Preaching the good news and healing the sick
in New Zealand, Nepal and the world
Outstanding Miracles
I was praying for a Nepali lady on the platform when the ‘Hallelujahs!’ caused me to look up. A group of students in the crowd were jumping and leaping and praising God! Among them was one who seemed more excited than the rest. What had the Lord done?
It was the second night of our campaign in Kathmandu. The colourful stage had been erected in the grounds of a ‘wedding palace’, a walled half-acre of red dirt in front of the hall we had used for the School of Healing. Around us rose a gaggle of three and four storey balconied buildings, dotted with half a hundred eavesdroppers. The main crowd rose to over 1,000 on the second night, and the two nights together had seen at least 500 come forward to make a decision for Christ. The people responded so openly to the wonderful message of the gospel it is a miracle that the whole of Nepal is not already saved.
I had been in some trepidation, not knowing for certain whether I was supposed to be preaching in the open air in this Hindu dominated nation. But I trusted that our organisers knew what they were doing, and that the police who appeared on the first night were for us and not against us! (My fears were groundless – the Minister of Health himself had agreed to attend, and only failed due, ironically, to a bout of jaundice.)
We had had a successful School of Healing with 250 delegates from all over Nepal, an equal number being turned away through lack of space. This was the first ever such event in the country and they were hungry for the teaching. ‘We have been praying for the sick,’ I heard more than once, ‘but not much happened. Now we know what to do!’ We had seen eyes made whole, deaf ears hearing, a goitre disappear, and many pains and sicknesses leave. A soldier testified that his damaged knees had been totally healed – he had feared he would need an operation.
On the crusade ground that night, we had them put into practice what they had learned, and now this group were shouting, ‘Hallelujah!’ A young man among them was trying to walk and jump. He took four steps, and then fell. I watched his friends help him up, and he took 10 more steps. He then jumped about 5 times, before falling again, all the while shouting ‘Hallelujah!’ himself. His friends, clearly very excited, brought him to the platform. By the time he reached me, he was walking almost normally. He was a boy of about 16, and apparently well-known to the local Christian community. He had been both dumb and unable to walk, having been carried into the meeting. His friends trusted God for his healing, prayed for him, and God did the rest! This is one of the most outstanding miracles we have seen anywhere (awaiting picture), and we thank God for this supernatural breakthrough.
But of course to each person receiving, their own healing is the most outstanding of all, whatever their affliction – as I left my hotel, I fell into conversation with an American couple. She confessed to a frozen shoulder, and I offered to pray for her. Right there and then God touched her, and she went on her way rejoicing, lifting her arm high. ‘I haven’t been able to do that for two years!’ Wherever we go we are light and God is faithful.
The crown of this excellent event was that Nepali TV attended both nights, and a few days later were due to broadcast a report of the meetings on the main national TV channel throughout the whole country. Nepal will be left in no doubt that Jesus saves and heals! Praise the Lord!
Nepal Feb 2007 Miracles in Kathmandu
Over 1000 attended the final night, and about 500 made decisions! Below Healed of deafness by her two friends.