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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Pt.1 God Lands in Disneyland!!! (Part 1 of 4) Healng Revival
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Healings at Disneyland
*This story was pulled from the Bethel Church testimonies website. It is too good not to share.
I went down to see my best friend, Jason Tax, in Los Angeles, just to visit for a week and hang out—and who knows what adventure the Holy Spirit might lead us into. Jay and I love to do street evangelism together. On the way down, I saw a Disneyland sign, and I remembered the times of lying on my bed dreaming with the Holy Spirit of revival inside the theme park. I thought, “Wow that would be cool if that ever happened for real.”
I had the privilege of speaking at my friend’s church on Wednesday night, and after the service, a lady asked me if I wanted a free ticket to Disneyland the following day. Yippie, Jesus. I thought, Wow! Those tickets are $94!
Jason Tax, Hannah Ford and I went to Disneyland to have a great day in the sun with the Son—and God set us up through one key miracle of a young man’s shoulder that was in a sling. We approached him and asked if we could pray for healing. Jesus instantly completely healed his shoulder and he removed his sing and began to test it out. He started crying from God’s goodness, and he told us how he could not raise it at all because of a fresh torn rotator cuff injury. He then started raising his arm over his head and moving it as freely as the other one. His friends explained how he is the star football player at their school and he would have had to take the entire year off from football after his scheduled surgery, so we explained the gospel of Jesus Christ and the miracles to the group of eight or so, and they all got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, and two of them got healed—one of scoliosis. The other had Jesus grow out his leg as his friends all looked on.
They all started freaking out, and the heavenly momentum hit and it erupted into an all-out Holy Spirit healing miracle service in the Disneyland food court for four and a half hours as groups of young people got their friends and brought them back to us for healing. They would come to us and say, “Can you heal this?” as they would point to a lump on their knee or a bad ankle. We would answer something like, “We can not heal anything but Jesus can heal everything and that same Jesus is in you now, so everyone put your hand on this person and say, ‘Be healed in Jesus’ name! Now test it out.’” Really, that’s how we prayed: “Be healed! Now test it out.” Almost every healing was instant as the looks of shock appeared on the faces, then praise and cheers to Jesus would erupt from the crowd of youth!
Flat feet were healed as arches formed in front of everyone to witness. One girl was so scared as her friends dragged her up to us. She was almost crying from fear. We told her, “Hon, you have nothing to be afraid of. This is Jesus and He loves you very much.” She had extreme scoliosis and a dislocated thumb that was in a hand brace. She was still very much afraid so we told her, “We won’t even need to touch you because the glory is here. Just remove your brace and move your thumb around.” She did and her thumb was instantly healed. We asked her to touch her toes and then check her back out. She did and her friends lifted up the back of her shirt to check out her spine. They all screamed because it was now perfectly straight. Jesus! We asked her if she knew Jesus, and she said no. We told her it was Jesus who just healed her and asked her if she would like to know that Jesus? She said yes, so she got saved and then we explained to her about being filled with the Holy Spirit and she said she wanted Him, too! So we asked her to put her hands out in front of her and say, “Holy Spirit, come and fill me up. I give my life to you.” She started shaking under the power of God. God is soooo good!
We witnessed bone knots dissolve from knees, asthma healed, crooked knees straightened out, and eyes healed. Some protruding ribs were pulled back into the chest. Even gold dust showed up on many and three youths experienced supernatural weight loss as their once tight pants got looser and looser. Screams erupted as one man grew an inch taller while everyone looked on.
A super cool thing was how each kid got saved and then we prayed for them to be filled with the Holy Spirit and almost every kid felt a strong manifestation of the Holy Spirit like electricity, heat, tingling all over their bodies or a heavy, weighty presence.
They would then ask us questions like, “Can you make the sadness I feel leave the inside of me?” All their friends would say, “I feel that way, too,” so we started praying in large groups, commanding depression to leave them and joy to come. Kids were crying, laughing, yelling “Jesus,” saying things like, “I can’t believe this! This is way better than any ride here!” Those kids were getting set free. We prayed for healing for the first few kids only. Then we taught the youth that the same Spirit dwells in each of them, and then we watched Jesus heal through their hands! We witnessed around 120-140 healings, most of them instant and about 100 or so decisions for Christ, of which 50 or so were first-time decisions, asking Jesus to forgive them of their sins. Yea, Jesus! One young man came up to me and said, “I never knew that Jesus died for me,” and he yelled at the top of his lungs: “Jesus!”
I went down to see my best friend, Jason Tax, in Los Angeles, just to visit for a week and hang out—and who knows what adventure the Holy Spirit might lead us into. Jay and I love to do street evangelism together. On the way down, I saw a Disneyland sign, and I remembered the times of lying on my bed dreaming with the Holy Spirit of revival inside the theme park. I thought, “Wow that would be cool if that ever happened for real.”
