Healing Rooms of the Santa Maria Valley, California

History: How We Got Started

 
Over the years there have been many prophetic words about healing over the Central Coast of California. We knew God's heart was to release a healing fountain here.

When the Healing Rooms of Spokane, Washington began giving reports through the Internet, we felt prompted to look into that. Rick, Lori and their Senior Pastor, Steve Dastic, went up to Spokane to see what the Lord was doing up there. We stayed four days and during that time we met with Cal Pierce, the Director of the Spokane Rooms. Cal shared his vision with us and we were invited to observe in the healing rooms. Before we left Spokane their team prayed a prayer of impartation on us. We left there with a vision of Healing Rooms starting on the Central Coast.

We came back home and felt that we were to begin training. After that the Lord told us to wait and birth this in prayer. We took seven weeks and had prayer going on for six days a week either morning or evening on those days. During that time the Lord gave us seven ingredients to have a healing ministry established here. They are as follows:

  1. We need to believe with all our hearts souls and minds that Jesus still heals today. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
  2. We must become desperate for the presence of the Lord.
  3. We must be broken.
  4. We must walk in humility, 1 Peter 5:5 God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
  5. We must increase our prayer life, which includes praying in the spirit and practicing the presence of God.
  6. We must believe in unity, this is for the whole church all denominations.
  7. This must be a ministry of love. 1 Cor. 16:14 Let all that you do be done with love.
When we began in August of 2000, we had a team of twelve people. We began praying two days a week. As we do our once month training we continually add new team members. After one year we are now open four days a week and have a team of 98 people from 28 churches, representing many different denominations. Each of the 28 streams, as they come together, create a mighty healing river. As it says in Psalm 133 where there is unity the Lord commands the blessing.

The Lord has shown His favor in many ways, we have had two newspapers in Santa Maria write articles on the Healing Rooms as well as an interview on the local Christian radio. The Santa Maria Healing Rooms were also mentioned in the German version of Charisma magazine when they did an article on Healing Rooms.

The first night we were open the presence of the Lord was strong and filled the room with a fragrance like crushed roses. His presence and the fragrance still comes today as we pray.