For most people, however, happiness is elusive. To make it even more elusive, many Christians have been told that holiness and happiness just don’t go together. That’s because in the church, there has been an emphasis placed on Jesus as a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53:5 says, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” However, that is not the whole story. The same Bible that says Jesus suffered also says He was anointed with the oil of gladness above everyone else and that the joy of the Lord is our strength. “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows” (Heb. 1:9). “Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength” (Neh. 8:10). No joy—no strength. This is one of the reasons we have a lot of weak Christians. So, is true happiness obtainable? And if so, how do we get it? First, let me say there are many scriptures that command us to rejoice and be glad (Ps. 32:11, 40:16, 68:3, 70:4, to list a few). Some specifically command rejoicing in the midst of trouble (Ps. 34:1, Matt. 5:12, and John 16:33). The people of Israel were even punished because they didn’t serve the Lord with joyfulness and gladness of heart for the abundance of all the things the Lord had done. “Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee” (Deut. 28:47-48). So, if joy was a command and people were punished for not rejoicing, then happiness is something we can control. Otherwise, the Lord would have been unjust in commanding us to do it. Today people think happiness is a result, instead of a choice. They believe that if they didn’t have any problems and if they had an abundance of good things, happiness would be the inevitable result. That’s not true. Happiness isn’t a state of being; it’s a state of mind. A person can be happy when everyone and everything around them is in turmoil. They can be content no matter what the financial or physical conditions might be. True happiness and contentment isn’t dependent upon circumstances. Take Paul as an example.... read on at http://www.awmi.net/extra/article/be_happy  download mp3 to listen to the teaching by Andrew Wommack: http://www.awmi.net/extra/audio/1019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
February 4, 2014
how to be happy?
How to be happy?
February 2, 2014
Andrew Wommack's Quotes
- "Jesus commanded that you love others the way He loves you. Most Christians think that is impossible. That’s because you can’t give away what you don’t have. You need to personally experience God’s awesome love." -As I Have Loved You
- “Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results.” ― How to Find, Follow, Fulfill God's Will
- “Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!” ―Better Way to Pray
- “A lot of churchgoers in America think that merely believing God exists is enough to be saved, but the Bible says, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble” (James 2:19). In other words, it’s no great accomplishment to believe in God—even the devil knows that God is real. You have to do more than mentally acknowledge God’s existence; you have to submit yourself to Him.”
How to Find, Follow, Fulfill God's Will - “The Lord doesn’t want your service as much as He wants you. He loves you more than He loves what you can do for Him. Now, that’s an important point to make, because in our day and age—especially in the type of church atmosphere that I grew up in—it’s all about service, a push to do something for God. It’s true that you were created for God’s pleasure and glory, but God ’s acceptance of you is not related to what you do for Him. The Lord sacrificed Himself so He could have you, not your service.”
―How to Find, Follow, Fulfill God's Will - “Individual sins (committing a homosexual act, doing drugs, getting drunk, etc.) aren’t what send you to hell. Your sins have been forgiven, but the sin that’ll send you to hell is not accepting the payment for those sins. Everything revolves around how you respond to Jesus.”
