Healing Clinic Report, Autumn 2011

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:11:51 +0000

Healing Clinic has continued to see God touch people in the Place of Prayer in the Church in the ARC with pain leaving people often instantly in a variety of conditions. The Autumn period had started very positively with one woman testifying of three conditions healed, and continued in the same vein, one example being a skin condition healed, and the likes of back, pain and neck conditions seeing pain leave, and freedom of movement return.

Many people travel in long distances to come to Healing Clinic, and a number receive prayer over the telephone. People have also become increasingly aware of the atmospheric presence of God while soaking in the Place of Prayer and during the prayer time, and have left feeling better in mind, body, and spirit as they have met with The Lord.

Most notably though, Healing Clinic has entered a new era where it is being taken out to Dudley market place as part of corporate outreach, and made accessible to more people consequently. On the 12th November 2011 we set up a Healing Clinic table in the town centre as part of this inaugural event which included live worship from Revival Fires, and many people were ministered to with demonstrations of God's love and power. Words of knowledge were released, people experienced God's tangible manifest presence, and a number were healed. Here are a selection of testimonies from that Saturday afternoon:

• A man who had been suffering with spondilitis in his spine and neck for 17 years felt his spine experience God's power, and testified that the pain left him. He also testified that he was now able to hold his neck upright with no pain, something he hadn't been able to do.

• A lady with dry eyes syndrome testified that she felt God's creative touch over her eyes to restore what had been lost for her eyes to function normally again.

• One woman with a hip condition felt heat, and testified that after prayer she was in no pain and had freedom of movement.

• One woman with back trouble felt heat, and freedom from pain as God touched her.

• One man suffering with recurrent headaches and insomnia testified that he felt better after prayer.

While this period has been a particularly encouraging time for Healing Clinic, we are especially looking forward to 2012 in expectation of what God is going to do, and we would encourage anyone who needs healing to pay a visit or call for prayer. We now have a new time for Healing Clinic, Wednesdays 2-4.30pm.

Richard Steel January 2012

Thank you & Photos from 'Experience Narnia'

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:05:05 +0000

For 2 weeks in December, the Church at the ARC transformed our second warehouse into scenes - with live actors - from the incredible story of Narnia, which tells in an amazing analogy the story of Jesus. It was opened by the mayor of Dudley (see pictures below) and we had over 1,300 school pupils come through the experience, and below is just one letter a thank you from a school:

Thank you for the opportunity to visit the Narnia experience given to our Y5 and Y6 pupils. All the children and staff thoroughly enjoyed themselves - right from the moment they walked through the wardrobe with the hanging fur coats, met Mr Tumnus in his house, chatted with Mr and Mrs Beaver, met Father Christmas and finally sat on the thrones - they loved every minute of it!!

This was a lovely experience. The "set", the actors and above all the hospitality were amazing. We are very grateful to your church community for providing the children with such a wonderful experience. It was also extremely generous to provide them each with such splendid presents.

Regards,

Sharon Mason, St. Chad's Catholic Primary School, Sedgley

Thank you's for 'A Christmas Carol'

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:52:57 +0000

We wanted to write to tell you how much we enjoyed hosting ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Revival Fires on 08 December 2011. It most certainly was the best Christmas show we have ever seen.

Here are some of the beautiful comments that our audience had to make:

Louise Haughton-Anderson
Best Panto ever, loved the effects and the sound and the actors. considering I hate panto's I thought you guys were brill!

Katherine Thompson
Yeah Louise is right! You had us both standing doing the actions to jingle bells!! I loved the way you told the story it was great!! And with only four actors too!! Nat aka Bernard was brill with the music, sound effects and lights! Well done you guys!

Alexandra Graham
I completely agree!!! I really enjoyed this one! The script was very good & the actors were brilliant! (the girls singing - WOW!!!) But all have done an amazing job. Well done.

Liz Bramble
SO clever, SO funny. We loved it and so did our kids :D

Sharon Baker
It was terrific! Such fun, great lines, and how did you get us ALL to do Jingle Bells!!! Loved the show!

Richard Steel
It was brilliant on so many levels, and the comedy was hilarious!

Chris Graham
Absolutely fabulous! your best yet !!!

Ellie Hopking
Saw 'a christmas carol' + it was so WONDERFUL!! :) nathaniel, matt, ben, simon + hannah, you are XXX clever! thank you for making it special :)

Julie Greenway
We had a fantastic time - our youth group really enjoyed the evening and were pretty well behaved! There were 23 of us altogether!

Simon Franks-Allen
A Christmas Carol, there have been many adaptations over the years but Saltmine theatres production last night is my new favourite version, sorry muppets but your still in my top two. Absolutely brilliant show last night at Revival Fires. Gets better every year. A big thank you & well done to all involved.

