walk to emmaus #224

As I write this I am in the first week after my completion of my walk to Emmaus at Blue lake in Andaulusa Al. For those of you that don't know its a christian retreat to get away and focus on God among other things. I highly recommend it. It's definetely life changing. I was getting ready to go this past thurday 9/6/12 and that morning God gave me a Rainbow in front of my house!!! Then my sponsor came (amanda) and she had a rainbow on her nametag!! There were other rainbow things that occured but can't discuss it since it needs to be a surprise for those that haven't gone..Also I wrote my testimony about the rainbow in emmaus bayou blessings last year! Other things that were revealed this past weekend: 1. My daughter Ashley had a dream 1 week prior to Emmaus. She said she dreamed that she was in the hands of God and an Angel was on either side of her. She also drew a picture for my dad of hands coming out of sky and she was in his hands. We went to break at Emmaus and there was this ornament that said "you are in the Palm of God's hands! I was instantly overwhelmed! I was able to get one to give to Ashely as well and gave it to her when I got home and she was so excited! There was also this banner of Esther and underneath said "Such a time as this" and she had red hair and crown on her head and 2 hands were reaching down out of the sky to her! 2. on Friday this speaker (krista) spoke about being in the ICU and how she was healed..I then felt God saying I need to tell them about my mom being healed when she was in ICU and was able to share with my small group and big group as well!! It was definetely encouraging to everyone. I spoke to Krista afterwards and she said they had called her at the last min to come since one of the speakers got sick and the hospital this happened at was TMH which is where I did my original nursing clinicals at! 3. On Saturday, the topic of the bleeding woman came up.."by your faith you have been healed!..Which is part of "mom's testimony" 4. On Sunday, we recited Psalm 23 in chapel which is my mom's fave verse and part of her healing testimony. 5. Before I left for Emmaus I saw a black snake at my dad's house the day before..didn't think anything of it..well the next day my sebaceous cyst on my neck started hurting and running low grade fever. I left message with dr to switch antibiotics and he was going to call the next day. I said a prayer for this to go away and I knew it was to serve as a distraction or keep me from focusing on what God wanted me to know..the snake represents the serpent...My sponsor also prayed for healing and others were praying..on Saturday my Jesus calling devotional states to "not focus on the conditions of your body"..at this point it was getting worse but I had to constantly center my focus on God and give it to him..other antibiotics did arrive on Sat but On Sunday it wasn't going away. At no point in time did i let it distract me from the things God was showing me. I then ended up going to ER on way home and they lanced it and took culture of it.I was given different antibiotics and told it might be MRSA. I just held on to the claim that Jesus was going to heal me. I had to irrigate it 3 x daily for 3 days and return in 3 days for recheck. When i returned 3 days later the culture showed that it didn't grown any bacteria!! Just normal flora, and I didn't need sutures. and the fever was GONE!!! Praise God..also dad and i watched Charles Stanley the day before preach on healing!Also on Sunday they were able to remove the whole cyst! 6. Jesus gave me multiple things that said "Smile, Jesus Loves you"..goes back to the smiley face egg blog..when I cooked egg and smiley face showed up and the message was "smaile, I love you". 7. I was able to end the time with testimony about the rainbows and promising to go and love others! and the rest I just can't say since you should experience it yourself when Jesus calls you to go on a walk to Emmaus!