Beltway Testimonies

Testimony Unfolded: November 2009

Another testimony of healing from the Global Awakening Healing School:

At the Friday evening service, Brenton spoke a word from the Lord about joy during the worship time. I thought that the word was great, but not necessarily for me. Throughout the worship time, I was reminded how the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and that He is always near to me. During the sermon, Randy used a sentence that included the exact words that the Lord spoke to my heart about a year and a half ago as my family was praying for healing for my aunt, who was struggling through chemo at the time (”Be hungry for ‘the more’”). During that time, the Lord used that word, along with some other thoughts on “more” to encourage me and my family as we looked to Him to do His work in our situation. As Randy continued through the first part of the sermon on Impartation, especially as he prophesied about some being strengthened and others being commissioned, I began to feel something like electricity (without pain) running through my body. At first I thought I was just cold and had the shivers, but I soon realized that it was the Spirit at work. As he continued the message, he talked about that very phenomenon (after I had already begun to experience it). At the end of his message, Randy called to the front those who were already feeling the Lord doing something in their physical bodies. There was no way I could stay in my seat even if I wanted to because the longer I sat, the more I jolted! :0) As I stood at the front, the Lord used several people to pray over me and share words from the Lord that were very encouraging, strengthening, and relevant personally, as a mother, and as a counselor. But even better, the Lord ministered directly to me. As I stood, shaking, with my hands out, I began to cry a little at first and then began to simultaneously weep and laugh. It was though the Lord was healing deep sorrow that was inside due to 2 losses, 1 close call, and 1 divorce in our family in the past 6 months. At the very same time, He restored joy and hope. As I wept, He cleansed, and as I laughed, He filled. I continue to give thanks to the Lord, for HE IS GOOD! – Jennifer Smothermon

Testimony Unfolded: November 2009

Another testimony of healing from the Global Awakening Healing School:

On Wednesday night a word of knowledge was spoken for sharp pain in hands. I stood, felt the tingling presence of the Holy Spirit in my hands and received healing from tendonitis in both hands.

On Friday night a word of knowledge was spoken for knees. I experienced the same tingling in my hands, and began to test my left knee, on which I have had two surgeries and a ruptured patella tendon over the past 46 years. My knee had been weak, sore, painful, and extremely noisy with popping and grinding. I have spent many, many months in rehab. After God touched it Friday night I have much more lateral movement and strength, less soreness, and I’m expecting more! Thank you God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit

Joyce A. McGlaun

Testimony Unfolded: November 2009

Another testimony of healing from the Global Awakening Healing School:

There was a word of knowledge for bladders. I was told by my Dr. that my bladder had dropped. When others gathered around me to pray, I felt my bladder shift upward! Thank you Father for the healing you have given me!!!

Testimony Unfolded: November 2009

A powerful testimony of healing from the Global Awakening Healing School:

Hi Everyone

I had a healing in my knee and possibly other places but won’t know unless I have an x-ray done. I got a prophetic word from a man who was from Houston who asked if he could pray for me. He noticed I walked with a limp and rubbed my back when I got up. He asked if I had a hip problem. I said no, but I had knee surgery in Dec 08, still getting steroid shots and am currently in physical therapy working my sciatic nerve. I also have had two series of synvisc shots that inject fluid between the knee cap so its not rubbing bone on bone. I have a current MRI showing a tear in my meniscus and was restricted to no stairs, no bending, kneeling, squatting and to stay off of it as much as possible so it could heal or I would have to have another surgery. He said “The Lord showed me.” And then he pushed on a spot in my lower back. Instantly I remembered that I have a birth defect. My L5 S1 vertebrae is fused together so my hip is off and one leg is a 1/2 inch shorter than the other. He said that the Lord told him that is why I have the problem with my knee. Everything from the spot in my back down was off. He prayed for me. I made a comment that sometimes I think the Lord hasn’t healed me yet because he wants me to spend time with him and when my knee hurts I sit down and read and pray more. He immediately corrected me and said that was a lie from Satan. He said my Father was a good Father and would never inflict pain or not heal me to spend more time with him. He believed the infliction was to stop something in my destiny. I got so mad that I had opened the door to let Satan in and I started rebuking him and commanding him to leave my body. Well, the pain jumped to my other leg, then my knee and then cramped all my toes up and left my body. I was so excited. The presence of the Holy Spirit was very strong on both of us. The break was over and we returned to our seats.

