I remember when I first starting serving the Lord in 1992. I started confessing Christ in 1982, but did not really start serving the Lord until 1992, when we started meeting in Jerry Bryant's living room. He was the disc jockey for Jesus Solid Rock in Carbondale, Illinois and was a Vineyard pastor, the Vineyard being known by the power of God and deep worship, being called charismatic by other denominations.

Jerry taught us to pray for one another for healing. One night he had us pray for one another. I remember that I got teamed up with a young man who was only 27 at the time, (this was in 1992), and he had arthritis. His name was Robert. I prayed for him and nothing happened. So then I talked with him about it for a couple of minutes or so. Jerry taught us to do that so we would know how to pray. Then I prayed for him again, but nothing happened this time either. I talked with him again for a few minutes as he explained how even as a young teenager he started having problems, and now, how every joint in his body had pain, and how that all his fingers and toes would snap and hurt when he bent them. I further found out that his parents both had arthritis, and his grandparents on both sides all had arthritis also. As I was praying the third time, I spoke out by the Holy Spirit that all generational curses would be broken in the name of Jesus. After praying, he said to me, "Praise God, Karl, right when you said 'I break all generational curses in the name of Jesus' I felt a warmth go through every joint in my body, and I feel a lot better now. The pain is almost completely gone, and my joints don't snap and pop," he said gleefully, as he was bending his fingers on both hands. I then spoke to him by the Holy Spirit according to my faith, "By this time next week, the pain will be completely gone." I then saw him again at the next weekly meeting and he came up to me exclaiming, "Praise God, Karl, the pain is completely gone! I haven't felt this good since I was about 11 years old!" This young fellow named Robert eventually moved out to Kansas City, where I would see him yearly at the Vineyard conferences, and he kept his healing and never had another problem with arthritis.

During the conference when I got zapped with that touch from the Lord, I would occasionally pray for someone else, and sometimes they would go down, or be healed, or both. I would make sure not to push them at all, remembering how the Lord's servant Mahesh had laid hands on me.

The next summer in 1993 there was a young oriental girl at a Vineyard conference in Kansas city, and she was weeping. I remember this one good enough to tell. It was during some sort of lunch break in between speakers, and I was able to try to talk to her, although she was weeping too much to talk to me. I found out from her friends that she had no job, no money, and her parents lived in China and could not afford to send her any money. Also, she was a dancer, and she loved to dance, but she had something wrong with her leg, I can't remember what, and had been limping with this condition for much longer than just a couple of weeks, from what I remember. I was able to pray with her. I felt the anointing of the Holy Spirit as I spoke the Word over her. I quoted healing and prosperity scriptures, and prophesied that her leg would be completely healed and that she would be dancing before the Lord before the conference ended. What else I prayed I can't remember. I do know that I felt led to give her a hundred dollar bill from my wallet as a start to God's blessings. That caused an immediate change in her attitude. Two days later during praise and worship at the conference, I worshipped in the front, and watched her as she danced before the Lord with great, great joy on her face. She was a very accomplished dancer, and many others, including myself, were dancing and praising the Almighty God. I later talked again to her friends, as they said she was completely healed with no pain at all.

Anyway, I was anointed, (still am), and believed what the bible said, (still do), and had received the Holy Ghost and power with the boldness to preach to whoever and to lay on hands believing for healing. In 1993 I started playing for a country gospel group, and I remember calling Bombi the bass player, and praying for his wife Loretta over the phone. She had some sort of stomach illness, and the Lord healed her instantly. This was in late summer of 1992. Also, in 2004, Loretta came to the Community Chapel in Marion where Donnie Colson pastors. Loretta had a severe hearing problem that she had suffered with for many years. She came to the alter to receive a healing. I was playing and singing in the worship group as Donnie Colson prayed for her. Her ears opened immediately, and she proclaimed with joy that she was able to hear me singing clearly for the first time. The Lord uses Donnie Colson for healing and miracles and salvations in a mighty way. The prophetic word spoken over me many years ago were being fullfilled.

My son was 16 years old back in 1992, and he thought I had lost it, praying over every glass of water I drank and praying in the middle of the night. However, when he was sick with the flu, I laid my hands on him and prayed, and through the name of Jesus the flu immediately left him. There was another occasion when my son was out partying with some friends, and he was not feeling well. He had his friends bring him home so I could pray for him, he was immediately healed, and he just went right back out to party.

I let my son do pretty much what he wanted, and was not worried about his salvation, for the Lord had given me the scripture, "As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord." I would wait till he started to ask me questions, and then I would tell him of the things of the Lord. As I started to speak the Word to him, and felt the anointing of the Holy Ghost rise up in me, I would speak the Word by the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus and I would prophesy over him, applying the blood over my son and my prayers, thanking God in advance for the results, and it eventually all came to pass. (There is power in the Word, power by the Holy Spirit, power in the name of Jesus, power in prayer, power in the blood and the word of our testimony, power in praise, etc. I prophetically prayed the Word by the Sprit in His name, etc., knowing it would all come to pass). Anyway, there was a third time my son was sick, and he was still not yet saved. It was about 6:30 on a Friday night and he wanted to go out and party with his friends, and he asked me to pray for him. I laid hands on him and prayed, rebuking the spirit of infirmity in the name of Jesus, and when I got done praying he was having a hard time catching his breath. Sweat was breaking out on his forehead, and he said his stomach was in a knot and he felt worse and was having a hard time catching his breath. Come to find out, the Lord had given him a vision of Hell while I was praying for him, and it almost scared the Hell out of him. (That's another story, and it is a very anointed story when you hear my son tell it.) Anyway, the vision scared my son, and he told me the vision and I interpreted it for him, and he did get healed, although it was more gradual, not completed until later in the evening when it was too late to go out with his friends and party. My son Joshua eventually did get saved, but it was not just the vision of Hell that did it, it was the love of God, but again, that is another story better heard from him. The things I prophesied over him came to pass, that he would be filled with the Holy Ghost and power, that his body would shake with the power of God and he would speak in tongues, that he would be a light to his generation and a mighty soldier in the army of God, and that the Lord would give him visions and dreams and he would hear the audible voice of the Lord, and the Lord would use him for healings and miracles. All of these things have come to pass. My son had the most awesome infilling of the Holy Ghost that has ever been witnessed in this area. He holy-rolled for days and it wasn't until the third day that he was able to speak in english, and even then he had a strange accent. Great joy filled our whole house, and that is another long story.

However, the church was a little reserved, and Hal had asked me not to prophesy but to tell him, and he would decide whether to release it or not. There was a preacher named Phil (I don't want to give his last name), that Hal knew. Phil had a son that was in the hospital, and the doctors could not find what the matter was, and it looked as if he would die. Pastor Hal had asked the church to kneel down and weep and cry out to the Lord that Phil's son would be healed. I felt in the Spirit that the Lord was saying that the boy would surely live and not die, but rather to weep and cry for the lost. I gave the word to pastor Hal, but he did not repeat it. Phil's son showed noticeable improvement in a couple of days and was released from the hospital on Friday or Saturday (can't remember) five or six days after that Sunday service, and is still living today.  This was in either 1993 or 1994, in the spring. 

