Pastor Albert Kang was trained under
The Elijah Challenge

 

"Praise the Lord for training us. You do not know how grateful we are. This is the first time so many signs and wonders are happening in my ministry and in such a short time. ...Honestly, in my 25 years of ministry, I have never experienced so many miracles in such a short time."

 

Report from the Philippines | July 12, 2007

"Praise the Lord. We had a great first session last night at The River of God Christian Fellowship at Bacoor, Cavite. There were 27 people present for training and they represented some 8 churches from that area. Since it was a Wednesday night, we were told that many people were involved in their Bible Studies or Prayer Meetings. There were 10 pastors present and so it was an eye-opening session for them. They did not have the LCD projector and so I just taught directly from the Bible. They were visibly interested and for three hours, everybody was still listening attentively.

During the demonstration, I asked those who had tangible pain to come forward. Five people came forward and everybody was watching to see what would happen. Then I asked if anyone would care to lay hands on the first man who was limping badly because of the arthritis in his knees. Two young men jumped up in great faith. Later I found out that they were pastors who had been asking the Lord for empowerment in their ministries.

Soon more people joined in and I asked the two young pastors, Grace and Bro Ong, (my father-in-law), to lay hands upon the knees of this old man. The first time, he had slight relief of the pain. I explained the way you did and told them that the mountain has moved slightly. I commanded but did not lay hands. All the hand-laying was done by the rest. The second time, the man could move his knees freely. On the third time, I asked one of the young pastors to give the command, and the rest laid their hands on the man's knees. The miracle happened and in that instance, he was totally healed of the pain.

He also had a frozen shoulder and this time, after about the fourth try, he still had the shadow of pain. However, it was not at the end of the service, while he was walking out to the door that I stopped him. I personally took authority over his frozen arm and immediately he was relieved and his pain gone.

This man is a deacon from another church. His wife also had a frozen shoulder. After about three times of commanding, the wife's shoulder was relieved of some pain. Then I told the people that I would use my firepower - my dear wife, Grace. I knew that Grace had tremendous faith in healing and so I leveraged upon that. She took over the command and with much authority ordered the frozen shoulder to be healed and the pain to go. I knew the pressure was upon her because of my sudden announcement that she was my firepower. She commanded longer than normal. When she stopped, the deacon's wife broke into a wide grin and began to wave her arm and praise the Lord. She was completely healed.

Another significant healing was the healing of a pastor's wife. Her eyes were painful and that even spread to the forehead. The eyes would regularly tear up and flow down her cheeks. I had some sisters laying hands on her eyes. Within one command, the pain was gone immediately and the eyes stop tearing. Today, we had lunch with her and her husband, Pastor Juan and they testified to that fact that God had miraculously healed her last night.

A young lady had strange pain symptoms in her abdomen and back. The doctors could not diagnose the source of the problem. Last night, after the disciples took authority, she was completely healed. Another young lady had painful sores in her mouth and pain on her left side. Without me laying hands, the disciples did miracles. She was healed completely.

After the demonstration, the people clapped profusely and later some came over and said that at first they were skeptical. However, the Lord showed that they could heal with the authority of Christ. One of the young pastors who jumped up when I initially invited people to lay hands was Pastor Esias Velma. He said that he came from a Baptist background but was also influenced by the Charismatics. He was skeptical about the teaching because he felt that he had no gift of healing. However, when the scripture was read and he realized that he had the authority, he quickly responded to my call for anyone who wanted to heal. Pastor Ruel is another young pastor who took over the church when his father, the former pastor, passed away suddenly last year. He was to hold an Evangelistic Crusade next month and felt that he needed real power and anointing to do that. He prayed and prayed. Last night's session was the answer to his prayers because he never really expected such miracles could happen through his exercising of God's authority.

Praise the Lord! Thank you for training us to train others. We are now really doing it!"

 

12 July 2007
River of God Christian Fellowship 7.00 PM
Elijah Challenge Training Session 2

"On the final night of training, the crowd had swelled from 27 to 62. The sanctuary was practically full. The words had spread that this training was different from what they used to have. One pastor told us that he had practically text (sms) every member and insisted that they should attend. As there were new participants, I went through some of the previous night's lessons with them. Then I taught them mass healing and also distant healing. In the mass healing, strangely, most of the healing happened to the congregation sitting on my left.

