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This page was inspired by a
jovial preacher, who asked me to make a list of people that I had prayed for that were healed. I wrote a letter
to him, and made a few changes to it and came up with this page. That was in 2004, and I have been updating this
page since then. Many of the last names of people are not given here, and there are a few that I don't know, but if
you contact me personally, I can give you most of the last names and/or phone numbers if it is your desire to check on the
validity of these miracles. Let your faith be stirred up as you read this letter, in the name of the Christ, Jesus.
The
First Miracle God Did Through Me 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.
Some of my
First Glory Transformations: My call to evangelism: A few weeks after I had prayed for Robert, I had received my call to evangelism.
I was in Jerry's living room, and we had all been worshipping the Lord. Everybody
was obviously feeling the Lord's presence in a big way, except for me. I felt
nothing, and wondered why as I looked around at everyone else. One young couple
was having a conversation with the Lord, as the Lord spoke through Jerry. I felt
nothing, but then the Lord spoke through Jerry as he said, "There is one person
here, maybe two, that the Lord is calling to the ministry, and I believe it is preaching or evangelism, and you will feel
the Holy Spirit resting on you in confirmation." Just as he spoke that I felt
the Spirit rest on me in the biggest way I'd ever felt Him before, as I immediately starting weeping with a love I'd never
felt before. I had a compassion when I prayed for people that I never had before, plus an increase in faith that I cannot
explain. A touch from God: A little later in the year (which was 1992), I went out to Kansas City for my first experience at a large Vineyard
conference. (This large Vineyard church eventually became IHOP). The conferences
were usually titled something like, 'Healing the Nations', or "Passion for Christ".
I remember hearing Mahesh Chavda speak for the first time and watching as he called out many diseases that people had
with the Lord speaking through him with words of knowledge. It was obvious that
these things were not rigged or pre-contrived, except by the Holy Ghost and through prayer.
After about 80 or 90 people were called out and asked to stand, then the whole congregation prayed and these people
were almost all, if not all healed. Mahesh had them come up to testify. This was all new to me back in 1992. Then
he formed a line of about 100 people and laid hands on them one by one, taking his hand off of their forehead before they
fell over backward. Then he asked for more to come up and receive a touch from
the Lord. I was hungry for a touch, but at the same time, I did not want to fake
anything, and I said to my wife, "Let's go up there hon, but I'm gonna try to stand."
We were about 10 to 15 people from the end of the line where Mahesh was starting to lay hands on people. When he came to us he asked us if we were married, and we said yes, because we had just got married and
came here for our honeymoon. Then he said to me, "Don't fight it, just receive." I saw him take his hand away from my forehead, and then blacked out and went down. When I came to he had gone down the whole line of about 100. The young man next to me was flopping around. Some were jerking
a little, but most were just out. My wife said the last thing she remembered
was her knees buckling out from under her. I was relaxed, but my mind was racing,
aware of all things, and I had a tremendous feeling that I cannot explain. I
felt a tremendous love for everybody. I had been zapped by the Holy Spirit, and
all I could say was things like, 'Hallelujah, Praise God, Thank You Jesus, and I love you, man!' I received a lasting anointing. There was a warm spot on my
forehead where I had been touched, and it was there for at least a good week before it started to fade out. I was a preaching machine after this happened. Space limits
me telling all things that happened, but I want to center on healing.
During the conference when I got the touch, 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. Girl at conference: 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. Prophetic Word: I had a prophetic word that had been spoken over me several times back in the early 90's, and it was that people would
be healed while I was playing my guitar and singing, and that deaf ears and blinded eyes would be opened. I honestly somewhat resented this word, in that I wanted to be the one preaching and doing the laying on
of hands. I had played music all my life, had played professionally, ran and
operated my own recording studio for over 20 years, had charted records, and now all I wanted to do was preach and teach,
with music of almost no interest to me now.
More Experiences
with Healing and Miracles: Loretta 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 healed 3 times 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.
