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Words of encouragement and testimonies to bless you...and Give God the Glory!  Most recent testimonies on top...

August 9, 2008

At the Miracle Rally meeting Friday in Eureka Springs, Arkansas,  Dr. Gervais called out a word of knowledge that God was healing scars.  Ardell went up and was prayed for and the next morning all the scars on her legs disappeared.  God is awesome!

UPDATE ON HUGH LEMOINE : Sept. 15, 2007

Hello Charlene,

Thank you for all the prayers.  When they did the biopsy on my dad, Hugh
Lemoine, there was nothing to be found.  The doctors were perplexed, but we
know who the healer is.  PRAISE YOU LORD FOR YOUR HEALING GRACE!!!!!!!!!!!

Wanted to pass on to you as a testimony of myself.  The Lord has healed me
of cancer.  It was 80% in my liver, lungs and bones and now there is
nothing, absolutely nothing.  I was given 12 months to live in Dec 2004 and
today I am healthier than I have ever been.  THE LORD IS SO TRUE TO HIS WORD AND BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have to let everyone know there is hope and healing in the Word.  You just have to believe....

Blessings to You
Roz

Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:46 PM

Yes, Roz, I will pass it along to others also.

Lord, I come to you tonight for Roz Landrum who you love and care for
greatly. I ask that you remove all fear from him and his family and
cause that mustard seed faith to rise up and move that mountain of cancer.  We all speak to that cancer and command it to die at the roots.  We call forth new and
healthy cells to produce as the cancer cells die in Jesus' most holy name.  Lord, we stand on your word for Hugh Lemoine and speak forth that by your stripes he is healed! Cancer go!  Healing come!  Be it done for your glory, Lord,
amen and amen.

Love in Yeshua,
Charlene

 

5/6/06

Hello Charlene, I am so thankful that I saved your email because if you will scroll all the way down you will read where I promised to send a praise report after my doctor's visit. Just to freshen your memory though, I was diagnosed with sarcoma which is a form of cancer. I wrote and ask for the prayer of agreement. You prayed for me and responded to my mail.  I went in for a CAT scan on Friday. I am thankful to report that the scan showed no growth, tumors or masses. This is just one of many scans that I will have to have done but I know that Jesus is the healer and I am looking forward to getting a clean bill of health each and every time I go in. Thank you for agreeing with me in prayer and do agree with me in prayer that when I return in 3 months the report will be even better. Thank you,

 Elaine M.

 

4/24/06

The testimony below is from my distant cousin, Jean Short...

GOD'S AMAZING GRACE TESTIMONY OF JEAN SHORT AMARILLO TEX OVER AN EIGHT-YEAR PERIOD, I TOOK CARE OF SEVERAL OLDER RELATIVES IN THEIR LATTER DAYS-MY MOTHER, MY FATHER IN LAW AND MY MOTHER IN LAW. MY MOTHER IN LAW HAD ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AND BEFORE SHE PASSED AWAY, WE LEARNED THAT MY HUSBAND , WAYNE, HAD BRAIN CANCER.

 I HAD TO SEND HIS MOM TO LIVE WITH MY SISTER IN LAW, BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE TO BEGIN TAKING HIM FOR WEEK-LONG CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENTS AT THE HOSPITAL AND HAD NO ONE TO STAY WITH HER DURING THAT TIME. WAYNE LIVED ALMOST EXACTLY TWO YEARS AFTER WE LEARNED ABOUT HIS CANCER. ON TOP OF THE WEEK-LONG CHEMOTHERAPY IN THE HOSPITAL, HE HAD RADIATION TREATMENTS DONE ON AN OUT-PATIENT BASIS, AND WE VISITED M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER IN HOUSTON TEX ONCE A MONTH TO GET AN "EXPERT" OPINION. ALTHOUGH DOCTORS TOLD US AT THE BEGINNING THAT THEY COULD NOT SAVE MY HUSBAND'S LIFE, THEY HOPED THAT IN TREATING HIM THEY COULD LEARN SOMETHING THAT WOULD HELP HIM FURTHER PATIENTS WITH SUCH A RARE FORM OF BRAIN CANCER. WAYNE DIED ON MAY 22 1995. 

