A Pentecostal minister and a man who was
delivered
from homosexuality say they've learned that God will heal any
disease_even
AIDS.
Evan Wall, associate pastor of Foursquare Church in Jefferson City,
Mo.,
and Patrick Day, who says he was delivered from homosexuality eight
years
ago, claim they were healed of HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Today both men are active in ministry and are leading healthy lives,
despite
their recent traumas dealing with doctors' fatal diagnoses of what some
have
dubbed the modern plague.
"I believe that a bug is a bug_whether it's a cold or AIDS, it doesn't
make
any difference to God," Wall said. "After all God had brought me
through,
I refused to die of AIDS."
http://www.sendrevival.com/testimonies/categories/aids/christians_claim_healing.htm
My wife and I just became serious
Christians
in August last year. My wife was brought up as a Catholic and I as an
Anglican
would periodically go to Church on Sundays as we had time (like we were
taught
to do by our parents a long time ago). It was just a religious
function
but God remained more or less a distant hazy concept. I was not always
like
that. In my younger days I had confessed Christ at a young age
but
somewhere in High School, I abandoned the faith.
Last April, everything was looking pretty good in our lives. My
wife
was expecting our second child and although our son was showing
symptoms
of asthma we were hopeful that he would outgrow it.
But then one day in December as I was returning from a business trip,
my
wife met me at the airport with terrible news. During a
routine
pregnancy check up, her doctor had administered an HIV test along with
other
blood-work. The HIV test came back POSITIVE! The doctor
wanted
to begin administering drugs immediately but the cost of these drugs
here
when compared to our family income was prohibitive.
I was stunned… Our life was basically over! If my wife had
it,
it was a foregone conclusion that I had it too. There is a high
infection
rate of AIDS here in Nigeria (about 40% in urban centers) and social
stigmatization
is high. When you add to that - the cost of drugs for us, and our
boy's
asthma - this was literally - a death sentence for my entire family!
I began searching for information on AIDS and asthma on the Internet
when
it hit me that our situation was clearly way beyond any earthly
intervention.
So, in desperation I entered the search words “Faith” and “Healing” and
the
first article I clicked open was “Faith and Healing” by Tim
Greenwood!
We both read this powerful article - a testimony of Tim’s healing from
his
death sentence of terminal heart disease. PLUS, in it – Tim
taught
‘step-by-step’ how he, by believing and applying what the Bible said
about
healing, received complete healing. Now, we desperately wanted to
believe
that what Tim taught - would work for us. So, during a
particularly
bad asthma attack one night – we put the teaching to work for our
son.
Immediately all asthma symptoms left our son – and did not
return!
Our son was healed! Our faith soared! For the first time we
now
believed that nothing was going to hold us back! We wrote for
Tim’s
free book “Walking In Faith,” sent in a prayer request and began
devouring
every article on the Tim Greenwood Ministries (TGM) website
(www.tgm.org).
Plus, Tim’s wife began corresponding with us via email, teaching and
encouraging
us!
http://www.tgm.org/HealedFromAidsFG.html
Eric’s wife was one of the greatest assets to the business they were
in.
Her ability in marketing and Eric’s ability to sell brought the two
amazing
wealth. The problem of Eric’s being HIV positive was still there and
every
so often Eric would go for a T-cell count. When the T-cell count gets
too
low full blown AIDS begins to take its toll on a person’s life. Eric
maintained
a normal level of T-cells and experienced no outward signs of being HIV
positive.
Eric said, "It was amazing how God moved in my life. I couldn’t figure
it
out why I would find out that I am HIV positive a week after I accepted
Christ
into my life.
"I didn’t know a whole lot about the Bible. At our church, it was
announced
that we were going to have a healing service according to James
5:13-15:
Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing
psalms.
Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and
let
them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And
the
prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up,
and
if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. I didn’t even
know
healing was in the Bible. When you have an incurable disease, all you
have
is God. As the priest came forward I felt the heat on the oil as he
anointed
me and prayed over me in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost.
As the warm oil touched my skin I could feel something happen inside of
me.
"I went to the doctor that week and asked him to retest me for HIV.
When
he asked me why, I told him that God had healed me. At first he
hesitated
at doing it but I pressed him to do the test. It takes about two weeks
to
get the results from the test. I returned to the doctor’s in two weeks
to
receive the news that my test showed me to be HIV negative. The test
verified
there was no sign of AIDS. The doctor said it must be a mistake but I
was
so happy I told him God had healed me. One of the secretaries out front
agreed
with me about the healing and then I told the doctor to do the test
again
to be absolutely sure. We received that test back and found out again
that
I was HIV negative and then a third test finally revealed that I was
absolutely
free from being HIV positive. This happened in a Lutheran Church and
that’s
why I have a respect for all denominations. God honored His word in
this
church and I am very grateful that Jesus healed me. We began to get
really
hungry for God and while God showed Himself in our church, we felt it
necessary
to find another church. After visiting several churches, we found a
Word
church and learned about the Word of God. I had never learned much
about
tithing. I would give ten dollars in a service and if the preacher was
really
good I would give 20 dollars. We were making lots of money in our
business
and I was tipping God in the offering plate. Our church taught on
tithing
and we began to give. It’s amazing what happened as our business almost
doubled
over the next few months. God was proving to us that His word is true.
God
was moving extremely fast in our lives. I went to this Word church for
a
long time and was never slain in the spirit or really felt a touch of
God.
SADLY the link below no longer existed when I last checked on 4th Dec
2005, but I assure you was there when I first added the testimony,
quick check on google also listed the site below along with mine, only
two links sadly, but I leave the testimony anyway above.
http://theremnant.com/eric.html
4.H.C
comments :-
Well?
What are you waiting for, if your here because you know you or someone
you
know has HIV/Aids, what on earth do you have to lose, don't let Satan
take
your life, he's real alright, trust me, why don't you give Jesus ago,
and
maybe, just maybe you too will be set free from one of man's most
nightmare
diseases of the 21st century.
