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Mcminnville Conference - With Bob Brasset
January 16, 2002
by Karen and Ashlee Fletcher
We just returned yesterday Sunday, Jan 13th from McMinnville, Oregon. What a wonderful time. The anointing was strong. The people eager. The outstanding element here was the sensitivity of the pastor towards the kids and the unity of the churches in the area.
We will also be going on to Vancouver B.C. Jan. the 24th - 26th to a conference bringing
together eleven Chinese churches... as well as Caucasian ones.
Continue, please, to hold us in prayer as we travel and minister with Bob on the healing team.
It has been an exhilarating experience for our family to travel this month as part of the healing team. It is awesome to watch Holy Spirit drop over someone and then see the looks on their faces break into glorious smiles as they realize they are healed. None of us will be the same. This has put in each of us a greater strength and drive for more of the Lord then even before. More Lord. To be poured out for Him is all we want. To be pure vessels before Him. To God be all the glory forever more.
Again, I am letting my daughter Ashlee write the report. May your faith be increased as you read.
Blessings to all of you,
Karen
MIRACLES IN OREGON
The city was McMinnville. It's the city where T.L Osborne received his vision and call to his world-wide healing ministry.
The meetings were wonderful. Friday night was a night just for Pastors and church leaders in the community. It was very much a blessing to see all of the pastors come together hungry for the Lord.There were pastors from Brethren Church, Baptist, Pentecost, and Non denomination. In talking with Galen (he is the pastor of the church that we were at) he has a real heart to see the Kingdom expand, not just his church.
The anointing was very strong on the first night with the pastors and leaders. I believe that God did a deep work there. There were both physical and emotional healings among the pastors, their wives, and leaders. One of the pastors remarked afterward that he had never see anything like this before and, although it stretched him mightily he recognized "this is God" and he liked what he saw.
Bob loves to get the kids involved with praying for people. There was this little girl named Brittany who was about 10 years old. Bob called her up to pray for a woman who had an ear ache and swollen tonsils. The Lord used the little girl to heal the women. After that Brittany was very tenacious about praying for people who were ill.
It was really neat to see the children during these meetings. They were very excited and very tenacious about praying for people and people were actually being healed. Their child like faith and eagerness was great!!
Many wonderful healings and creative miracles took place (a creative miracle is basically I think where some missing part, organ or limb is restored miraculously), but the greatest miracle was the Salvations!!!
The pastor had made the decision of having the school age children stay in the service instead of going to their usual classes. After Bob was finished preaching he gave an invitation of salvation. One little boy came up. Bob was about to lead him in a prayer of salvation when another little boy came up, so he was about to lead both boys in a prayer, but then here comes another little kid and another until there were seven little children from the ages of about 7 to 11 years old up front wanting to receive Jesus as Lord of their lives. It was awesome!! There wasn't a dry eye in the place as the congregation joined in the prayer.
And the little children shall lead them. How many times have we tucked our kids away in "children's church" during a special speakers service. These kids will never forget that morning as long as they live. Bob then had
them be a part of the team in praying for people at the end of the service. They were very serious and eager to pray for the people that came up. How wonderful to see little children being used by the Holy Spirit to touch peoples lives and heal their bodies.
(a note from Karen: When I looked up at one point Ashlee was totally surrounded by little children and praying for an elderly lady who I found out later didn't need a healing but was very concerned about her family. The kids were so eager to be a part. It was a precious site to see)
On Saturday night while Bob was up preaching a man came up to my parents and asked if they would pray for his wife because she was in a wheelchair (she had some type of deteriorating disease Possibly Parkinsons). My parents agreed and said that they would at the end of the service. I knew that this was of God. I could feel it in my spirit that this was planned by the Holy Spirit. So at the end of the service when people were coming up for prayer, my parents prayed for this women in the wheelchair.
During the same time I saw a gentleman that I felt the Holy Spirit lead me to pray for. He was at the pastor's meeting and had been prayed for already and had received a partial healing but there was still a little pain. He had been a logger and one of the top logs fell and hit him in the back. The compassion of Jesus filled me for this man and as I began to pray for him the power of God was very strong. He told me that he usually was not able to stand that long without being in pain, so I am believing for a total healing in him.
After I prayed for him and a few others I went to the lady in the wheelchair again. My parents were still praying for her. You could see the power of God surrounding her. It was awesome!!
It is hard to explain in words all that happened, but I can say that it was powerful and that she was healed. She heard the Lord tell her, "never again" and she knew that He meant she was healed. She felt stronger and stood up and just kept standing there while they continued to pray for her. She ended up walking out on her own two feet with her husband pushing the chair but she was a little wobbly. She did not want to leave in her wheelchair. In my estimation this was a real healing. I have seen people try to push and make something happen and I really, really do not like that. All I want is pure God, nothing less.
There were many, many healings. One man had cartilage put back into a his knees. With a big smile he testified that he was not going to be spending much time in his chair just sitting around anymore. He had work to do.
There were healings of arthritis, bad backs, carpal tunnel syndrome bad eye sight, bursitis, and many others. One woman, a nurse, had suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome for 27 years. Her husband, a medical Doctor, was able to confirm the healing. To Jesus be ALL the Glory!!!!
It was wonderful to see.
Ashlee
Location: McMinnville, OK, United States
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