James Goll: "God's Healing Delivery Systems"

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This week's communiqué is more on the teaching side versus the personal ones that I have brought to you in recent weeks. I want to drive a stake in the ground that even though we have had some setbacks, we are not giving up on "divine healing." I will not drop the bar of my understanding of God's Word to match my experience. I will continue to contend for the fullness of God's fruit and gifting to come together in this generation, and that our experience matches the Word.

With this in mind, I am bringing you a teaching on God's Healing Delivery Systems. Let's keep striking the arrows to the ground (see II Kings 13) until we see a great increase in all areas of healing and deliverance—not just one area—in all areas! Remember, it is by His stripes we are healed! It is ours. It is done! His work is perfect and complete!

In Christ Jesus our Lord..anticipating!

James W. Goll

GOD'S VARIOUS MEANS
Removing Blockades

God wants us to be well! But, God has more than one assembly line available to Him by which He delivers the finished product. Obviously, conditions must be met in order to receive from the Lord. A knowledge of the Father's love, faith in the completed work of the Cross of Christ, and patient abiding in the Word of God are but a few of these essentials.

In some situations, we try to "box God in" on how He will heal us. God has various means to utilize, to restore, or to bring us to proper health. Ignorance, unbelief, prejudices, and presumptive thinking are blockades that must be removed for the stream of God's healing power to flow to and through us.

II Kings 5:1-14 tells us of the preconceived ideas Naaman, the leprous and valiant warrior, had concerning "how God through the prophet would heal him." Verse 11 states, "But Naaman was furious and went away and said, 'Behold, I thought, "He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper."'" The directions given by Elisha were to the contrary though. "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean."

Due to Naaman's preconceived ideas and his prideful and prejudiced ways of thinking, he almost missed out on the very thing he was seeking—cleansing, healing, and restoration. Naaman turned away in rage (verse 12), but his faithful servants prevailed upon him to go and wash himself in the Jordan River. As Naaman humbled himself and did the little act of foolish obedience, his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was made clean (see II Kings 5:14).

Let us also drop our prejudiced, prideful ways of thinking, humble ourselves, and receive as a little child!

Three Channels of Healing Love

The highest form, other than the climactic resurrection of the dead and receiving our "glorified bodies," is Divine Health.

3 John 2:1 states, "Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers." Good health is the mark we all desire.

In God's healing delivery system, there are at least three major channels:

1. The natural and nutritional.
2. Science and the medical arts.
3. Divine, supernatural healing.

Each of these areas are valuable and much dissertation can be done to expound on each of these separately. But, the focus of this teaching is to highlight the variety of means God uses in the divine, supernatural approach.

Primary Verses on Healing

The following are some of the classic Scripture verses on healing that one should study, learn and meditate upon.

1. Exodus 15:26, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put upon the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, AM YOUR HEALER."

2. Psalm 103:1-5, "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy Name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities; Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit; Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; Who satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle."

3. Isaiah 53:5, "But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed."

4. I Peter 2:24, "And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the Cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed."

5. Matthew 8:16-17, "When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill. This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: 'He Himself took our infirmities, and carried away our diseases.'"

6. Mark 16:16-17, "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

7. I Corinthians 12:9, "...and to another the gifts of healing by the one Spirit."

8. James 5:14-15, "Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him."

Biblical Methodologies

Communion - The Lord's Supper

Read: I Corinthians 11:27-34. God has, to a larger degree, bound our physical well-being to our ability to relate spiritually to the "flesh and bone" aspect of Christ.

Water Baptism

Read: Romans 6:3-6; Mark 16:16. Perhaps some Believers have never experienced freedom in habitual patterns of sin because they've never identified with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ through a New Testament water baptism. This is not an option and is commandment of Scripture that should be fulfilled.

Calling for the Elders and Anointing with Oil

Read: James 5:14,15; Mark 6:13. Be prepared to act on God's Word! Be ready to obey God's Word and anoint with oil the sick, acting in faith as you release the Holy Spirit's anointing.

Laying on of Hands and Prayer by Believers in General

Read: Mark 16:16-18; Matthew 19:15. All Believers have as their prerogative to believe God's Word and pray for the sick through the laying on of hands. God is looking for hands to use.

Can the Lord work through your hands?

By the Spoken Word

Read: Luke 7:1-10. The greatest faith, according to Jesus, rests solely in the "Word."

There were three types of people who came to Jesus for healing:

1. Those who came for personal healing.
2. Those who brought someone else for healing.
3. Those who came for someone else, but only sought the word of Jesus, stating they would be healed.

Jesus' Garments; Peter's Shadow

"And wherever He went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged Him to let them touch even the edge of His cloak, and all who touched Him were healed."—Mark 6:56

"As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of them were healed."—Acts 5:15,16

These formed a "point of contact" for the one in need. The Lord will use such "tools" with us as we are led by the present tense voice of the Holy Spirit.

