As You Go… Home!

The other day ago I was on my way home from work. Just about a ½ mile from my house I spotted a woman at a 4 way stop. She was older looking and the look on her face was simply “bewildered”. She looked confused and upset, almost acting like she was unsure about crossing the street. I motioned her across the street, assuring her that I would let her go if she wanted. But she just looked at me. I rolled down the window and asked her, “Are You Ok?” She started babbling something about going to the pawn shop for grocery money or something and I could barely understand what she was talking about. As she was talking, tears started to run down her face and she was very obviously upset. I asked her if she needed a ride and she didn’t respond. I just opened my door and said, “Get in”.

So she gets into the car and I settle her down telling her that it’s going to be ok. I asked her, “Where are you going?” She just whispered, “Home”. I asker her, “Ok, where is home?” “That way” she pointed down the street. I said, “All right, I’m going to take you home, just tell me what’s going on, you look upset”. After she took a couple of deep breaths and started to calm down she explained that she had just walked a couple of miles from her home to pawn a bracelet and a necklace to buy grocery money. She told me that her social security check was late and she was out of grocery money. More than that, she was in severe pain as she had osteoarthritis and shouldn’t even be walking. Apparently, her doctor had suggested that she should use one of those motorized wheelchairs to get around in as she wasn’t fit to walk more than a few feet. I asked her if there was anything else bothering her and she told me, “Well, I have colon cancer”. It was quite advanced and she was experiencing some terrible symptoms and in constant pain.

We’re driving to her house, only a few miles from where I live. I start by telling her, “Honey, today is a good day for you!” I can’t help but smile and she is looking at me like I’m crazy! She can’t understand why I could smile in the face of her many terrible diseases and circumstances. But I know something she doesn’t! The Kingdom is here, at hand, in the car with both of us. The King is here! I said, “There couldn’t have been a better person in the world to stop and give you a ride home!” She says, “Ok…” so I told her, “let me explain”. I tell her, “I’m a believer and...” She interrupts me saying, “Oh, I’m a Christian, I go to church whenever I can, but without a car it’s pretty difficult…” I jump in and say, “Hold on now, and let me finish my sentence.” She sits quietly in the seat and hushes up for a second.

I continue, “I’m a believer and this is a great day for you! It’s a great day because I am the answer to your problems!” Now she’s sure I’m nuts. So I said, “Listen, God is with me and He’s here to take care of your problems.” She just smiled politely. At this point, we’re driving up the driveway of her run down home in a run down neighborhood. She tries to get out of the car, saying “Thank You” and I stopped her. I told her, “Listen; there is a cost for your ride home.” She looks at me in shock and starts telling me, “I have no money; I don’t know how I’ll pay you…” I said, “No, not money, the cost of the ride is that you allow me to pray for you!” She lets out a huge sigh of relief and says, “Ok”.

So I start interviewing her, asking her what the symptoms are of her Osteoarthritis. I have her check to see her mobility and ask her what her pain level is, “0 is absolutely pain free and 1 is excruciating pain, where are you?” Without hesitating, she says, “A 10!” She reminds me that she shouldn’t be walking, yet today alone, she’s walked several miles to the pawn shop. “So, standing her right now you are in blinding, excruciating pain?” “Yes!” she says. I take 1 minute to explain to her the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand. I tell her that in Heaven there is no colon cancer or osteoarthritis and that Jesus told us to pray that His Kingdom would come and His will be done. If that Kingdom is done in her body, all pain will go!

