Dear friends:
This is the second in a series, giving testimony that Jesus is alive and has not changed!!!
Testimonies of God’s supernaturalExample # 3 (on raising the dead). German Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke has led crusades in Africa for 30 years and has seen countless healings and miracles. He says that the remarkable resurrection of Daniel Ekechukwu is so well-documented that no one can be unaffected by the report.
power manifested in our day
Part 2
Actual miracles and healings
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Bonnke's Christ for All Nations (CfAN) ministry has released a video of Ekechukwu's testimony, and also reported how the Nigerian pastor had been certified dead and injected with embalming fluids before reviving three days later at a Bonnke meeting.
The video features interviews with one of the doctors who certified Ekechukwu dead, and the mortician.
Nneka Ekechukwu says that when her husband was pronounced dead after (an) accident, she remembered promises God had given her that she would not suffer any more misfortune. "I said, 'This can't happen. I must do something, to prove God again.'"
Ekechukwu's wife was so sure that God would bring her husband back to life after he was fatally injured in an auto accident that she persuaded the local mortuary to allow her to take his body to the church where Bonnke was preaching. On the third day after the accident, Ekechukwu's body was taken in its coffin to the church in Ontisha, where Bonnke was preaching at a service. The body was taken out of its coffin and put on a table in the church's conference center, where several pastors began to pray, and were amazed when the man started to breathe again as they prayed for him.
Senior pastor Pat Nwachkuw, Sr. tells that when members of the church learned about Ekechwuku's resurrection, a woman who had been on crutches threw them away and started running, and her husband ran to the church altar to ask God to forgive him his sins.
Ekechukwu says when he was being taken to the hospital in the ambulance, he was visited by two angels and taken to heaven. There he saw a "multitude" of people dressed in white who were singing and praising God. Then he was taken to hell, he says.
The angel told him that he had "another chance" to go back, and that the rich man's request to Lazarus -- to warn those still alive about hell -- and been "granted to this generation." Ekechukwu said that he had been told he could return to the living to give "a last warning to this generation."
In commentary on the video, Bonnke says that the testimony, which has been reported in Nigerian newspapers, spoke of "stubborn faith and the miracle power of Jesus." Ekechukwu's story is a "sign from heaven," he says.
Reinhard Bonnke described the incident on television, saying, "This resurrection was granted to this generation because the coming of the Lord is so near." His Web site where the video can be obtained is at http//www.cfan.org/.
Example # 4. This is the testimony of a lady named Lisa Rae. These are her exact words as sent to me (and her abbreviations and capitalizations).
On December 1st, 2000, at the age of 39, I had a massive heart attack. I was brought to a little hospital here in my hometown that doesn't even have a cath lab. At first they thought I was having gall bladder problems, but after blood cultures were done every so often they realized and at 4:23 a.m. to proceed to find a cardiologist...luckily there was a doc listening to a scanner 30 miles away at another hospital. He came quickly. They took me by ambulance to a cath lab. Brought me into surgery and started the angioplasty...I was a little shocked that they were not going to put me to sleep. I laid there with these 9 monitors over my gurney, watching as the doctor explained his every move to me. I knew it was amazing to watch the dye light up my arteries and see the wire travel through my body and I never felt a thing. As he got to my heart...I saw my life beating...I thought of all the things I had done and how I had changed. I had recently given my life, that heart, back to God. I asked him to come into my heart, I was baptized, and I received the power of the Holy Ghost and had been able to sing in tongues only 3 months before. As all this was going through my mind, the doc tells me, "Lisa, your main artery that feeds blood to your heart is 95% blocked, that is like I-10 being shut down, so I am going to have to put a stint in it to hold it open" I asked him to put me to sleep. He told me he couldn't but that I would be fine. He needed me awake. So I started praying. There were 18 people in that operating room, and every eye was on those monitors. He was getting the stint in place, and he said, "OK, Lisa you are going to feel a heavy sensation on your chest, you are going to feel like you can't breath, your legs and arms are going to go numb, and you will have a bad headache, this will only last a minute while I inflate the balloon to get the stint in place" I said "OK, doc, I am ready. Lets do it." It happened so fast, my eyes were glued to that monitor, and then it happened...my artery tore...my heart stopped and yet I was still awake. I felt 36 hands on me and heard everyone in that room began to pray. I knew I was going to die. The doctor jumped up and ran to the phone to consult with a team in San Antonio. A nurse came in and said "Missy, if it helps you any at all your husband is out there on his knees beside the door talking to God." I closed my eyes and felt the hot tears of helplessness and love began to slide down the sides of my head. I went to a very dark place and felt the "presence." I talked with Jesus. I was so relaxed and calm and I felt so beautiful and I didn't want to go back. I wanted to go forward but Jesus told me, "NO MY CHILD, THIS IS NOT YOUR TIME, YOU HAVE A JOB TO DO. GO AND START WITH