We saw the blind see

We just said good bye to the second team from the USA at the fifth city we ministered at in Brazil. We had a great time and met some really nice people whose lives were impacted in another trip to Brazil where we could experience more of the fire of God being outpoured over the lives of the thousands of hungry Brazilian people who attended our meetings.
For me one of the most remarkable moments was when I was translating for Randy as he prayed for a man and a woman who was blinded by diabetes. I had been praying and asking God to show me something amazing, I mean, I had heard many people tell about healings they saw but I had never prayed for a blind man and saw him healed. So I was praying that God would let me see and be a part of an amazing miracle, and God answered my prayer.
Randy had just decided not to preach due to the advanced time and released the team to pray for the sick. One of the pastors came to me and said, “Please, ask Randy if he can pray for two members of my staff who were blinded by diabetes.” I asked Randy and he said, “Where are they?” We went down backstage and they brought them. They were both in their forties but the guy was so depressed that he looked 60. He was suffering with severe pain on his belly, so much so that the feeling of his shirt touching his skin was hurting him. He had totally lost the sight on his left eye and 70 % on his right eye. So much so that he couldn’t walk without the help of his wife and he couldn’t go down a set of stairs without holding on to her. The lady had lost most of the sight on her left eye as well, all she could see with it was a blur.
I asked for three chairs, one for Randy and one for each one of them (I felt in my spirit that this wouldn’t be a fast prayer). I should have asked for four chairs, I knelt down beside Randy and agreed with his prayer as he prayed for the fire of the Holy Spirit to come. I almost didn’t have to do any translation as Randy’s Portuguese just keeps getting better and better, there were just a few words he didn’t know. 30 minutes went by without any major changes and Randy just kept praying, the lack of any phenomena didn’t seem to bother him, he just kept praying, asking God for more electricity, more fire, more anointing… suddenly this lady bursts into tears and a loud laughter as she said, “I can see, I can see, I can see his badge, I can see your faces… ha! The blur is gone! I can see better now with my blind eye than I can with my normal one!”. She was so excited, she jumped off of her chair and started to hug and kiss the people around us, laughing, crying and hoping like a happy little lamb. The whole atmosphere changed, the man, his name is Antonio, had been unbelieving and downcast all the time, but after he heard the lady beside him rejoicing, he lifted up his head and started to look up as if trying to grasp his healing too. Randy praised Jesus for the healing of the lady for about 5 to 10 minutes, he thanked Jesus looking up with a big smile in his face. All of the sudden this sweet presence of Jesus feel over us, it was so awesome, all of us felt it. We just started praising him for his presence, then, Antonio shouted, “Ouch… my head… my head…” I asked what was wrong and he said that suddenly this sharp pain started pounding on his forehead. Randy frowned and rebuked the pain, Antonio shouted again, “Ouch… Oooouuuch… the pain moved to the back of my head.” A big smile shone on Randy’s face… “Ha…” he said, “see, this is actually good… it’s good that the pain moved, now we know it’s a spirit of affliction, it exposed itself, now we can command it to leave” So, Randy commanded the spirit of affliction to leave, not to move again, just leave once and for all and never come back, and it did. “The pain is gone.” Said Antonio, “Hey, wait a minute…” he started touching his belly, “The pain on my belly is gone too…”
“Great…” Randy said, “What about your eyes?”
“Here…” I handed him my badge, “… try reading this.” He took my badge on his hands looked at it, flipped it a couple of times and said, “No, I can’t read it. Still can’t see nothing with my left eye and just see 30 % on my right one.”
“Ok,” Randy said,”… that is ok, let’s just praise Jesus for what he has done.” And for about 10 minutes we just thanked Jesus for what healing Antonio of his abdominal pain, then, out of the sudden, while we were still thanking Jesus, Antonio said, “Guaraci” and pointed to one of the usher’s badge. The guy was standing about ten feet away from him. Randy said, are you reading the badge or recognizing his face?” Antonio frowned and lifted his chin up a bit, “Both.” He said, “I can read hi badge and I can tell it’s Guaraci!” he smiled, “I see you my friend!” He said to Guaraci, “Ha, I can see your face!”
“Yey Jesus…” Randy said with the biggest smile I’ve ever seen on his face. Then, for another 20 minutes the healing just increased to the point where Antonio’s right eye was totally restored and with his left eye he went from seeing nothing to a little light, then to shadows and finally silhouettes. We were all so excited with the healing and with the sweet presence of Jesus we felt all around us. After we prayed, Antonio made a point in going downstairs by himself with his hands up and a huge smile saying, “Look, no hands!”
God is good. I saw his power, his love and his presence heal the blind. I will never be the same again.
I hope to see you all in a next Global Awakening trip to Brazil.
Love you,
Edd Rocha