I WAS RATHER STOIC, NOT WANTING TO PUSH MY GRIEF ON OTHERS, BUT A NIGHT I'D AWAKEN WAILING. I'D HEARD OF WAILING, BUT UNTIL THEN I DID NOT REALLY KNOW THE MEANING OF IT. DURING THE DAY I BRUISED MYSELF WITH GETTING OUR HOUSE READY TO SELL AND WORKED VERY HARD THE NEXT YEAR.  DOCTORS FIGURE THE TRAUMA OF THOSE PAST FEW YEARS DROVE MY IMMUNE SYSTEM DOWN. BEGINNING ABOUT THE LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER OF 1996, I SHOWED SIGNS OF A VERY BAD CASE OF FLU, ALTHOUGH I HAD HAD A FLU SHOT.  MY DOCTOR TREATED ME WITH A STRONG ANTIBIOTIC FOR AN U PPER RESPIIRATORY INFECTION THAT DEVELOPED.   RATER THAN GETTING BETTER, I STEADILY GREW WORSE, BUT I WAS ASSURED THAT I HAD FLU, A KIND GOING AROUND THAT AFFECTED EVERYONE THE SAME WAY. ON NOV 22, 1996, I REALLY FELT TERRIBLE. I REMEMBER THINKING I'D GO TO BED AND STAY THERE UNTIL I FELT BETTER. LATER THAT EVENING MY BODY FELT EXTREMELY HOT, AND MY HAIR, WHICH REACHED ALMOST TO MY WAIST, SEEMED TO BE SMOTHERING ME. I RECALL REACHING FOR THE SCISSORS, HOLDING MY HAIR OVER MY SHOULDERS AND CUTTING IT OFF.   I DO NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING AFTER THAT.   MY DAUGHTER LATER SAID SHE CALLED AND ASKED WHAT I WAS DOING. WHEN I TOLD HER I'D CUT OFF MY LONG HAIR, SHE KNEW SOMETHING WAS TERRIBLY WRONG AND CALLED A NEARBY RELATIVE TO GO OVER AND SEE ABOUT ME.   THE RELATIVE FOUND ME BURNING WITH FEVER , OUT OF MY MIND AND FALLING ALL OVER THE PLACE.  SHE AND HER HUSBAND TOOK ME STRAIGHT TO THE HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM. MY TEMPERATURE WAS 106 AND CLIMBING. BEFORE THEY PUT BE INTO A ROOM, I WENT INTO A SEIZURE AND THEN INTO COMA.   I SPENT THE NEXT SIX WEEKS IN A COMA IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. I COULD HEAR PEOPLE TALKING A COUPLE OF TIMES, AND ONCE I OVERHEARD TWO DOCTORS NEXT TO MY BED; "IF SHE LIVES, AND I DON'T SEE HOW SHE CAN, SHE WILL BE SO BRAIN DAMAGED THAT IT WILL BE BETTER IF SHE DOSEN'T LIVE". THE OTHER DOCTOR AGREED. I WAS COMPLETELY PARALYZED AND COULDN'T EVEN OPEN MY EYES TO LET THEM KNOW I HAD HEARD. INSTEAD I LAYT THERE PRAYING WITHIN MY MIND THAT GOD WOULD GO AHEAD AND TAKE ME HOME IF I HAD TO BE BRAIN DAMAGED. I ALSO BEGGED HIM TO HEAL ME. 

AFTER BEING TESTED FOR 131 DISEASES, I WAS FINALLY DIAGNOSED AS HAVING GUILLIANE-BARRE SYNDROME, WHICH WAS EXPLAINED TO ME LATER AS BEING THE NEXT THING TO POLIO.  THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT A PERSON CAN WORK HIS WAY BACK FROM PARALYHSIS WITH GUILLANE-BARRE SYNDROME BUT CANNOT WITH POLIO. MY CASE WAS COMPLICATED BY MYCOPLASMA PEUMONIA.  ON JAN 7 1997, I AWAKENDED AND OPENED MY EYES. THE DOCTORS WERE ASTOUNDED. THEY HAD CALLED IN MY FAMILY THREE NIGHTS INA ROW TO AWAIT MY DEATH. MY ICU DOCTOR, WHOSE D ESK WAS JUST OUTSIDE MY LITTLE CUBICLE AND WAS ALWAYS THERE TO CHECK ON ME, TOLD ME WHEN H E DISMISSED ME ON THE FINAL VISIT, "MRS SHORT, WE LOST YOU AND COULDN'T BRING YOU BACK. YOU NEED TO FIND OUT WHY GOD BROUGHT YOU BACK." I DIDN'T TELL HIM I ALREADY KNEW. I REMEMBER VIVIDLY BEING :THERE", WHICH WAS NOTHING LIKE I HAD SEEN ON TELEVISION. I HAD HEARD OF ONE OTHER PERSON WHOSE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE MINE, AND THAT WAS RONALD WINANS, THE GOSPEL SINGER OF THE FAMOUS WINANS FAMILY. 

 I AWAKENED IN A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT SKY WITH STARS TWINKLING IN THE DISTANCE AND REMEMBER SOMEONE TALKING TO ME.  I DID NOT HAVE A BODY-JUST MY SOUL I PRESUMED, BUT I COULD TURN IN ANY DIRECTION BY JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.  IT WAS TRULY HEAVEN FOR ME.  I HAD BEEN IN GREAT PAIN BACK ON EARTH, BUT NOW THERE WAS ONLY PEACE AND NO PAIN FOR ME. IMMEDIATELY FORGOT WHAT WAS SAID DURING THAT EXPERIENCE.  I FIGURE GOD WILL LET ME KNOW.  I DO KNOW HE WANTS ME TO WRITE. I REMEMBER THINKING "ME WRITE" I CAN'T WRITE".  I HAD ONLY DONE LEGAL WRITING, AND THAT IS CERTAINLY NOT WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO READ. THEN I WAS IMPRESSED WITH "LEARN".   

I HAVE SPENT THE LAST EIGHT YEARS LEARNING. WHEN "HE ASKED, " ARE YOU READY TO COME ON?? I IMMEDIATELY ANSWERED, "I'M READY TO MEET YOU, BUT THERE IS SO MUCH I WANT TO DO YET." INSTANTLY I WAS BACK IN MY BODY , IN GREAT PAIN ON AN ICE TABLE AGAIN. MY THOUGHTS WERE, "ME AND MY BIG MOUTH.  I AWAKENED PARALYZED FROM THE NECK DOWN AN WITH A TRACHEOTOMY TUBE IN MY THROAT.  I HAD BEEN ON FULL LIFE SUPPORT FOR TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO MY AWAKENING.  THE ICU DOCTORS TOLD ME THAT I HAD A CHOICE, I COULD REMAIN PARALYZED OR I COULD WORK MY WAY BACK, I CHOSE TO WORK MY WAY BACK AND MADE MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS BECAUSE I WAS SO DETERMINED.   I SPENT MOST OF THE NEXT SIX WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL'S REHABLITATION GYM AND WAS ABLE TO WALK OUT OF THE HOSPITAL WITH THE AID OF A WALKER ON VALENTINES DAY, 1997. IN ANOTHER THREE MONTHS I WAS WALKING UPWRIGHT WITH NO AID. UPON MY WALKING FROM THE COMA , DOCTORS FLOCKED TO MY ROOM AND EXAMINED ME FOR BRAIN DAMAGE. I WAS TOLD THAT THEY FOUND NONE.  I SOON REALIZED, THOUGH , THAT I HAD LOST MY SHORT-TERM MEMORY RECALL, BUT GOD ANSWERED MY PRAYER AND GAVE THAT BACK TO ME JUST RECENTLY. I KNOW THAT HE LEADS ME MOMENT BY MOMENT IN EVERYTHING I DO, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO GOING HOME TO HIM AGAIN. I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT MY LIFE IS IN HIS HANDS.