Other prophetic words: JOHN: Speaking of prophesying, Jerry Bryant had moved to Nashville, TN, and we had started going to a church
in Carbondale, where a man named John, (I don't want to give his full name), had been the pastor, and we came in right
when he had left due to liver problems. A fellow named Hal had started preaching
there most of the time. It did not look like John was going to live. The church was very sad about it. I remember praying
about it one evening at home, and I felt in the Spirit that the Lord said that John would walk into the church and we would
shake his hand and hug his neck. At church the next Sunday, they were talking
about how he did not have long to live, and they could not find a replacement liver in time to save him. I boldly stood up and prophesied that John would walk into this church and that we would shake his hand
and hug his neck. This took guts on my part, and faith. What if it didn't happen? Not only that, but this church was
sort of reserved, and about half of them did not believe in healing, prophesy, tongues, and etc. We prayed for healing for people sometimes, but most of them did not get healed, and their doctrine on
healing was not that sound. Anyway, I don't know exactly how long it was, but
John came to a service a few weeks later, and we shook his hand and hugged his neck, fulfilling the word of the Lord through
me. Unfortunately, about a couple months after that, John was back in the hospital again, in that his body
had rejected the new liver. He ended up dying. It is sad that some people do not walk in or keep their healing.
I do not know all the answers, but I think some of them may be found on the 'FAITH' link (at the top of this page), which
deals with much of the doctrine that is taught wrong by many preachers today, said doctrine tearing down faith rather than
building it up. Phil's son: 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.
Lady at church healed: I went to this church in Carbondale under Hal from
the summer on 1992 through the end of 1993. 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.
John O. healed: 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 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.
Where I attended church: 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.
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.
My short prison ministry: 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. In general, the inmates were not receiving, but some did, and 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,
getting my toes in first through the gospel band I had been playing with. 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.
The woman at Bald Knob Cross: One Easter Sunday 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. Possible reasons may be found on the other healing links at the top of this page. I do know
that it is not God's fault. 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.
Ken G.'s back healed: 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 definetely remembered this incident, being still pain free.
Carolyn M.'s back healed: 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 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. 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.
Jerry J.'s severe headache: 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.
Mexico and Honduras: 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).
Some miracles
inside the church: Brenda E.: 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. Mike and Brenda E. 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.
Galen: 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.
Ron W.: 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.
Miracles on
the job site and other places: 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. Some headaches:
Bill at Sherwin-Williams
in Carbondale: 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. Store manager at Herrin Huck's: 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.
Young man in the Lowe's
paint department: 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. Store manager
at another Huck's:
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 think its just the devil trying to put it back
on us, although it could be lack of faith, or bitterness or anger, etc. Young man at Sandoval Huck's: On a Sunday afternoon in April 2005, I was painting the outside of the Huck's store
in Sandoval, IL. (This was the Sunday after Ron W. has his heart attack). A young man that worked there came out to talk to me.
He had a bad headache over his left eye. I laughed w/faith as he described
his pain. I told him the headache was going to go away now. He asked how. I told him through prayer in the name of Jesus
the Christ. He again asked how, and did not have much faith, but the Lord healed
him and he confessed Jesus as Lord and made up his mind to get back in church.
Some more notable miracles on the job: Brian J.'s
knee: That reminds me of another one in Sandoval, but this was
when I was painting there 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.
Boy with asthma healed: 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.
Chris's son: 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 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. Greg H. 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.
Rick's back healed: 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 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 2nd Corinthians
12, as well as some other bad doctrine on Job, etc (Go to the site 'FAITH' 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 a couple of 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.
