So yesterday, me and some friends from the Jesus Culture conference I've been attending since Thursday went to the Phipps mall in Atlanta. It's a real high-class, fancy kind of mall that Christians apparently avoid because it's such a hard place to reach people and what not.


Well, me and about 8 other people split up into 3s and started walking around the mall. Before we went out, we took time to pray and ask God to show us pictures, words, impressions, or whatever to be looking for at the mall. So then we walked around the mall looking for these things. I had a girl w/ a yellow dress come to my mind, one guy had the picture of a white polo shirt w/ a blue symbol on it, etc...
We walked up the escalator and saw an elderly man sitting by himself. He started talking to him and just asked him if we could pray a blessing over him. After we prayed for him, we realized he had on a white polo shirt w/ a blue symbol on it!! Then his wife came out and I asked her if she had any pain in her body. When she told us that her knees are always hurting, we started praying for her. We ended up praying for her like 5 times and in between, she would test her knees and the pain lessened w/ each time.She was so excited, she was trying out her knees, going up and down.

Then we walked into a Nike store. I was checking out some running shoes and in walked a lady w/ a knee brace on. Again, me and the other 2 guys asked if we could pray for her. She took off the knee brace and I laid my hands on her knees. We prayed for her; she stood up and said the pain was less. We prayed again and as I was feeling her knees, I could feel like the cartilage all broken up and just bumpiness under her skin. We prayed a third time and after I felt it then, THE KNEE WAS COMPLETELY SMOOTH!! She stood up and unbelievingly told us she felt no pain whatsoever!! She was so excited she told the elderly woman nearby that God had healed her.

We prayed for others, I found my lady in the yellow dress, and we just prayed.
It was awesome.
When all the groups got back to the church in the evening, everyone shared the awesome things God had done that afternoon--people in wheelchairs stood up and regained strength; a lady got prayed for her heroine addiction and her and her boyfriend got saved, etc etc...

The Lord is mighty to save and I look forward to so many more powerful encounters that will even sweep our TFC campus. So let it be.

Check out www.jesusculture.org for some amazing resources like podcasts, music, etc...