Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Healed Through a Prophetic Word!

While on a ministry trip in Nashville, several people from the church prayed for a relative of someone in the church. He had some problems with addiction, Emphysema, Asthma, High Blood Pressure, Liver Disease and Hepatitis C. When prayed for, he felt heat over his chest. Someone on the team prophesied that the Lord would heal him, but that he would have to stop smoking first. Over a period of a couple months, he was getting a lot worse. In fact, it got so bad that he was no longer responding to breathing treatments. The doctors told him that there was nothing more they could do because his lungs were almost completely deteriorated. The doctor rated his lung capacity at 0% and he was referred to a pulmonologist.

After the report from the doctors, his girlfriend told him that she wouldn’t buy him cigarettes anymore. Immediately after giving up cigarettes, he started vomiting and coughing up a bunch of junk. Soon after, he went to the pulmonologist; the appointment was to get him set up on oxygen at home. After examining him, the doctor told him that he didn’t understand what was going on. The doctor told him that he had never seen a case like his before. The doctor told him that emphysema didn’t go away just because you stopped smoking, there is no cure. The doctor then told him that he no longer had asthma or emphysema and that his lung capacity was 84% !!

After that appointment, he went to back to his liver specialist for further tests on his liver disease and Hepatitis C. At his last visit, his enzyme level was at 9000 (dangerously, deathly high). They checked him yesterday and he was negative zero! They told him that they didn’t know why, but he is showing absolutely no symptoms whatsoever of Hepatitis C! They drew five tubes of blood and are doing a bunch of tests to try and explain.

When he heard this report, he remembered what was prophesied several months earlier (the Lord would heal him, but that he would have to stop smoking first) and was speechless.

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Healed Through Anointed Handkerchief!

A lady in our church who is a postal worker heard at work that a coworker's brother was in the Hospital. The Doctors had told him that his leg was eaten up with cancer and impetigo (a nasty bacterial infection) and that he was going to lose it. He was in an auto accident three years ago and had rods and pins in his leg. It never healed properly and would get infected from time to time. Hearing the story from her coworker, she prayed over a handkerchief (Acts 19:11-12) and told the man's sister to put it on the leg and command the cancer to come out in Jesus name. This was on Saturday.

When she saw the man in the hospital's sister on Monday, she was told that it must have worked! The man's sister placed the handkerchief on the leg and commanded the cancer to come out, in Jesus name. Immediately after prayer, a piece of diseased skin fell off the leg wound and it began to fester and spurt what looked like mold and mildew. This continued for over a day. The Doctors decided to put him in a whirlpool to speed the drainage and cleaned the wound. The test results came back in confirming the presence of cancer, but after it drained out and after dressing the wound, the doctors believed it was gone.

They sent him home the next day, cancer and impetigo free!

Saturday, March 12, 2005

Arthritic Knee Healed!

During a recent Saturday morning outreach while we were praying for a man with an injured leg, a lady went limping by, stopped and was watching intently. She wanted in on the power of God! The man with the injured leg was healed and went happily hopping down the sidewalk, moving his newly healed leg all around. “My leg is hurt too” she said. We gave her the good news of the kingdom and told her that what happened to this guy could happen to her too. Her left knee was all swollen and stiff with rheumatoid arthritis; she told us that it hurts all the time and sometimes she can barely even walk. “Let’s pray” we told her. We started to pray and in about 3 minutes, her leg was completely healed! All the pain, swelling and stiffness were completely gone! “Wow! Thank you so much”. She promised us that she was a believer and also that she would give away what God had given her.

Saturday, March 05, 2005

Leg Injury Healed!

During a Saturday morning Outreach, a man with a cane and a very noticeable limp walked towards us, we went over to him and asked him what’s wrong. “My leg” he told us. “What, do you have pain?” we asked him. “All the time” he said. We asked if we could pray for him and he agreed. We told him that God’s Kingdom, or rule and reign was on the earth and that Jesus is King! He heartily agreed and claimed to be a believer. “You’ve heard the Lord’s Prayer then?” we asked him. “Sure” he replied. “In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus asked His Father, let Your kingdom come and Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. You want to go to Heaven because you know that when you get there, you won’t have any pain, right?” Yup. “Well, Jesus prayed that Heaven would come to earth. If He has His way, your fell no pain, right now”. “Ok” he agreed.

So, we began to pray, “In Jesus name, be healed!” We asked him how it was and he told us that it was 60% better. “Well, 60% in one minute is pretty good, I wonder how we could do if we prayed for two minutes. Let’s pray again”. We continued to pray and asked him a minute later how it was, “About 90%”, he said. Almost there! We prayed one last time and a smile broke out across his face. “Check it”, we told him. “It’s better!” he said. All of the pain had left his leg and he was ecstatic! He started moving and checking it, walking up and down the sidewalk.