―Better Way to Pray - “If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better of accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!” (A Better Way to Pray)
- “Many Christians believe that the only difference between the Old Testament and the New is one blank page in the Bible.” (A Better Way to Pray)
- “God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words of life are.” (The True Nature of God)
- “When I minister healing to someone, I’ll pray for them two, three, four, or more times. I don’t care! I’m willing to pray for them until I rub all the hair off of their head!” (A Better Way to Pray)
- “Many believers haven’t seen the devil or a demon in years. He doesn’t have to come around. You’re doing a perfect job ruining your own life. He taught you how to think and act, and you’ve run with it from there – with good intentions. You’re trying to live for God, but it’s you doing it in human strength rather than God living through you.” (Grace – The Power of the Gospel)
- “Contrary to popular belief, faith does not move God. He’s not the one who’s stuck!” (A Better Way to Pray, p.44)
- “Some people are waiting until the Holy Spirit just makes them throw their hands up in the air because they’ve never done it before. ‘Well, I just don’t feel led.’ You old carnal thing!” (Grace – The Power of the Gospel)
- “What a sorry attitude! If I were God, the spirit of slap would come all over me!” (A Better Way to Pray)
- “It’s a wonder you’re not a pile of ashes! The only reason God’s not ticked off at you is because Jesus did such an effective job.” (A Better Way to Pray)
- “You have this new spirit on the inside of you and the only thing holding you back is your ‘stinkin’ thinkin’.” (Grace – The Power of the Gospel)
- “God is El Shaddai, not El Cheapo. The Lord will take care of us better than we take care of ourselves.” (Article: Financial Stewardship)
- “When it comes to being born again, your soul wasn’t the part of you that completely changed! If you were stupid before you were saved, you’re still stupid after being saved.” (Spirit, Soul, and Body)
- “When my wife and I first started out in ministry, we were so poor we couldn’t even pay attention!” (You’ve Already Got It)
- “One of the things I’ve learned is that many Christians never let the Bible get in the way of what they believe.” (Article: Hebrews Highlights)
- “In Genesis, why didn’t the devil choose a tiger?… Why didn’t he have a wooly mammoth just stick its foot on top of her head and demand, ‘Eat the fruit or I’ll crush your skull?’” (You’ve Already Got It)
- “The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.” (You’ve Already Got It)
- “If you never bump into the devil, it’s because you’re going in the same direction.” (Article: How to Be Happy)
- “It’s wrong, wrong, wrong!” (You’ve Already Got It) (when discussing spiritual mapping and missions trips where people have been instructed not to preach the gospel)
- “Most Christians say, ‘Well, I’m only human, you know. I’m just a man.’ That’s stinkin’ thinkin’! I was only human, but then I became born again. There’s part of me now that’s wall-to-wall Holy Ghost.” (You’ve Already Got It)
- “That’ll put a shout in a fence post!” (You’ve Already Got It)
- Anyone can start a race, but not everyone crosses the finish line. Certainly, not everyone wins the race. It takes a combination of many things in order to finish well . (How To Find, Follow And Fulfill God's Will )
- You will not fulfill God’s will for your life accidentally. It doesn’t come to pass through fate or the “sovereignty of God.” You have to have a revelation of God’s will and pursue it in order to fulfill it. It takes effort to accomplish God’s will for your life. And until you know God’s plan for you, it’s impossible to achieve it. (How To Find, Follow And Fulfill God's Will )
- Any blessing you could ever need or desire from the Lord is not something to strive for but something you already have. God made the provision before you had the need. It is just a simple matter of receiving what He has already done. (You’ve Already Got It )
- It's not what others do to us that makes us angry; it's the pride inside of us that causes us to get mad. (Anger management)
- This is so simple you have to have someone help you misunderstand it. The problem is that we have had a lot of help misunderstanding these simple, biblical truths, but we have a solution. (Harnessing your emotions)
They will go after Adonai
Hosea 11
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
11 “When Isra’el was a child, I loved him;
and out of Egypt I called my son.
2 But the more [the prophets] called them,
the farther they went from them.
They sacrificed to the ba‘alim
and offered incense to idols.
3 “Yet it was I who taught Efrayim to walk;
I took them by their arms.
But they did not know that it was I
who was healing them,
4 who was guiding them on through human means
with reins made of love.
With them I was like someone removing
the yoke from their jaws,
and I bent down to feed them.
5 He will not return to the land of Egypt,
but Ashur will be his king,
because they refused to repent.
6 The sword will fall on his cities,
destroying the bars of his gates,
because they follow their own advice.
7 My people are hanging in suspense
about returning to me;
and though they call them upwards,
nobody makes a move.
8 Efrayim, how can I give you up,
or surrender you, Isra’el?
How could I treat you like Admah
or make you like Tzvoyim?
My heart recoils at the idea,
as compassion warms within me.
