Stunning stories

In a little corner of south-west Wales (UK)there are miracles happening. At the retreat centre called Ffald-y-Brenin, grace is being poured out in astonishing ways. I have just read in one sitting the book 'The Grace Outpouring' and am reeling with amazement. This is happening NOW! Read this story:

Sam had lost his wife to cancer in a short six months. He had many praying, supporting friends. One day he came to the retreat centre. He decided to walk down to the cross (a large one on the cliff overlooking the sea). About twenty yards away he could not go any further. It was as if he had hit a brick wall. Next day he tried again and the same thing happened. Then the Lord said 'I want to touch the grief in your heart.' He sobbed for some time. Then the Lord said 'I want to touch your tremendous anger.' And he raged for some time, then received the Lord's assurance of healing and that He had carried the pain of it all for some time.

Then he got up and walked straight to the cross and put his arms around it. He later said it felt like his heavenly Father put his arms around him. It was like two people who hadn't seen each other for some time, hugging like old friends.pp 105-6

Another story - One day an American woman rang and asked if she could come. She was a hippie type in her mid-twenties. She was desperate for a place to stay, but not into Christian things. So they did not press her about anything. But over the following days she came to chapel and the daily prayers and was willing to pray some simple daily prayers. On the Friday she stated over coffee that she disliked Christians because they said there was only one way to God. Without debate it was explained that Jesus made this claim.

The next morning she was trembling with excitement. "Why haven't you told me the truth?...Why didn't you tell me that God is my Father, that he made me, that he has a plan for my life? Why didn't you tell me that he loves me desperately, that I've never been on my own? Why didn't you tell me that Jesus really is his Son, that when he died he took my sin? Why didn't you tell me that he's exalted him to his right hand? Why didn't you tell me that Jesus can come now into my heart to live and make me a new person? Why didn't you tell me this?"

They stood there, open mouthed and asked, 'How did you know all this?'
"Because he's done it this morning, hasn't he? He's come into my heart and he's changed me; I'm a new person. Why didn't you tell me all this?"

She also said she had experienced 'the fire'. "He can put his fire on you so that you can blaze for him, and when you encounter other people, the fire he's put on you can touch other people, so they catch fire for him as well."

Later that day as she went for a walk she felt moved to speak to a man on the street. It was a word of prophecy for him. "God has said that he has heard your prayer, and you are not to worry, because he is responding to your prayer." He looked at her and burst into tears and asked if she was an angel! That morning he had cried out to God and asked him to indicate he had heard by sending an angel to tell him!

Then she went to the pub and a young man there noticed she was different to the last time he saw her. So she told him to come to Ffald-y-Brenin. So he drove there with her and as soon as he entered the chapel the Spirit fell on him and he wept for several hours non-stop and was completely transformed!
pp 34-38 The Grace Outpouring available from www.ffald-y-brenin.org

It makes my heart ache for this reality here among us! We live just expecting to be encouraged or warmed - not radically changed!! Fall on us Spirit of God. Do these works of grace and transformation.