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!
One of the gentlemen in our church stopped by my public mailbox at his apartment complex and noticed there was another man also walking up to get the mail with a very large, mechanical cast on his right foot/leg. He approached him and asked why he had the cast and he proceeded to tell that he recently broke his foot in half by falling down his stairs and just recently had a major surgery on his foot.
The man from our church told him that Jesus is King and that they have seen God do many miracles before, healing broken legs and all kinds of different injuries and illnesses. He then asked if he could pray for him. The man said yes, so he got down and laid his hands on his foot, commanding all the pain to leave in Jesus' name and for the fire of God to touch his ankle.He said he immediately felt a burning sensation in his foot and all of the pain left him!
Out in "the hood", a team decided to go and start knocking on doors at the first building that they saw. The first door that they knocked on they were greeted by an elderly woman who was a Christian. After they told her that Jesus is King, she invited them into her house and told them that she had impaired vision in her right eye and could only see a very dark spot out of that one eye.
The team prayed for her once and she said she felt like she could see a little better but there was still some blurriness. They prayed about three more times and finally she said that she could see out of that eye! One of the guys on the team even pulled up a flier that was laying around her house and asked if she could read it.
She could see the letters and the whole piece of paper fine with that one eye!
At our recent Spring UMT, a ten year old boy on the team got a word of knowledge that they would see a man in a blue shirt, and he would have a pain in his right shoulder. The next door that the team knocked on was a lady who got healed of knee pain a week prior and she asked them to pray for her friend who was in bed in horrible pain in his right shoulder.
They went to see him and as it turns out he had a blue shirt on and his shoulder had been pulled out of its socket; totally dislocated. He said the pain was at a 9, they prayed once and the pain went to a 6! They prayed once more and he was completely healed! He was moving it all around! He could hardly move when they got there and when the team left he had total mobility and NO PAIN!
Last year, one of our teams encountered a young lady that was nearly full term in her pregnancy. At one of her prenatal visits, the doctors found 13 tumors in her womb that greatly threatened the pregnancy. The team prayed over her and took her a handkerchief that our church had laid hands on (Acts 19:11-12).
After losing contact with her for the last 6 months, the team recently found her again in her neighborhood. She breathlessly reported that after they gave her the handkerchief that she soon after delivered the baby and ALL of the tumors had dissolved! The baby was born perfectly healthy and without complications! The team enjoyed getting to meet her little miracle baby for the first time! A happy, healthy little boy of 5 months.
An outreach team from the church encountered a woman in her forties that had received nine operations on her right eye and had almost no vision out of it. Her left eye was covered with a cataract. The team prayed and declared the Kingdom of God over her, actually praying 5 times before the healing manifested.
Her right eye was totally healed! She also was able to go out into the sunlight, and not have the light bother her! The team was ecstatic! It was so wonderful to see this precious woman receive her sight!!!
* This is a testimony sent in by one of the ladies that attends our church.
A lady at work has had me pray w/her in the past. A long time ago, she had skin cancer & I prayed w/her & it disappeared! No surgery or chemo.
I felt led to ask what would she like to pray about. She said it was interesting that I asked, but that she had a cyst her & her Dr. were concerned about, had fear it was cancer & she was going for tests in a few days. So we prayed for healing. I told her to say, "No more! This is not mine!" She did. I got a call from her today. She went for her tests, & the cyst was GONE! They had been watching it w/check ups. They told her there was no trace of any cyst whatsoever, & went looking through past screenings in an attempt to find it.
One our our equipping teams was recently ministering at a church in Indiana. The year before, a team had gone to an unsaved friend of the church secretary's house, which was literally haunted. After the team prayed over the home, she noticed a dramatic difference in the atmosphere in her home. So much so that she came back to the church the following year when the team returned, gave her life to Jesus and had a powerful encounter with the Lord.
The team found out that she had been suffering for 30 years with Multiple Sclerosis, with hospital stays, inability to walk, etc. and told her of God's will to heal her. She struggled initially, but eventually came to believe that the Lord would heal her and set her free.
