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From Nona
22 December 2005

Nona Freeman

Dear Reader,
I have something incredible to tell you. In 2003, I was called to the platform to greet the ladies attending a ladies conference in Lufkin, Texas. I saw an exhilarating sight: three thousand ladies operating in the Holy Ghost—jumping, dancing, running, swaying—with the joy of Jesus on each face. It was such a beautiful sight!

Suddenly, I heard a voice (that I know well). He said: “The church has operated in the exuberance of the Holy Ghost for almost a century. It is now time for it to move into the power dimension.�?Space does not allow me to share all that the Lord spoke to me, but when He finished, I felt dazed.

Following that conference, I was scheduled to speak at three services in a small Illinois town. While I was there, God healed a man whose back was covered with tumors, healed three people of diabetes, and performed several other remarkable miracles. The Lord got my attention. At the Louisiana camp meeting, T.F. Tenney held the microphone to my mouth and asked, “What does the Spirit say to the church?�?I answered with what the Lord had told me. A young evangelist and his wife there believed it and has since told me that the Lord has moved mightily in their services to heal and deliver.

In May 2004, my grandson, Tom, came to visit me. He stumbled into my house and told me, “For eighteen months I have lived with intense burning pain in every bone in my body. The doctor said that I have rheumatoid and osteo arthritis and am headed for a wheelchair and an invalid’s bed.�?Tom is a young preacher. While he told his sad tale, I felt Holy Ghost rivers flowing all around me (John 7:37-38) that lifted me out of my chair. I found myself praying for Tom in that all-powerful name of Jesus. He was instantly healed and is still in good health! He preached for my dear friend, Brother McGaha, that Sunday night. I rejoiced as Tom walked without pain.

Brother Gandy invited me for a weekend of services in Tyler, Texas, and had me pray for everybody after I preached on that Sunday night. A visitor pushed his little son up in an improvised stroller. Cancer was robbing him of his life. He looked about eight years old (his father said he was twelve). He had on a hard plastic shirt to protect his little wasted body and looked so glum and sad that I feared he might die before they left the church. Things started happening. His aunt (who was visiting a Pentecostal church for the first time) got the Holy Ghost! The young man asked his dad to bring him back up to the front; he wanted to hug the lady who prayed for him. He gave me the most angelic smile as I hugged him.

The next week, Sister Gandy sent me a message. The young man’s parents had taken him for a routine visit to his doctor. The doctor reported that the large growth was gone, the smaller cancers were shrinking, and his bone marrow had started growing again. Several weeks later, three different people reported that he had been running all over the place at a party. Hallelujah!

In all the sixty-six years that I have preached the gospel, or in all my eighty-nine years that I have lived, I have never been more excited about Jesus. Someone may be skeptical and say, “Why would God speak to an old dry stick of a person?�?I have wondered that too. But I am surely enjoying serving Him!

Much love,
Nona

Wow. what a great testimony. Larry, give some testimony of what God does with you.

It is time we let people know what God does in our lives. Some people accuse me of not having any testimony. What a shame. Just because I made it a point to only point people to the Word of God, and not toward me.

but it is time to let people know God is still real and talks to us. He speaks to me and teaches me the Word.

He also works miracles in our lives.

A man asked me two days ago, why no one has any healings or mighty workings of God anymore.

I told him, well I do, I just do not go on and on about it.

I came in here to get him some messages, and saw the one I had written when God miraclously healed those awful planters warts off Eric's feet.

The precious child had suffered with them several years.

Then while he was visiting in Fla, I felt a real burden to seek God for him one night. I had prayed before, but this time I really sought God for his deliverance.

The next time I saw Eric I told him I wanted to pray for them. He said, they are gone.

Said while he was in Fla. he was walking on the beach. said God spoke to him and said, Look at your feet.

When he looked down, the warts were all gone.

He said to me,. Look. His feet were clean as could be.... no more horrible warts.

Praise God for this great testimony. I gave this message to my friend. He sat and read it and was truly amazed.

Then he asked me to pray for his eyes.

So, lets pray sincerely that God will heal his eyes and let him see the power of the true God.

