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on the links below for reports from their powerful ministries after
they were trained
Evangelist
Emmanuel of
Nigeria attended the Training in November 2004. He has since joined
us as Elijah Challenge Coordinator for Africa.
"I
am very happy to identify with you; I feel good doing the work of
God with the proof [of miracles].
The result---what I have not seen for the past 16 years I have
seen it in less than a year. What you taught me I have communicated
the
same revelation to hundreds of ministers and believers. I am currently
in high demand by churches. I give glory to God."
"You have imparted much into me, and countless other [servants
of the Lord] have benefited with an outstanding healing testimony
in their ministries. The same thing you taught me I have communicated
to them…It is only God who will reward you..."
Pastor
Albert
Kang of Malaysia attended the Training in December 2005. He
has since joined us as Elijah Challenge Coordinator for Asia.
“Your
teachings have been most enlightening and balanced. I have always
been skeptical about preachers who have the gift of
healing but no gift of teaching. On many occasions when they teach,
some of them get the theology so confusingly wrong that it becomes
detrimental to the ministry. However, you are different - you are
a gifted teacher with a clear message about the believers' authority
to heal. Then you prove your message by your anointed action. Apart
from these, you also cut out all the frills and get to the real substance."
"Praise God for the training that you both gave to so many servants
of Christ. [We] 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."
Missionary/Pastor
Carl
Henderson in the Philippines attended the Training in Houston
in 2006. He
has since joined us as Elijah Challenge Coordinator for the
Philippines.
"I
want to thank you for teaching me The Elijah Challenge. After
Sunday night's healings, I was laying in bed thinking back
to all the men of God who influenced me for the Lord, my many mentors,
and I was wishing I could tell them about what we have been experiencing
(actually many are already with the Lord) and I realized that in
the last few months, we have seen more miracles and signs and wonders
than many of them have seen in their entire ministries. Most were
men of God who served faithfully for 40 or more years. In this
area, my ministry has exceeded that of my heroes. They would be so
proud
of me! I realized that because of The Elijah Challenge and God's
power and authority, I also stand with the giants of my past."
"This
thought made me weep, with joy! I owe this all to your hard work,
teaching ability and trust! I praise the Lord for this incredible
tool! A tool that allows every Christian to stand shoulder to shoulder
with the greats of the faith! I thank you and the Lord for this tool
and for this beautiful revelation!"
Pastor Joshua
Gowda, India attended the Training in April 2006. He
has since joined us as Director of The Elijah Challenge Training
Centre in India.
Report
on Joshua & Simon's Evangelistic Healing and Feeding Event
in Punjab
"On
August 15, 2008 I received a call from our Elijah Challenge Coordinator
Pastor Bahrkal Masih from Kahve, Amritsar District, State of Punjab,
just nine kilometers from the city of Lahore in Pakistan. He said
that after he attended the Advanced Elijah Challenge Training in
Delhi last July, he went back to his village and visited 36 villages.
He found six pastors among these villages and gave them Elijah Challenge
Training. Then he encouraged each one to bring two to three hundred
Hindus to our Evangelistic Feeding Event and he invited us to minister
to them. We fixed the dates for the 25th and 26th of August for the
Feeding Event at Kahve village. They expected more and more people.
Brother Simon and I arrived on the evening of the 24th and conducted
a time of prayer. During the daytime I trained fifty mature believers
from the congregations of these six pastors. On the first day close
to seven hundred and thirty people came. That day we just healed
the sick and shared the Gospel. Hundreds of miracles took place.
After
the meeting the villagers went back to their villages and told about
the miracles that took place in Jesus’ name. The next day we
expected more people to come for our Elijah Challenge Evangelistic
Feeding Event. We ran out of money, but the local pastors and believers
also joined their hands with us to feed the people. An unexpected
crowd of close to 1,600 non-believers from 36 villages came by tractors,
mini-buses, and other smaller forms of transportation. All the believers
and pastors prayed over the food so that we would have enough for
everyone to eat and no one would go home hungry. The Lord blessed
the food! We remembered the Lord Jesus had fed 5,000 people. We trusted
God for the miracle and it happened. Praise the Lord! Our hearts
are rejoicing. Close to 1,550 people gave their lives to the Lord
Jesus Christ. Until late at night we were feeding and healing the
sick."