I went to this church in Carbondale under Hal from the summer on 1992 through the spring of 1994. One time in church, the pastor gave us an opportunity to exchange prayers with another person. There was a lady there that was a nurse, and she had asked for prayer a couple weeks before about her job. She was worried about losing her job as a nurse, because every time she put on surgical gloves, her hands would break out in a rash and she would have to take the gloves off. I immediately teamed up with her. She was still having the problem. I suspected that her problem was caused by nerves, and as I interviewed her as Jerry had taught me, I found out that her husband had left her, confirming my suspicions. I ministered to her a little with some scripture, one of them being about 'if the unbelieving depart,' and ministered peace to her as I told her that the problem was nerve related. I then discreetly rubbed some spit on her hands from my tongue, praying, and she never had this problem again.  I was just trying to be led by God with the spit. 

John O. (who lives on highway 127 south of Murphysboro closer to Alto Pass) used to go to Jerry's living room meetings. I ran into him at the grocery store during the summer of 1993 or 1994, as he was frantically getting some medication, because he had just been stung by a bee, and he said that he was highly allergic to bee stings, and was probably going to the hospital. I immediately starting quoting scripture to him contrary to his bad confession, and he saw the light and said, "That's right, I don't have to accept this." We prayed, and then he said, "Thank you Jesus, I feel fine now. That's right, I don't have to accept this." John was fine after that. I saw him again a few weeks later and he confirmed it again, giving God praise.

Jerry Bryant had moved to Nashville, TN in the summer of 1992, so we attended a consevative church in Carbondale under Hal.  Hal's church would meet on Sunday afternoons, and in my hunger for the things of the Lord, I was also going to Community Chapel in Marion on Sunday mornings and Sunday and Wednesday nights also, where Donnie Colson still pastors, who walks in a healing anointing on a continual basis. I was also going to brother Reed's on Thursday night, as well as taking bible studies from Gary Roman on Tuesday night. I was anointed and I knew it, or thought I did. The first time I went to Donnie's at the Community Chapel, Pastor Donnie was speaking from the pulpit, "There's a healer in the house, there's a healer in the house!" Of course, Donnie was talking about Jesus, but in my freshly anointed zeal I honestly thought he was talking about me at first. (Ha!) I walked to the front, raising my hand, getting ready to say, "It's me, it's me, I'm the healer." I never said it as Donnie kept preaching with his eyes shut, not seeing me, as he spoke, "And His name is Jesus." When he said this, I felt a slight disappointment in that he was not talking about me, however, I also had a big sense of relief that I had not blurted out, and nobody had noticed my ignorance.  Ha!

In addition to going to 5 church services a week and 1 bible study, I was also doing ministry at a certain penitentiary, helping out with the worship music. There were some hungry inmates there, and I wanted to preach, but the chaplain would not let me, and he did all the preaching, although he did let the other guitar player preach once or twice. However, after a service once in a while I would get to minister one on one to an inmate or two. There was an instantaneous healing one night. After that the inmates would ask the chaplain to let me preach, and he finally reluctantly agreed, giving me three minutes only. I was just getting warmed up good when my three minutes were up and the chaplain shut me down, not giving me an extra second. After hearing me preach that little bit, the inmates wanted me all the more. However, the next week the chaplain asked me to resign on a minor technicality.

I had also started to preach a little at the Rend Lake prison. I had been going to the prison with a gospel band, and after a while they let me conduct my own service. The anointing was there, people would fall sometimes, and I was careful to take my hand off of their forehead before they started to fall. Many inmates were receiving healing or salvation, or both. The chaplain at this prison had more faith. However, due to strict regulations at the Rend Lake prison, someone checked my prior criminal record, and the chaplain had to reluctantly ask me to leave.

One Easter Sunday, 1994 I think, I was worshipping the Lord with a couple of Christian musician friends at the Bald Knob Cross, which is the highest hill in Southern Illinois where there is a large cross built, and many go there on Easter Sunday. There was a lady that worked in the little concession store there, where we were inside worshipping. In the afternoon when the people had thinned out, we prayed for the lady, that she would be healed of arthritis. The problem was in her knees. The three of us were praying. I felt led to put my hands on her knees as I prayed. She was immediately healed, and her testimony was that my hands felt like fire when I placed them on her knees. She also said that when I put my hands on her knees she felt the arthritis just 'poof out' of her knees. Of course, it was the power of God that healed her, and had nothing to do with me, in that I did not feel any above average warmth in my hands at all. Unfortunately, this lady lost her healing. When I talked with her at a later date, the arthritis had come back. This is the fault of the devil when this happens. At that time I did not know how to pray, telling Arthur, (Arthritus) not to come back. It is important to tell the spirit of infirmity to not come back.  It is not God's fault if the pain returns.   The God I serve does not take it back. As far as I know, the other people listed herein all kept their healing, unless otherwise noted.

In 1993 I started going with the NGL Ministries to witness to the lost. NGL would go to Mardi-Gras, Kentucky Derby, and the Indy 500. It was around 1995 or 1996 that Ken G. was telling me about all the pain he was having in his back, and he was having a real hard time. He was concerned that he was in too much pain to ride the NGL bus back to Illinois. I prayed with him, speaking the word of God in the name of Jesus by the Holy Spirit, and he was healed instantly. I asked him recently (2005) about this and he definately remembered this incident, remaing pain free to this day.

There was a fellow nicknamed Coach that was having a gathering at a certain mountain in Georgia around 1995 or 1996. Coach had been going to the NGL events, and some others from NGL were also going to the mountain, including Howard M., a Holy Ghost filled, Spirit-led witness that was known for converting many people to the faith. My wife and I were also there. It was here that I met Howard's wife, Carolyn for the first time. Carolyn very slowly got up out of the chair with her cane, to stand up as she met me. She was obviously in a lot of pain. I could not help but laugh as I knew that the Lord was going to heal her. She had been in a bad car wreck about two weeks prior, and the problem was in her back. As she was telling me about how bad she was hurting, I could not help but laugh. I was not laughing because she was in pain, but I was laughing because this was a great opportunity for the Lord to show himself strong, and I was very confident this healing was going to happen now, and my spiritual faith was bubbling, making me laugh. I had heard Benny Hinn on TV preach on healing just a few days prior to this, and his faith teaching had burned into me by the Holy Spirit, and I had remembered every word and every scripture, and my faith was at a strong point. My mind had been dwelling on these healing scriptures for 2 or 3 days.  I prayed a normal prayer that lasted no more than 15 seconds, and she was completely healed instantly, with no more pain, not because of who I am, but because of who He is. I went to Carolyn about 2 or 3 years later to apologize for laughing, and to explain why I was laughing at her calamity, but she did not remember the part about me laughing, but she remembered the healing, not having any more problems.  There have been other times through the years that I have prayed for them for healing, and they have received it every time.  This precious couple and I have a strong friendship and respect for one another.   

