Miracle
Testimony
of
Rose Bishop
Harvest Gospel Band
JESUS
RESCUED ME FROM A LIFE
OF ALCOHOL
Pastor
Solbrekken: Rose, would you tell the people what
happened to you ten years ago in the city of Calgary?
Rose:
Well, ten years ago I sure wasn’t doing what I’m doing now.
I was out in the world, I was lost, I was divorced from my
husband and drinking alcohol every day to try to forget about my
problems.
One
of my nieces had been to one of Brother Max Solbrekken's
meetings before. I was telling her that “a long
time ago I used to go to the Lutheran Church. It had felt
good going to church but this is what comes from
backsliding.
In
our church we were not taught about the power of the Holy
Ghost. We were taught the salvation of Jesus Christ but
that’s as far as the preaching went.
THE
CHURCH WE WENT TO WAS
A DEAD CHURCH
When
we went into the church, we found it was a dead church. Forms
and rituals, that’s all it was.
But
you see we didn’t have the Holy Spirit, I needed that
power. I didn’t like the way my life was being in the
world and drinking alcohol every day but I just couldn’t
help myself. I didn’t have the power to be able to do what I
wanted to do.
Pastor
Solbrekken: You drank alcohol
every day?
Rose:
That’s right. I drank alcohol every day until my niece told me
about the meeting.
She
said, “Auntie you should come over and hear this preacher
preaching.
So
I went and I’m sure happy that I did go because that’s where
I got saved. The service was altogether different than what I
was used to.
I
knew the first night that I was there that this was what I was
looking for.
Right
where I was sitting, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ and I just
cried that whole week. They had revival in Calgary the whole
week and I was there every night because this was what I had
wanted for so long.
I
received the baptism of the Holy Ghost two or three months later
after we got back from the Holy Land. The Lord made a way for me
to go with the Solbrekken group to the Holy Land and while I was
there I prayed to the Lord that He would save the rest of my
relatives also.
When
I got back from the Holy Land I knew that God had to use me to
go and tell my family about Jesus.
For
about 3 years I traveled completely just out of a suitcase. I
didn’t have a home or anything. I just went wherever the Lord
directed me and I was able to reach all of my relatives across
Canada to tell them about Jesus.
GOD
PUT ALL THE PIECES
TOGETHER FOR ME
God
put everything together for me. He delivered me from my drinking
problem, then He made a way for my husband and I to get back
together and remarry. He is saved also and 2 years ago the Lord
blessed us with a trip to the Holy Land together. That meant a
lot to my husband. I just thank Jesus for that.
We
have 4 grandchildren and one of my little granddaughters is
filled with the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues and it is
beautiful to see that. That’s a blessing from God when you can
see something like that.
Miracle
Testimony
of
Norman & Angela Casavant
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
GOD
INTERVENED IN OUR LIVES:
He
brought us forgiveness, healing,
peace and great joy
God
was searching for us before we believed or even sought after
Him! In theology, we call that the 'prevenient grace’
of God! That separates the Christian Faith from all
other religions!
In
them, men are striving to appease God, but the Bible teaches
that "God was in Christ reconciling us to Himself" on
the cross. True Christianity is God searching after men!
The Casavant's witness is strong evidence of that!
~ Max Solbrekken
I
WAS A DRUNK - AN ALCOHOLIC FOR MANY YEARS
UNTIL GOD SAVED & HEALED ME
NORMAN
says: God has been good to us! We have so much to thank Him for!
I was ‘a drunkard’
for many years and Angie had to put up with me. Then Jesus saved
me and gave us a brand new life! Jesus has become very real to
me and we pray every day and He
answers our prayers!
God
has
saved me from certain death several times. The Lord has healed
me miraculously and given me good health and strength so that I
am still working like a young man at 73
years of age!"
ANGELA
says: The Jehovah
Witnesses used to come to our home and that is how I
started to read the Bible! Being a Roman
Catholic, they told me that that is like ‘the
blind leading the blind.’ I asked: ‘Who
is blind’? Then I realized that they also were
blind because they didn’t teach what the Bible teaches either!
One
day in 1975, I accompanied our son Leonard to Leduc to baby sit
his children, while he visited his lawyer. There was a Christian
Bookstore nearby and while we waited, I decided to visit it.