Handkerchiefs and Aprons from Paul

"God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them."—Acts 19:11-12

Notice that these were called "special/extraordinary miracles." They were done this way either by revelation or because there was no other way for Paul to contact them.

Levels of the Operation

There are various levels of operations, such as the Gifts of Healing and Working of Miracles. See the Study Guide on Releasing Spiritual Gifts for more on this subject.

1. Instantaneous - Matthew 8:3; Mark 1:31
2. Gradual - John 4:52; Mark 8:22-25

Confession

"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective."—James 5:16

Confess your faults to another and experience cleansing and healing. This opens a gate of humility, and thus God's grace appears on the scene.

Healing Release through Angelic Activity

"Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.

"A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, 'Do you wish to get well?'

"The sick man answered Him, 'Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.'"—John 5:2-7

(For more on this subject, see the lessons on the "Ministry and Function of Angels" in the Study Guide Understanding Supernatural Encounters.)

Many Valid Healing Styles

Soaking Prayer Approach

"They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When He had spit on the man's eyes and put His hands on him, Jesus asked, 'Do you see anything?'

"He looked up and said, 'I see people; they look like trees walking around.' Once more Jesus put His hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Jesus sent him home, saying, 'Don't go into the village.'"—Mark 8:22-26

Bringing the presence of God into an individual's life over an extended period of time and seeing progressive healing occur through the patient process is often termed "soaking prayer."

Five Stage Healing Model

This is an integrated approach to healing which involves a dialogue-prayer combination as taught in the book, Power Healing, by John Wimber.

This Five Stage technique is presented in full in Lesson Three in my Study Guide on The Healing Anointing.

Faith Healing

1. By the faith of healer—the one ministering.
2. By the faith of individual—coming with the need.
3. By the faith by others who bring the one in need.
4. By exercising faith in the Word of God expressed through prayer to God alone.

Acting Out Specific Directions

This might be by putting fingers in ears, placing mud in the eye, or telling someone to dip in the pool as Jesus did. In this manner we wait to get specific direction and then "Listen and obey."

"Slain in the Spirit"

Resting in the Spirit, overcome by power, the "glory fall," etc. Many different terms have historically been used to describe this overwhelming experience.

This experience is when one gently or powerfully "falls in the Spirit" into a resting position where God's presence and healing moves upon your being.

"Lengthening of Legs and Arms"

There are numerous and various healing techniques that may be utilized and which may authentically release the power of God to flow into an individual. This may include simply sitting a person in a chair and asking the Lord to give a Holy Spirit chiropractic adjustment, as He adjusts and repositions or heals the leg or arm.

Being Open—Not Closed—A Great Key

We Must Learn to be Faithful

Be faithful in the little we presently receive—stepping out in faith that a greater increase of His anointing will come (Luke 16:10-12).

We Must Drop Our Prejudices

We must drop our prejudices against particular streams, styles, and techniques. Let's not strain at a gnat and swallow a religious camel!

Let's Always be Christ-Centered

Let's always be Christ-centered, giving praise and honor to the glorious Lord Jesus Christ, and lift up the One who suffered on our behalf. Remember the lesson of Numbers 21:6-9. Whoever looked at the bronze serpent upon the standard lived. Let us lift up Christ and cause people to look to Him!

Remember, ultimately, it is not the "healing techniques or models of delivery systems" that bring God's cure to bear. It is the person and presence of Jesus as it says in Matthew 4:23:"And Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness..."

Amen! Let God's Healing Anointing flow through His many different delivery systems in Jesus' name!

Thanks for Praying and Caring!

James W. Goll
Encounters Network and PrayerStorm 
Email: info@encountersnetwork.com

The FLORIDA HEALING OUTPOURING

May 2, 2008 Friday night report!
Pastor Stephen Strader


It’s our first night in the Tiger Baseball Stadium. They say it seats 10,000 packed… We are packed PLUS. We have wheel chairs lining the dugouts… and behind home plate.

PLUS, hundreds sitting on the grassy knoll behind left field, hundreds standing in between the bleachers and concessions… maybe more than a 1,000 extra!!!

We don’t know how many hundreds were not able to come in because there was NO PARKING ANYWHERE!!!

THE MAIN ROAD WAS SHUT DOWN FOR A HALF-MILE IN BOTH DIRECTIONS in a traffic jam!!!

But that isn’t the WHOLE story. The anointing is so strong in the stadium that we all are OVERWHELMED!!! Todd literally laid down on the platform!!!

Suddenly, out of no where… THREE OSPREY’S (they look just like small eagles) FLY OVER THE INFIELD CARRYING FISH IN THEIR MOUTHS!!! THE CROWD SCREAMS!!!