I look her dead in the eyes and say, “Watch this!” I reach out my hands and grab hers and I firmly say, “In the name of Jesus I command all pain to go! Heaven come into this body!” I literally feel the power of God shoot out of me into her and she jumps back with eyes wide open! The look on her face was absolutely priceless! She screams, “What did you do!!?” I start laughing and ask her, “What just happened?” She said, “I felt a surge go through me!” I said, “Where’d the pain go?” She started to examine herself and look for the pain and said “It’s gone!” I replied, “Really? Then if you have no pain, check yourself, what can you do?” She started to do stuff that she could not do just a couple minutes before, back bands, moving her neck, reaching down to touch her toes, etc. She just started weeping and couldn’t speak, so I asked her again, “Where’d the pain go?” She said, “All the pain left when the goose bumps came!” (You can’t make this stuff up!) I told her, “Jesus just healed you; His Kingdom came into your body!” She started thanking the Lord and then quickly said, “Do it again!” I prayed for her a couple more times and each time she got hit by the Presence of God harder and harder!

I emptied my wallet and gave her what money I had. By the time I left, her financial needs were met, her physical needs were met and she was as happy as she could be! The Kingdom of God had come near her!

Passing It On

Several years ago, we were “pregnant” with a vision to see the people of God walking in the power of God. We had prophecies, promises and scripture to back up our belief, but very little experience of what we believed. Then, Bill Johnson came to our church for one night and told story after story about how people in their church were walking in the power of the Kingdom. What it did was give us “permission” to do what we knew we could do in our hearts. Almost overnight, testimonies started coming in and have consistently been rolling in for 6 years now. This has been the most exciting and glorious few years of our personal lives and corporate ministry.

One of our main callings as a church and ministry and one of the passions of my life is to “pass it on", training and equipping the people of God to walk in the power of God. It’s a blast to be used by the Holy Ghost, but WAY more fulfilling to see others pick up the torch and go for it! Well, just last month, my Dad was on Sid Roth’s Television show, “It’s Supernatural” to be interviewed. This show goes all over the world and Sid has a pretty good international audience, so it’s good exposure for our message. About a year ago his book “It’s the End of the Church As We Know It” was released and they read the book and wanted him on. He went on and told several stories of people being healed in public places.

Since the interview, our website has been getting hammered and we have been receiving a steady stream of emails from folks literally all over the world. Many of the requests are for prayer for healing and we have sent out 100+ anointed hankies (Acts 19:11-12). But some of the requests have been from folks for additional materials and instructions teaching them how to get out there and “do the stuff”! Very exciting!

One of the emails is from a gentleman named Todd. From the interview on Sid Roth, to the books and materials we sent him, Todd got “permission” to just get out there and “do” what was in his heart to do. Listed here are a few testimonies of what he has seen only in the last couple of weeks!

Awesome!

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Sent in from Todd:

MIRACULOUS HEAD TRAUMA RECOVERY

A 10 or 11 year old boy had an ATV accident on December 27, 2008 and his injuries included a fractured skull, damaged brain stem, fractured neck, and fractured back. Doctors had to pick skull fragments out of his brain and told his family that brain stem injuries are inoperable and that they expected definite brain damage if he even survived for 72 hours. We went to the hospital and prayed over him the following Monday. Long story short, less than two weeks later he is breathing on his own, alert, walking, talking, eating and going through physical therapy. They will take his neck brace off in a few days, because there is no more evidence of a neck or spinal fracture, and they plan on sending him home on February 2. The hospital staff is amazed and said they have never seen such a severe head trauma case recover so quickly.

NO MORE CRUTCHES

While I was waiting to pray for that kid I came up behind a lady in her late fifties on crutches in the hospital lobby who was in obvious pain and moving at a crawl speed. Being the great man of faith I am, I said “God if you have her step into a waiting area I’ll know this is you and I’ll pray for her.” She hobbled right past the waiting area. Since that didn’t work I scraped up my boldness and asked her what was wrong and if I could pray for her. She said arthritis had been causing so much pain for the past 18 months she had to use crutches, which messed up her back too. So in the main entrance of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (it couldn’t be somewhere discreet) I put my hands on her knees, declared Jesus is King over arthritis commanded things to come back into order. She walked around and said her right knee felt great but the left one still hurt. When I prayed for the left knee something in her leg snapped and startled both of us. After praying three or four times the pain in her back and knees went away and she walked off without crutches.

