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It was in Wagga Wagga (NSW) 18 years ago that I was baptised
and filled with the Holy Spirit. I have had many healings from the Lord
including being healed from a malignant growth in my womb.
When diagnosed, I spent 6 months in and out of hospital having operations,
blood transfusions because I haemorrhaged, but I wasn't getting better.
Then I was sent to Melbourne for cancer treatment. It was at this stage
that I really looked to the Lord earnestly and I knew from that moment
on I would be healed. At the hospital in Melbourne they started Chemotherapy.
I was very upset.
Initially I was told I would spend 3 months in hospital but after 2
weeks they told me "you weren't as bad as we first thought" and sent me home. It was not until I saw my own doctor in Wagga Wagga
that he told me they couldn't find any sign of the cancer at all!
I have had three more children after that, four altogether and bringing
them up in the nurture of the Lord is just wonderful. Praise the Lord
for everything He has done in my life.
My name is Cass Waria and I come from the Torres Strait Islands.
I praise the Lord for giving me the opportunity of everlasting life
with Jesus in the Kingdom of God.
It was 20 years ago that I was baptised by full immersion and when I
came out of the water I received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues,
a new language I had never learnt, just as the Bible said I would. As
I continued in the fellowship the Lord took away my desire to smoke
and drink.
When my son was two years old I carried him to see the doctor because
he had a very bad asthma attack. The doctor suggested he be admitted
into hospital, but I didn't like the idea so I took him home and prayed
all night and by the morning he was completely healed. I took him to
see the doctor again and all he could say was, "That's not the
same boy I saw yesterday."
I praise the Lord for looking after my family and me and I look forward
to meeting Jesus Christ when He returns. Amen
My name is Allyson Waria and I've been with the Revival Centres
International - Brisbane, for 20 years. I've repented, been baptised
by full immersion and filled with the Holy Ghost with the Bible evidence
of speaking in tongues.
I was an unhappy person with really no goal in my life, but I thank
the Lord that I could see what the Bible had to offer me.
I found that there is nothing that the Lord can't do. He took away my
desire for cigarettes and drinking alcohol. I have had hard times in
having children, with difficulty carrying children throughout the full
9 months. There was a great risk of my heart failing, there would always
be something wrong. With fervent prayer and seeking the Lord, He turned
the situation around and now we have four children. The Lord is consistently
blessing us and is always there to meet our needs.
I can certainly praise the Lord and give Him the glory for I now have
a goal and purpose to live. Thank you Lord. It is possible to change.
When I was a teenager a Bishop placed his hand upon me and said, "Received
ye the Holy Spirit". I went away that day believing I had the Holy
Spirit. I was wrong! What I was told that day was wrong. I have since
come to know God in a very personnel way, God has filled me with his
Holy Spirit, I know this for I speak in tongues. (Acts 2:4)
God is not a man that he should lie. (Numbers 23:19) Man has a habit
when it suits himself he will lie, even under oath. It is a great comfort
to know the God of the Bible does not change.
After being married for three years my wife and I decided to start a
family and after nearly 9 years of trying doctors told us we could not
have children. It was a time of sadness but yet we had a confident expectation
the miracle working God of the Bible would heal our bodies. Over the
next 8 years our family has been increased by 5 daughters.
My wife Roslyn and I have come to know God of the Bible as a God who
performs the things he says. Jesus said himself, "Jesus saith unto
him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,
but by me". (John 14:6)
There are many people who can testify, how God is a God of His Word.
Men and Women all over the world are instructed to repent and be baptised
in water and to receive the Holy Spirit with the Bible evidence of speaking
in tongues. (Acts 2:37-38)
Come and experience the Power of God in your life
My name is Kim, I am a single mother of two wonderful kids
that God has blessed me with. I am 33 years old and a full-time college
student at a local college. I have just finished my internship at a
local treatment facility here in Indiana. I am an Addictionology major.
For those who do not know what that major is, it deals with drug and
alcohol abuse, counselling, rehabilitation, detoxification, etc, etc.
Enough about me and onto how God has changed me and how I found him,
rather how He found me!
*Praise God.
It was the summer of 1994 and I was in a volleyball league in Indiana.
