4 July 2009
On 21st June, I prayed for a 6 months old baby boy named Jabez who suffered from eczema since birth. His whole body from his face to his feet was infected. I visited him again the following week to pray for him again, but saw that all the wounds had become dry and healed in Jesus’ Name. Praise God! Now I am so very excited to see the glory of God as people are being healed. Freely I have received, freely I give in Jesus’ Name.
2 July 2009
One of the person who was prayed for last week at the workshop has been healed of bronchial pneumonia. As we ministered to him, we watched the Lord heal him in stages.
1 July 2009
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ” ‘The Stone the builders rejected has become the Capstone [Cornerstone]; the Lord has done this, and it is marvellous in our eyes’? Therefore I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this Stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom It falls will be crushed.”
Jesus used the Parable of the Tenants in Matthew 21.33-44, Mark 12.1-11 and Luke 20.9-18 as an answer to the chief priests and the teachers of the law who were questioning His authority. Luke 20.19 records: …He had spoken this parable against them.
In Mark and Luke, the Holy Spirit did not record for us that Jesus made mention of the Kingdom of God… but in Matthew, the Holy Spirit recorded for us these words of Jesus: “Therefore I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.”
30 June 2009
After the HSW’s pastors conference in Cavite, we had a midweek service on the 10th June 2009. During the service, Pastor Mylen who is my wife, imparted the anointing of the Holy Spirit that we had received during the conference. Our youth received the baptism of fire and the Holy Spirit, and they spoke in tongues. Some of them were crying and repenting; others were laughing as they were filled with unspeakable joy. There was an old man who was paralysed in his right hand and right leg. He was carried in by his wife. We laid hands on him and after we prayed, he could move his right hand and right leg by the power of the Holy Spirit. He bent his legs and raised his hands and his wife shouted, “Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!” He walked around and praised the Lord. Now he and his family are converted to Christ, and they are now beginning their walk to faithfully serve the Lord.
28 June 2009
On the 9th June 2009, at the pastors conference in Cavite, I laid hands on Pastor Estrella Sicat who had cataracts and who could not see the banner that was about 5 metres in front of her. After the laying on of hands, she could see the banner but could not read the words on it. So I laid hands on her eyes again. After that she could read the words on the banner. The next day, she told me that her vision was still great. She told Pastor Eugene Dulanas on the 19th June 2009 that her vision is now 100% restored. This has not been medically verified yet.
27 June 2009
“At that time the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. … Again, it will be like a man going on a journey…” But what will the Kingdom of God be like? There is no mention of the condition of the Kingdom of God by Jesus at all.
When He warned the disciples of the signs of the end of the age in Matthew, Mark and Luke, He clearly told them what the world would be experiencing. “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from Heaven” …giving rise to “…days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.”
In the two parables of Matthew 25.1-13 and 25.14-30, the figures of speech used by the Lord to represent the people of the Kingdom of Heaven are virgins and servants. What do these figures of speech really mean from a Kingdom of God perspective? Remember that those who are of the Kingdom of God have to be born again of the Spirit and those who are of the Kingdom of Heaven are those who repent and believe at the preaching of John the Baptist as Jesus said, “For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him,” but are not born again of the Spirit.
24 June 2009
The one question that must have gone through the minds of Eleazar and Shammah, as they took their stand with the rest of Israel having run away, must be this: “What am I doing this for?”
To risk it all against suicidal odds, with no human hope of redemption or even glory, for if they had fallen in battle… would Israel have thought kindly of them? Would they have been heralded as fallen heroes or as fools who did not know what was good for them?
So likewise, to learn to take the stand of the King, one must ask the question of the King, “What am I doing this for?” for even David asked, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel?” For even David sought to do something for a reason and a reward. However, it is not recorded that this was asked by Shammah and Eleazar. Perhaps they did not ask it as perhaps they had already answered it. For indeed, there is no mention of reward for those two nor did they ask about a reward like their king did. So then, if they did ask as David asked, what was the answer that they had within them that permitted them to remain and take their stand? A stand that permitted God to move on their behalf and give them the victory, and allowed the Philistines to be struck down by the sword. A display of ‘favouritism’ by God of the life of two men over the lives of others who, a humanist would argue, were as precious as Shammah’s and Eleazar’s?
24 June 2009
On the 12 June 2009, we held an overnight prayer meeting and there I started to share with my church members and leaders the teachings that I have learned at the workshop conference. The Lord spoke in our midst and I felt His Holy Spirit moving. Some spoke in tongues and others have received instant healing, not just physically but also emotionally and spiritually. Everyone here is filled with the Holy Spirit. I know that the Lord also revived each of us that night.