TWO HEALED IN A GROCERY STORE

I decided I would stop by a Kroger grocery store on the way home from work one day to pray for some folks, and when I asked God what he wanted to do I saw a lady in an electric scooter. So I tracked down the first person I saw in a scooter and asked her what caused her to need the scooter. Diane told me she had severe pain that shot up her leg when she walked. After a couple brief prayers the pain was gone from her knees and she could walk much better. Then I noticed another lady in scooter twenty feet away, so I asked Diane to go tell her what God just did to her. (Figured she should get right to work in the Kingdom) This lady proceeded to tell me how she was driving a semi truck ten years ago and was hit by a train, thrown hundreds of feet, resulting in constant pain since then, which prevented her from working. The first time I prayed she said her neck felt a little better. After I prayed the second time, putting my finger on her lower back, she looked at me and said “What did you do?” The pain in her neck and back was completely gone, she had full range of motion in her neck and could stand without any pain for the first time since accident TEN YEARS AGO. She said the pain went from an 8 to zero on a scale of 1-10.

DEAF EARS OPENED IN THE PARKING LOT

The next day I went back to the same Kroger (which we have now declared property of the Kingdom of God) and took along my buddy Scott who wants to move in this kind of stuff. I told him God showed me someone with a walking cane and someone with hearing aids, so, a little nervous, we went looking for them. We prayed for a lady in an electric scooter who had arthritis, broken ankle, knee replacement, and after several rounds of praying she experienced a measure of relief in her neck and back. She said “Both of your hands are really hot.” While she was talking, Scott spotted a guy with a cane, but by the time we were done he got away from us. Next we camped out at both entrances looking for hearing aids. Scott called me and said he saw two people in a car in the parking lot using sign language so we walked up, asked if someone was deaf and found that the driver, Lenny, had been completely deaf since birth. We stuck fingers in his ears, laid hands on him, rebuked deafness, commanded the ears to open, and then asked his wife to see what was different. He signed to her that he could feel the vibrations from my voice, which he never felt before, and that his hearing, which was previously zero, was now a two or three! Very cool.

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Here is a word of instruction from Todd:

"I tell people that the secret to moving in healing is this: “There is no secret.” Just do it. When Jesus said “These sign will follow those who believe” he was referring to people who believed those signs will follow them. I have seen equal or even greater success praying for people outside of the church, probably because they don’t have the preconceptions, religiosities and unbelief that plague most Christians."

Way to go Todd!

The Drought Is Over!

Sorry for the lack of updates... Don't know what to tell you, I just haven't gotten around to update the site! LOTS has been happening, LOTS more to come too! in our church service this Sunday, half of the meeting was miracle stories! The miracles and healings continue and people are being equipped to walk in the power of God. In fact, one of the things I wanted to do was direct you to some brothers that we work with who are seeing miracles and the Kingdom come with power as they hit the streets of Jonesboro, GA. and Winston Salem, NC.

http://urbanoutreachministries.blogspot.com
This is the blog of some friends of ours in North Carolina, Paul & Renee Erbe. They have been hitting the hood in their areas and seeing some AMAZING miracles. The Blind see, the deaf hear and the poor have the Gospel preached to them! In fact, they are in the process of relocating to the South Side of Atlanta to work with our new church plant down there.

http://jonesboroga.blogspot.com
This is the blog of a good friend of mine, David Dixon. David's part of our church and has been leading teams to the south side of Atlanta for the last couple of years. This Sunday, we had our first Sunday service with a church comprised of folks that have been reached through the outreaches in those neighborhoods. Very cool! The miracles and healings that they have been seeing are tremendous. Check it out.

Bunch of posts of those two blogs and that should keep you encouraged until I get around to writing up a fresh update with my stories.

Come on Jesus!

Two Empty Wheelchairs!