There may have been other people from NGL that I prayed for over the years, but I can't remember them, neither had I been keeping a record. One more that I do remember is Jerry J. I remember this one because he came to thank me for prayer at the exact same time another person had just made a snide comment to me, doubting my authority in the healing gift, and I said, "There's one, right there, who just got healed this morning!" Anyway, we were at the men's retreat for NGL in 2004, when Jerry Johnson came to me asking for some Tylenol, complaining of a severe headache. I kinda chuckled a little bit as I told him the Lord would take care of that right now. I took him behind the Common Ground Ministries tent, away from the people, and as we walked through the tent I saw Dane and Mike from Common Ground who I knew had faith for healing, and I summoned them to come with us. We prayed commanding the root cause of the headaches to be removed and his headache was completely gone. I asked him about this recently when I saw him at the NGL Kentucky Derby 2005 event, and he remembered, saying, "That was not a normal headache, it was very severe, it was killing me. But it was completely healed, and I told my wife I didn't need the Tylenol any more." I saw Jerry again in 2007 at the MardiGras event, and he said that before the healing, he had been having those severe migrain headaches often, but since then had not experienced any more severe migrain headaches.

Over the years I made 5 or 6 trips to Mexico, and about 9 to Honduras. It is unknown how many people were healed on these trips. I know there were more people healed in Honduras, because I went to Honduras with Common Ground Ministries, and they expected miracles to happen everyday in their normal Christian walk. The group I went to Mexico with believed in miracles, but did not have the expectation, nor did they preach a lot on healing, so thus, after preaching on salvation, there were people that came up to get healed, and some would get healed, and there were miracles, but not like in Honduras with the group known as Common Ground. I learned to just do my job on these trips, and my job was to only preach when called on to preach, and to lead or help worship, often singing in Spanish as I played my guitar. After the worship and preaching, my Holy Ghost job was to play guitar and sing the alter call songs by myself in Spanish. My favorite song is "There's a Miracle in the Making." It would be hard to calculate how many people received miracles while I would be singing under the anointing in agreement with those doing the laying on of hands. Thus, the prophecies from 1992-1994 spoken over me were and still are being fulfilled, that many miracles would happen while I was singing and playing my guitar in worship. In one night alone in November of 2004 there was 5 miracles in one night: One was a deaf & dumb girl about 11 years old that the Lord opened her ears, and at the end of the service she was saying, "Jesus is my Saviour" in English. Another lady had a syst disappear from her eye the same night, and 3 others had miracles in either their eye(s) or ear(s).

Over the years I would pray for different people, both inside and outside of the churches. One of the more memorable ones inside the church includes Brenda E.  Brenda and her husband Mike are friends of my wife and me. I had prayed for Mike before when he had received healing on some minor stuff. In 2000, when Mike had lost his job, and Brenda's car had broke down, and Brenda did not think that the Lord loved her anymore, and Brenda's teeth started hurting real bad, and they could not afford the dentist, I was able to minister to Brenda. She had been going to a somewhat legalistic church, and the Lord had me there also for exactly 3 ½ years, but had recently moved me back again to brother Donnie Colson's, with 5 confirmations. Mike and Brenda had recently followed us over to Donnie Colson's also. I gave Brenda a ride to church, and on the way I was able to minister God's love to her through the scriptures. I was also able to build her faith up through the Word. I also reminded her of a sister whom the Lord had given a gold filling to at the other church. I also told her about a person that had received a gold filling down in Anna, IL. Then I told her that it would be that much easier for her to receive at Donnie's, in that there was a stronger healing anointing there, and to expect her tooth to be healed and filled tonight. When we started worship that night, she came up for prayer, and Donnie seemed just a little surprised, as he told the congregation, "Hey, she came up here asking for a gold filling, she's asking, and I'm asking you to believe with us, hey, nothing is impossible with God." I immediately put down my guitar and prayed for her with my pastor. Donnie and I were the only ones that laid hands on her, in that Donnie had taught the congregation in times past not to come up and lay hands on people if you don't believe that it is going to happen. Brenda said the pain was gone after prayer. On the way home, Brenda confirmed that the pain was completely gone. Speaking by the Holy Ghost, I told her that she would have her filling by morning. The next morning she said that she had a white filling, and as she looked in the mirror at her filling, she heard the Lord speak one word, 'holiness'. Exactly why the filling was not gold, I don't know. I wonder if it had something to do with the word the Lord spoke to her.

There was a pleasant fellow named Galen that went to Donnie's also. I remember it was about 2003, give or take a year, that Galen started having a heart attack in the church service. I put down my guitar, and Tim, the assistant preacher and worship leader put down his guitar, and we went with Pastor Donnie to pray for Galen. The 3 of us prayed for him as the congregation stretched out their hands, and the ones sitting on either side of Galen laid their hands on his shoulders. I had faith for his healing, and I told Galen, "Don't worry Galen, you're gonna be fine, this thing is gonna go, your healing is on the way." I prayed for about 30 seconds, but quit praying as Donnie and Tim kept praying. I noticed that he had not been healed yet, and was wondering what to do, and how to pray. I felt like I should lay my hands on his feet, but people were sitting all around him, and with Tim & Donnie praying, I could not get to his feet. After deliberating for about 15 seconds, I went to the pew in front of him and got down in between the legs of the people sitting there, and crawled under the pew to reach Galen's feet, and laid my hand's on his feet and prayed again. Galen was immediately healed. Galen in the past had had 5 heart attacks and 2 bypass operations, but he never had another heart problem after this. His testimony was that the moment I laid my hands on his feet, he felt the thing go out the top of his head.

Recently, in April of 2005, Ron W. started having a heart attack in the church after service. Ron W. is a faithful man of God, responsible for opening and closing the church doors. Anyway, the service was over. I'm usually one of the last to leave. There was a lady there at the church that I'd never seen before. Ron spoke to her as she was walking out of the sanctuary. I was packing up my guitar when Pastor Donnie said, "Come on, Karl, Ronnie's having a heart attack!" As I walked down the isle, I laughed, as faith was bubbling, knowing that Ronnie would be healed. Ronnie heard me laugh and opened his eyes just enough to glance up at me as I walked toward him. His face was white and had pain written all over it, his right hand over his heart. As I started to kneel down, Ron attempted to speak, "It hit me when I started talking to that woman." I said to Ron, "Don't worry, Ron, within a minute or two this thing will be completely gone." Then through the authority and the power in the name of Jesus I spoke to the spirit of infirmity to leave, and then said to Ron, "There it is." He was healed completely and was all smiles again.  I heard several months later that he was in the hospital, but I can't remember why.  He may have been one that lost his healing, but I'm not sure. 

I'm a paint contractor and I paint mainly gas stations, with the help of usually one other person that I hire to work with me. I've seen miracles on the job and in the stores where I buy the paint. This letter is getting long, so I will try to be more brief as I tell of some of the miracles I've witnessed outside of the four walls.

Bill has worked at Sherwin-Williams for a long time. It was a long time ago when I was buying paint one time and he was complaining of a headache. I remember that I kinda had to talk him into letting me pray, and after a short prayer, smiling, he said, "That's funny, it's gone!" I asked him recently about this, but he had no recollection of this.

Gary Roman was working for me in about 1997 when we painted the inside of the Herrin Huck's store. Gary prophetically discerned through the word of knowledge that the store manager, Brenda had a headache. She had been having serious migrains for a long time. We prayed, & God healed.  I had heard a couple of years later that her headaches had returned.