I have saw God perform some great miracles also. But one that really stands out in my mind happened in Gainesville, GA. My sister-in-law's father was in the hospital in Gainesville. They called us and told us about this and we went right up to be with the family and tried to comfort them some. When we arrived the family was in the waiting room and we sat down and talked them a little bit. As we were talking to them the doctor came out and told them that there had done all they could do. They told them that all his vital signs had dropped so low and that it was no possible way that he could live.

I would like to give another testimony for the glory of the Lord. This happens about three or four years a go. This boy that was about 17 years old was in his yard with some friends. His girlfriend got mad at him and they began to have a big argument. He left the yard and went across the street to the cemetery. As usual teenagers have heated arguments at times. The ones in the yard thought nothing about what he was fixing to do. As they began to laugh and have fun they heard a gunshot across the road in the cemetery.

They had no idea at the time what the boy had really done. They thought that he was playing tricks on them. But they did not realize what had happened, he had put a 45 automatic to his head and pulled the trigger. When they realized what had happened they called for help and they rushed him to the hospital.

When they got him to the hospital the Dr’s saw the condition he was in and told his family that he had no chance to live. When man says it can’t be done then that is when God does his best work. He was in the hospital for about two of three days when my granddaughter called and asked us to pray for him. We told her that we would pray for him and we did. But you see God had worked out a plan where he could be glorified in this situation. By us just praying God was not going to get any glory. He wanted to show how that he could heal, and also show his power.

Like I said before that when man gives up that is when God gets his glory. We had a great friend that was in the hospital and his wife wanted us to go visit with him with her. We told her that we meet her at the hospital. While we were visiting with our friend my wife asked if I wanted to go down and see about this boy. I told her we probably would not even be allowed to see the family being that we didn’t know them.

This lady that we told that we would meet at the hospital. This lady also has a lot’s of faith and also has seen God perform many miracles. she said that she would love to walk down with us. So we all went down to the ICU waiting room. We found the family and introduced ourselves to them and told them we just came by to check on the boy. We told them that our granddaughter has asked us to pray for him and that we were doing that.

We had no idea what the lady was going to say to us to next. As we were talking to her she said I know the Lord has sent you people and you are something special from God. May not be exact same words it has been along time since this happened. She began to tell us that she knew that when we walked in to that room that God had send us and she wanted us to go in and pray for her son. You see what happened here God went before us.

As we went into that room I have never seen so many machines. This boy had tubes everywhere. No wonder the doctors gave him up. as we were looking that this boy we began to pray and the Holy Ghost began to fall in that room. The lady that went in with us began to speak in tongues and you could feel the peace of God in that place. It was awesome. When we were finished praying we all went our separate ways. We would later witness a mighty miracle. Not because of something that we’ve done but what God had done. if it had not have been for my granddaughter and her asking us to pray for this boy. We would never had even know this boy. We probably would have read about it in the paper and probably just said that is so bad.

You see God used several people in this episode with this boy. Within the next two or three days the boy was off all machines and had been taken to a rehabilitation center. As far as I know the boy is doing fine today. The reason I pointed out that God used several people in this episode was to show you that he was the only one that was going to get any glory out of this situation. Not that any of us wanted any glory or that we had done anything. I believe what really happened is that God heard the prayers of a young lady that was concerned about her friend and also that he heard the prayers of a concerned mother for her son. Praise the LORD.

Can't read these without crying. Praise the Lord.

Several years havc passed since these happened. Praise the Lord for his marvelous work.

In one of sister Joie’s post she asked the question why I had not given these testimony before? I began to wonder about this and why, I had not shared these great healings with other people. Then I began to realize why. Sometimes we get so tied up into the world and what the world thinks. Maybe not me only but others also, well why should I tell them because they’re not going to believe what I tell the any how. Not insinuating that Sister Joie would do that because we all know that she was not.

In the last day’s there will be mockers, scorners, ridiculers, and all they will do will say they were going to get well any how. Well these two people that I was talking about in the last testimonies were not going to get well because the doctors had already given them up to die. Yet in most cases it is the one’s that call themselves Christians that are the mockers, scorners, and the ones doing the ridiculing. but what we actually need to do is to forget about the mockers, scorners, and ridiculers and praise God any how. We need to be a witnessess for God and testify what God has done and of his marvelous works.

So if you want to mock, laugh, or do whatever you want to, go right ahead but I am going to praise the Lord and testify of his marvelous works. If you do not like these beautiful testimonies then please I ask you to share something that would edify us as these testimonies have. They have been a real blessing to me. Praise Almighty God.

