Praise Report from Grady:
Hi everyone, I just want to take a moment and share my God-incident from this weekend. As many of you know I’ve been battling a broken ankle for the last 6 months or so. This weekend we went down to the beach and I obviously had my friend TJ test out my new skimboard. Well with a new skimboard you gotta have wax, so I had to go get wax from Mr. Surf’s.
I go and get some and talk to my good friends John (Owner) and Ford (staff). (Mind you, John is the one who helped lead me to Christ and baptize me, and that the surf shop is Holy ground.) Well I get the wax and leave and the day goes on. The next day I felt led to go back and get lunch there with my pops. I say hey to John and he asks if I had been skimming today and I said no because my ankle was broken, and was bothering me. He tells me he would pray for healing over me.
As he’s gathering the prayer oil and Talit, the man playing guitar started playing “Dry Bones.” The man said before he knew he was coming to the shop, God told him to play that song while he was in the shower that morning. John also said he was about to leave but God told him to stay, and right when he turned around to come back in, I walked in.
He started praying for me and anointing my leg with oil and my foot started twitching and moving. The Lord was healing it from the inside out and I could feel and see it. Then he prayed for the fire of the Holy Spirit to fill me and that I would receive a promotion in a spiritual sense — right then a warm calming feeling came over me.
My ankle and soul and everything now feels so much better. The next day I met a bunch of my closest friends to go and skim. I skimmed ALL DAY with ZERO PAIN.
Just two weeks ago I was told my ankle would never heal the same and that I would struggle with running for the rest of my life. Matthew 19:26 — “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
God bless!
John’s account of the weekend testimony:
Grady came into the shop with his grandfather. They’re from Georgia. As we all spoke, I found out Grady had injured his foot playing football a while back. He kept playing sports, ignoring it, not knowing he’d fractured it. I immediately knew the Lord brought him in to be healed.
During this time, I received a text from Max saying he’d like to come over to the shop and worship. I said, “Bring your guitar and head on over.” Little did I know that Holy Spirit had spoken to him to open up worship with the song “Dry Bones.”
I sat Grady on the Surfboard Prayer Bench, we removed our shoes, I anointed him and his foot with oil and covered him with my Talit. As I got ready to pray, I heard Max begin to play — “Dry bones come to life!” CRAZY. I asked Max, “Why are you playing that song?” That’s when he told me Holy Spirit spoke to him in the shower to come to the shop and begin with that particular song. Max knew nothing about Grady or why I was about to pray for him. He had never met Grady.
As I prayed holding Grady’s foot, it supernaturally began to jerk and I heard it crack. I wasn’t moving it — only holding it. I asked Grady why he was jerking his foot. He said, “I’m not!” It was supernaturally moving. Then I heard the Lord say to prophesy “promotion!” Grady was completely overwhelmed as the power of the Lord poured into him. He just sat there saying “WOW WOW!”
📍 Mr. Surf’s Surf Shop, Panama City Beach, FL