jeanshort@sbcglobal.net

 10/15/05 

I wondered if anybody heard my program this morning on line and I was encouraged
to receive the following comments:

" I listened to the program and loved it. Wish I could find a way to let my
friend hear it. Can you pick it up anywhere after it has broadcast? Is it recorded
or something? 

I've told my fellow church members about the program.

Love you,
Jean"
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Charlene,                                    10/6/05
 
The word "Teshuva" has meant more to me than ever this year.  God is  
increasing my understanding.  I woke up in the middle of the night with it  heavily
on my mind.
 
I want to thank you for your clear-cut teachings.  It leaves you with  no
doubt about where you stand.  You have a prophet's vision and the  ability to
speak forth what you see.  Thank you for your ministry.  I  appreciate you!
 
Hannah

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My Archives at www.injesus.com                    10/6/05

Charlene

Your message should send all Christians in the USA to our knees.  Only by the grace of God will this nation repent.  We must pray and believe that the intercessors will stand in the gap, including ourselves, so that repentance will come to those who will hear and obey/

Betty S.

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We first met Pastors Joe and Ellen Cicchino around 1998 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and have remained friends to this day.  They have an anointed ministry and travel the world preaching the gospel that saves, heals and delivers.  Below is a recent email I received from Pastor Joe.  I hope it blesses you....Check out their website at www.visionoflove.net

Who Are We?

"Who are we,  who do we think we are, or are we who God thinks we are.  Until we understand who we are, we shall never see His presence and Glory in our lives.  When you find me, you find who you are.in me.  When we are hurt when we are young we go into shock.  A shock that is there so that we can hide all the pain of our lives  Pain that controls our emotions and feelings.  A pain that never allows us to be free and be who we truly are.  This pain is so hidden that we never realize that it controls us the way it does.,  Who caused this pain is not important.  What is important is seeing what it has done to us and letting it go.  We never want to face it, because it hurts when we think of it and we run from it.  We go into drugs, alcohol and other abuses, so that we can feel horrible without looking at the pain.  But when we finally decide that we want more of Jesus, we have to make a choice.  To hold on to the past and move .with Him in the natural with some times being touched by God.  Or letting go completely and moving in the spirit with Him. 
 
It sounds so simple, but letting go of hurts and pain, could be the most difficult thing we have ever done in our lives.  Many of us have gone through many years of counseling with some results.  Other forms of deliverence with some results.  But when you let the Holy Spirit, become part of the process and when He revels the hurts of the past and you finally forgive with your heart, like the scriptures tell us to do, You are truly set free and free indeed.  Then comes the process of sweeping the leven out of our lives.
 
This is what is happening at the different churches in Yolo county.  Many things are happening to people without anyone understanding what is happening around them.  Peoples lives are being changed before our eyes without any big commotion.  Jesus is in the house and He is doing all the work.  Last night at New Testament church in Woodland, we seen many things happen.  People set free of their past, physical healings, in the childrens' church seven salvations and the presence of Jesus was so strong, that people were weeping and crying.  One pastors wife saw Him sitting on the step leading to the platform and told her daughter that he is up their let us go and sit with Him.  Others felt Him presence went where they knew  He was.  It was a night of Glory and Deliverence from who we are, so that we can be who we are. 
 
We have been in three different places so far and in each place the same thing is happening, the same thing that has been happening for the last 2 1/2 years with us.  When we go somewhere the presence of the Lord is present and free to do His will not ours.  When we get out of the way and do what He wants done through us, His is Glory shines forth and we see the word and the spirit working together just like in the book of Acts.  More of Him and less of us and we will have the victory in Him not in us.
 
Tonight  and Friday, we are going to be at::  Word of life Christian center,   415 Second street (upstairs in the I.O.O.F. building) Davis CA 95616.----contact Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750
 
God Bless
Joe Cicchino
vision of love
www.visionoflove.net"

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The Following testimony is from Lucille Lightfoot, who has been a very close and trusted friend.  She was able to travel with Dr. Richard Booker's tour group and attend the Feast of Tabernacles in October, 2003.  Lucille has a heart for Israel and the Jewish people!