That night Bill called out a knee problem, bone on bone, and I stood up. He then called out a low back problem that was not from an accident and 2 vertebrae are fused together. I said, that’s me again. So people around me prayed and the presence of the Holy Spirit again came on me and I fell back and got the good old jerks!!! I felt drunk and could hardly stand up. Bill decides to call me up on stage and I have to do all I can do to walk. I was chewing gum and I thought I going to fall over and choke to death and nobody better raise me up!!!! He said do I feel, any pain. I remember thinking “I don’t even feel my body” but I answered nope. They had me take off my boots and measured my legs and they were even. Since then, I have climbed stairs, squatted, kneeled, even ran from the car to the house and have had no pain. I don’t have pain in my back, hip or in my heals when I get out of bed in the morning. Satan has tried to shoot a few pains. I rebuked them and they stopped. I have not taken pain medicine to sleep, used an icy hot patch or had to elevate my leg with ice on my knee cap. I believe I am healed. I walked up and down the stairs Sunday and am so happy I don’t have to ride the elevator anymore. I can wear high shoes again! I can walk the track again. I can drive the Limo again! I can catch my kids when they run, just kidding! Praise my wonderful Father.

Blessings
Debra Cusick

Testimony Unfolded: May 2007

A baby’s heart is healed:

Wed evening I came to church. I brought my baby who was diagnosed with a hole in her heart. The next day she had an appointment for further tests to determine what type of heart surgery procedure would be the best.

At the end of the service there was an invitation for anyone to come forward for healing prayer. The people on the healing prayer team came forward and I brought my baby to be prayed for. Several ladies prayed that my baby’s heart would be healed.

The next day when we went in for another the appointment, the doctor said the he could not find any evidence that there ever was a hole in her heart. I believe that God healed my baby.

Testimony unfolded: May 2009

God using everyday people in today’s world to do the miraculous:

Hi my name is Michael B. Rister. I have an interesting story of prayer and healing that I feel like I need to tell the church. For the longest time I lived my Christian life with the idea in my head that for whatever reason GOD did not do supernatural things in our present society like he did in the Bible. I reckoned, like many, that those occurrences mentioned in the Bible were rare things that were reserved for special occasions in special circumstances. Recently GOD began (and still is in the process of) challenging me in this arena. I began to realize than 1. unchristian people tend to respond more to stories of the supernatural than the dry reasoning I had fallen back on before and 2. to deny the supernatural aspects of GOD is to deny the very nature of GOD himself.

To make a long story short, I believed that GOD was able to do the things he claimed to do in the Bible, but for whatever reason he wouldn’t do them. And I definitely didn’t dare believe that someone such as myself could ever perform the kinds of miracles that Peter and the other apostles did (which is kinda dumb because it isn’t me doing it anyway it is GOD) But the challenge ensued, and for sometime this girl I knew had been having severe pains in her side so much so that it completely incapacitated her and no one she went to could find anything wrong with her, yet the pain continued day after day. Finally I gave in and told GOD that if he really would do the things the Bible talks about then I would step out for her and try to invoke a similar healing reaction. I prayed, I laid hands on her, we prayed together and did all the stuff that normally is done, and absolutely nothing happened. Later the girl and I went separate ways and still her pain continued as it had before. Needless to say this left me kinda jaded as to the whole supernatural healing of faith and all that stuff and I walked away with the belief that for whatever reason GOD just didn’t want to do those kinds of things anymore. Sometime later I met another girl with what appeared to be the exact same symptoms as the first girl, the only difference was this girl had not only been to hospitals here in Abilene but had been checked out by hospitals literally all over the country, and still no one could find anything wrong with her. Her story ended with us both in the waiting room at Hendrick hospital at 3:00 in the morning and I decided once again to give the whole ‘miracle of GOD’ thing a try. we prayed together, out loud, in front of everybody and I told GOD I knew he could do it and I would believe and give him all the praise I could if he would just step out and help this girl or at least let the doctors find whats wrong and give us a way to fix it.  I believed and she believed and that night a new doctor fresh out of school with relatively little experience found what had alluded doctors all across the country for years. He prescribed a relatively simple cure, we did it and it worked. She currently experiences no pain, and as for the first girl I ran into her again sometime later and as it turns out the same doctor found the same problem in her at around the same time frame and the same cure healed her and she too currently experiences no more pain. It was kind of a round-a-bout way to do it but I truly believe that doctor was only able to spot that problem because I prayed for them and GOD revealed it to him. So really three healings took place, the two women obviously but maybe also my jaded brain which was full of doubt and skepticism. Jesus Christ really is alive and really is GOD.

thanks,

Michael B. Rister

Testimony unfolded: May 2009

Many salvations:

The Peru medical mission trip saw 842 patients and 171 salvations!  Praise the Lord!

