Chris Pandolfo shares how his own testimony provoked multiple healings last Sunday.

The Butterfly Effect” is one of my favourite movies, along with “Back To The Future” and “Sliding Doors”. All movies have one thing in common, they detail how one seemingly inconsequential event can have a ripple effect, much like the ripples in a pond when a stone has been dropped in.
 
I had “just” decided to turn on my laptop late one night due to my injured shoulder and neck, which led to Tony Campbell (being led by The Holy Spirit) to send an instant message asking, “Does anybody have a pain in their neck?” Coincidence? I can see how some people may think that! I must admit that it did cross my mind until Tony said he wanted to pray for me. As soon as he did, I felt the power of God come upon me and complete healing came to my shoulder and neck, praise God! Still, the ripples of the stone did not stop there.

Sunday morning came and the meeting was in full-flow. It was in this place of worship that I that I “just” had the slightest of urges to maybe “just” share a testimony of God’s healing. I had no idea what would come from this and had no real expectations. Lesson learned, always be expectant that God will do more than you could even imagine because that is just what He did! After testifying Tony and I were asked by the elders to pray for any in the meeting with sports injuries.

Tony put it well when he said: “As we prayed for people I could feel the Holy Spirit flowing and the look on people’s faces when they realised that they had been healed was absolutely fantastic to see! Even as we ran downstairs to minister to others who were in the live link overflow meeting, my faith was increased every time someone got healed and God was really confirming to me that it was a special time for healing. I definitely believe that this was a result of the church’s recent focus on seeking after God and His presence. There’s no sickness or pain in His presence, just fullness of joy!” Praise God!
 
People who were healed laid hands on others and saw them healed, they then gave testimony. What ripples! My encouragement is this: if you are full of the Holy Spirit, respond to those little promptings. Like with the butterfly effect, your tiniest response can lead to great things happening. Imagine if I hadn’t turned my laptop on, or Tony hadn’t sent that message out… But, we did! Praise God. Remember, nothing “just” happens.

“The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.” – Matthew 15:31

Amy Letitia tells of how the indwelling Word of God kept her in peace during an attempted break-in.

At a “Life in the Spirit” meeting Naomi Hemp had a prophetic word for me: Ephesians 6:10 ‘Put on the full armour of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’

This prophetic word over me was an incredible insight into the Kingdom of Heaven as two weeks later at exactly 12.30am a burglar was seriously trying to get into the house. It wasn’t as if this guy was secretly trying to get in, he was banging and throwing bricks at our front door. For the first 5 minutes my mum and I were terrified, why? I honestly don’t know! I guess we were walking in the flesh. We prayed and spoke in tongues for this guy to go away, meditating over Ephesians 6:10, we realised we had entered into God’s presence and nothing provoked us. After 5 minutes of this guy being at our door we called the police who took over 20 minutes to get to our home. But whilst worshipping God through this traumatic time, we realised we had nothing to be afraid of. NOTHING! This experience has taught me a lot, since then I know I have nothing to fear, that’s right nothing! The police came took his details and well the happy ending is that we are safe, alive, and strengthened in God.

God is good, all the time!

Paul Francis writes about God’s goodness to his children.

Our son has had glue ear since he was very small and has struggled with his hearing. When this was diagnosed, we were warned that his speech would probably be affected, as would his school work. He would also be likely to have frequent earaches. None of these things happened, but he continued to fail hearing tests at every check-up.

He has had grommets fitted into both ears, which helped for a while but they both eventually fell out. Before Christmas last year he went for a check up and was told that the hole for one grommet had healed but that ear was no longer draining properly and so he had lost his hearing in that ear again. The other ear was working but the grommet hole had not healed. In fact, it was the hole that meant the ear was draining properly. However, cosmetic surgery would probably be required to fix it.

He has also suffered from asthma particularly triggered by hayfever. This has contributed to the glue ear, so he has not grown out of it as many children do.

A few weeks ago he responded to a call for healing and then went along to his next check up. His hearing in both ears was normal and the holes in both ears had healed properly! He also has not had any need for his asthma inhaler yet this summer. God is good!!

A week after she was born our youngest daughter had to go back into hospital with what we finally discovered was pneumonia. Clearly, while she was in hospital, several people prayed for her and after a week she came home fully recovered. We were warned that being so ill so young would mean that when she next had a cold she would struggle, but praise God, when she had a cold all she had was the cold – no breathing problems at all!

As she started to walk we noticed that she was limping slightly. After visits to various consultants this was diagnosed as arthritis in one ankle joint. But by the time we saw the arthritis consultant, her limp had gone and the diagnosis was only made by blood test. Apparently it is “very unusual for arthritic joints to clear up by themselves”!! The medics then told us that unfortunately arthritis in one so young can have repercussions, especially with sight. The medical risk of eye damage is raised by various factors, all of which she exhibited, so the risk at the first test was estimated at 1 in 3. She would have to be monitored by the eye hospital every four months until her teens. Every visit since then has shown that her eyes are perfect and there are no signs of inflammation. And every clear test reduces the risk that anything will happen.

Rhian Bagley shares God speaking to her in a “Life in the Spirit” meeting helped her pass an exam!

Over the past two years I’ve been working as an English teacher in Rochdale. However, I’ve been working as an unqualified teacher due to the fact that I haven’t been able to pass a maths test as part of my training.

I have spent hours working and developing my maths skills, I got tested for different reasons, diagnosed with Dyscalculus and felt after taking the test probably over a hundred times, that I’d never pass it. This was heartbreaking for me as all I’d ever wanted to do as a career was teach. I love my job and I was getting more and more frustrated that if things continued the way they did I wouldn’t be able to continue to teach.

Usually, under these circumstances, you get five years to pass before you’re made redundant. However, the teaching development agency sent out a letter two months ago informing all Heads that no unqualified teachers would be permitted to continue in their job as of September 08. That meant I had six weeks to pass the tests, otherwise I was out of a job. This obviously worried me and added more pressure to the already horrible situation. I was pleading with God, asking him what I needed to do, why this was continuing to happen to me, yet at the same time, even though it was hard, I knew He was in control. I knew that He had, and has, great plans for me, and I knew that all I had to do was trust in Him.

A few weeks ago, at one of the Life in the Spirit meetings, God clearly spoke to me about my test, all He said was ‘It’s finished’. I held onto that with everything that I had, I confessed it, I believed it.
Last Tuesday I sat my test again. I opened the paper, looked at the questions and thought, wow, this is a hard one. But this time I did something different, I didn’t panic, I didn’t start thinking I’ve failed it again, I whispered, ‘It’s finished’. I held onto that word all the way through my test, when I was done I didn’t feel overly pleased, but I’d done it. Yesterday afternoon I received an email that said I’d passed. God told me it was finished, I believed Him, it happened. Now faith- living and acting.