Alvin and Lucille Lightfoot

Sonshine Healing House, Missouri

My heart and love is with the Jewish people.  I have found out that my biological great grandmother was Jewish, and that is probably why the deep love in my heart for them.  I have been a believer in and a follower of The Messiah Yahshua (Jesus Christ) every since I was 8 yrs. old and I am 62 yrs. young now.    The following is a word that was given to me by The Holy Spirit of G-d, while I stood talking to a friend and sister in the L-rd at the latter part of July.  She was speaking of the horrible mistreatment of the Jewish people, that live in France and how so many of them are leaving and going to the land of Israel.  All at once this is what began to be spoken to my spirit for them.  "The hornets (in the form of persecution) are being sent to them to drive them back to Israel."  In His word YHVH says that He will draw His people unto this land that He had given to the children of Israel, who had once been called Jacob.  My mind went to the song that had been given by The Holy Ghost to a very precious blind in the natural (but not in the spiritual) sister in the L-rd.  It went like this, "L-rd if I'm not willing, then send the hornets to help me to be willing."    So really the persecution that is coming to the Jewish people are likened unto hornets in this song.  So many times if everything was going good in these other countries for them, they might not be so apt to go back to Jerusalem.  But because of the hornets (persecution) they are willing to go to Israel.  So in this aspect they are not victims, but are being a part of the fulfilling of the Word of G-d, where He said that He will draw them back to the land of their fathers. He didn't say how He would draw them, but that He would do it.     It was like in the scriptures when Yeshua unto His disciples, "Let's go over to the other side."  He didn't mention the storm that would arise in the middle of the Lake.  When He said, "let's go to the other side"  He meant that they would get there, because the other side was their destination (goal.)   So many times have and some still are seeing themselves as victims, not as ones returning into their rightful land and place, that was promised to them long years ago.  They need to hear and see that it is YHVH that is drawing them back.  So in the long run see it as a good thing, not  bad  that is happening.  It is like if we will see any situation as a half full glass of water (Blessing) not as a half empty (curse) glass of water.!!!   How do any of us know that this may be the very way some of us or even people that we know may also be drawn to this land of Israel.  He is worthy to be praised.!!!   YHVH truly wants His people to be encouraged, and to know  that they are a VICTOR not a victim.  Praise his Holy Name!!!  
          
                                                    Shalom, Alven & Lucille Lightfoot
          
                                                     SonshineHouse@centurytel.net  

 

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The following is a testimony from my close friend, Margo Pryor who has been married to Al Pryor for over 30 years.  Their church is located in Berryville, Arkansas.  Email her at vdss@cswnet.com for directions to their Services:

CHARLENE HERE'S MY TESTIMONY, AS YOU KNOW AL AND I MOVED HERE FROM TEXAS TEN YEARS AGO IT WAS SO HARD TO FIND A CHURCH THAT AL AND I BOTH LIKED.   IT JUST WASN'T HAPPENING! WE BOTH GOT SAVED IN A BAPTIST CHURCH BUT LEFT A FEW YEARS LATER AND HAVE GONE TO NON DENOM. CHURCHS, EVEN THEN WE WERE OR HE WAS NOT HAPPY SO HE STAYED OUT, SO FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS OR SO I HAVE PRAYED SILENTLY TO THE LORD MY HUSBAND IS AN APOSTLE, PROPHET, PASTOR, NOT REALLY KNOWING WHY I WAS PRAYING THAT WAY. WELL TWO YEARS AGO THE LORD LEAD US BACK TO A BAPTIST CHURCH AND I REMEMBER TELLING AL I WILL GO WITH YOU AND I WILL SUBMIT MYSELF TO YOU AND THE LORD TOTALLY EVEN THOUGH I DID NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO EGYPT THATS WHAT I THOUGH ANYWAY. WE WERE THERE TWO YEARS AND THE LORD USED US THERE WE SAT ON THE FORTH ROW IN FRONT RAISED OUR HANDS AND WAS VERY VERBAL (YOU KNOW HALLELUJAH ) AFTER ALMOST TWO YEARS LATER AL WAS GETTING UNHAPPY WITH THE PRAISE AND WORSHIP,AND IN A DREAM ONE NIGHT THE LORD TOLD HIM TO BEGIN A NEW WORK AND BUILD IT ON PRAISE AND WORSHIP SO HE KEPT ASKING THE LORD FOR CONFIRMATION AND HE DID WITH IN THREE DAYS THREE DIFFERNT PEOPLE GAVE US THE SAME WORD ONE OF BEING BOBBY GATES SO WE HAVE STEPED OUT ON FAITH AND RENTED A CHURCH AND MY HUSBAND IS GOING TO BE ORDAINED ON THE 17TH OF APRIL. TO SAY THE LEAST I STAND IN AWE OF THE POWER OF OUR LORD I STOOD ALL THOSE YEARS FOR MY HUSBAND AND HE HAS CALLED HIM INTO MINISTRY TALK ABOUT ANSWERED PRAYER!!!!!         (by Margo Pryor)                                                              

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Hear Julie Turner on Shortwave Radio!!!

Julie Turner's "America Bless God" weekly worldwide
shortwave radio program can be heard on WWRB 5.085
Sunday evenings 8:00 to 8:30 central time and also on
WINB 13.570 Saturday afternoons from 1:30 to 2:00
central time.  Some of the program topics include
similar dreams and visions that Christians have been
having of foreign troops on American soil and God's
provision for His people during future times of great
turmoil in America; encouraging notes about what
people can do to help themselves in relation to
expected upcoming events; Christian testimonies; and
many other interesting topics.  Guests on the program
have included or will include such people as Henry
Gruver (international prayer walker), Carl Sanders
(helped to develop the implantable microchip), Dr.
Michael Coffman (researches issues related to
government tyranny), Coach Dave Daubenmire (won a law
suit with ACLU), and others.  It is my hope that the
broadcast serves to stir God's people into action.
This is a good time for those of us who know our God
to become strong and do exploits.  It is also a good
time to stop commanding God to bless America and
consider what we can do to bless Him.  America, bless
God!
  For More information or to receive Julie popular newsletter called "The Corner Gathering" email her at cornergathering@yahoo.com

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Below is a testimony by Evangelist Mary Curtis...Art Curtis (picture below) is her son who recently returned from serving in Iraq...