9 I will not give vent to the fierceness of my rage,
I will not return to destroy Efrayim;
for I am God, not a human being,
the Holy One among you;
so I will not come in fury.
10 They will go after Adonai,
who will roar like a lion;
for he will roar, and the children will come
trembling from the west.
11 They will tremble like a bird as they come from Egypt,
like a dove as they come from the land of Ashur;
and I will resettle them in their own houses,
and out of Egypt I called my son.
2 But the more [the prophets] called them,
the farther they went from them.
They sacrificed to the ba‘alim
and offered incense to idols.
3 “Yet it was I who taught Efrayim to walk;
I took them by their arms.
But they did not know that it was I
who was healing them,
4 who was guiding them on through human means
with reins made of love.
With them I was like someone removing
the yoke from their jaws,
and I bent down to feed them.
5 He will not return to the land of Egypt,
but Ashur will be his king,
because they refused to repent.
6 The sword will fall on his cities,
destroying the bars of his gates,
because they follow their own advice.
7 My people are hanging in suspense
about returning to me;
and though they call them upwards,
nobody makes a move.
8 Efrayim, how can I give you up,
or surrender you, Isra’el?
How could I treat you like Admah
or make you like Tzvoyim?
My heart recoils at the idea,
as compassion warms within me.
9 I will not give vent to the fierceness of my rage,
I will not return to destroy Efrayim;
for I am God, not a human being,
the Holy One among you;
so I will not come in fury.
10 They will go after Adonai,
who will roar like a lion;
for he will roar, and the children will come
trembling from the west.
11 They will tremble like a bird as they come from Egypt,
like a dove as they come from the land of Ashur;
and I will resettle them in their own houses,
says Adonai.
February 1, 2014
message today: watch this one, know God's plan for you
God’s Plan For Man – Pastor Sandra Kennedy
July 14, 2013
http://view.earthchannel.com/PlayerController.aspx?&PGD=wholelife&eID=97http://www.sandrakennedy.org/
a testimony on healing: Jesus paid it all !
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| Jesus paid it all for you and for me ! |
TESTIMONY update on 2-1-2014
This blogger has spent more than one-third of his life involved in healthcare (medical-physiological and mental health). He was always interested in how to keep a person fit physically, mentally and emotionally. He has enjoyed a healthy life since birth but had started suffering from ‘allergy’ (not proven as doctors never came to a final conclusion after numerous check-ups and tests) since a youth and especially after he started working in a banking environment. He wanted to study psychology but ended up as a banker for over twenty years. In his second profession he realized his dream and studied health psychology. He was particularly focused on rational-emotive and behavioral ways of handling health habits. As a Bible believing Christian, he also learned and practiced how prayers by faith could help ‘supplement’ (or ‘complement’) the medical-mental treatment process. He ‘worked’ as a voluntary worker with a medical professional who had her own clinic practice for over 18 years. They had counseled and ‘treated’ ‘many’.
But they soon realized that even preventive medical and health and mental care had not prevented mankind from suffering from various diseases. This watchman blogger encountered the power of the Holy Spirit and was himself healed of his chronic cold-flu-like diseases for a number of years after he decided to trust the supernatural God 100% and not take anymore medicines or other remedies or supplements from man. God’s words were his only medicine.
He observed and learned that what has worked for him had worked in many all over the world even increasingly known to many as mass and multimedia communication improved and advanced dramatically in the last hundred years, just as in Jesus’ and the early church time.
In recent years he has observed and understood in his spirit that the prophecies concerning the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the end days is indeed increasingly in progress, That means many multitudes are being healed supernaturally all over the world. Just as many are being saved as they hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe, many are being healed! The twin gifts of forgiveness of sins and healing of diseases are being received by all who believe as they hear the gospel of Good News, just as in the times of the early church!
Thus, he has purposed in his heart to share the Good News increasingly and introducing to all who click on his blogs.
His urgent message to all: BE SAVED! BE HEALED! GOD WANTS YOU WELL. JESUS HAS PAID IT ALL!
