Can God heal in Western nations?

As a matter of fact, He can!

We know He moves in signs and wonders in places like India or Africa. And He certainly is still keeping busy with the miraculous in Mexico City. But what has been incredibly exciting to see this month is that God is on the move in Western Australia!!
Students from the school of worship have been going out to Perth city center to worship and share the gospel. Last week they saw the city more open than they have ever seen it before.

They were drawing crowds to the music and preaching, something missionaries only expect to see when they are the “weird white people.” They saw four instant healings in one morning, including someone who was on crutches until the students prayed and he walked home on both feet.

During the same week, while doing evangelism as a base in the town of Belmont (just outside Perth City), a woman’s knee was healed. Two young YWAMers prayed for her and she was thrilled when the pain left her. Later in the evening she ran into two other YWAMers and proceeded to tell them about how God had healed her through two boys’ prayers.
He is definitely stirring something up in Western Australia, which is western not only in name but also in mindset. Such visible fruit is often hard to come by in a nation like Australia, but something has shifted and we are seeing breakthrough!
Two weeks ago I was invited to go with a small team to share at a Christian high school. Though our main purpose in the day was to share about missions and YWAM, it turns out God had some other things up His sleeve as well! We had a two hour break between classes, so we went to the town centre to worship and share about God with people. One of the YWAMers, Denise, started talking to some scruffy looking characters as Manny played his guitar. They were really interested in his music and they all started talking, the conversation soon turning to God. They expressed some doubts and one in particular, a guy named Daniel, said he had learned too much about religion and he didn’t buy any of it for a second. He was friendly, and listened, but quite resolute about not believing. A few other ragamuffins showed up and soon the five of us were sharing with five of them. One boy, 15 years old, sat and asked questions about God for an hour and a half. He was incredible open and hungry and even started asking about how to do a DTS. Then all of a sudden one of our team members starts hollering up a storm “God healed him, so crazy, this guy just got healed!” The guy she was referring to was nodding his head in shocked but enthusiastic agreement. She had told him about how God heals and how she had seen God heal people in Mexico. He mentioned that he had been blind in one of his eyes since a bee sting incident 2 months ago. She tested his vision as he covered his good eye. She tested his reaction/sight by putting her hand really close to his blind eye and sure enough he didn’t blink. She prayed and he was healed. He could barely believe it, but then they ran the test again. He covered his good eye and counted fingers, and bushes, and trees, and people walking by. He could see perfectly again. His skeptical friend, Daniel, was genuinely surprised his friend’s eyesight had returned, but would still not believe it was God. “See Daniel,” I shared, “there is a difference between intellectual ideas and real experience. Your friend just experienced God and His healing.” He protested: “No way. Nah man, Hey mate, you don’t believe God just healed your eye do you?” “Yeah, man! God just healed my eye.” Was his firm, delighted reply. Daniel had nothing to say. But as we left the group (determined to get to class on time) we could overhear the guy who was healed telling his other friend “hey man, does your leg still hurt, because I could pray for it and maybe God will heal you, too.”
Yep. Even in Western nations, God is demonstrating His awesome power and reality.

Thanks for being a part of God’s miracles in all kinds of nations!

Bless you heaps
Claire Griffin