Sharing Christian Testimonies - God's Handiwork - The Ministry Center

Fixed Cracked Tooth

The Ministry Center — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:57:00 GMT

I despise going to the dentist, so 2 or 3 months ago when I lost a filling I just let it go. On the way to Honduras the tooth cracked. The dentist told me last week i'd for sure need a crown, and possibly a root canal. I started praying, asking just for a crown.

When I went to the dentist today, not only did I NOT need a root canal, I didn't even need a crown. He repaired the tooth and replaced the filling. Jesus did above what I asked! last summer he also healed decay in the same area. He is SO GOOD!

Jan Parker June 30, 2009

Getting Work - A God thing - God the Provider - VW Visitor Center

The Ministry Center — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:47:00 GMT

Back in February (2009) I was having myself a pity party griping at the Lord for my lack of finances due to a slow housing market. This was on a Tuesday and I remember reminding the Lord that I am supposed to "let him handle it" so I said fine Lord You handle it. That evening I got home and found a email from the National Wild Turkey Federation asking me if I would entertain taking a Volkswagen engineer turkey hunting. I made the call and met not only the engineer but also several key managers on site including the Project Manager who asked what I did for a living. When I stated that I was a General Contractor they asked if I had applied to be a VW supplier. I stated that I felt I was too small. They disagreed and introduced me to the VW architect who had a project that needed prompt attention. I gave him a price the next day. It was submitted to Germany and approved. THEN it was decided that the monies to fund the project would come from the city, therefore the project would have to be open to the public. I started all over, rebid the project and was the low bidder at the bid opening.The hard part is supposed to be over. Not yet!

I had to have a bid bond to even get the opportunity to bid. If you are the low bidder then your bid bond becomes activated to a performance bond. When I called to inform the bonding company I was the low bidder they stated they would call me back with my total payment due. Next day O C Construction is in the newspaper, tv and radio. I'm the LOCAL Contractor from SODDY DAISY awarded the Visitor Center Job. We continue to be in the news several times that week. Remember the bonding company? Well they determined that because I was a GC and no employees they could NOT give me a bond.This is starting to give the appearance of a spiritual battle that I am NOT good with. 2 weeks would rock on with me acting like everything was fine when it was not. I could not tell that I may not be able to do the job. Especially since I felt strongly that this was a GOD Thing. I got word at 5:03 pm Wednesday that the bonding company would honor the bond. We started the job 2 weeks late and finished 2 days early.Several of the subs that worked on this job attend the Ministry Center and without them this task doesn't happen. Without the Lord I don't get an email.

I am the worlds worst at telling the Lord how I think it should work out. It amazes me how I think He needs me to consult with him. He has and continues to bless me in spite of myself.

Don Oscai - Feb 2009

Promised Baby Shiloh

The Ministry Center — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:10:38 GMT

When Wes and I married, we both wanted to have a baby as soon as possible. I was 46 and in the natural had probably waited too late because we could not get pregnant for 19 months. I knew I was suppose to have a little boy because the Holy Spirit has told me so several years before I even connected with Wes. The Holy Spirit told me his name was to be 'Shiloh', which means 'sent'. Genesis 49:10 I went on the church fast in January 2007 for 21 days. The Holy Spirit, however, told me to fast for a total of 40 days. On the 40th day, I was going to cancel my health insurance because it was too expensive, but the Holy Spirit told me to take a pregnancy test that morning. Much to my ecstatic happiness, the test result was positive! It suffices to say I did not cancel my insurance.

Catherine White - April 8, 2009

Holy Spirit Assurance for Downs Syndrome Son

The Ministry Center — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:06:00 GMT

When my baby boy, Shiloh, was old enough in the womb to determine his sex by ultrasound, I learned he was a boy. Another test, however, also showed he had Down Syndrome. I was confused by this news and frightened at first, but the Holy Spirit assured me everything would be alright. Shiloh has demonstrated God's healing power over and over again. He is only mildly affected by Satan's attack, which I am my precious prayer partners continue to pray against for we have already overcame Satan by 'the blood of the Lamb and the (spoken) word of our testimony.' Revelation 12:11 (added).