But they soon realized that even preventive medical and health and mental care had not prevented mankind from suffering from various diseases. This watchman blogger encountered the power of the Holy Spirit and was himself healed of his chronic cold-flu-like diseases for a number of years after he decided to trust the supernatural God 100% and not take anymore medicines or other remedies or supplements from man. God’s words were his only medicine.
He observed and learned that what has worked for him had worked in many all over the world even increasingly known to many as mass and multimedia communication improved and advanced dramatically in the last hundred years, just as in Jesus’ and the early church time.
In recent years he has observed and understood in his spirit that the prophecies concerning the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the end days is indeed increasingly in progress, That means many multitudes are being healed supernaturally all over the world. Just as many are being saved as they hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe, many are being healed! The twin gifts of forgiveness of sins and healing of diseases are being received by all who believe as they hear the gospel of Good News, just as in the times of the early church!
Thus, he has purposed in his heart to share the Good News increasingly and introducing to all who click on his blogs.
His urgent message to all: BE SAVED! BE HEALED! GOD WANTS YOU WELL. JESUS HAS PAID IT ALL!
January 31, 2014
The Power Of A Testimony
Many have been encouraged in their healing journey and experiences watching the healing testimonies of others. Here are some very good materials.
The Power Of A Testimony
By Andrew Wommack
Saint Francis of Assisi said, “Preach the Gospel to everyone and use words if necessary.” What a profound statement! I believe he was saying that a living example of the Gospel is more effective than words. Some people may argue with you about doctrine or the interpretation of Scripture, but unless they believe you’re a liar, they can’t argue with your testimony.
In John 10:37-38, Jesus said,
“If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.”
And in Mark 16:17-18, we read what Jesus spoke to His disciples after commanding them to go into all the world and preach the Gospel.
“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Then, in verse 20, Mark went on to say, “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”
There is nothing more powerful than a miracle testimony. Jesus and His disciples used them to confirm that the words that they spoke were truth. I teach our students at Charis Bible College that the Word of God changes lives, but I also teach them to use testimonies because people relate to stories. That is one of the reasons Jesus used parables to convey truth.
Because of these truths, I’ve dedicated three weeks of our January Gospel Truth television broadcasts to playing fifteen miraculous testimonies of how God has touched and changed lives. I’m expecting these programs to make a profound impact on people.
In this letter, you will read three true stories of God’s healing power. I believe that as you read these stories, faith will build in your heart. Even if you don’t need healing personally, you know someone who does, and they need your prayer of faith.
Faith, Not Works
Mike Hoesch didn’t pay much attention to the small sore on his chest. It started out as a minor annoyance—an itch that wouldn’t go away. But after a year, he decided to get it checked out.
“When I first walked into the doctor’s office, I wasn’t afraid, just curious as to what was causing this sore,” remembers Mike. “But the doctor took one look, and the next thing I knew, he had me scheduled for an emergency surgery.” Mike wasn’t clear about the diagnosis at first—malignant neoplasm—and asked his wife to research it while he returned to work.
His wife called him at work with the layman’s terminology: “malignant skin tumor.” A spirit of fear instantly gripped him. “My pastor told me not to do anything in fear, so I canceled my surgery until I could get peace,” says Mike. Mike’s doctor called him back immediately, warning him of the seriousness of his condition and letting him know that if he refused surgery, he would remove himself as his doctor.
This drove Mike further into fear, but deep down, he knew God could heal him. He turned to God’s Word. He searched the Word looking for things he could do to get God to move on his behalf. “I was taught that everything God did for me was based on my performance. As soon as I thought I’d finally measured up, the bar got raised, and I had to do more.”
As Mike struggled with confusion and discouragement, the lesion changed into a tumor and began growing at an alarming rate. “I was told that it could metastasize throughout my body, and that’s what began happening,” says Mike. “For the next five years, it clung to me and sucked the life right out of me. I grew so weak, I had to quit my job, give up the business I started, and at one point, even hold my head up to eat.”
