South Asia - Hell Has Lost Its Grip!
Wow. That’s all I can say right now…WOW! This was a first for me.
I was sitting in my chair and went into an extremely intense vision of a witchdoctor that was attempting to come against me in the spirit. Through a series of events, the witchdoctor was set free, saved, and baptized in the Holy Spirit. They came seeking to do harm to me but left completely free! This was a precursor to something that surprised me.
After an action-packed service that included a testimony from a local member of our team about his conversion from Hinduism to Jesus, our very own Joshua Smith opened the preaching segment of the service with a moving story about the Father’s voice. He had no idea that the Lord had already prompted me to preach out of Luke 15 and prodigal son! I love when the Holy Spirit puts it all together!
I felt the Lord speaking that He is the God who runs after them. In the religions across the world, you must earn your way into heaven and accomplish checklists, but we have a God who prepared the table before us and offers us the free gift of salvation. This emphasis on reconciliation and restoration was paramount as people came forward in response to the salvation call. There were even some who ran to the altars, as the Father ran to them. I felt to continue giving opportunity as people lingering at the back of the field marched their way all the way to the front to repent of their sins and call on Jesus!
Even as this was happening, I kept sensing some very heavy demonic witchcraft that was taking place. I was silently rebuking this under my breath and eventually even proclaimed it from the mic. After rebuking it I felt a release and continued to pray. We heard tremendous miracle stories following:
A man testified of neck pain being healed. While testifying he said his back was still in pain. So, we prayed on the spot and he was instantly healed to the glory of God.
A young lady had sinus issues for 5 months. During the prayer time I had a prophetic word about someone with breathing issues. I asked for the people to breathe in and then out. She said at that moment she was instantly healed, and her airways opened!
A man was healed of boils on his left foot. Joshua gave a prophetic word about foot pain and growths on the left foot. This man was instantly healed!
A woman was healed of 3 different things at the same time. She was healed from her knee pain, back pain, and of head pain which included migraines.
A woman was dealing with intense head pain. She described in tears, “pressure” that had been there for a long period of time (years), and through her tears she said it was all gone and she was healed by Jesus!
And so much more…
As I walked off the platform from hearing these wonderful testimonies, I was immediately approached by a variety of people. There was a mute gentleman who started to see improvement in his speech before I was asked to pray for another mute girl. Before I could finish praying for her, Joshua was being approached by several people and we both were surrounded by people asking for prayer. On the final night of a crusade this isn’t necessarily uncommon as people who still need a miracle are trying to have a moment to be prayed for since they know it’s the final night.
I was then brought to a small girl who couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7. They explained to me that this girl had powers, and nobody could stop her when she went into witchcraft. As I looked at this precious young girl, my heart was filled with compassion, and I asked the Holy Spirit to give me discernment. I started praying and immediately asked where her mother was. I then asked her mother to renounce her agreements with the witchdoctor and for handing her child over to him. She immediately confessed these sins and confirmed that she had done this very thing. I asked her to call on the name of the Lord and ask Jesus to be her Lord and Savior before she was eventually baptized in the Holy Spirit through her tears of joy! I asked her to cancel any agreements she made with this witchdoctor. As she did, by the Holy Spirit, I asked her to get her amulet and lay it down. She ran back to her seat and then brought it forward to hand it over!
I then asked this small child to renounce this demon and tell it to leave. She refused, and I then asked her mother to ask her. Through a series of events, I felt the Holy Spirit to ask me to ask the demons name. The child told me and then I asked her to tell the demon to leave by its name and never return. Her mother implored her, and the child was set free! I immediately realized there was a second more powerful demon that was refusing to let go of her. I then grabbed the amulet, threw it on the ground and stomped on it saying, “Devil, you’re under my feet by the power of Jesus name.” She also told this one to leave by name and never return afterwards! There was immediately freedom and we prayed for her for salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The mother was intent to go home and pray over the home and remove any other items that may have been in the home.
In my heart I couldn’t help but feel that this moment may have been the entire reason God sent our team to this small village in South Asia. While hundreds and thousands of people were changed this week, seeing this small child set free marked my life. We rejoice for this glorious moment, but even more so for her salvation and the salvation of so many former Hindu’s and Muslim’s. They now call Jesus Lord and Savior…every single one of them...and their names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life!
We honor all of our partners around the world who made this freedom possible for so many this week. Hell has lost its grip on this village! This is new territory for God’s kingdom!
