NorthGate Church of Atlanta is a non-denominational church in the North Atlanta suburb of Woodstock, GA. Committed to seeing true Kingdom Christianity established, we are ablaze with the power and fire of God. We are experiencing the Everyday Miraculous and regularly see miracles ranging from the healing of cancers, paralytics, blind eyes and more. Jesus is King!
*A group of young people regularly go to local area football games, looking for opportunities to demonstrate the power of the Gospel. This is an email we received from one of the young women on the team.
"Several of us were in a group...we walked around for a bit...talked to a few people and nothing happened. Now, when I say "nothing happened" I mean, we gave some people prophetic words, and they were totally right on. We prayed for them, etc. But nothing really "took off". :)
So, I had this thought, "I'm not leaving until either something happens, or I preach the gospel to all of these kids".
Sooo, I stood up on the stone wall and shouted "Hey guys! I have some awesome news! Jesus is King and the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!"
I then told them we were here to prove it, and asked em if they needed healing, etc. They didn't, but they had friends and family that needed healing . So we prayed for them---which kind if got the attention of some kids... Bottom line, an hour later we were still there---healing kids ankles, knees, and hands. We taught the kids that since Jesus healed them, they had authority over that particular thing now. And we encouraged them to heal their friends and themselves...which they did!!! And their friends got healed! It was awesome!!!"
*This is from one of the parents of kids that attended a recent outreach we did with young people ages 7-12 at a local hospital.
"On Sunday, September 27, 2009, I had the distinct privilege of taking three youth from NorthGateChurch to GradyHospital in Atlanta.
We encountered a homeless man who was obviously mentally and physically challenged. The demonic effects were so bad that his speech was indiscernible, he could hardly look up, his arms were drawn and to stand and walk he bounced back and forth from leg to leg in manner that was nothing like walking.
We prayed for him and saw no results.
Next, we encountered an 18 year old who moved to Georgia two weeks prior. He said he moved here because he was looking for God. We preached Jesus and the kingdom of heaven to him and gave him prophetic words that he said he knew were right. He got born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, saying that his body was vibrating and he felt like he was buzzing. He pointed out the guy we had just prayed for and said he had been trying to take care of him out on the streets of Atlanta.
As he shared this, a righteous anger against the devils that held him prisoner and the compassion of the Lord came over me at once. We told him that it wasn't right for the homeless man to stay in that condition and we went back to pray again.
Our boldness increased and faith for his healing was palpable. As we began to pray he began to weep. As he wept he started saying "Thank You" over and over. His speech was discernible and we knew the power of the demonic spirit was broken. We told him to stand and told him the power of God to heal him would allow him to stand straight, walk calmly, hold his head up and relax his arms to not be drawn. Every healing we declared manifested within minutes. The joy that came across his face is a treasure that words cannot describe.
I was looking at a man who moments earlier appeared so mentally and physically damaged that hope would seem lost. He was full of life, holding his head high, standing straight, walking calmly and filled with joy! I hate demons of mental illness. In January of 2009, a guy from our church prophesied that we would see victory over mental illness. This was my first victory over these demons and how awesome it was!
Two days after this event, I walked through my kitchen and thought of the young man who got delivered. I wept as I remembered the joy on his face as he got his life back. I realized in that moment that this is treasure in heaven. I saw with greater clarity that this world offers nothing that compares with the treasures of heaven.
Heaven came to a man from whom most children and many adults would flee. Three kids participated in doing the impossible. They saw the power of God in love.
Now, that is Sunday School worth having your kids attend!"
An outreach team was in a local neighborhood and ran across a group of about 8-10 young people and started prophesying over them, releasing the Kingdom and telling them about the power of God.
A few minutes later, they went into the home of a lady we have been ministering to for several weeks and found out that she had injured her wrist, was in severe pain and was wearing a wrist brace. Not content to merely tell them about the power of God, they decided to SHOW the young people what they were just talking about. They called the kids and had them pray for the lady with the injured wrist. It was healed INSTANTLY! No pain, full mobility and she gave us the wrist brace! It's been added to the trophy wall!