The first lady came forth weeping and raising her hands. She was healed of a serious back pain. An older woman walked to the stage, smiling with joy because the Lord had healed her of stomach ache. Another lady testified that she was healed of her shoulder pain that had troubled her for a long time. Then I conducted another round of mass healing. After asking everybody to lay hands on his or her affected areas of the body, I took authority over all these pains and diseases. This time, more people were healed. A sister was visibly touched by the Lord when she shared about her agony and how God had healed her of chest pain. Another sister wept as she told the congregation of how her headache was healed instantly. After demonstrating mass healing, I told the participants that at this juncture, we would usually call for salvation. After a few testimonies, people should be convinced of the tangible power of Christ to heal and save them. They should be ready to response to the call for salvation.

The next demonstration I did for the benefits of those who attended for the first time was direct-contact healing. Once again, I invited those who had faith to heal to step forward. About ten believers bravely walked forward. Among them were the two young pastors, Pastor Esias Vilmer and Pastor Ruel. Pastor Juan, a senior pastor who invited us to his fish farm also stood forth. There were a couple of other pastors whom I had not been able to get their names at the time of this report. The sick and infirm were invited to come and stand in front of these people of faith. I led them in giving the authoritative command for the diseases and pains to go.

The first lady to testify of contact-healing was the mother of the host pastor, Rev Caesar. She is eighty-plus years old and God had healed her of her back pain. Later, after the service, she did little dance to prove that her bad back was completely healed. A couple more ladies testified of the healing of their backs. I had noticed a young lady holding on to her fingers while we were doing the mass healing. She was not healed then but after the contact-healing, she testified that the pain in her fingers was gone. After that testimony, I conducted the second round of contact healing. More testimonies were given as people were healed. A lady with a sore throat was healed. I was a little surprised by the fact that God would even heal some who had menial infirmities. One sister had wanted to do the healing but she herself had painful fingers. So I told her to get healed first. Some ladies prayed for her and all the fingers were healed except for one. This sister was so anxious that tears rolled down her cheeks. The strange thing about this finger was that it got healed joint by joint. It took the healers many rounds but one last joint of the finger remained painful. I later found out that this lady's finger was completely healed when she returned home.

There was a relapse case. The previous night, a lady with pain in her abdomen and back was healed. However, in this session, she said that the pain had come back. As some of the sisters who were praying for her were not getting result, I asked Grace to help them. The sister was healed instantly and later she became very close with Grace. She even wanted to invite us to her home. Grace also helped to take authority of the arthritic fingers of one older sister. All the fingers were healed but one of them produced a clicking sound. After a few commands, the clicking sound disappeared.

The old deacon whom I thought was completely healed the previous night, came back with the same sore right shoulder. The Lord had healed him of his painful knees and also caused his right frozen shoulder to have better mobility. Pastor Ruel and Pastor Esias were among those who prayed for him. The mountain did move but not far enough. There was still a slight pain as he raised his hand. Later, he questioned his pastor who happened to be Pastor Ruel that could it be some sins in his life that had prevented this complete healing. His pastor encouraged him to confess whatever sins that he could recall. It was not until the healing crusade that he was to find complete relief. It was at the end of the crusade that I asked the old deacon about his shoulder. He said that it was still there. Apparently he had given up hope of ever being completely healed. A sense of anger rose within me and I immediately took authority over his right shoulder. I was visibly angry at this stubborn pain and was commanding it to leave in a very loud voice. I asked the deacon to raise his hand while I continued to take authority. Twice I did that and the pain left completely. A wide grin broke on the deacon's face. He then crouched like a boxer and gave a few jabs in the air. He was healed in spite of his faith being tested.

After all the testimonies, I continued to teach about taking authority over the flesh. As training session was coming to a close, I gave some instructions on what to expect at the healing crusade to be conducted on the following day. I had planned to anoint each participant with oil but the time was getting really late and so I did a mass prayer for them. I asked our Lord to give them faith, courage and wisdom to do the healing. Everyone raised his or her hands to receive the blessing. The training ended with the participants full of anticipation and enthusiasm."