DEAR ONES, MY SON, STAFF SERGENT ART CURTIS, AND HIS ARMY PSYOLOGICAL UNIT, WERE DEPLOYED TO IRAQ, ONE YEAR AGO. LIKE MANY OTHERS IN THE UNIT, ART IS MARRIED, AND HAS TWO SMALL SONS. THESE ARMY RESERVIST, LEFT THEIR LIVES FOR ONE YEAR, NOT KNOWING IF THEY WOULD EVER SEE THEIR FAMILIES AGAIN..MOST OF THE MEN, UNDER MY SON, WERE MERE BOYS, 18, 19 20 YRS OLD!  ONE PATICULAR SOLDIER, WHILE BOARDING THE PLANE TO FLY TO IRAQ, CALLED HIS WIFE ON THE CELL, TO HEAR THAT HIS FIRST CHILD WAS JUST BORN! THE UNIT, ALL REJOYCED WITH HIM, BUT HE SOBBED, FOR HE COULD NOT BE THERE TO SEE HIM. 

WHEN OUR UNIT ARRIVED IN IRAQ, THEY WERE SOME OF THE FIRST MEN THERE,  DID NOT HAVE ANY IDEA,THAT THERE LIVES WOULD BE FOREVER CHANGED!. OH, THEY TRAINED FOR WAR, BUT WHEN YOU ARRIVED IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW, CAN NOT PREPARE YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE FACING!  MY SON TOLD ME , OF SEVERAL OCCASIONS, GOD SPARED HIS LIFE, AND THE MEN IN THE UNIT. ART JR. TOLD OF SEVERAL TIMES, HE WAS ASKED TO GO TO ANOTHER VILLAGE, BUT HE HAD A CHECK IN HIS SPIRIT, NOT TO GO..EACH TIME, THE VECHICLE IN WHICH HE WAS TO BE IN, WAS BLOWN UP !.ON ONE NIGHT PATROL, A SNIPER OPENED UP FIRE, FROM THE ROOFTOP,AND THEY DROPPED DOWN AND SHOT OFF TEN ROUNDS OF FIRE, AND THE MAN WAS KILLED! ART'S TEAM, WAS VERY,VERY SHOOK, FOR THEY HAD NEVER KILLED BEFORE..YET, AT THAT VERY MOMENT, THEY GAVE GOD THE GLORY FOR SPARING THEIR LIVES!  THE BACK OF THEIR TRUCK WAS BLOWN OFF,YET, ART AND HIS MEN WERE NOT  TOUCHED!..

THE TEAM WENT UNDERCOVER, AND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CAPTURING ONE OF THE LARGE FINANCIER OF TERRIOSIM..GOD'S HAND PROTECTED THEM, FOR ONE OF THEIR IRAQ INFORMANTS, TRIED TO SET THEM UP TO BE KILLED AND JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE THEY WERE TO LEAVE IRAQ, THEY CAME UNDER ATTACK, AND SURVIVED THEIR HUNMMER BEING BLOWN UP... .THE  UNIT WAS BROKEN UP INTO TEAMS, AND PUT IN DIFFERENT REGIONS, ACROSS IRAQ. ART WAS A TEAM CHIEF, IN BA-QUEBAH, IRAQ, ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS REGIONS, IN THE SUNNI TRIANGLE... .ART'S TEAM, WERE PLACED AT A RADIO STATION, AND NEWSPAPER COMPANY, AND REPAIRED THEM BOTH TO OPERATIONAL, SO THAT THE COLIATION COULD PUT THE TRUTH OUT, OF WHAT WAS REALLY HAPPENING...NOT SADAM'S PROPAGANDA! THEY WERE  TRAINED TO GO INTO THE CROUNDS OF IRAQIS, TO PASS OUT UPDATES, ON CAPTURES, FOOD SUPPLIES ETC TO THE PEOPLE. ART , BAKER, AND STROUSS, (HIS TEAM) ASKED THE PEOPLE OF CARROL COUNTY, FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES, TO HELP THE CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY OF IRAQ, JUST TO STAY ALIVE.

THE HEART OF THESE THREE CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS,MADE MANY LIL' FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ,IN A LAND FULL OF TERROR!..ALL GLORY TO GOD!  SO, FOR ANYONE WHO HAS A LOVED ONE OVER IN ANY WAR ZONE, BE IT IRAQ, AFAGANISTAN, HATTI, OR WHEREVER, PLEASE KNOW THAT GOD'S HAND IS NOT SHORT TOWARD THEM, AND TO NOT STOP CRYING OUT TO GOD FOR YOUR SOLDIER!  MARY CURTIS, MILITARY MOTHER

artsrflow@hotmail.com

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From my precious friend, Bro. Dale Coltrin...


MY TESTIMONY AND CALL TO THE MINISTRY by Bro. Dale Coltrin

     PROVERBS 16:18 SAYS, "PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION, AND AN HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL."  FREQUENTLY, AS I HAVE HEARD TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE HEALED IN MIRACULOUS WAYS OR I HEAR POWERFUL STORIES OF UNSAVED PEOPLE DELIVERED FROM DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AND BROKEN HOMES AFTER THEY MET JESUS I FEEL THEIR STORIES ARE SO AMAZING THEY SHOULD BE PUBLISHED.  I DID NOT REALLY FEEL I HAD A VERY EXCITING TESTIMONY UNTIL PEOPLE SUGGESTED I STARTED SHARING AND WRITING DOWN ALL GOD HAS DONE FOR ME PERSONALLY!  AS I SHARE JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS GOD HAS DONE IN MY LIFE I DO IT VERY HUMBLY AS WITH OUT MY GOD I WOULD BE NOTHING AND I OWE EVERYTHING TO HIM AND I PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO PSALM 150.  

