This gave me goose-bumps!
Resurrections
By James Rutz, WorldNetDailyPeople have been coming back from the dead by the hundreds during the past 15-20 years. All over the world, stone-cold-dead people are being resurrected by the fervent, focused prayers of Christians praying in the name of Jesus.
By now, the totals are likely over a thousand. No exaggeration, no joke.
My own book Megashift: Igniting Spiritual Power documents 52 countries where at least one person has been raised from the dead--with named eyewitnesses who have street addresses and phone numbers and fax numbers and e-mail addresses. I even throw in a few photographs.
In other words, it's time to state a monumental fact that even our better-informed intelligentsia have failed to notice: Resurrections have become commonplace.
Christ's resurrection is still definitely unique. But as a simple, biological return from death, it is now just one instance in a very large, growing, and increasingly believable category.
Today, China and Mexico are the foremost countries in the world for resurrections. My best estimate for Mexico is well over 300. That count is mostly from U.S.-based Freedom Ministries, who eventually got so annoyed at Americans coming down to take photos and gawk at the natives that they stopped counting at 300 about five years ago.
The raised-body count in China could possibly be even higher. Lots of stories cross my desk, but they're hard to tally because public reports on activities of the underground house churches draw heavy persecution.
But to give you some feel for the situation, I'll describe one incident. It concerns my friend Curtis Sergeant. On a recent visit to South China, his first stop was a top house-church leader. They had hardly started talking when the phone rang. After a brief conversation, the leader hung up and started packing his suitcase, saying, "Sorry, have to go."
Curtis protested, "Hey, I came a long way to talk with you! What's the rush? Why can't you at least wait a few hours?"
The distinguished gentleman replied, "I just got word that two of our national leaders have been murdered in the northeast, and I have to go see if God will bring them back from the dead." ... to which Curtis could only answer, "Oh."
Such is daily life these days on the front lines of the great invisible war between good and evil, life and death--or to put it more concisely, God and Satan.
Those who would try to disparage the long-ago resurrection of the Lord now face a far harder problem: explaining away the many hundreds (or thousands) of today's easily verifiable resurrections that are staring us in the face from 52 lands, including the U.S. and Canada.
And please, the reports are not "near-death experiences" (NDEs) under anesthesia where a patient passes out for a few minutes, goes down a long tunnel, sees a bright light, then encounters Jesus.
No, what we're seeing today is the real thing. For instance, take Iris Ministries in Mozambique, run by my friend Heidi Baker and her husband, Rolland. When I spoke with her last fall, she said they've now counted 60 resurrections in their ministry.
And exactly who is doing all these resurrections? Heidi herself? No, Iris Ministries has now taken in 5,000 orphaned children--whom they somehow feed day after day, with no visible means of support. And while Heidi has seen many people healed through her prayers (very often deaf people), she has had only one resurrection. What about the other 59? They've all been done by the kids.
Isn't that exciting? It is for me, especially when I see the Lord's promises coming to life.
"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give" (Matthew 10:8)."Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14:12)
6 Comments:
Awesome! Stirring.
Interesting. Jesus told His disciples just before He acsended into Heaven, that they could do the same as He did, in the name of Jesus. But excepting TFI, how many true Christians really have the faith to do these things today? It's the old problem of "but what if it doesn't work?"
Pete
Sending you a short e-mail Cel.
Pete
Actually Pete, the article I pasted here is not referring to any acts of The Family International. Sure, it takes faith, but this goes to show that there are many out there who do have the faith, and the Lord is doing miracles through those who have the faith to stand on His Word and promises.
Pete meant to say: I wish more "churchy" Christians would know the truth and would try to heal the sick and raise the dead through their faith. Sorry for getting my words mixed up!
Amazing.
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