 

 

13 July 2007
Elijah Challenge Evangelistic Crusade
Addas 4 Basketball Court - Bacoor
6.00 PM - 10.00 PM

"As we were visiting the preaching site, we noticed heavy dark clouds in the sky. Then the shower came in the afternoon but slightly before 6.00 PM, it stopped. Grace, Brother Ong and I had rested for the big night. When we arrived at the basketball court where the healing crusade was to be held, the brethrens had done a good job with the decoration. Pastor Juan had taken the lead in setting up the physical aspect of the crusade.

There was no raised stage but a sizeable space in front of a backdrop. The left side of the backdrop had the word, "Healing" while the other had the word, "Crusade". The center piece was a beautiful blue banner that had the name "Jesus". Radiating below that name were eight words, "loves, saves, heals, redeems, delivers, forgives, restores and cares". At the bottom was the word "returns" in big lettering and slogan challenging the people to "take it all". The sound system was up and the musicians who came from Pastor Ruel's church were already practising. Rows of plastic chairs had been neatly placed and there were about twenty early "birds" occupying some of the seats. I recognised that some of them were the trained disciples. Pastor Anna took advantage of the loud sound system and invited the villagers to come for "free healing". I believe the whole village could hear her invitation.

As the evening set in, the people began to come. By seven, most of the seats were taken. There were about two hundred people present. The crusade started with beautiful worship songs. Pastor Ruel and his wife, Pastor Idis did a fantastic job in leading the worship. The Filipinos must be one of the most gifted musicians and singers in Asia.

With a very short introduction, Pastor Reggie presented me to the crowd. My message was simple – the Lord of the universe loves us! Included in the message was a little story about the fall of Lucifer and how he was responsible for the diseases and pains. Then I concluded by proclaiming the proof of God's love - God was going to tangibly heal them. When they were to see the healing, they must choose to give their lives to Jesus. I also told them about the ten lepers and only one came back to thank Jesus. I asked them to promise that when Jesus healed them they would testify. The people responded positively and so I explained to them about mass healing. They were to place their hands on the affected parts of their bodies while I took authority over these pains and diseases.

By this time, the trained disciples were asked to come forward and face the congregation. As they raised their hands to heal the congregation, they repeated after every of my commands. As trained by Pastor William, I commanded all the diseases and pains to leave in the name of Jesus. Whenever, I said, "go", the trained disciples were especially keyed up in repeating that loudly. After the command, I asked if anyone was healed. There was a moment of silence as my eyes searched the crowd for signs of response. For a brief moment, I thought no one was healed. Then a very old and hunched lady stood and walked up slowly. With toothless smile, she grabbed my microphone and spoke in Tagalog. She told the crowd that God had healed her of her intense back pain and that she sincerely wanted to thank Him. The crowd applauded. One by one, those who were healed found their courage and stepped forward. There were a total of seven people being healed of various ailments and they took turn to testify. After the mass healing, I told the crowd that it was time for them to accept Christ as their Savior. They had seen the miracles and these proved that they could trust Christ to help and save them. I asked them to close their eyes and bowed their heads. When the call for decision was finally made, hands shot up all over the place. Later, the local pastors confirmed that some of those who raised their hands were church attendees. After seeing the miracles, they had also rededicated their lives to the Lord. I asked those who accepted Christ to stand up and follow Pastor Caesar in the salvation prayer in Tagalog. This they did with great enthusiasm.

The next phase was the contact-healing session. I explained that those who did not get healed during the mass healing could now be healed by the laying of hands. The ladies were to go to the side where the trained female disciples were while the men would go to be healed by the trained male disciples. The infirm came forth and the healing began. The trained disciples followed my commands as they laid hands on those who stood before them. Two or three persons were to minister one patient. Then in subsequent healing, they were to choose a leader to lead their team in ministering healing to the infirm. One by one, those who were healed came forward to testify. People who suffered from back pain, shoulder pain, knee pain, body pain and pain in the feet, were healed. A deaf woman got her ears opened. One older man who had kidney problem was prayed for. At the end of the crusade, we saw him standing up and praising God with uplifted hands and a few dance steps. The old deacon with a frozen left shoulder was healed at the end of the service too. Pastor Clairebell was also healed of the pain in her knees and was seen rejoicing with Grace. All in all, there were 27 or more people healed.

