4 year old M and I popped into the local hairdresser to buy some shampoo. I had kept forgetting but I felt that God had reminded me while out this morning and, strangely, while there I felt to ask, on the off chance, whether there was anyone available to cut M’s hair. Usually they would be booked out, but someone was available and so, after a chat about the cost (usually more expensive for kids on a Thursday) we were given a 40% discount rate rather than a 20% discount rate, and M delightedly made his way to the chair …
M happily sat down, put in his order for a hot chocolate and chocolate chip biscuit and proceeded to chat to the girl that was cutting his hair.
As I sat I had a chat to a young Mum with foils in her hair. She had a petite 16 month old and as we chatted about “Mummy stuff” she told me that her daughter was having trouble with teething. I remembered the miracle of the teething 1 year old who had slept through from the night I had laid hands on his Mum and prayed for him (see links below for story and praise report). I mentioned this to the Mum and offered to pray. She said she was a Catholic and had not ever heard of such a thing. I replied that I had decided a couple of years ago to believe the word in the Bible that said: “these signs shall follow those that believe … they shall lay hands on the sick and see them healed”. From that time on I told her I had seen healings take place, and I told her a few more testimonies of God’s goodness.
She went to have her hair rinsed so I went in with her and laid hands on her daughter. I released peace and told her daughters body to cut teeth without pain … and when I felt it was enough I stopped.
The Mum kept chatting to me and I felt to ask her if she wanted the gift of healing. She said yes. I sensed that she was intrigued and so I said to her that I felt she would check it out and that she would be shocked to see God heal people. She gave me her hands and I prayed as I knelt before her – she was having her toner put in her hair by a male hairdresser who watched and listened as I prayed.
Once I finished praying for an impartation of the gift she started to tell me about her problems in her 5 year old marriage and how it had been really tough. I again said give me your hands and I prayed. She felt her heart tighten and I said to her that I believed she would go home and think about this and that she would ask Jesus “where are you for me right now?” I told her she would feel Him and I said when that happens she should ask Him to come into her heart (I did not feel to lead her to Christ then and there). I told her from that time on things would change for the better for her and that she would be amazed. She agreed.
As I spoke I talked of God’s love, that there was no sickness in Heaven. I told her about how I had given the young man washing her hair a word from God about 18 months earlier (he said – “that was you!? I keep that in my wallet.” And he said something along the lines of how special it had been to him). I explained how God had wanted us to know how loved we were regardless of what we had done, who we were, how we lived, that He loved us regardless. The guy doing her hair nodded all the way through as I spoke.
The girl listened and as we spoke her husband rang. Coincidence? I think not.
As she spoke to him I prayed for them, for unity in the marriage. When she finished I prayed for her again, and spoke unity and peace, joy and the “shalom” of God. I explained briefly what that meant. I finished praying and gave her my number telling her about how some people I had met as late as a year later had called me. We spoke for a little longer and I said goodbye, encouraging her as I went to ask Jesus where He was and ask Him into her heart, and I confirmed that things would shift for the better.
I left … encouraged that the meeting was not by chance. The discounted hair cut was not by chance. Remembering to buy my hair shampoo that morning was not by chance …
I left encouraged that a word I had given, so very nervously, just after I had completed a prophetic course, had impacted a young man so strongly that he still carried those pieces of paper that identified how much God loved him …
God has a plan and a path for our lives … most of us just need to know how loved we are by Him, He will do the rest …
The impact of the words written in love to a young man … the impact of offering to pray … the impact of chatting to a young Mum who looked all shiny on the outside, but was hurting so much on the inside … the impact of speaking the Truth of God’s Kingdom, of healing and love and joy … the impact of taking the time to stop and chat, although I had many other things I could have got on with …
The impact of it all I will never really know, but that young man is an indication and an encouragement to me because, I know it I will just stop, step out and release His love to people as I go those around me will start to see that …
God is good!
Links:
Ballet mum receives the gift of healing and is ready for a good night’s sleep dated Saturday 26th February 2011 http://verveministries.com/2011/03/04/ballet-mum-receives-the-gift-of-healing-and-is-ready-for-a-good-nights-sleep-saturday-26th-february-2011/
Praise report – God is Good dated Saturday 5th March 2011
http://verveministries.com/2011/03/07/praise-report-god-is-good-saturday-5th-march-2011/
Thursday 7th July 2011,