Dear friends:
This is the third in a series, giving testimony that Jesus is alive and has not changed!!!
Testimonies of God’s supernaturalHealings in Brazil. This is from Becky Hitt, through Mr. Weeks, above.
power manifested in our day
Part 3
Actual miracles and healings
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(Husband) Bill and I had been hearing about the wonderful healings God was doing in nations with low economic conditions. So at the end of May, we traveled with Global Awakening to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Belo is about 150 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. It is a city of 2.5 million. We ministered in one Four Square Church, one Methodist church, and three Baptist churches while there.
What occurred during those meeting was awesome, something that we had never experienced to this degree. Pains and medical conditions, some as old as 30 years, disappeared. Many of the people did not know what their conditions were as they could not afford to go to a doctor. Others had been to a doctor and had been told nothing could be done for their condition. Many had prayed before coming to the meeting. Most came with high expectations (faith) that they would be healed. It seemed like everyone we touched was healed and it wasn't just us that was experiencing this. All fourteen team members were experiencing the same thing. God even used two people who had NEVER prayed for the sick. Many (including Bill) had the privilege of feeling tumors reduce in size and finally disappear as they had their hands on them. What a wonderful God we serve!!
During the Sunday morning service, we were the busiest. People were crowded around the ministry team members patiently waiting their turn for prayer. There were so many and so little time before our bus was to leave. (On this particular day, we had not brought any cash with us to take a taxi back to the hotel if we missed our bus.) So we prayed the shortest prayers ever as time for departure neared. God still honored the prayers and continued to heal. This same morning, a 35-year-old woman approached us with her arm in a sling. She had her arm all bandaged from above her elbow to her fingertips. All we understood from our interpreter was that she was in tremendous pain and that her painkillers were not helping. So we prayed until all the pain was gone (4-5 minutes). Then we sent her up to give her testimony for the videotape.
Later on the bus, our leader, Randy Clark, talked about a woman with a scar at her elbow and forearm wrapped in bandages. We looked at each other, then asked if we could see the video tape. We saw the woman for whom we had prayed. The full story was that as a result of an accident three years earlier, she had lost the use of her arm. There was great pain in her shoulder if she tried to move it. The elbow, wrist, hand, and fingers were frozen. She said that she'd had twenty-three operations and twenty infections. The result was that the doctor said that she’d never use her arm again. Obviously, her doctor did not know about Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals!!! As she was giving her testimony, it seemed as if she was being healed right on camera. As she said each thing that she couldn't do before, she started doing it! It wasn't long before she appeared to have full mobility of that arm, hand and fingers. Everyone around her was so excited they started to jump and scream. It was thrilling to see God perform this right on camera. God's love, mercy, healing, and grace were abundantly released.
More cancer healed. Several years ago I was privileged to meet and hear Jim Glennon, whom I previously mentioned is a retired canon of St. Andrew’s Cathedral of the Anglican Church in Australia and now well into his 70s or more. Jim has had a healing ministry in that church for many years and has witnessed many supernatural healings. Then he began traveling and speaking on the subject, sharing the biblical principles of healing, and testimonies. One testimony he shares in his book is about Marion Summers, a member of his church and healing ministry. She suddenly became acutely sick and was diagnosed with advanced cancer of the uterus. Jim explains that one of the clergy and two lay people from the church visited her in the hospital, laid hands on Marion, anointed her, and prayed this simple prayer, “Thank you, Father, for your promise of healing. We accept this now and believe it for and with Marion. By faith we affirm that she has received the answer to this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.”
A few days later they went to see her again. Marion was sitting on the side of the bed with a radiant smile. She said, “I have wonderful news. On Tuesday, as soon as our prayer concluded, my body was filled with a burning and vibrating heat, which lasted for two hours. I knew I was being healed! Today I was taken to the theatre to have radium inserted around the tumour, but the doctors could find no trace of the cancer. They were amazed, and they have told me so.” Marion was discharged from the hospital without further treatment.
Jim Glennon’s excellent book, Your Healing is Within You, is available from Bridge Publishing (possibly from www.amazon.com).
Breast lump disappears. Friend Janie in Florida was scheduled to have a biopsy for a lump in her breast. She is a prayer warrior, and she had others praying. When she went into the hospital, the doctors discovered that the lump had totally disappeared! There was not even a trace of it. The doctors had no explanation (but we have)!
The miracles of Blood! Retired U.S. Army officer and personal friend William Carr (Bill) Blood has experienced many miracles in his life, which he has documented in his book, Miracles! More Than Believing. One experience that changed his thinking was when he was at a “healing service” and saw a cross-eyed baby prayed for by the evangelist. After the prayer, the baby’s eyes were perfectly straight. Bill saw this from only 18 inches away. He knew that a baby cannot fake this and that he had seen a bona fide miracle. Many others followed.
One time Bill had developed a large ganglion cyst under the skin of his right wrist. The doctor told him it was like an octopus, with tentacles growing out from it to nearby bones. Several weeks of pain and many aspirins later, while trying to decide whether to have surgery, he was listening to a tape recording of a church service that had taken place a month before. The speaker told everyone who had a health problem to put their hand on the part of their body that needed to be healed. Bill says, “I put my hand over my right wrist and closed my eyes. The speaker prayed for God’s healing and I lifted my left hand. I looked at my right wrist in amazement! The lump was gone!” Bill says that for the next ten days he could feel the muscles under the skin of his arm and hand moving back over the bones, and every day he felt the space where the tentacles had been become smaller and smaller.
Bill’s book is full of many more miracles and is currently available by calling him at 407-876-3793, or Lift Jesus Higher Ministry, Inc. at 770-832-2102 (or try www.amazon.com).
Congenital eye defect healed. In my home Bible study previously mentioned, a neighbor couple, Bob and Barbara Smith, also in the Air Force, began attending. They had recently adopted a beautiful and tiny Korean girl, Sarah. But Sarah had a noticeable defect in both eyes from birth. Arrangements had been made for surgery. But one night they brought Sarah to our Bible study for prayer. Our study leader, Clay Hudson, an elder at our church, laid hands on Sarah, just like in the Bible, and prayed a simple prayer for her eyes. To everyone’s astonishment, her eye problem corrected itself right before our own eyes! A visit back to the doctor confirmed that the problem was corrected and surgery was no longer needed. Sarah is grown and married now, but many years later, Bob, with whom I am still in contact, recalls that story with emotion.
Numerous supernatural healings. Many healings of various sicknesses are documented in the outstanding book, Christ the Healer, by the late F.F. Bosworth (1973, Fleming H. Revell, Grand Rapids, Michigan). These include cancers, vision restored, lameness, nervous breakdown, Bright’s disease, high blood pressure, and others. This book is highly recommended and is available in bookstores and on amazon.com.
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God wants to do a miracle in your heart today. He simply wants you to believe Him.
More later....