and I was preaching to a group of nearly 200 people in a room so tiny there was hardly any space to stand, let alone move. That evening, all I could think about was the story in the book of Mark about the crippled man and his four friends. In that story, Jesus was preaching in a house just like the room we were in, so full that there was no way in.Yet, the friends broke through the roof of the house just so they could reach Jesus and get him to heal the crippled man. I shared that story with them and as I was preaching, I felt moved by the Holy Spirit to say, "If you're here this evening, and you're on drugs, and you don't know Jesus as your Savior, Christ wants to come and heal you from your drugs and become your Savior." After saying it, I moved on with the rest of my message. Two weeks later, the Leskovac church pastor e-mailed me to say he had initially found my message very strange. The community was very close-knit, and he was certain no one there was on drugs. Nonetheless, he found out afterwards that there had indeed been a drug addict in the congregation. Four men from the church had brought one of their nephews to church from the hospital. The nephew was a young man of about 18 and he had ruined his trachea from drug abuse. As a result, he was in hospital and was being fed intravenously. Before the service, these men had gone to the hospital and asked him if he wanted to be healed, and he said yes. That night as I was preaching, when he heard that Jesus wanted to heal him and set him free, he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior and was completely healed!
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