My wife and I attended the inaugural meeting of "Burn Syracuse." If you are not familiar with the "burn", it is yet another ministry of unity that is so important to bringing transformation and revival to our region. The primary objective of "Syracuse Burn", however, is not unity for the sake of unity, but to minister to the Lord, as an audience of one, in the manner of the Tabernacle of David.

You can read more about it at: http://www.facebook.com/groups/syracuseburn, but at this gathering, at a different church, I saw the exact same angels I saw on 3/11. It is sobering to realize that God is gauging the level of the spiritual preparation of His people to see if they were ready for the next move of God that is coming to our region.

I also saw this young mother that I had ministered to the night before at this gathering. She was excited. God had completely restored her hearing and she had zero pain. She no longer had to read lips. She said in an email: I've had this from the time I was one utill age 10 -- a double ear infection -- MONTHLY! I had so many surguries on my ears that I can't even tell you how many. As a result of it all, it left me with half a eardrum in my right ear with only 50% hearing and a quarter of an eardrum in my left with a 20% hearing in my left. I could not hear most men who spoke because they talk so low. I could not hear distances! For almost 32 years, this was my life . . . Praise be to Father God -- NOT ANY MORE!!

God is awesome! Please understand that God wants His children healed more that we want to see them healed. But healing is often a process as there may be stumbling blocks in the way of complete healing that have to be removed (Isa 57:14). This is why that sometimes it takes many prayer sessions to see healing come. I remember a man we were praying for at a church once that came back every week for 13 weeks for his bad back. It was so bad, that he would often crawl up to the altar and then crawl back to his seat. Don't think it was not a battle for us to maintain our faith in God's word after 12 weeks with no mainifestation of healing. But on that 13th week, after he had left the church the same way he came in, he woke up the next morning completely healed - Praise God! Why it took 13 weeks and what God accomplished in this man during the delay, we will not know on this side of eternity. But God was faithful, we did not faint, the man did not faint, and he reaped a harvest of healing.

The enemy is good at discouragement. Sometimes, the individual receiving ministry does not return because the enemy convinces them it is not God's will to heal them. What a lie of the devil! Another of his devices is to convince the individual that it is a lack of faith to continue to get prayer. My beloved, this also is a lie, we are to keep asking, keep knocking and keep seeking until that door to healing opens. We are promised after all that we will reap (the promises of God), if we do not faint (or quit pursuing the promise and the promise giver). It is through faith and perseverance that we inherit the promise. What promise? By His stripes we were healed!