Mike had given up hope, but then a friend brought him Andrew’s You’ve Already Got It! CD series. “I was reluctant to listen because I’d been taught that our ministry was the only one with the truth.” It was a miracle that he listened, but once he did, the message resonated with his spirit.
“God had been trying to share with me that when Jesus went to the cross, He purchased my healing. There wasn’t anything else I had to do but believe and receive. When I heard Andrew teach this and looked up the scriptures for myself, I was convinced that it really was for me. I finally understood that I’d never be able to receive as long as I thought there was some other work I had to do.”
Once Mike received the revelation of healing, no one could convince him otherwise: “I noticed after about a month, the tumor got smaller. I wasn’t surprised, because I knew I was healed. Within six months’ time, it was completely gone. I learned, like Andrew says in A Sure Foundation, that if you have God’s Word in you, you’ll always have something to stand on that won’t wash away in the storm.”
Instantly Healed
Reeling in pain and loaded up on medication to numb his body, Lance Weldgen walked gingerly into his local coffee shop, laptop under his arm. Typically, after a couple of hours, the pain in his body forced him to go home and lie flat on his back. His doctors called his condition fibromyalgia. Lance called it torture. With no known cure, the best Lance could hope for was temporary relief through the seventeen different medications he took.
Lance noticed a couple—Mike and Rose Gonyer—sitting across the room, studying their Bibles. He mustered his strength to walk over and strike up a conversation. As Lance returned to his seat, the Gonyers noticed his pain. “I went over to him and told him I could tell he was in a lot of pain,” recalls Mike. “I asked if he would share what was going on. After he told me, I invited him to Charis Bible College, where Rose and I were students.”
The intense pain kept Lance pinned to his bed and away from CBC the following day. But the next day, Lance’s wife, Gerri, got him up at five a.m., determined he would make it to the school.
After attending four classes, Lance was led into an empty classroom where Mike and Rose began praying for him. “After explaining what God’s Word says about healing, Rose said that God put it on her heart to ask if I felt worthy—valuable enough—to receive His healing,” says Lance. “For the first time, I realized that this had been my problem all along.”
Lance wasn’t prepared for what happened next: “Mike and Rose began praying for me—but not the kind of prayers I’d ever heard before. They spoke directly to my body, telling the fibromyalgia and pain to leave, and then rebuked a spirit of sickness.” Mike then told Lance to stand up and asked how he felt. “I noticed I didn’t have to grab onto anything to stand,” recalls Lance. Lance stood straight up and mentally scanned his body. One thing was noticeably missing—the pain!
Lance is now living a pain-free, abundant life as a full-time counselor at a local rescue mission. He’s using the same Holy Spirit authority that got him healed to set others free of addictions and sickness.
A Broken Heart
Jamie Scott lay on the hospital bed, holding her brand-new baby girl and feeling amazed at the miracle of childbirth. Her daughter looked perfect. But after several minutes, Jamie and the nurses observed that the baby wasn’t maintaining her natural color and kept turning white. The nurses raced her daughter to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit.
Nearly two hours had passed when the doctor returned to Jamie with grim news: Her daughter was missing a rib, a couple of major arteries, and the left side of her heart. The doctor transferred the baby to another hospital that specialized in cardiology. Good thing for Jamie, a friend had told her about Andrew Wommack Ministries just a few months prior, and Jamie had been learning truths about God’s Word ever since.
“When my friend first told me about AWM, I went to the website to see what Andrew taught,” says Jamie. “I had been raised in church, but had never heard teaching like this. I ordered several books and CDs, including The True Nature of God, which set me free in my relationship with Him. I then began watching Andrew on television where I heard his teaching God Wants You Well, and I ordered the book A Better Way to Pray.”
When the doctor’s report came, she had the confidence to stand on God’s Word: “For the first time I felt I really knew who God was,” says Jamie. “At that moment, I remembered Andrew saying how we have the power to speak God’s Word to our bodies. I laid my hands on her and commanded her heart to be whole, and I declared that she was healed by the stripes of Jesus.”