Sorry that updates have been so sparse, but when lots of stuff is happening, it’s sometimes difficult for me to stop and write down all that’s going on. I actually have felt the Lord drawing me to do some more writing. So, in wrapping our India trip report: India was intense, but I think the trip was really significant, both for us and also for the kids and staff involved at the youth camp. You can read more testimonies here. (Look under “Youth Camp in Northern India”.

Anyway, what we’ve really been into the last few months that I haven’t really talked about at all is the high-crime, low-income areas of the inner city of Atlanta: “The Hood”. I LOVE the hood! Government housing is one of the most violent, gang-ridden, immoral and faithless areas of Atlanta… and I LOVE it! Light belongs in the darkness and in the hood, there is deep darkness. Teenage pregnancy, abortions, alcoholism, drugs, drug dealers, gangs, violence, drive-by shootings and a host of other demonic activity fills these places. We first discovered them a year and a half ago and weren’t really able to concentrate much time in there until this year. Since we have though, I don’t think that we will ever want to go back! Miracles have been happening with great frequency and we seem to be having quite an impact on these areas. People are getting saved and Jesus is being proclaimed as King!

“MR. JOE”
We met “Mr. Joe” on one of our first visits in the hood. We had discovered this particular neighborhood, being told about it by folks we were ministering to in another area. Mr. Joe is an elderly gentleman that we first met as he rolled around in a motorized wheelchair. We asked him what he was in the wheelchair for and found out that he had Chronic COPD and asthma. He told us that whenever he took even a few steps he would be out of breath and exhausted. Of course we told him of the Kingdom of God (There’s no COPD in Heaven, is there?) and asked if we could pray. As we prayed over him, an unusual anointing came on him and he said that he felt what could be described as a “swirling” over his head and he felt “all light” like power was flowing through his body.

That day, he didn’t try anything new, but thanked us for praying for him. The very next week we were back in the neighborhood and were greeted by the smiling “Mr. Joe”. He told us that he had DEFINITELY experienced a change in his breathing and his condition had greatly improved as he told us of all the new things that he could do as a result of his progressive healing. Weeks later, he doesn’t need the chair AT ALL and is only using it as a comfortable easy chair that he sits in on his front porch. We bought him a couple of rocking chairs and he has promised that we can have the chair to hang on the wall at church as a testimony of God’s power! Mr. Joe has rededicated his life to the Lord after this miracle and each week greets us and we have a good time encouraging him in his new-found faith!

JOHN
We met John, again by seeing someone go rolling by in an electric wheelchair. When we caught up with him, he was standing by his wheelchair, propped up on a car that he was trying to wash, obviously with great difficulty. We asked him why he was using the chair and he went into a laundry list of symptoms that he had been experiencing for many years. Just in the last few years he had several heart attacks, strokes and open heart surgeries. In 5 different open heart surgeries, veins were taken from his legs and put into his heart. After each surgery, the circulation in his legs would get worse. Now, it was so bad that when he stood up from his chair, in a matter of minutes his legs would start tingling painfully and then suddenly go numb, one leg at a time. Living a normal life outside of the chair was impossible to him, after only a few minutes standing, he would have to sit again. In addition to that, he was totally addicted to “uppers”. He said that while working as a trucker for almost 20 years, he would have to take drugs just to keep him awake on the long night hauls. As a result, for the last 16 years he had slept only an average of 1-2 hours per night! No wonder he had no strength to stand!

He allowed us to speak to him and we told him of the Kingdom of God. We told him that in Heaven, there is no one using a wheelchair with an inability to walk and according to the Lord’s Prayer we were instructed to pray “On earth as it is in Heaven”. He let us pray and as we were asking him what happened as we prayed, he told us that he could breathe better! I was like, “What? You never said anything about your breathing!” As it turned out, he forgot to even mention his severe asthma, but as we prayed for everything else, God touched his lungs and he was instantly healed of asthma (and we didn’t even pray for it!). He began to take deep breaths and thanked us profusely. We told him that we would come back and check on the other symptoms.

