MIRACLE HEALING TESTIMONY
by:  Rose Bishop - Harvest Gospel Band

"He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5)

I RECEIVED A HEALING MIRACLE FROM JESUS CHRIST

JESUS RESCUED ME FROM A LIFE OF ALCOHOL

Pastor Solbrekken:  Rose, would you tell the people what happened to you 10 years ago in the city of Calgary?

Rose:  Well, 10 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 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.

WHAT IS THE KEY
 to receiving healing, miracles and answers to Prayer?
By: Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.

SEEKING GOD IN PRAYER, PRAISE, WORSHIP AND EXPECTANT FAITH

The key to receiving miracles and answers to prayers in found in seeking God in prayer, praise, worship and having expectant faith. Unfailing faith that God will answer your prayers and expect a miracle.  I believe that a major key to  miraculous healing miracles can be found in the steadfast faith, steadfast godly lifestyle and exemplary Christian testimony.

A DOCTOR ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON FAITH HEALING
By: Dr. A. Wagenaar of Hilversum, Holland

Questions: Dr. Wagenaar, will you tell us what your position is in the field of science?

Answers: "I have been medical superintendent in the Orchidee Hospital, Hilversum, for the last six years. Before that I was a family doctor for 23 years in Dordrecht."

Questions:  Do you believe in miracles of healing?

Answers: "Of course! In my practice as a family doctor I have seen many miracles take place."

Questions: When is healing a miracle?

Answers: "When it is not the result of medical treatment."

Questions: Can a miracle not be explained away psychologically?

Answers: "No, that is not to be thought of. Just as you cannot explain away the miracles of the New Testament.

"Every physician knows that spontaneous miracles do occur. You will be interested to know that spontaneous hearings have even been reported in patients who suffer from cancer. This has been publicized several times in medical journals. Medical science has admitted that miracles do occur after the prayer of faith."

Questions: You said that you have seen miracles occur in your practice. Could you give us an example?

Answers: "Yes, in Dordrecht I had a very busy practice. A family doctor in the course of his practice meets many people who are in urgent need of medical help and he does all he can to help them.

"I will tell you about one patient. He used to play music in bars and was inclined to treat life lightly. He needed an operation and I gave him a card for the hospital. But before he was to be operated on I asked him to go with me to one of Ev. Johan Maasbach's big meetings. He agreed and, during the meeting, concentrated on God. When he went later to check in for the operation the surgeon said, You can go home, we are not going to operate on you, you are totally healed!"

Questions: Have you advised other people too to go to Johan Maasbach's meetings?

Answers: "Yes, many! Generally after an introductory talk and often after I have spoken to one of the elders of the church; I asked the elder to visit my patient and, so to speak, break the ice. I know that Br. Maasbach sends the patient on to the Heavenly Doctor who can do more than all the branches of science combined.

"Over and above those I have mentioned I have sent many others to Br. Maasbach after they had been to consult me. I have seen them saved in the meeting and healed as well. I am so glad that in this time when one church after another is being broken down there are still people who let their voices be heard more than ever. We urgently need more men like Johan Maasbach.

He is a man who has preached for many years that sickness usually comes from within - from the heart of man - and is often the result of hate, envy, grudges and bitterness. Now medical science too admits that many diseases are a result of inner tensions!"

Questions: You believe then that Br. Maasbach is not being medically irresponsible in what he preaches?

Answers: "No indeed! He preaches that people who come forward for healing must bring not only their sins but also their cares and all their inner problems to God. That is a healing truth. That is biblical truth."

Questions: How did you yourself come to faith in Christ?

Answers: "I will tell you! When I was a young man of 23 1 almost drowned. I was trying to save a woman who had fallen into the water and it nearly resulted in my own death. However, after fighting for my life and finally reaching dry land, I was a new man. I knew that I had reached a spiritual turning point. God had let me live!"

Questions: What do you think about certain doctors who have seen miracles with their own eyes and still refuse to believe?

Answers: "I have met people who have had their healing confirmed by many people and who afterwards went to various doctors to demonstrate their hea5;ng only to be rejected. I must assume that these doctors are totally blind to God's existence..

This is not however a problem peculiar to medical science; you know as well as I do that many ministers, preachers and priests; are just as blind to the message of divine heating."

Questions: Doctor, do you often speak to your patients about faith in Jesus Christ?

Answers: "I always do so when I feel so guided. When you know that, medically speaking, there is no cure possible then - at least this is how it is for me - you can only speak a positive word, the Word of God.

"I have personally led several people who were ill to the through inner tensions to the Lord. Only He, Jesus Christ, can give that desperately needed rest."

Questions: Do you think that later a medical cure may be found for certain illnesses which can now only be cured by a miracle?

Answers: "If I think of cancer, I know that man is hard at work to find a cure. This is the prediction and hope of everyone working in that field. However they have not yet found a cure. And should a medical cure be found there will still be other incurable illnesses…"

Questions: Finally doctor, do you consider that personal faith in Jesus Christ is of importance to science?

Answers: "Very important!! You know that science has gone out on a limb in believing that man is descended from apes. Science is still trying to find the missing link!! The friction between faith and science is that when man comes to faith he can no longer accept such theories as that of evolution.

"Faith in Jesus Christ is of the utmost importance for all, including those engaged in the pursuit of scientific knowledge."

"... and with His stripes we were healed." Isaiah 53:5