Testimonies Of Victory

Today I was working, and this guy helped me out for a second.  I didn’t know him, but he told me that he couldn’t hear out of his left ear.  I told him that at church the day before 3 people were healed in some way related to ears and hearing.  I prayed for him for 3 seconds and his ear opened up 100%.  He gives the glory to Jesus, and he had never before seen a miracle.  Now he knows Jesus heals, and that He loves him.

Jordan Owens (Bradenton, FL)

Last sunday I recieved a miracle. Thirty two years ago, I got in a bar room fight with a professional fighter. During this bar room brall, he hit me in my left ear. My ear rang for about two weeks. When it stopped ringing, I had lost about 50 to 70% of my hearing in my left ear. My ear drum was broken and for years to follow, it would bleed for no reason. I learned to sleep on my right side so there would be no noise to disturb my sleep. Sunday morning Jordan prayed over me for my hearing. While he was praying my left ear popped and suddenly I could hear again. LOUD !!! then it was like the Verizon commercial, Can you hear me now? YES, loud and clear, then he moved further away and asked again. Can you hear me now? YES, Then even further and I was still able to hear. Sunday night I had a hard time sleeping every litte noise bothered me. I did not get mad though. Everytime I woke up, I thanked god for this Church and the healing they brought me.

Jimmy Bryant (Sarasota, FL)

Greeting Brothers in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus.  I arrived back in Colorado Springs, Co.,3 days ago. Wanted to drop a line and tell you what an unbelievable encounter I had with Jesus while I was there.

Mike Riddle who advised me to go to the Encounter told me about a man named Don who had an encounter with Jesus in the little chapel at the other campground. He saw the cross light up. I wanted to talk to him about it and asked Klaus where I could find him. Klaus pointed next to the man that was with me in his’ truck, as we were ridding to the campground. It was Don and he explained to me about his encounter with Jesus. What a coincidence…NOT. Brothers, if you have never heard it you must ask Don to tell you.
 

Anyway, I really would have liked a hands on visitation like Don’s, but got a different one instead….Here’s my story:
 

I was a very sensitive kid growing up and received much physical and verbal abuse from my parents. It made me very angry and to overcome the pain I became hard hearted. So much that I turned into a gangster. My father and brother died and I never shed a tear.
 

I allowed myself to be a victim of my circumstances. I’ve been saved for 22 years and even went to Bible College, but I allowed myself to always blame others for my behavior because of my abuse. I knew there is freedom in Jesus, but I didn’t get the Rhema Word until I received it at the Encounter. You see, you could have the head knowledge, but unless you get the heart knowledge you will never receive it. I had my Encounter with Jesus when He showed me that I allowed myself to be a victim of my circumstances, but through His blood of my resurrected Christ and His forgiveness, I am an over-comer of my circumstances. Now, I understood fully what it meant, “When the Son sets you free, you are free indeed. I don’t ever have to live where I was living, (being a victim of my circumstances). I am now an over-comer of my circumstances and it hasn’t changed since I left the encounter. I have more joy and peace, I give tithes and offerings with a gracious heart, and am more transparent.
 

That Brothers was ,”My Encounter” with Jesus and it was just as significant as Don’s was and I’m sure, as yours were. Yes, indeed, He met me where I needed to be met and He took care of a problem that has hindered me for years.
 

Now He wants me to set the world on fire for Him. How could I not want this.
 

I am excited..
 

God put me close to Brother Bert Veld. Our lives were amazingly similar. Bert is a baby Christian and I hope some of you will stay in contact with him for discipleship. He lives in Sarasota and owns a flower shop. He got hold of Jesus at the ” Encounter”. He is and will be . truly, one of God’s miracles.
 

For Pastor Vin, and Pastor Bill: How awesome God has chosen you two to lead this “Encounter” that will eventually encircle the planet. This is long overdue and God has put you two in command. I don’t think He could have chosen two better qualified people as you two. Keep up the good work for your rewards are many.
 

Aaron Owens … you are truly a mighty man of God and I am convinced He has hand picked you for Himself. Keep on keeping on.
 

Don, your a blessing. Tell every one that has ears to hear about your “encounter” with Jesus at the chapel.
 

Klaus, your a man’s man and a great servant. It’s an honor to know you.
 