Street
preacher Chris
Villasana first attended The Elijah Challenge in April
2007
While
Chris and a team of street preachers were ministering in Chicago
in September 2008, he wrote:
"…So many healings have taken place. There
have been many healings big and small, but I will give you the highlights.
When we
first arrived in the Chicago area...
Praise
God! Miracles are happening in the streets! People are repenting
and giving their lives to Jesus!"
Missionary
Butch
Berner of Zambia, Africa hosted and attended the Training in
February 2005
Report
from Butch's May 2008 meeting in Burkina Faso
"On
Saturday when the faith level had increased, I was teaching the
people that they had authority too. I called seven pastors forward
and stationed them in front of each section of people. Together we
ministered mass healing-at-a-distance to all the people. About forty
stood and declared that God had healed them during the ministry.
I went back to finish the teaching and I looked around and a young
girl was standing on the stage. I asked Mamadoue what does she want?
He talked to her and said, “it’s a great miracle.” She
had trouble seeing and was deaf but now could see and hear well! “IT
WORKS and God is GOOD” is all I could say.
That
night we had a crusade. God healed hundreds and delivered others.
We had testimonies for almost two hours and when the people
saw
the power of God we had about 50 give their lives to Jesus. We
had over twelve people with eye problems healed. One lady could
see with one eye but not the other. God touched her and both eyes
were working. Others came with testimonies of God healing deaf
ears---about nine. The line grew so large we asked how many were
healed of headaches and eight or nine came forward. We praised
God for this and asked for healed backaches. Another seven or eight
came out and we praised God for this, and so on for each part of
the body. We had six people give praise to God for being delivered
from various demons. Five came with testimonies of how God healed
jaw and teeth problems. No pain when talking or chewing! One had
had a broken jaw deformed, and God set it in place. Feet, legs,
hips, backs, and all other parts of the body were healed in JESUS’ name.
It was an incredible night I will never forget. I had the best
seat as I got to hear all the testimonies as those trained did
what God had asked them to do---“heal the sick, cast out
demons, preach the kingdom”! God is so faithful."
Pastor Benard
Okello of Kenya was trained by Missionary Butch Berner (above). He
has since joined us as Elijah Challenge Coordinator for Kenya.
Report
on Benard's December 2007 meeting in Uganda
"I
went to Uganda and it was good. To be honest, I had not had such
a great meeting like the one we had this time.
Host Pastor
David Kubarashia did all he could to draw all the ministers in
Western Uganda. I presented The Elijah Challenge teaching for the
first time
in Masindi and it worked more than I had ever imagined. People
were healed and pastors were trained. I encouraged them to do the
training
in their respective districts in Western Uganda. For effective
evangelism we need The Elijah Challlenge vision to be presented everywhere.
I have realized this is the will of God concerning the End Time
Church."
Missionary
Clive of
the United Kingdom hosted and attended the Training in Niger in
November 2002
"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."
"...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."
"I
was in India in January 2008 and held a couple of small village
crusades. People were healed and saved. In March 2008 I went to
Burkina Faso and held village crusades in the south of the country.
We had a average crowd of 800 each evening during the seven nights
in
different locations. Our largest crowd was 1500 and during mass
healing around 150 raised their hands to say God had healed them.
Many also came to faith in Christ. There were many wonderful miracles
including a lady who came to us the next day to say she had been
delivered of a spirit of suicide and that during the prayer for
mass healing something had come out of her. Since that time she
no longer heard voices telling her to kill herself. Around
50% of people at the outreaches were adherents of the "religion
of peace" and the Lord showed his power to heal to confirm
that he is the only way to heaven."
Missionary
Keith
Roussel of Philippines attended the Training in June 2007
Report
on Keith's community outreach
"The following night we held a community outreach. While setting
up our sound equipment we discovered that we were in a Musl__m area
and that some of them were already complaining about us. Several
of the students began to panic and looked to me for guidance. Having
encountered Musl__ms before, I knew that if we wanted to reach these
people we needed to do more than just preach at them. They need to
both hear and see the gospel in action. Having witnessed the success
of the healing challenge in the college I decided to do it again,
but this time it would be before the preaching.
