Thought you might enjoy this! It's an email from someone we met recently in US:

 

"As I think everyone in the family knows (although I don't remember specifically who I told), a few years ago (3 or 4), I tore the rotator cuff in my right shoulder irreparably - the surgeon who looked at the MRI said that it couldn't be repaired.

 

Since then, I've only been able to lift my right arm to shoulder height - no pain (well, at first, it was VERY painful, but not for a long time now), the mechanism was just broken. 

 

On the weekend of the 16th, I went to a conference on Christian healing, put on by the Order of St. Luke (q.v.,

http://www.orderofstluke.org

 

) near Oakhurst, CA.  The speaker / teacher was Mike Endicott, who has a healing ministry in Wales called Jacob's Well (q.v.,

http://shshop.practiceinabox.co.uk

 

).  His teaching was very interesting, and although most of what he said I'd heard before, the way he put things together was different.  On Saturday night, he asked if there was anyone there with a stiff neck or sore shoulder.  Although my shoulder wasn't "sore," I put my (left) hand up, and he invited me to come up. 

 

After a brief discussion of what was wrong, he began to pray in the manner that he had been teaching us during the weekend - nothing like the "usual" requests for healing at all; just prayers of thanksgiving for what Jesus has done, and glorification of God's kingdom. 

 

Less than five minutes later, I could raise my right hand above my head with my arm fully extended !  Hallelujah !  & Praise God ! 

 

The next day, after the conference was over, I walked in the woods by a creek (it had been raining  most of the weekend, and I wanted to see the waterfalls - they were great !). 

 

I met a couple of ladies at one, and they took a picture of me with both hands up - which I'll send to your cell phone later.  When I returned to the parking lot, I got into a conversation with a couple there who'd been walking their dog on the trail, and when I told them about my experience, the man said that he'd like to meet Mike, because he had a "bad knee" himself.  I said that Mike had left, but I (really !) surprised myself by offering to pray for him myself, thinking I'd try to imitate what I'd learned on the weekend.  He agreed, & I began as described above. 

 

A couple of minutes later he got a strange expression on his face, walked around the parking lot, and exclaimed that the pain in his knee was gone !  more Hallelujahs !

 

That's the story of my miracle !  Of course, the muscles in my shoulder are very weak, but I'm going to get my doctor to give me a referral for physical therapy next week and start building them up again.  [I've started Physical Therapy.]I wonder what he and the therapist will say !?)"

 

 
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Sent by Revd Mike Endicott
The Order of Jacob's Well Trust
Forge House, Clomendy Rd, Old Cwmbran, Torfaen, Wales UK. NP44 3LS

 

UK Office phone:
01633 483660

 

Canada and USA Office phone:
647 932 3542

 

email:
mike.endicott@jacobswell.org.uk

 

Mike on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/revd.endicott
 
Mike's Twitter feed link:
http://twitter.com/simplyhealing

 

Mike's blog:
http://simplyhealingorg.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Webs:
www.simplyhealing.org
and
www.jacobswell.org.uk

Things to think about – Rejoice!

 

I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.

Luke 10:19-21

 

A quote from Thomas a Kempis

 

He reports the Lord as having said to him:

"A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved."

 

Mike's thought:

 

The Incarnation is simply a lonely god busting his way across the great divide of our sin to get to us and to bring the kingdom to us.

 

Christ's death is designed to bust open the curtain so that he might continue to flow at us.

 

When he confirms that fact by saying that he will always be with us till the end of time he is announcing a two-way relationship. Although we benefit from having him near, if we choose to do so, he is also maintaining his desire to be with us and flow at us. if we allow this then his loneliness over us is over with us.

 

Blessings for Advent

 

Mike