We recently sent out our Kids Ages 7-12 on an outreach to a local hospital. Two young men, ages 12 and 11 walked up to a young man with a broken ankle, that had literally been split in two in an accident. He rated his pain at a 10 out of 10. The kids prayed for him and all pain left. They then instructed him to put his weight on the once broken ankle and before they left he was jumping up and down on the ankle, without any pain!
They prayed for another guy with a weird Halo type brace for one of his legs. They found out that the man was a firefighter that had fallen and broken his leg. Infection had set into the leg/bone and he was scheduled to have the leg amputated the next day. The young men prayed for him and all pain left the leg. They asked him to put weight on the leg, something he had not done in 8 weeks and he began walking and moving normally on the once dead leg! He promised that he would walk into his doctor's office, show the doctor what God had done and have the surgery canceled!
* This came in from a young man in our church that had an unusual healing take place on the job.
"I just found one out today, a lady that I work with, her mother had cancer. About 3 months ago I called her after work and told her a tad about some Kingdom principles and she latched on to them. I prayed for her and then about a month later she said she was feeling improvement so I prayed again and sent a hanky (Acts 19:11-12).
Long story short, I just called her today to volunteer to come pray and she said "Pray for what? The cancer is gone and it isn't there anymore". Doctors are perplexed and have told her that it will most likely return since this doesn't happen but she is speaking all kinda good Kingdom stuff like "I know it aint coming back, God knows more than the doctor". Ive never seen her and she lives in TN."
* This email came in from one of the men in our church, telling of a healing that happened at the office.
"A 23-year old girl at my office was diagnosed with kidney stones, and had a dye contrast procedure done last Friday, preparatory to surgery or ultrasound ablation. She had passed some smaller stones, but still had a 1 centimeter stone remaining (ouch!OUCH!). I had prayed over her last week and she came in this morning, looking stunned. "You and my mom freaked me out". [Me: wha? Why?] "My kidney stone is gone. My urologist couldn't find it in the scan he looked at yesterday. You and my mom prayed for me." [Jesus is SUCH a great doctor!]"
One of our outreach teams prayed for a woman that had several lumps in her breast. After coming back they found that she had gone to the doctors, had a mammogram and the lumps had dissolved!
They also found out that she had pain in her ankle for the last 5 years after breaking it in an accident in two places. She couldn't go up or down stairs or put pressure on that foot and her toes wouldn't bend very far and always felt like they needed to pop but wouldn't. We prayed and she tested it out and she then went up and down stairs 3 times with no pain and then she moved her toes in like she couldn't before and when she moved them every time they would pop!
An outreach team was in a local neighborhood and prayed for a lady with severe hip pain during an equipping event we hosted recently. As they prayed for her, all pain left and she was able to walk normally without pain or lack of mobility. But that's not the best part...
The team came back a couple of weeks later only to find that she had been to the Doctors and demonstrated her lack of pain and mobility to her doctor. The Doctor was so surprised that he ordered a batch of X-Rays to see what had changed. What our outreach team did not know was that she had no cartilage in her hip, which was the cause of her pain. She was actually scheduled to have hip replacement surgery.
The doctor verified that where she once had NO cartilage, she now had PERFECT CARTILAGE! She is now pain free and has cut down on many of her once needed medications.
*This is from one of our outreach teams that has been working a particular neighborhood for the last couple of years.
"The big news is the impact we are having on this place. We were talking with one lady tonight who has lived in the neighborhood for 8 years. She said the neighborhood had really changed. The drug dealers are gone and there are just a few gang types that like to act up at night. I asked her, "When did things change?" She said about a year ago. I told her that we are to blame for the change--we are finishing up our 2nd year in their neighborhood. We have been calling in the Kingdom into every life there and it is being transformed.
The kids in the neighborhood ask their moms if their can go around with us, so we have a lot of the kids in there praying with us and holding hands and hugging us the whole time we are there. We are taking over a life at a time. It seems slow as we go, but I know it will snow ball one day. I am pumped!"
