(Contact information for these servants of God are available upon request to [email protected])
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“As I mentioned when you were here [below in August 2014], you have the most Biblically sound teaching on the subject of signs and wonders, healing, faith and all related subjects including the Charismatic gift of healing and the James 5 model of healing. I am familiar with most of the well-known teachings on these subjects, and your exegesis, exposition as well as the signs and wonders that follow your teaching are unmatched.”
Recommendations from Southern Baptist Pastors & Leaders
“I am happy to commend to you the person and ministry of Brother Bill [of The Elijah Challenge]. The Lord has gifted him with keen insight into biblical teachings on POWER ENCOUNTERS and he handles this exciting and potentially controversial subject with great wisdom. I have attended the seminar he teaches and this led me to invite him to present it in the First Baptist Church of Katy. Any pastor or lay leader will be greatly blessed who sits at the feet of this gifted and humble servant of the Lord.”
“The Elijah Challenge is the most balanced scriptural healing strategy I have ever encountered.”
Christian Post Article of Former Senior Associate Pastor of Houston’s Second Baptist Church
Adapted from The Christian Post (our name has been altered to protect our identity)
“John MacArthur-style cessationism is like telling Johnny Football (Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M’s dazzling quarterback) he can only execute running plays because the passing game ended with Knute Rockne and football’s golden age.
But frenzy-style charismania orders Mr. Football to throw with abandon on every play, ignoring rules, boundaries, the health of his throwing arm, and the game plan. Pass even if it means an interception by a constantly scrambling opponent like, say, Simon the Sorcerer. (Acts 8)
Somewhere between the wary and the reckless, Form and Frenzy, there is solid truth on which to run the game of life and ministry.
Perhaps Brother Bill of The Elijah Challenge and many others like him have found it. They might be disdained by John MacArthur on one extreme and Benny Hinn on the other, but they quietly circle the world in the balance of Word and Spirit, bringing multitudes to Christ and leaving biblical churches in their wake…”
The Elijah Challenge according to Houston Pastor who hosted Reinhard Bonnke Crusade
“Firstly, your two-day training was absolutely amazing. We have been to Evangelism training sessions by some well- known leaders but this training far exceeded what we had been taught in the past. We appreciate so much your humility, love and passion that you have to fulfill your Last Days assignment and your fear of God is clearly evident. We love how your teachings are strictly according to the Word of God. It was an honor to be in your presence and attend the class.”
“It is now fourteen years since I have been with you. I count myself highly privileged to have been trained by you. Today I am known as one of the outstanding healing ministers of God, and I can say with confidence that I have trained more people in Nigeria, if not Africa, than any other minister.”
An Executive Director of Foursquare Church of Malaysia & Singapore
“In the first 20-plus years of my ministry, only about ten people were healed through my prayer. But in 2005, when Grace, my wife and I learned from the founder of The Elijah Challenge about using the scriptural method [of authority] to minister healing, my ministry was forever transformed. Since then, Grace and I were able to minister healing to many with positive results. And in the last 12 years, we have about 10,000 healing testimonies.”
Former Director of E. Stanley Jones College
“The Elijah Challenge Training is a gift of God for the Church today in her ministry as witness to Christ. This Training shows the way to return to an exercise of the power and authority of Christ in healing and evangelism, which is a truly biblical method of outreach. The Elijah Challenge draws together various essential strands of biblical teaching and practice into one training program that is vital for church planters and church growth all over the world as a result of applying the teaching of The Elijah Challenge program.
I believe that God has raised up The Elijah Challenge Training and movement for this time and moment in Church history when the visible political, financial and social power of the Church is in decline and that of other religions and institutions seems to be on the rise. Here is the way to be faithful witnesses in the world today to our gospel confession that Jesus Christ is Lord with all power and authority in heaven and on earth.”
Light of Africa, Mission to Zambia
“I am writing to recommend you consider The Elijah Challenge as a training resource for your ministry partners, especially those serving on the foreign mission field.
