Thirsty Canadians gather in Alberta
On May - 7 - 2009
Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada
Friday Morning, April 24, 2009
Dear Brethren in Christ,
Last night I began the Basic Training in a room packed with Canadians hungry to obey God in reaching the lost. They came from different towns in the area. There was even a surprise contingent of Vietnamese believers who I think came all the way from the city of Edmonton. Their pastor had been with us last October when I taught The Elijah Challenge at the Vietnamese Baptist Church in Houston. Last night he brought several leaders from his church in Canada to the Training.
Most of the people last night were Anglo Canadians, but there was also a group of disciples from the indigenous First Nations reservation in attendance. On this Indian reservation there are alcoholism, drug addiction, “medicine men” who use the powers of darkness to heal, and other problems usually associated with Indian reservations. On Sunday afternoon, we will hold an evangelistic healing service there.
The Lord was gracious to enable me to teach the disciples last night. But since I was running out of time, we only had time to minister to two people with infirmities during the demonstration of healing near the end of the session. One of them, a woman, had hobbled forward with severe arthritis in her ankle and wrist. Afterwards she was walking much more normally and her wrist had dramatically improved. Unfortunately, we ran out of time after that and we had to close.
I encouraged the people to return for the next session—tonight beginning at 6.30—for much more teaching and healing the infirm.
Please pray that the Lord will again grant me the grace to teach them tonight. May He graciously multiply the miraculous healings during the demonstration of healing to encourage the disciples to step out in obedience to heal the sick and proclaim the kingdom of God.
Thank you for partnering with us, dear ones.
Sincerely in Christ,
William (& Lucille at home with Mom in Houston)
PS. We just received the following powerful report from Joseph White (aka JW), the brother who hosted William in New York just two weeks ago…
“I will be sending you all the testimonies of what has been going on here since you left New York….
I will share one quick testimony….last week I ministered to a woman named Maloney who was diagnosed with a tumor the size of a orange on her ovaries …she was scheduled to have surgery the following week. I had her friend Sandy lay her hand on the area where the tumor was swelling out of her abdomen. I commanded it to dissolve in the mighty name of Jesus …one week later she had her final MRI before the surgery. The doctors reported that it was gone completely and they sent her home! Maloney then went about calling all her friends and family reporting of the miracle…
Then three days later I was asked to share my testimony at a leaders meeting for the Army for God youth group gathering. A sixteen year old girl named Jasmine came to me after she was telling me of overwhelming fears she suffered from…as she was talking the Lord showed me what to do ..I asked her to trust the lord to deliver her from all rejection and fear. When we went into a private room to pray, I laid my hand on her and commanded the demons of fear to go and then rejection from the womb to go….!! Well, she hit the floor and thrashed about for a moment knocking the kitchen garbage pail over ..she screamed and cried…then a miracle happened she was delivered! Peace and love filled her to overflowing!! She was just newly introduced to the Lord a week earlier.
Now Jonny and Heidi, founders on the Army for God, asked me if I would share the Elijah Challenge with the 50 or so young people that have been coming to the meetings next week. These meetings are in a two bedroom apartment and these kids have been cramming the place to capacity. So we offered to have them all come to the Isaiah 58 House venue on Long Island to do the trainings. So next week over 50 youth will be coming to the Isaiah 58 House mission to hear what the Lord has to say about the Elijah Challenge!”