The local pastors were very excited and I challenged them to extend the crusade for one more day. To my amazement, they agreed. Since I would be preaching in another province, Pastor Anna would take the lead and preach at the healing crusade tomorrow. Praise God that the Elijah Challenge has so quickly and unexpectedly passed on to the Filipino churches and now they would be doing the healing crusade by themselves. They are expecting more people tomorrow because those who were healed would be inviting their friends, neighbours and relatives. I trust that this will give them great encouragement to continue spreading the Elijah Challenge End-time method of Evangelization throughout the Philippines."

 

14 July 2007
High Praise Preaching Point @ Santa Rosa, Laguna
6.00 PM

The sound of singing filled the little street as our van turned the corner. When we got out, we saw a very welcoming sight – a small crowd of 50 people were worshipping at a house. A tent that occupied the full width of the street was set up because there was rain in the afternoon. The rain did not seem to affect the attendance and enthusiastic worship that was going on.

This home belonged to a couple who used to worship at High Praise Church at Bacoor, Cavite. The unusually long journey had become burdensome for them and their children. Last October, Pastor Reggie, our branch pastor at Bacoor, challenged them to open their house for bible study. They took up the challenge but having little experience in evangelism, they were a little concerned that people may not show up. They planned to have bible study once a month but that was quickly changed. In a short while, it became a full-fledged weekly affair. Every Saturday, Pastor Reggie and his family would make the one-hour drive to minister at this barrio known as Golden City at Santa Rosa. Now with more than 50 adults and children, the house church has become too crowded and spilled into the street.

The evening was filled with programs. The enthusiastic lady worship leader has a good voice and she led with exceptional skill. To the thrill of their parents and elders, children were encouraged to come forward one by one so as to recite memory verses. There were applauses and much laughter because the Filipino believers are generally very happy people. A team of five girls, most probably in their early teenage years, performed and sang two special items. They were a little off-key but the crowd applauded loudly to encourage them. After a couple more worship songs, the children were asked to go to their Sunday School classes or rather Saturday School classes. I was then asked to preach to the adults and older teens.

Pastor Reggie had distributed flyers about me preaching on the topic of healing and so I took that as an indication from the Lord. After sharing my testimony of how I being a former Buddhist, came to know the Lord, I moved quickly to the topic of healing. Using portions from Luke 9 and 10, I explained the meaning of "authority". They loved the illustration of the Singapore policewomen. A single petite policewoman in the middle of a crossroad was able to halt all the big trucks, buses and vehicles with one raised hand. That, I proclaimed, was "authority"!

When it came to the actual demonstration of healing, I was at a dilemma. Should I do it with Grace and my father-in-law or should I do a quick training and let the people do the healing themselves? I decided to take the risk and give them instant half-hour training. First, the leaders of the house church were identified and they came and sat nearer to the front. Then I explained about the three anointings – priestly, prophetic and kingly anointing. I then showed them the wrong way of praying for the sick [that is, by mixing the prayer and commanding]. One moment, I was looking up into heaven and asking God to help, and then in the next instance, I commanded the diseases to come out, then back again to staring at heaven. However, this time I pretended to speak in tongues, then jumped right back to cast out the diseases. Back and forth, back and forth and the crowd burst out in laughter as they loved the little theatrics. After the brief training with references to the Word of God, the leaders were asked to come forth and take authority. While I was explaining to them that when using their kingly authority, they should not close their eyes or massage the victim with their hands, an older lady who sat in the front with her adult daughter suddenly stood up. She interrupted me and like the woman who was persistent in touching the hem of Jesus' garment, she wanted her daughter to be healed at that instance. I looked down and saw a thin dark young lady holding her abdomen and grimacing in pain. With little choice but to minister to her, I asked the leaders to follow me in commanding the pain to leave. With expectation, every eye in that little church was fixed on us. After the first command, I asked the daughter if she was healed. She was motioning with her hands but did not talk. Her mother explained that her daughter was deaf in one ear and suffering from tuberculosis. Then she told some of the leaders in Tagalog that her daughter had communicated that the pain in her stomach was gone. I did not understand that and wanted to take authority again. However, one of the leaders told me in English that there was no need for the second round. To confirm, I pointed at the daughter's abdomen and she smiled and nodded profusely. She was healed.