I had the privilege of speaking at my friend’s church on Wednesday night, and after the service, a lady asked me if I wanted a free ticket to Disneyland the following day. Yippie, Jesus. I thought, Wow! Those tickets are $94!
Jason Tax, Hannah Ford and I went to Disneyland to have a great day in the sun with the Son—and God set us up through one key miracle of a young man’s shoulder that was in a sling. We approached him and asked if we could pray for healing. Jesus instantly completely healed his shoulder and he removed his sing and began to test it out. He started crying from God’s goodness, and he told us how he could not raise it at all because of a fresh torn rotator cuff injury. He then started raising his arm over his head and moving it as freely as the other one. His friends explained how he is the star football player at their school and he would have had to take the entire year off from football after his scheduled surgery, so we explained the gospel of Jesus Christ and the miracles to the group of eight or so, and they all got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, and two of them got healed—one of scoliosis. The other had Jesus grow out his leg as his friends all looked on.
They all started freaking out, and the heavenly momentum hit and it erupted into an all-out Holy Spirit healing miracle service in the Disneyland food court for four and a half hours as groups of young people got their friends and brought them back to us for healing. They would come to us and say, “Can you heal this?” as they would point to a lump on their knee or a bad ankle. We would answer something like, “We can not heal anything but Jesus can heal everything and that same Jesus is in you now, so everyone put your hand on this person and say, ‘Be healed in Jesus’ name! Now test it out.’” Really, that’s how we prayed: “Be healed! Now test it out.” Almost every healing was instant as the looks of shock appeared on the faces, then praise and cheers to Jesus would erupt from the crowd of youth!
Flat feet were healed as arches formed in front of everyone to witness. One girl was so scared as her friends dragged her up to us. She was almost crying from fear. We told her, “Hon, you have nothing to be afraid of. This is Jesus and He loves you very much.” She had extreme scoliosis and a dislocated thumb that was in a hand brace. She was still very much afraid so we told her, “We won’t even need to touch you because the glory is here. Just remove your brace and move your thumb around.” She did and her thumb was instantly healed. We asked her to touch her toes and then check her back out. She did and her friends lifted up the back of her shirt to check out her spine. They all screamed because it was now perfectly straight. Jesus! We asked her if she knew Jesus, and she said no. We told her it was Jesus who just healed her and asked her if she would like to know that Jesus? She said yes, so she got saved and then we explained to her about being filled with the Holy Spirit and she said she wanted Him, too! So we asked her to put her hands out in front of her and say, “Holy Spirit, come and fill me up. I give my life to you.” She started shaking under the power of God. God is soooo good!
We witnessed bone knots dissolve from knees, asthma healed, crooked knees straightened out, and eyes healed. Some protruding ribs were pulled back into the chest. Even gold dust showed up on many and three youths experienced supernatural weight loss as their once tight pants got looser and looser. Screams erupted as one man grew an inch taller while everyone looked on.
A super cool thing was how each kid got saved and then we prayed for them to be filled with the Holy Spirit and almost every kid felt a strong manifestation of the Holy Spirit like electricity, heat, tingling all over their bodies or a heavy, weighty presence.
They would then ask us questions like, “Can you make the sadness I feel leave the inside of me?” All their friends would say, “I feel that way, too,” so we started praying in large groups, commanding depression to leave them and joy to come. Kids were crying, laughing, yelling “Jesus,” saying things like, “I can’t believe this! This is way better than any ride here!” Those kids were getting set free. We prayed for healing for the first few kids only. Then we taught the youth that the same Spirit dwells in each of them, and then we watched Jesus heal through their hands! We witnessed around 120-140 healings, most of them instant and about 100 or so decisions for Christ, of which 50 or so were first-time decisions, asking Jesus to forgive them of their sins. Yea, Jesus! One young man came up to me and said, “I never knew that Jesus died for me,” and he yelled at the top of his lungs: “Jesus!”
read more testimonies at http://www.ibethel.org/features/testimonies/index.php?f=testimonies.php
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Never Created to Be Lost
We were never meant to be broken.
We were never called to be sick.
We were never created to be lost.
You would never go up to the woman, stricken with AIDS from a lifestyle of whoring herself out and say to her "You deserve this sickness."
What about the man who cheats on his wife one night, and the next night his wife is killed? Would you tell him, that during the midst of his depression, that it is his fault his wife is dead and that he deserves to live a life of shame?
What about your best friend, or your mom? Would you tell them that they were never meant to be saved? Or what about the murderer, or the rapist? Would you tell them that they were never meant to have eternal life with Jesus? Maybe its just Jesus' will that they go to hell.
