| Newsletter for 10/19/06- Manifesting Risk |
Good Afternoon,
I want to remind you that we will be having our bi-weekly Bible Study and Ministry Time on Saturday Night at 6 pm in
the Fellowship Hall at Rainier Assembly of God. All are invited. We have no agenda. We are just ministering to people
and sending them back to their churches hopefully more on fire than they came!
Also, we will be doing a Healing Service at Northlake Baptist Church in Longview on Friday, November 10 at 6 pm. We
will be praying for anyone that desires it. All are welcome. Feel free to bring someone that you know who is sick or just
needs a prophetic word, but come expecting the Lord to move.
I recently shared a thought with you regarding manifesting your faith as risk. Pastor Bill Johnson from Bethel Church in
Redding, CA comments "faith is spelled R-I-S-K". I shared with you last week that I am asked several questions on a
weekly accountability basis and one of these questions is "What kind of risk have you taken this week?"
To put a little flesh on my comments from last week, I want to give you some very recent examples of taking risk. I
don't want to be accused of just talking the talk and not walking the walk. A friend recently made the comment to me
that if you want the best fruit, you have to climb way out on the limb. In other words, you need to take some risk! Here
are testimonies.
I was in a car wreck the end of September. My truck was rear ended and so I went to see my chiropractor to get
checked out. While he was taking the x-rays, I was sharing some different testimonies of how we have been seeing the
Lord move and that I feel that the Lord is about to manifest Revival in South Western Washington and anyplace that is
willing to receive it. (This is a whole other letter!!) As we continued talking, my chiropractor (who is a Christian) began
to share with me that he had ruptured a disc, a week and a half before while playing paintball with his sons. He
proceeded to tell me that he needed me to pray for his back. We finished the x-rays and I got dressed again to go and
look for him. However, he was with a patient and others were waiting, so I excused myself knowing that I had another
appointment the next day.
While reviewing the x-rays the next day and getting adjusted, I asked him about praying for him. He immediately sat
down and asked if I would do it now, that the pain down his left leg had been unbearable even though he had been
seeking treatment from another chiropractor. He sat down on the adjustment table and leaned forward, bowing his
head. I laid my hands on his low back and began calling his body into alignment, casting out sickness and infirmity and
calling on the Lord for healing. As I finished, the Lord clearly said that he was feeling burning in his low back. I asked
him if he was feeling this at which point his head spun around and he said "As soon as you started praying, I could
feel heat." I asked him to check his mobility but he said that he hadn't had problems with this it was just pain." So he
checked for pain by gyrating and twisting and bending trying to find "that certain spot." He was unable to find the pain
and announced that he was healed! In the weeks following, I have asked him several times and he still has the same
report. Praise the Lord!!!
Another recent event happened about a week ago. I am coaching my son's soccer team and I was sharing a few
testimonies with a couple of the dads. One dad that is an assistant coach asked me to pray for his back. So right
there on the soccer field, we prayed. (Maybe you didn't know that God comes to soccer practices!?!) The pain
immediately left him. However, about a week later at a game, he told me that he had re-injured it and asked me to
pray again. We did and at first there were no results. So we prayed again, and this time, he was healed. Yeah, God!!!!
Last night after church, I was talking to a young man that plays football at Rainier High School. He had injured his right
elbow and had considerable bruising and a lack of mobility. He couldn't straighten it all the way or bend it all the way.
In fact, it was limited in it's movement to about 30 degrees of motion instead of being able to open a full 180 degrees.
When we finished praying this young man could move his arm to almost full motion. Probably about 170 of the
potential 180 degrees. This is miraculous! We should always make a case for Christ and not against Him. Some would
say, if it was God then He would have full movement. My opinion is that God can do it anyway that He wants!
By the way, like we have said before, there is a difference between miracles and healing. Miracles are instant while
healing takes time. I believe that this young man received a mixture of the two. He left with a great deal more mobility
than he walked in with and I say thank you Jesus!!!!
Jesus is so great and so gracious! I want to tell you, that the Lord wants to pour out blessings and healing on His
people and He is just waiting for someone to facilitate it! He would not have paid such an expensive price by taking the
stripes that He did, if it wasn't His Will!! We need to stop praying and worrying whether it is God's Will to heal people
and just begin to step out in faith for what He has already paid for! The people of this world are waiting for us to
deliver the "cure" to them. What kind of risk will you take this week??