Later, at the end of the service, Grace and I took this daughter to one side and rebuked the deafness in her left ear. On the first round of taking authority, her ear was instantly opened to great amazement of her mother, church leaders and members. A leader tested her ear by making her repeat certain words. She was able to do that and the crowd applauded. With tears in her eyes, the mother testified about how the doctors had given up hope on her daughter's ears and that tonight God had proved the doctors wrong. We also took authority over for the daughter's tuberculosis and instructed her to get a confirmation of healing from her doctor.

The mother also wanted healing for her headache and neck pain. While the leaders laid their hands on her, I took authority over these pains in a loud voice. After commanding them twice, her pains were gone.

Another miracle happened to an old man who had suffered from a stroke some two months ago. The newly trained leaders laid hands on his painful legs and I led in the first command. Then I passed the microphone to the worship lady to give the command. It took her three rounds but the pain in the old man's leg was gone. He got up and walked around without any discomfort at all. Then he wanted a numb thumb to be healed. The trained disciples took authority and that was healed on the very first round.

A young lady, whom I was told, was sceptical but the Lord healed her of her back and shoulder pain. Another big mountain that was moved was in the form that of a man's injured hand. This man was the owner of the house and had a serious accident on his right arm. A machine fell on it and broke it. His bone was attached with two pieces of metal. However, since the surgery, he had little feeling throughout the length of that injured arm. One of the leaders took the lead in Tagalog and the rest of the leaders and some other motivated Christians laid their hands on this man's arm. As Grace and I watched, the miracle happened. The man smiled because when one of the leaders pinched his arm, he felt the sensation. He later told me that the sensation of his arm had become completely normal.

The night session ended with a prayer for all the members of this church to use their newfound authority to heal the sick in their barrio and beyond. It was a wonderful night of impartation and we can only say, "Wow! What a wonderful Saviour that we have!"

Praise the Lord for training us. You do not know how grateful we are. This is the first time so many signs and wonders are happening in my ministry and in such a short time.

 

July 20, 2007
Cavite

Praise God for the training that you both gave to so many servants of Christ. Grace, Brother Ong and I are being blessed by so many, many miracles. Honestly, in my 25 years of ministry, I have never experienced so many miracles in such a short time.

Last Sunday, we were preaching at our branch church in Cavite. During the healing session, a man was healed of stomach problem, a sister of shoulder pain. However, the most interesting healing was that of an old lady who was in her 70s. She had pain in her knees and that was instantly healed. We noticed that her daughter was shouting into her partially deaf ears. So we enquired and the daughter told us that they had to do that so she could hear. I put my hands into her ears and commanded the ears to be opened. To our surprise, especially mine (talking about mountain-moving faith), she said that she could hear clearly. Her daughter tested her by speaking to her from behind her back. She was able to repeat every word. Praise God that she was completely healed. Everybody in the church gave the Lord a loud and rowdy clap offering. Yesterday, the caretaker of the house where we were staying while in Baguio was complaining about pain in her inner left ear and numbness at the side of her ear. She was suffering from some kind of ear infection. Immediately with Pastor Ana, Pastor Reggie, Brother Ong and Grace, I took authority. Within 3 rounds, the pain was completely gone and the numbness as well.

After this Pastor Ana herself held training for her people. See her report below on what the Lord did during the training.

Received from Pastor Albert on July 22, 2007:

"This is the latest report from one of your "grandchildren." After we left Cavite, Pastor Ana conducted her own training and she is enjoying the same power of healing among her congregation. It’s really fun to see how God's power is manifesting throughout."

ELIJAH’S CHALLENGE REPORT FROM PASTOR ANA
The River of God Church
7 PM, July 20, 2007

Greetings from Elijah’s Challenge Bacoor, Cavite. Praise the Lord for what He has been doing for His people here in Bacoor.