I prayed for several headaches: One was a young man at Lowe's in Carbondale in the paint department. I talked him into letting me pray by telling him of another young man that the Lord had healed just a day or two before, (which I can't remember the details of now), and I quoted some scriptures and I prayed and he said, "I feel better now." I then said, "That's not good enough, let me pray again." When I prayed again, his headache was completely gone.

In the spring of 2004 there was a woman that was the store manager at a Huck's store, which I don't want to give the location publicly. She had been having migrain headaches, and I prayed for her, and she was healed. Unfortunately, when I went to work the next day, her headache had come back again. I perceived that she was living in sin. She had a boyfriend, but was not married, with kids, & I think there were other things in her life not of God that I don't want to mention. Unfortunately, she was not repentive, even though she said she was familiar with the things of God. I don't know why people don't receive or keep their healings all the time, but I do know that the percentage of people that kept their healings greatly increased when I started telling the spirit of infirmity not to return.  Unfortunately, I did not learn this untill 2006.

This happened at the Huck's store in Sandoval, IL, where I was painting in 2003. The air conditioning and heating man was there. I had first met this man a year earlier in 2002 while painting in Eldorado, where I took the time to lead him back to the Lord. Now, a year later, he was a regular bonafide, sanctified, church going Christian. He was heavy set, and he was limping with great pain. I learned that he had been having a problem in his knee for several weeks now. I prayed, and God healed. I saw him a year later in 2004 at a job site in Mt Vernon, and he was still healed, and thanked me again several times for his healing, telling me how bad the pain was and that it had left completely and never came back. I made sure that God got the glory. I had forgotten his name, but when I saw him again at another Huck's store on April 18, 2005, I got his name for verification purposed for those interested in validation.

One of the memorable miracles happened in Kennet, MO where I was painting a Huck's store with my good Mexican friend that could not speak a word of English. We were pushing hard to get the job done, in that we were so far from home. It was late evening in the summer of 2004, and we were painting the front of the building. There was about 15 teenagers gathered in a circle, talking in the parking lot. I thought, how can I miss an opportunity like this to preach? I jumped in the middle of them and started preaching that Jesus is the only way, the only one that opened the eyes of the blind, raised the dead, fed the multitudes in the desert, died for your sin, rose again, sitting at the right hand of the Father making intercession for you, no other name under heaven, etc. I preached for about only 45 seconds or so as they all actually listened, watching the Holy Ghost fire burn. Then I boldy spoke through the unction of the Spirit that the Lord would confirm his word now with a healing, and if anyone there needed a healing, step forward now and the Lord will heal you. No one stepped forward, so I repeated myself, and then a young man stepped forward and said that he had asthma. I prayed for about 15 seconds and nothing happened, so I prayed for another 20 seconds, rebuking the spirit of infirmity and cast it out and he said the pain was completely gone. I did not know that there was pain associated with asthma, I thought it was just a difficulty in breathing. Anyway, I turned to the crowd, and said, "This is the Lord confirming the word that I spoke to you, that Jesus is the only way, and it's time to repent. Let's join hands and pray." We then joined hands, but they wanted their other friends to get in on it, and the 15 turned into about 25, which would have been good, except the other ten did not see the miracle and were skeptics during the prayer, but we all joined hands and prayed right there in the parking lot. The news of the miracle spread, and there were others that came in the course of the evening and next day that asked for prayer. The construction manager for Huck's, Jerome N, was there and heard about it. The girls working there behind the cash register heard about the miracle. Word got back to Chris, another construction worker for Huck's, who called me about a job, and that reminds me of another good miracle.

Backing up to the spring of 2003, I was working at the new Huck's being built in Carbondale. Chris was the general contractor on this job. Chris knew a lot about construction, but he was only about 27 years old. I had met Chris before on other jobs. Chris is handsome, energetic and intelligent with a good sense of humor and is very hard worker. I liked Chris a lot, and had witnessed to him a lot. As general contractor on this job, he found out how much I was making, and he thought I was making way too much money and threatened me with the corporation finding another painter. He did have some weight, being nephew of the CEO, but I trusted God. I had plenty of reason to get upset, but I had decided to stay in the Holy Ghost, and during one of those conversations where he threatened my working for the corporation, I felt the faith bubbling up in me as I told him God gave me the job and man and the devil could not take it away, quoting many prosperity scriptures as I spoke, and saying that if I lost this account, God would be moving me on to bigger and better things, and there was nothing he could do to hurt my income. The next thing that happened, I had 4 or 5 Plaza Tire stores to paint for really good money, and I did not have much time to help Chris, but I tried to find the time to help him out, not budging on my regular prices. He had gotten some company painters to do a little work, but a big splotch of yellow paint got spilled on the new asphalt right in the front, and some good size drools were also on the side parking spaces, many of which are still there to this day. Also, one day we were talking, and Chris was sad. He told me that his son was really sick, and his mom had to take him to St. Louis to the hospital to find out what was wrong with him. Chris knew I was a man of faith and asked me to pray. I prayed, speaking by the Holy Ghost, thanking God that when the boy arrived at the hospital, they would not be able to find anything wrong with him, that he was healed. The next time I saw Chris, he told me that his son was fine, and that they could not find anything wrong with him at the hospital, and he had gotten him and brought him home. I asked Chris, "Isn't that exactly what I prayed?" Chris said yes, but he also mentioned that his mom and others had been praying also, as he was reluctant to give me too much credit, (which I don't want anyway). However, Chris never forgot that, and he eventually returned to the Lord, after being backslid for many years, and goes to church now.

I worked for Chris again at a job in Evansville, Indiana in July of 2005, where Chris introduced me to one of his fellow workers as he mentioned other miracles that I had forgotten about that happened on the same job site in 2003. One of those included Greg H., who had been having stomach pains for awhile. I was working on my scaffold painting the top ridge cap of the building and Greg was working on the roof. I had opportunity to talk and pray with this man who was instantly healed. Chris said there were other minor miracles on that site that I had forgotten about, such as headaches, etc. It makes me wonder how many other miracles I have forgotten about.

I have a good friend and brother in the Lord named Dennis G., who is also a paint contractor and an excellent guitar player. Anyway, Dennis had a cousin named Rick that used to work with Dennis painting. A few years back (about 1999) when Dennis had no work, Rick worked with me for a few days. Rick had been on medication and was in much pain for his back, and the doctors had diagnosed it as a degenerating spine condition. He was unable to paint baseboards for very long, because of the pain. I prayed for Rick, but nothing happened. I prayed again a few days later, and nothing happened then either. It was a good two years later when I saw Rick and prayed the third time. In the meantime, I had switched churches to go back to brother Donnie Colson's. I had started going to Honduras with Common Ground ministries, and I had just got back from a trip where one of the miracles was a man crushed by a truck that God did a creative miracle on and raised from the dead. I was full of faith after being in Honduras for three weeks. My painting business was slow, so I went to work with my friend Dennis to help him on a large house and Rick was there. Rick was the assistant preacher at a Pentecostal church in a nearby town. I perceived that Rick had heard some bad doctrine such as Paul and the thorn in 2^nd Corinthians 12, as well as some other bad doctrine on Job, etc (Go to the link 'Healing Teaching' for details). I then had the time to minister to Rick, explaining the scriptures more perfectly, explaining God's will for his healing, etc. I then prayed for Rick again, and speaking by the Holy Ghost according to my faith I told him that he would feel an immediate difference, and within a week or two, his healing would be 100% complete. I did not pray for a miracle, I prayed for a quick healing. However, he received a miracle right then. (God often goes beyond our expectations). He immediately was healed completely, thanking God. He immediately was carrying ladders, something he was not able to do before, and he unloaded and loaded them off of Dennis's pickup truck when necessary. He went off his medication. Dennis called me a couple weeks later to tell me how well Rick was doing. Apparently, Rick did great for 2 or 3 months, but I then heard that he hurt his back moving some heavy church pews. Dennis told me recently that he was back on his medication again. I don't know why people sometimes lose their healing, but it is usually the devil. I do know that Rick had been receiving some sort of government disability because of his back problems both before and after his healing. As far as I know, all the people herein kept their healing, unless otherwise noted.  As the anointing grew stronger on me and I learned how to pray, the percentage of people that kept their heaing greatly increased. 

