South African evangelist Hamilton Filmalter, of River of Life Ministries, has seen the miracles of God in Lahore, Pakistan, where he conducted evangelistic meetings in 2007.
The city government of Lahore showed great favor to us, allowing the crusade to continue under the blanket of ‘no public meetings.’ The words of the police chief were, “What you are doing is good for the city. It brings peace and blessing to the people. We need this.” Unfortunately, many people were reluctant to venture out at night due to the emergency conditions and the crowd was smaller than usual, but God still blessed the meetings powerfully. The gospel was clearly preached and each night hundreds declared their intention to follow Jesus. There were many wonderful miracles. Many received the baptism with the Holy Spirit and started speaking in tongues.
After Hamilton ministered to the crowd by rebuking sickness, disease and demonic oppression, people came forward each night to testify of healings and deliverance. It is such a powerful testimony that Jesus has risen and that there is power in His name. It is a key to the ongoing revival in Pakistan.
The crusade was preceded by two days of house church training. We also spent parts of three days talking with evangelists and house church leaders about how to be more effective in their ministries. For the church to penetrate society, evangelism and discipleship has to continue far beyond the perimeter of the crusade grounds and the walls of the church. House churches are the vehicle.As we have often seen, miracles continue to pave the way for house church planting.
Healing testimonies include:
Two brothers who were born mute spoke for the first time at the meeting.
A person told of his cancer disappearing (Doctor confirmed healing).
A lame man who came in on crutches left walking normally.
A lady with a blind eye had her sight restored.
A lady was healed of cancer. This was confirmed by her doctor.
A baby with a hole in its heart was healed, confirmed by doctor.
A lady with a terminal illness, who had been told by her doctor to wrap up her affairs, was prayed for and healed.
A man with two defective heart valves that would not open properly was healed.
Another on kidney dialysis was healed and now had normal kidney function.
Here is video from previous meetings by Filmalter and River of Life Ministies:
Russian Harvest Ministries reports how one of their converts, Sveta, brought her baby daughter back to life after the infant drowned in a bathtub. Sveta (Svetlana) tells her story:
The following story is but one of many signs and wonders that we report in our newsletters. God often works in our midst with healings, miracles, and so much more. Enjoy as you read this account of a baby being raised from the dead!
A few months ago I felt led of God to visit relatives in Kiev that I had never met. They were also believers so it was an opportunity to build a spiritual relationship. The family has six children, the youngest being just eighteen months old. Meeting them for the first time was eased greatly because we are all believers and we were having a great time together. One morning after everyone left except for me, Tanya decided to give her baby a bath. She strapped her baby, Karina, into a special baby bath and turned on the water. When the tub was full Tanya turned to leave but accidentally turned on the faucet to the shower handle as she left the bathroom. (FYI: The water hook-ups in Ukraine are different than U.S.A. and it’s easy to turn the wrong knob.)
I left to the store and returned in twenty minutes. Tanya and I talked for several minutes when all of a sudden Tanya jumped up and said “Oh, I forgot to check on Karina.” Shortly after I heard a deafening scream and I ran to the bathroom to find Tanya holding Karina upside down trying to get water out of her lungs. I grabbed the baby and began CPR as Tanya called the ambulance but she was in shock and could not even dial the phone.
My efforts at trying to resuscitate the baby did nothing. It was then that I dropped to my knees and screamed out “NO, I don’t receive this! JESUS, HELP!”My heart was pounding and my body shaking. Looking at this little dead body was shocking...it was paralyzing…But I mustarded up all the faith that was in me cried out to GOD! “God, save this child in Jesus name.”
It was after this that I turned to see Karina’s head turn to the side as if unseen hands were at work and water started coming out from her lungs. Karina then opened her eyes and took the first breath, then another, and another. Both me and Tanya were shaking but not from fear— from the fact that God was at work in that room and we had just witnessed a miracle. It was overwhelming. Karina came back to life! It was an amazing miracle. The baby was raised from the dead! Miracles still happen. God still heals and signs and wonders are normal for those who believe.
This is not the first time Sveta has experienced the miraculous power of God. Russian Harvest Ministries releaased this brief bio:
Sveta, a once notorious drug dealer and eventual addict, was saved and became a radical Christian. She has been used by God to do what Sid Roth describes as Naturally Supernatural— She Raised The Dead! Sveta was reached for Jesus five years ago by Russian Harvest missionary Volodya Ishenko and his team. She was on the verge of death, eaten away by disease. She had to be carried to our center on a stretcher. But God had great plans. Thirty days later, after intense prayer and intercession and constant reading of the Word, Sveta rose up from the bed of affliction healed by the power of God! She has since graduated from our women’s rehab center and is the now the director there.
