Zick's Testimony: The night after the earthquake

[photo credit: Kansas Corley] This is how I will remember Zick: outgoing, full of life, and ready to embrace anything.

On July 24, he shared a story with us in the morning. He directed us to 2 Kings 2: Elijah Taken Up to Heaven in our Bibles. The verse sounded familiar, because we had listened to it on his ipod on Wednesday.

I did not write everything word for word, because I had not asked his permission to write down his testimony. After dictating such a beautiful description of Haiti, I assumed he would not mind if I wrote down some notes. Later that day, he thanked me for writing down his testimony. I thanked him for the inspiring message. This is what he said based upon my notes:

In Haitian culture: woman gives birth to a child. Bad spirits want to do bad things with children.
[The night of January 12, 2010, after the earthquake] Zick slept on the street with a small group. A child cried out, "I don't want to go with you!" The child's mother asked Zick to pray for the child. He spent 3-4 hours praying. Child kept crying out. Finally, the child said, "He's moving."

Elisha asked for the mantle of God. that's all we need. It was an easy thing to chase away the devil.

Zick went back to bed, but the bad spirit returned to the child.

[from my memory and not my notes: The mother asked Zick to pray for her child again. Zick told her that she could pray for her own child. The mother insisted that Zick pray.]

Zick prayed again. [He asked Jesus to banish the bad spirit permanently.] The child was free. Then, Zick prayed for the family to have faith in God. The family gave their life to God.

Ask for the flame of God to be burning in us. We need God's word. Ask, seek the double portion. It's free. Sacrifice ourselves to have it.

Zick is not only my brother, but he is also your brother in Christ. I know I will be constantly reminding myself to seek the double portion.