Two weeks later we were back in his neighborhood and encountered him, WALKING ACROSS THE STREET! We ran him down and asked what was going on and why wasn’t he in his chair?! He started with, “You’re not going to believe this…” I interrupted and said, “Yeah, I bet I will”. The first thing that he told us is that from the day we prayed for him, every night he had been sleeping AT LEAST 6 hours, many times 8! For a 16 year insomniac, this is a big deal! And the best part is, NO DRUGS. Total, peaceful, drug free sleep! He had experienced a HUGE boost in his strength as a result. More than that, he hadn’t had the first bit pf pain or numbness in his legs for two weeks! The circulation in his legs was NORMAL. God had restored what all the surgeries took away from his ability to walk! Each morning he had been getting up early (well rested and WITHOUT the aid of his wheelchair) and walked the 1/4 – 1/3 mile to the convenience store to get his coffee! All without pain! More than that, the 20 + pills that he was on every day were now totally useless. Without us even telling him and just because he felt so good he had stopped taking all the prescriptions that he was on! We stood in front of his apartment and praised God together.

Come on Jesus!

India 2008 – Part II

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India 2008 - Part I

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What We've Been Up To!

Sorry about the infrequent updates. LOTS has been going on. Literally, we've been meeting, sometimes night and day for a month. There is a fresh move of God on the earth today and we have been thrust in the middle of it. Things have settled down a little this week as we are discovering that the Glory of God is HERE TO STAY!

I'll write more about that and the things that have been happening in our city, but until then, you can read some of the miracle reports that we have seen in the last month RIGHT HERE. This outpouring of the Glory of God has definitely made things go up a notch or two with regular healing of blindness, deafness, tumors and cysts shrinking and terminal cancers being HEALED!

Come on Jesus!

PS - I'm heading off to India this week with a team from our church. I am sure I will come back with some awesome stories of God's Power being displayed. If you think of it, pray for us!

What’s Going on Here?

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Lakeland Outpouring? www.freshfire.ca What started as several nights of meetings has become at the time of this writing, a global phenomenon where multiplied thousands have been touched and healed through an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. What’s going on here has been fed by what’s going on in Lakeland, but actually started several weeks before anyone here went to Lakeland.

During a weekend of meetings with Surprise Sithole with Iris Ministries last April, there was a palpable hunger for God released and every meeting ended with a pile of people on the floor, crying out for more of God’s presence, power and glory. The presence of God in those meetings was profound! Lives were changed; people were delivered and set free of many bondages as we became desperate for Jesus!

OUR VISIT TO LAKELAND
So, coming AFTER our meetings with Surprise, a few weeks ago, I began hearing reports by email about a "REVIVAL" or "OUTPOURING" going on in Lakeland, Florida under the ministry of Todd Bentley. Now, I am pretty much used to folks in the ministry exaggerating the effect or outcome of meetings and I was skeptical, to say the least. After the reports kept coming in and after watching snippets of several services on GodTV, I was relatively sure in myself that this was NOT a major move of God. I saw so much flesh and what I believed was hype that when people began emailing and calling asking for my opinion, I told them, "It doesn't really look like the real thing".

Several people I know attended the meetings and all said the same thing, "The TV doesn't do it justice, the presence of God is AWESOME. Go!" I was still unconvinced and struggled with some of the ministry style and verbiage being thrown around at the televised services. What started to convince me was seeing John Kilpatrick and Steve Hill at the meetings and make reference to the glory of God they were feeling there. That was all it took. I went to Brownsville in 96 and experienced the glory of God there firsthand.