This is the testimony we recently received by email from her friend:
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She is the same lady that we had "The Ghost Busting" session with when you guys were here last summer!! So when I got her to come to the Saturday night service when you were here, your team prayed for her, you ministered to her and prayed for her. And that is when she began to actually BELIEVE that God wanted to heal her and could heal her! So on Sunday you prayed for her again and by that time she was ALL in for healing! Well she had her doctor appointment last week and they did another MRI and all of the shadows that had appeared over the last 2 yrs. (that represents the sclerosis) were gone, or had moved and were no longer a threat!!
Her doctor was AMAZED!! He said that in all of his years of practice he had only seen that happen maybe twice!! The doctor also told her that she wasn't the same person that he saw from the first time she came in!! Now she is on FIRE for Jesus and can not get enough!!
Thank you Jesus!!! And thank you NorthGate Team!!!
One of our outreach teams was sharing with a new believer in her home when a young man came into the house. He had been suffering for three years with severe mouth pain that kept him awake at night, unable to sleep. He showed the team his three rotted teeth that seriously needed root canals and rated the pain at a 10 on a 10 pain scale. At that moment, his mouth was throbbing.
The team prayed a simple prayer, commanding pain and infection to leave and releasing the power of the Gospel on his mouth. They told him "Check the pain". He did and rated it as a 6. The pain had gone down considerably. "Well, if God can take it down 40% in 10 seconds, what could He do if we prayed again?" The team prayed again, commanding new roots and new enamel into his mouth. "Where's the pain?" they asked him. He probed, prodded and pressed on the hurting teeth with his tongue and fingers and his eyes got real big. "It's gone!"
3 years of pain was decimated in a few moments. The young man reeled in amazement, sat down on the couch and began to tell us about this being Deja-Vu. 4 days earlier he had a dream and saw the entire scene that had just transpired! The end of the dream found him in a gun fight at a friends house. Seizing the moment and capitalizing on the fear of God that was right there, the team led him to Jesus after questioning him on his eternal destiny. He glady and fearfully repented of his sins and gave his life to Jesus right then and there.
*This is from a gentleman from our church that decided to take the Kingdom with him "as he went"... shopping!
I hadn't seen too many miracles recently but then again the cold introvertedness was starting to come to an end in March. It was 3/30/2010 and Micah Usry was the guest speaker. He was a needed 'shot-in-the-arm' to make me want to go out again, leave my dormancy behind, and do what we were called to do. So afterward I go to Walmart (which seems to be place where Jesus favors and favors due to the many miracles that happen there). I don't see much of anything until my way out where I see a lady in a motorized buggy along with some guy. I strike up a conversation with them and she tells me she doesn't walk well due to the arthritis in her knee which she has had for around 7 years. I tell her of the goodness of Our Lord and she allows me to pray for her. She said she felt a little something inside of her so I asked her if she wanted to 'step out' and walk with me in the parking lot. (After all it is called the 'working of miracles'). She starts walking and after around 8 - 10 steps she tells me all of her pain & stiffness is gone. Praise God!!!
I'd also like to say I got my first cane this past Easter as well. I was fired up after another Northgate service and was going to a friends house for festivities. But I had to stop to go shopping (yes at Walmart but you knew that). So as I'm trained to do now (I'm half-joking, lol), I find some people with physical ailments and tell them I believe the Lord Jesus can heal them (I witness to healthy people as well in case anybody is asking themselves that btw). So I start praying over this elderly gentleman that had knee surgery. He feels a little better and again I start walking with him praying for him. As he is walking he is getting better - good enough to give me his cane as a testimony of his faith that he is healed. Go God!!!
His wife, I assume, then asks me to pray for the arthritis in her hand. She tries to make a closed fist to show me how bad she is but her fingers don't really move that much. So we pray, believing in the power of Jesus, and after a few minutes she can easily move each of her fingers much more than she could a few moments earlier as her stiffness was greatly reduced.