The crowd begins to chant – JESUS, JESUS, JESUS… we can’t control them…

Todd declares… 30 Days ago this outpouring began in a 700 seat sanctuary, moved to a 3,000 seat sanctuary, then to a 7,000 seat arena, and now tonight, we are in the 10,000 seat baseball stadium!!!

WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!! NOW, THE PEOPLE OF GOD WILL FILL STADIUM AFTER STADIUM AFTER STADIUM… ALL OVER THE WORLD!!!

Tonight will be a GREAT BAPTISM OF FIRE SERVICE!!!

This HEALING OUTPOURING HAS JUST BEGUN!!!

ALL GLORY BE UNTO THE KING… THIS IS A SOVEREIGN MOVE OF GOD!!!

Todd kneels and prays, “may everyone watching the webcast and God.TV, feel the same anointing and even stronger!!!”

“I’M OVERWHELMED AND SPEECHLESS… I’VE HEARD THE SOUND OF REVIVAL TONIGHT!!!”

“My God, release tonight, fiery evangelists all over the world!!!”

Todd reads a personal account from Burford Dowell, a friend of William Branhum…

“I’ve been a part of a great era of healing revivals, along with great men of God, such as R.W. shambach, W.V. Grant Sr., Jack Coe, A.A. Allen.

“We’ve seen mighty signs & wonders & miracles. But most of the time we could only minister to people, one at a time!

“But this season is soon coming to a close and God is ushering in a ‘new season of the teaching and revelation of the world’!

“After that, another new season is coming to the Body of Christ, that will shake the whole world! It will be the greatest outpouring of the miracle healing power of God that the world has ever seen!

“At times, they will not be able to lay hands and pray for people as we did… one at a time… but they will just speak the word to all the multitudes of the deaf and blind… and their ears will pop open and their blind eyes will open… with no man touching them!

“Even eye balls will be created! Missing limbs and organs created! Creative miracles of restoration of body parts… even the dead raised!

“God is going to raise up a great army of true apostles and prophets. They will have the end-time anointing upon them. And they will rise up and bring healing to the nations!

“There will be times that such large crowds will come to the mass meetings, that no tent, no auditorium, will be able to seat the people!

“The prophets of God will not just about future events, but they will have the divine mind of God, and become the very oracle of God! And they will speak with such authority that their words will be the words of God Himself.

“What ever they say… god will create it… for His Glory!

“This will be the greatest move of God of all time. It will usher in the coming of the Lord!”

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Todd releases many Words of Knowledge
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A young lady comes WALKING UP ON THE STAGE… HER CRUTCHES IN HER HANDS… injured knee and broken ankle… could not walk on it!!! Headed for surgery!!!

A lady on oxygen FELT LIKE GOD WAS BREATHING INTO HER LUNGS… breast cancer spread into her lungs… the doctors gave her months to live… SHE FELT LIKE A FIRE OVER HER WHOLE BODY!!! She would be on the floor if she went more than 15 minutes without oxygen… SHE HASN’T USED IT FOR 20 MINUTES!!! SHE’S RUNNING IN PLACE… NO SHORTNESS OF BREATH.

A lady with cancer & tumors in her back… in a wheel chair… breast cancer… moved to liver… too weak to walk more than a few steps… SHE FEELS OVERWHELMING PEACE…

SHE GETS OUT OF THE WHEEL CHAIR AND BEGINS WALKING… SHE FEELS STRONGER!!!

Todd had called out all three of her conditions… spine, liver, breast…

She just flew down today from Indiana and still had the baggage claim stickers on her chair!

A young lady with MD is FEELING FIRE IN THE CALVES OF HER LEGS…

A lady suffers from a serious form of diabetes… was healed in the service this AM… if she doesn’t eat and take the medicine she will began shaking and unable to talk after about an hour.

SHE WAS JUMPING AND WORSHIPPING!!!

She had a tumor on her foot for 10 years… she took her shoes and sox off… AND THE TUMOR IS GONE!!! She also feels she is healed of diabetes…

A lady from Cuba had a herniated disc in her neck for 20 years. She felt burning in her neck… SHE’S MOVING HER NECK ALL AROUND WITHOUT PAIN!!!

A lady with fibromyalgia… FELT THE PAIN WASH OUT OF HER BODY… she couldn’t handle anyone touching her skin!!! SHE’S RUBBING HER SKIN WITH NO PAIN!!!

A little 8 yr old girl… had surgery that removed the bone in her ear… IMPOSSIBLE TO HEAR… born with a cleft palette…

SHE FELT SOMEBODY TOUCH HER EAR AND FELT HOT FIRE BURN HER EAR… SHE CAN HEAR!!!

