Houston, Texas
Monday, May 12, 2008

Dear Esteemed Partners in the Great Commission,

Our weekend Training event with evangelical believers at Union Baptist Association is over, and the Lord’s grace was abundant.

A bit shy of 40 servants of God attended the event, including parties from Illinois and Washington State. Many of the local believers were from Baptist churches in the Houston area. The Lord graciously anointed me to teach His word to His precious disciples. During the various healing demonstrations, the Lord was gracious to confirm the teaching by performing different miraculous healings. The most outstanding healing was for an elderly woman who was completely blind in one eye. After believers laid hands on her, she was able to see from that eye and count fingers! Just before that, several people had come forward for healing from various hearing problems. All except for one (who needed more time and opportunity to test his hearing) immediately reported a positive change in their condition. Some were surprised that afterwards they could hear well or noticeably better than before.

Then yesterday on Sunday we held the climax of the Training—the outdoor evangelistic healing outreach for the homeless with the Church Under the Bridge in downtown Houston. I preached the gospel from Mark 2, as I often do on such occasions, arguing that Christ’s authority to heal infirmities demonstrated his authority to forgive sin as only God Himself can do. Then I told them that we would pray to the Lord and ask Him to heal those present with infirmities and addictions to prove that He could forgive our sin then and there; and thus save us from condemnation in hell. Two thousand years ago He died on the cross for that very purpose.

Like a disciplined army, the trained servants of God marched forward boldly and laid hands on the infirm as they had been equipped to do in the Training. Within a few moments, people were healed of their infirmities and came to me to give public testimony. A few of the testimonies were:

A man who had pain from hepatitis B felt a surge of power throughout his body and the pain disappeared. He also felt he was delivered from homosexuality.

A man with glaucoma felt the pain and pressure in his eyes disappear and his vision brightened.

A woman with severe diabetes was able to get up from her wheelchair and walk around unassisted.

Based on the testimonies, I challenged the homeless people to repent of their sin and follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. About ten of them came forward in response!

At the end I encouraged the servants of God to hold such events entirely on their own without us. That is the whole point of the Training.

We are hoping to do more such events especially with Baptist churches in the Houston area. May the Lord grant us favor with them.

Thank you for your powerful ministry of intercession, dear ones!

When the formal report along with photos has been posted to The Elijah Challenge website, we will send you the link.

Sincerely in Christ,

William & Lucille
www.TheElijahChallenge.org

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