South Florida Man Raised from the Dead

WSVN TV7 reported, on February 1, 2008, that Jeff Markin, a South Florida man, was raised from the dead by a Christian doctor, Dr. Chauncey Crandall, who prayed over him in the name of Jesus. Dr. Crandall said

If you come in with a problem into our service, we are definitely going to treat you with conventional medicine, but we are going to believe it too. We are going to attack it with conventional medicine, and we are going to attack it with prayer. The reason I pray for people is because I found, early in my trained practice, that there were miracles, unexplained healings....

As I entered the ER it was like a war zone. Here was this lifeless body on a stretcher. His face, his arms, his legs were pitch black with death. I said, "Let's just call the code, let's end it because there's no life left."

A voice told me to turn around and pray for that man. I looked down at the body, and I said, "Lord, what can I pray for this man? He's gone." All of a sudden these words came out, "Father God, I cry out for this man's soul, Lord. If he does not know You as his Lord and Savior, raise him from the dead now."

So that doctor came over with those paddles and blasted that man and, all of a sudden, instantly a perfect heartbeat came up on the monitor. The stomach started moving, the chest started moving. This man started breathing on his own, and I said, "This man has been prayed for, he has been brought back from the dead by prayer in the name of Jesus."

You are speaking to a scientist, a cardiologist, someone who loves medicine. I've never, ever seen this. There are always people that do not believe these events, and I will just tell them that it did happen. It was a real story, a real life that was restored.

God is still restoring the dead to life in the name of Jesus. Read the full report here (also includes video download near top of page).

Here is another report on the story,with more information.

Signs of the Spirit

Here is a good book about how Jonathan Edwards understood the revival manifestations of the Holy Spirit during the Great Awakening. Storm's insights and clarifications were very helpful to me in putting together the section on Jonathan Edwards in Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church.

The links will take you to the Amazon page where you can preview this book through their "Search Inside" feature.

Signs of the Spirit:
An Interpretation of Jonathan Edwards' Religious Affections
by Sam Storms

"Jonathan Edwards’s treatise Religious Affections is widely considered the most important and accurate analysis of religious experience ever written.

Unfortunately, many well-intentioned readers sit down with Religious Affections, only to give up in frustration over Edwards’s lofty style and complex argumentation.

For this reason Sam Storms, one of evangelicalism’s experts on Edwards, has attempted to bridge the gap between how Edwards said what he did in the eighteenth century and how he might say it today. In Signs of the Spirit he articulates the substance of Edwards’s arguments in a more understandable way. The point is not to “dumb down” Jonathan Edwards but to make his work accessible to a wider audience.

This volume serves those both in and outside the academic realm as valuable preparation for, or as a companion guide to, a reading of Edwards’s Religious Affections.

Sam Storms is the founder of Enjoying God Ministries in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a former pastor and professor, including his time as visiting associate professor of theology at Wheaton College (2000-2004). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. Storms is the author of several books, including The Beginner's Guide to Spiritual Gifts. He and his wife, Ann, have two daughters and one grandson."

—from the publisher's book description

A Baby Girl and a Railroad Engineer Restored to Life

Here are a couple of testimonies of the dead being raised in the U.S. One is of a little baby girl from Kansas; the other is of a railroad engineer from Pennsylvania. Both were pronounced dead; both were brought back to life through prayer and faith in the name of Jesus Christ.

God is still doing what He has always done.

A Dead Man Raised in Nigeria

God is still doing it today.

Twelve Hours in Heaven

God is still raising the dead! Watch this presentation from CBN's 700 Club about a young woman who was raised by the name of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Fatuma Shubisa: Twelve Hours in Heaven.

Revival Fire in the Arctic

The wind of the Spirit blows in a little Anglican church in an Inuit town in Northern Quebec. Powerful transformation followed.

Children Manifest Revival in Shillong

There are powerful miracles and manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the revival that has been going on for the past 2 years in Shillong, capitol of Meghalaya, in Northeast India. Even the children are experiencing it.

God Has Always Done Miracles

God Has Always Done Miracles in His Church—and Still Does!

The Holy Spirit has never left the Church and neither have His supernatural gifts and manifestations. They have been available in every century—from the days of the Apostolic Fathers, to the desert monks of Egypt and Syria, to the missionary outreaches of the Middle Ages, to the Reformation era and the awakenings and revivals that followed, to the Pentecostal explosion of the Twentieth Century and the increase of signs and wonders in the Twenty-first.

Miracles, healings, deliverances, prophecies, dreams, visions—even raising the dead!—have all been in operation throughout the history of the Church. Anglicans, Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Presbyterians, Quakers and many others have experienced the supernatural gifts and workings of the Spirit over the centuries.

Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church, by Jeff Doles, gathers up numerous accounts from a variety of historical sources and provides a handy reference for those who want to know more about:

• How the Church has understood and operated in the gifts and manifestations of the Holy Spirit at various times in history.
• Why the gifts and miracles were more frequently in manifestation in some eras than in others.
• The many ways the Church has ministered in healing and deliverance.
• How the Holy Spirit manifested in great revivals.
• How the river of gifts and miracles continues to flow today.

Available at our website, at Amazon, and in eBook at Lulu.com.

You can preview it in PDF here.