A lady with a torn retina… SHE CAN SEE CLEARLY…

A man takes 100 vicaden per month… muscle relaxer… sitting way up in the bleachers… NEEDS A NEW SPINE… HE’S GOT ONE!!! HE’S JUMPING AND BENDING AND JUMPING!!!

LOOK AT THE SCOREBOARD… satan 0… Jesus empty wheel chairs… blind eyes open… deaf hearing… lame walking!!!

A young lady with two bulging discs… sever pain… multiple medications… SHE IS MOVING HER NECK ALL AROUND

A man came to the meeting on crutches… just had reconstructive surgery in his left knee… facing 6 months of theoropy… HE’S BENDING, MOVING, JUMPING!!!

A man with only four months to live with stomach cancer that has spread through his whole body… came from Indiana… watching on God.TV…

A 11 yr old boy had diabetes since he was four… FELT THE POWER OF GOD GO THROUGH HIS BODY!!!

A lady came using a walker… in a car wreck… disc disease… fibromyalgia… Todd called out every one of her infirmities…

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TONIGHT, SHE WALKED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WEEKS!!!
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Todd declares…

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“I WANT TO SEE A HEALING OUTPOURING
BREAK OUT IN EVERY CITY IN AMERICA!!!”
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A lady with fibromyalgia… FELT FIRE IN HER BACK THE MOMENT TODD CALLED IT OUT!!! Tumors in her legs… bulging discs…

A LADY WAS DEAF IN HER RIGHT EAR FOR 30 YEARS!!! Someone touched her ear in the bleachers… she was instantly healed!!!

A lady has been watching on God.TV for several weeks… she claimed her healing… four back surgeries… SHE CAME FOR HEALING… SHE WALKED OUT OF HER WHEEL CHAIR… she has been feeling HEAT all afternoon!!!

A lady afflicted with sports induced asthma… couldn’t run… SHE’S SHAKING AND BAKING…

SHE RAN THROUGH THE PARKING LOT AND BACK INTO THE STADIUM…

A lady couldn’t raise her arms above her head because of arthritis… SHE’S RAISING HER HANDS UP AND DOWN LIKE A CHEERLEADER…

A lady from the UK flew here to get her healing… crushed between a truck and car… suffered from fibromyalgia for 14 yrs… couldn’t bend all the way over… SHE’S TOUCHING HER TOES AND NO PAIN ON HER SKIN!!!

A lady has a degenerated spine… confined to a wheel chair for nine months… just months to live… SHE’S WALKING… PAIN IS GOING… desperate for a miracle.

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SUDDENLY THE ATMOSPHERE CHANGED… more miracles!!!
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A young boy was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his throat… left him with a heart problem… if he ran he would pass out…

HE TAKES OFF RUNNING ALL AROUND THE BASES OF THE STADIUM LIKE HE JUST HIT A HOME RUN!!!

A lady died in January of this year… had a stroke & seizures… had heart surgery… coded… they brought her back… has been using a walker and cane… ever since!!! SHE IS WALKING PERFECTLY!!! She was healed in the morning service.

A lady had a tumor on her stomach… THE TUMOR IS GONE!!!

A young man had pain & infection from a hernia… came from NY to get healed… headed for surgery… HE CAN BEND AND JUMP WITH NO PAIN… HERNIA IS GONE!!!

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TODD SHARES HIS TESTIMONY
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HE PREACHES A SIMPLE GOSPEL MESSAGE… YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN…

“GOD WILL GIVE YOU A SECOND CHANCE… JUST LIKE ME!!!”

Todd gave a word of knowledge last night about Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones… Keith called Todd today!!!! KEITH WAS WATCHING!!!

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JESUS… I NEED YOU… COME INTO MY HEART… FORGIVE ME OF MY SIN…
I WANT TO BE SAVED… I WANT TO BE CHANGED… I ACCEPT YOU JESUS…
MY LORD… MY SAVIOR… THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME!!!
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A young boy in on an insulin pump for diabetes for five years… his mom took the pump off by faith… Todd asked him, “do you want to be healed?” “I’M ALREADY HEALED!!!” The father of the child is a pastor in Barrel Alaska… a whale hunter…


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TODD HAS EVERYONE IN THE CROWD PRAY FOR THEIR CHILDREN!!!
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Touch your children now!!!

His little 4 year old girl is nearly deaf since birth… had one surgery… scheduled for another one in two weeks… SHE CAN HEAR NOW!!!

A lady watching the webcast… her mother didn’t believe in miracles… but she prayed for her mother and she was HEALED OF DIABETES!!!

A man drove 17 hours straight from Ohio to be here… he fell 25 ft off of a power pole… when Todd asked how many it was the first time… HE RAISED HIS ARM STRAIGHT UP AND IT WAS TOTALLY HEALED… pins, metal screws… TOTALLY HEALED!!!