* One of our outreach teams recently returned from ministering in Indiana. While there, we took folks from the church out on the streets to "do the stuff". This testimony comes from one of the young men in our group:
"We came upon a group of kids skateboarding in an empty lot and just sat down. One of the kids was trying to jump everyone else’s boards, so all were sitting and watching when he tweaked his ankle. He came up next to me and complained to his friend how much it hurt. I asked him scale 1-10 he reported a 4.
Me: "wanna see something cool?" Him: "sure"
We commanded the ankle to immediately heal and the pain to go. He reported some reduction, but incomplete, so I instructed him to stand. When he did, all the rest of the pain left. I got a Word of Knowledge about him just beginning to learn to play guitar. He denied it, but then remembered that he had just begun before his accident- broke his shoulder months ago. Had now recovered and had not gone back to the guitar- just forgot about it. (This was a like attack by the enemy to abort this kid’s call by cutting off his gift at the root)
As I preached to him, he agreed that he should and would pick it back up. His girlfriend was sitting next to him. The girl that was with me had been ministering to her during my talk w/ the boy. She received healing for her wounded spirit, and forgave her parents for their wrongs, then, on her knees, accepted Jesus in front of all her friends."
* One of our outreach teams recently returned from ministering in Indiana. While there, we took folks from the church out on the streets to "do the stuff". This testimony comes from one of the young ladies in our group:
"On the way home we were eating breakfast at the hotel and I noticed an old man's hospital bracelet. We went to talk to him, and he wasn't too interested in what we were saying but his wife was listening. She began to talk about the tests and hospitals then told us that she had pain in her hip (or knee?). She said it was a level 10, so we all prayed and told her to go test it out. Before praying she said she couldn't walk 10 feet without intense pain. After the prayer she began to walk around, and all the pain left! She took a glory lap around the dining area, and then told us, "MY GOD! I CAN WALK!!!" haha, Jesus is good."
* One of our outreach teams recently returned from ministering in Indiana. While there, we took folks from the church out on the streets to "do the stuff". This testimony comes from one of the young ladies in our group:
"I was on outreach with the pastor on the first day. I saw a wheelchair ramp in the neighborhood we were in, so I took the team directly to this house. We met a lady and she told us that her legs were lame and she couldn't walk. She said she hadn't walked in 14 years, and that she said she wouldn't be able to ever again. I explained to her how that was a lie from the enemy, and then we all declared Kingdom would come to her body. We prayed once, and she said there was no difference. We prayed again, and she said her legs were hurting and that she was feeling a difference. We prayed a third time, and she walked 18 or so steps across her living room!!"
*This is from a young lady in our church that returned from an outreach with "trophies" of God's power.
"We were walking from this lady's house who didn't want us to pray for her so we went up this hill area. This little girl walks by and I say "Hey" as always and she goes "What are you guys doing here??" So we told her that we're church people who go around praying for people. I asked her if she knew anyone that was sick and she said "Yeah. Ms. Betty. She has diabetes." So she started walking towards the house without us having to ask. We follow and we reach the door that has a sign taped to it "If I don't answer a knock at my door, DON'T come knocking on the window. I need my rest"
After we knock, a girl opens the door and we see Betty. She's in the kitchen with her cane. We ask her if we can pray for her and she starts telling us all her problems...Diabetes, heart problems, triple bypass surgery, 2 heart attacks, and pain all in her body. It took a little bit, but she finally let us in. She begins to sit down and she's wincing as she's telling us how much in pain she is and how ALL the medicines she's taking are not working.
So I ask her for like the 10th time if we can pray for her. She lets us. We all pray for like 30 seconds to a minute, tops. Once we're done, Nate asks her to stand up and test it out. She stands up, without her cane, and immediately says "HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD I DON'T HAVE PAIN! I don't have pain!" Noie asks her to start walking around and she does while continuing to say "I don't have any pain! I'm healed! In the name of Jesus!"
