Brother
Clive was formerly Field Director for World Horizons
in Niger, West Africa, where he and his wife were missionaries
for twelve years. Clive and World Vision hosted The Elijah
Challenge in Niger in November 2002 for an historic Campaign.
He later trained and ministered with The
Elijah
Challenge
on a mission trip to Indonesia.
June 2004
I got back from a visit to India just a week or so ago. It was a very
different kind of visit to what I am used to and the Lord used it to
tell me to widen my ministry. I'm encouraged. I spoke in some meetings.
The Lord graciously healed people each time. At one smallish meeting
where I preached the Gospel 12 people were healed as I took authority
over sickness and did mass healing. Later in another meeting at 6 am
(yes in the morning,) I shared a simple gospel message to a crowd of
900, many of whom were not believers and the Lord again healed 80 people
instantly as I did mass healing. Due to the circumstances I couldn't
use the believers nor give an altar call but I did talk about making
Jesus Lord of our lives. The Lord was very gracious and it was a surprise
to see so many healed. To him be all the glory.
Be encouraged, Brother William. The Lord is using me and the ministry
is growing and developing. What you planted in my life is bearing
fruit and the Lord is bringing glory to himself through it. My heart
is for the poor and downtrodden and I believe that many will be saved,
encouraged and empowered in the future.
South India, November 2005
Three
nights of village evangelistic meetings --- Drunken
men attempt to disrupt open air evangelistic meeting
at Village X
The crowd for the first evening was initially 120 people.
There were drunken men in the crowd trying to start trouble,
shouting
and hurling abuse at others including me. I had to ignore
them and just keep on preaching!
Felt a great freedom as I spoke my message. The atmosphere
was intimidating. There seemed to be little response from
the crowd
and attention was being taken by the fighting and shouting.
I preached on all the same, trusting that somehow the message
would
touch those assembled. As I finished speaking, I knew something
had to happen for there to be a breakthrough, so I trusted
God and asked the people to lay their hands on any sick
part of their
body. Then I asked God to heal. A few minutes later, eight
or so people put their hands up to say God had touched
them with
His healing power.
Only
three dared to come forward to tell what God had done for them.
One
lady testified that she had come to the
meeting with head,
chest and neck pain, from which she had been completely
healed
as I ministered healing in the name of Jesus. Another
lady had come suffering arm and shoulder problems.
She lifted
her arm
high to show that God had indeed healed her. The crowd
suddenly applauded, taking me by surprise!
The disruptive people had drifted away by that time.
Clearly people were too fearful of the others present
to come forward
for an altar call, so I asked Pastor M to lead the
people in the prayer of salvation to accept Christ. Many
responded,
repeating
the prayer out loud and I believe a good number truly
accepted Christ that night for the first time in their
lives.
Three
Hindu firemen watching the meeting later reported that they
had also
been healed of various ailments.
Praise
God!
We
held two other evangelistic meetings in other villages. At
each the Lord graciously extended his hand and
healed to confirm
the
message.
August 2006
" ...I
am still taking trips and preaching the Gospel and I reckon
that near to a thousand people have
received healings in my meetings as I've taught and preached
the Gospel over the last three years. Maybe a couple of hundred
people have come to Christ too. It's a small start but I know
that bigger
things are ahead."