Prayer Works 15

WOMAN WITH ARTHRITIS HEALED

A number of phyiscal healings occurred during a seminar about revival and healing in late summer 1998 in Pensacola, Florida, with Dr. Michael Brown and Suzette Hattingh, according to one participant. The following is part of the report: "Heike Barth is a young woman from Frankfurt, who stood up one day and danced and jumped around in the church. That is not normal, because she has arthritis. She says 'I am a musician in a secular group in Germany. It is a complete miracle that I am here; I attended a 'Holy Spirit' meeting in Germany, where someone gave me money to fly to Pensacola. I had never simply been given money before. A voice inside me said 'Go directly to Pensacola', but there weren't any flights free; everything was booked solid. Finally, I miraculously got a seat.

I have had arthritis since an accident when I was 17 years old. I could not run, could hardly walk, and was in constant pain. And now, following prayer, I can run around. Unbelievable!' Suzette Hattingh was a nurse and midwife before deciding to become a missionary, initially in German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke's staff. In January 1997, she started her own evangelistic ministry, 'Voice in the city'. 'There are many hindrances to Christians experiencing God's supernatural work,' she said during the seminar. 'One of them is knowledge in "the box of unbelief", our heads.'"

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9841.html#USA

Prayer Works 13

DEAD GIRL RAISED IN INDIA

"A 4th-grade girl was recently bitten by a venomous snake, and died in hospital despite the doctor's best efforts to keep her alive. The staff left the dead girl's room. A few minutes later, two Christians from a church in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, heard what had happened and went into the room. They prayed for half an hour, calling on Jesus to restore the girl's life. The girl started to breathe, and her life returned. They quickly called the doctor, who was naturally perplexed by what had happened; he removed the venom from the wound on the girl's leg. The girl is now completely healthy. The news spread not only in the local church, but also throughout the hospital."

ANOTHER GIRL HEALED

The report continues: "In the Lak valley in northern India, a poor family brought their seriously ill little daughter to the local hospital. The doctors had no idea what to do, and wanted to send the girl to the nearest city for treatment, and told the father that it could cost US$7,000. Sam Chand, the girl's father, was in a desperate situation, because he, like most others in India, had no health insurance. After hearing of his need, the staff of a local mission agency went to the hospital to pray for the girl. God performed a miracle: she is now healthy and has returned home."

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9840.html#India

Prayer Works 12

ZIMBABWE - CHRISTIAN LEADER HEALED

Shortly before a strategy meeting of 100 Christian leaders from 9 nations in Zimbabwe in early summer 1998, Xolisani Dlamini, the main organizer, was brutally attacked by three men. After stabbing him with knives, hitting him on the head with a rock and stealing the money for the conference, they stripped him naked and left him to die. Hours later, Xolisani somehow managed to drag himself to his car, which his attackers had been unable to start, and drove home. "I have no idea how I managed it. Angels must have helped me!" he says. Eight days after the attack, Xolisani was sitting on the podium in the conference, covered with bandages and plaster. He was due to have another operation that day, but the doctors cancelled at the last moment after suddenly deciding that it was unnecessary. "One doctor said 'Something is happening which we don't understand'. That's a miracle."

6,000 new churches in the last 6 years

According to Xolisani's detailed research, significantly more than 6,000 churches have been planted in Zimbabwe over the last 6 years as part of a strategic plan named 'Target 2000', in which various churches and denominations aim to plant 10,000 churches between 1992 and 2000. The church-planting has added 2.24 million new converts to the evangelical churches, which is almost 20 percent of Zimbabwe's population. At the conference, Xolisani said "The devil is not at all pleased by the Christians' strategy. It is destroying his kingdom. He doesn't just sit around with his hands folded in his lap, watching people fill countries with churches. I can very well understand that Satan wanted to kill me. But he simply does not understand that I am now even more determined to continue, to do even more. I would happily give my life for the project of 'making disciples of Zimbabwe'.

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9835.html#Zimbabwe

Prayer Works 11

BABY HEALED

Becca Bates and her son Dustin were just eating their lunch in Centralia, Washington, when they were disturbed. An ambulance drove on to the parking lot with sirens blaring, and a large group of people had gathered. Becca and her son also went outside to see what had happened. A 22-month-old baby was lying on the ground, and the paramedics had just started to examine it. The baby had stopped breathing, had lost almost all of its color, and showed no signs of life.

17-year-old Dustin went forward and did the unthinkable: "Could I hold the baby?", he asked the paramedics. They gave him the baby. He then asked "Would it be okay for me to pray?". As Dustin was praying for the baby in front of all the people, Becca went to the distressed mother to comfort her and pray with her. Just then, the baby started to move. Dustin put the baby on his shoulder and started to caress it. Moments later, its color returned and it began to cry.