As we began the outreach about 50+ children gathered to participate
in the dances, songs and dramas, while the adults stood in the shadows
watching with caution and curiosity. I could sense that they were
not sure what to make of us or how to respond. To top that off there
was a disco club right next to us. When we arrived they began to
play their music louder as a protest of our presence.
This time
I had one of my students do the healing challenge [The Elijah Challenge].
He began to call anyone who was sick or had a problem in their body
to come forward and saying that we would heal them by the power
of our God. For several minutes he called out until two people responded.
One was a small child with a stomach ache, and the other was an
old
Musl__m woman with a problem in her knee. Our students laid hands
on them and they were both immediately healed! Now with proof to
back our claims more people began to respond. Several more people
came forward and were healed as our students laid hands upon them.
For over an hour we continued to call for the sick to come. It began
with just a couple sick people responding and snow-balled into a
mob of mass healing, as once spectators were now pushing through
the crowd to receive their healing. People ran home to bring their
relatives as more and more sick were being instantaneously healed.
Deaf ears were being opened, eye problems corrected, body pains gone,
heart conditions healed and so much more! Musl__ms were thanking Jesus
for their healing!
Such
a commotion was occurring that the disco club closed and the young
people came out to watch the event. Never
before had this community
seen the power of God move in such a way. After about 2 hours of
healing the sick we preached a message of salvation. We told them
that it was through the power of Jesus Christ that we healed them
and that He was the only way to get to heaven. We asked those who
wanted to accept Jesus as their Lord and savior to come forward.
I was so amazed to see that a large majority of those who responded
were adults! People once looming in the shadows now came forward
to accept Christ. Many of the people who responded were Musl__ms,
some were the youth from the disco club and one was a witch doctor!
At the end of the outreach some Musl__ms approached us saying, “We
believe in your God” and thanked us for coming to minister
to them.
I am so very proud of my students. They stepped out in great boldness
and faith. During the outreach they would occasionally run up to
me relaying their most recent healing with a look of triumph and
amazement in their eyes. I could feel such a satisfaction fill me
as I watched them put into practice that which I had imparted into
them."
Pastors Rick
& Kris Freeman of Texas hosted and attended the Training
in May 2006
"There
has been so much going on here... Let us start by saying that we
have been very busy since you were here. You came to Jubilee
House of Praise on June 3rd to teach us "Evangelism through
Healing" [The Elijah Challenge]. Since
then, which was three and a half months ago, our fellowship has
doubled in size and we have led over forty people to Christ. This
may not
sound like much to a larger church, but it's huge to us. We have
been a very small fellowship for the past three years but suddenly
that is changing. We haven't had this much success with anything
else we have tried. We feel that what you are teaching is exactly
what God wants all churches to be doing NOW. We know we are living
in the last days and there are MANY lost souls in this country.
We will continue to pray and encourage other pastors to see the
vision
of “The Elijah Challenge." IT WORKS!"
Apostle
Stephen
Gardner of Arizona attended the Training in November 2007
and February 2008. He
and his wife Kathy have since joined us as Elijah Challenge
Coordinators for Arizona.
"Now
that the class is finished..., we had an outreach with Teen
Challenge in Phoenix. There were about 100+
individuals present.
Mainly men who were in this program for drug rehabilitation.
We had an overwhelmingly great response to the gospel message and
The Elijah
Challenge approach to healing. Several men who were not saved
came and accepted Christ. As part of the challenge I first called
for
those who were deaf in one hear to come forward 5 men came forward
and Kathy assisted me in ministering to them. ALL the men testified
that they could hear now. After this miracle many more came forward
with other ailments for healing. The Teen Challenge Director
talked with us about returning on a periodic basis to have an outreach
to
these men were fresh off the streets with substance abuse challenges."
"[The
Elijah Challenge] articles have inspired us to revamp our approach
to evangelism.
We
believe as a result of this strategy
the Lord has
given us so much favor in our approach to lost souls. Sunday I
went out to one of the places where young men hang out who attend
Arizona
State University in Tempe, Arizona. I made my pitch to one young
man who was Asian and whose parents were Buddhist and to another
man who was unchurched. The young man of Buddhist descent gave
his life to Jesus and the unchurched man joined in. Both men will
be
at church Sunday where discipleship will begin. Also I have been
using The Elijah Challenge in my Sunday messages. We had a visitor
who came and became so enthusiastic about the teaching that he
joined the
church
and
is hungry for more. So you can see the revival of the spirit and
power of Elijah has not only spread to the streets and byways here
in Phoenix, but it is making a renewed difference in what is happening
inside the church."
