The Sealed

The open-air outreach earlier this afternoon was the first ever for Ezekiel’s House which had just last year moved into the community. Since the local people did not know us they were reluctant to come. Just a small crowd of the poor came for the free clothing and meal offered in a basketball court cum parking lot just next to the strip mall where Ezekiel’s House met.

I proclaimed to them the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only true God, far superior to the power behind witchcraft. Then we prayed to the God of Elijah, asking Him to send the fire of healing upon the infirm to prove that He was in fact the true God, and that He was calling people back to Himself.

Two men stood up to be healed. John had pain in his upper stomach. Hubert, a taller, thin man of about sixty years of age wearing lightly-tinted glasses and a hat, also came forward. Hubert was a regular customer at the liquor store next door to Ezekiel’s House. He was a quiet man, blind in one eye and suffering from constant pain in his neck, shoulders, and back. He was what the world would call “down on his luck,” an alcoholic surviving by himself and likely abandoned by his family.

As the trained disciples laid hands on him and rebuked his infirmities, the Lord touched him dramatically. He began to weep profusely. The pain in his neck, shoulders, and back vanished. He repeated over and over that the heaviness had disappeared, leaving a heavenly lightness. His blind eye could first see his fingers, then he could see the people sitting in their chairs around him witnessing the miracle as the disciples continued to minister to him. He said that the colors he was seeing were so rich and beautiful. He could not stop weeping, and when he did, he could not stop beaming.

The other man, John, was healed of the pain in his stomach. When I challenged the people to repent of their sins, Hubert needed no exhorting. He had experienced firsthand the grace and healing power of Jesus Christ, and eagerly surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Others followed suit to repent of their sins, including John.

It was perhaps the smallest evangelistic outreach for me that I can recall, but one of the most personally satisfying. From close up I had seen a man gloriously healed and saved from deep darkness. Hubert has been given a powerful testimony and will be a fruitful witness for Jesus Christ.

The word will spread in the community, and the church’s next outreach (without me) will see many more precious souls come to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thank you for interceding for us, dear ones!

Sunday evening I will return to my wife and mother in Houston.

Thanks to the Lord for His wonderful gift!

Sincerely in Christ,

William