Two great accounts of what the Holy Spirit can do through man. Imagine if all our churches operated in the gifts.
If you are interested in further stories that can build your faith and want to seek God for these gifts you can go to his site and look at some more. If you study Azusa street, Smith Wiggelsworth, Kathryn Kuhlman and more you will begin to realize that God is very much alive today and looking for people to do the same things through. None of these people were anything special, but God choose them and used them mightily and many were healed and set free. Smith Wigglesworth was a plumber and upon occasion was known for punching people in the stomach and they were healed.
http://godsgenerals.com/https://prayingmedic.com/If you’re wondering who I am, you’ve come to the right place:
My life prior to the year 2000 was pretty ordinary. I was an atheist, doing the best I could to keep things moving in a positive direction. One day, I had an encounter with Jesus in the bunk room of a fire station that forever changed my life.
In 2008, God appeared to me in a dream and said He would heal my patients if I prayed for them. I didn’t believe in healing at the time, but I reluctantly began praying. I had no idea what I was doing, but along the way, I stumbled upon some keys to operating in healing and miracles. In 2009, I began blogging about the people I prayed with who were being healed.
Charles Carrin Ministries
http://www.charlescarrinministries.com/newsletter/page/4Account 1
The Boynton Beach Police Department witnessed my ministry to a violent young man who was completely out of his mind and had to be restrained by four other men. It took all their strength to hold him down. After an hour of spiritual battle he was set free–totally–and walked out of the room a normal youth again. The Officers were astonished and returned to their Station to report full details of the incident. They wrote: "We witnessed a successful exorcism." Years later one of those Officers came to my church office, reminded me of that historic night and said, "That made a ‘believer’ out of me! Ever since then I have been a Bible-thumping Christian!" The down-side to those events was that my Ordination was cancelled and I was barred from the denomination. My only other choice was to leave such wounded people in those horrific conditions. That, I could not do. I have never regretted the choice I made.
Account 2
Recently I preached to a Church of Christ congregation in Tennessee and many people had dramatic encounters with the Holy Spirit. Without exception, all the Elders experienced the power. The following Sunday, they–and many others–shared their testimonies before the congregation. One of them was a woman who had "an issue of blood" but was healed at the Friday night service. Matthew 9:20. This ultra-conservative church accepted the fact that the Holy Spirit is still doing today what He did in the first century. He has not changed. To better understand this healing/deliverance ministry, I suggest you study I Corinthians 2:1-5; 4:20, I Thessalonians 1:5,6, and Ephesians 6:10-18.
Thirty percent of Jesus’ recorded ministry in the gospels was spent in direct conflict with unclean spirits. The modern church totally ignores the need. My alcoholic friend whom I mentioned above was eventually forced to leave her church. They could accept her alcoholism because it did not challenge their denominational doctrines; her deliverance was a severe challenge. Rather than change, they let her go. Such is the religious bondage that typifies many churches today!