A lady has had scoliosis… leaned way to the left… SHE IS STANDING STRAIGHT!!!

A young girl was nearly blind in her right eye… SHE CAN SEE COLOR AND SHAPES… NOW SHE CAN SEE TODD’S HAND…

A man was healed of four mental illness… heavy medications… hardly drive to work… hurting… last week he was HEALED WATCHING GOD.TV… NO MEDICATIONS… if he came off the drugs before, he would become violently ill…

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TODD PRAYS FOR GWEN SHAW OVER THE CELL PHONE
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A man was in two different car accidents… came for the fire… but he got healed from severe hip injury!!!

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PAUL CANE IS ON THE CELL PHONE…
WE ARE IN A STADIUM JUST LIKE YOU PROPHESIED!!! ===============================================

Michal Goll, James Goll’s wife, a brain hemorrhage, SHE’S ON THE CELL PHONE RIGHT NOW!!!

TODD PREPARED THE CROWD FOR THE IMPARTATION OF THE FIRE ANOINTING!!!

Todd asked the people to SOW into this outpouring. We are asking everyone to sow tonight into this HISTORIC EVENT.

Go to www.freshfire.ca and click on the donate button and sow into this outpouring!!!

TODD GOES INTO A FULL BLOWN IMPARTATION SERVICE…

We line the people up… double lines… all the way around the track that circles the outfield… we fill it up once, then twice, then three times… people are waiting for hours for IMPARTATION!

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THIS COULD BE THE LARGEST IMPARTATION SERVICE IN HISTORY!!!
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MORE TO COME FROM THE FLORIDA HEALING OUTPOURING!!!!

Pastor Stephen Strader
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Matt Sorger: "IT'S A NEW SEASON OF MIRACLES AND GREATER GLORY" --and God is Calling Everyone to Access and Step Into It!

Courtesy of elijahlist.com

God is up to something! Below is a word I previously shared before the beginning of the New Year with some recent miracles and testimonies that have been happening. Over the last few months, we have been witnessing a dramatic increase of God's healing, miracle power. We are stepping into a new season where signs, wonders and miracles are becoming easy. There is a shift happening in the spirit and God is calling everyone to access and step into it. Now is the time to pray for the sick like never before. There is a great healing grace being poured out.

As we have been traveling across America over the last several months, the glory of God has been poured out in such a tangible, overwhelming way. There is a heavy weight of glory sweeping over those who are hungry for more of God! Hunger and thirst are the keys to receiving this GREAT GRACE God is releasing. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and onto Him.

I have found myself saying, "IT'S JUST THAT EASY!" As the weight of His glory has filled entire rooms, His healing grace and presence have been sweeping over the people--healing them right in their seats! We worship until His glory comes and then He does the rest. There is a new realm of corporate healing glory being released. We call out a sickness by the Holy Spirit and it gets healed. It's just that easy. It's not hard in the glory!

New Mantles are Falling

All throughout Church history, men and women have partnered with God to see great movements of His Spirit released in the earth. God is still looking for such individuals today. You can be one of them!

Right now, there are mantles hovering over the Body of Christ, waiting to be released, and God is looking for those He can place them on. Some mantles will resemble things we have seen before, while others will empower people to do things that have never been done before.

The Lord recently spoke to me in a dream where He showed me one of the mantles about to be released over the corporate Body of Christ. In my dream, I was in a house full of people. I heard a knock at the door and went to open it. When I opened the door, a very elderly woman was standing there. She looked like she was just about to pass over into eternity. She could barely stand. I instantly recognized her. She was a very old Kathryn Kuhlman. I reached down and put my arms under her, picked her up and carried her into the house. As I stepped over the threshold into the house, I awoke from my sleep. For weeks I prayed over this dream asking God for understanding. As I waited on the Lord, He began to unfold its meaning to me.

Mass Miracles and Deliverance

The Lord used the picture of Kathryn Kuhlman to symbolically speak to me that there is once again about to be released over the Church a mantle that is similar to the one this great woman of God wore. It is a Mantle of Glory and Creative Miracles. Not only will it release mass miracles, but it is deeply connected to our level of intimacy with the Person of the Holy Spirit. It is a mantle of extraordinary power as well as deep intimacy with God. This mantle releases creative miracles as the atmosphere of Heaven is released in and over our lives.

This type of mantle will not just cover one or two. God wants to release it over the Corporate Body. God is looking for vessels He can endue with power out in the marketplace. We will see "backyard miracles" en masse, miracles in the home, workplace, out on the streets, in hospitals and in the malls. We will see creative miracles everywhere God's people go. But this mantle requires a lifestyle of deep communion with God and a life of complete surrender, obedience and death to self.