     I STARTED PREACHING WHEN I WAS TEN YEARS OLD IN 1978 AT A CHURCH PASTORED BY JIM & JAN HAMILTON CALLED LIFE IN THE SPIRIT MINISTRIES WHICH WAS IN DOWNERS GROVE, IL.  THEIR MINISTRY HAS NOW TAKEN THEM TO MEXICO.   FREQUENTLY, AS I SPOKE AT CHURCHES AT THAT YOUNG AGE PEOPLE WOULD ASK MY PARENTS, "IS YOUR SON A MIDGET THAT HE IS SO SMALL BUT YET HE PREACHES?"  OFTEN THEY ASSUMED I WAS IN MY TWENTIES OR THIRTIES.  MY PARENTS ALWAYS SUPPORTED ME BUT IT WAS DIFFICULT IN SCHOOL WITH A FEW OF THE KIDS WHO TORMENTED ME.  NEVERTHELESS, SOME OF THEM ADMIRED ME AND EVEN THE TEACHERS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS RESPECTED ME AND LISTENED TO TAPES OF MY PREACHING.  ONE TEACHER EVEN PLACED A PICTURE OF ME HOLDING THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOL YEAR BOOK BACK IN 1983.

     MY PARENTS BOTH MET AT A BAPTIST CHURCH IN CHICAGO AND LOVED MINISTERING TO CHILDREN.  MY DAD WORKED WITH CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST AND MY MOM WAS A CHILDREN'S EVANGELIST WITH BILLY GRAHAM'S MINISTRY AND SHE SANG IN HIS CHOIR.  BOTH OF THEM LOVED THE LORD AND WANTED TO RAISE A FAMILY TO SERVE HIM AND SO THEY GOT MARRIED ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1964.  IN 1965 A CHRISTIAN DOCTOR TOLD MY MOM SHE COULD NEVER HAVE CHILDREN.  SHE TOLD THE DOCTOR THAT IT WAS NOT UP TO HIM BUT IT WAS UP TO GOD!  SHE WAS ALREADY PREGNANT WITH MY SISTER KAREN EVEN AS SHE SPOKE THOSE WORDS OF FAITH.   LATER ON AUGUST 10TH OF 1968 I WAS BORN AND I CAME OUT BACKWARDS AND ENDED UP BEING THE MOST DIFFICULT DELIVERY THE DOCTOR EVER HAD TO PERFORM.  

     MY PARENTS ALWAYS LOVED THE LORD AND GOD BROUGHT THEM TO HIM IN POWERFUL WAYS.  MY DAD AND MOM GREW UP JUST AT THE END OF THE DEPRESSION AND ALTHOUGH THEY DID NOT HAVE MATERIAL THINGS THEY DID ALL THEY COULD TO HELP THEIR PARENTS TO MAKE LIFE EASIER DURING THOSE HARD DAYS.  MY DAD WAS BORN IN CHICAGO AND LATER MOVED OUT TO WOODDALE, IL.  HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY DURING THE KOREAN WAR AND LATER WENT TO COLLEGE FOR ENGINEERING AND DRAFTING.  IT WAS DURING COLLEGE THAT HE CAME TO KNOW JESUS AS HIS LORD AND SAVIOUR WHEN HIS FRIEND INSISTED THAT HE READ HIS BIBLE.  AFTER THAT IT WAS ALWAYS THE DESIRE AND PRAYER OF HIS HEART TO SEE ALL OF HIS RELATIVES SAVED.  HIS AUNT JOSE ALWAYS ENCOURAGED HIM IN HIS WALK WITH THE LORD.  HE ALSO HAD A DESIRE TO WORK IN A MINISTRY TO BRING JEWISH PEOPLE TO JESUS ALTHOUGH THIS DREAM NEVER CAME TO FRUITION.  

     MY MOM WAS BORN IN AKRON, OHIO AND THAN LIVED IN UNION CITY, PENNSYLVANIA SURROUNDED BY ALL THE KIN ON HER MOM'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY.  MY MOM'S GRANDPARENTS WERE JOSEPH AND MARY PACKO FROM CZECHOSLOVKIA AND HAD A CHICKEN FARM WHERE MY MOM SPENT MOST OF HER WEEKENDS WITH HER ALL HER RELATIVES.  THERE WAS A TOTAL OF TEN CHILDREN BORN TO MY GREAT GRANDPA AND GRANDMA PACKO.  MY GRANDMA'S NAME IS MILLIE DRAYER MARRIED TO MY GRANDPA HAROLD DRAYER AND SHE DIED ON OCTOBER 19, 1979 AND HER OLDER SISTER MY GREAT AUNT ANNA DIED EXCACTLY TEN YEARS LATER ON OCTOBER 19, 1989.  I HAD JUST STARTED PREACHING WHEN MY GRANDMA MILLIE DIED AND HER OLDER SISTER ANNA TOOK OVER THE JOB OF ENCOURAGING ME AS I PREACHED.  SHE WROTE MANY LETTERS TO US WHICH I STILL HAVE AND IN EVERY LETTER SHE ASKED ABOUT MY PREACHING AND BEGGED ME TO SEND ANOTHER TAPE.

