Doing Spiritual Battle – My Testimony
Dumaguete, Philippenes - April 2006
The most I have ever learnt in the space of one week happened from the 13th to the 18th in April 2006. Dumaguete, Philippines. It’s hard even to begin to explain how mind-blowing the experience was so I’m just going to choose one significant event that happened to me and describe what I learnt about it..
After feeling totally drained from a morning of intense ministering of the Holy Spirit to the International Care Ministry staff (the people that were looking after us - kinda), we had a viewing of very graphical special-case patients (basically people with no skin, some with no limbs etc). I would usually be able to handle such a viewing relatively easily but this time was different. I wasn’t ready for such an intense morning, I started to feel sick. I didn’t tell anyone and tried to fight it off myself but it came to the point where I felt like i felt like i was being ripped apart from the inside out. Isn’t that such a good example of how we can’t do things in our own strength? Anyway, I started getting real emotional in the truck but because I was wearing glasses know one saw. I don’t know why I didn’t tell someone, something held me back. Finally Derek asked if I was all right and I said felt sick. He came over and began praying for me – I didn’t realize but a lot of the people in the truck also actually started praying - it was an awesome example of our unity as a team. Anyway as soon as Derek said, “in Jesus name - enemy be gone”, I was healed. Just like that, all the sickness feeling was gone. It was really amazing.
I learnt that the enemy is always waiting for a chance to attack us. I let my spiritual guard down and he attacked. Doing spiritual battle was intense; I found that there is so much power in the name of Jesus. Awesome things can happen when you call on His mighty name. Praise God!
Oh yeah, thats me on top of this house that we built! (although you can't see, that's actually prety high up!)
...and this is at one of our outreaches - we played to over 1000 people, it was awesome! The people there thought it was crazy that there was a white guy playing on stage, but I'm sure they thought it was great.
God Bless from the 8th team member,
Adam Thompson
The most I have ever learnt in the space of one week happened from the 13th to the 18th in April 2006. Dumaguete, Philippines. It’s hard even to begin to explain how mind-blowing the experience was so I’m just going to choose one significant event that happened to me and describe what I learnt about it..
After feeling totally drained from a morning of intense ministering of the Holy Spirit to the International Care Ministry staff (the people that were looking after us - kinda), we had a viewing of very graphical special-case patients (basically people with no skin, some with no limbs etc). I would usually be able to handle such a viewing relatively easily but this time was different. I wasn’t ready for such an intense morning, I started to feel sick. I didn’t tell anyone and tried to fight it off myself but it came to the point where I felt like i felt like i was being ripped apart from the inside out. Isn’t that such a good example of how we can’t do things in our own strength? Anyway, I started getting real emotional in the truck but because I was wearing glasses know one saw. I don’t know why I didn’t tell someone, something held me back. Finally Derek asked if I was all right and I said felt sick. He came over and began praying for me – I didn’t realize but a lot of the people in the truck also actually started praying - it was an awesome example of our unity as a team. Anyway as soon as Derek said, “in Jesus name - enemy be gone”, I was healed. Just like that, all the sickness feeling was gone. It was really amazing.
I learnt that the enemy is always waiting for a chance to attack us. I let my spiritual guard down and he attacked. Doing spiritual battle was intense; I found that there is so much power in the name of Jesus. Awesome things can happen when you call on His mighty name. Praise God!
Oh yeah, thats me on top of this house that we built! (although you can't see, that's actually prety high up!)
...and this is at one of our outreaches - we played to over 1000 people, it was awesome! The people there thought it was crazy that there was a white guy playing on stage, but I'm sure they thought it was great.
God Bless from the 8th team member,
Adam Thompson
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