The second mantle I want to share with you is the Mantle of Mass Deliverance. Not only will we see mass miracles, but there is also a wave of mass deliverance coming. People that have struggled in areas of their lives for years will receive breakthrough as the fire of deliverance is released into their lives. I encourage you to pray this prayer, "Lord, uncover and expose every area of darkness in my heart." As you do, God will release by His Spirit a deep deliverance in your life. Just as the Lord delivered Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians en masse, so God will deliver His people en masse (Exodus 3:20-22).

Supernatural Favor

The third is a Mantle of Supernatural Favor. God is placing mantles of favor upon His children in this hour. It's the type of favor that God placed on Isaac as he was taking possession of the land of his inheritance in Genesis 26. As he contended for what God said was his, Isaac eventually came into a place of total fulfillment and rest. This favor will cause God's people to enter into the fullness of their inheritance.

Media Revival

The fourth is a Media Mantle. We will see a "media revival" with a move of God spreading through the airwaves and internet. The Lord spoke to me that He is raising up TV networks that will help facilitate this end time move of God. Jesus will even be glorified over the secular networks! God is placing Media Mantles on people who will glorify His name through various media outlets.

Be Ready

As we move into this next season, I encourage you to stay sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit as He leads you into times of prayer and waiting on Him. This will prepare you to be fully ready for all that He wants to release in and through your life. Get ready to pick up your mantle!

In the Right Place at the Right Time

When the mantle fell from Elijah, Elisha had to bend down and pick up that mantle. When he did, the Spirit of the Lord came upon him. Elisha had to be in the right place at the right time. It required persistence, determination and faithfulness on his part, so he would be correctly positioned to receive the mantle when the time came for it to be released. The same is true for us. It does matter where you are and who you are hanging out with! Some visitations from the Lord require you being in a specific place at a specific time. It is crucial we are where God wants us to be.

I know each time I have received a mantle from the Lord, it has been in a specific place and time. For example, the Lord led me to be in Moriah Chapel in Wales during the 100-year anniversary of the Welsh Revival. This was the location where the Revival of 1904 broke out--impacting millions of souls around the world. It was during this special time of prayer that I had a deep encounter with the "Revival Mantle." This was the mantle Evan Roberts, the 27-year-old revivalist, wore transforming the entire culture and society of Wales.

During my prayer time, I could physically feel a blanket-like garment being draped over my legs and around my waist. God gave me a very deep revelation on the true meaning of revival. I came to understand from John 13:4-5 that true mantles of power must be worn with humility and servanthood. This was the mantle Jesus wore when He girded Himself with a towel and washed His disciples' feet. It was significant that the mantle was draped over my waist and legs. True revival is marked with deep humility.

Another time, I was in Europe ministering with an evangelist friend in Estonia, who was doing some large evangelistic crusades, when the Mass Crusade Mantle came upon me. I was standing on the platform when it happened. The anointing for miracles and mass salvation came into the meeting. As I was standing on the right side of the platform, it felt like someone placed a blanket over my head, shoulders and arms. There was a new mantle for mass crusades being placed on my life. This mantle was released in the midst of the glorious atmosphere of a mass crusade meeting. I was in the right place at the right time. Just three months later, I held my first mass crusade in India. Multitudes were saved, healed of sickness and delivered from demonic oppression!

Testimonies are Coming In!

Here are just a few of the healing and miracle testimonies that have been shared over the last few months as God's healing glory is invading the earth!

Deaf Ears are Opening:

I was at a church near my home and a young man, Matt Sorger, was preaching. While he was preaching, I was healed! I've had problems with my hearing and I've been healed. Praise God.

Janet
Syracuse, New York


At the conference Matt Sorger called out a word of knowledge. The word of knowledge was that God is healing someone with a plugged ear. That was me. When he called the word out, at that moment my ear popped open and I was healed. Jesus healed me. Praise God!

Louise
Syracuse, New York

I had deafness because of high fevers as a child. Tubes and fibers were destroyed in my ears because of the high fevers from kidney failure. I am now completely healed!

Cathy
Maricopa, Arizona

Healed from Bone and Back Pain:

I was at the Glory, Signs and Wonders Conference in Syracuse. While I was there, I was healed from a sports injury that had caused much pain in my jaw and popping of the bones. I've had this problem for ten years and Jesus was the only one that healed me. Thank you, God, for no more pain. God is good.

Jonathan
Syracuse, New York


I was at the conference in Syracuse. For about ten years, I have suffered from severe back pain. I've gone to church before, but tonight God healed me completely. This is the first time I am having no more pain. I am healed. God is good. If you have a pain, believe God and He will heal you.