Testimony Unfolded: May 2008

God brings energy:

I suffered from a chronic disease, which left me tired after activities. I had the healing team pray over me. I recently went on an overseas trip and was full of energy, more than I have ever had. THANK YOU LORD!

Testimony Unfolded: April 2007

A man gets prayed for at SHAPE retreat and is healed:

A few weeks back I attended the Men’s SHAPE retreat to learn more about my spiritual gifts.  We broke into our small groups at the end of Friday and went back to a room to pray. We didn’t want to “bother” the group with it and really felt like it was too little a thing.  The group prayed over me and during the prayer, my knee lit up with heat.  It felt like it was on fire on the inside.  I heard God say,”I have healed you; this is where Satan will attack.”  I was still skeptical and processing what had happened, so I didn’t say anything to anyone at that time.  I came home Saturday and told my wife.  She thought it was awesome also, but I said that I needed to “test it out” to prove to myself that it was true.  I went running the next day and there is no still no pain.  Praise God!.  We prayed for different needs of different individuals in the group.  When it was my turn, I mentioned some things I was struggling with and that I thought God was pushing me in new directions.  I had been experiencing some knee pain when I ran, but it didn’t.

Stories of healing on the Mexico mission trip from Thomas Wilson, one of our highschool students:

This week we (high school group) went to Mexico with a small team to help out at the Big Heart Orphanage in Reynosa, Mexico. The jobs we did required a lot of long, hard work. During one of these days, Jose Muniz (the Jesus Crew guy…known as a scary looking mexican to many) was cutting rebar with a table saw and accidentally moved his right forearm into the blade. His arm was cut deeply about 3 or 4 inches long. D’Linda Benham, our team’s nurse, immediately treated his wound and wrapped it. Jose was obviously in severe pain and couldn’t do much with his arm. Later that day, before our nightly devotional, D’Linda approached me and asked me to make an announcement after my devo to pray for the injuries that people had from the first 3 days of work. As she said this, I quickly suggested further that we should pray over people because I believed God wanted to do some supernatural work. As I said this, an intern that was there, Kendall, quickly agreed with me and we decided we would do this after the devo. So at the end of our discussion, I made the announcement that if anyone had any kind of injury we were going to stay afterwards to pray over them. About 8 people stayed, so we circled up around the first patient, Jose. And we prayed. After 10 to 20 minutes of praying, I felt confident that God had healed his arm. We were praying that the wound would be completely gone, and I believed it would be. So when we finished, Jose was pressing on the bandage and telling us how amazing it was that there was no pain. I eagerly prompted him to remove the bandage. When he did, we didn’t find just skin, but we also didn’t find a deep cut. On his arm where the deep cut had been earlier was a surface level scab that looked as if it had been drawn on his arm. He showed us that it had truly been healed by pressing on it and hitting it and twisting the skin around it. He could barely touch it without wincing before we prayed, and now he was laughing and poking it liberally.

But that was just the beginning. Next up was Jessie Davis, who had a huge burn on the inside of his leg from the searing hot exhaust pipe of a motorcycle. It had been plaguing him the whole trip and it was not pretty. So after we prayed over it for another 10 to 20 minutes, we were all sure God had healed him. And sure enough, we removed his bandage and found a greatly reduced burn scab that he said had no pain. In fact, that day, D’Linda had traced the area of the red mark from the burn with a purple sharpie, and she showed us that that initial area was at least an inch or two bigger in diameter than the burn mark that was left. Also there was no heat to accompany the wound, something that was a bad sign when D’Linda was checking it out previously.

Then we prayed over Stephanie Maybee who had severe stomach pains. For her though the healing was more spiritual than physical, and God truly did move inside of her. It was an amazing experience and she left changed.

All this to say, Jesus is ALIVE!!! And He is STILL continuing to inpress me and show off his Glory, in new and increasingly powerful ways. Jose’s cut was a ridiculous healing! He cut his arm the morning of the same day it was healed on, and it was TOTALLY healed!

If you have read this, take some time to praise God for the works he is doing! He deserves it!