Sorocaba, Sao Paulo State
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Dear Brethren in Christ,
Last night we held an Evangelistic Healing Service in the town of Tatui. Here Pastor Daniel Jesus de Leite planted a new church about a year ago. They rented a club seating about 200 people for this outreach and advertised it in the community.
The club was filled with people, many of them visitors. I preached from Mark 2, proclaiming that Jesus’ authority to heal our infirmities demonstrated that He also had authority to forgive our sin. I told them that even though they said that they loved God, that their actions proved otherwise. Even if they had broken only one of His commands, they had broken them all in His sight and sinned against Him. And the punishment for sinning against God who is holy and just is eternal condemnation in hell. Clearly all of us need our sins to be forgiven. But how can we be sure that Jesus has authority to forgive our sins?
We asked the Lord to heal the infirm at the meeting to prove without a shadow of doubt that that He indeed has such authority. The trained believers ministered to the infirm, and many testified that the Lord had healed them. It was a time of rejoicing as the people put their faith in Jesus and had their sins forgiven for eternal life. At the end I encouraged the saints to hold such meetings on their own without me. After all, the Lord had used the local believers to perform the miraculous healings.
This afternoon at 3 PM we will hold a training session at the mother church in the larger city of Sorocaba. Then at 6 PM we will go to a public square near the church to hold an open-air evangelistic healing outreach. The Lord will be glorified through miraculous healings and precious souls saved from their sins.
Please pray that the Lord will anoint us greatly to preach the gospel and to heal the sick at the public square later this afternoon. Pray that the saints here will be encouraged and emboldened by what they see to hold such open-air outreaches on their own!
Thank you for your partnership, dear ones!
Sincerely in Christ,
William
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