Healings
Acts 1:4-5
Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but
to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard
of from me; for John babtized with water, but you will be baptized with
the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Acts 1:8
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you
shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria, and
even to the remotest part of the earth."
GLORY TO HIS NAME!
These are just a few testimonies of the Power of God working through Salvation in the Name of Jesus and the Anointing of the Holy Spirit in the lives of so many people throughout the 20 plus years of this ministry.These testimonies and many more that we could publish, speak not of us but of a loving and compassionate God who is slow to anger, filled with mercy and willing to forgive transgressions. God is willing to deliver and heal, if we will just return to Him.
San Diego, California
1984
I encountered a very upset man in a local church and inquired of
His problem. He said that a well know local hospital had told him
that his two year old daughter was going to die in two to three weeks.
I visited his home that same evening and met the girl. She was quite
obviously sick and had not moved from her bed in a week. Her little
face was terribly discolored and distorted in a hideous mask.
I began to pray in the Spirit and then, as the Holy Spirit led, I began to read scripture out loud. The little girl got out of her bed and walked over to her mother. She said, "tell him to leave, I don't like him". She was pointing at me. I knew then that she had a demon. I continued to read scripture until the Anointing of the Spirit of God came upon me.
Then, when I laid hands on her little head and prayed in the Name of Jesus and the demon that had plagued her left immediately. She was instantly healed and within five minutes her appearance had returned to normal.
After some investigation, we discovered that her babysitter, a member of her own family, had repeatedly molested her sexually giving place to this unclean spirit. This demon that wanted to destroy her was cast out in the Name of Jesus.
San Diego, California
1985
I was invited to speak to a group of about 70 people in the cafeteria
of a local business owned by a Believer. I spoke about the heavenly
courtroom where God sits as the Judge; Satan serves as the
Prosecutor; and Jesus, our defense attorney, waits to present a defense
on our behalf.
Our defense attorney has a sure defense prepared for us; He has never lost a case; He is related to the judge and He works for free.
Can it get any better?
But, the whole courtroom scene waits for each of us to enter our plea. If we do not call on our defense attorney, we are found guilty and condemned without any hope.
After delivering the message from the Scripture, we offered to pray for people but no one came forward.
As I prepared to leave, a young woman in a wheel chair came down the aisle blocking my exit. I asked her, "How did you get in that wheel chair"? She told me she had been in a bad automobile accident when she was a teenager about six years before. She had suffered spinal injuries and had not walked for six years.
I asked her, "Did you understand my message tonight?" She said, "Yes"! I asked her, "How do you plead?" She said, "I am guilty but I will call on the Name of my Attorney, Jesus".
Then she got up out of the wheel chair and as one man steadied her, she walked across the room. She was healed!
After this miracle, we stayed for several hours and prayed for the others who responded.
Houston, Texas
1986
I was invited to speak at a retreat near Houston and a woman with
metastasized melanoma cancer had come to the meeting. Her Doctor had
told her that she was terminal and there was no hope for her.
After the morning meeting, she asked if the Pastors could pray for her. She said that she had heard me speak and believed that if I prayed for her she would be healed. Another Pastor and I went to pray for her and before we could touch her, the Holy Spirit came on her and she was knocked to the floor.
Afterwards, we took her to the dining hall and got her some food and learned about her history and her disease.
Three days later we received a report from her Doctor that there was no cancer whatsoever in her body. God had healed her through her faith in the Good News of the Salvation of God, in the Name of Jesus.
Miami, Florida
1991
I was invited to teach in Christ the King Catholic Church in South Miami,
Florida so we started a Bible Study on Thursday evenings.
One evening, a woman who had been invited by her Doctor, a member of the Church, brought her husband to the meeting. He was suffering from terminal bone marrow cancer.
During the preaching of Hebrews 4:12 his countenance turned from an ashen gray to a healthy pink. It was such an obvious miracle; we stopped the service to speak with him. Receiving the truth of the Gospel in Faith, he had miraculously been healed.
His Doctors later confirmed his dramatic healing with tests that showed no cancer in his system.
Later we were able to baptize him in water; he received the remission of sin and he was filled with the Holy Spirit!
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
1992
While traveling in Brazil, I was invited to speak in a Baptist Church in
"the City of God", a favela or slum in the City of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
The Baptist Pastors were men of faith but they had never seen God heal
anyone.
I spoke a message on Pentecost as the fulfillment of the prophecies concerning the new covenant that God had made with mankind through Israel and Judah. The works of the Holy Spirit are the proof of the Gospel of the New Covenant Kingdom in Zion.
In the middle of the message, the Holy Spirit visited the church. Many people came to salvation. An elder of the church who had a broken leg removed his own cast and danced around the church. Many people were filled with the Holy Spirit.
People lined up outside the church waiting to get in so that we might pray for them. After five hours of praying for the people, the Pastor asked me if I could visit a woman who used to come to church but she had been in a sick bed for three years. Her spine was so curved that she could not get out of bed. I consented and we drove to her home.
When I began to pray for her, she began to cry. I had my friend and interrupter, Silas, ask her why she was crying? She said when she first became sick, God had given her a dream and in that dream a man came to her house to pray for her. She said, "I believe that he [me] was that man".
I asked her what happened in the dream and she replied that in the dream she was healed. I knew that we would see a miracle that day.
When I prayed for her, she was completely healed and her husband received salvation. Later she got up and walked more than a mile to church.
We had imparted a Spiritual gift to the church by demonstration. There was much joy in this little Baptist Church in the "City of God"!