So on Monday night, April 28th, I made the decision to go and check it out. If I had any doubts about the authenticity of what was going on there, they all faded away when I sent an email out to our church, telling them that I was going. When I pressed "send" the presence and glory of God fell on me so strongly that it almost took my breath away. And it's been on me ever since. We spent two days in Lakeland and attended two services. The healings are real. One young lady that we met in line is a missionary in Africa. She was born deaf and during one of the services, she received her hearing! The presence of God is REAL. During worship especially, the glory or "weight" of God's presence would descend on us. Several times, it got so strong that it almost hurt! Yes, there is flesh and I wouldn’t do or say many things that are done and said in the meetings, but God met us there!

During one of the services there, Bobby Conner prophesied that this glory would be incredibly contagious and transferable and would be stronger at home than it was at Lakeland. Before we even got home we experienced this. I picked up the phone the day after our first service and called my Dad to tell him what God was doing and as I spoke to him the power of God fell on him and he had to pull his car over to the side of the road, the presence of God was so strong. I spoke to another friend from Oklahoma and just speaking about what God was doing, the presence of God fell on him in his car as he shook and vibrated under the Presence of God!

What was different about this presence that we were feeling in that it came back to our hotel rooms with us! It came back to our bedrooms and was with us in the car! The electricity and weight of God’s presence was so strong one morning down there that it took me almost 15-20 minutes to get my contacts in, I was crying so much!

BRINGING IT HOME
Our team came straight from the services in Lakeland and most of the team went to an impartation service that we were holding at the church that evening. Would you know that the same presence, power and glory that our team experienced in Lakeland came home with us and got all over our church body too?! Many folks in our church that have seldom or ever experienced the manifest presence of God shook, cried and vibrated under the electric glory that God has graced us with! We have been walking in a wonderful level of healing and the miraculous, but this took things up a notch! Miracles are so easy in the glory!

I came straight from Lakeland and had to honor a previous ministry trip I had scheduled in Alabama, although I wanted to be home with our home church. A couple from our church came with me, folks that had not been to Lakeland and before our first service in Alabama I released on them what was on me. In the booth at Applebee’s they shook and nearly fell out in the glory of God as the “weight” or “kabod” of God’s presence came on them!

In Alabama, many of the folks there had not even heard about what has been going on in Lakeland. The same glory of God that we experienced fell in those meetings, and even stronger! The Sunday service in Alabama ended in an almost 3 hour pile of quivering, sobbing and vibrating humanity, all deeply under the presence or “weight” of God.

Since then, we have been having meetings every night for several days and in each service, the presence of God gets stronger! Several healings have happened during the services, most even without prayer! But what is stealing the show is the presence of the Lord. Many have reported that the presence they are feeling at home or in our services is STRONGER than what they felt in Lakeland. I would agree!

THE KABOD OF GOD
What hit me the day before we left to go to Lakeland I had felt only one other time. I went to a conference in Toronto in 2004 and while there, the presence of God came on me resting like a weight. It actually feels like someone is sitting on my chest. Breath is almost labored, but gloriously so! It feels like trying to breath under water! In Toronto, this presence cam eon me for about 15 hours and during that time, the Lord spoke some things to me that have dramatically altered the course of my life, producing good fruit.

When I hit the send button on the email to our church, the presence came again. It came and it has not left! It literally feels like a weight resting on you. In this atmosphere, the Lord has started showing us that it’s the glory of God! In the Old Testament when the glory of God is mentioned, most of the time a Hebrew word, “Kabod” is used. The literal translation of the word Kabod is “weight”. What’s been happening here is that the literal “weight” of God’s presence is coming in people and not leaving! It’s messing with our lives as even the most basic tasks become quite difficult under the weight of God’s presence. Tommy Tenney has talked about the glory of God and said, “The anointing (for ministry) is exhilarating and invigorating, the glory is incapacitating!” But in a wonderful way! It’s like God saying, “Thanks for all your help, but I’ll just step in and take care of things”.

Moses cried out for the Presence of God in Exodus 33 and asked that God’s presence would go with them.

