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Supernatural “Foote” Steps

We met Andrew Foote through a healing explosion which he attended because his brother shocked him as he told Andrew of the incredible things that happened at “those kind of meetings. “He had always had a hunger to heal the sick and at the time he came to us he was a handsome young bachelor: Because of being so handsome he had a lot of girls running after him. However he was so intent on learning how to heal the sick that none of this made any difference to him.

Today he is the handsome father of five beautiful children, having prayed himself in a beautiful godly wife. This has never taken away his love of healing the sick and preaching the gospel.

All of these stories are completely different, told by different people in different areas life but they all lead to the same focal point. We know you will enjoy Andrew story.

Since I was a young boy, I’ve wanted to see others made well but the only way I knew how to participate in that process was to become a medical doctor. The medical profession therefore became my pursuit but things didn’t go quite the way I had planned. After eight years of pursuing my goal between college and work in the medical profession, during which time numerous medical school applications with adequate requirements were declined, I became discouraged and chose a longtime hobby for a profession instead.

Four years later though, in March of 1986, those childhood desires were rekindled when my older brother shared with me his experience at a Healing Explosion held by Charles and Frances Hunter. What he told me was a little hard to believe so I decided to attend the next Healing Explosion in Detroit, Michigan to experience for myself what he had.

In order to know for certain what my brother had told me was true, I took a friend with me who was ill with stomach ulcers, bleeding hemorrhoids and a badly sprained elbow. To my utter astonishment, when a couple of ordinary believers laid hands on my friend and prayed in the name of Jesus, he was completely healed!

That was the turning point of my life because now knowing that God was real, I surrendered my life to Him. I realized that if God had kept me alive and cared for me all those years I had run from Him in disobedience how much more would He take care of me and fulfill my heart’s desires if I put my life in His hands.

I had always desired to be used by God in some way, but could He and would He was the question. Seeing that the Lord had just used two ordinary people like me to heal my friend, I now knew He could. But whether He would was still unanswered. I certainly hadn’t lived a life worthy of His use. There was only one way I knew of to answer that question and that was to learn what these people had learned whom God had used so powerfully at the Healing Explosion.

I began attending a Hunter Video Healing School at a local church and it was there I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues for the first time. I was still a little apprehensive because this was all new to me so I sat in the back of the class where I could just sit and observe.



During one of the training sessions our instructor asked for those in the class who had pain or sickness in their body to come to the front of the class. About twenty of the one hundred students made their way to the front. Then he asked for volunteers to come minister to the sick but only about five people volunteered. So he began picking volunteers and for some strange reason, out of everyone, he started with me sitting all the way in the back of the room.

To be honest, I was nervous and scared. What if God didn’t heal the person I prayed for? I’d look like an idiot in front of everyone. Well, this was the moment of truth and at this point I’d look more like an idiot if I didn’t go and pray for someone.

I then walked up to a woman and asked her what she needed prayer for. She responded by saying she had a pinched nerve in her neck, tightness in her shoulders and had numerous headaches. I ministered to her as Charles and Frances had taught on their training video and as I looked up at her face, she had tears running down her cheeks. My first thought was maybe I had somehow hurt her but she told me her pain was all gone.

I don’t think I’d ever been more excited about anything in my life. By one act of grace, God not only answered the question of whether He would use me but also fulfilled a childhood desire of mine to see others made well. The Lord had truly put my past behind me but I realized I needed to do the same. From this point in time I had no other desire greater than doing what was pleasing to the Lord. His love and mercy extended to me by no act of my own, made me want to love and serve Him all the more.

God began to open my eyes to how many hurting people we pass by on a daily basis but being so busy with our own lives we hardly even notice. As He placed various people in my path it became quite obvious He wanted me to pray for them and to my amazement, nearly every one who would allow me to minister to them was healed. God was demonstrating His reality to each one of these people just as He had done for me. But it was up to me to open my mouth so that’s what I determined to do.

As owner and operator of an automotive paint and body shop, I had numerous opportunities at work to minister to customers who were injured in their car wreck as well as salesmen coining to the shop to sell anything from tools to insurance.

As I began to share my testimony with them and how God still heals today, they would tell me of their physical ailments and the majority were healed and their lives changed by the power of God and the revelation that the same God that just healed their bodies could save their soul.

In order to learn more about ministering healing I began traveling to many other Healing Explosions and various services that Charles and Frances held. I took along my camera initially to take pictures to show some skeptical friends but later it developed into a service for the Hunters’ tabloids. At one of the services, Frances asked me to minister healing to a young man who was suffering from extreme headaches. After ministering to him, he rejoiced claiming his headache was completely gone. Being extremely grateful we hugged and said goodbye.

I didn’t give it another thought until a year later when our paths crossed again at a service held by the Power Team. There he told me about the state of his condition the night I had prayed for him. He had had a headache for ten months with no relief. Doctors had given him every pain-killing drug possible but none relieved his pain. A neurosurgeon had even done surgery in his neck to bum the nerves going to the area of pain in his head but that had only left him with the back of his neck numb. He was at the end of his rope when he came to the service that night. He planned on committing suicide that night when he returned home if he wasn’t healed.

He told me he was quite disappointed when I was asked to pray for him instead of Frances but God healed him anyway, not only removing his headache for the first time in ten months but also totally restoring the nerves in the back of his neck. He said my hand was the first thing he’d felt on the back of his neck since the surgery. His life was never the same after that night.

He surrendered his life to Jesus Christ and a short time later purchased the How To Heal The Sick video tapes. After learning how to minister to the sick he began to boldly minister wherever he went, healing the sick and leading people to Jesus. He became one of the greatest soul winners I’ve ever known. What an incredible transformation, from a man ready to end his own life to one out changing others lives. We may never know how serious a condition others lives are in but if we’ll reach out with a healing hand, it may just be the rope that saves their life as well as their soul.
Andrew Foote


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