Today we had Elijah's Challenge during our Prayer Meeting. Our Prayer Meeting normally starts at 7 PM. I decided to have the training instead, because our youth were not able to attend due to their schooling. We had our prayer meeting by 6:45 PM and then Elijah's Challenge Training.

Nine (9) youth attended, (4) children and (12) adults. I trained them first and then hands on. I was so excited. Many were healed.

During the first round, 3 were healed. One was healed from neck pain, another was healed with whole body pain because of stress due to his school examination, another was healed from a headache.

During the 2nd round: The one healed from the neck pain was healed also from eye pain. The one with headache had mouth sores also and was healed. One was healed with back pain and eye pain.

During the 3rd round: The one with a lump in her breast was healed. According to her, she was already suffering from pain several days ago. During the first round nothing happened, during the 2nd round there was heat on her left breast and during the 3rd round the lump (marble size) was gone. Praise the Lord. Another one was healed from acidity and another was healed from stomach pain. Another one who had pain due to varicose veins was healed in Jesus’ name.

We are all enjoying the goodness of the Lord! PRAISE OUR GOOD LORD!!!

In Christ,

Pastora Ana Liza Roxas

 

20 July, 2007

Organizer: Dr. John Tayoto, President of ACLEAD – Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija

Healing At The Dinner Meeting with Pastors and Church Leaders

After a four-hour bus ride from Baguio City, we finally reached San Jose, a town that is 15 minutes from our destination - ACLEAD – Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development. Dr. Tayoto was our host and the following evening, he had organized a dinner gathering pastors and leaders from around Science City of Munoz in Nueva Ecija. We were told that this place has been the center of agricultural and scientific education for many years. In fact, the hostel that we were staying belonged to the Central Luzon State University (CLSU) which had just celebrated its centurial anniversary.

At six in the evening, forty plus pastors and church leaders from Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic backgrounds, gathered at the cafeteria at CLSU for an evening of "learning church growth and Elijah Challenge". One young pastor told me that he is a "conservative" Baptist but believes in healing. A banner was displayed prominently as a backdrop with these words, "The Elijah Challenge Healing Ministry with Rev Albert Kang, July 20 – 22, 2007, Science City of Munoz in Nueva Ecija". The treatment that Grace, my father-in-law and I received was befitting of a royal welcome. We did not expect such reception and were so humbled by their love that we were almost speechless.

After food and some preliminaries, I shared my favourite message on church growth: "Seven Keys of Success". Then I moved to the topic of Elijah Challenge. After giving a brief history and comparison between the traditional way of praying for the sick and the Elijah Challenge's way of healing the sick, I gave a demonstration. First, I asked how many people in attendance were suffering from actual pain. A couple of hands went up. After finding out their conditions, some pastors and church leaders who were willing to try their hands in healing were asked to come to the front. An elderly lady-pastor, whom they called "Pastora", was chosen because she had a painful left knee. (It seems that knee conditions are among the easiest to receive divine healing). The volunteers were taught how to lay hands on the painful knee of this lady-pastor. Then, with mountain-moving faith, I commanded the pain to leave and the knee to heal. The first time, this elderly lady felt slight improvement in her knee but the pain was still there. As expected, all eyes were staring at me, wondering what I would do next. (I now remember that I did the same thing when for the first time, in a healing demonstration, I saw [my teacher] command and the patient was only partially healed). As a good imitator of that teacher, I went for the next round. With a wide grin, this lady-pastor was visibly feeling better. On the third round, she was completely healed. She stood up and danced - kicking her former painful leg wildly. The cafeteria was filled with loud applause and one could feel the levels of faith increased by a few notches.

The second person chosen to be healed was a Baptist church leader who was a former rock star and now working at the mayor's office. His healing was fast – in two rounds, his back pain was gone. As the evening was getting late, I invited them to attend the training the following day and learn about the healing and evangelistic approach of Elijah Challenge. On the way out, I met one young man who had indicated earlier in the meeting that he had pain in his heart. I had joked with him and asked whether his girlfriend had left him. Since we did not invite him to be healed, Dr. John Tayoto, Pastor John Nathan (the "conservative" Baptist) and I decided to heal him there and then. The young man said that the pain was not in the superficial chest muscles but deeper inside. We suspected that it could have something to do with the heart and so took authority accordingly. Within two authoritative commands, the pain was gone. Those who gathered to watch gave glory to God. We did a couple of distant healing but so far we had no confirmed verifiable results. We did hear that one young child who was in intensive care at the hospital, had recovered after the distant healing.

