I haven’t even been an intern that long but this year has definitely felt so far like the most stretching I’ve ever been through. But like Pastor Todd says, your spirit is like Gumby – it loves to be stretched! So while it’s uncomfortable, I’m so glad I’m going through it, because I know I need to grow in a lot of things. Different situations with my finances came to a head, and through it I have been learning more responsibility and I feel like I’m just now getting to the place where I truly HAVE to lean on the Lord and there’s no plan B! God has grown me and set me free in so many areas in the last two years in school, but it’s like the focus has turned to this area because I haven’t grown much in it. I have already been seeing God’s miraculous provision – I didn’t know where I was going to stay, and He provided just in time – I got a new job, someone offered to pay half my current rent, I’ve been blessed with unexpected cash, food, clothes and more. I am so grateful to be in the department I’m in and for the people that I have been placed under, they have pushed me forward to press in not just spiritually but practically. I am so excited for everything the Lord is going to do this year and all the things I’m going to learn!

–Victoria

Also in Fort Meyers at the outreach I prayed with a man who had diabetes and his legs were really swollen and he had pain at about an 8 out of 10. I told him that since he just had received Jesus as his Lord and Savior that he was a child of God and that Jesus bore every infirmity on his body when he died on the cross for us. I asked him if he believed that God could heal him right then and he said “yes”. As I began to pray for him and lay my hands on his legs, he began to say “WOW!” He then proceeded to tell me that the pain in his legs had left and he was able to move his legs! Then he got out of his wheelchair and began to walk around the front for all to see!! The man then told us that he hadn’t been able to walk since 2008!! God used me as a vessel to minister healing to that man! God has really been teaching me about obedience as well. No matter how crazy something may seem, if God is telling you to do it, you just need to do it! It might just be the key to someone else’s breakthrough.

–Nicole