station of Inconvenience

So I'm a little late putting this testimony up, but its never to late to tell of what Jesus has done! This testimony Is one very close to my heart, because I've been pressing in for this for over two years. And on this past Monday night, late at a gas station, tired from a weekend of ministry and a 13 hour drive home, I got that breakthrough!

On 10/25/10 Angie, Nate and I where pulling into the Gas station a couple blocks from my house to fill the car up before we went home. We just got back from a weekend of intense ministry in Joseph, Oregon, and long exhausting 13 hour road trip. We where all pretty played out and just wanted to get home, but as we drove into the station my right side around my stomach started to hurt. This pain came out of no where and I had the thought that it was someones pain at the gas station. I didn't think much of it because I just wanted to be in my bed, but the thought seemed to simply linger in my mind.

We pulled up and got gas, but I stayed in the car. Then Nate noticed a women next to us who's car wouldn't start. Hes yells to her and finds out the battery is dead. Being the loving Christians we are, in the midsts of wanting to go home and climb into our warm, cozy beds, we agreed to help. Well in all seriousness I wanted to just go home, but I'm glad we stayed and help, cause the very thing I've been contending in for years, I could of missed. Theres a good lesson in that alone!

So we got the car started and we shut the hoods, then I was reminded of the pain in my side. I stepped out and took a risk and asked her if she had pain in her right side, and I pointed to my body. She looked at me with shock and said “well yes how did you know, and are you some kind of psyche?” and I said “no, I just love Jesus and sometimes He speaks to me...” and I went on to tell her about the pain in my side that I felt when we drove in, and she began to tell me about the cancer in that area. So I asked if I could pray for her, I knew God was up to something, she said yes. Without having great faith of even feeling the presence of the Lord, I went ahead and prayed a short prayer. Nothing fancy, or even powerful in the natural sense. I just knew God gave me a word of knowledge for this women and He wanted to heal her. She started to sway back and forth, God was doing something. I stopped and asked her what was going on. She said the pain went down! I was so happy and also kinda surprised ,cause I didn't even feel anything. So I asked to pray again. I prayed an even shorter prayer then the first time, and asked her how she felt. She said that the pain went completely away and she described a feeling in her body like a hot iron in her side where the cancer was! I knew in that moment that she was healed, cause in the past whenever someone has felt heat in there body where the sickness or pain was they always got healed! I almost couldn't believe it. The whole process seemed almost effortless. I always had this thought when I see that person get healed of cancer or get pulled out of a wheel chair, it would be because of a long powerful prayer, and I probably would pray for hours and would be most definitely be feeling the presence of God. But I did of felt none of that! It was just so easy! I then realized it doesn't have to be hard, Jesus already paid for it on the cross! We just need to get out of the way and let Him do what He loves to do! Hes really good at His job!

From the time we talked to her to the time we left must have been 20 minutes of straight encounter. But during the time I was praying for this women, Nate and Angie were praying for her daughter in the car. The daughter had a total God encounter also just sitting in the car at the gas station. Nate told her to close her eyes and ask Jesus to come. And when she did, she seen a big white light and said that it felt so safe in that place! She soon accepted Jesus into her life! Come on, praise God!

That whole encounter at the gas station late that night has shown me so much about healing and the nature of God. I see it doesn't have to be such a hard thing. When Jesus healed people He keep to the one liners, “pick up your mat and walk”, “be healed”. Its easier then we think!

I know its been two years of pressing in to see cancer healed, and that can seem like a long time, but it was well worth the wait! I believe this was the first of many people getting healed of cancer through my hands. And I expect them to be easier, if thats even possible, as I keep pressing into His heart. So let me encourage you, if you have been pressing in for a long time to get breakthrough in a curtain area and have not seen it yet, keep going! And be watching around every corner, because your breakthrough may be waiting on a dark night at the gas station of inconvenience.