For months, Elisabeth had a constant nighttime cough that seemed to be getting progressively worse. We prayed over her, and Don prayed over her - even many mid night prayer sessions during some of her coughing episodes. We even tried eliminating certain foods, etc. but still no victory. By the time we arrived in Florida full time, the cough still wasn’t better, so Don was moved to search out a doctor we would feel comfortable with. We don’t like seeking out physicians and we generally don’t, but in this case we believed there was a bigger reason to our daughter’s unresolved issue, and during Don’s searching an MD popped up that seemed to match our preferences.

As soon as we entered the clinic, we knew we were being called there by the Lord for a reason. There were scriptures all over the waiting room foyer walls, and the nurse doctor (Dawn) that examined Elisabeth asked what religion we are (we’ve never been asked that before in a clinic!). We were very happy to answer “Christian,” and then Dawn smiled and said something positive. That led to us eagerly chatting about the things of God for virtually the entire appointment! We discovered that Dawn was already water baptized and Spiritfilled and loves to pray in tongues. But, we were able to share lots of encouragement regarding praying in tongues as much as possible every day, helping others to be born of water and of the Holy Spirit, and regarding her troubled family.

We left the clinic rejoicing in how God used a seemingly negative situation for the purpose of His Kingdom work upon this Earth! But then, it didn’t stop there. A day or two later, we received a text from Dawn, asking us if we would come pray with the father of a doctor friend of hers. The father was in hospital, in a life-threatening condition. We went straight away that night, and how it all turned out was very unexpected, yet expectedly miraculous…

The first thing the Holy Spirit moved us to do was to identify who in the room was a born again believer and who was not, before praying over the sick father (Nelson). We discovered that Dawn’s doctor friend and her husband were, but not yet their children, nor her mother-in-law. The doctor and her husband admitted that they had also been quenching the Holy Spirit within them for quite some time - they were not praying in tongues nor really making much effort toward the Lord at all. So, we laid hands on the doctor and her husband, to get them speaking in tongues again and spiritually revived so-to-speak. They were overjoyed with tears and rejoicing all round.

The amazing thing is that while we were all praying for the doctor and her husband, their three older children (around 7 years, 10 years, and 14 years old) all received the infilling of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues so clearly and passionately as proof. We weren’t even praying over them directly, and they weren’t even praying for the Holy Spirit anointing specifically - it just happened, praise our mighty God!

Now that most of the room was full of the Holy Spirit (our group, Dawn, the doctor, her husband, and their three kids), we turned to Nelson’s wife, to encourage her. But unfortunately, we were met with a lot of resistance. We even discovered that she and Nelson had only just been married days earlier for the sake of insurance, despite have been together (and had children together) for years. We tried to counsel her according to the Word of God as lovingly as we could, but in the end, she ended up having to step out of the room while the rest of us prayed over Nelson. It was wonderful to see the doctor’s entire family laying hands on Nelson and fervently praying in tongues together. Nelson slipped in and out of consciousness while we all prayed, but he looked incredibly peaceful and squeezed our hands in gratitude when he could.

We parted ways, resting in the fact that we had done what we had been called to do. We urged the family to continue to pray together in the Holy Spirit on a daily basis and to not quench the Holy Spirit again, and to ensure that their three Spiritfilled children soon get water baptized (just as Peter commanded Cornelius and his household in Acts chapter 10). We also encouraged them to continue to pray over Nelson, and to be a light to Nelson’s wife who one day will, we pray, surrender to Truth.