A New Day of Signs and Wonders
After spending November 11-14 in Abilene, TX for Global Awakening’s School of Healing and Impartation, I am more convinced than ever that we as believers must see the Kingdom of God released through healings, signs and wonders. How could I not be changed after seeing hundreds of healings over the course of four days? The instructors in the school were Randy Clark, Bill Johnson, Joe McIntyre and Will Hart. Some are better known than others, but I appreciate the ministry gifts and anointing in each one of them and the impartation I received from the Spirit of God.
One of the things God has spoken prophetically over and over to Harvest Fellowship is that we are to be a place of healing – spirit, soul and body. God prophetically spoke months ago in a message through our friend Bill Faught (www.legacyofworship.com) that Harvest Fellowship would be a pool where people can even come and wash themselves from the wounds of church hurts and splits.
I believe Ardmore, OK has a calling to be a city of healing as well. I rejoice in the healing move that another church in our city, Crystalrock Cathedral, has been experiencing. As the Church as a whole in Ardmore, we must all rejoice in what God is doing in our city! Lord, let it increase! May we be people of His Presence!
As a church we have done some training in praying for the sick in our very early days. I’m thankful for the impartation I received from both Ron Sawka and Gaius Lawrence in my years in Japan that equipped me to be able to train others to move in the prophetic and miracles. However, we as a body must press in even more to see this happen and create a culture of healing. Jesus said in Luke 9:23, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” As anyone who has ever pursued this calling knows, there is a price involved in praying for the sick.
If you are willing to pursue this with me, our training on Wednesday nights is going to shift from prophetic ministry to raising up healing teams. I believe it has been essential these last months that we have spent time learning to flow in the gifts of the Spirit. Now is the time to build on that foundation so that we can, like Paul, fully preach the Gospel of Christ in the power of signs and wonders, in the Power of the Spirit (Romans 15:18-19).
-Andy Rudd
Pastor, Harvest Fellowship