“And he said to Him, If Your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here. “ Exodus 33:15

That is exactly what God s doing. His presence is walking with us and we and others around us are aware of it! Isaiah 60 says,

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.” Isaiah 60:1, 2

That word for glory is "Kabod” or “weight” Isaiah 60 is being fulfilled! We have declared this scripture and certainly the times and peoples of earth are dark! But God’s glory (weight) is here, resting on His people! We have prayed and asked God to send His glory and He has! Rejoice!

"The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight a highway in the desert for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made level, and the rough places smooth; and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken." Isaiah 40:3-5

For years we have done exactly this. We’ve cried out against injustice, we’ve sought to bring equity to the world’s system. We have attempted to bring the high things low and the low things high and make the crooked placed straight. But NOW, in God’s timing, the glory (or weight) of God is being revealed!

WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS?
Exactly what Jesus did. When Jesus started His ministry he went to his hometown, was handed the scriptures and quoted this scripture,

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." And rolling up the book, returning it to the attendant, He sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on Him. And He began to say to them; Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears.” Luke 4:18-21

Jesus was AWARE of the Spirit of God RESTING UPON HIM. He took this power, presence and glory to the lost masses, preaching the Gospel to the poor, healing the sick, binding the brokenhearted and proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor! We should do likewise!

So when the glory or “weight” of God comes upon you, DRINK DEEPLY! Let it permeate; let it saturate you until you are AWARE of this fact, “HE IS WITH YOU! HE IS IN YOU!” Rest in His presence! Don’t be so quick to jump up and “work”. Let His glory overshadow you and change your nature, habits and desires! Fall in love with Jesus!

On a personal note: The presence and glory of God has rested on me for over a week now and I can barely sleep and hardly even want to eat, which is impressive because I am a big boy! Within one week of feasting on the glory I have lost 13 pounds! This is the most genuine and tangible presence of God I have EVER felt. And it's incredibly contagious and transferable! MANY in our church have reported the glory resting on them for days now changing their habits, desires and lifestyle! All we want is more of Jesus!! Now tell me that's not an authentic move of God!

Blessings,
Ryan Lawson
www.ngca.org

We're In a Move of GOD!

Folks, we're in a move of God! Perhaps you've heard what's started to break out at Lakeland, Florida? (If you haven't, go here: www.freshfire.ca)

Anyway, we went down there and God really touched us. We brought the fire of God back and a move of God has started here as well! You can get more details by keeping up to date with the latest bulletins that we're sending out.

Click here to read the latest bulletin about the Outpouring.

Two Noteworthy Miracles

I wanted to share with you a couple of noteworthy miracles that have happened here recently. These are miracles that have really increased our faith and encouraged us that truly, “nothing is impossible with God!” As we have been sharing them among ourselves and others that we meet, they have brought a “spark” of encouragement to their faith to press in for the impossible to become possible!

DEAF AND MUTE
A couple of weeks ago we had a wonderful woman of God spend the weekend with our church family. Her name is Shampa Rice. She’s just awesome! One family attended the meetings and brought with them their little four year old boy who has severe hearing problems. I’m not sure exactly how much hearing loss he had, but it was bad enough that his speech had been affected. When he spoke, he spoke unintelligibly and only his parents could really understand him. He came in with these huge hearing aids on both ears and it had what appeared to be a drainage tube attached to them. Definitely not something that a little 4 year old needs!

Now here’s the best part.

He, like most everyone else that night received prayer from our main speaker. But after an instant healing did not manifest, several folks in our church gathered around him, asking mom and Dad if they could pray. Little kids, mommies, grandparents and businessmen all pressed in to “take care of this”. So many people from our church in fact that I had to ask them to back away and let the little kid breathe! You should have seen the look on their faces… I would say the look that they had could best be described as “restrained jubilation”. You see, we’ve been seeing LOTS of deaf ears opening up; almost everyone we pray for lately gets their deafness healed. It’s like they all KNEW what was going to happen.

