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Miracle
Testimony
By: Josephine Gadula,
Brooklyn, New York MY
SON HAD POLIO &
WAS CRIPPLED
Jesus
Healed Him "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)
GOD
GAVE US ALL A NEW LIFE
We attended Max Solbrekken's Manila
Miracle Revival Crusade and my son was healed of Polio.
MY SON
HAD BEEN A POLIO VICTIM AND WAS A CRIPPLE
I have been searching for Max Solbrekken
for 13 years. Yesterday, I heard his name on WWDJ Radio,
New Jersey and thank God we are able to be at this crusade.
In 1966, we became Christians through the
Max Solbrekken Crusade in Bethel Temple, Manila, Philippine
Islands. My son, who was 7 years of age and who was a
Polio victim and a cripple, received a wonderful miracle and was
healed by Jesus Christ in that Crusade.
Since that miracle happened, over 100
members of our family and our relatives have accepted Jesus
Christ as their personal Saviour, and my brother Conrad is a
Pentecostal Minister, as the Associate Pastor in the Brooklyn
Gospel Tabernacle at this present time. Here is how it
began:
OUR
NEIGHBOR TOLD US OF THE GREAT MIRACLES WHICH WERE HAPPENING WHEN
THE MAN FROM CANADA PRAYED
Our neighbor told me there were great
miracles happening as the Man from Canada prayed.
Since my little boy, Sal was a hopeless cripple due to Polio, I
attended the crusade gladly.
I had often made the statement that I was
ready to accept anything or anybody be it God or the devil, if I
could get some help. My husband had been so discouraged
because of the condition of our boy that he had left us to fend
for ourselves.
THE POLIO
HAD CAUSED MY SON TO BE CRIPPLED - HIS LEG WAS A USELESS LIMB
I was so desperate, frustrated, depressed
and sick, as well as being poor. Sal had been a Polio
victim as a baby and his right leg was affected severely.
The Polio had caused his leg to stop growing and the leg was
lifeless with no muscles and without feeling. His leg was just a
useless limb that was so stunted that it reached only as far as
the knee of the left leg. It was like a vegetable.
DUE TO
THE POLIO - MY SON NEEDED A WHEELCHAIR AND WE COULDN'T AFFORD A
WHEELCHAIR
We didn't own a wheelchair, so most of the
time I carried Sal around, or he would scoot around on the floor
or hop around with the aid of some sticks.
The night I brought Sal to the Max
Solbrekken Crusade, we had to carry him. There were about
2000 people in the meeting and the service was on fire - many
people were weeping at the alter and others were speaking in
tongues or praising God. All this was very new to me
because we were Roman Catholics.
I learned later that many of
the people there were also Roman Catholics because hundreds of
new converts came to Jesus during that month long crusade.
PASTOR
MAX SAID: "I CAN'T HEAL YOUR SON, BUT JESUS CHRIST
CAN GIVE YOUR SON A MIRACLE OF DIVINE HEALING"
I
carried my little boy up to the Man of God and said,
"Please heal my son." Rev. Solbrekken shook his
head and said, "Lady I cannot help you." I
replied, "You are healing all these other people. The
young 14 year old boy who was deaf and dumb now speaks and hears
perfectly, the man with the rupture is well, many have been
healed of arthritis and thrown away their crutches and you say
you can't help me."
Max
Solbrekken replied: "I can't help you, but I know Someone
who can. His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living
God. I will not pray for your son now, however. Go
home and seek God. Fast and pray for 3 days and nights and
bring him back and we will see what God will do."
I
was so sad as I carried my son Sal home. ""
cannot help you! I cannot help you"! These
words kept ringing in my head. I was angry and upset.
What kind of preacher is this? He had turned me away.
Then the rest of his words kept coming back to me also.
"Go home and seek God - fast 3 days and nights and then
return, and we will see what God will do. I know someone
who can help you, His Name is Jesus Christ."
These
three days and nights were difficult as I tried to obey the
words of the Man of God. Fasting was hard and praying was
hard also, but I did my best. As I sought God a change was
coming over me and I began to weep as God's presence came upon
me.
You
see, if Max Solbrekken had prayed for my son the first night and
if he had not been healed, I would never have returned to
Church. Even if he had been healed I may not have accepted
Christ and returned to Bethel Temple, but by the end of 3 days
of sdeeking God I was being touched by the Holy Spirit.
When
I returned to the Revival Miracle Crusade I said to God's
servant Pastor Max Solbrekken, "A change has come over me
and I feel different on the inside. I want God to save me.
Even if God does not heal my son, I still want to serve
Him." The Evangelist from Canada smiled and took my
hands in his and said, "Those are the words God has been
waiting for you to say, and now we are ready to pray for your
son."