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9831.html#USA2

Prayer Works 10

1,000 HEALED IN CANADA

We have received two very similar reports of a conference in Victoria, Canada. To quote the report from David Wilkinson, Fellowship at Road's End, Washington: "My wife Marjory and I are on the way back from Trinity Christian Centre (Pastor Ivor Lewis) to Methow Valley, near Winthrop, Washington. In Victoria, during events with Charles Ndifon from Nigeria, '100 were saved and around 1,000 healed'.

We saw - and we mean literally SAW - blind people throw their white sticks away; we experienced how people could suddenly hear again, that a woman's tumor vanished, a cross-eyed boy could see straight, how people stood up out of their wheelchairs and walked around, and some believed to be healed of cancer and could hardly wait to go to the doctor to be examined. Most of the healings occurred during the worship time and Charles' preaching. The sermons were so simple, that you almost had to be there to believe it: 'If you came for a miracle, go to him who works miracles. If you came to be healed, go to him who heals. If you came so that Charles would pray for you, you've come to the wrong address. I am just like you. Seek Jesus, not me.'

I was standing next to a man who limped because his legs had been different lengths since birth. He was over 40 years old. I saw him healed right next to me. His father, who was also there, was beside himself for joy that his son no longer limped."

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9822.html#Canada

Prayer Works 5

MAN HEALED OF GLAUCOMA, CHILD RAISED FROM DEAD

"Ronny, a retired businessman, was recently healed of glaucoma, an eye disease leading to blindness, after receiving prayer in Jesus' name," reports Jimmy Crompton. Soon afterwards, Ronny went to visit his daughter in Johannesburg. One afternoon, he heard screams from the street - it was a woman, whose daughter had just been found at the bottom of a swimming pool. "Nobody knew how long she had been there, but she was completely blue, had no pulse and had ceased to breathe," says Ronny. Her mother was completely hysterical. Ronny took the mother and child into his daughter's house and started to pray as others called the ambulance.

He prayed for 20 minutes before becoming angry and starting to loudly command the 'spirit of death'. Suddenly, the child turned over, regurgitated a huge amount of water and began to scream. The mother and daughter's screams helped the ambulance find the house quickly. As soon as they arrived, the medics examined the child and declared her completely healthy, but took her to hospital anyway in case of complications. Further examinations showed that she had suffered no brain damage or other ill effects. Ronny is convinced that Jesus raised the child from the dead.

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9809.html#SAfrica2

Prayer Works 4

MISSIONARY'S BACK HEALED

"As a missionary, you experience many things, including many miracles which happen to other people. Mostly, though, other people are healed - but this time it was me! I can hardly believe it, but God healed me of great suffering!", writes Dr. Johan Combrinck from Pretoria, South Africa. He is the director of AFNET, a network based on the DAWN strategy. "In November 1997, I seriously injured my back. I simply lifted a coffee table in the AFNET office, then my back clicked and that was it! To start with, I could feel nothing in my right hip and leg.

The orthopedic surgeon prescribed rest in bed, at Christmas of all times. However, it just became worse. With time, the pain became so bad that I could not sit, lie down or move; I was completely immobile. X-rays showed serious damage to one of my vertebrae, and an NMR test revealed a slipped disc. One piece of cartilage was pressing against the nerve, and another part had even fallen into the spinal column, where it was also pressing against the nerve. As the neurosurgeon saw that, he said that it was 'enough to cause pain and increasing immobility. The only solution is an operation' which could last up to 8 hours. The operation was scheduled for February 9. I had no medical insurance, because it is too expensive for me as a missionary. The operation was way beyond anything we could afford, so I repeatedly delayed it out of fear of bankruptcy. The doctors, though, told me that the only alternative would be confinement to a wheelchair. That worked - I asked many people to pray for me, all over the world.

A few days before the operation, I was due to visit the neurosurgeon for a preparatory examination. As you can understand, I slept badly the night before. But as I got up that morning, I felt no pain for the first time in 3 months. I couldn't understand it, and it was 'clear' to me that it could only be a temporary reprieve. Then the neurosurgeon examined me: the more tests he performed, the less he found. His surprise slowly gave way to total astonishment, then he gave his diagnosis: 'For some medically unexplainable reason, you are healed. A natural reversal of your pathological state is impossible. The only explanation for what you have experienced is a miracle,' he said, reaching for the telephone to cancel the preparations for my operation. For the orthopedic surgeon who also examined me, it was also the first case of a spontaneous healing without possible explanation - a miracle, as he also said. Today, I can walk and move without pain. God has completely healed me. I have thanked him in tears countless times. I am speechless."

http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9809.html#SAfrica