Charity
Syracuse, New York

Limp Leg and Feet Healed:

I had a polyp on my knee for seven years and I was unable to straighten my leg. I had orthoscopic surgery on my knee, and the surgeon said it was successful, but I walked with a limp and still couldn't straighten it. I was healed during the meeting and now can straighten my leg and walk!

Carolyn
Arizona

I had a bone spur on the bottom of my left foot and I was limping. Then the fire came on my left foot and the pain left. There is no more limp in my walk.

Susan
Tacoma, Washington



I want to highly encourage you to join us for one of our upcoming meetings. God is doing a NEW THING! He is looking for hungry vessels He can fill and endue with His power!

Matt Sorger
Matt Sorger Ministries
Email: info@mattsorger.com

halloween hospital -- Culture of Death or Culture of Life?

by Joe Cuda

It was 12 days before halloween as my wife, son, and I walked through the halls of a local hospital. With the attendant pushing my father-in-law in a wheelchair, we were headed for the C. C. U. where he would spend the day undergoing some necessary heart procedures. The night before was very draining emotionally; my mother-in-law was taken to the emergency room of a different hospital 30 miles from our home, making it impossible to be with them both on this day. Needless to say, our family was experiencing considerable stress.

A right turn, a left turn, another left, then a right again, and we were at the entrance of the C.C.U. Much to my surprise, on the door was a poster of a witch. Draped across the poster was yellow tape stating "Caution: Enter if you dare". I thought, "Do I want my father-in-law going through that door?" Of course, I knew he needed to because that was where the heart procedures would take place. So we proceeded through the door.

I was shocked as the door opened -- the lights were dim, and the nurse's station was draped with thick, dangling cobwebs all around it. In the middle, hanging overhead, were four ghoulish heads. Ghost-like figures, skeletons, spiders, bats, and other creatures of the night were splashed around the nurse's station which was at the hub of a half circle of patient’s rooms, each door opening a mere six feet away from this shadowy, eerie presentation. The hallway was clothed with more of the same.

My thoughts immediately went to my father-in-law having to spend the day in this dark environment and how that might affect him negatively. My wife went with him to the room that he would be in for the day. My son and I waited in the hall as the door closed.

A minute later a nurse came back out the door and told me the waiting room for C.C.U. was down the hall. I said, "Thank you", and began to express to her, in a polite tone of voice, how disappointed I was with the surroundings that my father-in-law had to be in all day. The nurse’s response was curt as she told me, “Not everyone has those same feelings!” She whirled around and went back through the door.

My son and I headed to the waiting room. As we entered the place where we would be waiting for the next few hours, I literally had to bend over to avoid getting "cobwebs" in my hair. The only light in there was green and turned down low. More ghoulish faces and skeletons could be seen hanging from the ceiling along with bunches of spiders all around the room. This was just over-the-top, especially for a hospital!

Walking out to see if we could find a waiting room that wasn't covered with all this stuff, my wife came out of the C. C. U. and met us in the hall. As we talked she made this statement, "A hospital should not be a culture of death, but a culture of life!" She hit the nail on the head. In those few words she summed up everything I was feeling, but not quite able to express.

While we were talking, the nurse came out in the hall. My wife shared with her that the hospital should be a place of healing, a place of safety, and a place of life. It should not be a place where death is waved in your face. It should not be a place where the ceiling, walls, and counter tops are dripping with bloody body parts, (though they be artificial) murder, and other occult symbolism.

The nurse said she could do nothing about it, but she would call a supervisor so we could relay our thoughts to a person who would listen and might possibly do something about it. We found a waiting room in the lobby that was not filled with halloween “gore” and told the nurse where we would be.

About 15 minutes later a very nice lady on the hospital board came and met with us. We spoke of our concerns and the view that a hospital should have a culture of life. After listening, she said she would take what we had told her and present it at the next board meeting in a couple weeks. We said thank you and we would be looking forward to hearing the results.

We didn't have to wait for 2 weeks to hear back from her. About 20 minutes later she came back and told us the "culture of death" decorations were being taken down in the C. C. U. waiting room and we could return there. Also, the ghoulish decorations were being taken down and the hospital board would be looking into this and come up with a specific policy regarding halloween for next year, her input being to adhere to a pleasant harvest theme.

My father-in-law's procedure was successful that day and we thanked God that he was doing well. We were also very happy that the visible "culture of death" was being changed into a "culture of life" in this hospital. All it took was someone willing to speak up with a point of view that made sense, and someone else willing to listen and make changes for the better.

Consider these words from a very wise book:

"I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life." Deuteronomy 30:19 (GNT)

Life-changing Quotes

Day 33 of "40 Days for 40 Years" 7 Days to Go

SOURCE: www.sermonindex.net

(Rev. Thomas Brooks)"There is a great deal of worldliness, and earthly-mindedness,
and covetousness among the professing Christians of our day.
They are worshipers of the golden calf! O sirs! the world is
all shadow and vanity. The world is like Jonah's gourd--a man
may sit under its shadow for a time, but it soon decays and dies.