Area 87, Haiti
1993
I was invited to speak at a meeting in a remote area where some people
had come to salvation and reconciliation in the Name of Jesus.
The people of Area 87 were poor beyond our understanding. They had no food and one man was so hungry that he had been eating dirt for several days. The people had to walk four miles [one way] for drinkable water. They were living here because they were safe from the vicious Haitian military called the Ton-Ton MaCoutes.
I did not know what to preach to people in this condition. After some serious intercessory prayer God spoke to me and said, "In the beginning I created". I said, "I know that" and then He said "from nothing"! I went into the meeting and preached a message called "God likes to start with nothing".
During the message, the Holy Spirit visited us and a strong wind surrounded the old building we were using as a chapel. Many people in the nearby village were healed as the divine wind moved around the little church.
One woman who had recently delivered a baby and had been hemorrhaging for several days had lost a lot of blood. She was very weak and would have died if the bleeding continued. When the wind of the Holy Spirit hit the village she was instantly healed.
The next Sunday she and many others walked eleven miles to come to our church service at the mission compound.
The little church grew and after hearing what God had done, the Missionaries began to bring the village food on a regular basis. A Canadian Mission group came and drilled a well for water for their use.
God had visited Area 87.
Fort Pierce, Florida 1994
We were invited to attend a new church dedication ceremony. There was a black man named White there that evening. He was the Bishop of a Church group in Miami who was visiting Fort Pierce for the dedication.
They announced that the Bishop White had an inoperable brain tumor and that he would appreciate our prayers. One of the leaders welcomed me and asked if I would like to say anything.
I went to the front and there I began to relate some of the great healings that we had seen in the past. After several testimonies, Bishop White suddenly jumped up and beban to dance around declaring that he had just been healed and that all the pain had left him.
Three days later we spoke with his doctors in Miami. They comfirmed that the cancerous brain tumor had simply disappeared.
Miami, Florida
1995
The Director of Internal Medicine at Baptist Hospital in Miami asked
me to come and speak at a chapel service for Aids patients and their
families. We began to speak there every Saturday Afternoon.
A homosexual Puerto Rican man named Angel was suffering from acute and advanced AIDS. He was only a few months from a terrible death.
He started to come to the chapel services on a regular basis and receiving the word of the Gospel.
We encouraged the congregation to pray for him several times in the course of the weekly services.
When Angel could no longer come to the Chapel because of his disease, I got Doctor Vaclavek's permission to go to his room in the AIDS Ward. I offered him the free gift of Eternal Life.
By Faith, he received the salvation of God and after I baptized him in his sick bed. He was filled with the Holy Spirit; he was born again and a new creation in Christ!
The next morning we came to visit Angel and he told me that Jesus had visited him during the night. Then, he told me that Baptist Hospital was releasing him that same morning. He was completely healed of AIDS on Passover. This is a matter of record.
Later was invited to speak to a large group of homosexual men in Fort Lauderdale and Angel led more than 100 of them to salvation in Jesus, the Christ!
Lanark, Ontario, Canada
1998
During a visit to Smith's Falls, Ontario, I was invited to speak at a
Congregation of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.
After the message, a woman came and insisted that my wife and I drive sixty miles out into the country to pray for a man who was suffering from a debilitating and unknown disease. The Doctors had sent him home to die. Because of the severe weather I was reluctant to go!
However, driving through a heavy snowstorm, my wife and I went to visit this man. He had been raised in a church as a child but he had never come to a personal [positional] faith. He had been vomiting every day and had lost more than one hundred pounds. He was a living skeleton sitting at death's gate.
I led him through the Gospel and by faith he received Jesus as his Messiah and LORD. We prayed for him. It was 25 below zero outside and the local river was frozen, so I baptized him in his chair to seal his confession of Faith. Then, we drove back to Smith's Falls in a blinding snowstorm.
The next morning we called his wife to see if she needed anything. She told us that her husband was outside running his road equipment and getting ready to start working again. Through repentance and faith in Jesus, Bill had received salvation and been completely healed!
What a compassionate and powerful God we serve!
On another trip a year later, I was invited to teach a Bible Study in Smith's Falls and he and his wife were there. He had gained all of his weight back. I did not even recognize him.
His wife told us that because of her husband's miraculous healing, eighteen other men from the village came to the small church to be baptized with Bill.
They knew Bil and his sickness and they wanted to know a God that actually would do something in the lives of men.
Littleton, Colorado
2002
Sometimes we can believe for others but it is more difficult to believe
for ourselves.
One evening I looked in the mirror and saw that an ugly puffy black growth had come on my nose. The tumor was about one inch long and one-half inch wide. I showed it to my wife and told her I would have to go to the Doctor and have this checked.
She said, "Let me pray for you". She prayed for me in the Name of Jesus, he is the Salvation of God, and within an hour the growth had receded to about half of its size. When I went to the Doctors office the next day, the growth had receded to about 10% of its size.
The Cancer was clearly in remission.
The Doctor acknowledged that it was in remission but wanted to remove the remaining tissue and have a biopsy completed for my personal health files.
The biopsy came back diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma [cancer]. My Doctor wanted me to go to a surgeon and have the core cell removed and then get another biopsy. I consented for his sake.
They performed the surgery in the clinic at a local hospital so a biopsy could be done immediately. That way they could continue to remove more issue until the infected area was clean. The surgeon removed the core cell and a very small amount of additional tissue surrounding it and sent it to the lab. He and I both agreed that there would be no cancer in the surrounding tissue.
Within a few minutes the biopsy returned. The core cell, the size of a dot, was confirmed as cancerous but all of the surrounding tissue was 100% clean.