Now after saying of all that I would like to give another testimony of what happened in the same hospital in Gainesville, GA. where we saw the first miracle take place. We went to the hospital to see my sister-in-law and while we were there my brother mentioned about this lady that he had met there and this lady had told him that she had a daughter that was in the hospital in a coma. He began to tell me what had happened to the lady’s daughter. He said in a drunken stupidity that her husband had beaten and run over her with a car. The doctors did not know if and when or if she would ever come out of the comma.

So I asked him would the lady mind if we came by and prayed for her daughter, and he said no that she would like that very much. So we went down to the room and when we went in the lady’s daughter was just laying there with no movement whatsoever. we began to talk to the Lady and we begin to tell her of some things that we had saw God do. She said that she knew what God could do. So she asked us to pray for her daughter and as we began to pray the girls limbs began to move and the lady said that she had not moved in a while. But as we can kept on praying that didn’t seem to be any more changes.

But this was a big uplift for the girl’s mother because she had not even seen her move in a while. We also left that room very encouraged and also believing that God had more in-store for that girl. I told my brother to keep me up to date on this girl’s conditions. He gave me a call about a week later and he was very excited and I knew why. He began to tell me that the girl had come out of it, and they were sending her to a rehabilitation center and that she was doing fine. As far as I know the girl is doing great. Praised the Lord.

Psa-150:001- Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
150:002 - Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
150:003 - Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
150:004 - Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
150:005 - Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
150:006 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD

May someone be blessed and uplifted by the faith building messages; for they are all true.

Praise the Lord.

Thank you, Isaiah, for these great and powerful testimonies. Yes, it is such a great blessing and uplift to hear how God has magnified his power to us today.

Jesus said if we hold our peace, the stones will cry out. Lets' not wait for stones to cry out; give God glory today for his many and mighty workings among us today.

it is good to read about yesterday's miracles. But people need to know God is still real today.

A while back, a friend of ours asked me why are there no healings today? I said well, I don't know about others, but God certainly does heal in my life. I told this young man, "In fact YOU are one of them."

He was astonished. In fact, it is this man's daddy, who asked me that same question Friday. I told them both about this healing when the young man was only a small child, maybe three years old.

Neither one of them knew of this great healing. I am amazed that the boys mother did not tell them of this.

A couple of lady friends and I had been out at our old church praying. God spoke to me to go up to her home. (she later became Wanna's mother-in-law).. She lived right in front of the old church.

When we arrived, the child was sitting in her lap, burning up with fever. He just laid against her, too sick to even hold up his head.

God spoke to me to pray for him. So I prayed for the child. We sat down to talk. I was so into our talk of the Word of God, that I did not notice when the child got out of his mother's lap.

But then I realized that he was no longer sitting in her lap. So I asked, Where is T;. she smiled and pointed to the other side of the big room, where T was down rumping and playing with his older brothers.

He was completely healed in moments.

So when I told them of this healing, they were amazed. God is still God.

All things are possible to those who believe.

I would love to hear others give their testimonies. Praise our Lord for his Goodness and miracles.

Isaiah, when you of spoke how the Spirit had already filled the room before you went in. reminds me of how it was when I was first filled with the Holy Ghost.

At times God would speak to me and tell me to go pray. It was plain as day. As I went to open my back door, I felt the presence of God as if He had personnally stood in the door waiting for me. His presence filled the room and was most glorious.

When I obeyed and went into the house to pray, his presence was already filled in the room. It was unspeakably glorious.

This happened many times. God would come and stand in front of me. His presence so powerful, as if an actual bodily person stood there, only much greater.

When I asked Jodi here if the Spirit stood in front of her, I meant it as a true manifestation of God. But I think she took it wrong and took offence. I pray some day, she will understand and return. I think of her so often and pray for her.

She was so dedicated to God. Let's all pray for her. I want to see her keep growing in Him.

I used to pray each day, either alone or with my sister and a friend. Each day, the presence of God stood in front of me so powerfully it seemed sometimes he would take me up off this earth.

I used to wonder how could people live without this. I truly wonder if many have ever experienced God this way. What a shame that they are being cheated of the true and REAL GOD.