Catherine White - April 8, 2009

Arthritis HEALED in feet and legs

The Ministry Center — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:06:00 GMT

In January, I had a major event in my life; God healed my back of five years of pain from ruptured and bulging discs. In February and March I was experiencing pain in my feet when I woke in the morning, like I was walking on bruised feet. I went to a foot doctor who X-rayed them and determined I had arthritis in my feet causing the pain. I received inserts for my shoes and to handle it using over the counter drugs. During this time, the Godshall family and our family were watching the God channel on TV to participate in the Florida Outpouring Revival in Lakeland Florida (Todd Bentley). We participated in worship right in our living room. We praised. We worshiped and danced. We prayed together. The experience was a true move of God, and we could feel it individually and as a group. It changed our lives because we felt alive in the Spirit and charged up with a renewed fire inside. We were encouraged by the miracles and healings occurring there and all around the world – as we watched it live.

One night when praying for each other, I asked for prayer for my feet by by Brad, Lisa, and my wife. We prayed for God’s healing, a move of the Holy Spirit, in the under the authority and name of Jesus. The next morning, NO PAIN. I have not re-experienced any arthritis pain in my feet in the past 10 months since. It was another instantaneous healing by God – a miracle.

After that still in March, I started experiencing arthritis pain in above my left knee. It was a dull pain that usually bothered me at least once a day, usually at work. I got used to applying pressure above my knee while I worked to help dull the pain. After a couple of weeks of this, encouraged by the healing in my back and feet, I asked the group again to pray for my arthritis in my knee. Once again, during one of our nightly Florida Outpouring gatherings at our house I asked Brad to pray for my pain. Brad laid hands on the knee and prayed. The pain I was having at the time went away. The arthritis pain in my knee has not returned (it has been over 10 months). I continued to pray that the Lord would rid my body of any arthritis that might be ANYWHERE. I have had no further pain or aches.

PRAISE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. For it is in His Name that I testify to this miracle.

Doug Scott - March 2008

Back instantaneously HEALED – no more back pain -3 ruptured and 3 bulging discs

The Ministry Center — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:02:00 GMT

I was sitting in pew with my family during regular Sunday morning service, the church was having prayer. It was the beginning of the second week in the 3-week fast. The pastor has asked the congregation to pray for what was on their hearts for the fasting period. The week prior, my wife and I had begun teaching the Nursery age kids (ages 2-5). I would have normally been praying about my family and friends, but this time I felt lead to pray for myself. I had been through three herniated disks in my lower back; each was 3 months of excruciating pain/ordeal followed by a sustained lower level of daily pain over the past five years. Also had three bulging disks. My day usually consisted of Ibuprofen (pain killer and anti-inflammatory) in the morning to get the day going, sometime mid-day, and usually prior to bed to sleep more comfortably. My prayer was that God would release me from this pain in my back so that I would be a better teacher to the little kids and would have no hesitation in picking them up in love. I felt someone’s hand touch me on my back while I prayed. My heart was touched; for I knew that someone was supporting me in my prayers. I continued to pray, and the hand was removed. Then the hand returned again just for a couple of seconds. I experienced an extreme heat, like a small fire ball had touched my back where the hand was. It was much, much hotter than any human hand could generate. While it was an extreme heat, it did not cause pain, just an intense momentary sensation. You see, I grew up all of my life in a conservative small Methodist church. While I whole heartedly believed in prayer and God’s ability to heal and what I had read in the Bible, I had in my 45 years of living never met anyone or seen any instantaneous healings from God. So I had no basis to know that what had just happened to me was a personal experience with God – a HEALING. I had no immediate change since I was sitting comfortably and had already had my morning pain killer.

