During my meeting with Pastor Kim the day I got the money to extend my stay in Korea, she gave me her card to keep in touch with her. When I got back to Durihana that night, I e-mailed her to let her know exactly how much that money had meant.
She later responded to invite me to come to YDFC again the following Saturday for a conference Andre Ashby was holding at the church. There wasn't any other engagement that day, aside from a wedding I had to go to in the morning (more on that story later), so I said I would be there.
When we got to YDFC that night, Yoonmi was told she needed to work in the nursery that night, so we parted ways at the seats, and I settled in for the conference, expecting to get a lot out of it.
Notice I said "get," but that couldn't be the case that night.
About 9 years prior, I began receiving Words of Knowledge, most specifically pertaining to healing. However, this was something that hadn't happened in a long time, but the usually way they occurred were that I would get sharp, unnatural pain in a certain part of a body, more specifically, in places I don't even have problems with. It's hard to describe the pain I receive, except to call it unnatural, as in this pain is something I can discern between pain caused by something wrong in my body and these occurrences.
Fast forward to the end of worship service, and all of a sudden I get this same type of pain in my eye. This is the first time in about 4 years that it had happened, and before that, it hadn't happened in 3 years. Yet I knew it when I happened, and actually GROANED at the thought of it.
Whenever it had happened before, it was in Little Chapel Church, a church I feel comfortable in and feel comfortable approaching the pastors in, and have had to numerous times over this. So here I am, in Seoul, Korea, at a church I had only been to twice before, and had only just really met and talked with the pastor of one week prior. Let's couple this with the fact that in Korea, pastors are highly revealed to the point where people view them as unapproachable, and I didn't want to step on anyone's toes, especially with a guest speaker from the States there. Yeah, I didn't want to approach.
But then, after worship, there was a break between worship and the sermon, where music was still being played, but nothing was being sung, Andre was just standing on the stage, and people were crying. He then mentioned, "Let's just wait on God right now, he's healing people physically and emotionally right now." And at that point, the pain intensified to the point where if I didn't approach, I was going to go crazy. Plus, in my time of having this happen, I was batting 1,000 in there being someone there with the affected body part, so I was confident at that point that if I was given the opportunity, that something would happen. I approached Pastor Kim, and told her what was happening, and asked if I could share this with the congregation. She then conferred with Andre about it, who without even hesitating, offered me the microphone.
It was at this point that Yoonmi was halfway listening in the nursery to the TV downstairs, and heard my voice come up on the TV and was shocked. But there I was, conferring to the congregation about this Word of Knowledge, and within what seemed like a split second, a woman stepped out with this eye pain. I began praying for her, and she was instantly healed.
I sat down, thinking God was done with me. Andre grabbed the microphone and said, "Well, Corey, actually, I'm blind in that same eye, can you pray for me?"
I was just stunned. By then I had a lot of faith, and was ready to go, and started praying for Andre in the middle of the service for his eye, and while there was no immediate change, there were flashes of light in his eye that he had never seen before, so there was progress.
I again, thought I was done. Andre started speaking, and gave an altar call. Several were saved that night, then he started receiving words of knowledge for healing, where around 20 people came up. It was at this point where he said "Corey, would you be willing to come up to pray for these people?"
I was overwhelmed. This was NOT what I was expecting that night. I expected my ministry to be pidgeonholed to North Koreans over my time there, instead I was ministering in YDFC? Unreal.
I prayed for people for what was probably 30 minutes, seeing my first of countless slain by the spirit. Even having seen it before, I wasn't sure what to do, but felt in my heart they had what they needed, and moved on. It was just incredible.
Later, Pastor Kim asked Andre to prophesy over people from the church, including me, and he did. The video is here:
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150318517166438
So at the end of all of this, I was able to spend time after the service in fellowship with Andre, Pastor Kim, and Andre's friend, Eli, and really talk with them. It was certainly a highlight of my time in Korea, and I still look back on that night and think, "Did that really happen?"
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