The main reason why many professors dote upon the world,
is because they are not acquainted with a greater glory. If
the heart of man is not filled with God--it will be filled with
the world, the flesh and the devil." - Thomas Brooks, 1670.


"By affliction, the Lord teaches His people to sit loose
from this world, and to be prepared for eternity.
By affliction, God shows His people the vanity, vexation,
emptiness, weakness, and nothingness of all created
things; and the choiceness, preciousness and sweetness
of communion with Himself." - Unknown.


"The average Christian is so cold and contented with his wretched
condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed
Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness." - A.W. Tozer


"The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of
time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the
flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already
left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels
and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are
written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous
and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the
operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become
spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual."
- A.W.Tozer


“Preach the word purely and fully; mix nothing with it that does not
belong to it... The gospel is not suited, and cannot be made to
suit, the corrupt dispositions and inclinations of the carnal mind;
but the faithful preaching of it is calculated to oppose and to
overcome those evil prejudices so far as to excite men to attend
to the doctrines it contains and the blessings it proposes. It is
your duty, not to bring down the gospel into a conformity with
them, but to change them into a conformity with the gospel.”
- Robert Hall.


"Oh the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him!!!"
-Duncan Campbell


"We stink more of the world than we stink of of sack cloth and
ashes. Alot of contemporary churches today would feel more at
home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more
afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than
magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that
holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church.
The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian
T-shirt on!" - N. Cruz.


"Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing
of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold.
When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results."
-E.M. Bounds


"Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little
cause to fear most preaching." Most preaching in the modern
church is completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy
playing golf or racquetball to bother spending time on their knees.
No wonder some pastors I've heard can more readily quote Dr.
Laura then bible passages pertaining to prayer. It's disastrous.
Satan need not fear under those conditions." - A. Reavis


"The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has
said, "apart from Me ye can do nothing." So it comes to this, that
everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!"
- 'The Normal Christian Life' - Watchman Nee


"How do we worship our God wholeheartedly? To answer the
question we must respond to the command... "If you love me, you
will obey what I command." John 14:15. True Love is complete
obedience ... If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands.
This is true love and true worship." - Unknown


"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge,
even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry
for God." - Leonard Ravenhill


"Resolved: that all men should live for the glory of God. Resolved
second: That whether others do or not, I will." - Jonathan Edwards


"Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into
heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our
Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a
thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our
departure from the field of battle." - C. T. Studd


"Make sure you are praising God on the right side of the sea."
- A former pastor, Speaking of the Israelites.


"May the Lamb who was slain, receive the reward for His suffering!"
- Cry of Moravian Missionaries


"I believed also that nobody is more a Christian. I had read in the
Bible that there will be in the last time the great apostasy, that
people will leave the faith and I believed that I lived now this time.
But I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and
will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the
tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I
came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of
practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by
the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist
dictatorship has grown 300 percent." - Richard Wurmbrand.


"There is nothing little in God." - C.H. Spurgeon


"I love to live on the brink of eternity." - David Brainerd


"Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and
delights of this lower world." - David Brainerd

"My Back Was Healed Last Night"

by Joe Cuda

Just a quick PRAISE REPORT for the healing power of Jesus Christ! Two days ago I was reaching to grab a box that was up high and it felt like I pulled a muscle (or something) on my right-side back ribs. This has happened to me a number of times over the past several years. It is very painful and usually takes several weeks to fully heal. However, this time it would be different!

It was hard to find a position, as I slept that night, where it did not hurt. Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep.

The next day was Sunday. We attended the Bethel Church in Redding that evening. The entire service was going to be focused on healing. At one point during the Praise and Worship time we were encouraged to dance. I enthusiastically joined in.

The service continued with words of knowledge being given about different infirmities God was going to heal. After we prayed for the maladies that were "called out", Bill Johnson said, "Go ahead and check yourselves and do something you couldn't do before".

Even though my back pain had not been "called out", I started moving around -- gingerly at first. To my surprise, my back no longer hurt! I moved into positions that were very painful before the worship time, but now I could not feel any pain. I tried my best to find a painful position, but there was none! It was then I realized I must have been healed during the dancing time earlier. Thank You Jesus!

There were 122 healings reported that night, ranging from migrain headaches, to arches being created in a man's formerly "flat"feet, along with several other feet/toe problems being healed, to deaf ears being opened, and a spine being properly aligned, just to name a few.

The miraculous healing touch of the Master's Hand on my back that night was wonderful. I slept unhindered by pain and have had none since. Truly He is a mighty God and I thank Him with all that is within me. Bless His Holy name!