We have been serving in the Livingstone, Zambia, as trainers and teachers of the Gospel over the last 21 years. A benchmark took place when we met Brother W. during our first visit to a Sunday school class (Houston, 2005) and they shared the teaching of The Elijah Challenge. This teaching has greatly impacted our teaching and personal ministry.”
General Presbyter of the Tennessee Assemblies of God (AG)
“The weekend when we hosted The Elijah Challenge [in 2015] may go down as one of the greatest weekends in the history of Full Life Assembly of God. The Elijah Challenge teaching was one of the clearest and most systematic presentations of the Great Commission that I have ever heard.”
New York District Superintendent of the United Methodist Church (UMC)
”[I am] the Methodist pastor who trained with you in Virginia in 2013. With my wife, I learned the very basic, simple, practical, biblical principles for healing and casting out demons by faith in the name of Jesus for the Great Commission.
Since that training my wife and I have practiced it in each local church ministry. She was serving a congregation in Queens. Now she is serving another church in Staten Island. God manifested His power and healing so that we were so confident to preach the Gospel. I translated your manual into Korean around 90% and shared it with my church members to equip them.
Then I received an appointment in July 2014 to become District Superintendent of the Long Island West District of the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Through the church conferences in my district, I shared with pastors and lay leaders what I had learned from you and how to exercise authority in the name of Jesus. In each church there were many healings, including cancers and improvements. Glory to God!”
“Your teaching on healing the sick and casting out demons is the most scripturally correct teaching in Christendom.”
One Way Ministries International | Minnesota Disciple Making Ministry
“We have seen powerful ministries like Benny Hinn, Reinhard Bonnke, Jesse Duplantis, and Kenneth Copeland, but they only preach to the sheep and save the lost ones in single events. It may spread further after that, but it eventually stops—until their next crusade. Your ministry, however, creates disciples who create still more disciples who have the potential to be large ministries like the ones above. It keeps working and multiplying even when you yourself stop ministering.” [After this disciple trained with The Elijah Challenge in 2016, he launched his own very fruitful international ministry: One Way Ministries International | Minnesota Disciple Making Ministry]
Carl trained with The Elijah Challenge in 2006, and after that he and his wife Celina served as missionaries in the Philippines for several years. Today (2016) they are back in the United States. Carl testified:
“I want to thank you for teaching me the The Elijah Challenge. After Sunday night’s healings, I was laying in bed thinking back to all the men of God who influenced me for the Lord, my many mentors, and I was wishing I could tell them about what we have been experiencing (actually many are already with the Lord) and I realized that in the last few months, we have seen more miracles and signs and wonders than many of them have seen in their entire ministries. Most were men of God who served faithfully for 40 or more years. In this area, my ministry has exceeded that of my heroes. They would be so proud of me! I realized that because of The Elijah Challenge and God’s power and authority, I also stand with the giants of my past. This thought made me weep, with joy! I owe this all to your hard work, teaching ability and trust! I praise the Lord for this incredible tool! A tool that allows every Christian to stand shoulder to shoulder with the greats of the faith! I thank you and the Lord for this tool and for this beautiful revelation!”
51 house churches planted in less than 5 months in the Philippines
84-year-old woman in hospice dying of terminal Alzheimer’s miraculously healed
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Elijah Challenge-trained Pastor Simon Haqq led the fastest-growing ministry in India. At three recent meetings he saw 10 lakhs receive Jesus—equivalent to one million souls accepting Christ each time—a total of roughly 3,000,000 souls. At these meetings, after he ministered healing with authority in the name of Jesus Christ from the pulpit, approximately 500,000 people raised their hands at each meeting to indicate that they had actually been miraculously healed by the Lord. (This would appear to be a fulfillment of Jesus’ solemn promise in John 14:12 that believers would do “even greater things…”.)
“In the last 6 years we have brought miraculous healing to probably 2,100 people and have seen probably 400 come to the Lord.”
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