Bert, you’re my new brother in Christ and I know you’ll never forget that weekend. He has a new life for you. Let’s keep in touch.
 

I have a large home in Colorado Springs with extra room for visitors and their families. In my mind, I have a new understanding of my Brothers in Christ, especially you guys. I would be honored to serve you as you have served me. Please visit and stay if you plan to come out to Colorado Springs.

Jim Kotsaftis (Colorado Springs, CO)

Last Saturday, I heard a snap, a rumble and a roar, and then saw a rush of water begin to fall from heaven. God was speaking to me as I was falling asleep–it was as though we as the body of Christ had finally reached the breaking point, the tipping point and God released the waters of heaven to flood the Earth. (I think this was God; I’m still learning to hear His voice.) The next morning at church, the “Let it Rain” song we sang over and over seemed incredibly appropriate and prophetic in view of what I had seen the night before. Sunday and Monday night I continued to pray for more of God and for more of God’s manifestations in my life.

Tuesday, I was at work at MCC, and the rain began to fall in the physical realm. A woman limped in the back door on crutches. She had a brace on her ankle and someone was carrying her backpack for her. Although I didn’t know it at the time, she had four fractures. “I want you to pray for her,” God told me.

I protested, “God, I don’t want to! What if she doesn’t get healed?” You can tell I had a lot of faith. :)Shortly after that, my job put me in contact with her twice, and at an appropriate time, I asked, “Hey, can I pray for you?” She gave me the strangest look and proceeded to tell me that her ankle would heal naturally in a few months. “I know,” I countered gently, “But can I pray for you?”  “Well, OK,” she said. “But what do I do? Stand up? Concentrate on my ankle?” I didn’t exactly know what to tell her to be honest, but I answered no; she didn’t have to concentrate on her ankle or stand. She could do whatever she wanted, and I was going to pray. So I did.

After I prayed, she asked me about my religion and I was able to speak a portion of the gospel to her. I also told her about my crazy friends in California who recently see everyone they pray for healed. As we talked, I remembered that Redding people generally ask newly-healed people how their [insert previously broken part of body here] now feels. Once again, I protested, “I don’t want to ask her that! What if she’s not healed?” But I once again mustered the courage and asked her how her ankle felt. She began to move it around. “Actually,” she said, “It’s feels a little better! It’s not all the way gone, but it feels better!” I told her we could pray again—sometimes it takes more than one prayer—but she didn’t seem to take me up on the offer.

I came back to see her later. “So?”

“This is so bizarre!” she told me. “I took my brace off and walked to the bathroom and back. And it’s gone! This is so bizarre! I was in the shower this morning wondering when this was going to end! Can we pray for my mom’s high blood pressure too?” We did.

She ended up walking out on crutches that day—she still had some pain and didn’t take me up on my offer to pray again. But when she came in two days later, she came in without crutches, told me that her mom’s blood pressure is so low that her mother asked herself, “Am I dead?” when she first saw it, and asked me to pray for her ankle again. Her mom came in to pick her up later in the day and we got to lay hands on her and pray for her arthritis to be healed.

I can’t tell you that she has come back to me to announce that she is totally healed yet. But I can say this. I was spending some time with God later in Thursday evening, and He showed me a picture of a bone. I couldn’t figure out why, but when I saw it for the second time, I remembered before too long that I had prayed for this woman’s ankle bones and her mother! So may she be healed in the name of Jesus!

When it first happened, my heart was surprised by the fact that God would use me to bring healing. I knew it was in His word, but I had felt subconsciously that God wouldn’t ever use me in that realm. But the rain of heaven is falling and healing is definitely not the only thing supernatural thing God did in my life this week as I sought Him and His heart! He gave me favor in my schoolwork and the new business endeavor I’m exploring, and He continued opening up the supernatural to me. He healed me too! The new information I have been receiving is finally leading to new beliefs and behaviors! And these results are most definitely leading to the entrenchment of my beliefs and a militancy to take the heart of God and the Kingdom by force! Praise the Lord!

Sarah Talbert (Palmetto, Fl)

This is my testimony of healing from God through my 4yr old son.  First let me share a bit of the history prior to my healing.