Charisma magazine reports that Stephens City, VA, is experiencing Christian renewal in what is being called the Winchester Outpouring. At least three churches (Agape Christian Church, Greenaway Spirit and Word Fellowship, and Crossroads Community Church) have been joining together regulalrly in revival meetings for the past four months and have seen many dramatic healings from deafness, blindness, arthritis and fibromyalgia. A girl was healed of torn ligaments in her knee; she removed her brace and danced around, and her scheduled surgery is no longer necessary.
Such healings can be typical in charismatic revivals, but unusual manifestations are reportedly occurring in Winchester as well, including feathers floating out of thin air and teeth filling with gold. In some cases the entire tooth has turned to gold.
“I’m personally one of those people who wants to see things documented,” Prock said. “I’m a very cautious [person] … until I saw gold teeth starting to happen. We feel that God will bring [transformation to the region] when supernatural power is being demonstrated.”
He said one example of such a demonstration involved an elder from Greenway Fellowship, a former Southern Baptist church that is partnering with Agape. Prock said the Greenway man was openly sarcastic and skeptical about reports of unusual manifestations—until he unexpectedly received a gold filling.
CBN reports the story of a little boy in Knoxville, TN, who had a serious and stroke, very unusual for one his age. After he survived a very dangerous surgery, his family received a devastating prognosis and a very small chance of recovery.
“He [the doctor] says, ‘If he even survives, most likely he will be in a wheelchair. He could be blind. He may never walk, never talk, he will be severely … he won’t be the same.’ I almost just let it go in one ear and out the other, because I prayed nonstop and that’s not what God was telling me,” his mother said.
Through the prayers of family and friends, he has been enjoying a rapid recovery which has far exceeded the expectations of the doctors.
“His progress was remarkable compared to when I first saw him. He could not talk. He could speak or understand speech. He could not move his right arm or his right leg at all at that point,” Dr. Woodword said. “I think it’s a miracle that he’s survived and is doing as well as he is, yes.”
Numerous miracles — Tumors disappear, arms straighten, legs are healed, the lame walk, deaf ears open, new teeth, new knees, paralysis gone, arthritis gone, and over 2000 people receive the Lord Jesus Christ at this evangelistic meeting conducted by John Crowder and the Sons of Thunder in India in 2007.
On July 20, 2008, KLTV7, a television station in Longview, Texas, reported how a little girl with a brain tumor received healing through prayer and faith. Kayla Knight, eleven years old, had been experiencing severe headaches for months. Her mother, Amy, took her to the doctor and an MRI was taken which revealed a large tumor in her brain. Amy immediately began to pray, and also got her church involved, who laid hands on Kayla and prayed
"That was actually on a Wednesday so when we got to church we had a good 30 people or more lay hands on her and it just ... you could feel God. I can't say we prayed as much before. I mean we did ... but not like this. Not like we do now."
An MRI taken a few days later now told a completely different story: The tumor was gone. Amy was amazed; the doctor was puzzled. They did another MRI which confirmed the new results, and the doctor said it was a miracle, the tumor really was gone.
Amy now takes her Christian faith much more seriously. Kayla says of the experience,"It's been kind of scary but kind of fun. Because you're, like, knowing God is going to do something about it."
CBN recently aired this testimony of Cindy Asmus, a 44 year-old woman who was healed of Parkinson's disease:
That was Wednesday night Bible study. We had come to church," Cindy remembers. "It wasn’t this big, special night that anything particular happened. We always have a prayer request at the end and we pray for needs. At the very end of that, the pastor walked over—which he had done so many times before and prayed for this illness to leave. As he started praying, it was like I began to shake a little bit more. I don’t even know how long we prayed. All of a sudden, everything stopped, every bit of shaking stopped. All I kept thinking was I’m not shaking. I’m not shaking anymore. That’s all I kept thinking because I hadn’t been able to still my hands in months. It was so unreal to just sit there and be still and not have any part of my body move ...
I can tie my shoes really fast now. I can run upstairs instead of where I could hardly walk up stairs. I can write a clear sentence. I can eat with a spoon, a fork. I can cut with a knife, which I couldn’t do before. There is so much to be thankful for that I can get up and I can do the things that, when I was ill, could not do.