So they pressed in and began all praying for his healing. Someone asked his parents if they could remove the hearing aids and they did. They kept praying and then began to test the little boys hearing, asking could he hear them. After a few minutes, they got the Mom and Dad to speak to him from behind and the little boy swung his head, responding to their calls! You should have seen the face on his Dad!

His dad came in acting calm, cool and collected, but after hearing his little boy call his name clearly and respond quickly to the slightest whisper, again and again, they were floored! Dad was SO blown away that he simply couldn’t believe it. For more than an hour after his child started hearing and speaking, he kept testing his little boys hearing, in total disbelief, each time his child responded. Tears streamed down his face and he worshiped God. I asked him what this did for him and he said, “This stuff is real!”

STAGE 4 CANCER
Just uttering that word, “cancer” and many people have a hushed awe fall over them. To add to it, “Stage 4” in the medical realm is almost a death sentence. There is no Stage 5. Stage 4 is the end of the line, death is near. But there is a name that defeats Stage 4 Cancer; it’s called the name of Jesus and the Power of the Holy Ghost!

So we received a call from a good friend of ours, asking if we’d speak with a friend of his. This guy’s brother in law had recently received the Stage 4 Lung Cancer death sentence from his doctors. He is 45 years old and has five beautiful daughters. When we heard of that, our heart went out for the family, but more than that, a cry inside said, “NO!” This man has 5 beautiful daughters to walk down the aisle and give away in marriage! “NO!” 45 year old daddies and husbands should NOT die of that disease! Even though he lives about 4 hours from our church, we immediately began to plan a way to get to him and see that this disease got off of him!

Spontaneously, after speaking to this gentleman’s brother in Law, my Dad called and said, “Let’s go!” on a Saturday afternoon. Sure it would make for a late night, but what better thing is there to do than to destroy cancer and release an entire family from the grip of this disease? So my Dad and the brother in law hopped in the car and began making their way to the young man dying with cancer. They received approval that it would be good for them to come and pray and on the way, my Dad got the brother in law filled with the Spirit and speaking in tongues for the first time in a long time!

THE DIAGNOSIS
In December of last year, the guy dying with cancer, Steve, began having breathing problems. When he went to his doctor, he received the terrible news that he had serious lung cancer, with a large tumor growing at a tremendous rate in his lung. They ended up going to a Texas oncology unit, apparently one of the best in the country and received the grim diagnosis that he had Stage 4 inoperable lung cancer. The doctors literally sent him home to be with his family and to be as comfortable as possible before he would die. SO he went home. He had long since stopped working due to his failing health and couldn’t even get out there to swing a golf club, one of his favorite pastimes.

So my Dad and the brother in law show up charged and full of faith, defying the diagnosis of cancer and proclaiming that the Kingdom of Heaven is on the earth! They spoke the word of God, released the fire of God and imparted the life of God! Surely, cancer couldn’t abide the LIFE!

He immediately began to feel more energy and strength than he had in some time.

Several days later, he went back to work for the first time in months.

A few days after that, he felt so good that he played a round of golf.

Three weeks later, as he went in to his doctor’s office and in his own words, from an email written just a few days later:

“We went this morning to have the 1st X-ray/scan since we were diagnosed. We did lab work, had the X-ray, and went into a patient room for our exam. “The Doctor” came in, said the blood work looked great, said my lungs, heart sounded great, said my liver, body etc looked and felt totally normal. He interrupted the exam and said "Oh I forgot, you had a lung scan today, let me go track it down." He was gone a minute or two, he came busting in the door and said in a loud voice "Your tumor is GONE!” We said what? He said come and look, it is GONE! He took us to the viewer and sure enough, the primary lung tumor that started all of this appears to be gone. Clearly by his voice and reaction, this was not expected; clearly God could not have given us more clear evidence of His involvement.”

Steve is healed. He will be walking down the aisle with all 5 daughters.

Proof that Jesus is King and cancer is NOT!