Chris Villasana, South Texas
Regional Elijah Challenge Affiliates
Chris Villasana is a young Texan who attended The Elijah Challenge Training at Braeswood Assembly of God in Houston in April 2007. In July 2007 he went to India on a mission trip. Below is Chris' report.I just got back from India, it was so amazing, like the book of Acts. I was able to teach people about the power we have in the name of Jesus, just like you guys pointed out to me. In Nellore, and the village areas of Andra Pradesh my group of missionaries saw so many healings. We were able to tell the village people about the one true God; they had hardly even heard about Jesus! Then we asked if they wanted prayer for healing, and many came up!
People were healed who had leprosy, back and knee problems, blindness, paralysis, ringing in the ears, arthritis, sharp chest pains. They were all healed and believed on Jesus! And it happened like that every night we were in the villages!
I just thought I would write and tell you those things so you would all be encouraged. So many new believers are now taking authority and encouraged, full of faith and love. It's awesome what is happening. So many villagers gave their lives to Jesus!
Chris' detailed report on the healings in Nellore, Andra Pradesh
Every night for a week our missionary group went to different villages in the Nellore block to give supplies and preform dramas for the villagers. On the second night God let us know that we wer to do something out of our routine, and so we told our leadership "after you get done explaining the drama, give a call for prayer for healing." The leadership agreed.The event we were doing at in the village was supposed to be a church event from one of the local churches we were working with, and every one in the crowd of 50-75 people were supposed to be Christians. So we gave the call for healing and many people come up. The first lady I and my small group encountered was a lady who was completely blind. through the translators she explained these things to us. So I told everyone, "Tell the blindness what to do, because we have authority over it." So two of us put our hands on her eyes and everyone else stretched out their hands, and we started telling the blindness to come our of her eyes, and that it couldn't stay in her anymore. Then I asked her if it was better, and she said that she could see much better! But not all the way, so we laid hands on her again and told it to get out all the way. When we finished she said that she could see completely better! Two of our ladies had a woman whose arthritis was so bad that her hands were all twisted up and her arms could hardly move. They started telling it to leave her body, and the woman began to dance around and tell everyone what Jesus had done! Then my group moved over to a woman who said that she had ringing in her ears. Two of our girls put their fingers in her ears and told the ringing to leave, and it left completely!
We were able to tell everyone that this happened because our God was the only true God, and He was more powerful than any others, and that Jesus was His Son. We told them that God has given us salvation and power in His name! After that we had to leave the village and go back to our base. Later that night we received information from the church that only four people in the crowd had been believers and all of the rest were Hindus.
The next night after we had performed the drama, they again gave a call for healing. A man with leprosy in his leg came to me and my friend, saying that his leg had pain in it for three years because of the leporsy and that no medicine had been able to help. So my friend and I grabbed his leg and told the leprosy in his leg to get out and stop causing the pain. We felt his leg begin to tremble and the muscles in his leg begin to gain strength and grow. Then we asked him how it felt, and he said that his leg was completly better. After that we laid hands on a man with paralysis in his left arm and he recovered much of his movement.
Many things like that happened every night that we were in the villages of the Nellore block. Many blind and lame people or with bad backs, knees and elbows, deep pains and other problems all were healed, just like it says in the Bible!
Luke 10:9 "Heal the sick who are there and tell them,
'The kingdom of God is near you.’"