It was odd because their daughter never blinked an eye as she just kept shopping during the whole experience and other people were listening (as I don't try to get loud on purpose to draw attention but I do get excited so I do get loud at times) but never stopped to consider what was going on. Sometimes that is more amazing to me that at times when God moves nobody is paying attention - kinda sad.
* This is a testimony received from one of the young ladies on our outreach team.
Tonight we went to one of our usual neighborhoods to visit some folks. One of our ladies has been wanting us to go see her daughter, because her daughter has really been wanting to speak with us. She apparently was in need of the Holy Ghost, too. So, we all went over there tonight to see her and talk with her. She tells us, "My Mom said you guys knew stuff about my kids that no one told you or anything, but you still know", or something to that effect... she proceeded to tell us that she was curious if we might know things about her too. :)
We explained prophetic ministry a little, and the Lord quickly spoke to each one of us about her life. Everything was on point and she was quite impressed at how real this was! This lady has been addicted to narcotics for some time now, and has been desperately trying to get free. Well, tonight, we came to her with the answer Himself... Jesus! Guys, we gave her the most SIMPLE message of the gospel. The BASICS to us, but this stuff is HUGE to someone who has never heard it this way! Things like the Kingdom of Heaven and righteousness, peace and joy. Things like God's real presence and his LOVE and goodness. Things like FREEDOM. A life in God where He wants to BLESS His kids and not condemn and judge them. A life where you need CHILDLIKE faith, because it's that simple.
We prayed for her, got her delivered of a bunch of junk, and got her full of the Holy Ghost. All she could repeat over and over, with tears falling down her cheeks as we prayed was, "Jesus, Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You. Jesus... Jesus" How awesome is that?!
She was FREE. She was soooo excited and kept telling us how glad she was that we came over and how she wasn't expecting this. I told her she needed to get baptized and she was immediately fired up to do it. I told her we could do it next week in her tub or something if she wanted. Then I realized... Why wait?! So I asked her if she wanted to just go ahead and do it tonight since she was already on a roll and she was all for it! She filled up the tub, put on some clothes she could get wet in, and she got dunked right there in her tub! You could see her countenance was completely changed by the end of the night.
Freedom is the best feeling. To give it, AND to receive it! Thank You, Jesus for allowing us to be FREE and FREE indeed!! :D
While at a food court at a local mall, a young man from our church was approached by a lady asking for money. The lady had a hospital bracelet on her wrist and he asked her what it was for. She had spent the previous night in the hospital with severe mouth pain, her teeth were rotten and she was in terrible pain. The doctors gave her some pain meds, kept her there overnight and released her the next day. When asked where the pain was at on a scale from 1-10, she quickly replied "8 1/2" saying that her mouth was throbbing at that moment.
Asking if he could pray for her, she agreed. As he touched her, power flowed out of his arm and into her mouth. In about 10 seconds of commanding pain to go he asked her, "Where's the pain?". She said it was a 4. They prayed again, virtue again flowed out and he asked her again, "Where's the pain?" Her eyes got real big and she replied, "It's gone!" She started looking under his sleeves saying, "you must have something under your sleeves... how did you do that?!"
An outreach team was in a local community and encountered a man named Kenneth who had an industrial accident and was in excruciating pain where he couldn't walk or do anything but sit. Doctors told him he needed pins and screws and they needed to rebuild his discs. He was also on pain pills as the pain level he said was at a 9;
After prayer the pain went down to 5; then after more prayer and some encouragement,he said all pain was gone and he said, "It feels GOOD". He had been only able to get up few times a day, but he got up out of his chair and started walking across the deck, praising God and quoting scriptures to us. He believes he will go back to the doctor and they will find nothing!
An outreach team was ministering in a local community and encountered a man named Darrel who was told he had a deteriorating valve in his heart and it was only getting worse. He couldn't walk or go up or downstairs and was in a lot of pain in his joints. After prayer he felt much better and the pain subsided he was getting off pills, able to walk for hour up and down stairs;
A Mommy in our church recently ministered at another congregation and received a word of knowledge about someone needing healing with a rotator cuff injury. The man had pins in his shoulder from the injury and couldn't raise his his arm above his shoulder. She prayed two times.
