Today I want to share with you some of the testimonies I heard last night from the guest speaker at my Encounter Ministries class. His name is Pastor Jim Baker and he is from Zion Christian Fellowship in Columbus Ohio. You can find more information about him at his website zionequip.com Pastor Baker talked about his community in Ohio and he said they have testimony of 18 people who were raised from the dead. 18 people, right here in America, by ordinary people like you and me. Music:"Adding the Sun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Today I want to share with you some of the testimonies I heard last night from the guest speaker at my Encounter Ministries class. His name is Pastor Jim Baker and he is from Zion Christian Fellowship in Columbus Ohio. You can find more information about him at his website zionequip.com Pastor Baker talked about his community in Ohio and he said they have testimony of 18 people who were raised from the dead. 18 people, right here in America, by ordinary people like you and me.
The first one he talked about was about a construction worker who has 6 children. He felt like the Lord told him to take the family to Kings Island. He goes to Kings Island and he is waiting in line and this lady about 50 feet in front from him keels over and someone yells “she’s dead.” Every one is scrambling around and trying to save her or bring her back. This man is in line wondering if he should do something. He is just rocking back and forth and trying to decide what to do. He knows the Lord brought him here for a reason so he springs into action and fights his way through the crowd to get to the lady. He leans over her, puts his hand over her and says, “Live in the name Jesus.” She suddenly is alive again and takes a deep breath and the paramedics take her away.
The man is wondering what even just happened. He is in awe and he is back to waiting in line again. As he is waiting in line he has an open vision. His eyes are open, the screen comes down, and it is the throne room of heaven. It is busy, angels are flying around, worship is going on and all of the sudden all of heaven stops and it looks at the screen and it is this man, Ryan, and he is rocking back and forth. The minute he decided to engage God dispatched and angel at the speed of light and it went and met him as he commanded it, the angel came and raised the woman up.
They have seen multiple people brought back to life at car accidents. One guy that died at 7 A. M. and woke up at 11 P.M. and had to unzip himself from a body bag at the morgue. He was dead for 16 hours and was back at work two days later with no brain damage. This next one was a family from their church was visiting a different church. Someone passed away during the service and no one really new what to do. They were trying CRP and they had the paddles and nothing was working. Amy from Zion Church stood up on a chair and said, “Come on people start speaking life.” She started commanding life back into the person and they came back to life.
They have also seen two people come back to life after suicide. One of them was a young girl who was in a terrible relationship. The guy was really mean to her and he told her to just kill herself. The family didn’t know that had happened, they just knew they hadn’t heard from her in a little while. They went into her room and they found her with a really thick room around her neck. She had hung herself and she had blood coming from her eyes and stuff. The family was distraught, trying to cut her down, they don’t know how long she has been dead, so they are praying for her and nothing is happening. The ambulance comes, the paramedics are trying to raise her up and nothing happens and then as they are getting ready to stop everything the brother says, let's give it one more time, prays for her and boom she comes back to life. She hardens her heart to the Lord for about three months. Then she got saved with a water baptism one Sunday and she said she now realizes that every breath is gift from the Lord. She just glows.
The last one for today is a man who was the son of one of the families in the church. Genius level intellect, he was in the military and just walked away from the Lord. He got into Atheism Science. For whatever the life circumstances were, he hung himself with a belt and his roommate found him grey and unresponsive. They put him on machines and he was brain dead and the machines were keeping him a live. This was on a Tuesday and they called the family in and let them know they were going to pull the plug on Thursday. Somehow between Wed night and Thursday morning he comes back completely alive, full brain activity with all his intellect still in tact.
These are just a few on the stories the Pastor told us. He told us so many more. I will probably share more with you another time. I think all these are enough for one day. I hope you can see how incredible this is. I hope you can see how powerfully God is working in the world today. He is not just working in Ohio, and he is not just working in Africa. He is working everywhere. He is healing people all around you and yet if you aren’t on the lookout for it, you probably won’t see it. There is nothing extra special about these people. They just heard the Holy Spirit and then decided to act on what he said. You can do the same. They are commanding things to happen because they know Jesus gave them the authority. You have the same authority. I know it doesn’t feel like it. I know you don’t believe you could do something like healing, it’s too crazy. It’s for more holy people. Don’t believe these lies. My prayer for you is that the more you listen to these episodes, the more you listen to this podcast the more you will start to believe that you too can do these extraordinary things. My prayer is that if you see someone who is sick or in need of prayer you will start to believe that you could pray for them and you could see healings. The first time you pray for a healing over someone you might not see any change, that is ok, keep trying. I prayed over people for years without seeing much healing. It is part of the process. God still loves it when we try. I can’t wait to have you on one of these Witness Wednesdays talking about how you stepped out in faith, how you were bold and you prayed over someone, even if you didn’t see the results you wanted, you still tried and I can’t wait to hear about it.