In December of 2001, I traveled with Global Awakening and Randy Clark (an outreach ministry) to the Dominican Republic. I had wanted to make a trip to some part of the world where people were hungrier for God than in the U.S. I thought I would like to try this trip, as it was short. I needed to know if I could keep up the pace of late meetings and the hectic schedule. I was past the deadline for the application when I felt I heard God say, “I want you to go.” The day I got my application in, a $1100 arrived from an insurance company that we had completely forgotten about. A couple of days later, our tenants informed us that they needed to stay longer as their new condo wasn’t finished. That was an extra $444 in income. Putting the two together with an unused ticket I had from TWA paid my way. God had taken care of the finances for me.

One week before the flight, I was praising and worshiping the Lord in the San Diego Healing Rooms, http://healingrooms.com/  when the director, Dan Shepler anointed my hands with a drop of oil as was our custom each day before we prayed for others. My eyes were shut and Dan said, “Look at this.” Both my hands had a light coat of oil all over the palm and up 1/3 of the way up the fingers and thumb. I had heard of this Holy Spirit phenomenon, but I had never seen it. I felt assured that I was in the will of the father to go.

The first ministry time in the Dominican Republic was during church on Sunday December 2, 2001. We had been told that the Dominicans had been prostrate on the floor, praying and fasting that great signs and wonders would occur during our visits. Sunday, 25 of us had been divided up among the ten churches that were participating. The first woman I prayed for was seventy or so. My translator told me she could not hear. Fear rose up in me, as I thought, “Oh no Lord, send me only the easy ones like headaches.” But then a peace came over me as I remembered He is the one responsible for the healing, not me. I placed my hands over her ears and said something like, “Be opened, in the name of Jesus” similar to Mark 7:31-37. Her face lit up and she said something to my translator, who said to me, ‘SHE SAYS SHE CAN HEAR NOW!!!” My hands shot immediately up in the air praising God for his love and mercy for his children. I got my first public word of knowledge during that healing service. I felt I heard the Lord saying, “feet….blisters….burn.” I took the microphone and called it out praying I had heard correctly. Two women came forward. I took authority over the pain in the name of Jesus for the first woman. Her pain went completely away. The second woman’s mother had this condition but she was not in church that morning so I prayed an intercessory prayer. I do not know if her mother received healing. I was very excited that our Lord had given me a word of knowledge and that the first woman was healed.

Another woman had a pain in the sinus cavities, neck, and lower back. I believed I received the word “unforgiveness” from the Lord. She asked forgiveness of the Lord due to the resentment she held against a member of her family. Her pain was gone.

I prayed for a woman named Olga who had had pain in her shoulder for a long time. All the pain left.

I prayed at length with a teenager whose hands were shaking. She told me through the translator that her mother was always anxious also. I had her forgive two people in her life and I broke any generational curses in the name of Jesus. Her hands stopped shaking, she smiled and said she felt happy. A pressure on her head had also gone away that she hadn’t mentioned before.

On the next day, we were told that we would be paired up with another team member and a translator. We would be meeting with Dominicans who had signed up for fifteen-minute appointments. They told us that we were to give prophetic words, words that edify. I felt panic at that moment. I had never had prophetic words. I didn’t have any gift of prophecy. I sure hadn’t put that as one of my gifts on my application sheet. I explained to my partner that I had never done this before. She told me not to worry. As it turned out I shouldn’t have worried, because although the Holy Spirit didn’t generally give me “words”, he gave me pictures to edify the persons.  One of the pictures I got was a rainbow with Jesus standing in front of it with his arms extended towards the person. For a middle-aged couple I received a picture of a wrought iron fence with an electric gate that was all the way opened. The scripture that came in my mind was,” But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matt 7: 14) But I was able to share with them, that the gate I saw was completely open for them!! For the same couple I saw a large bed with two people sleeping in it. There was an immense angel watching over the bed. At this, the woman wept briefly. She said Her daughter was having marital problems.

That night, during ministry time, a woman from Holland came to me for prayer. She had come to live in the D.R. when her husband moved here. But she had left two grown children in Holland to attend school. She had planned to fly to Holland to see them, but she had fear of getting on a plane. Through inner healing, she was able to see a large angel on the airplane, protecting the plane. She felt relieved.

A woman with leg pain of an unknown cause was freed of her pain through the healing power of Jesus.

The next day when we were to give prophetic words again, I found I received several pictures, in a slow-motion moving picture format. I say “slow motion” as it took a good ten minutes for the images to form.  For one woman, I saw her get into a beautiful stream and poured water over herself. Soon she submerged herself in the stream. Then she came out of the stream and someone put a robe on her and gave her a crown. She took an escalator into the clouds, where she put the crown at Jesus’ feet. For another woman, I saw her in a place where dense vegetation grew just over her head. She was carry ing a large club. There were some weeds which I knew were “bad.” She began hitting all the bad weeds with her club forming a wide path.. She later reported that she had been battling Satan all week. As she formed the path, I saw many people follow her until she came to a clearing. Here she told each person where to build his hut. Then she started beating down weeds forming a new path and new people followed her. Then I saw the path she had beat down as if I was in an airplane. The path formed  a perfect cross. My partner had given her something similar. She told us that God had been using her to start one group and then move on.

For yet another woman, I saw her carrying a lit torch down a hilly road. As she ran by the houses, the people came out and praised Jesus. They began to follow her down the road. She ran to the center of town where there was a circular cement pad. She stood in the middle of the pad holding her torch high. The people gathered around her still praising the Lord. Soon, a few of the people broke away from the crowd and went in all directions. All my pictures seemed to be symbolic. I was simply in awe of my God who gave me this gift, exactly when I needed it.

The last night of our stay, a sixty five year old woman walking with a cane came to me for prayer. My translator told me she was to have surgery next week on some part of her female organs. This caused a horrible pain in her lower abdominal organs and shooting down her right leg. She described the pain as an 8 on a 1-10 scale, with 10 being the worst. After prayer, her pain was gone and she could lift her right foot which she said she couldn’t before! God is good! I encouraged her to still see her doctor .

Another woman had a pain of five  intensity (on a scale of one to ten) from the left side of her head down her arm, her side and down her left leg. After prayer, the pain was gone and she said she could raise her arm higher than before.

I prayed with a young man named Juan and his girlfriend. My translator explained that they had been unbelievers but when they came that night, they saw wonderful things. They gave their heart to the Lord that night. I ended the evening by praying for a woman who was pregnant 4 months and had a pain in her side. Her pain completely left. I blessed her and her baby.

Would I go on another ministry trip considering the hectic schedule, late meetings, and the expense. You bet I would!! God gave me the energy to keep up the pace and he paid my way. The gratitude in The smiles of the Dominicans when they were healed was priceless. Besides, how does one measure the knowledge that one is in our Lord’s will?

Becky Hitt