Tony Dsilva
The very best Christmas carol I have ever seen Inc films plays pantos The message was very clear Thank you Saltmine may God bless your work

The Power of Partnership

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:02:27 +0000

Dear Trevor and Sharon,

My name is Alison Edwards. My husband and I began a term of partnership with Revival Fires after a call by Bill Prankard at a conference in the summer. My husband and I had come to Revival Fires to collect our son, Joshua, who had just graduated from the ESL school - and managed to combine our trip with the conference.

During the conference Bill Prankard invited the congregation to partner with you. He then invited people to come forward to ask for prayer from those you want to receive something from. At that point I ran to Sharon and said that I wanted what she had - an anointing for leading worship. As it happened I'd recently been asked to lead our worship group back in Cologne; with no experience - can't read music or play an instrument, I just know a lot of songs.

When I left Cologne to come to the conference, our music group consisted of two singers (including me) and a cellist who was attempting to play the piano for us, but who was only available every two weeks. When I returned to Cologne the following Sunday, the Lord had brought forth a pianist, drummer, guitarist, and seven singers! Plus the cellist who is now overjoyed at not having to play the piano.

In addition our congregation has grown exponentially - we were a gathering of about 25/30 people. For the last month our congregation has been just under one hundred people. People are being saved, becoming church members, and we've just received a report of the first healing to take place amongst us.

I just wanted to tell you that the power of God has definitely gone out from amongst you and is bearing such fruit in Germany.

Thank you so much for your faithfulness and service to equipping the saints.

Yours in Christ
Alison

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Healed Blood Pressure

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:52:34 +0100

I thought I would share one noteworthy testimony from Healing Clinic with you. A lady came in to us the last Thursday afternoon before the summer break.

She gave us this written testimony last week confirming that God had healed her of three conditions that she had received prayer for. This lady writes:

" Thank you for your prayers. I attended your healing clinic. I suffered from high blood pressure, low blood count and stiff knees. After you prayed my high blood pressure dropped to 130/70, my low blood count returned to normal, and my knees are now flexible - I can even dance! May you be blessed and anointed."

Healing Clinic Update, May - July 2011

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:04:50 +0100

“The power of the Lord was present to heal them.” Luke 5: 17

We have entered an exciting new season of Healing Clinic where people are healed not just through the prayers of the team, but as they wait in the presence of God in the Place of Prayer in the ARC while stirring their faith through documented testimonies of previous healings in Healing Clinic, and Bible verses pertaining to the healing promises of God.

One man came in with pain related to an M.E. condition. After receiving prayer and soaking in God's presence he testified that the pain had left.

Another woman who had been injured after a fall for many years and in constant pain received prayer for her leg. The pain left almost immediately. Still in pain in her hip she received more prayer then soaked in God's presence as the healing clinic team went to the coffee shop for a break. When the team came back the woman testified that the hip pain had gone as well, as she felt God's healing presence wash over her.

Another man testified of significant improvements in a prostate condition, sharing that as the pain had decreased he had had a life-changing encounter with God's presence like he had never experienced before as he received prayer and waited on God.

People continue to be healed through the telephone as they call on Thursday afternoons for prayer. One woman who was suffering with “unbearable” migraine pain testified that God touched her as she was being prayed for by one of the Healing Clinic team, and all the pain left!

Two men who have suffered with cancer and received prayer from Healing Clinic in addition to other sources have testified to God's healing. One man has testified to some improvement, and another man has testified that he is believing to have recovered 100%.

Another woman travelled up with her friend from south east England to Healing Clinic to testify that as her shorter leg had grown out through prayer over the telephone one Thursday afternoon in 2010 that her back pain had stopped from that moment. However she said that the shorter leg still needed to grow out about another ¼ of an inch to be aligned to the longer leg, and she wanted to get prayer in person so that her unbelieving friend would see it for herself! As the team prayed, she felt God elongate her leg the final amount, and it was clearly visible not just to the team but to her friend who herself was touched by God as she received prayer.

We are believing in the new season that begins in September that God will do still greater as He manifests His glory, and continues to touch, heal, and change lives through the Healing Clinic in The Place of Prayer at the ARC.

Richard Steel July 2011

Healing Testimony

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:18:05 +0100

Having completed an 80,000 word thesis last year, I was left with repetitive strain injury in both wrists (right worse than left) as a result of many hours spent at my keyboard.
I was prescribed anti-inflammatory medication by my GP and had to wear wrist splints when the pain was particularly bad as I had further papers to write. In March I said to my husband that my wrist pain was still causing me a great deal of discomfort, even though I had received prayer for it on more than one occasion. I had a sense that God was going to heal my wrists and that it would follow a specific word of knowledge, even though I had never heard a word of knowledge about wrist pain before!
I attended the Revival Fires Outpouring Meeting recently when Jim Paul was speaking. He gave a word of knowledge about a heart problem and then asked for the person with pain in the wrists to raise their hand! He called me out to the front of the church to pray for me. As he looked down at my wrists he said that I had repetitive strain injury and that the right wrist was worse than the left. He said that I would be free of pain from that moment on and I have had no pain or discomfort since!
I submitted a 6,000 word paper to a Journal last Friday and I wrote this with no pain or discomfort at all!
Julie Greenway, May 2011

