A Masked Woman Gets Healed! -February 2025

I was down in Seattle on a mid-February day. I had felt a bit spiritually heavy when I left home that day, and stopped by the Adoration House of Prayer in the U-district for some time to pray, worship, read Scripture, and get in sync with the Lord. I left feeling a lot of joy and was clearly hearing from the Holy Spirit.

I talked with a few people that day, and was singing as I walked along the streets. The day was certainly improving! Suddenly, I felt the Holy Spirit speak to my Spirit to go to the park nearby. I walked over to the park and began to pray as I walked around it. I had prayed here before but today I sensed I was to talk to someone.

I noticed one woman standing (we’ll call her Lu) and I walked up to her. She had on a very interesting red ski mask and I approached her. I commented on her ski mask and she mentioned she had gotten it from her boyfriend. We may have had some other simple talk, I can’t really remember. But suddenly I had a work of knowledge come to my spirit for her. “Right knee.” It can be hard to know how to address something so personal as health with a total stranger, but I’ve learned to keep it as casual as possible. I said something like, “Hey this might sound kind of strange, but do you have pain in your right knee?” Lu responded that her pain was both in her right knee and ankle as well. I asked for her pain level on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being bad pain) and she said her pain was about a 7.

I told Lu I was a follower of Jesus and asked if I could pray for her. She agreed and I took her hand and prayed. I don’t recall my exact words, but I remember speaking with authority in the name of Jesus for the pain to leave and for the knee and ankle to be healed. My whole prayer may have taken 20 seconds. After praying, I asked her to test it out. She walked several strides away and got excited. It’s gone, “she said!” I praised God with her and told her that Jesus had healed her! She told me she was a Muslim and I could tell she wasn’t really sure what to do with what had happened!

We talked a bit and then some of her friends began talking to her and she was distracted. I was able to give her a Pocket Testament booklet on relationship with God that contained a Gospel of John and a very relational presentation of the gospel and our need to turn from sin and follow Jesus as our Lord and Savior in order to have eternal life. Lue thanked me and we went our separate ways. That was it. It was over.

Sometimes these encounters happen so quickly that I can hardly process what God did. This was one of those times. Yet I believe a key to this story was my time in God’s presence in the prayer room. That shifted my day, and it also shifted Lu’s life. Pray for Lu and those in her circle of influence. And may God continue to bring His Kingdom to Seattle!