Jesus multiplied bread and fishes for a crowd of five thousand who came to hear the gospel. Can He multiply fried chicken and biscuits for a multitude today? Marilyn Hickey reports that He did just that for a hungry crowd in Cairo, Egypt who came for the Word of God. Her ministry had 3500 box lunches catered in by Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Charisma Magazine Online explains:
After the food was completely distributed, and after the crowd swelled to about 5,000, she said volunteers were astonished to return to what should’ve been a room of empty tables to discover 1,200 more lunches. She said after they handed out the mysterious extras, another 1,200 appeared, leaving a surplus of food and dumbfounded witnesses. Hickey’s staff called it a “loaves and fishes” miracle. [Read the full story]
In addition to this unusual occurrence, and many salvation decisions, there were also numerous healings, including:
A woman who could not bend over for 20 years because of a crooked spine now has a straight spine, as confirmed by a doctor in the audience.
A 21-year old man deaf in his right ear since birth can now hear with that ear.
A woman with lung cancer, scheduled for chemotherapy, can now breathe freely and has no more pain.
A man healed of a heart problem came back the following night with "before" and "after" reports from his doctor confirming his healing.
Revival has broken out at World Revival Church in Kansas City, MO, pastored by Steve Gray. Along with renewed passions for God, and intense responses to the altar calls, there have also been a number of healing testimonies, including:
A Florida woman whose hip was healed and now she no longer needs replacement surgery. Her doctors are perplexed.
A woman who was deaf in her right ear for over thirty years as a result of Scarlet Fever can now hear clearly in that ear.
A woman who had suffered with dangerously high blood pressure received healing. Now her blood pressure is well within acceptable range. Not only that, she went home and ministered healing to her friend, who also had high blood pressure.
Children as well as adults are experiencing the fire of God. A young boy named Ivan felt the glory of God on him and ministered it to others. He said it was "warm, like a thousands blankets all around me." Read the story and watch a clip of it here.
When Jesus commissioned His disciples to preach the gospel in all the world, He promised that miracles would follow those who believe, including healing and deliverance (Mark 16:15-20). Doug Stanton, an Australian evangelist (dsmi.org) who has been conducting revival services at the Minneapolis Revival Center in Minnesota for the past six months, has certainly seen this to be true. His website features numerous testimonies, from this and other revivals he has led, by people who have been healed and delivered from a variety of afflictions and whose lives have been changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. These include:
A woman whose back has been rebuilt by God and who no longer requires pain medications.
A Vietnam veteran who was shot in the head by a sniper in 1968 but was healed of severe headaches.
A Minnesota man healed of two strains of AIDS who no longer needs his walker. Black skin cancers have disappeared from his body, and after three separate tests, his doctor no longer finds any trace of AIDS in his body.
A woman in the last stages of cancer in November 2006, was healed at revival meetings and was informed by her doctor around Christmas time that her cancer was gone.
An Australian man healed of fribromyalgia and chronic fatigue who can now walk, dance and run with his grandsons.
A woman who was legally blind and whose sight was miraculously restore to full panoramic vision.
A stroke victim, wheelchair bound for eight years, who was able to get up and walk all around the building after healing prayer.
A young man who was deaf in one ear can now hear with it.
A baby girl in Brisbane, Australia who no longer needs reflux surgery and whose ultrasound now shows no abnormalities.
A 17 year old girl who was born blind with malformed eyes miraculously received her sight at a revival meeting. She then prayed over a woman who was a stroke patient and wheelchair bound. The woman got up and walked directly across room where, as she explained later, she saw Jesus standing.
A Brisbane woman who was set free from depression.
A baby boy in utero whose feet were joined at the heels ("mermaid feet") was healed and a subsequent ultrasound showed no deformity.
A New York woman who suffered from severe migraine and cluster headaches since she was a child, but received her healing after Doug Stanton had a word of knowledge.
Signs and wonders do follow those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
The city government of Lahore showed great favor to us, allowing the crusade to continue under the blanket of ‘no public meetings.’ The words of the police chief were, “What you are doing is good for the city. It brings peace and blessing to the people. We need this.” Unfortunately, many people were reluctant to venture out at night due to the emergency conditions and the crowd was smaller than usual, but God still blessed the meetings powerfully. The gospel was clearly preached and each night hundreds declared their intention to follow Jesus. There were many wonderful miracles. Many received the baptism with the Holy Spirit and started speaking in tongues.
After Hamilton ministered to the crowd by rebuking sickness, disease and demonic oppression, people came forward each night to testify of healings and deliverance. It is such a powerful testimony that Jesus has risen and that there is power in His name. It is a key to the ongoing revival in Pakistan.