Since I did not know what this was other than it had to be something from God (no human hand could have generated so much heat). In the back of my mind, I was wondering if God had answered my prayer. At the time, I said nothing to anyone including my wife because I did not want to claim something that might not be a miracle. That night before going to bed, I told my wife about the experience and that I had no pain at all in my back. I told her that “I think I am healed” but was not really sure. By saying that to her, I felt a relief that I could share the experience with someone. It is not everyday that something supernatural happens to you, especially for a quiet Methodist boy. I went to bed and thanked God for the experience and for what ever He was doing in my life. I think I would have been happy just with that momentary personal experience with God. So Monday goes by, no pain. Tuesday goes by and no pain at all. By Wednesday morning, I was excited. GOD HAD TOTALLY HEALED MY BACK PAIN. I shared this with a couple of close friends at Weds night service. I let the week go by to see that it was really true, no pain, no pain, no pain. I finally got my courage up and went to the church office and told the pastor and his wife, Cathy. She indicated that it was somewhat common for healings to experience a kind of warmth or heat at the time of the experience. The pastor had me testify at Sunday morning’s service.

It has been over a year, and although I have experience some normal stress related pains (lifting furniture and stuff), I have not had any back pain and have had no need to take any Ibuprofen for that. PRAISE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. For it is in His Name that I testify to this miracle.

Doug Scott - Jan 13, 2008

Financial blessing increased by 100

The Ministry Center — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:01:00 GMT

I was told by the Holy Spirit to write off a bill a lady preacher owed me for $4,500.00, which I did on 2/22/00, even though I was not making enough money to pay my overhead and personal bills. On 3/22/00, one month later and unbeknownst to me, a federal court awarded me $450,000.00 (100 x's the $4,500.00 I wrote off of the bill) as a plaintiff in a class action suit I had joined 15 years earlier and had frankly forgotten about. On 4/9/00, the Holy Spirit told me in church that if I stopped smoking cigarettes (I was still a new church goer), He would give me my heart's desire, which included money to get out of debt and to purchase the church a sound system (we were still located on Hwy. 153). On or about 5/9/00, I received the letter from the attorneys in the class action suit advising me of the $450,000.00 judgment that had been awarded to me. On 2/24/01, the Holy Spirit told me to buy the church a wireless microphone, which He said would be approximately $450.00, and it was. In 30 days time, I settled a case for an amount that resulted in me receiving $4,500.00 (10 x's the 450.00), in my fees. I turned around and sent all of it to Joyce Meyer for her building fund and have been waiting expectantly ever since for a thousand fold increase to help pay for the Ministry Center's building needs.

Catherine White March 25, 2009

Financial - The Lord Returns Back

The Ministry Center — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:57:41 GMT

Last year I was impressed by the Holy Spirit to come before the Lord with a Passover gift. The Lord promised if I didn't come empty handed before Him, He would give back what has been stolen from me. Within several weeks of making the gift, I received an unexpected $18,000.00 in satisfaction of a judgment against a client who had refused to pay their bill.

Catherine White April 20, 2009

Sharing Christian Testimonies - God's Handiwork

The Ministry Center — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:07:53 GMT

The Ministry Center is gathering and publishing Christian Testimonies through the following means:

Accepting hand-written testimony forms available at the TMC Welcome Center. This also involves writing up shared testimonies (with originator’s permission).

Accepting Christian testimonies submitted from the church website

Publishing testimonies in a binder series called “Book of Remembrance – Shared TMC Testimonies”. These binders will be made available for public viewing in the Prayer Room.

A large bulletin board called “The Testimony Wall” has been put up in the Prayer Room to post recently shared testimonies, visions, and miraculous events

The TMC website will also be publishing “Shared Testimonies” in an organized and historic format so you may read them and search for encouraging testimonies

These testimonies can be anything that God has done in your life either recently or in the past.

Miracles                  Signs                    Wonders    Healings
Deliverance               Prophecy                 Changed my life
Financial                 Jobs                     Blessings/ Favor
Guidance                  Encouragement            Witness
Marriage & Family         Unexplainable Wonders
Other

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself.
–1 John 5:10a, RSV

And with great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
–Acts 4:33, RSV

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
– Acts 20:24, RSV

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the one ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
– Acts 10:42, RSV

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