 

 

21 July, 2007
9.00 AM to 5.00 PM

Organizer: Dr. John Tayoto, President of ACLEAD – Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija

Training Location: Muñoz Christian Church, 1331, Bantug Science City of Muñoz, 3119 Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Healing At Elijah Challenge Training Session

The Asian Center for Leadership Education And Development (ACLEAD), being a part of Munoz Christian Church, shares the same compound as this 34 years old church. Dr. John Tayoto was the former pastor of this church. The present pastor is Rev Joy S. Gabasa who can be considered as an "eagle". He shows great potential in becoming an Elijah Coordinator in Muñoz.

We had only one full day to train the fifty plus pastors and church leaders. This time, the organizers provided us with an LCD projector. With eight hours of solid training in front of me, I braced myself for the challenge. I had slept only four hours, after familiarising myself with THe Elijah Challenge PowerPoint and training notes to the wee dark hours of the night and early morning.

At nine in the morning, the worship started. After introduction from Dr. Tayoto, the training began. I was glad that Grace was managing the laptop. She seemed to know the materials better than I did. The church was warm and we were perspiring profusely. The participants were amazing because they seemed totally unperturbed by the heat. They were paying attention and taking notes. As I took my time to go through the PowerPoint, verse by verse, they remained attentive. We took a lunch break at noon with the promise of a demonstration of healing in the afternoon. By one o'clock, the enthusiastic participants were back.

When the slide showed the word, "Demonstration", it was time for the real thing! Getting those who had pain to sit in the front row, I proceeded to do a mass healing. The pastors and those who had faith to heal were asked to stand in the front with me. There were many amusing contorted positions as the patients, who were in the front row, tried to place their hands on the different affected areas of their bodies. I told those who had pain in many parts of the body to simply place their hands on their heads. Together all the Christians and those leaders in the front raised our hands and with a loud voice, I commanded all pains to leave and diseases to go in the name of Jesus. There was a slight pause of silence as we all waited for the results. I was relieved when a sister testified that her painful shoulders and neck were healed. Then a man with a painful arm testified. Another lady testified in Tagalog of being healed of pain. I then taught the leaders how to lay hands. As they laid their hands, I asked them to follow me in uttering the commands. I had invited Pastor Joy to join me on stage and he took over the commanding in Tagalog. The testimonies started to pour in. A woman with tearing eyes was healed. The tearing stopped immediately. A few patients with chest pain also found immediate relief. A veterinarian who is a professor at the local university was healed of his shoulder pain. A lady with numbness in her toes was healed after a few rounds of commanding. There were some stubborn cases where simple neck and shoulder pains refused to be healed. For example, one man was not healed of his shoulder and neck pain in spite of much effort in commanding. Another man almost gave up hope as the leaders tried to heal him of his intense back pain. I almost gave up too because after more than three times of commanding, nothing seemed to work. I was literally getting angry with this stubborn pain and commanding at the top of my voice. Then the mountain moved. To my and everyone's great relief, the man broke into a shy smile and gladly walked to the stage and testified. An elderly lady was healed of her ankle pain. A middle-aged sister testified about being healed of migraine headache. Another difficult case was that of a young sister who had pain in her right shoulder, arm, hand and leg. I told those who were taking command to do so stage by stage. The shoulder was healed instantly, followed by the upper arm and hand. However, the right leg refused to be healed. It was not until the following day, during the healing rally, that she was completely healed. Even Pastor Joy commended that this was truly a difficult but amazing healing case.

The testimonies kept coming and I lost count. People were weeping in joy and speaking excitedly in Tagalog. I had to ask another pastor to interpret so as to fully comprehend the situation. People were healed of sinus problem, eye problem, ear problem, lung problem and all kinds of bodily pains. Strangely, there were quite a number of people suffering from infection of the throat and tonsillitis. An elderly lady whose right blind eye could see light.

 

 

Luke 10:9 "Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.’"