Dear friends:
There are probably hundreds of billions of examples and testimonies in the world of God’s power in action, resulting in bodies being supernaturally healed, and instances of God performing miracles. Below are just a few.
The Lord gave me this Scripture many years ago: “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD” (Psalm 118:17, KJV). After many years on this earth and many personal healings, His grace to believe His healing Word and declare His works are the only reasons I am still alive, and it is a great privilege.
Don't be like some who act as though God retired 2,000 years ago! He is still doing what Jesus did while upon the earth. He will not be bound by the dead denominational traditions of humans.
Join me in declaring His works! Tell others. Believe, receive His power, and act in faith and boldness, and you will have your own testimonies. Keep a record. All of this glorifies the Lord. I am convinced that He loves to do the things such as the below. He is just waiting for us to receive His power and step out in faith.
This is the first in a series, giving testimony that Jesus is alive and has not changed!!!
Testimonies of God’s supernaturalMan gets new heart. Dr. Gary Brown (not real name), whom I have met, is a professor and department head at a major state university. He was also an unbeliever. He had no religion or faith of any kind. He was scheduled for open heart surgery on a Monday morning. His wife was a Spirit-filled believer in Jesus Christ. She urged him to go to church with her on Sunday night, the night before the scheduled surgery, where there was a healing service. Brown did not want to go but reluctantly agreed. He refused her request to go down front to get prayed for, so she said, “I will go down for you and be your proxy.” She did, and after the service they left for home. Gary went to church as an unbeliever and skeptic and left as an unbeliever and skeptic. But God honored his wife’s prayers. When he went in for surgery on Monday morning, the doctors did some more checking and made a shocking discovery. They announced to him that there was no longer any need for surgery --that his heart was perfect and was that of a young man. Gary still did not become a believer, but he soon saw God do 2-3 other miracles, and was finally persuaded beyond all doubt of the truth of the gospel. This college professor soon became a born-again believer and a turned-on evangelist for Christ who has since touched many lives. He has shared his testimony on television.
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Actual miracles and healings
Goiter disappears. This is the story of a woman who was prayed for the healing of a huge, ugly goiter on her neck, and it demonstrates the power of a consistent faith confession. For the next year after the prayer for healing, every Sunday morning at testimony time she would get up and say, "I just praise the Lord with all of my heart for the wonderful healing I received for a terrible goiter on my neck. Praise His wonderful name." She would be standing there with the goiter hanging out in all of its ugly dimensions. Everyone in the church believed that she was strange because everyone could see that the goiter had not changed and had not shrunk at all. One Sunday morning the church had important visitors from the state administration. Sure enough, the lady got up to testify and the pastor felt like crawling off the platform. She said, "I just want to thank and praise the Lord for the marvelous healing He gave me for an ugly goiter that was on my neck." Then suddenly the church members gasped in amazement because the goiter disappeared before their eyes, and her neck was smooth, slender and normal in appearance.
A medical doctor friend, Dr. Jean Kincaid, gave me this story. She said, “As Hebrews 11:1 states, ‘Now faith IS the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.’ We just need to hold on, awaiting the evidence which we see by faith. Praise the glorious Name of Jesus, who paid for ALL of our diseases. It also came to me this morning, ‘Just what part of ALL, is excluded from the promises’ (Psalm 103:3, Matthew 8:17)?”
Healing in Kosovo. This is from evangelist/ missionary friend Christine Darg, about her husband Peter, both of whom I have known for years.
Thank you for praying for all of our travels. Just yesterday my husband Peter returned from war-torn Kosovo, where he was negotiating for air-time for the 700 Club Christian talk show. Right before he was to make a vocal presentation to a TV manager, a wasp flew into his soft drink and stung Peter right in the middle of his tongue. It began to swell painfully to the point that he could not speak, but he resisted the attack in the Name of Jesus. "I just would not have it," he told our prayer meeting yesterday. "As I was walking up a short flight of stairs to meet the TV manager, the swelling was terrific, and I sounded like Elmer Fudd, but I kept believing and confessing my healing. When my foot hit the top stair, the pain and swelling were gone and I made the fastest presentation in my life as I had an airplane to catch. The TV manager, incidentally said, ‘The 700 Club sounds like a wonderful program. When can you start sending the tapes?" Peter said afterwards, "The healing was so great and instant, it was as if the sting never happened!"
Teens experience God’s miracle power! A mother, Harriet, sent me this testimony recently about a group of teens who were acting by faith in the power of God. It is so thrilling to see God using teenagers in this way.