For the last 8 years I have walked in pain, I’ve had as many as 16 sores on the bottom of my feet. For the first 5 or so years I put up with the pain, waiting for the sores to go away. Finally one day I couldn’t take it anymore. I made an appointment to see my doctor. He immediately referred me to a foot doctor. The foot doctor was un-sure of what these sores could be. He took cultures and sent them off to the lab for testing. The test came back as “Unknown”. Weekly I would see the doctor; he would trim the sores and apply an acid type medicine. After a few months with no change he referred me to his colleague. This doctors approach was much more aggressive. She preformed Cryro Surgery (freezing of the skin) on me weekly. This was having little or no effect. She decided that surgery would be the only way to get deep enough to rid whatever this was. So, I chose to have the surgery.

Surgery was scheduled the week before Christmas. I wanted this over no matter what the cost. Little did I know my wounds would take forever to heal. The pain from recovery was far worse than I ever imagined. I couldn’t truly walk for 2 months.

After a few months, my surgery wounds had healed and most of my sores were gone. I couldn’t believe that after all that, I still had these things on the bottom of my feet. I continued to see the doctor weekly. I then decided that maybe I was seeing the wrong type of doctor. So, I made an appointment with a dermatologist. At this time there was probably 8 or so sores left that the surgery didn’t take care of.

The dermatologists approach was similar to the prior doctors but with even more aggression. Weekly she would cut each sore as deep as I could bare, then she froze each one following with an application of an acid type medicine. This went on for a year.

Finally one day I had enough. I called the receptionist, told her that I needed to cancel my standing weekly appointment because I was putting my feet in Gods hands.  So I did. I prayed like crazy. Other people prayed for me also. I stopped all the medicine; I stopped all the crazy remedies like putting duct tape on my feet. I completely stopped obsessing over these sores. I truly just let it go.

Now, my four year old son has been with me threw all this, his whole life. The weekly appointments, the wheelchair, the bandages, the medicines. He has seen it all. He took care of me after my surgery.

A couple of months ago I asked him to pray with me for healing. He laid his hands on my feet. (something I would never let him come close to) The compassion of this child was so beautiful. We began to pray. The moment was amazing. When we were finished praying, he told me that I would be all better now because God took care of it. Wow, what faith! He declared it; there was absolutely no doubt in his mind he knew God healed his mommy.

He was right within weeks I could see the healing take place. Chunks of skin that I used to have cut, burned, froze, peeled off was now falling off on its own. Right before my eyes! God took it all away! Just like that! Our God is so wonderful! He deserves all the glory! All we need to do is trust Him He never fails!

I look back at the changes in my life that has happened through this. And I understand. God is so Wonderful, so Amazing, so Beautiful, and so Glorious!  I am so thankful that I know Him.

Jenny Payne (Palmetto, Fl)

Just prior to the encounter, I had made some significant steps in my spiritual life and was doing well. The 3 days drove me further toward the Lord.  Exciting, revealing, fun, intense, passionate, terrific. No matter if you are on the bottom or the top, you will be moved toward greater intimacy with God, you will like it all.

You will want to go again as soon as you can to see it all unfold again. Glory to God in the highest. He has declared peace to you, walk in it.

Rick Johnson (Bradenton, Fl)

I went to Encounter in October of 2007 and Three Days really did change my life!

I have been a youth pastor for six years. I started living for God in 1997. I came out of a life of drugs, alcohol, and relationships for the wrong reasons this all started when I was going into Jr. High. I finally reached the end of myself in 97. I fell in love with God. After doing 4 years in the Marine Corps and growing in my faith I joined the staff of Faith Alive Community Church in York, PA. It was never in my mind, or on my radar to work as a youth pastor.

A good friend of mine experienced Encounter and told me about it I trusted him enough to go! I had no idea what to expect! There are several different ways it changed my life some I can’t tell you just have to experience it! But what I can say is It did something for my faith that I know is sticking because after almost six months I’m still riding that wave that I chose to get on! Sometimes we have to get out of the box; but sometimes you have to get out of the box and walk away so that you can’t even see the box! 3 Days really did change my life! There is an anointing upon Encounter!

Ramon Trevino (York, PA)

WOW!!!!!!! THREE DAYS, NOV-9 TO 11TH. WHO COULD IMAGINE THAT IN THREE DAYS YOUR OUTLOOK IN LIFE CAN CHANGE. WELL IT SURE DID FOR ME!!!! SINCE MY HUSBAND DIED THREE YEARS AGO IN MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT. I WAS LEFT WITH A LOT OF REMORSE AND NEVER LET GO OF MY PAST AND HOW HE HAD MADE ME SUFFER ALL THE 8 YEARS WE WERE MARRIED. BUT I FORGAVE HIM  … YES FORGIVE AND YOU WILL BE FREE!!!!