Robert
Cockburn of Texas attended the Training in the summer of 2005
Report
on Robert's August 2008 mission trip to Uganda
"And as you go, preach saying, "The Kingdom of heaven
is at hand." Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,
cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give." His
mandate changes not, even way, way, way out in the bush!
This
is our third trip to this village [in Uganda], which is 1 1/2 hours
up into the mountains past Mbarara. Again,
hundreds were born
again!
Many witch doctors, tribal people and Musl__ms. At least 800 people
were healed. Four hundred people had demons cast out. The church
is 400 members strong and growing! A beloved saint they call "Mamma
Joy", who received prayer last summer, was healed from AIDS.
These
kinds of signs and wonders cause the church to EXPAND as the Father
displays His GOODNESS. All left the week
nourished both physically
and spiritually. Praise the Lord! We have returned healthy and feeling
incredibly privileged to be His ambassadors."
Dr.
Paul
Rains of Missouri attended the Training in Togo, West Africa
in January 2002
Report
on Paul's October 2004 Crusade in Punjab, India
"...After the third meeting in Bathinda we traveled by car at night
to Jahlander where we stayed in a hotel. This was our base as we
commuted three nights to the city of Nakadhar where we had wonderful
open air meetings. The crowds grew each night to around 3000 the
last night. On the first night we had 100 decisions for Christ, 200
on the second night and an amazing 500 on the third night!
The audience was a mixed group of adherents to tribal gods, Hindus,
Sikhs, and Musl__ms. Also Christians were present who helped organize
the meetings. Many people testified of miraculous healings by the
hand of God during those gospel meetings."
Sister
Soo
Too Chan of Malaysia attended the Training in June 2008
"Recently I went for a short mission to the "orang asli" (aboriginal
people) in Pahang (in Peninsular Malaysia). Praise the Lord there
were 2 miraculous healings.
1. A lady with pain in her back and affecting her right hand. Her
right arm was painful and could not lift anything. After commanding
the pain to go and told her that Jesus has healed her, she lifted
my bag with that hand. My bag is at least 5 kg. in weight.
2. A 8-year-old boy had severe rickets. He could not walk well because
of his condition. His calves were like sticks with no muscles. I
commanded the muscles to grow and told him that Jesus has healed
him. After that he was so happy running around. Even the Pastor was
surprised.
I really praise God For your teaching. Thank you.
Glory to the Lord for He has given us his power and authority."
Pastor
Vijay
Singh of India attended the Training in April 2006. He
has since joined us as an Elijah Challenge Coordinator in India.
"Greetings to you in the name of Jesus Christ
who is coming very soon. I am one of the attendees of the seminar
held in Dehra
Dun in the month of April 2006 in India. There you taught us about
The Elijah Challenge and made us aware of our authority through Christ.
I came to know what is my authority as being a disciple of Jesus.
That Training and the teaching have been a blessing for me and my
ministry. If you remember I meet you after the session and I told
you that will use this authority in my meetings, and you gave me
your name card.
When I came back, I visited a house where there were
four people---one old man and three ladies. The old man was on
the bed. I shared the
gospel to them and ministered to them as they requested. One lady
had a headache due to high blood pressure; another had heaviness
in her body. They asked me to minister to them for their healing.
I submit myself into God’s hands and prayed that he use me
for their healing. After prayer I took authority over the enemy.
I commanded the headache and heaviness to go and to leave them in
the name of Jesus. When I asked them how they are feeling they gave
their witness at once and they glorified the Lord. They said the
headache had gone, and the heaviness also gone.
I am using my authority in my Church meeting every
Wednesday. Miracles are happening and evil spirits are leaving
the people. This Wednesday
meeting is growing and more and more people are coming. Before we
had 15 to 20 people but now there are 70 to 80 peoples are coming
to our meeting. I pray that our Lord use you abundantly that many
Christian leaders know their authority in Christ and we all may be
able to extend His kingdom on the earth."
Reports from other servants of God