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God loves the Philippines!

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“He lifts the poor from the dust
and the needy from the garbage dump.
He sets them among princes,
even the princes of his own people!” -Psalm 113:7-8

We had miracles happening inside our churches and in crusades before, but the distinct Bethel influence I think are the unplanned spontaneous healing adventures some of our people are doing on their own, in schools, workplace and in the streets. Here are some of the testimonies:

One of the youth, full of insecurities, coming from a broken family, recently got a total stranger, lame - healed and walking!

An elderly woman was one month bedfast. Since she has no money for doctors, she planned to consult the local medicine man. One of our sister in Christ visited her. After prayer, the elderly woman got healed and out of her bed. Jesus got the glory!

Photo taken by Matt Lansdowne in Butuan, PhilippinesOne of our youth saw a man with walking difficulty due to an accident. So he approached the man, introduce himself and offered prayer. The man experienced God’s healing power and confessed he used to be an active Christian that had backslidden. He was so thankful for God’s trying to reach out for him.

Michael, a bible student, testified recently of God using him to heal complete strangers of Parkinson’s disease, cancer and a crippled old lady walking.

An Islamic woman got healed during the Sunday a Bethel team ministered at a church she visited. Now she enrolled our bible school and had never missed a class. She said, “I’ve been faithfully as a worshipper in Islam before. Doing all those ritualistic bowing and praying, but I’ve never experienced the miracles & love I’m now experiencing as a Christian. I’m now so crazy in love with Jesus.”

Roselyn admitted that she is not into drawings. But after the Bethel team’s visit, she became a “prophetic-arts machine”. She keeps drawing and giving people their prophetic arts, and found them very amazed at the accuracy. One time, God gave her a picture to draw then told her to go inside a particular bookstore. Once inside the bookstore, she was directed to give her picture to a certain woman (a stranger) sited on chair. When the woman saw the picture she began to sob inside. She said, whenever she’s down she goes to that bookstore to read something inspirational. That day she told God to please send some to the store to encourage her. Roselyn further said, God is saying you are like the woman in the Bible who got caught in adultery. Everyone wants to stone her but not Jesus. The woman cried all the more, she said she has done many plays in church, but her favorite role was when she portrayed the woman caught in adultery. It has the greatest impact on her as she understood God’s love.

Two of our partner churches (Antipolo and Navotas) got into Treasure Hunting for the first time this week.

Months before one of the Bethel team arrived at Hosea Church (March 7), three of their church members has already had open visions about them coming. Some saw the team as far as Dec 2009. One lady even wrote down the description of the team, their appearance and how they dress; it was really accurate. They believe the reason why they had these post-arrival vision was God was encouraging them to really open their hearts to the team; because the team will bring a great impact on their church, even long after the meeting has end.

From our network, Freshwind, Thank you Bethel Team.