God’s peace instantly washed over Jamie, even though she was looking at her daughter’s white-colored skin and a jumble of tubes connected to her tiny body. As Jamie returned to her hospital room, the Holy Spirit spoke three words to her: “Watch Me work.”
The following day, Jamie spoke to the cardiologist, who had written a book on heart defects. He said that because the baby’s heart was not developed enough to support arteries, there was no guarantee that any type of surgery would be successful.Jamie and her husband waited and prayed, continuing to stand on God’s Word that their baby had been made whole.
Still in the hospital herself, Jamie wasn’t able to see her baby. But the next day, she spoke to a nurse who told her that her daughter’s condition had changed the night before. After viewing ultrasounds, they now saw a heart where there was no heart before and arteries where there had been none. Jamie hung up the phone and, with tears, exclaimed to her husband, “They see her heart!”
After four days in NICU, Jamie’s daughter was moved to the preemie unit and, by the end of that week, sent home with her parents. While the doctors couldn’t explain what happened, they assured Jamie that her baby was 100 percent whole. But Jamie already knew that based on God’s Word. In looking back on the experience, Jamie says with certainty, “If I didn’t learn the teachings about healing that I received through AWM, my daughter would not be here today.”
There are so many lessons to be learned from each of these stories, and these are just the tip of iceberg. My staff has now put together three DVDs called Healing Journeys I, II, and III. Each DVD has five miraculous and powerful stories. They will build your faith to receive your own healing and help you minister healing to others.
Notes from this blogger: please visit the following site to find more materials: http://www.awmi.net/extra/article/power_testimony
online TV broadcast: http://www.awmi.net/tv/2011/week1
By Andrew Wommack
Saint Francis of Assisi said, “Preach the Gospel to everyone and use words if necessary.” What a profound statement! I believe he was saying that a living example of the Gospel is more effective than words. Some people may argue with you about doctrine or the interpretation of Scripture, but unless they believe you’re a liar, they can’t argue with your testimony.
In John 10:37-38, Jesus said,
“If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.”
And in Mark 16:17-18, we read what Jesus spoke to His disciples after commanding them to go into all the world and preach the Gospel.
“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Then, in verse 20, Mark went on to say, “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”
There is nothing more powerful than a miracle testimony. Jesus and His disciples used them to confirm that the words that they spoke were truth. I teach our students at Charis Bible College that the Word of God changes lives, but I also teach them to use testimonies because people relate to stories. That is one of the reasons Jesus used parables to convey truth.
Because of these truths, I’ve dedicated three weeks of our January Gospel Truth television broadcasts to playing fifteen miraculous testimonies of how God has touched and changed lives. I’m expecting these programs to make a profound impact on people.
In this letter, you will read three true stories of God’s healing power. I believe that as you read these stories, faith will build in your heart. Even if you don’t need healing personally, you know someone who does, and they need your prayer of faith.
Faith, Not Works
Mike Hoesch didn’t pay much attention to the small sore on his chest. It started out as a minor annoyance—an itch that wouldn’t go away. But after a year, he decided to get it checked out.
“When I first walked into the doctor’s office, I wasn’t afraid, just curious as to what was causing this sore,” remembers Mike. “But the doctor took one look, and the next thing I knew, he had me scheduled for an emergency surgery.” Mike wasn’t clear about the diagnosis at first—malignant neoplasm—and asked his wife to research it while he returned to work.
His wife called him at work with the layman’s terminology: “malignant skin tumor.” A spirit of fear instantly gripped him. “My pastor told me not to do anything in fear, so I canceled my surgery until I could get peace,” says Mike. Mike’s doctor called him back immediately, warning him of the seriousness of his condition and letting him know that if he refused surgery, he would remove himself as his doctor.
This drove Mike further into fear, but deep down, he knew God could heal him. He turned to God’s Word. He searched the Word looking for things he could do to get God to move on his behalf. “I was taught that everything God did for me was based on my performance. As soon as I thought I’d finally measured up, the bar got raised, and I had to do more.”