THIS ENCOUNTER HAS ALSO HELP ME TREMENDOUSLY WITH MY TWO KIDS, LIFE ITS HARD ENOUGH, AND WHEN YOU GET HOME FROM A LONG DAY ALL YOU WANT ITS TO GO TO BED AND FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS DOING , I WOULD SENT MY KIDS TO THEIR ROOM AND JUST GO TO BED.. I WANT TO THANK KAREN FOR HER TESTIMONY , IT HAS CHANGED MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE AND MY KIDS, I KNOW COME HOME I HELP MY KIDS DUE THEIR HOMEWORK, I SPENT TIME WITH THEM READING, I PROMISED THEM THAT I WOULD BE A BETTER MOM.

ITS ONLY BEING TWO DAYS FROM MY ENCOUNTER AND I’M NOTICING GODS WORK IN ME AND MY CHILDREN AND MY SURROUNDINGS ITS JUST THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND BE FILLED WITH HIS LOVE…

I WANT TO THANK PASTOR LAURA FOR DOING SUCH A WONDERFUL ENCOUNTER … SHE’S JUST AWESOME … AND HER HUSBAND WOW WOW !!! HAVE NO WORDS FOR SUNDAY… YOU JUST GOING TO HAVE TO EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF. AND ALL THE SERVERS … THEY’RE JUST THE MOST LOVING PEOPLE , BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE GOD IN THEM..

GOD BLESS
 

MY NEW SAYING “GIVE HIM 3 DAYS AND YOU WILL HAVE HIM FOR LIFE…”

Mercedes Guzman (Bradenton, FL)

I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS VERY UNUSUAL FOR A SERVER TO SUBMIT A TESTIMONY, BUT THIS PAST WEEKEND WAS OFF THE CHAIN. I GAVE FROM THE DEPT OF MY HEART AND GOD GAVE ME SO MUCH MORE IN RETURN. MY HUSBAND AND I ARE GOING THROUGH A DIFFICULT TIME WITH ONE OF OUR ADULT CHILDREN. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT GOD HAS SPOKEN AND GIVEN DIRECTIONS IN WHAT TO DO, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND YOU DO NOT THINK THAT IT IS A GOD IDEA (YES A GOD IDEAL).

WELL THIS WEEKEND I RECEIVED CONFIRMATION AND PEACE, AND THIS DID SO MUCH FOR ME. WHEN I WENT TO BED ON SUNDAY NIGHT THE PAIN IN MY LEGS AND THIGHS FROM DANCING UNTO THE LORD REMINDED OF THE PAINS OF MY STRUGGLE AND THE JOY THAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME THROUGH IT.

PASTORS VIN AND LAURA I MUST THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING OBEDIENT AND STEPPING OUT OF YOUR BOAT. MY WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO JESUS THAT I SEE IN YOUR LIVES (WORDS FROM HELEN MARSHALL).

April Dacas (Bradenton, FL)

My encounter, for me was Isaiah 57:14 (New Living Translation) Gods says. “Rebuild the road! Clear away the rocks and stones, so my people can return from captivity. My captivity was emotional pain from past hurts, anger, resentments and unforgiveness, along with extreme physical pain from being run over by a car in 1999. I can’t not begin to put into words how three days changed my life forever. I’m no longer bound by hurt, resentment, unforgiveness and I let go of a life time of anger. I have joy I have never felt along with a smile and laughter. I am just not the same person, along with my emotional and spiritual healing I received a physical healing. I had nerve damage in my legs, four very bad discs in my lower back and bone spurs and narrowing of the spine in my neck. The pain was so intense I was in a hard back brace to support my back, and on very strong pain medication every four hours just to be able to move. This went on for eight years. The Lord completely healed me at my encounter. I am now completely pain free, I am no longer wearing the back brace and I have been off all pain and depression medication ever since. The Lord will do the same for you, JUST SAY YES TO YOUR ENCOUNTER.

Traci Warren (Sarasota, FL)