Donna
Elms of Texas
Benin, West Africa
Regional TEC Affiliates
From Donna, who has trained and ministered with The Elijah Challenge on our mission trips to Egypt and Indonesia
May 2005
“Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening I have been teaching the Healing Seminar at a church of about 125 to 150 people… After 3 days of teaching with instruction I went through the process of demonstration. First I had five men come up who had some type of pain in their body. Then I asked for five more men to come up and use the authority that Christ Jesus had given them to heal these men. All five were healed (The first had pain in his head for several days, the second had pain in his neck and shoulder, the third had knee problems in both legs, the fourth also had pain in his head, and the fifth had stomach problems.) God is so good and does more than we can think or ask. After the healing of the first five men I instructed the people to put their own hands on themselves where they hurt and we prayed. Then I instructed them to rebuke the pain or infirmity in the name of Jesus and after several minutes they stopped. When I asked them to check for pain, over half of the people raised their hands and several came up to testify of God’s healing power.”
“Then the very last was a woman who was blind and had to be led in by the pastor. I brought her up front and asked the church to come in agreement with me that God would restore her sight. I encouraged the people to believe with me and extend their hands toward her. As I began to speak with the authority Christ had given me, God began to work in her eyes. She could see a little but it was very blurry. I told the church we were going to have the victory. A second time I commanded restoration in her eyes and she could see me standing in front of her. After the third time she told Pastor Germain as she looked at the red microphone cover, “I don’t know what that [red] thing is.” When she got up from the chair she did not need help going back to her seat as she did earlier when she came in. During worship afterwards her hands were raised high to the Lord and tears of joy were flowing down her face for what God had done for her. The whole church just exploded into praise to the Lord! As I sit here I am once again amazed at what God does here on the field.”
July 3, 2005
"Just a update on the work of the Lord and what He has done in the past two weeks. Last week I taught the healing encounter at Hope Ministries with Pastor Gervais. There was a good response from the people and several were healed. People who have never prayed for others to be healed were using their authority and God was relieving the people of pain and infirmities. One man testified of having a tumor under his arm and that he could not feel it any longer and that the pain was no longer there.
Then this week I was at Hope Ministries with Pastor John. There were over eighteen women healed of various problems and two men healed from some type of infirmity. One man who had a stroke about four years ago had some of his speech restored. The Church committed to continue ministering to him every week with their authority. There were four salvations; two of the women who were saved were Muslim."
July 10, 2005
"I was at a church teaching about healing. There were 15 to 20 salvations and many people healed. There were about 300 to 400 people in attendance. When it came time for the healing ministry, I just had them place their hand on the part of their body where they had the infirmity. If I had tried to lay hands on everyone, I would have been there all night. But we only received five testimonies of healing, so I have no idea how many healings actually took place. When we asked for those who had been healed to raise their hands, we could not count all the people since it was so dark and there were only two little lights up by the pulpit. However, there were hands going up all over the place. I feel that the pastor who has been interpreting for me can now teach this to others on his own. That is good because there are many places ready for this teaching."