Billy M.'s back healed: 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. Lady in Carbondale: There is a red-haired lady who walks the streets of
Carbondale. She is about 50 years old now, and is somewhat of a street person,
and Timothy Bertsh and I would often minister on the streets in Carbondale. When
I first met this lady, she could hardly talk, and said that she had throat cancer, and that she had been quite a while with
this condition. I prayed for a healing, after rebuking the cancer, and there
was no noticeable improvement that I can remember, although when I saw her a couple of months later she was talking fine. She never said anything about the prayer, and I never asked. However, after
starting on this web page, I saw her another time and asked her about the cancer. She did not remember me praying, or
the cancer, and now I think that she may have been lying to get money from me. It is possible that all she had was a
sore throat. My Pastor: Toward the end of May, 2005, my pastor said to me after church
service, "Stick around, I want to talk to you." After almost everyone had left, he asked me to pray about a certain
decision, that the Lord's will would be done in his life. He also asked me to pray for his health. He said that
he had been having chills and had lost his appetite, and had been that way for more than several days. I prayed for
him, speaking by the Holy Spirit that he would have his appetite back in the morning. I found out a week later after
I got back from the Indy 500 with NGL that the morning after praying he had a huge appetite, and that he went and ate a huge
steak dinner, being completely healed. I love my pastor very dearly, and he is probably the most anointed man I personally
know for walking in healings and miracles on a continual basis. If you need a healing or need your faith stirred
up concerning healing, you should talk to my pastor, Donnie Colson. Ron T: It was the 4th of July weekend in 2005 and I was
with about 50 other Christians witnessing and ministering under the arch in St. Louis with Common Ground Ministries. We were using the Greater Glory Church as a base to work from. We sat in on a service on Sunday night at the Greater Glory after ministering that weekend. I was next to Ron T. during this excellent worship service. I
had been crying out to the Lord for more of Him. As the youth team from the church
came to do a skit and everybody stood up, I noticed Ron did not stand and I came to find out that his knees were in great
pain. He tried to stand once as the congregation stood, but it took about 20
seconds for him to stand. I prayed, and then waited a couple minutes and then
asked how he felt. He said he felt much better, and was able to stand up quickly. After further inquiry I discovered he still had a little pain, and I was not satisfied. I asked to pray again. As I did so, I
asked Jim Coleman, a man that I know walks in the healing anointing on a continual basis.
Jim layed a hand on one of his knees and prayed a quick prayer. I also
saw Brad Shaul, a man who the Lord had rewarded with a tangible healing anointing in his hands, due to his faithfulness, constant
giving, and humility. Brad prayed with me for about a minute or so, and Ron was
completely healed. His body was still sore and tired from all the walking and
ministering in St. Louis, but his knees were totally free from all pain. He went
out with several of us to the Landing to do street ministry that night, walking just fine with no pain. Ron and I also partnered up the next day as we went under the arch on the afternoon of Monday the 4th,
and the pain was still completely gone. However, when I saw him about a year later, he said the pain had come back again,
but not as severe. June On August 2, 2005, I was returning from St. Louis via Bart's
Transportation and was riding in the back next to an elderly couple from Herrin, IL.
They said they were Southern Baptists and were saved, so I asked if they had any pains in their body that I could pray
for. The lady was sitting next to me and her name was June. She said that she had slipped on the ice about a year and a half ago in January, and had hurt her knee
which still hurt to this day, and that she had never gone to the doctor. I perceived
that she had heard bad doctrine on healing, (not because she was Southern Baptist), and I did not want to take a chance of
her not receiving her healing, so I asked if I could talk to her for about 10 minutes before I prayed. We were just leaving the airport, so there was plenty of time to talk.
I went through all the scriptures that some preachers use to show why God may not heal, may not heal now, or why he
may allow sickness, etc., and showed her the word of God more perfectly. I took
her from Isaiah 53 to Job, and through the New Testament scriptures pertaining to healing such as are discussed in the 'Faith'
link above, and I could tell faith was rising up in her as I taught the scriptures.
I then asked where the pain was the worst and she laid my hand on her knee. I
prayed for about 15 or 20 seconds and she then said, "It doesn't hurt near as bad now, it really is a lot better." She seemed a little surprised as she continued, "I'm not just saying that, it really is a lot better!" I then told her that if the pain was not completely gone within five minutes, that
I would pray again. We talked for about five minutes, and she then said, "The
pain is completely gone!" Again, she seemed a little surprised, and once again
said, "I'm not just saying that for your sake, the pain really is completely gone, it is honestly completely gone!" I never bothered to get the couple's last name. We talked
for a little while longer and then dozed off for the majority of the ride. Joe I was at the NGL Men's Retreat in September of 2005 and I
was sharing the Word with my fellow Christian friends on Friday night after the fellowship had started. As I talked to Joe about healing, he mentioned to me that he had been getting colds that made his throat
sore and cause lung congestion. He said that it only happens when he starts to
preach. He said that he likes to preach on repentance and that he had been to
Africa to preach as well as on the streets, and that is when the attacks come. He
said he had been to the doctor about it, and the doctors could not find anything wrong.
