San Antonio, Texas
April 2011
The Elijah Challenge Basic Training was conducted in San Antonio for the servants of God who had gathered for the annual conference of Victory New Testament Fellowship. The Lord was gracious to enable us to teach effectively from the Scriptures. Then in the evening we held an evangelistic service where we preached the gospel from Mark 2. There Jesus miraculously healed a paralytic to demonstrate that he in fact had authority to forgive sins. Present at the service last night were two believers in wheelchairs who also suffered from various kinds of paralysis. After the message we boldly asked the Lord to heal the infirm just as he had done in Mark 2 to demonstrate his present authority to forgive sins and to save us from eternal condemnation in the lake of fire. And we asked him to use his trained disciples to do so.
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As the trained disciples ministered to the infirm in the name of Jesus, several testified that the Lord had healed them. In particular, one of the people who had come in wheelchairs was a woman who apparently had been born with severe abnormalities—both mental and physical—and she had never walked. A team of sisters, led by fiery Jean Ferreira of Denton (north of Dallas) ministered to her in the name of Jesus. She was helped to her feet from her wheelchair and amazingly, began to walk with someone helping her on each side. Her legs, however, would flail this way and that as she walked. They continued to minister to her, and after each time her gait got better and smoother. It was a wonderful confirmation and parallel to what Jesus himself did in Mark 2 by healing the paralytic—who also got up and walked—as a demonstration of his authority to forgive sin and grant eternal life.
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The trained servants of God were all encouraged, and we received very positive comments from several of them. We believe the two days of training will eventually be very fruitful for the kingdom of God, since nearly all of the participants were pastors, ministers, and church leaders who will potentially be able to lead and teach still others.
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