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Having grown up in Methodist and Baptist Churches till about 36 years of age, I was taught the fundamentals that God?s Word is Truth, God is Love and He is Almighty God. At sixteen I was injured in a workshop when, as an apprentice, I fell down a grease pit onto my spine, badly injuring it. For twenty years I suffered pain believing I was bearing it for Jesus. I had also been taught that the Charismatic Movement and tongues were of the devil and believed this till I came to the end of myself, suffering much pain with the degeneration of the spinal injuries which were progressively restricting the use of my legs.
I usually woke early each day in pain and would sit and watch TV to distract me from the pain. One Sunday morning in 1981 in this situation I saw the first TV programme of Kenneth Copeland Ministries on Sydney TV I called my wife to come and hear Kenneth and Gloria teach the Word like I had always believed in my heart but had never heard it taught. It was a Miracle Service and I saw Gloria minister to people in wheelchairs and they rose up and walked.
Through this programme I received faith and hope for my own situation. I know God could heal if He wanted to, but how to get him to want to I didn?t know. As a results of this programme I was lead to seek Him for healing and grew in Faith through Kenneth Copeland?s Faith and Authority series of tapes, wearing out several tape players. I received ministry through Dr. Don Tredway from Tulsa for my spine. During that ministry I fell out under the power of the Holy Spirit and I heard God speak to me and say, ?You are not to say anything about your body that you can?t find in My Word?.
So I applied the principles of faith I had learnt. Using my authority in Jesus, speaking to the mountain and applying God?s Word as medicine to my flesh and I was healed. Over an 18 month period the vertebrae in my spine that were so badly degenerated were recreated.
I was working in my own motor engineering business at the time when the Lord said to me ?I didn?t heal you to be more comfortable in front of TV, I want you to start telling others what has happened and what you have learnt?. This would take a miracle, I was happy under someone's car but I never spoke publicly.
God performed this miracle too! First I began to share my testimony, then I would be asked to pray for the sick. I had the opportunity to go to Fiji on two ministry trips where I saw every miracle in the Bible happen before my eyes as God moved in a mighty way. I had discovered that Jesus is the same today as yesterday. I cam home with God?s call on my life and a determination that I would not rest till I saw those same miracles happening in Australia. We closed our automotive workshop and began to work part time for the Lord teaching the Faith principles that I had learnt, in home groups. Soon the Lord called me to full time ministry and to establish Miracle Ministries. The Lord chose the name because He wanted people to come believing for Miracles. Over the last three years, as we have established our own centre, we have had many people coming in need, expecting a miracle because of the name the Lord chose.
Kenneth always said, ?Don?t take my word for it, check it in your own bible and study for yourself?. I did just that and as I pressed into God as my source He gave me a teaching ministry. In 1985 the Lord called us to establish and Pastor a Church. This was to be a base from which the Healing Ministry would operate.
Our vision has been to train and equip people to minister Healing as a tool of evangelism under the direction of and in submission to their Pastors. To this end we have run over 50 healing schools in Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane and several country centres in Australia and internationally in the USA, Canada, South Korea, Malaysia and 16 Outreaches to Fiji where we have seen revival many times.
Our vision for the centre we are establishing in Westmead is to be a Healing Centre in close proximity to the Westmead Hospital complex. Westmead Hospital is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. This is to be a centre where people can have access to Healing Ministry on a regular basis. To this end we have already established two regular weekly Healing Meetings that are well attended and growing as people are gaining confidence to bring their sick relatives and friends.
Our vision also is to use this centre as a training centre to train people in the Healing Ministry and to be a base from which teams can go out on evangelistic outreaches both in Australia and overseas, to be a centre where missionaries, Pastors and church leaders can come to learn how to minister to the sick and use Healing as a tool of evangelism.
Copyright: Copyright (c) 1996-2005 Michael Fackerell · · Generator: TopicTree 0.8 · Generated: 04 Dec 2008, 02:48 pm AEST · Last modified: 2005-05-22 08:08:02 · 75 ms · The hopes and fears of all the years...
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