November 12, 2005

• I've said it once and I'll say it many more times in the future, but God NEVER ceases to amaze me. He just pulls out surprise after surprise, hehe. So for those of you that don't know...because I didn't say anything, hehe....my gout in my right foot came back on Monday. On Sunday it was already kind of hurting, but I thought maybe it was just overworked. But no...the gout came back. For those of you that don't know what that is, it's when the uric acid in your bloodstream crystalizes and settles normally in your big toe. Making it extremely painful because that's the direction your blood flows in first of all, hehe, but it also makes it very very difficult to walk. So you have to keep your foot elevated so the blood flow isn't so intense. This is the worst case that I've gotten it because it swelled up my whole foot this time. Previously it was just the toe area that was swollen. So anyway, I've been in pain this whole week. =P

  
  

  Thursday night, which would've been last night, but I was lazy and I'm not posting till Saturday morning...pay no attention to the time. =P I really stretched my faith and did something completely ridiculous that I would never have thought to do. It was just plain silly. In the Bible, the book of Acts 19, the anointing of God was so strong in those times, that even the clothing of the disciples could be cut off and placed on people to completely heal them. Well, I totally believe that healing power is evident even today, just at this moment in time, God's anointing on the Earth isn't as strong as it was back then. Why? Because of us humans, we limit His power and reduce it from what it's truly capable of, but that's a whole other teaching. Anyway, my church, "Word of Life" has a conference very year called "Resurrection". Well, at the end of each conference, there's another service for prayer and prayer clothes. The prayer clothes are to be brought home or given to family members, relatives, friends, kids, whomever for healing. We've had some awesome awesome testimonies from people who were completely healed. I've heard of 2 that really stuck out. Before I get into those, lemme explain, hehe. These pieces of cloth are taken from the concept in Acts 19. When Paul had pieces of cloth and clothing that were taken to heal people. Each night of the conference, they have the guest preacher lay hands on them and pray and anoint them. So their are some powerful men of God that lay hands on these things that help bring God's healing anointing to the world. At the end of the conference, they are given out to people who need a healing miracle in their lives and like I said, there have been numerous testimonies in return to a prayer cloth. So the 2 miracles that really stick out were one, a dead man was raised from the dead and another person had their blind eyes totally opened. The dead man had died in the hospital and they just took a cloth, about the size of a bandana, and just layed it over his face and he just popped up from the stretcher. That must have been scary, lol. The other one, the person laid the cloth underneath their pillow at night as they slept and when they woke up the next morning, they weren't blind anymore. It's like WOW!!! Praise God!!! I haven't seen any creative miracles, but I've witnessed some awesome miracles myself. Healing miracles I mean, hehe.

  
  

  So anyway, the real point I was saying was I did something completely out of the blue. Up till last night, I was just taking pain killers for the pain and that's about it. Of course I prayed too, probably not as much as I should have, lol. Regardless of that, I took a prayer cloth...from 2 years ago that I still had. And I tied it around my foot. Don't know why, I figured it wouldn't hurt to try, stretch my faith a little bit. Took some pain killers right before I crawled into bed. I ended up going to bed late cause our cat got out and I was the one that "let" it out on accident. She ran out when I opened the door for the dog...stupid cat, lol. But she came back at around 5 am and my roommate and I waited for her to let her in cause our pets just know to come home, lol. So I didn't get to bed till late. I had to make a phone call so I set my alarm for 11 am. I woke up at 1 pm by my phone ringing cause my mom was calling me. You may say, so what? Big deal. I woke up with no pain whatsoever and I hadn't slept that well all week. I was able to walk decently well now instead of limping around. God had partially healed me of my sickness. The nights before I would wake up in the middle of the night because of the pain regardless of the pain killers. I wasn't able to sleep well at all. I ended up taking 3 or 4 naps a day and my sleep schedule is all messed up now. Which is why I'm still up typing this out, haha. The pain had been really intense, hard to move, I literally sat around all day. Sounds nice, but I was in pain, lol. I was doing things to keep my mind off the pain. And gout isn't something that just gets better overnight. But there's a significant difference from Thursday night when I went to bed and Friday morning...well afternoon, hehe, when I woke up. I hadn't been taking any medication or anything. Nothing to really combat it, just to relieve the pain a bit and wait it out.

  
  

  So I have yet ANOTHER thing to be thankful for...that I'm healed and well. Maybe not completely 100% healed, but enough to where I can do something about it now, haha. Praise God!! Hallelujah!!! AMEN!! haha. Oh...and last night, I had an unusual dream. I was living in a prety big house with a couple. They weren't married, but they were dating and we all lived together. The guy wasn't the greatest guy, but he wasn't a jerk either. The girlfriend was really nice to me and I guess we've been friends for a while now. The guy I don't think liked me very much. But I remember me and the guy being outside in the front yard and there were kids playing in the neighborhood. One of our neighbors, an older gentleman was outside getting his newspaper and there were kids playing in front of our house. Well, next to the street, we have rocks there and kids were knocking the rocks out onto the sidewalk. So we went and pushed the rocks back into the piles. We lived in a nice neighborhood with friendly people and all. After going back inside, he went upstairs to get changed cause he was going out with the girl that night to the opera. And so I'm looking in my closet for my nice suit and I was like...wait, did you get 2 tickets or 3? And the guy was like...I only got 2, I'm just going with her. So I was like...oh, and really bummed cause I wanted to go too.So he leaves the room and the girl comes in and was like...Wayne, you should totally come with us. You can just come home afterwards. I said no thank you and gave her a reason why...don't remember what that was. And then night falls and I wake up from the dream. I remember in the dream that I really loved this girl and I just knew, in the dream, that we've been friends for a really long time and that we've both been through a lot and helped each other out a lot. But now she was with this guy all the while me secretly liking her. I guess I just never said anything to her or whatever, haha. I don't know what the dream means, but that's what happened, hehe. The girl was mix between Chinese and white, almost a perfect 50/50 split and the guy was white, kinda scruffy, hehe. The guy was a little taller than me and had dark brown curly hair. The girl was about my height and had long brown/blonde hair that went down to her lower back. The night they went out to the opera, he was in a black tux and she wearing a beautiful red dress. The guy and I shared a room and the girl had her own room. It was kind of layed out like a hotel. You walk in the door and there's a wall on the right that when you get passed it, you see it's a closet. As you continue to walk in, there are 2 beds with a small dresser in between the 2 beds. There's another bigger dresser at the foot of the beds, but against the wall so it doesn't block walking, with a 14 or 15 in. tv on it. And as you walk passed the beds, there's the big window. Like the full ones that go from the ceiling to the floor, but these were just a little smaller. Didn't quite reach the ceiling and didn't quite hit the ground. A few feet from the ground and ceiling. The closet was shared 50/50 and so were the dressers. I don't believe I ever really saw the face of the guy or the girl. Just features. Unusual dream, hehehe. I should probably ask God what it means, haha. Although I'm a little scared to ask, haha. Cause of the coloring that was in the dream, but anyway, hehe. The cool thing is I haven't had such a vivid dream in a long time. So when I do, it's always a real blessing.

  
  

  I'm just going to close with God is awesome. God is great, all the time and all the time, God is great. He never ceases to amaze and we all ust have to keep our senses sharp enough to notice everything He does. Alright, hope you guys enjoyed this post, lol. It was fun to write it, hehe. Take care everyone and God Bless.

  
  

  Wayne Hsu and Holy Spirit

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