Nate asks her if we can have her cane cause she won't need it anymore. She says "Sure, cause I'm healed. Thank you Lord!" She also gives us one she sometimes uses that's laying on the floor next to the couch. So after 15 minutes of her telling us how she's healed and how she's not lying to us and us rejoicing with her, she walks us to the door. She said that she hasn't been able to get to the door in she doesn't know how long. She was so stoked and it was awesome."
*This is from a guy in our church that had some fun with the Holy Ghost as he took his kids to the park!
“I took the kids to the park here on Neese Road. Anyhow, we were on the playground equipment just getting ready to leave and my son had to use the restroom. So, we went down to the restroom building all in the middle of a recreation league softball game. There was a little girl (maybe 8-9) in a wheel chair. My son spotted her first and said, “Dad, I think we need to go pray for her.”
She had this brace on her right leg and found out that on June 2nd there was an accident and she was run over by the family riding mower. She had lost her little toe and today was the first day since the accident that she was able to walk. She was very shy and didn’t talk too much so her parents did most of it. When she looked up she immediately reminded me of the daughter of our friends that are both incredibly gifted musically. I looked at my son and asked, “Doesn’t she look just like Kelsey?” He agreed. So like in the prophetic training I drew on what I saw and stated that the little girl likes music, to which they all nodded their head. I continued with “you like the piano” (as both of our friends play) and the dad said, “We are just getting ready to start her on piano lessons.”
So, we chatted for a few minutes to find out what had happened. So my son, my daughter and I gathered around her and prayed the Kingdom and creative miracles for tendon, nerve and tissue replacement. We also took authority over a spirit of trauma. She goes back on the 23rd and is ‘supposed’ to get another brace to support her leg for a year, so we called on the miraculous that it would be exponentially quicker and couldn’t be explained.
Afterward, I looked up and saw the dad (probably around my age…maybe a little younger) carrying a HUGE Yoke of Guilt. I asked him if he was the one driving the mower and told him that I saw all of this guilt all over him to which he acknowledged. I prayed for him and broke it off and could see the appearance on his face changing. All because my kids had to go to the bathroom at the park before going home.”
A gentleman in our church was going into the hospital to have hernia surgery and while there one of the nurses remarked that she worked for a moving company and had a bad back. After his surgery, he asked her if they could talk for a minute. She came back and he found out that she was a Christian. He told her of the goodness of God and His willingness to heal her. He prayed over her for a few minutes and then asked her if she could do something she couldn't before. She said she couldn't bend over before so he asked her to check it out!
She bent over and touched her feet and was amazed!
She came back in a while later and brought another nurse with her. She asked if he could pray over her as she had pneumonia, bronchitis and was going through a nasty divorce. After a few minutes of talking he prayed over her and then asked her if she had felt anything. She stated that she still felt physically sick but that was okay because she felt a new sense of joy over her. She told him "You don't understand I haven't been able to smile in a very long time". He wanted to pray again, but she was happy just to be happy!
* This is a testimony from a woman in a family that attended our church, but moved sometime last year to North Carolina. She got a good report!
“I wanted to let the mother and son from church that prayed for this woman I know that the person they prayed for is healed. Anyway, her name is Grace and last year at this time she was dying of cancer. I asked for a team to go pray for her and the mother and son team went. Grace is a beautiful blond, 46 years old, was a flight attendant for Delta and a marathon runner. She is a Christian. She had breast cancer and then it metastasized to her brain. She was given 3 months to live . . . then the mother and son team went to see her at Emory where she lay in her hospital bed. I talked to another lady at the church who told me that the team said the power of God hit that hospital room. I remember that she told me over the phone that they (in faith) said Grace was healed.
Well, I just found out that Grace is working a part time job and is at 95%. Thank you guys!”
*This is from one of the young ladies that came with us on outreach. She was actually healed of depression as they prayed for others to be delivered of depression!