One time in the summer of 2004 the transmission went out in my paint truck on the wrong side of St. Louis. A newly saved young man named "Little Rock' was working for me at the time. He phoned his dad, Rock J., in Herrin, who called his good friend Billy M., and they came up with Billy's trailer and loaded up my van and got us back home. Billy limped and was in a lot of pain. I had plenty of time to talk to him on the way home. I found out that 10 years prior he had flipped a car 3 times and landed on a police car, and ended up in a full body cast, with bunches of broken bones, some of which never healed right. I talked car mechanic talk with them on the drive back, but I also spoke about the things of the Lord, as I felt faith rise up. He had faith, even though he was not living right. We arrived in southern Illinois, and as he was starting to jack the trailer up off the pickup truck, I asked if I could pray for him. He said, "Sure." I said to him, "Show me where the pain hurts the worst." He pointed to a spot on his back, saying, "Right here." That's where I laid my hand as I prayed. I prayed a simple short prayer in the name of Jesus, that by the stripes on the back of Jesus, Billy's back is healed. He continued to work, as if nothing had happened. I found out a week later from Rock J. that he was zapped by the Holy Spirit when I prayed, and that the next morning he was able to get right out of bed, without having to carefully roll out taking 20 minutes to limber up first, and that he had gone off his medication. I talked to Rock J. in May of 2005, and he confirmed that Billy had received a healing and had kept it. Billy still walks with a limp, and there are still things wrong in his body, but his back, which is what I prayed for, was and still is healed. I saw Billy again about two years later in 2007, and he said he did not have a pain in his body, and if he gets a pain, he asks Jesus to take it away and He does. Billy had been going faithfully to a good Holy Ghost filled church, and I did not recognize when I first saw him, as he had gotten a shave and a haircut, and had really changed. 

Pastor Donnie:

                     Part 2

It was around 2005 that I started making up my mind that I wanted more of God.  I didn't know how to get more of God, so I just started avoiding everything in my life that did not edify me.  (If I tell you to do what I did, it is legalism, but if you do it because you want more of God, then it is good).  I stopped watching TV.  Programs like Animal Planet are harmless and fun to watch, but they did not bring me closer to God, so I avoided them.  My spare time was turned back toward music, as I started to record Christian music at home on my computer, and I bought a few new musical toys to accomplish this.  Also, I got a good bible program on my computer, and started doing some studying.  I also put together some radio spots preaching on healing, but the two stations that I sent them to never played them, nor did I follow through.  However, I felt like the Lord met me on my computer, which I originally had used to pursue the stock market, and now was being used only for God's purposes.  I enjoyed praising the Lord in a new way with my music, feeling the anointing growing stronger on me through this last part of 2005.  I would feel the presence of the Lord come on me as I listened to my own songs, or while I was recording the vocol parts.  The start of 2006 was a new beginning for me, when I returned to Honduras.  

I want to let you know a few things that transpired when Timothy Bertsch and I went to Honduras.  First of all, I want to explain that this was my fifteenth trip outside of the country but it was only my first trip as leader of my own group, which was a group of two, me and my partner Timothy.  I had seen others jump into ministry to soon with a slight bit of rebellion or pride or whatever, and I had made up my mind that I did not want to make those mistakes.  I did this under the Lord's direction, and in His timing, leaving the group (Common Ground) with their blessing and approval, who had plowed the course for me already.  We left Jan 8 and came back Jan 23, 2006. On the first day there, Carmen Elisa (daughter of one of the former presidents) asked us to come and pray for her son that had injured his knee playing soccer. Timothy by the Spirit sort of 'read his mail' and then we felt led to pray for Carmen. While praying, the Lord revealed to Timothy by word of knowledge that she had back problems and tumors on her back which were healed, as well as stomach problems, and the Lord did some other neat stuff in her.

We had a little time to spend on the street in the afternoons, where Timothy also had words of knowledge for people we prayed for, and we saw some people get saved and receive a touch from the Lord and some miracles right there in the street, such as a young fellow with shoulder problems and another with back problems that were healed.  There was also a girl in sin that Timothy had a word for, and we ended up leading her whole family to the the Lord. 

We prayed carefully over the list of churches in order to only go to the ones the Lord was saying to go to. Some of them were a little farther from San Pedro, and were several hours one way into the mountains, but the reward was worth it in that we saw the Lord move in a mighty way. Many of these pastors were praying, 'Lord, please send somebody!' Most of these churches had been overlooked by other missionaries. We saw the Lord move in a mighty way as strongholds of witchcraft were broken in a couple of them and many people got zapped out in the Holy Spirit, such as El Plan, in San Manuel, one of the Jesus Es El Senor churches. There was a couple of churches where almost everybody got zapped and there was hardly anybody left standing, one of these being in Marcala La Paz with pastor Carlos, one of the La Cosecha churches, where there was about 15 youngsters in the front between the ages of 4 and 11, that, after standing back up from getting zapped, were weeping and worshipping with their little hands raised, precious tears running down their little faces. This was one of the most beautiful things I ever saw, which made me cry intensely with the love of God. Sometimes we would not have to even touch them, as the Holy Spirit was doing the work, and would take them out in the Spirit. Some of these people would get up healed. By the time the second week rolled around, the other churches heard that we were preaching on healing, and that God was moving with miracles, and there was no problem filling our already tight schedule. We preached in about 13 churches in 14 days, and Timothy helped me to discern what to preach on. For the most part, it was healing, which is what I know good, with a mixture of faith, word of faith, evangelism and giftings, and the love of God. About 70% of the time we were exactly where the Lord wanted us to be, and the Lord moved big time.

On the third day of our trip, in San Pedro Sula, Timothy was praying for pastors outside of the Pastor's Association meeting and reading their mail, (prophetically) and there was one man whom Timothy read his mail that invited us to be on channel 51 JBN, (Jesus Broadcast Network). Timothy eventually spoke at the station and preached according to the true biblical definition of the word 'preach', which means 'to ooze forth the word of God'. Timothy had direct revelation from God on what to say, and it was a very powerful time of prophesy, as he spoke what the Lord had given him before he went on the air, as well as new stuff the Lord gave him while he was prophesying. He had words of knowledge and wisdom for the nation as well as individuals. They call Timothy 'the prophet' now in Honduras.  Speaking of prophets, we met with one in Honduras.  This next paragraph explains how I got a huge increase in the anointing for healing.