YOUR CHILDREN, TELL THEM, SHOW THEM, BY YOUR EXAMPLE, TELL THE WORLD I AM COMING SOON, VERY SOON. YELL IT FROM THE MOUNTAINS. GO BACK TO THE STREETS, ONLY THIS TIME, I WILL BE YOUR HIGH, I HAVE BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF HELL AND GIVEN YOU A MESSAGE. TELL MY PEOPLE I HAVE PREPARED A PLACE FOR THEM. I LIVE. I LIVE IN YOU. OPEN YOUR HEART TO ME. KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME. GO BACK MY CHILD OF GOD FOR I WILL SEE YOU SOON." I confessed all my sins to Jesus that day. I was in His presence what seemed like forever. It was beautiful and I didn't want to come back but I knew I must obey. I opened my eyes as they were going in through my artery in my neck, they butted another stint up against the other and it held. There was not a dry eye in that room. They all knew I should have died. They all knew a miracle had just been performed. I have the minutes from the operating room with all my medical records...my heart was stopped for 6 minutes...I can tell you all...that 6 minutes I spent with Jesus seemed like a zillion of my lifetimes....ya all know what they say about Eternity? It's FOREVER.... MY REQUEST... Please if anyone has an ear let him hear...HE IS COMING...JESUS IS COMING...AND HE IS COMING SOON...DO NOT BE LUKEWARM...GET INTO YOUR BIBLE...FALL ON YOUR KNEES...TELL EVERYONE YOU SEE. The devil knows his days are numbered and he is out to kill, steal, and destroy as many souls as he can...please, please don't let it be yours... GOD LOVES YOU... JUST ASK HIM... GOD, PLEASE SHOW ME THE WAY TO YOU, COME INTO MY HEART, I BELIEVE YOU SENT YOUR ONLY SON JESUS CHRIST TO DIE FOR MY SINS ON THE CROSS, I BELIEVE HE SHED HIS BLOOD ON CALVARY AND BY HIS BLOOD I AM CLEAN. I ACCEPT YOU LORD, I LOVE YOU AND I THANK YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS. AMEN. In HIS Beautiful Grace and Mercy
(Note: If this is not enough to motivate us to tell others, I don't know what is. We are very blessed not to need a massive heart attack or to get hit upside the head with a 2 X 4 to get this message. God has gently given us the message. Let us tell others. Jesus saves, and He is coming soon!)
Daughter’s growths disappear. Speaker/writer Norvel Hayes tells about how God supernaturally removed over 30 growths from his daughter’s body. He had prayed about them for a long time but there had been no change. Then the Lord gave him revelation on how to pray and reminded him that he was responsible for everything that went on in his house. Hayes relates what happened then:
I went to my daughter and I cursed the roots of those growths on her body. I told them ‘In Jesus’ name, you must die. You are in my house and you must die.” After saying this for 30 days, nothing happened; in fact, the growths looked worse. But I kept on. Finally after 40 days, God’s power came into my house and swept over my daughter’s body. That afternoon my daughter had come in from high school and walked into her bedroom. All of a sudden, I heard a noise like the dresser falling over. She came running out of her room and down the hallway screaming, “Daddy, Daddy, this is spooky. This scares me, Daddy. Look at me. Look! Look at my legs. Look at my arms. All of the growths are gone! I have new skin on me.” From How to Live and Not Die, Norvel Hayes (1987, Harrison House, Inc., Tulsa).
Cancer healing. The following is an excerpt of the testimony of a dear, elderly gentleman named Hal Weeks. I have spoken with Mr. Weeks, a delightful man. His story below is on the Internet at http://home.san.rr.com/healing/mystory.htm. If you are on the Internet, Hal has many other miraculous healing testimonies and references. His testimony follows:
This is the story of my healing of cancer without medical intervention ,except for diagnosis and an initial radiation treatment, which did not cure me.
In July 1971, at the age of 58, I discovered a lump in my left groin about the size of a large olive. This was diagnosed to be a lymphoma or cancer of the lymphatic system. It was treated with cobalt for a period of 21 days. I continued to have periodic check-ups until early in 1975.
As time went on I discovered several nodes in my neck and under my right arm that seemed to be growing. In August, 1977, at the age of 64, a large node was removed from my right armpit. It was diagnosed as a poorly differentiated nodular lymphoma. I was then referred to an oncologist for treatment. However, he agreed to defer any treatment on the basis of my belief that I had been divinely healed. I was scheduled to return in three months. When I returned, he could find no evidence of the cancer. He said, "If I were examining you for the first time,I would have diagnosed you as not having the disease."
I continued having periodic check-ups until August, 1982, at age 69, at which time he transferred me back to my family doctor. Then in 1995 I discovered two large lumps over the right collarbone. It was determined to be lymphoma that had apparently returned. I did not have a biopsy since I did not plan to have medical intervention and the surgeon said there would therefore be no point in it. Again,I turned it over to the Lord.
After six months, during which time the tumors increased in size and number, I began to have second thoughts about medical treatment. As clear as I have ever heard the Lord speak, He said "I thought you had turned it over to me." I repented of my concerns and again trusted God for a healing. It stopped getting worse for two months, at which time the Lord said it would be gone in three months, and it was.
Since then I have had many other conditions healed, again without medical intervention. There has been no further reoccurrence of the cancer…. I am now 88 years old. (Note: As of this writing, he is at least age 91.)
God wants to do a miracle in your heart today. He simply wants you to believe Him.
More later....