Working while it is still day,
Pastor Jeff McCracken and the Kingdom Power Now Team
I want to remind you that we will be having our bi-weekly Bible Study and Ministry Time on Saturday Night at 6 pm in
the Fellowship Hall at Rainier Assembly of God. All are invited. We have no agenda. We are just ministering to people
and sending them back to their churches hopefully more on fire than they came!
Also, we will be doing a Healing Service at Northlake Baptist Church in Longview on Friday, November 10 at 6 pm. We
will be praying for anyone that desires it. All are welcome. Feel free to bring someone that you know who is sick or just
needs a prophetic word, but come expecting the Lord to move.
I recently shared a thought with you regarding manifesting your faith as risk. Pastor Bill Johnson from Bethel Church in
Redding, CA comments "faith is spelled R-I-S-K". I shared with you last week that I am asked several questions on a
weekly accountability basis and one of these questions is "What kind of risk have you taken this week?"
To put a little flesh on my comments from last week, I want to give you some very recent examples of taking risk. I
don't want to be accused of just talking the talk and not walking the walk. A friend recently made the comment to me
that if you want the best fruit, you have to climb way out on the limb. In other words, you need to take some risk! Here
are testimonies.
I was in a car wreck the end of September. My truck was rear ended and so I went to see my chiropractor to get
checked out. While he was taking the x-rays, I was sharing some different testimonies of how we have been seeing the
Lord move and that I feel that the Lord is about to manifest Revival in South Western Washington and anyplace that is
willing to receive it. (This is a whole other letter!!) As we continued talking, my chiropractor (who is a Christian) began
to share with me that he had ruptured a disc, a week and a half before while playing paintball with his sons. He
proceeded to tell me that he needed me to pray for his back. We finished the x-rays and I got dressed again to go and
look for him. However, he was with a patient and others were waiting, so I excused myself knowing that I had another
appointment the next day.
While reviewing the x-rays the next day and getting adjusted, I asked him about praying for him. He immediately sat
down and asked if I would do it now, that the pain down his left leg had been unbearable even though he had been
seeking treatment from another chiropractor. He sat down on the adjustment table and leaned forward, bowing his
head. I laid my hands on his low back and began calling his body into alignment, casting out sickness and infirmity and
calling on the Lord for healing. As I finished, the Lord clearly said that he was feeling burning in his low back. I asked
him if he was feeling this at which point his head spun around and he said "As soon as you started praying, I could
feel heat." I asked him to check his mobility but he said that he hadn't had problems with this it was just pain." So he
checked for pain by gyrating and twisting and bending trying to find "that certain spot." He was unable to find the pain
and announced that he was healed! In the weeks following, I have asked him several times and he still has the same
report. Praise the Lord!!!
Another recent event happened about a week ago. I am coaching my son's soccer team and I was sharing a few
testimonies with a couple of the dads. One dad that is an assistant coach asked me to pray for his back. So right
there on the soccer field, we prayed. (Maybe you didn't know that God comes to soccer practices!?!) The pain
immediately left him. However, about a week later at a game, he told me that he had re-injured it and asked me to
pray again. We did and at first there were no results. So we prayed again, and this time, he was healed. Yeah, God!!!!
Last night after church, I was talking to a young man that plays football at Rainier High School. He had injured his right
elbow and had considerable bruising and a lack of mobility. He couldn't straighten it all the way or bend it all the way.
In fact, it was limited in it's movement to about 30 degrees of motion instead of being able to open a full 180 degrees.
When we finished praying this young man could move his arm to almost full motion. Probably about 170 of the
potential 180 degrees. This is miraculous! We should always make a case for Christ and not against Him. Some would
say, if it was God then He would have full movement. My opinion is that God can do it anyway that He wants!
By the way, like we have said before, there is a difference between miracles and healing. Miracles are instant while
healing takes time. I believe that this young man received a mixture of the two. He left with a great deal more mobility
than he walked in with and I say thank you Jesus!!!!
Jesus is so great and so gracious! I want to tell you, that the Lord wants to pour out blessings and healing on His
people and He is just waiting for someone to facilitate it! He would not have paid such an expensive price by taking the
stripes that He did, if it wasn't His Will!! We need to stop praying and worrying whether it is God's Will to heal people
and just begin to step out in faith for what He has already paid for! The people of this world are waiting for us to
deliver the "cure" to them. What kind of risk will you take this week??
Working while it is still day,
Pastor Jeff McCracken and the Kingdom Power Now Team