     MY PARENTS WERE MARRIED UNTIL JANUARY 24, 1990 FOR 25 YEARS AND THAN MY DAD DIED ON JANUARY 24, 1990.  ALTHOUGH KAREN HAS DISABILITIES SHE PLAYS THE PIANO BY EAR AND ALSO IS VERY GIFTED IN MAKING CRAFTS AND SHE LOVES THE LORD. IN ALL THE HARD STRUGGLES THEY HAD FINANCIALLY WITH THE DOCTOR BILLS THEY ALWAYS PROVIDED US WITH A HOME AND THE LOVE OF GOD AND MANY HAPPY MEMORIES THROUGH OUT THE YEAR AND AROUND THE HOLIDAYS.  THE ONE HOUSE WE RENTED IN NAPERVILLE, IL WAS SO OLD AND HARD TO HEAT AND MY PARENTS WORKED VERY HARD TO MAKE IT A LITTLE NICER TO LIVE IN BY PAINTING AND TEARING OFF OLD LAYERS OF WALL PAPER.  MY DAD AND MOM OFTEN WORKED TWO JOBS JUST TO PROVIDE FOR US YET THEY ALWAYS HAD TIME TO SPEND WITH US AND TEACH US ABOUT THE LORD.  

     MY FIRST MEMORY IN LIFE WAS THE PLAQUE WITH JOHN 3:16 AND KNOWING THAT GOD LOVED ME.  MY PARENTS ALWAYS MADE KNOWN THE LOVE OF GOD TO ME AND PRAYED WITH ME TO ACCEPT JESUS AS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR.  I LOVED HIM SO MUCH AND FREQUENTLY ASKED HIM TO BE MY LORD AND SAVIOUR.  I ALWAYS WANTED TO MAKE SURE MY LIFE WAS RIGHT WITH HIM SO EVERYTIME I HEARD A PASTOR PRAYING ON THE TELEVISION I WOULD PRAY ALONG WITH HIM TOO!  EVEN AT THE AGE OF SIX OR SEVEN I PREACHED TO MY STUFFED ANIMALS AND OUR DOG FLUFFY WHO WEIGHED ABOUT 2O POUNDS.  SHE WAS A WHITE TERRIER POODLE FULL OF ENERGY AND SITTING STILL DURING MY SERMONS WAS A CHALLENGE FOR HER.  SHE WOULD LEAVE AS I WAS PREACHING AND I WOULD DRAG HER BACK INTO MY ROOM WHERE SHE WOULD FALL ASLEEP AGAIN AS I CONTINUED MY SERMON.

     I PRAISE GOD THAT HE SENT ME A SIGN OF HIS FAVOR WHEN I STARTED PREACHING WHEN I WAS TEN YEARS OLD ACCORDING TO PSALM 86:17.  GOD OPENED DOORS AT THAT TIME FOR ME TO PREACH AT SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES, SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES, MEN'S BREAKFAST, & SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES.  ONE TIME WHEN I PREACHED AT A MEN'S BREAKFAST WHEN I WAS 13 MY FATHER INTRODUCED ME USING MATTHEW 3:17, WHICH IS GOD'S WORDS ABOUT JESUS, AND SAYS, "... THIS IS MY BELOVED SON WITH WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED."  IT WAS DURING THIS SERMON AS I PREACHED ABOUT HOW FAITH WORKS THROUGH LOVE AND I SHARED PASSAGES FROM MARK 1:40, 41 AND MATTHEW 14:14 THAT GOD'S POWER FELL.  I INVITED THE MEN TO COME FORWARD AND AS I PRAYED FOR THEIR NEEDS ALL OF THEM FELL DOWN UNDER THE POWER OF GOD AND I STOOD IN AWE AT GO'S POWER.  A MAN NAMED JOHN DID NOT WANT PRAYER FOR HIS BACK THAT DAY AND THOUGHT TO HIMSELF IF THAT YOUNG PREACHER ASKS PEOPLE TO COME FORWARD FOR PRAYER ONE MORE TIME I GUESS I WILL COME.  I LEARNED TEN YEARS LATER WHEN I WAS 23 THAT HE TOO FELL UNDER GOD'S POWER AND HE NEVER HAD ANOTHER PAIN IN HIS BACK AGAIN.

     ANOTHER PASTOR VERN WAS THE FIRST ONE WHO EVER ASKED ME TO PREACH WHEN I STARTED PREACHING IN 1978!  IN 1982 WHEN I WAS 14 I PREACHED AT HIS NEW CHURCH IN BOLINGBROOK, IL.  HE FELT LEAD TO SHARE THE VERSES FROM 1SAMUEL 3:19-21 WITH ME FOR MY MINISTRY.  "AND SAMUEL GREW, AND THE LORD WAS WITH HIM, AND DID LET NONE OF HIS WORDS FALL TO THE GROUND.  AND ALL ISRAEL FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA KNEW THAT SAMUEL WAS ESTABLISHED TO BE A PROPHET OF THE LORD.  AND THE LORD APPEARED AGAIN IN SHILOH: FOR THE LORD REVEALED HIMSELF TO SAMUEL IN SHILOH BY THE WORD OF THE LORD."  PRAISE GOD THE LORD SHOWED HIM THAT JUST AS EVERYONE KNEW SAMUEL WAS CALLED BY THE LORD THAT PEOPLE WOULD KNOW GOD HAS CALLED ME TOO.
  
     I TOOK EVENING AND CORRESPONDANCE COURSES FROM MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE AND GOT ABOUT ALMOST TWO YEARS OF BIBLE COLLEGE.    GOD HAS BEEN FAITHFUL IN SPITE OF DISIBILITIES MY SISTER HAS SUFFERED AND EVEN IN THE SHOCK OF SEEING MY DAD ALLAN DIE ON JANUARY 24, 1990 I KNOW GOD STILL HEALS AND TOUCHES LIVES.  

