Our Guest Derek Snodgrass
DERRICK: They said, “We just said we’re going to bring her to the church first, so you could pray for her and believe God to heal her.” And see it in the flesh, sometimes our flesh is weak. Our spirit is willing. And when I saw her sickness, I was intimidated. And the first thing I thought was, “Man, you should have took her to the hospital.”
DERRICK: But then I envisioned the cross next to the sickness and I said, “The cross is bigger.” And so we all grabbed hands. I said, “Let’s just believe God to give her new skin, fresh skin to heal this sickness.”
SID: You hadn’t taught, you hadn’t given them-
DERRICK: No service, no message, no prepping, no testimonies. We went straight forward and I literally attacked the sickness. And I began to rebuke that skin disease. And I didn’t pray high hopeful, wishing, “God, please would you?” I commanded that skin disease to dry up in the name of Jesus.
DERRICK: And I said, “We just speak fresh skin over her body right now.” And one of the other members in the circle screamed out and said, “Pastor Derrick, it’s clearing up. It’s clearing up.” And she had completely fresh skin in 10 seconds, completely cleared up.
SID: But you know, the greatest miracles, I understand, are occurring in the pantry. What is the pantry?
DERRICK: So our pantry is just a outreach ministry that we have. The Lord gave us this initiative to reach out to our community. We partner with a food bank in our city. And it was just a way for us to not be so preachy and just relate to the people on a practical level, by meeting their natural need first.
DERRICK: And by meeting their natural need, then it opens up the door for us to do ministry, so it’s really just a strategy. And so there was one day, one of the notable ones I remember, this woman came up to our pantry. We had never seen her before. And she had two leg brace casts on, one on each leg. She had two walker sticks. She was limping to us and she walks over and she says, “I just need food. I just need food.”