My First Time Preaching

Ed. Note: The following report was written by Tim Frazier. Tim is a banker who first travelled with us to Lima, Peru last November. Tim had never preached before and his testimony below is a wonderful confirmation of the saying that “our greatest ability is our availability.” We thank God for Tim and for all the men who sacrificed their time, money and comfort to go on this trip.

I just returned from Guayaquil, Ecuador, where I was invited by Pastor Chuck Blystone and Tony Nardella to accompany Chuck and 3 other men from Florida for a mission trip for 7 days. God was so good. The 1st night when we arrived at 12:00 Midnight the administrative assistant for the ministry handed us a printed itinerary/schedule and my minister said, “Tim read your schedule quick.” They had scheduled Tim Frazier to preach at a church on two different nights. My heart kind of skipped and a small feeling of FEAR struck me. But, Praise the Lord the Lord had given me a short message and scripture to teach on during the 7 hour plane ride.

I shared it in front of two other pastors on the trip and they approved it for delivery. At the service the next evening God really showed up and showed off. About 50+ people came forward in the church for personal

prayer from Dr. Byron Lopez, (a family physician and Professor of Biology in the University in Guayaquil, Ecuador) and me.

The 1st lady I walked up to with my translator after we had shared the Word, was all protruded with a large cancerous tumor in her stomach. I called up the wife of the Pastor of the church and asked her if she would put her hand on the lady's stomach with my hand on top of hers (we try to be very respectful in touching ladies below the head but we can touch their hands and shoulders).

I started praying for her in English with translation into Spanish by the translator (Marcel, who is in Medical School in Guayaquil where his dad Dr. Byron teaches Biology. He is very intelligent and is only 22 yrs. old),.I loosed the spirit of infirmity and cancer in the name of Jesus Christ and commanded it to come out of her body NOW! The lady immediately jumped up in the air and flew backwards and was not caught by anyone as the man behind her had his eyes closed, but God protected her fall onto the cement floor; she was out for the count. The anointing of God was all over her and I BELEIVE she is healed in the name of Jesus. She will go to see her doctor this Friday, and I believe, that I believe she is HEALED, and the diagnosis the doctor gave her last week of stomach cancer will be gone. POWERFUL!

The next person was a young father with a baby in each arm. I ask him his name and told him mine in Spanish. I then asked him what he wanted prayer for. He wanted prayer for the healing of his family. I asked him where his wife was and he said that she was sitting across the room. I looked over and saw her breast feeding her brand new (3rd) baby with her breast totally exposed. I motioned to her to come over to stand next to her husband and her other two babies the father was holding in his arms. She covered herself up and came to where we were standing.

They hesitantly stood next to one another, and I began to pray for them and their three children. The young mother started to cry and then the young father, the children staring intently at each parent's face as tears began running down their faces. I leaned over and gave them a big hug and held them for a minute while they cried. I told the father that just as his babies have to be weaned off of baby milk and pabulum so he needs to do the same as a Christian husband and father. He needs to read the Word each day even if it is just a Psalm or Proverb, to start and then increase. Read out loud with his wife and children around the table. Keep coming to church and Praise and Worship God. That God wanted him to be the Spiritual Head of his house and love and protect his wife and family. That wives want a husband that is somewhat like a loving and protective father. Not a father, but strong and protective like a father. A man that will support her and work to bring home enough money to take care of his family so she can feed the family and not worry.

He started crying harder and said he would do that. I then said that he needed to ask his wife to forgive him for any abuse or wrong he may have done to her. She wouldn't look at him in his eyes. People at that point came up to the parents and took the babies out of their arms. Finally the wife looked into her husband's eyes and I asked her if she could forgive her husband. She did. After hesitation, I took their arms and put them around each other and asked them if they would hug each other and each one tell the other they loved each other. They did and embraced and CRIED. It was all GOD, GOD, GOD!

As we were leaving the church they were standing at the church door and gave me a big hug and the translator a hug and said Gracias, Gracias, Gracias. It doesn't get much better than that. This is just one of many incidents of healing of many I experienced like this one that make me want to go back and back again. We go hard each day and night with a jammed schedule but it is all worth it.