Finland Report and Testimonies

Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:28:02 +0100

Wednesday May 25th
We left for our two hour ride to a village in the middle of nowhere where a group of around 12 ladies have been meeting seeking God’s presence together. As soon as we arrived, they fed us, as has been the case in every home and every meeting! Then questions flowed as they got to know us, followed by not one as planned but 2 meetings. By the end of the night, the place was full with people who had travelled from long distances, the furthest being 258 kilometres for one meeting. There was such a hunger for God there, and everyone received prayer through the laying on of hands.

As we drove back on Thursday morning, our trip was interrupted by an invitation for coffee and cake, which lasted about an hour as we prayed for one woman who was seeking God’s will in her life, and was in need of God to break in with His peace. The evening meeting back at Lahti was buzzing with people of all ages, as again the expectation for God’s touch was amongst us.

Thursday May 26th
A lady fell down stairs on Thursday morning, on her day off from work, somersaulted, and bruised her legs and back badly. She came to meeting on Thursday night and totally healed – she actually saw the swelling in her legs going down!

A lady responded to dead areas being awakened in her life, she had received a vision of concrete becoming alive, and felt it described her life!

Another woman was healed of pain in her hip, she felt it being pushed into the right position. She said that God was still working on it – but she decided she would dance herself healthy!

Friday May 27th
We left home at 8 am for the TV studio and made 4 programmes which will be aired in August on TV7, Finland. There was such a great anointing, and we were welcomed so openly. Johanna has a weekly broadcast and gave up her slots to us to go out for a month in the summer. Trevor spoke about the supernatural realm invading our lives, and released words of knowledge and healings for those watching. That is an extraordinary way of healing, as he talked about also from Acts 19! God wants to use us in unusual ways.

Friday evening May 28th Finland
A young lady came for prayer at the end of the meeting as her arms and legs had worsening paralysis, meaning she could hardly bend her legs. After prayer, she took Trevor’s hand and ran across the room! Then she gave her life to the Lord Jesus and became a Christian. Her friend at work is a Christian and will be discipling her in her walk with Jesus!

And now for the sauna...

Healing Testimonies: May 2011

Thu, 12 May 2011 15:06:09 +0100

These are the Healing Clinic soundbite testimonies and verses. All these testimonies are documented.

* Delphi totally healed of arthritis
Matthew 8:17 "He took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses."

* Jan's shorter leg grew out by half an inch over the telephone
John 11:25 Jesus said "I am the resurrection and the life."

* Bernadette got healed of a heart valve defect:
"My heart has been working fine! I do not have to return to the Hospital again for a year. Praise God!" via email
Exodus 15:26 "I am The Lord who heals you."

* John's partially blind eye instantly restored over the telephone
Matthew 4:23 "Jesus went about healing all kinds of sickness
and all kinds of disease."

* Jane instantly healed of a cold, all symptoms left
Exodus 23:25 "I will take sickness away from the midst of you."

* Pat got healed of partial deafness
Matthew 14:14 "He was moved with compassion, and healed their sick."

* Victor sees HIV positive diagnosis overturned in test, his shorter leg grew out also
Psalm 103:3 "He heals all your diseases."

* Steve had pain in his left knee, pain instantly left
1 Peter 2:24 "By His wounds you were healed."

* Evrit received healing of eyesight, testified of seeing better
1 John 4:8 "God is love."

* Nick and Taff receive Heavenly peace
"Thank you for your prayers, we both feel so much peace and assurance, we are amazed at today" via email.
John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you."

Come to our weekly healing Clinic, on Thursdays from 2-4.30pm at the ARC!

Testimony from Shine Ladies Event

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:10:24 +0100

Thank you all!
I attended the ladies’ pamper evening. I was greatly touched. My mother raised me to give thanks and to bless the hearts of those who have blessed you, because you are recognising and acknowledging the seen, but unseen hand of our Heavenly Father and giving Him praise for giving you a good thing!
For me, it was a foretaste of the New Heaven and New Earth in the way women from all backgrounds and ages came together. We all shared, laughed and the love of Christ was evident in every smile and giggle! Each woman, whether Christian or not, shone with beauty and their uniqueness. It was refreshing in this dark, selfish world. The pamper evening was a special place where strangers became friends.
My deepest heartfelt thanks to all, who prayed in hope and trust, and to those who prepared, helped, set up and served. You all are in my prayers.
From a grateful lady!

Don’t miss the Shine Ladies Conference:
Arise + Shine, 16 - 17 September 2011