When I entered that building, a strange feeling came over me and
I had to pinch myself to see if I was alright.
The
owner of the Bookstore began to talk to me about Jesus, saying
that although he had other plans that day, he felt compelled to
come in.
Before
I left, I had prayed the sinner’s prayer with him and received
Jesus Christ into my heart! He referred me to a pastor, who told
me that I was NOW a new creature in Christ and my sins were
washed away because I had received Jesus Christ as my personal
Saviour and confessed Him as my Lord. And that a new life had
begun for me! He said: "We can know that we know we are
saved." (1 John 2:3-6, 3:5, 14, 19, 24; 1 John 4:2-6, 1
John 13:5-20) Read Romans 10:9-10), John 1:11-12, John
5:24-26)
MY
HUSBAND WAS NOT INTERESTED IN GOD - HE WAS INTERESTED IN THE
BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL
My
husband was not interested in the Gospel. He was mainly
interested in the Bottle of Alcohol. ! I thought: “What did I do to deserve
this? Married to a drunkard
all these years?” I
used to listen to Pastor Max Solbrekken on the radio and I said:
“I’ve
got to go to hear him preach!"
I
went a few times to his church with some women, but everything
was strange with people falling down when they received prayer!
Norman
ridiculed: “They
fall down because they are weak."
NORMAN
says one day in 1983, a nun telephoned us. She said: "Norman
, you
need Jesus!” Then, in French, she asked me to
repeat a prayer after her! It hit me right there. I started
crying like a little baby. I had lost my drivers licence
for a year, after being in a collision with a City Bus. While
waiting for the police to come, I polished off a Mickey of
whiskey. After the prayer, however, something wonderful
had happened. I was born again.
I
read the Bible every day. It was so beautiful, like a dark
cloud had lifted. I did not know what was going on.
It was something new. I didn't feel like drinking or
smoking any more!
I
was 16 when I started drinking, and at 53 I was totally changed
after praying the ‘Sinner’s
Prayer’. I had smoked 3 packages of cigarettes a day and drank
a case of beer, some rum and
a 26
oz bottle of whiskey nearly
every single day! Since that time, and for the
past 21 years, I have not had any desire to go back to the old
life. Hallelujah to Jesus, for the freedom we enjoy in and
through Him!
GOD
HEALED ME AFTER TWO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS!
In
1989, I was
offloading a sheet of very heavy plywood from a truck at W.W.
Arcade in
Edmonton
(4 ft x 8 ft x 1 inch). I wrenched my back out of place and
could hardly move. I was all bent over and could only move very
awkwardly. Other staff members were going to call an ambulance,
but I said: “I’m
going to see my doctor."
I
called Pastor Max
Solbrekken. He met me at the church and after a time of
prayer, I was instantly healed. My back was normal, as if the
accident had never occurred! Within a half an hour I returned to
work. My co-workers were absolutely shocked. They expected me to
be in the hospital and off work for several weeks. They said: “What
happened? What did the doctor do? Who is your doctor? We can’t
believe what we are seeing?"
I
answered, “My pastor, Dr. Solbrekken prayed for me and I am
perfectly well!
Jesus - the Man Upstairs – healed me right away. He is my
HEALER.” They wondered if I was going to take some
time off, but I said: “I’m ready to go back to work right now!” MY BOSSES WERE
AMAZED! That same afternoon they sent me out to deliver (2
pallets plus 10) 60 cement blocks, each weighing 70 to 80 lbs. I
had to physically lift those sidewalk blocks (24 x 24 inches)
off the truck and stack them by myself! And I had absolutely no
pain! Praise God!
In
1993, I fell through a hole in the roof we were shingling,
at my daughter and son-in-law’s home in Macklin, SK. It was a 12 foot drop and I landed on concrete.
My spine was severely damaged with several broken and cracked
vertebrae. When we got back into Edmonton
. I went to the Capilino Medi - Centre. Ex-rays
were taken, giving me the bad news. I was told that I would not
be able to work for 6 months.
That
Sunday evening, I returned to my old church Faith
Cathedral (now called People’s
Church) Pastor Max was preaching. As he laid his hands upon
me in Jesus’ precious name, I was made instantly well and have
had NO more problems
with my back since that moment! I could go on and on about
God’s goodness to me! Amen.
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