God Tingles

First of all, thank-you Reuben for those words, "God tingles." I like to call goosebumps, but I think "God tingles" describes it better. It's when goosebumps are arising when you've just experienced something so cool, something beyond this world, that a shiver runs down your back, through your arms, and right down to your fingertips. And, goosebumps appear, and hairs rise as a result. Ok, that might be a bit of an exageration, but it's pretty awesome when it happens.

I heard a story this weak that gave me God tingles. A story to do with faith, prayer, and believe it or not- healing.

Liz and I got the privilege of staying with a women named Mrs. Grosse this week who had recently retired from teacher for more than 20 years. One of the most amazing teaching stories she could tell us happened this may before she retired at the end of June. This story is about a boy named Colin.

Colin was a really fun, bubbly, energetic kid. Over some time though, he was diagnosed with a disease (I don't really know the spelling), called a pesticite- which is a worm in your intestines that makes you sick and is very hard to get ride of. He was diagnosed with this in January, which means he had probably been having it for a couple of months allready. Mrs. Grosse could tell by his lack of enthusiasm that he had become very sick. He hardly ever came to school, did not have much of an appetite, and was generally not a happy kid.

Every day Mrs. Grosse would pray in front of the class (this was a Christian school) for Colin, but there were no real changes from January to May.

One morning in May though, and Mrs. Grosse recalls, she was praying on her way to school, preparing herself for the day. She really felt that God was telling her to pray for Colin again this morning, but this time she felt like God was saying to get the whole class involved. They had never done this before with all the kids involved, but they decided to give it a try.

When Mrs. Grosse got to school, she first began praying that Colin would show up in the first place, because it was rare that he could make it to school. But God didn't fail and Colin was at school that morning. She asked Colin in private first if it was ok that he come to the front of the class so everyone could pray for him. Eventually, he agreed. Mrs. Grosse asked some kids in the morning to come lay their hands on Colin, one kid to pray and the others to be involved in some other way so that everyone was involved.

After school that day Mrs. Grosse called Colin's parents to let them know what had happened in the morning in Colin's class. Colin's mother was happy to hear what had happened, and informed Mrs. Grosse that when he had come home from school, he had eaten a snack (which was rare) and Colin had also wanted to go for a walk (which he had not done in months).

God began to heal Colin that day, and now Colin is completely better.

How amazing it is that God puts things on our hearts to pray for, and then answers them right away. Not to say this always happens, but it does sometimes. And what a testimony that healing still goes on today. God is so powerful and works in pretty cool ways. Praise God for these God tingles.