I started to laugh as I said, "That's funny! It only happens when you
preach, and the doctors can't find anything wrong. Sounds like a demonic spirit
to me." I laughed more intensely as I continued, "Let's pray and get rid of that
thing right now." Joe was laughing with me, and I started to pray. As I prayed, Joe said, "I feel it moving. There it is right
there," Joe said as he pointed to his left side. "Can you feel it? Put your hand right here." As I laid my hand right there
I answered, "No, but it doesn't matter, it's gonna go." I continued to pray and
I rebuked the foul spirit and commanded it to leave in the name of Jesus, and Joe said that he felt it go, and felt his healing
manifest and he was able to breath clearly. He testified to this the next day
during my time of teaching on "Healing the Sick'. Kathy In October 2005, Kathy came to visit the girl that lives
in the house next to ours, and she knew me from 30 years ago before I had been saved.
She had injured the cornea in her eye and the doctor said it would continue to deteriorate until she went blind. She was wearing some kind of dark glasses, and her vision was not good at all. I talked to her about my conversion and about the miracles God had done and spoke
the Word to her concerning healing. She listened to me intently. After sharing the Word I laughed as I went to pray, as my faith bubbled up, telling her that
her eye would be healed now. Through the name of Jesus, she received her miracle,
and starting laughing also as she was reading the fine print out of a phone book. She
came to church the next day (Sunday) and rededicated her life after being backslid for over 25 years, and through her and
her testimony there have been others that have also gotten saved and started to go to church regularly. Recent Honduras
trip Just wanted to let you know a few
things that transpired when Timothy Bertsch and me went to Honduras. We left
Jan 8 and came back Jan 23. On the first day 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 but a little time to spend on the street, where Timothy also had words of knowledge for people we prayed for on the
street, 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. On
the third day of our trip, Timothy was praying for pastors outside of the Pastor's Association meeting and reading their mail,
and there was one man whom Timothy read his mail that invited us to be on channel 51 JBN, (Jesus Broadcast Network). Timothy 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. It's too much to tell everything,
but there was one church where we preached, fulfilling a literal vision that the pastor had 5 years prior, as the Lord moved
and brought gifts to the church. 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'. 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. Miracles
in Fortville, IN: In July of 2006 I went there with Larry Colson, (Donnie Colson's
nephew), who was working with me painting a Huck's. The neighbor (Brad Wilson)
who lived just west of the Huck's store was a very likeable Christian who I talked at length with about the things of God. As I talked about healing and the scriptures, he asked for prayer for his back, and
after a short prayer, his back was totally healed. I had forgotten about this,
till he reminded me when I went back to the store in September. 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 12th, 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. NGL Men's Retreat of
2006 NGL (No Greater Love) is a ministry dedicated to winning
the lost at events such as Mardi Gras and the Indy 500. They train Christians how to boldy witness to others. The
leader of the team had gratiously allowed me to teach on healing again this year, and the Holy Spirit moved on me with
much compassion as I was sharing the Word. We only have about 45 or 50 minutes to share, normally, but my slot was the
last one before lunch, and we all stayed, enjoying the wonderful presence of the Lord. We were all praying for one another,
and many got healed. There were not many of us, but I would venture to say that everyone there got healed of something,
wether physical or otherwise. My precious brother Timothy Bertsch was there giving words of knowledge from the
Lord, and everyone got ministered to. I know that there was a shoulder healed, and another man with back problems.
I did not get names, but I found out later during the NGL Mardi Gras outreach that Gary Wood was there and was one of the
ones ministered to. Doug
The Lord had moved me to a church in Herrin, IL in March
of 2006. In late October on a Sunday morning, I overheard Doug talking about his back pains to a couple of his friends
while walking toward the church. I said, "You don't have to put up with that, let me pray. Doug had hurt
his back working, but with a short prayer, Doug was pain free. However, the pain came back several days later.
A week and a half later on a Wednesday night at church Doug asked me to go up to the alter with him and pray again.
