Prompted to Praise. Prompted to Pray.

Happy 4th of July, Independence Day everyone!

I have had many prayer requests for healing come to me from friends, and friends of friends with intense infections, diseases and cancers. I have been reading in 2 Kings with my daily Bible (remember I sent the reading guide out last week) about Hezekiah and how sick he was and how the Lord healed him. I believe the Lord gave me a prayer strategy for healing and have been praying it for the requests that are coming my way. I would like to challenge all of us that when someone asks us to pray for them before the end of our time with them we take their hand (if you are comfortable with that) and pray for them. It doesn't have to be a long prayer as a matter of fact, it can be as simple and full of faith as saying "Jesus" into and over their situation. 

Healing can come with just the name of Jesus being spoken as a prayer. Yes, it can and it has happened. One of our leaders at my church went to pray for someone in the hospital. On his drive there he was thinking of all the things he could pray when he got into the room. When he did get into the room and started to pray he spoke "Jesus" and could say nothing more. The woman he was praying for was healed INSTANTLY. I am NOT kidding. There is power in the name of Jesus. There is POWER in the presence of Jesus in our lives, we CARRY Him and all His kingdom with us. Let's give Him out to others:). If you have time to listen and also have time to soak in this song please give it a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyjD5Zw2ew. The name of the song is Break Every Chain by Jesus Culture.

I have also heard  two more miracles of healing and these were in my family in the past two weeks. My sister Angela was hit on the head by a van hatch door and went to the ER. She didn't break anything but her pain levels were off the charts. The doctors couldn't do anything but give her medicine for it. She went home and for a couple days was in severe pain all over. A couple of her girlfriends threw her a small birthday party and at the end of the party they prayed for her healing. Do you know she was healed from all the pain and affects of that accident? Yes she was! 

The other story I would like to share happened two days ago on July 2. In the morning I was writing some updates on Facebook and I thought to myself 'no one in my family is in the hospital'. I sat delighted in the Lord and praising the Lord for His healing and protection then went about my day. That evening I received a call from my sister that my dad had fallen off a stool while putting tiles on a wall and he was headed to the ER. Dad had bumped his head and neck against a door corner and had used his left hand to break his fall. He was in such terrific pain and the swelling was tremendous in his wrist. Angela and I immediately sent out prayer requests to our prayer partners and family. Dad had a CT scan and x-rays. The CT scan showed dad's head and neck were just fine, as always, thank You, Jesus! The X-ray showed a possible hairline fracture so they put a temporary cast on him and sent him home. Yesterday dad was in NO pain whatsoever. He was only taking ibuprofen for the swelling. Can I hear a Hallelujah?! One doctor said dad did not have a fracture but they are waiting on the results from the radiologist which should come by Friday.

Here's the thing, Holy Spirit prompted me that morning to praise ahead of time which I believe was part of the reason dad's injury was lessened. Holy Spirit prompted Angela and I to call others to arms, to battle, to war for dad and that also sent miraculous healing into the situation. I stand right now and give Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit praise! They are worthy! Worthy of all my praise They are! woooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!

My heart and my flesh are crying out for more of Him. I want so much to enjoy Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. I want them to totally saturate me. 

I pray the prayer below encourages you and promotes healing into your bodies as well as others as you it pray over them. It is not Wendi's prayer. It is the Word of God turned into a prayer. Let us follow the Word of God and lay hands on our sick bodies, praying in faith, believing He will manifest healing into and through us. Let us also lay our hands on other's praying in faith, believing He will manifest healing into them (Mark 16:18).

2 Kings 18:15 Today Father we refuse to pay ‘money’ or give any credit to the diagnosis of (person’s name you are praying for) ________the doctors have given (name) _________. 19:6-8 We speak that fear will have no hold over (name) _________, their family and their friends that they have heard or felt. We speak that all bad reports like these are blasphemous as they discount Your power and might working in and through (name) _________. We command these reports and any more that will rear their pathetic heads to be bound and sent into dark, lonely and voided places, in Jesus’ name.

                14-16 We, like Hezekiah, have received the word from the hand of the messengers (the doctors) and have read it. We also have come to You, spread it out before You and are praying now. We will continue to do so until the day of his/her manifested, confirmed healing.

                O Lord God of (name) _________, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear, open Your eyes and see, and hear the words of the messengers, which reproach You. 19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I pray, save (name) _________ from the hand of (diagnosis) ________________ that all the kingdoms of (name) _________’s earth, all the people in (name) _________’s life and so many others may know that You are the Lord God, You alone.

                20-24 We thank You that You have heard the prayers we have prayed and this is what You are going to do for (name) _________: You will cause (name) _________ to shake his/her head “NO” to those who have despised him/her by these reports.

These reports have reproached and blasphemed Your will for his/her life. They have raised their voice, lifted their eyes on high against Your word and will for (name) _________. They have cut down Your word in him/her and have entered the extremities of his/her being, going into his/her darkest of places. They have dug and divided out things that should not have happened. 27-28 Yet You know their dwelling places, these enemies of ours – their going out and coming in and their rage against You and Your child. Because their rage against You and Your child and their tumult (turmoil) have come up to Your ears, You will therefore put Your hook in their nose and Your bridle in their lips, turning them back by the way they came saying,

32-34 “You shall not come into (name) _________ again. You shall leave and take every vile thing connected to you out, nor shoot any more arrows there, nor come before him/her with a shield, nor build siege mounds against him/her. By the way you came (diagnosis)__________________, you will return; You will not come into this child again. For I am and will continue to defend (name) _________, to save him/her, for My own sake.”

35 Father cause Your Angel to go out and kill (name) _________’s enemies right now.

"...But forget all that - it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.  For I am about to do something new.  See, I have already begun!  Do you not see it?"  says the Lord. Isaiah 43:18-19 NLT