Sometimes God does things you don’t expect. This is one of those times.
We were ministering as guest speakers in a church in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the end of the service, we were praying for people. I noticed in the back a couple watching.
I could tell that God was moving in the man’s heart. I asked if I could pray for him.
As I began to pray, the power of God hit him. His body physically jolted like a bolt of electricity went through him. His whole body shook for about three seconds.
Then I felt a coldness in my heart come over me and I stopped praying. I waited to listen what God was telling me. God told me that he was having trouble with smoking cigarettes and wanted to quit. I looked at him and said, “you want to stop smoking cigarettes, don’t you?”
He said, “I do.”
I had him say a couple of prayers asking for Jesus to set him free of this, which he did.
I prayed for him again. And his body shook again like he was hit with a volt of electricity. Then, he spoke was baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke in his heavenly language.
Following that, he asked if I would pray for his wife. She was taking over 70 hydrocodeine tablets a day, which is an incredible amount of amphetamines.
We prayed for her and she rededicated her life to Christ. We broke the power of this addiction that had been troubling her for years.
They are a wonderful couple that were set free by a genuine God encounter. Today, both of them serve in the church by helping in the soup kitchen.
God touched their lives and the impact is lasting.