My 14-year old daughter recently spent ten days in Peru with 90 other teens on a mission trip with Global Expeditions (Teen Mania). The teens, in three groups of 30 people per group, had trained intensively for three days prior to arrival in Peru to learn to perform a drama about man's need for redemption, and Jesus' provision of it. The drama included a powerful mime crucifixion scene. At the end of each drama performance the Team Leader would "cast out the net," and many people would give their lives, in tears, to Jesus. Each team performed the drama about three times per day in different locations in cities and villages. The final "count" from Teen Mania was that the harvest by those 90 teen-aged missionaries in ten days was over a thousand people!
Anyway, about the miracles. At the end of each drama, the teams would separate into their "Ministry Group" of five teens, and would go into the crowd to minister to individuals. At one of those times, on the first day in Peru, my daughter's Ministry Group prayed for a lady who had just given her life to Jesus. She had two tennis ball-sized tumors, one on each side of her abdomen. Two teens placed a hand on each tumor and my daughter said that as they prayed, "the tumors disappeared right under our hands"! Praise the Lord!
And there were more miracles. Her group prayed for a little boy whose left knee was displaced, and his leg was so crooked that he could hardly stand, and his knee and leg were made straight "right before our eyes," she said. In addition, four children's deaf ears were opened, and many people were instantly healed of severe bronchitis. Hallelujah to our great God! Praise His name! He is so Wonderful, and so worthy of our praise!!!
More teen miracles. Another mother, Eileen, told me:
Our daughter (who was 13 at the time) went with Teen Mania last year to Trinidad. They too saw many salvations, healings, and deliverances. My daughter and several other teens laid hands on a deaf Hindu. His ears popped open and he could hear for the first time in his life, and he received Jesus as his Lord and Savior!! This ministry is awesome, and God is using these younger people in powerful ways in these last days.
This past summer our daughter (who is now 14) went to Mexico with Potomac Youth Ministries, and some powerful things occurred there as well. What an exciting time to be alive in these last days, and what a blessing it is to see God use our youth like this.
Raising from the dead. In the past few years I have heard credible, confirmed reports of the dead being raised in different parts of the world, such as China, India, and other Third-World countries. This is no doubt because people there have more simple, childlike faith in God's Word than most in the pseudo-intellectual West.
Example # 1. On September 25, 1999, after preaching in a village near the town of Bostime, Uganda, Rev. Idrifua was preparing to leave the meeting when a Muslim man approached him. The man had met a weeping mother walking along the road on her way to bury her dead child. He had told her that there was a man in town preaching about Jesus' power to raise the dead. The Muslim man brought the woman with the dead infant to Rev. Idrifua wanting him to pray for the dead child. Rev. Idrifua asked the mother if she was a believer. She said she was. The Spirit of God came on him. He told the woman, “Remove your breast and prepare to nurse the baby” (a common practice in Africa). She did so and he laid hands on the baby and strongly rebuked the spirit of death, then commanded life to return. Immediately the baby came to life crying and began to swing its arms and legs, then quieted down and began to nurse!
The Muslim man got so excited he went to a friend's house whose baby also had died several hours before the first baby. This dead baby was the child of a Muslim cleric, a Haji. He brought this dead child and its mother to Rev. Idrifua. God raised the second baby to life too! Five Muslims gave their hearts to Jesus that day -- ncluding the Haji!
Example # 2. The following story is told by Paul Eshleman, the director of the worldwide JESUS Film Project ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International:
The Malto tribe lives in the north of India, in the state of Bihar. The people are resistant, even hostile, to the gospel. It is an area saturated with the worship of Satan and hundreds of false gods. A “JESUS” film team approached the Malto tribe. But the resistance was so stiff that they bypassed the area and went to more receptive villages to show the film. A few days later, a 16-year-old girl died in one of the Malto villages.
It was evening and the family had finished preparations for burial. Many had gathered around to pay their respects and support the family. They were about to bury the body when the girl suddenly, miraculously awoke! In stunned disbelief, the people told her, “Then you were not dead!”
“Yes, I WAS dead,” she told them. “I went to the place of the dead. But God told me I must come back and tell you about the real God, the true God.”
Still astonished, the villagers began to ask her, “Then who is the true God?” She went on to tell them that it was the God proclaimed by the film teams they had turned away. “God has given me seven days to tell as many people as I can that He is real,” the girl said.
The next day, she sought out and found the film team in another village. She told them her story, and that God told her she was to go with them. For the next seven days, they showed the film to the now receptive Malton villages. Before every crowd, she fearlessly proclaimed, “I was dead but God has sent me back to tell you that this film is about the true and living God. He has given me seven days to tell you. You need to believe in Him.” Then after the seventh day, although physically she appeared fine, she collapsed and died.
Paul explained that as a result of this, hundreds of people who were bound by the chains of Satan turned to the living Christ, and at least six churches were established in the Malto area.
________________________God wants to do a miracle in your heart today. He simply wants you to believe Him.
More later....