The Sealed

New Delhi
Saturday, July 5, 2008

Dear Brethren in Christ,

The Lord was gracious to give me strength to complete the second long day of Training for His servants who had gathered from 13 states from around India. It did not feel as hot as yesterday.

The Training opened the eyes of the brethren. One pastor commented that Seminars are usually just theory, and there is no opportunity in the Seminar to apply what is taught. But today I felt an unusual boldness when it came to the demonstration. Two ladies with infirmities had come to the session. One had a bulging tumor in her womb and the other suffered from poor eyesight which she had to correct by wearing thick eyeglasses. After one of the pastors had been healed from pain in his wrist and knee joints when two brothers laid hands on him, I asked if anyone else needed to be healed. My host Pastor Joshua Gowda, Director of The Elijah Challenge Training Centre, pointed to the two ladies. He told me that one of the ladies had tumors. Normally I do not want to take on such a “difficult” case in a demonstration, preferring instead infirmities that are “easier” to heal. The whole point of a demonstration is to show how a person is actually healed of an infirmity in real time during the demonstration itself. Taking on a woman with a bulging tumor as a demonstration is not usually recommended. But I felt no reservations at all in inviting her to come forward to receive ministry. I knew something would happen.

I called Sister Diyana to lay hands on her womb and to rebuke the tumor in Jesus’ name. The first time she felt no difference at all in the tumor. I had Diyana lay hands on her again and asked all the others present to join us in exercising the authority over infirmities that the Lord has given His servants for the preaching of the kingdom of God. The second time the woman—a new believer in Christ—reported that she felt the tumor shrinking in size. Sister Diyana laid hands on the tumor a third time, and the woman reported that it continued to shrink. The servants of God were extremely encouraged at what the Lord had done and their faith greatly strengthened. I don’t recall ever witnessing such a thing during a demonstration in a Training session. They usually happen only during public evangelistic events. The Lord is doing something new.

Then the second woman with the thick eyeglasses and poor eyesight came forward. Diyana laid hands on her eyes. There was no change. Again Diyana laid hands on her with the others joining her in commanding her eyesight to be restored. A smile appeared on her face and she said that she could see clearly. She returned to her seat and did not wear her eyeglasses for the rest of the day. Again such miracles have happened during public evangelistic events, but normally we do not dare take on an isolated single infirmity of this type before a group of servants of God as a demonstration. But today the Lord gave us unprecedented boldness, and He was gracious to perform the healing in front of His servants. They were immensely encouraged to see that the word of God actually works. Having just witnessed the example that I gave them, they themselves will become very bold in ministering healing on their own when they return to their home towns.

They are now going to give up the traditional way of pleading with God to heal and combining prayer with commanding. They have been taught the Scriptural way of healing the infirm and they have seen that it actually works. I strongly believe that as a result of how the Lord enabled me to train them today, this crop of disciples is going to be unusually bold, powerful, and fruitful for the Kingdom of God. India—a land of such great darkness—needs such a generation of Joshuas to lead the people to take the Promised Land: to complete the Great Commission here.

Thank you for praying for me so effectually, dear partners. Today here in India the Lord graciously took us up to another level of effectiveness in training His people. May the Lord enable me to stay at this new level, even when equipping the saints in the United States. Praise the Lord for His magnificent grace.

Tomorrow morning on Sunday I will complete the Training for these precious Indian servants of the Living God. Late in the evening I will return to Malaysia where Lucille is waiting for me.

Sincerely in Christ,

William