As Mike struggled with confusion and discouragement, the lesion changed into a tumor and began growing at an alarming rate. “I was told that it could metastasize throughout my body, and that’s what began happening,” says Mike. “For the next five years, it clung to me and sucked the life right out of me. I grew so weak, I had to quit my job, give up the business I started, and at one point, even hold my head up to eat.”
Mike had given up hope, but then a friend brought him Andrew’s You’ve Already Got It! CD series. “I was reluctant to listen because I’d been taught that our ministry was the only one with the truth.” It was a miracle that he listened, but once he did, the message resonated with his spirit.
“God had been trying to share with me that when Jesus went to the cross, He purchased my healing. There wasn’t anything else I had to do but believe and receive. When I heard Andrew teach this and looked up the scriptures for myself, I was convinced that it really was for me. I finally understood that I’d never be able to receive as long as I thought there was some other work I had to do.”
Once Mike received the revelation of healing, no one could convince him otherwise: “I noticed after about a month, the tumor got smaller. I wasn’t surprised, because I knew I was healed. Within six months’ time, it was completely gone. I learned, like Andrew says in A Sure Foundation, that if you have God’s Word in you, you’ll always have something to stand on that won’t wash away in the storm.”
Instantly Healed
Reeling in pain and loaded up on medication to numb his body, Lance Weldgen walked gingerly into his local coffee shop, laptop under his arm. Typically, after a couple of hours, the pain in his body forced him to go home and lie flat on his back. His doctors called his condition fibromyalgia. Lance called it torture. With no known cure, the best Lance could hope for was temporary relief through the seventeen different medications he took.
Lance noticed a couple—Mike and Rose Gonyer—sitting across the room, studying their Bibles. He mustered his strength to walk over and strike up a conversation. As Lance returned to his seat, the Gonyers noticed his pain. “I went over to him and told him I could tell he was in a lot of pain,” recalls Mike. “I asked if he would share what was going on. After he told me, I invited him to Charis Bible College, where Rose and I were students.”
The intense pain kept Lance pinned to his bed and away from CBC the following day. But the next day, Lance’s wife, Gerri, got him up at five a.m., determined he would make it to the school.
After attending four classes, Lance was led into an empty classroom where Mike and Rose began praying for him. “After explaining what God’s Word says about healing, Rose said that God put it on her heart to ask if I felt worthy—valuable enough—to receive His healing,” says Lance. “For the first time, I realized that this had been my problem all along.”
Lance wasn’t prepared for what happened next: “Mike and Rose began praying for me—but not the kind of prayers I’d ever heard before. They spoke directly to my body, telling the fibromyalgia and pain to leave, and then rebuked a spirit of sickness.” Mike then told Lance to stand up and asked how he felt. “I noticed I didn’t have to grab onto anything to stand,” recalls Lance. Lance stood straight up and mentally scanned his body. One thing was noticeably missing—the pain!
Lance is now living a pain-free, abundant life as a full-time counselor at a local rescue mission. He’s using the same Holy Spirit authority that got him healed to set others free of addictions and sickness.
A Broken Heart
Jamie Scott lay on the hospital bed, holding her brand-new baby girl and feeling amazed at the miracle of childbirth. Her daughter looked perfect. But after several minutes, Jamie and the nurses observed that the baby wasn’t maintaining her natural color and kept turning white. The nurses raced her daughter to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit.
Nearly two hours had passed when the doctor returned to Jamie with grim news: Her daughter was missing a rib, a couple of major arteries, and the left side of her heart. The doctor transferred the baby to another hospital that specialized in cardiology. Good thing for Jamie, a friend had told her about Andrew Wommack Ministries just a few months prior, and Jamie had been learning truths about God’s Word ever since.
“When my friend first told me about AWM, I went to the website to see what Andrew taught,” says Jamie. “I had been raised in church, but had never heard teaching like this. I ordered several books and CDs, including The True Nature of God, which set me free in my relationship with Him. I then began watching Andrew on television where I heard his teaching God Wants You Well, and I ordered the book A Better Way to Pray.”