My coach Ed Hobson (Gotta love him) was such a nice, caring and Godly
man. He always prayed before our games, which I always respected. He
always invited me and my sister and all the kids to church with him.
I told him I might go sometime. As the season went on, I thought about
going and I knew inside that I had this void with-in myself that could
not be filled. My life seemed so up for grabs, and I was not too happy
with the way things had been going for my boys and me. I had broken
up with my previous boyfriend long before this, because I knew I had
to search for something that was missing inside of me, but I did not
know what I had to find.
On the last day we played volleyball, Ed again, faithfully asked my
sister and I to visit our church. I was in a fair mood and started goofing
around with him and said, " Ed, I will visit your church. I sometimes
feel like a lost soul drifting in the wind." I started drifting
with the wind and started swinging my arms and legs around and laughed.
Deep down inside I think I wanted to cry because that was how I really
felt inside my heart.
My sister and I started going to First Church of Christ and I remember
always looking forward to going with my boys. I was seeing that this
[God] is what was missing in my life. I still had not given myself to
the Lord, because I was still unsure about some things. Then, as I listen
to the minister, the Holy Spirit touched me deeply. I was hearing about
when John the Baptist baptised Jesus (Luke 3:21-22) and God's spirit
talked to me and said, "Kim, this is what you need to do".
My heart dropped and I almost began crying right there. In my mind,
this was conformation to me as to what I needed to do. We had a potluck
dinner at church that night, and I spoke to our minister there. I thanked
him for his message that day and shared how I felt the Holy Spirit touched
me through it that day. I was still new in the church and explained
how I had this close friendship with Ed Hobson, because I felt God used
him to bring me to Him. He then said that Ed could baptize me because
he was a deacon in the church, if I wanted him to. He also said that
he wouldn't be hurt if that was my decision. My heart jumped, and I
kept smiling, thinking to myself.... God sure is good to us.
On October 17,1994, I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior and
became a child of God's. fter I was baptised, the Holy Spirit came
upon me as I was combing out my hair in the washroom. All of a sudden,
I started crying and crying, I felt so much love, peace, happiness,
joy, security, and stability with-in myself. I had to sit down before
I fell down. I cried out to God in thanksgiving, I knew how much He
loved ME! I knew that I mattered to Him! That void with-in was so filled,
I could of burst.
*Praise God, Tears coming to eyes now!
I greeted Ed and the Minister and told them how fulfilled inside I had
become. I just wanted to go home and cry and pray to God in thanksgiving.
Ed gave me his handkerchief that he put over my nose when he baptised
me as a remembrance of this special occasion. Or was it that he just
didn't want a wet hankie in his pocket?
The Holy Spirit walked right next to me for 4 days after that. He showed
me so many different things with-in that time period. I was constantly
talking and praying to God in my head, and I was not even trying to
do this. I knew that it was the Holy Spirit doing. After 4 days of total
fellowship with God all day long, I felt the spirit leave me. At least
that what I thought at the time. I immediately called a Christian girlfriend
in tears and asked what I could have possibly done wrong for God to
leave me. I was being so careful to not do or say anything wrong to
hurt God. She had the perfect words for me. She said, "Kim, the
enemy is trying to make you doubt your faith in God, but you know that
He is always with you because the Bible tells us so huh?" I said,
"Yes it does". She said, "that we have to rely on God's
promises and walk in faith". Then she said something that I will
never forget. She said, "God never leaves us, it is WE who leave
Him, and when we are lost, Our Father comes searching for us, because
He loves us so much!" What an awesome thought huh! Almighty Father
God looking for us when we are lost!
There is so much more that I could write here, but this has gotten so
long that some who read this might be cross-eyed by this time, so I
will end it here. Oh God also gave me a treat with the scripture verses
that He used to bring me to Him. Luke3: 21-22 also translated my birthday
is 2/21 and my oldest son's birthday is 3/22, two important dates in
my life coincide with the verse that God used to bring me to him! How
nice huh!
Thank you for reading all of this. I hope you have enjoyed my testimony
as I have enjoyed experiencing it.
God Bless You,
Kim
May God Bless You Always,
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