The Stories Are Many

The blonde woman was seated not six feet away from me. I was trying to recognise who had brought her to the meeting. I heard it was someone from the church where I grew up.

I was later informed that this woman did not know the LORD and she was invited to come to the public meetings held in Manifest Fellowship in Fintona last Sunday. Initially she was about as interested in attending church as young children are about eating broccoli. However, when she heard about God healing people and saw a video about the Ugandan speaker ministering, she came believing she would be healed.

Watching her now and again, seated off to my left, I saw her eyes fixed on the face of the speaker throughout the entirety of his message.

Shortly after closing his sermon the Ugandan minister stepped over to this woman as one of the people for whom he wanted to pray. He asked her if she believed Jesus would heal her and she was absolutely resolute that He would. Praying quietly and briefly with her the minister announced afterwards (in our hearing) that he had some things he wished to share with her later, but that she would “walk out of that chair”.

A couple of days later she posted a picture of herself on Instagram walking and no longer in her wheelchair!

Needless to say, along with many other stories and testimonies that have come in, the Fintona church is rejoicing at this news and all that the LORD did over the past weekend, both for those in the fellowship, our visitors from four continents, and also those coming from all over Ireland (North & Republic). It was an amazing time with so many lives touched, a number surrendering to Jesus and some remarkable answers to prayer.

With the Ugandan team now largely gone home, we are excited at all the LORD has done, and faith-filled for all we expect Him to do in the future.

It might be a cliché for some, but it is very much our reality as already many know that they will never be the same after these events that have occurred since the outset of this month.