When the doctor’s report came, she had the confidence to stand on God’s Word: “For the first time I felt I really knew who God was,” says Jamie. “At that moment, I remembered Andrew saying how we have the power to speak God’s Word to our bodies. I laid my hands on her and commanded her heart to be whole, and I declared that she was healed by the stripes of Jesus.”
God’s peace instantly washed over Jamie, even though she was looking at her daughter’s white-colored skin and a jumble of tubes connected to her tiny body. As Jamie returned to her hospital room, the Holy Spirit spoke three words to her: “Watch Me work.”
The following day, Jamie spoke to the cardiologist, who had written a book on heart defects. He said that because the baby’s heart was not developed enough to support arteries, there was no guarantee that any type of surgery would be successful.Jamie and her husband waited and prayed, continuing to stand on God’s Word that their baby had been made whole.
Still in the hospital herself, Jamie wasn’t able to see her baby. But the next day, she spoke to a nurse who told her that her daughter’s condition had changed the night before. After viewing ultrasounds, they now saw a heart where there was no heart before and arteries where there had been none. Jamie hung up the phone and, with tears, exclaimed to her husband, “They see her heart!”
After four days in NICU, Jamie’s daughter was moved to the preemie unit and, by the end of that week, sent home with her parents. While the doctors couldn’t explain what happened, they assured Jamie that her baby was 100 percent whole. But Jamie already knew that based on God’s Word. In looking back on the experience, Jamie says with certainty, “If I didn’t learn the teachings about healing that I received through AWM, my daughter would not be here today.”
There are so many lessons to be learned from each of these stories, and these are just the tip of iceberg. My staff has now put together three DVDs called Healing Journeys I, II, and III. Each DVD has five miraculous and powerful stories. They will build your faith to receive your own healing and help you minister healing to others.
Notes from this blogger: please visit the following site to find more materials: http://www.awmi.net/extra/article/power_testimony
online TV broadcast: http://www.awmi.net/tv/2011/week1
January 29, 2014
What happens at Biblical midnight?
Psalm 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, Because of Your righteous judgments.
Psalm 119:61-63 (in Context) Psalm 119 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Matthew 25:6
“And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’
Matthew 25:5-7 (in Context) Matthew 25 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Mark 13:35
Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning—
Mark 13:34-36 (in Context) Mark 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Luke 11:5
[ A Friend Comes at Midnight ] And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves;
Luke 11:4-6 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Acts 16:25
[ The Philippian Jailer Saved ] But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:24-26 (in Context) Acts 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Acts 20:7
[ Ministering at Troas ] Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.
Acts 20:6-8 (in Context) Acts 20 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Acts 27
The Voyage to Rome Begins; Paul’s Warning Ignored; In the Tempest 27:27 Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors sensed that they were drawing near some land. 28 And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms. 29 Then, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and prayed for day to come. 30 And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, when they had let down the skiff into the sea, under pretense of putting out anchors from the prow, 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.” 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the skiff and let it fall off.
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, Because of Your righteous judgments.
Psalm 119:61-63 (in Context) Psalm 119 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Matthew 25:6
“And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’
Matthew 25:5-7 (in Context) Matthew 25 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Mark 13:35
Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning—
Mark 13:34-36 (in Context) Mark 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Luke 11:5
[ A Friend Comes at Midnight ] And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves;
Luke 11:4-6 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Acts 16:25
[ The Philippian Jailer Saved ] But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:24-26 (in Context) Acts 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Acts 20:7
[ Ministering at Troas ] Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.
Acts 20:6-8 (in Context) Acts 20 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
Acts 27
The Voyage to Rome Begins; Paul’s Warning Ignored; In the Tempest 27:27 Now when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors sensed that they were drawing near some land. 28 And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms. 29 Then, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and prayed for day to come. 30 And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, when they had let down the skiff into the sea, under pretense of putting out anchors from the prow, 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.” 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the skiff and let it fall off.
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