Far from it. If that were the case, then we would be admitting that the cross was not sufficient, that Jesus was biased as he bled to death on the cross, and that Christ's example on this earth was one of believing that only certain people deserved healing.
Now the question becomes, is the cross sufficient enough for you? Do you cling to his promises? David did, he even told himself not to forget them!
"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases." Pslam 103:2
Now how did David, a man who came before Jesus, understand the Lord's grace and healing years before His Son even showed up?
He decided to truly know God, and what he found was how truly loved he was.
As I sat at breakfast this morning, I saw a man walk in front of my window. He was completely doubled over, barely able to walk. An amazing thing happened, instead of thinking "Poor guy" my first thought was "He deserves to and will be healed, Jesus loves him that much." As I watched him get into his car, I wondered to myself "Does he know that Jesus loves him that much."
Could I have run out of the restaurant to chase him down to tell him and show him this love? Yeah, probably should have. But here is the thing I have realized, Christians tend to understand that they are meant to truly love their neighbor, but have a skewed view of what it means to love themselves. They use disease, sickness, and self pity as some backwards way of maintaining a connection with the Father. Do you realize that you will have none of those in heaven to continue a relationship with Him?
If you seek God's heart, you know what you will find? You will find that you were never meant to be broken, called to be sick, or created to be lost. You were made whole, called to live victoriously, and created in God's image.
We were never called to be sick.
We were never created to be lost.
You would never go up to the woman, stricken with AIDS from a lifestyle of whoring herself out and say to her "You deserve this sickness."
What about the man who cheats on his wife one night, and the next night his wife is killed? Would you tell him, that during the midst of his depression, that it is his fault his wife is dead and that he deserves to live a life of shame?
What about your best friend, or your mom? Would you tell them that they were never meant to be saved? Or what about the murderer, or the rapist? Would you tell them that they were never meant to have eternal life with Jesus? Maybe its just Jesus' will that they go to hell.
Far from it. If that were the case, then we would be admitting that the cross was not sufficient, that Jesus was biased as he bled to death on the cross, and that Christ's example on this earth was one of believing that only certain people deserved healing.
Now the question becomes, is the cross sufficient enough for you? Do you cling to his promises? David did, he even told himself not to forget them!
"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases." Pslam 103:2
Now how did David, a man who came before Jesus, understand the Lord's grace and healing years before His Son even showed up?
He decided to truly know God, and what he found was how truly loved he was.
As I sat at breakfast this morning, I saw a man walk in front of my window. He was completely doubled over, barely able to walk. An amazing thing happened, instead of thinking "Poor guy" my first thought was "He deserves to and will be healed, Jesus loves him that much." As I watched him get into his car, I wondered to myself "Does he know that Jesus loves him that much."
Could I have run out of the restaurant to chase him down to tell him and show him this love? Yeah, probably should have. But here is the thing I have realized, Christians tend to understand that they are meant to truly love their neighbor, but have a skewed view of what it means to love themselves. They use disease, sickness, and self pity as some backwards way of maintaining a connection with the Father. Do you realize that you will have none of those in heaven to continue a relationship with Him?
If you seek God's heart, you know what you will find? You will find that you were never meant to be broken, called to be sick, or created to be lost. You were made whole, called to live victoriously, and created in God's image.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Jesus Chris is Perfect Theology by Bill Johnson
We are told to always preach the Scriptures and not preach our experience. The reason for this is rather logical. When we preach our experience rather than Scriptures, we change the standard that God set for our lives. Plus it creates room for a lot of bad theology.
In that light, none of us would ever preach that a little bit of sin is OK or that sin is inevitable or to be expected. Yet who of us has lived without sin since our conversion? We hold to the conviction that we must proclaim the truth of the Scriptures and not preach our experience. The redemptive work of Jesus was far too great to tarnish through such compromise. Instead we proclaim what the Bible teaches--that we were made righteousness in Christ--knowing that doing so is necessary for us to attain to the fullness of what Jesus accomplished for us. "If anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" (1 John 2:1). It says "if" not "when." Strangely, many seem to tolerate preaching our experience when it comes to miracles, signs and wonders. That is why there are many among us who preach that some sickness is just not going to get healed. Why? That is our experience. Instead of finding out why there was no breakthrough by seeking God in prayer and the Word, it just seems easier to blame our lack on the sovereignty of God. It has been this way for generations. But it is no more legal than to teach "moderation in sin." As long as we preach our experience, our experience has little opportunity to improve.
There remains only one reasonable example to follow. It is Jesus Christ, who is perfect theology. Following that example without compromise will eventually bring about what we all long for--Jesus Christ, the resurrected One, to be seen for who He is by the world through His body.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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