It's too much to tell everything, but there was one church where Timothy told me that I was to preach on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and I did, fulfilling a literal vision that the pastor had 5 years prior, as the Lord moved and brought gifts to the church.  The way this vision was fulfilled is a little hard to believe for some nominal Christians, so I'm not going to tell it.  The Lord had ordered our steps from years before. 

On our last night out we went to La Ceiba to a huge church with a Brazilian pastor. This was not our plan or on our schedule, but it happened that the pastor saw the TV program and would not take 'no' for an answer. I told Timothy that the Lord would probably zap us on our last night there and he did. I was trying to get Timothy to preach more, because he had not preached much on the trip except for when we were on the air at the TV station and a couple of times as a tag team, but he was pretty much just unable to minister that night in that he felt the anointing on him too strong to do anything. I preached on the usual stuff and God moved with about 1 out of 6 or 7 people falling out behind me as I layed hands on a lot of people very quickly in order to try to get them all. At the end of the service there was some people that came up for prayer that never went down when I touched them the first time, but as I prayed according to their request, they then went out when I gave them a word, and this was a new thing for me to operate in, the giving of a word, and then having them go out, although Timothy always hears good from the Lord and operates in that gift. Before, I had been pretty much unaware of their individual needs, and my main prayer was, 'Lord, zap 'em'. This church was strong prophetically, and I was flowing in it, at least that night I was.  Then when all had left and the anointing was still very strong on me, the pastor's wife gave me some sort of Hondurian cookie, and I said in Spanish by the Spirit under the anointing, "I ask that you would receive the same reward as if you had given this straight to Jesus when he was hungry." I gobbled it down, and got my camera to take a picture of her and the pastor. I was crying with the love of God, just thankful to have a picture of this precious couple, and they got off the couch to hug me, and as soon as she touched me she was healed in her legs. I did not know that she was even in pain, nor did I feel the virtue go out of me when she was healed, being unaware of it til she told me, although thinking back, I remember she moved very slowly while getting off the couch. She later told me that she had wanted to prophesy over us, but that she was in too much pain, and was just going to try to make it to her car and go home. However, she said she was healed when she touched me, and being healed, she then prophesied over us, being very gifted prophetically, and she read all of our mail accurately. She would prophesy in Portuguese, and her husband the pastor would interpret in Spanish, and our interpreter would then translate to English. We never fell out completely, but we got zapped nonetheless, and all we could do was meditate on the Lord and praise him for the next few days, coming home and being unable to work until the third day after our return. After returning home, I realized that we had "cast our net on the other side of the boat", and "there was a great multitude of fish that could not be counted". All glory and praise to God, apart from whom we can do NOTHING. The fact that that lady was healed when she touched me, how I should have discerned she was in pain but didn't, and that I did not feel the virtue go out of me when she touched me and got healed, and neither did I know it till she told me about an hour later, this proves that it had nothing to do with me, but that it is Jesus, apart from whom we can do nothing. Those unbelievers that say 'The mind is a powerful thing,' they are proved wrong in that my mind knew nothing about it either before or after the healing.

Upon returning home from this trip, I had an increase in the anointing, and a much deeper compassion for Jesus, as well as others, and I try to guard this anointing the best I can, by avoiding anything that is not edifying.

Also in July, as we were inside hanging wallpaper, there had been some sort of pizza tray that had caught fire in the pizza oven, and the store manager said that she had gotten a severe headache, probably from the smoke. She was in great pain and concerned that she had to stay at the store in that her help was scheduled to get off soon. I spoke to her, "Let's get rid of that headache right now." She knew I was talking about prayer being aware of my faith. As I commanded the headache and the root cause of the headache to leave in the name of Jesus, she felt it go out the top of her head, being completely healed, pain free, in an instant.

On September 12th, I went back to the store by myself, in that there was only a few pieces of wallpaper to lay that had not been there at the store the first time I went. It was about 5 hours one way, and not worth taking help for just a few pieces of wallpaper. There was a heavy-set woman there who had been there in July, and when I asked how she was doing, she said she had a terrible chest cold. I said, "Let's get rid of that right now." She was aware of my faith and after a short prayer she said that she was 90% better. She also said, "I wish you had been here 4 days ago."

Also, on September 12^th, Brad Wilson had helped me lay two of the biggest pieces of wallpaper, being too big for one person to hold up and glue down. After completion of the job, I went to Brad's house, and his wife was there. As I started sharing about some of the miracles I had seen in Honduras, she said, "My shoulder has been killing me for weeks. Will you pray for me?" After commanding the shoulder to be healed in the name of Jesus the pain was completely gone. At this time Brad reminded me that his back was still healed after praying for him in July. This family had faith for miracles, in that Brad had prayed for his wife's mother who had cancer, and she was miraculously healed to the doctor's amazement. If anyone would like to check up on these miracles in Fortville or elsewhere, I can give you phone numbers. You may contact me, Karl, at (618) 985-2204.

I was working on another Huck's store in Maddisonville, KY around the first week of November, 2006. I went to Captain D's to buy lunch. While sitting on the couch waiting for my order, the girl behind the counter said that her stomach was hurting. There was nobody else in line, so I said, let me pray for you. I had been wondering wether or not she was a Christian, but she readily agreed to prayer. After a short prayer she said she felt better, but I was not satisfied with that. There was a young girl that I knew was a Christian, because I had spoken with her before on a previous trip to Maddisonville. I asked her to lay her hand on the other girl's stomach, and I layed my hand on top of hers & prayed again. She was then completely healed and very happy.

Debbie

On November 26, after the Sunday morning church service at CLC, I asked Debbie how she was doing. I have great respect for Debbie, because she hears from God and sometimes she gives a prophetic word to the church. She had given me a word before and God moved in my life mightily that day as she had spoken. Anyway, this day she said she was not feeling well, and thought that she had some kind of bug, having suffered with it for several days. She said her stomach was hurting, and I told her about the girl in Maddisonville that I had prayed for. She put her hand on her stomach and I put my hand on her hand and prayed a quick prayer. My quick prayers usually amount to quoting, "by whose stripes we were healed", and commanding healing. This time I also spoke to the spirit of infirmity to leave her body, all in the name of Jesus, of course. She seemed somewhat suprised when I asked her, that the pain was completely gone. I then asked her if she had any other problems, and proceeded to pray for her back and for the dizziness problems she had been having. She was healed, all praise be to Jesus.

I'll give you his name, but not the town he's from. Anyway, on December 5th of 2006 my wife ordered some firewood from Chuck, who had advertised on 'The Country Store' radio show. Chuck mentioned how his back had been hurting. I helped Chuck unload the firewood off his trailer, tossing logs off the side, while he rolled them off the back. I paid for the wood, and during some chit chat, he mentioned again about how sore his back was, and I told him the story about Carolyn M, (mentioned above), how her back was healed, and starting quoting scripture about how the devil was cast down, Jesus now at the Father's right hand, that we don't have to take it like Job did, etc. I said, "Let me preach to you for about 4 or 5 minutes and I'll pray for you." Chuck said, "I'll take anything I can get." So I preached on some of the points made on the 'Healing Teaching' link, & then prayed, laying my hand on the small of his back where he said the pain was the worst, and he was healed, being suprised that all the pain was gone.