     ALTHOUGH THE TIMES WERE HARD WITH MY FATHER BEING SICK AND MY MOM AND I WORKING TWO JOBS TO PROVIDE FOR THE FAMILY GOD NEVER LET US SLEEP ON THE STREET OR GO HUNGRY.  OFTEN DURING THE TIMES WE HAD THE LEAST MONEY COMING IN GOD PROVIDED SO MUCH FOOD AND CANNED GOODS IT WAS STACKED UNDER THE STAIRS GOING INTO THE BASEMENT.  AFTER MY FATHER DIED IN 1990 WE THOUGHT WE HAD NO MONEY AND GOD REVEALED TO MY MOM TO CHECK WITH ONE OF THE COMPANIES WHERE MY DAD WORKED.  WE ARE STILL SHOCKED TO THIS DAY AT HOW GOD PROVIDED A DOWN PAYMENT FOR OUR HOUSE IN ARKANSAS.  IF GOD NEVER ANSWERED ANOTHER PRAYER WE WOULD STILL BE PRAISING FOR HOW HE PROVIDED.  LUKE 1:37 SAYS, "FOR WITH GOD NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE."      

    IN 1994 THE LORD LED US TO MOVE TO BERRYVILLE, AR ABOUT 39 MILES SOUTH OF BRANSON, MO TO START A MINISTRY.  MY MOM CAROLE AND MY SISTER KAREN ALL MOVED HERE TOO TO BE NEAR MY MOM'S BROTHER'S FAMILY HAROLD & IDA DRAYER WHO HAVE A MINISTRY AND A HISTORICAL VILLAGE CALLED ABUNDANT MEMORIES IN EUREKA SPRINGS, AR ON HIGHWAY 23 SOUTH.  I HAVE BEEN DOING A RADIO MINISTRY FOR NINE YEARS NOW AND IT HAS OPENED DOORS FOR ME TO PREACH IN MANY CHURCHES HERE AND SEVERAL OTHER STATES.  I AM THANKFUL FOR THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED WITH THIS MINISTRY OVER THE YEARS.  BOBBY AND CHARLENE GATES AND I USED TO PREACH IN THE NURSING HOME IN EUREKA SPRINGS, AR THE THIRD THURSDAY EACH MONTH.  

      THE THREE OF US WORK AT MCDONALDS IN BERRYVILLE WHERE I MET DEAN & JOAN TULL IN SHELL KNOB, MO WHO USED TO GO OUT IN THEIR TRUCK ON SUNDAY MORNINGS BECAUSE THE RADIO RECEPTION WAS BETTER AND THEY COULD HEAR MY MESSAGES BETTER ON THE RADIO MINISTRY ON SUNDAY MORNINGS AT 7:30 ON KTCN 100.9 FM.  THEY HAVE ALWAYS BLESSED AND ENCOURAGED ME AS I DO GOD'S WORK AND NOW HAVE INTRODUCED ME TO THEIR FAMILY WHO ARE PART OF THIS MINISTRY AND THEY LIVE IN IDAHO, KANSAS,  & MO.          
 
     I NOW PREACH AT WILDFLOWERS OUTREACH MINISTRY THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH AS ONE OF THE ASSISTANT PASTORS.  I ALSO PREACH AT CHURCHES IN THIS AREA AND OUT OF STATE AS GOD OPENS THE DOORS.  I WAS ORDAINED WITH MINISTERS FOR CHRIST OUTREACH AND ALSO BY WILDFLOWERS OUTREACH MINISTRY.  

     IF YOU EVER WANT TO SEND ME PRAYER REQUESTS TO PRAY FOR ON THE RADIO YOU CAN EMAIL THEM TO ME.  I USUALLY TRY TO GET MESSAGES READY FOR THE RADIO ABOUT THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE SO THEY ARE AT THE RADIO STATION.  I PRAY FOR THE PRAYER REQUESTS UNTIL I HEAR BACK FROM THE PERSON WHO SENT THEM TO ME AND ALSO ANYTIME YOU WANT TO EMAIL ME YOU CAN.    
 
     AT THIS TIME I AM PRAYING ABOUT MAKING IT A TAX EXEMPT MINISTRY AND EXPANDING IT TO MORE STATIONS WITH NEW LIFE EVANGELISM IN THE MIDWEST IF IT IS GOD'S WILL.  I WAS ON THREE STATIONS IN 1997 BUT DUE TO THE COST I DECIDED TO PUT MY TIME INTO THE ONE STATION UNTIL GOD SHOWS ME WHAT DIRECTION HE HAS FOR THE MINISTRY IN THE FUTURE. I AM THANKFUL I HAVE BEEN PREACHING FOR 25 YEARS.  IT IS MY HEARTS DESIRE TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE WORLD ACCORDING TO MARK 16:15-20!!!!!!
 
      I AM PRAYING GOD WILL HELP ME TO SET UP A WEB SITE TO TAKE THE GOSPEL INTO ALL THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE CAN HEAR MESSAGES FROM HIS WORD BY LISTENING ON THE WEB SITE!     GOD BLESS YOU AND HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH!!!  I PRAY IF YOU HAVE NEVER ASKED JESUS TO BE THE LORD AND SAVIOUR OF YOUR LIFE THAT YOU WILL DO IT TODAY.YOU CAN WRITE:
 
LISTEN TO "SERVING JESUS"  EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AT 7:30 ON KTCN 100.9 FM IF YOU LIVE NEAR EUREKA SPRINGS, AR AND NEAR BRANSON, MO AND THE SUROUNDING TOWNS.

    
servingjesus@hbeark.com      
DALE, CAROLE, & KAREN COLTRIN                          
406 SWOFFORD ST.
BERRYVILLE, AR, 72616
(870) 423-6583