She came struggling out to be prayed for at the time of ministry in the Sunday Prayer meeting on Sunday 2nd April 2006, a girl or young lady, in her early twenties. She was suffering from being unable to use either right arm or right leg.
We all watched and prayed while someone ministered to her in different ways, ending up by getting her to put faith into action by moving her limbs and walking up and down. Bit by bit, she regained the use of her limbs until she was able to jump and dance in time to the singing of a chorus.
It was only afterwards, when we reflected on the testimony she gave us, that we realized she had come to the meeting perfectly well, but had had a mild stroke in the middle of it. We are really grateful that God also healed her in the same prayer meeting. We were also grateful that we did not realize what had happened until after she was healed.
Step ahead for UZ
At the same prayer meeting, Manners Sheshe testified how Mrs Blandina Marere had invited one or two people to give the essential parts of a Life in the Spirit Seminar to some University of Zimbabwe students at her house. He had gone along, just to give support to those who were giving it and to gain experience.
The UZ students were there, 25 of them, all ready and eager to hear something about the Holy Spirit, as Mrs Marere had promised them. However, no one had turned up for this ministry. There was just him and his younger brother Mike, who had no experience at all. Mrs Marere said she was unable to help with the teachings because, ‘I talk too much’, meaning that she goes on endlessly and looses direction. So essentially, he was on his own.
Mrs Marere said it must go ahead since the students were all there and were full of expectation of learning something about the Holy Spirit. So Manners went ahead – with a certain trepidation, but in faith, and the Lord was with him. So he was not on his own after all.
Manners has just obtained an Engineering Degree from Harare Polytech. This was an asset and it gave the students some confidence in him.
He started with the teaching on the love of God and Inner Healing. Mrs Marere told me the students were all taking it down like they were at a maths lecture. Yet, when it came to ministry, the Lord began working with them. Some of them were confused when they saw some people being slain in the Spirit, especially two Catholic students and some Seventh Day Adventists, two of whom disappeared when they saw this happening.
They were particularly touched, however, by the teaching on Deliverance. This teaching can lead to a much deeper level of repentance, especially in the area of traditional and occult practices.
When it came to the ministry of baptism in the Spirit, Manners started singing, ‘Just one more touch, Lord’, and the Lord was straightaway working with the students. It was a case of ‘touch and fall’, and they were falling down all over, baptised in the Spirit and praying in tongues. Mrs Marere mentions one young boy, about grade three, who happened also to be there, who was lying on the floor praying in tongues with tears flowing from his eyes.
Faith and courage walk hand in hand. If it had been you or I, we might have said, 'Nothing doing, we are going home'. Thank God for Manners Sheshe’s faith and courage on this occasion which brought the kingdom of heaven to this small group of future leaders in the country.
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