The Coffeehouse

I was praising the Lord on Friday night December 15, 2006, and trying out my new, updated guitar synthesizer, looping, getting a full band sound, just praising God and doing a little testifying and preaching. A girl came up for prayer. She had a severe headache for 3 days. I gently laid my hands on her head & prayed and she got zapped. I asked her if the headache was completely gone. She said that the pain in the top of her head was gone, but she still had pain below her ears going into her jaws. I forget what she said the doctors called it, but I laid hands on her again where the pain was and prayed and all pain left completely.

I saw four good miracles on this trip in February. First I would like to explain that I had not worked but two days since mid November, and the Lord had me in a season of rest. I had not watched hardly any secular TV, being very fearful of falling back even one millimeter from the anointing that the Lord had given me. This was the first time in about a decade I had not gone out of the country in the winter months. I was resting in the Lord. I had not prayed much more than normal, but I had spent much time in deep worship. Knowing that without Jesus I'm nothing, I was fearful to do anything that might not be edifying, guarding the new anointing that I had received going into and coming out of the last Honduras trip in January of 2006. While working hard in the summer, I would have compassionate fits of praise even on the scaffold as I painted. The devil had attacked my thought processes in November, but I had overcome. They say 'For every new level there is a new devil'. Anyway, I was well rested in the Lord. This trip to Mardi Gras was the first time I'd been out of the house in months, except to church on Sunday and a few miscelleneous trips to the post office or the bank. I was with the NGL ministries at the Gospel Singers camp Sat. nite on Feb 17, 2007. Gary Wood (who was present at the men's retreat in my class on healing at the men's retreat of 2006) was looking for me, in that a member of his group needed prayer for asthma. I told him the story about the young man in Kennet, MO, and prayed a short prayer, and the Man, Joe, felt much better. I was not satisfied with this so I prayed again, and then Joe said he was completely healed. I then did a little preaching to the group, as the anointing on me was very strong, and my compassion for the Lord was pouring out. The next evening, Sunday, Gary Woods came to me again wanting prayer for himself. Gary was born with some kidney disease because his dad was in Vietnam. The name of the disease was long and began with an 'Sp'. (?) It doesn't matter, because the name of Jesus is above all names. Gary had pain in his kidneys, right side and head. I prayed with my hand on his head, and his headache left immediately, and then I prayed with my hands on either side of his kidneys, and those pains left. I then prayed for his side, but the pain did not leave immediately, so I laid my hand on his head again, and then tapped his feet rather firmly, rebuking the foul spirit of infirmity, commanding him to take his bags and leave. Gary then had a suprised look on his face. I said to Gary, "Did you feel it go out the top of your head?". Gary replied, "No, I felt it go out the bottom of my feet." This was a new one for me, going out the bottoms of the feet, but we were glad it was gone and rejoiced in the Lord and praised Him. Gary came to me again the next morning, Monday, during breakfast, saying that he had a sinus headache. I hurried very quickly to scarf down the last of my breakfast and took Gary away from the people and prayed, and he received his healing completely. The next day at breakfast, on Tuesday morning when our camp had moved from Pass Christian to the New Orleans area, Nathan from Washington came to me with arthritic pains, especially his left knee, sore from marching through the streets of New Orleans the previous nite, as the team would carry a huge cross and carry banners and signs, sometimes pausing to minister to the people one on one. Anyway, I commanded arthur to pack his bags and go, and Nathan was pain free.

I talked with Gary Wood, whom had received his healing a couple days earlier.  He was anointed prophetically, and was interested in healing.  I felt led to pray for him to receive the anointing for healing.  Without touching him, Gary felt the warm anointing consume his body as I prayed, releasing the gift into him through his hands by the Holy Spirit.  Gary went out that night and prayed for a man with severe knee problems who was instantly healed.  I had prayed for this same man twice before, but he was not healed when I prayed for him, but was instantly healed when Gary prayed.  The Lord started using Gary in a big way concerning healing, and Gary has even seen a woman whose short leg grew out about 5 inches as she lost about 15 pounds and her bad back was healed.  He also prayed for a friend that had his ankle broken in 4 places, documented by X-rays.  However, Gary prayed for his friend on the way to have his surgery, and when the doctor's took one more X-ray to locate the best place to cut/operate, they discovered there were no breaks, and the young man walked out of the hospital, pain free.   

After returning home from the 2007 Mardi Gras trip, I was exhausted spiritually. Although I got rested physically, it seemed like I was drained spitually for quite some time, and I fought hard to get back on top of the mountain. It is much harder to go up the mountain, than to slide down. Usually after ministering, I just get more charged, such as on the Honduras trips. I don't know for sure why I felt so drained. After about a week I felt good again spiritually. Another week went by and I was ministering in a homeless shelter on a Sunday morning.

I was there with Ronald D. from CLC church, and we were ministering to a woman after I had finished with the praise/worship/preaching. We were praying for this woman, and I asked her where the pain was. She said, "You name it." She informed me of Diabetes, and pains, and sugar levels, arthritic stuff, etc., but after a little prayer she said she was pain free, and felt like a warm liquid running thru her entire body. That was on March 11, 2007.

The following Sunday I saw Ronald D. at church and he said that the woman and her family had gotten a house, and that she and her husband were both working now, and she was doing a lot of stuff that she was unable to do before. (We had also prayed for her family to find a house and jobs.)

Also, after church service on that same Sunday of March 18, 2007, my old friend John Potter came to me asking for prayer. I had prayed for him before for several old injuries during recent previous months, such as back pain, and weird tingling headaches caused by a partially severed artery in his throat that had scar tissue in it. When he asked for prayer, I said, "I thought you were all healed up!" He said that he had a new injury in his left calf muscle, which had a knot in it. We took care of that too, in Jesus name.   Also, on the way home from church, I ran into an old hippie friend named Mick P. Mick doesn't go to church, but his faith has grown stronger over the years, partly due to my talking to him. Mick was at the Mini Mart in Cambria, talking with another man who was a Christian. I stopped to get my wife a newspaper, and starting talking to them about the healing power of God, and preached for a minute or two. Then I asked Mick if he had any pains in his body. He said that he had injured his back lifting heavy stuff, and said it was in the small of his back. I prayed briefly and God healed, and Mick walked away rejoicing with arms raised.

Girl at Sherwin-Williams:

Also, a few days later, there was a girl named Holly at a Sherwin-Williams store. I asked if she had any pains in her body, and she said she had pains in her knees and back, and God healed. I came back about a week later and she said she had not had any more pain.

