One of the questions I get asked more than any other is “do you get nervous?” The answer is “yes.” In as much as sometimes before a healing meeting, I feel totally in the zone and confident that people will be healed straight away, but other times I don’t feel anything. This morning I felt nothing before the service. So I actually told myself not to trust my feelings – out loud – which must have sounded quite bizarre for those standing next to me! Then when I walked into the room just behind the stage at the King’s Centre, I saw that the church had printed 3 banners with scriptures about healing on each. Reading each of these verses really helped me, and we went into a brief but very encouraging prayer meeting.

Ten minutes later I was holding the mic praying for the sick and immediately two people were healed in the blanket prayer. The first was a lady who said she had 3 slipped discs in her back and had had pain every day for seven years, and that the pain had gone. I quizzed her quite hard about this for the benefit of skeptics. She was absolutely insistent about the facts of the matter and that she had been healed. So we were off to a flying start, and there were 5 others who came to the mic to testify to healing.

Evan Rogers, the worship leader then took us into a time of praise. I say praise rather than worship, because he did such a great job of getting everyone involved that it lifted the whole meeting. I think the truth is that I hear a lot of worship, but not much praise, and Evan was brilliant at getting everyone’s focus off ourselves and onto God and the healings we’d just all witnessed.

I guess there were around 400 people present, and I was back on stage for the gospel preach. 10 people responded for salvation in the first appeal, and 8 in the second. So I was delighted with that. It’s a church I’ve been to many times before over the past 10 years and they’re always very positive. So 18 salvation responses, everyone was delighted.

At which point, I walked out! I’m not being dramatic. This was part of job description as a car and driver were waiting for me outside ready to race off to the church’s second venue in Mile Cross, which is a housing estate about 2 miles from the City Centre.

As I walked into the second service, I was given a headset mic and I was up preaching to around 100 people within 2 minutes of entering the community centre. This time there was one person who responded for salvation and two who said they had been healed.

So I owe a huge debt of thanks to my great friends Toby and Jean Skipper who kindly hosted me overnight on Saturday and to John Mullender who drove me from the first venue to the other. Glory to God!

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