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Chris Villasana is a young Texan who attended The Elijah Challenge Training at Braeswood Assembly of God in Houston in April 2007. The following is a report from Chris while he and a team of street preachers were ministering in Chicago in September 2008:

"… So many healings have taken place. There have been many healings big and small, but I will give you the highlights. When we first arrived in the Chicago area we met up with Jonathan who we met through you at the Elijah Challenge training for "Church under the Bridge" in Houston.

After doing evangelism in the streets of the Chicago area for a few days we came into contact with a home church group where we were invited to go that Monday. When we arrived we met all of the men. One of them (the leader of the group) told us about how he had suffered from cancer and had beaten it. However, the aftermath of the cancer left him with missing and weak veins in his leg. He had also broken his femur bone and rods were holding it together. We (me and the other two team members of Taking It to the Streets) all looked at one another and jumped up and yelled to everyone in the house, "everyone join us, let’s get him healed!"

And in the name of Jesus we began to command the veins in his leg to be restored, for his limping leg to be healed and for the bones to be completely healed. Everyone in this house (about ten other people) joined in with us in exercise authority in Jesus’ name. When we stopped, nothing had happened; there was no improvement at all, and the pain he felt did not lessen. He still had a limp, but that didn't discourage us! So we told everyone "let’s go at it again!"

We began commanding everything to be healed again. The pain began moving around in his body from his leg to his lower back in different areas. Then everything was healed! Everyone was so pumped up and everyone began asking us to lay hands on them or pray for them about all different sorts of issues.

Later at a Bible study, a young homosexual man told us about a burning sensation that was in his leg. He had heard about how we had laid hands on people in Jesus’ name and they were healed. So he asked us to lay hands on him. After we commanded the burning sensation to leave in Jesus’ name, he was healed. We witnessed to him and told him how God loved him so much that he would personally touch his small ailment and heal him; and that God also confirmed the things that we were saying through this miraculous sign.

A man who had seen the things that we were doing brought us to his friend’s house for the man to be healed. The young man had a degenerative muscle disease. He was confined to a wheel chair and could hardly move his neck. God touched one of our sister missionaries with much compassion and she began to weep. Another missionary had a vision about Jesus standing right by the young man. The father of the young man also suffered, but from pain in his wrists and shoulders. We still had absolute faith, even though we didn't know why our young friend did not get healed immediately as we thought he would. Now the father could lift his hands only to a "T" shape and could not fully lift his arms above his head. This affected him mainly because he worked at a manual labor job. As we laid hands on his wrists and began commanding the arthritis to leave, his wrists were completely healed. As we commanded his shoulders to be healed, one was completely healed and the other was mostly healed---to the extent that he could clap his hands above his head. The Lord is so wonderful, and cares for each and every one of us deeply!

Before we left for Chicago we were teaching The Elijah Challenge to the disciples back in Texas. We had just finished teaching a major section. Now there was a young girl named Laurin whom the Lord had healed earlier. She had had severe tendonitis whereby her knees had very few tendons making her knee caps almost detachable. They would swell when she used them too much. We had laid hands on her in Jesus’ name, and the tendons actually grew back and attached to her knees, giving them strength. There was no more swelling after that. We had also broken fevers and viral infections in her body in the name of Jesus. She had also suffered from internal bleeding and she was completely healed of that as well. As we were teaching The Elijah Challenge to the disciples in Texas, Laurin called and she was crying over the telephone. She had just accidentally poured 200 degree water on her hand at a coffee shop where she was working. Laurin quickly drove to where we were doing The Elijah Challenge Training. We had our sister missionaries lay hands on her burned hand and command the pain to leave in Jesus' name, and for the hand to be healed. Laurin’s hand was immediately healed. She stopped crying and, very excited, she joined our Elijah Challenge Training class. All this had happened when we were still in Texas and before we came to Chicago.

After we arrived in Chicago and were ministering, Laurin called us on the telephone. She told us that she was at a family gathering where there were some thirty-odd family members and friends. Her grandfather (who has been in ministry as a pastor his whole life) was complaining of heart pain due to a surgical operation that had had complications. When Laurin heard what her grandfather said she stood up in front of everyone and prayed. "Lord, thank you for what you are about to do, and that you use this miracle for Your glory."

Then she laid her hands on her grandfather’s heart, commanded the heart to be healed in Jesus' name. The pain left and he was immediately healed. The whole family was astounded. Her grandparents were very convicted---in all of their years of ministry they had never seen any thing like that in the church. Many of her friends just stared at her for the rest of the evening. A very dramatic miracle happened through sweet timid Laurin.

Here is the YouTube link for the testimony of Laurin’s healings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htol7VlD5fo&feature=related

Praise God! Miracles are happening in the streets! People are repenting and giving their lives to Jesus!"

 

 

Luke 10:9 "Heal the sick who are there and tell them,
'The kingdom of God is near you.’"