I was starting to pray for a lot more people a lot more often these days (2007) realizing that just about everybody I prayed for was healed.  The awareness of the anointing I had received from the Lord during the Honduras 2006 trip was sinking into me.  From 1992 through 2005, I only prayed when asked, or when I saw someone in pain where I knew I had the faith to pray with success.  During this time I was maybe seeing about 75% of the people I prayed for healed,  but this was because I was only praying for the simple stuff, like headaches, back pains and arthritus.   Also, it seems that about only 70% of the people kept their healing, in that I was not praying correctly, (however I learned to tell the spirit of infirmity to not return.  This is scriptural, and this brought the percentage up).  It was things like the common cold and sore throats and blood diseases, eye, tooth, ear and wheelchairs stuff that I had not been seeing manifest, and therefore, I did not pray for a lot of those types of things.  However, the anointing was on the increase, with complete dedication and thankfulness and dependency on my Lord, Jesus the Christ.  I was starting to pray for different diseases with success. 

I was at the CIA (Christian Independant Artist) Summit Meeting in Franklin, TN, which was hosted by Keith Mohr, owner of the Indieheaven web site. Tim O'Connor, who I know to hear from the Lord, is the prayer minister for Indieheaven. On Friday morning, March 30, 2007, during his time of devotions in the meeting, he spoke that the Holy Spirit had told him that there would be instant healings through the course of the meeting. I did not know the people at this meeting, but after this word I was emboldened to go around and ask people if they had any pains in their body. If they did, then I would pray a short prayer, commanding healing, or casting out the spirit of infirmity or both, and then ask if the pain was gone. If it wasn't gone, I would pray again, sometimes a total of 3 times. There was about 300 that had attended the meeting. On that Friday, the list of people that got healed through the power in the name of Jesus are as follows: Bruce D. in the thumbs and voicebox. (The next day, Bruce said he still had a little pain in one of his thumbs, but I think he received a complete healing). Jon from TN received healing in his back, neck, and bottoms of his feet. Laurie from New Jersey was delivered from arthritus and Lupis. Jeff, one of the producers, said his headache was gone, and his cold and allergies were about 80% better. Rachael said the pains in the small of her back were gone. I think Wayne from MD received a healing in his foot, saying the pain was gone. Ashley's dad had pain on the left side of his face, from an old injury, and said he had arthritus in his left jaw, and pains in the left side of his stomach area, but God moved and he said he was pain free. The next day, when I asked him, he said he was still pain free, but there was still a little pain in the stomach area. I prayed again, and he said the pain was gone. Also, Ann from Virginia said that she had arthritus in her neck, and the pain immediately left her, but she said her muscles to the right side of her neck were still kinda achy and felt tense or tightened up. I prayed for the relaxing of those muscles, and she said she was fine. I asked Ann the following day, Saturday, and she said her neck was fine, although the muscles near her neck had tightened up again. At this point I asked her if she had ever had trouble with her thyroid gland. She said, yes, that she had a knot in it. We rejoiced, knowing the root of the problem. Now, let me explain: This seems like a 'word of knowledge', and normally would be, and I wish it was, but it wasn't. This was merely knowledge I had acquired from watching an extremely gifted healing evangelist in a church service. This evangelist, taught me back in 1994 what doctors did not know, that the thyroid gland secrets enzymes necessary for muscle function. Doctors are recently finding out about what this evangelist knew from experience, that the neck muscles can tighten without the thyroid secretions. Knowing this, I merely asked. It was not a word of knowledge. I'm still learning how to hear, however healing is my strong gift, rahter than hearing. Anyway, I then prayed for the thyroid, the root of the problem, and then the muscles, and then she was pain free. Friday night there was a couple of ladies behind the counter. One girl received healing in the upper back area, as I had the other lady lay a hand on her, putting my hand on top of hers. Then I prayed for the other lady that had a pain in her right knee. I laid hands on her knee, (without thinking), but she was not healed. I prayed again, laying on hands, and she felt a heat in her knee, & I believe the Lord finished that work. Thinking back, I think it would have been better had I just spoken to her knee, or had the first lady lay hands on her as I prayed. Also, on Saturday, there was a fellow named Jim from PA who was healed from pains in the stomach that he had previously for several days. On Sunday morning, I felt led to go to the Vineyard church in Nashville, with my original pastor, Jerry Bryant that had tricked me into getting saved. All I could do was weep and cry during the worship, because of my intense love for Jesus. There was a fellow there named Josh who received a healing in the chest area. There was also a fellow named Dave, who had suffered with a sore right shoulder for several weeks, and he was one that I prayed for without actually touching him, because it is not me doing the work anyway. He was immediately healed, and he then told me that he was reluctant to have me pray, because he had been prayed for so many times before. On the way home from the Nasville area, on Sunday night, I stopped in Paducah, KY, to visit an old good friend that plays bass guitar and sings very good. He had some pains in his body, and he said he felt better after prayer, but the healing was not completed, even after several quick prayers. I have noticed from experience that old friends that knew you before you were saved, as well as family members, seem to be the hardest nuts to crack, concerning healing. Nonetheless, I was encouraged by the extremely large percentage of people that had received their healings that weekend.

Let it be known that I have not written these testimonies to exalt myself, but rather to exalt Jesus, apart from whom we can do NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH! But through Him we can do ALL things.

Prophetic Word To Me:

In October of 2007 Tom Tiernan prophesied over me saying, "The Lord says to quit working for the rest of the year.  He says that you have made enough money this year, to quit and prepare for all the miracles that will happen next year in the spring."  I had already been thinking about quiting, and this confirmed it, especially when I started looking at what I had made.  Also, when I looked at what I had made, I was concerned about going into a higher tax bracket.  I stayed home, rarely going out of the house.  Of course, I was not in the public, so I did not have the opportunity to see miracles every day, but only on the days when I went to church or to the store.

Marty Beers' Miracle:

I gave you his name, so you can verify it.  Marty called me on the phone in late December.  I hadn't talked to him in about 8 years, and I felt the Holy Spirit confirm that I was to join the gospel band he was in, before he even asked me.  We talked further, and I was telling him about all the miracles that the Lord had been working through me.  Marty replied, "I feel led to have you pray for me right now.  My knee is killing me."  I asked him what caused his knee to hurt, and he said that he had done a big roofing job a few weeks back, and it got sore and was all swelled up and he could not even bend it.  He was on his way to get a knee brace.  I told Marty to put the phone down by his knee so I could speak to it.  Marty said, "OK, let me pull off to the side of the road first."  Anyway, I spoke to the spirit of infirmity to leave and commanded healing in the name of Jesus, quoting 'by whose stripes we were healed'."  Through the name of Jesus it was done.  Marty said that he could feel something like a syringe suck all the fluid out of the underside of his knee, but it did not hurt.  Marty was instantly healed, and the swelling was immediately gone, all praise to Jesus.

Marty Beers attended church at Dean Severin's church in Benton.  The gospel band did the worship there on New Year's Eve of 2007/2008.  I was playing with the band, and there was a tall man there named Bob who was prophetically gifted.  He prophesied over me that I was approved of the Lord, and that the Lord was giving me and increase in the healing anointing.  That night the church turned me loose, and I saw my first eye miracle that night.  One girl had one eye that focused slightly to the outside, and it was messing up her vision, as well as her job.  With a short prayer, she was seeing perfectly, rejoicing, saying, "I can see clearly, I can see clearly!!!"  There were others healed in the small congregation, including the assistant pastor.       

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