Análisis de los incentivos
3. el diseño de intervenciones (proyectos)
We met Andrew Foote through a healing explosion which he attended because his brother shocked him as he told Andrew of the incredible things that happened at “those kind of meetings. “He had always had a hunger to heal the sick and at the time he came to us he was a handsome young bachelor: Because of being so handsome he had a lot of girls running after him. However he was so intent on learning how to heal the sick that none of this made any difference to him.
Today he is the handsome father of five beautiful children, having prayed himself in a beautiful godly wife. This has never taken away his love of healing the sick and preaching the gospel.
All of these stories are completely different, told by different people in different areas life but they all lead to the same focal point. We know you will enjoy Andrew story.
Since I was a young boy, I’ve wanted to see others made well but the only way I knew how to participate in that process was to become a medical doctor. The medical profession therefore became my pursuit but things didn’t go quite the way I had planned. After eight years of pursuing my goal between college and work in the medical profession, during which time numerous medical school applications with adequate requirements were declined, I became
discouraged and chose a longtime hobby for a profession instead.
Four years later though, in March of 1986, those childhood desires were rekindled when my older brother shared with me his experience at a Healing Explosion held by Charles and Frances Hunter. What he told me was a little hard to believe so I decided to attend the next Healing Explosion in Detroit, Michigan to experience for myself what he had.
In order to know for certain what my brother had told me was true, I took a friend with me who was ill with stomach ulcers, bleeding hemorrhoids and a badly sprained elbow. To my utter astonishment, when a couple of ordinary believers laid hands on my friend and prayed in the name of Jesus, he was completely healed!
That was the turning point of my life because now knowing that God was real, I surrendered my life to Him. I realized that if God had kept me alive and cared for me all those years I had run from Him in disobedience how much more would He take care of me and fulfill my heart’s desires if I put my life in His hands.
I had always desired to be used by God in some way, but could He and would He was the question. Seeing that the Lord had just used two ordinary people like me to heal my friend, I now knew He could. But whether He would was still unanswered. I certainly hadn’t lived a life worthy of His use. There was only one way I knew of to answer that question and that was to learn what these people
had learned whom God had used so powerfully at the Healing Explosion.
I began attending a Hunter Video Healing School at a local church and it was there I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues for the first time. I was still a little apprehensive
because this was all new to me so I sat in the back
of the class where I could just sit and observe.During one of the training sessions our instructor asked for those in the class who had pain or sickness in their body to come to the front of the class. About twenty of the one hundred students made their way to the front. Then he asked for volunteers to come minister to the sick but only about five people volunteered. So he began picking volunteers and for some strange reason, out of everyone, he started with me sitting all the way in the back of the room.
To be honest, I was nervous and scared. What if God didn’t heal the person I prayed for? I’d look like an idiot in front of everyone. Well, this was the moment of truth and at this point I’d look more like an idiot if I didn’t go and pray for someone.
I then walked up to a woman and asked her what she needed prayer for. She responded by saying she had a pinched nerve in her neck, tightness in her shoulders and had numerous headaches. I ministered to her as Charles and Frances had taught on their training video and as I looked up at her face, she had tears running down her cheeks. My first thought was maybe I had somehow hurt her but she told me her pain was all gone.
I don’t think I’d ever been more excited about anything in my life. By one act of grace, God not only answered the question of whether He would use me but also fulfilled a childhood desire of mine to see others