I have also had evil spirits stand in front of me and threaten me. It used to happen a good bit. But God showed me how to defeat them and drive them out. Now they do not bother me.

But there were several instances where they threatened to kill me. It was quite frightening at first. But faith took that away from me. Now they are afraid of me! ha.

Praise his wonderful and Holy Name.

I also remember a time when God did not want me to pray for a person.

My wife and I and a friend went to the hospital to pray for this person and as soon as we entered the room, we could tell that God was not in this. We prayed ( only empty words) but we never felted the power of God.

We left the room and as we were going down the hall of the hospital, I said to the others, I could not pray and they said that they felt the same way as I did. None of us knew that the other felt this way until we starting to talking about it. They said that it was so cold in that room. It was, cold means a sign of death and the lady died not long after that.

From: joie

Sent: 5/5/2002 8:32 PM

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Some of this is in my testimony messages. They are somewhere on the back pages of this community.

This one I touched on briefly there.

But I want to post it under this testimony page.

Some years ago [about seven] --- I did in home sitter work with elderly people. I had a job at this time, which required me to spend the entire weekend with this lady. It was on Monday morning and I was supposed to go home that evening around 6 p.m.

Around noon, the ladies�?granddaughter came and told me to go on home for it was beginning to freeze outside. Well, she waited too long to let me go; for the roads were already frozen.

It was snowing and sleeting and freezing.

I made a decision to go a back way; thinking this would be safer as there would be less traffic. Well, this is not wise at times like that; for the lesser traffic also lets the roads freeze up worse. I am sure all you northerners know this; but we southern gals are not so knowledgeable about these matters.

My windshield was freezing so fast; I only had a tiny peek hole to see through. I was locked up inside with nervousness.

I came to a long, down hill stretch of road. I was going as slow as the car would go. Then the car started sliding toward the right side of the road. I looked in the mirror and saw a car behind me for a brief moment; then saw it no more. It slide off somewhere, I guess. For there were no turn offs anywhere along that stretch of road.

The car kept sliding out of control. I did everything I knew to do; all to no avail. I only had a tiny speck of place to see through.

I tried to steer the car back onto the right lane; but the steering wheel had no effect on the car. I tried to put on brakes; but the brakes had no effect on the car. I was frightened to say the least.

Finally, I was almost at the bottom of the hill, still sliding out of control. By this time, I had reached a bridge. I had cut the motor off, hoping this would stop the car; but this also had no effect on it. It only locked my steering wheel; which was out of control anyway.

I realized I was on the verge of going off the bridge. I thought I am going to be killed and wreck my car. At that instant I called out loud, “Jesus, save me Jesus�?

As God is my witness, that car whirled around on the exact spot without traveling forward an inch. I felt as if I were on a swing. The car came to a complete stop in the middle of the road; sitting across the center line right in the middle of the center line; facing horizontally.

I was sitting there in utter amazement when I noticed a truck coming down the hill from the opposite direction right toward me. I was horrified; for I knew that he too was probably out of control.

I thought if my car doesn’t crank and I am able to move, he will hit me. I prayed, Oh Lord you saved me from going off the bridge, please let this car crank and let me get out of his way.

Well, the car cranked [ I was shaking so badly, I don’t know how I did it] and God helped me get it out of the truck’s way just in time. By this time, my insides were jelly.

I can’t begin to describe the rest of that night-mare drive on home. Only God knows how painful it was. I kept the car in it’s lowest gear; trying to keep it slow enough to keep out of the ditches.

The heater and the wipers were no match for the cold blizzard.

Most of the time, I barely knew where the road was.

I was on a main road for just a few minutes; then had to turn to the left again. As I tried to go left, the car slide to the right. Except that there was driveway there, I would have been in a ditch. Now, my insides were melted jelly.

I managed to stop the car. I was too weak feeling to keep going; but I knew I HAD to. So, I prayed some more. Oh Lord, PLEASE, help me to get home.

Shaking like a leaf, I tried again to make that left turn. This time I made it. I was afraid to move and knew I dared not stop.

The rest of the way home was the same; trying to crawl safely between ditches.

But the real fear inside my g--s, was the road I live on. It is a narrow, private, rough dirt with gravel road. Lots of down hills and S-curves. Wow!! How I dreaded to try to get down it. There is a very narrow, unsafe bridge at the foot of a hill; then a good climb back to the top of a hill; the highest point around there. This is where my home sits. My own drive way was up hill and a mess.