Every Saturday we hold a Bible study in one of our member’s place in Westplain subdivision. His name is Brother Nino Ramos who had been blind for 2 years. He was so depressed of his situation because he did not understand why he had to suffered blindness. His family members said that he inherited it from his father who was also blind. And because of that he lost hope and his mind was filled with fear, which caused mental illness. There were times they had to go to a mental hospital to inject a medicine into him to calm him down, about which I have witnessed. And then he started not to eat or speak and neither sleep. This lasted for 6 months, but the 13 June 2009 was a different day… after we laid hands on him and ask for God’s miracle to release him from mental illness, the Lord perform His miracle – He brought back Brother Nino’s life because he can now eat and sleep at night. We can now talk to him and now he even participates in hearing God’s word! And I believe more miracles will come, that the Lord will give new eyes for him to see again. To God be the glory, praise the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Sunday 14 June 2009 came and it was also a different one. We did the Holy Spirit’s workshop and the members and leaders were overwhelmed with God’s anointing Spirit. A fellow member, Sister Yolly, brought her father, Biato Boco, who is 83 years old with her. He had difficulty with his bone movement. We prayed for him in the church and ask God’s holy hands to heal him from head to toe. And to our astonishment, as they left church, her father can now move his bones easily. It seems a big plastic bag of stool was released inside! Halleluiah! To God be the glory!
On the same day, one of our fellow members, Sister Lilibeth, gave her testimony about her niece who is 7 years old. Her niece who lives in the province of Samar had been suffering from a stroke for 5 days. The parents of the bedridden child decided to take off the oxygen that is connected to the patient because it seemed useless, for even the doctors told them that they did not know if the child could survive the situation. But Sister Lilibeth resisted the parent’s decision. She started to lay her hand on her niece and with faith she spoke her prayer to the Lord sincerely that “if this is the way that the Lord wants to perform a miracle for them to believe… let this child be a testimony… please let her live.” Suddenly the child slowly opened her eyes and her hands slowly moved! They were all surprised by what they saw! They all now believe in God’s power and through the miracle they now know that the Lord is real! Halleluiah! Praise the Living God! Now the child is no longer sick, but is alive. To God be the glory!
24 June 2009
A man walked into my workshop today saying if the Lord can provide him with a job even for one day, he will serve Him. I looked at him and remembered that with God nothing is impossible. So I prayed and later he came back to tell me that he got a call to start a job the following day as a gate man. He was full of joy and has now surrendered to the Lord and by tomorrow I will be laying hands on him to receive the Holy Spirit. The man has asked Jesus to be his Saviour and Lord.
22 June 2009
A man, who was frustrated in life and decided to use humans to make money, had just been set free from that evil way of making money. He walked into the church and confessed after three sessions in the workshop.
Another man who had been running from the Lord for a long time also walked in last week and surrendered to the Lord as a disciple. He was in church yesterday with his whole family, a total of seven. Reverend Abel Okoh testified yesterday how he has been restored perfectly and how those who drove him away from ministry called him and paid him all his allowances, a total of more than $2500. And the Lord has given him more than he asked for.
20 June 2009
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?” Thank God that when He said this there was Isaiah who responded, “Here am I. Send me!” But unfortunately, there was only Isaiah amongst millions of Jews who did respond. And more importantly than responding, Isaiah was one whom God could trust and say, “Go and tell this people…” Unfortunately, God could not have then turned around to Satan and say, “I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it,” as the centurion at Capernaum said to Jesus. For even the Lord in Isaiah’s time only had one who responded and one He could trust only, not two.
If a Roman centurion can have men under him who he knows will obey him, then does not our Lord deserve more? Indeed, does not His glory and His honour demand that there be more? Of course He does. However, the raising up of the ‘more’ does not stem from raising up and encouraging others to follow Him if you are not yourself prepared to follow Him. We are not recruiters of the King’s army as the armies of the world recruit, encouraging others to enlist while we remain safely at home. Rather, if anyone is to join us, it is because they themselves are inspired to, for in the end it is never the largeness of the congregation that permits God to give the victory, but rather, the faithfulness of that congregation.
Shammah was but a congregation of one in that field of lentils, but through that one man God gave the victory. As he stood his ground, Shammah did not see death, and through him God gave the victory. It does not say that Shammah inspired Israel as Eleazar, who stood with David at Pas Dammin, did and struck down the Philistines until the troops returned.
20 June 2009
Just after the pastors’ conference in Cavite, I obeyed the Lord Jesus who said to pray for the sick and to command sicknesses to be healed in the Name of Jesus, and I experienced the power of the Holy Spirit through the healing of the people whom I prayed for. Just tonight I visited a lady who had a goitre and I prayed for her and she felt the power of the Holy Spirit. The goitre got smaller and smaller every time I prayed for her. As I exercise my faith in prayer, I believe that the goitre will be gone in the Name of Jesus.