Editor's
Note: When Max Solbrekken asked Josephine Gadula to
seek God for three days and three nights in fasting and prayer
before returning for the miracle of God, he was operating the
Gift of the Word of Wisdom (1 Corinthians 12:8) for the glory of
God!
SAL'S
LEG GREW OUT MORE THAN 12 INCHES
He
then sat my son down on the Communion Table and showed everyone
Sal's dead limb. As he prayed fervently to God in Jesus'
Precious Name the miracle happened. Sal's dead limb came
to life and began to move. It grew more than 12 inches
until it became the same length as the other one, and life
returned to it. Everyone was completely stunned as we
watched this miracle take place.
As
Max Solbrekken stood my son on his feet, I reached over to help
hold him up, but the Evangelist spoke and said, "Don't
touch him - when God heals someone He does a good job and
doesn't need any help."
Sal
was standing by himself for the first time in his life.
The Evangelist Pastor Max Solbrekken then asked everyone to move
aside so that Sal could run down the aisle. Then he
slapped my boy on the seat and said, "Run, boy, run",
and Sal began taking his first steps, stumbling, then walking
and finally running up and down the aisles, while I stood there
crying.
About
1000 people clapped their hands as Max Solbrekken jumped for joy
and kept saying, "Give God all the glory. I didn't
heal the boy of Polio, Jesus healed him of Polio. Give God
all the glory for this great miracle."
HUNDRED
ARE SAVED NOW BECAUSE OF THE MIRACLE
In
1967 we moved to New York and I have been searching for Max
Solbrekken ever since. Thank God we have found Him, I feel
like the leper who returned to Jesus to give thanks. Over
100 of our relatives are now saved because of the miracle and my
brother Conrad, is a Full Gospel preacher in a large church
winning scores of souls to Christ. Praise God! Amen.
GOD'S
MIRACLES
ARE FOR TODAY
By:
Pastor Max Solbrekken
The
Bible says: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday
and forever." (Hebrews 13:8)
MARTIN
LUTHER the great reformer said,
"How often has it happened, and still does, that devils
have been driven out in the name of Christ; also by calling on
His Name and prayer, and the sick have been healed." JOHN
WESLEY, founder of the
Methodist Church, stated: "I believe that God can open the
eyes of the blind, cause the lame to walk, and the deaf to hear,
if men will have faith in God; stand on the word of God, and
pray according to the faith that God hath given them, God will
do the things He said He would because He is a never-changing
God." A.B.
SIMPSON, founder of Christian
& Missionary Alliance, declared, "If ever there was an
age where the world needed the witness of God's supernatural
working, it is in this day of unbelief and Satan's power." "Therefore,
we may expect, as the end approaches, that the Holy Ghost will
work in the healing of sickness, in the casting out of demons,
in remarkable answers to prayer, in special and wonderful
providences, and in such form as may please His sovereign will
to an unbelieving world."
Dr.
CHARLES H. MAYO, Mayo Brothers
Clinic, said: "Christian healing has passed beyond the
stage of experience and its value cannot be questioned. Spiritual healing is no longer the hope of a few but the belief
and practice of a large and rapidly increasing number of
person."
JESUS
CHRIST said: "If thou
canst believe; all things are possible to him that believeth."
(Mark 9:23)
"And
these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall
they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They
shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it
shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they
shall recover." (Mark 16:17-18)
MAX
SOLBREKKEN, God's humble
servant, says: "That God is a healer is no secret.
That his Word has amazing saving, healing and creative power is
well known. But that his power to save, heal and deliver
is readily available at absolutely NO COST, is not widely
known."
Most
people believe that there are strings attached, a price to pay,
good works to do, a guru to follow, and that God favors only a
few.
DIVINE
HEALING IS A GIFT FROM GOD TO THOSE WHO ARE FEARFUL, HURTING,
SICK & DISEASED
Divine
healing is a gift from God to those who are fearful, hurting,
sick and diseased. And He offers it freely through the death
& resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ, by Whom He has
defeated sin, sickness, fear, death & Satan. GLORY
TO GOD FOREVER.
WOULD
YOU LIKE
TO RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST INTO YOUR HEART TODAY?
PRAY
THIS PRAYER NOW TO RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST IN YOUR HEART
"Dear
Heavenly Father,
I
ask for Thy great mercy and grace. I acknowledge my
sinfulness and confess that I cannot save myself. I
believe the GOOD NEWS that Jesus paid the penalty for m sins,
through His vicarious death on the cross."
"I
believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead according to the
Scriptures and He has the power and authority to forgive my sins
and save my soul. I repent of my sins and am willing to
forsake them with the help of the Holy Spirit."
"I
now renounce the devil and all his works and all his ways and I
now receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, my Master and my
God. Come into my heart and save me now, for Christs'
sake. Thank you Lord, for saving my soul. In Jesus
precious' name, I pray." Amen.
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