By the time she was done praying, he could move it much higher and he had great range of motion. By the end of the service they had to convince him to tell his testimony (They wanted the church to see that God is great and does heal His people!) He was doing full circles with that arm! He said he hadn't been able to do that for 10 YEARS!!! And he was doing it with PINS in his shoulder!
An outreach team from our church was in Lake Charles, Louisiana, ministering in the community when one of the teams came upon a young lady in the park that had a tumor in her thigh. She had not had it removed surgically because it was not cancerous. She said that she could feel it in her leg, so the team prayed and she felt it again.
When she could not feel it she could not believe it was really gone. She kept saying that it was weird and that she could not believe it. So the team prayed again that every bit was truly gone!
*This testimony is from a young lady in our church that recently participated in an outreach to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
We went out in groups to a small community down the street from the church. After splitting up and thoroughly covering the little neighborhood I was waiting for everyone else to finish and decided to try one last house next to the community. I had two members of the church with me and the three of us walked up to this man standing in his driveway. We talked to him for a minute and told him that we had good news for him. I told him that Jesus is King and His kingdom is at hand and asked if we could pray for any needs he had. He then pointed to his hearing aids.
I had heard a soft buzzing noise when we first walked up that I had just ignored, but apparently his left hearing aid had been buzzing and it didn't even bother him. He said that he has had them for 6 years and can't hear clearly without them. I asked him if he would take them out and we would pray for him. The first time I prayed I asked if he could hear me and he said they were better! I said lets pray again and get 100% hearing back. Prayed again and a smile broke across his face. He said that he could hear everything! I asked if we could have his hearing aids and he said no. Not sure what he is going to do with used hearing aids, and doesn't need them anymore!
The door has recently opened for our church to preach in a local Prison. This is a tough place, a disciplinary camp where prisoners who have behavioral problems are sent from other prisons.
While attending the service of another ministry in the prison, we noted that the altar call was a typical, "Every head bowed, every eye closed." The results were underwhelming. NO ONE came to the front. Several weeks later, at our first service in the prison and after preaching a simple message on the Kingdom and calling all prisoners to make Jesus their King and Lord, instead of only their Savior. We invited the men to make Jesus their King with the caveat, "With every head held eye and every eye wide open!"
The men RUSHED the altar, crowding it to give their lives to the Lord. At least 25 men gave their lives completely to Jesus that night. The testimony from one of the men that night was, "I have been in prison for 18 years and in this prison for 8 years and I have NEVER seen a response like the one we saw tonight. Never!"
Afterward, while praying for the sick, a man with a permanent impairment to his vision was completely healed, as God dissolved the cloud in his eye.
While eating at McDonald's a lady came in using a walker and sat down at the table right next to me. After a few minutes, I asked her what the problem was and why she needed the walker. She said that she was injured 7 years ago and has been in crippling pain ever since. The Doctor recommended a wheelchair, but she settled on the walker.
After telling her of the Kingdom of God, I asked if I could pray for her. She agreed. We rebuked the spirit of infirmity and commanded the Kingdom to come into her body and for all pain to Go, in Jesus Name! I then asker her to check it out and the pain was almost completely gone. We prayed again and ALL THE PAIN LEFT HER!
She was doing things she couldn't do before and marveling that all her pain was gone for the first time in seven years!
While at the doctor's office, after experiencing eye problems, the tech checked the pressure in my eyes. Both pressures were high,17 in the left eye and 19 in the right eye. He left the room and I knew I had only a few minutes to pray again before the Dr. came in. Unless the pressure in both eyes was 15, he was going to operate. I declared the Kingdom of Heaven over my eyes, fire of God over my eyes, and commanded my eyes be healed in Jesus' Name. I had a vision of my eyes filled with light. Just then the Dr. came in and wanted to recheck the pressure. Both eyes were 15! PRAISE JESUS!!! The Dr. and I were both happy. No surgery! 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!!!"