Hosting two Worship School students, a third-year Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) student took them to the grocery store. As they were shopping, she explained how BSSM students go out in teams and minister to people in stores, believing that wherever God’s people are, there is an open Heaven. Suddenly, she felt the Holy Spirit touch them powerfully, and she heard the word, “bursitis.” She told her guests they were going to go around the corner, and someone would get healed. They did, and she approached an elderly gentleman and asked, “Sir, do you have bursitis?” He said, “No, but my wife here does.” They prayed for her, and God's healing power touched her right then. The student encouraged her to try something she could not do before. She raised her hands, held them out in a v-shape and bent down—all things that would have been too difficult for her to do prior to being prayed for. The pain she had had right before they prayed was gone.
They continued walking, experiencing the presence of the Holy Spirit all over them. One student said, “That’s not the only person in here who needs prayer. Let’s look around.” She asked them who they thought God was highlighting. Then, all three of them at the same time noticed a woman at the ATM looking distraught. They went over and interviewed her, discerning for what the Holy Spirit had for this woman. She had just been on the phone talking with her daughter who was in prison or to someone at the prison. She was very sad because her daughter once had walked with the Lord but had gotten into trouble which caused her to be in prison. The student felt that one of them was supposed to pray for her, and it turned out she had the same name as this woman’s daughter. She prayed for her not only to receive healing of some minor ailments but also reconnected with God. They all then prayed that God would use the mother to share with her daughter, and they all felt the peace of God land on the woman. Her countenance changed from distraught and emotional to peaceful and hopeful. Touched by the Holy Spirit, she started laughing and said she now had hope that things would be ok.
They hugged her and continued to encounter the presence of God and knew that there was more that the Lord wanted to do. In the checkout line at a store, they asked and discovered that the cashier, probably in her 50s, had carpel tunnel syndrome, and her back hurt, making it hard to stand long. After one of them prayed for her, she twisted her back to test it out and said that it didn’t hurt anymore and that the carpel tunnel problem felt 50% better. She was in a hurry, so they kept praying for her as they went on. As they joyfully exited the store, both students called their families immediately to tell them what had just happened.