Update on Alvin

Well..today was the day! I was so excited to get to the Infirmary and get the God Squad to Alvin and have them do their thing. I got a surprise though! Before I left Alvin last Friday, I, in desperation, laid hands on Alvin and prayed for God to remove his pain and I also asked anyone reading my blog to pray. I prayed for his gut to begin to work and for his body to come into alignment with the word of God. I take the boys to his bedside, and there....is smiling Alvin. I say, hey ( kind of in disbelief)....are you feeling better?! He smiles and says, yes..I'm getting some relief. I asked him if he felt like eating a little...and he said he thought so. I introduced the boys, and told him these young men are here to pray for you, and such is their belief, that God answers if they ask, so can we pray for you again now. He says he would be blessed if we would, and after talking a minute says, "I'm going to close my eye's now"....Jamaican, for "GET ON WITH IT!" So once more, I laid hands on his abdomen, and the boys also, they began to take authority over his body and declare the truth over this poor, crippled clay that Alvin is captured in. I'm so anxious to get up there this Wednesday and see how he is. I had went to visit Leslie also, and after praying for his eye's which were horribly infected when I first arrived, they are now clear and pain free. ?????? I think the Lord is trying to tell me something. To stop being afraid to ask, and not to just ask, but to take authority...the authority He has given me, because of Christ, and do the greater things He promised we would do. I ended up praying for a young women at church Sunday who had fibroid tumors. She was from Kingston and just passing through. Pastor asked Brad and I to pray for those who came forward...felt kind of sorry and hoped Pastor would come over and back us up at some point. I took authority over her body and commanded the tumors to leave, and for full restoration. Afterwards, I hooked her up with Pastor Watson's church in Kingston, and hope we hear back from her. Now...I find myself expecting to have an answer to that prayer.
Now..I'm not bragging...I'm surprised. I'm on a huge learning curve here, and when you work in a place that has no hope apart from the Lord, well....He shows up. We can't turn to medical science.....money.....people. It just isn't available, for the most part. But Jesus is...24/7-365. This is what I wanted...to see God @ work. We Americans depend on our paychecks, our 401K's, our Dr.'s and Lawyers. I knew all that and more, entertainment, lifestyle, and fear just naming a few, was in the way of being in the midst of what God was doing in the earth. I just couldn't take Western Christianity anymore. I'm in love. I don't want a casual relationship with Jesus... I want marriage. All or nothing. All or nothing.