What makes it so bad, is that just across from my drive way, is a deep drop down.

I kept praying and praying for God to help me make it safely. I said Oh Lord you helped me at that bridge; please help me now.

Finally the dreaded moment came and I had to go down that road. [May I never go through such a night-mare again].

I was on ‘pins and needles,�?so to speak. Well, I made it alright until I tried to get up my own drive way. My little car staled here, and would not go another pace. I was horrified. I knew I dared not try to roll backward; for I knew I would go over into that deep drop. I tried and tied to make it go on up the drive. I knew I could not cut it off; I knew I could not dare let it roll back even an inch; or I would be gone. It is a sharp turn in off the other road. There was no way to go back.

So I really did some praying. Oh Lord, Please, please help me get up this hill. You have brought me this far; please don’t stop now; please make this car go on up this hill.

Well, by His grace and love, that car finally went on up the hill. The ice and snow was furious by now.

My steps were frozen. I could not get up them. So I prayed some more. Then I got down on hands and knees and crawled up onto the porch. Then almost could not get the door open. but I finally got into my house. By now, I was too weak to speak almost. All I could do was thank My God for his Miracle on Ice. He had brought me safely home.

Maybe some men who are expert drivers and not afraid of these things, might not appreciate this as a miracle from My God; but I KNOW BETTER! If it had not been for God, I could not have made it.

My soul was then over whelmed with the realization of what had taken place on that bridge. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that God had sent his angels and turned my car around. My soul was singing with joy at knowing my God loved me that much.

For weeks, my soul kept saying, His name is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and is safe.

Yes, I knew in that hour what this means. I knew I had experienced the glory of this truth. I knew It was when I called out to the name of Jesus that he came and helped me.

I made up my mind right there to always try to serve him with all my heart. I was over whelmed with His Love.

~~~~~~~~~Miracle of the stayed blood~~~~~~~

You think the miracle in the Scriptures of the woman who touched the hem of his garment is great; and it is; but let me tell you of a modern day miracle where one touched him only in faith and had the same kind of miracle.

I want to tell this for the glory of God and to help build up faith in my fellow Christians.

My youngest sister had the negative type blood, which is supposed to give ‘blue babies�?after the first child.

She had four children without any harm to either child. When her fourth child was born, she was alone at home with only her small children and a new baby. She had just come home from the hospital after his birth.

She had not had the Holy Ghost but a short while. She felt herself begin to hemorrhage very badly. This is common with that type of blood. She became very weak, and said she felt herself begin to faint. She knew she could not let this happen; for there would be no one who knew about it to help her and the baby.

She was alone, and passing out. But she begin to call on the name of Jesus. She told this herself. She said that just as soon as she began to call on the name of Jesus, she felt her blood stop hemorrhaging and she felt strength come into her. She did not pass out; and in a few minutes, she was strong and did not have any more unusual bleeding. She was then able to get up and tend to the children. She said the bleeding stopped immediately. See, God knows what we need and when we need it.

Another great big thank you to our God, who did not leave this young woman who trusted in him without help. By the way, this is the one who prayed for my foot that time and God healed it.

Thank God for a sister who believes God.

People, these testimonies, are not to glorify Isaiah, nor Joie, but to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Also the above post was originally done by Joie, I did not copy the original name and date when posting it.

Even Isaiah makes mistakes, can't say the same for sesible though.

Thank you dear sesible, for posting these testimonies. I had wanted to bring up that one about the miracle on ice. My soul still glories in my God about that. I still thank him for this great miracle he gave me.

I also made a mistake typing it the first. I said my car was sliding toward the right. But it was toward the left. It kept sliding and sliding until I was at the foot of the hill and was headed over into the drop-off.

what makes this so wonderful to my soul, in part, is because at the time this happened, is a time when my life was not where it should be with my God. I was going to dances and things like that, which I had never done in all my life before.

Lonesomeness will have a bad effect sometimes. But after this great miracle, my soul kept singing and singing, My God loves me still He loves me still. His name is a strong tower , the righteous run into it and are safe.

From that moment on, I determined to spend the rest of my life just for Him. I have been happier since then than at any time before in my whole life.

Now it is just JESUS AND ME.

Praise His holy Name.

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