This time I prayed for the pain not to return, applying the blood by faith, and instructing Doug what to do if it came back
again, but the pain never came back. Girl
at Captain D's: 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. All glory and praise be to Jesus, apart from whom we can
do NOTHING. But through Him we can do all things. Chuck Harkings 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 'Faith' 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. Anonter young lady there received a good 80%
improvement from scoleosis, and I'm confident the healing will manifest completely in time. Coffeshop in Carbondale This reminds me of a coffeshop I played in a year earlier. There was a man there
that was singing to tracks. After he got done, I sang and played and praised God and preached some on healing, inviting
anyone that needed prayer to get healed. The man that was singing came up for prayer with back pain, and he was completely
healed. I saw him about a year later and he reminded me of this, and said that the pain never came back. Miracles at the Mardi Gras
outreach of 2007: 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. Joe 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. After returning home from this 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. Woman at
homeless shelter: I was there with Ronald D. from CLC church, and we were ministering after
the praise & worship and preaching. We were praying for a 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 next week: 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 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. Anyway, after prayer, he walked away smiling, saying, "It
feel a lot better now." I ran after him and prayed again for complete manifestation, and he then said he felt it tingling
and God was doing it. 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. The CIA Summit Meeting: 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, so 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 neck
were still kinda achy and felt tense or tightened up. I prayed for the relaxing of those muscles, and she said she was
pain free. I asked Ann the following day, Saturday, and she said the muscles 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. I knowing this, merely asked. It was not a word of knowledge. I'm still learning how
to hear, however healing is my strong gift. 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, 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
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. I was listening
to the book of Matthew on my CD player in my car as I thought about this. I had received persecution a few weeks back
from a couple of people that I had been praying for to receive faith for healing, and the scripure popped into my head,
"Blessed is he that is persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." About 8
seconds later, I heard that scripture on the CD. For this and other reasons, I believe the Lord has cranked things up
a knotch, and not just in me, but in many believers. My advice to others it to soak in the word, stay unspotted
from the world, guard every word and thought, and glorify Jesus with everything you say and do. I may not continue to update this site much, concerning testifying of the healings
I've witnessed, in that the man that asked me to make a list of these people has now asked me to stop. I never
did feel comfortable making this list, as if it were notches in my belt. Plus, it may be too time consuming
to do so. Nevertheless, wether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto man more than unto God, judge ye,
for I cannot but speak the things which I have seen and heard. 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. About my Partner in Ministry, Timothy Bertsch: Timothy Bertsch is the most anointed man I personally know
for having words of knowledge. The Lord has also used him mightily in the area of healing and miracles. There
was a lady he ministered to with words of knowledge about the different areas in her body that needed to be healed, and she
was healed. Some of the things wrong with her body include scoleosis, which affected her walking and pain in her leg,
and a broken wrist, female problems, headaches, and eyesight, (she had been wearing very thick glasses and could not see very
well either up close or far away, even with her glasses), Anyway, the Lord healed all these things, and it is an awesome
testimony, best heard from Timothy. Timothy loves the Lord more than about anybody I know, and the Lord has gifted him
and rewarded him for his faithfulness and constant seeking Him and dedication and prayer and giving. There are many
more testimonies of people we have seen healed on the streets and in the churches. We are not trying to exalt ourselves,
but Him. Apart from Him we can do nothing. ". . ,for without me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5), but with Him we can do all things. "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." (Phil. 4:13) " . . but with God all things are possible." (Matt. 19:26 We would like to minister in
your church. Between the two
of us we can do the worship, preaching, teaching, ministering through the prophetic, and laying on of hands with healings
and miracles, all done of course in the mighty name of Jesus. My name is Karl Stein and I can be reached at (618) 985-2204,
and Timothy Bertsch can be reached at (618) 727-0111. References: We ministered at a Baptist church in Freeman Spur, IL where holy-ghost filled Clyde
Dillman pastors. It was a small congregation, but there was a large percentage of those there that had something wrong
with their health. As far as I know, everybody there was healed, including the pastor of ringing in the ears, and his
leading elder of heart problems. The congregation has been growing, and there has been a very noticeable increase
in the number of miracles. Contact me for Clyde's number if you cannot find it, or for another pastor as reference
if you want. Thanks for reading! God Bless you with all blessings in Christ Jesus! |
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