“A few weeks ago I was on an outreach in Boulevard. We were walking down the street, began talking with two ladies, and we found out that one of them has been struggling with depression. We prayed for these two ladies, and afterward I felt as if God was telling me to ask THEM to pray for me. I asked these two ladies and the others in our group to pray for me because I too have struggled with depression. I received prayer and I was pouring sweat by the end of it, needless to say God showed up. I went home, went to bed, and woke up the next morning trying to get everything together to go out of town. I thought I had grabbed everything, and then noticed I forgot my anti-depressants when we were already hours away from home. I didn't think much of it while I was gone, and when I got home it dawned on me that I hadn't taken my anti-depressants in over a week and I was still happy. I still haven't taken them, and it’s been almost 2 months. I have been healed of depression!”
Recently, one of our church members was returning home after work and saw a lady standing on the side of the road, looking very confused. When he inquired what she needed, she burst into tears with the story of physical infirmity and her poverty. Giving her a ride back to her home, he found out that she had colon cancer and crippling osteoarthritis, being in horrible pain. She had just walked in that condition to pawn her valuables to buy groceries and was in terrible shape. Not wanting to be insensitive, but also know what was about to happen, he exclaimed, "Honey, today is a good day for you!"
After explaining the Kingdom of God to her and it's nearness to her problems, he interviewed her and she rated her pain from the osteoarthritis at a 10 on a 10 level pain scale. "Watch this" he said and be began to pray that the Kingdom would come into her body. The power of God gave her a jolt and she exclaimed, "What did you do!?" After checking, ALL THE PAIN WAS GONE! When asked what happened she said, “All the pain left when the goose bumps came!” All things are possible!
After a recent ministry trip to Fort Worth, Texas, we received a phone call from one of the gentleman that received ministry during the conference. For 10 years he has had debilitating pain and lack of mobility in his right ankle due to an accident. Immediately after prayer ALL PAIN left him. He was calling to let us know that the pain has never returned and never will!
This is from a member in our church who went shopping with the Holy Spirit!
"I was up at Walmart waiting on a friend and had time to kill so I decided to go an pray for whomever I could find. I found a Spanish lady in a motorized buggy back in the electronics section. I asked her what sickness did she have that requried that buggy. She told me she had a pain in her leg caused by a blood clot.
Long story short, I prayed for her, wrongly even as I stated "on heaven as it is on earth" but then fixed my mistake afterwards. I just let people know this so that they don't think it's specific formula/recipe. Anyway, after praying I asked her how she felt and she replied "Good". Well I was looking for a little more so I asked her "did you feel anything?" and she replied that she felt something inside of her. I was screaming praising God on the inside but calm, cool, collected on the outside (except for my mixed up prayers that is, lol). I asked her if she could do something that she couldn't have before without difficulty. She said that it hurt when she walked so I walked with her down the Walmart aisle as people looked on and I continued to pray for her. After around 25 ft. she turned to me and said the pain was gone. Praise God! I told her she needed to make that into a testimony and went off on my way trying to find other candidates to do a hit-and-run with."
One of the members in our church has recently had his eyes opened to the fact that he is a broker of the Kingdom of God! He testifies that:
"Last Saturday, I was at Walmart and I literally chased down a 40 yr oldish guy in the Walmart parking lot who had gotten off a motorized buggy. I asked him what his affliction was and he said he had a bad heart and diabetes. I prayed over him and asked him if he felt anything and he said 'yes'. Later, I saw a lady in a motorized buggy. I asked what was wrong with her and she wanted to know why. I said to pray for her and shared some testimonies. She stated that she was pregnant and wasn't feeling too well. Her and her friend were like "I guess" and then allowed me to pray from them. Nothing seemingly happened. So I told them not to be suprised if she gets better. So I went on my way. Around 10 minutes later they caught up to me in another aisle and the lady was like "Hey we just wanted to let you know that after you prayed for me, whatever was on me lifted". I was like 'Praise God' and then we had church in Walmart for around 5 minutes as I shared the goodness of God/Jesus."
