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My Rebellious Nature Caused Me To Question My Parent’s Belief

Webmaster — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:26:14 +0000

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I was brought up in a God-fearing family, married a farmer and had two healthy children. My rebellious nature caused me to question my parent’s belief and find it lacking, and with my husband, I searched for a church which followed New Testament teaching………

I Had Been To About Eleven Different Churches Yet I Barely Knew My Bible

Webmaster — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:20:07 +0000

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I used to be a nice person before I came to the Lord, I never drank a lot or did drugs and I did my best at school. Then I realized I had no right saying that. I was an awful person, I gave no respect to my parents and ………

Our Miracle Baby Son Is One In 5.8 Million

Webmaster — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:58:16 +0000

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At twenty-three weeks’ gestation, Paul and I received unexpected news that our baby son had a one-chamber heart (instead of four chambers) with arteries missing, blocked or in the wrong places. He had bleeding within……….

Chad (Adelaide) : Delivered From Addictions

Webmaster — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:47:55 +0000

During my last years at school I started going to rave parties and discos. This led to taking social drugs such as alcohol, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, speed and cocaine. I became even more involved in the drug-taking lifestyle; but I was fast tiring of it…

The drugs affected my health, and I suffered from a back complaint. The ecstasy tablets dehydrated my spinal fluid, and some mornings I had difficulty just bending over to wash my face. I was becoming dependant on drugs, and couldn’t go out socially unless I was under their influence so I realized that there must be a better way to live.

When I was 19, I injured my ankle playing Rugby Union and went to the gym for rehabilitation. My instructor told me about miracles that he had experienced and that I needed to receive the Holy Spirit. I kept thinking about what he’d told me about being ‘born again’ and that there was a way for old things to become new.

I attended my first meeting and saw people who were happy, singing and glad to be in church. I was baptized right under the water. I felt a weight lift from my shoulders and felt extremely clean, I knew that I had made a good decision. Soon after that I prayed for the Holy Spirit and started to speak in a different language. I felt a power go through me and I knew that I was never going to be the same again; I knew I’d been ‘born again’.

I was healed from back pain and the desire for alcohol, drugs and my old music left me, and I saw the vanity of rave parties and discos. The Lord gave me a new way of thinking and a hope that I could share with other people. I never thought that the Lord could change my life in the way that He has.

I am now married and have children of my own that I can parent with confidence because the Bible is my guide in life. The Lord is my foundation and my guide in all my decision-making, and He has blessed me so much.

Greg : Wheelchair bound..

Webmaster — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:24:37 +0000

I was in a wheelchair, which doctors said I would remain in for the rest of my life.

In 1989 a lady knocked on my door and invited me to a Revival Fellowship meeting. I told her to go away, I had had enough bad experiences with religion in the past from being brought up in church boarding schools, but this lady persisted and eventually convinced me to go to a meeting by asking me the question, what have you got to lose? Looking at my life I could honestly say the answer was nothing. I went to the church meeting where I was told I could be healed by the power of God.

Years earlier I had been in a car accident and had damaged my spine. After numerous operations I was in a wheelchair, which doctors said I would remain in for the rest of my life. I was taking sixteen pain killing tablets a day as well as large amounts of alcohol to numb the pain and had a full time carer, as I could do nothing for myself.

People prayed with me to receive the Holy Spirit and have my back healed. Nothing seemed to happen during the prayer other than I had a desire to be baptised, which I did. I was baptised by full immersion just like Jesus was and I came out of the water speaking in tongues, which proved to me that there was a God. When I was offered help to get out of the baptism tank I refused and stood up myself. I walked down the steps, into the dressing room and dressed myself for the first time in twelve years. I threw all my painkillers away and have not taken any since.

It is now seventeen years later and I live a very blessed life.

Come meet Greg and find out more at the Gold Coast Revival Fellowship

Bev : Healed by God from glaucoma

Webmaster — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:43:01 +0000

I was diagnosed with glaucoma, a deteriorating, irreversible eye condition.
In 1965, a man knocked on my door with an invitation to a Revival meeting.

At this meeting I was shown from the bible that I could have a personal experience with God, that believers received the gift of the Holy Spirit. I sought God and this experience came to me while praying with a repentant heart – God filled me with his Holy Spirit, and I knew this because I spoke in a new tongue – a language I had never learnt. I was then baptised by full immersion in water.

Since then, God has continually demonstrated his love toward me. Ten years ago I suffered from Alopecia and suddenly lost all my hair after a shock. My hairdresser consulted university experts who considered the baldness permanent due to the severity of the Alopecia. Trusting in the mercy of the Lord, I knew that God would not leave me in that state. After praying to be healed, the Lord graciously restored my hair completely.

A short time ago my optometrist diagnosed me with glaucoma, a deteriorating, irreversible eye condition. At my age this complaint is not uncommon, but I would not accept this condition as I had been praising God for my good eye-sight. I told the optometrist I had prayed to be healed and expected to have a good report, his reply was patronising but in his examination, I could tell something was not as he expected. In his examination he found no sign of glaucoma.

The almighty God assures me continually of his love for me and I praise Him for He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Come meet Bev and find out more at the Gold Coast Revival Fellowship

Paddy : From suicidal to abundant life

Webmaster — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:25:34 +0000

I told the doctor that I had God on my side. The doctor said, “Yes Paddy, it shows!”
In 1991 I was at the end of my tether, I decided after seven horrible, miserable years of caring for my Mum after a stroke, then Dad who was blind and dying from cancer, life was not worth living. I planned to commit suicide when Dad died and in my despair I called out to God.

Three days later I was invited to a Revival Fellowship meeting, I went out to have prayer for my father and I immediately received the Holy Spirit with an awesome infilling. I went from wanting to die to wanting to live. H had found peace and could not stop smiling.

I was healed of osteoarthritis, Bronchitis and Bronchial Pneumonia. My Chronic Dermatitis was so severe it may soon have needed a skin graft to enable it to heal, but God has totally healed me.

In 2002 a four-wheel drive reversed into me as I was walking along. I had broken ribs, a cracked collarbone, internal bleeding, a bruised kidney and a cracked kneecap. The Orthopaedic team at the hospital said “In view of your age you will get pneumonia and blood clots in your lungs.” I told them “God will raise me up.” I was 100% sure. It didn’t happen overnight but it did happen.

Meet Paddy and find out more at the Gold Coast Revival Fellowhip

Nathan : I called out to God for help and He delivered me

Webmaster — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:20:18 +0000

I was on the toilet floor with my head in the bowl when I called out to God for help – He delivered me.
I received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues on my 19^th birthday. At that point I knew everything the church and the bible said about salvation was true. A couple of years later I found myself praying and reading the bible less and less, my life no longer resembled that of a Christian as I had begun drinking and clubbing and eventually left the church on bad terms.

My life deteriorated outside of the church and it didn’t matter how much “fun” I was having or how drunk I got, the knowledge that what I was doing was wrong ate at me all the time. One night while on a pub-crawl, I took an ecstasy tablet and found myself burning up and totally disorientated. I hadn’t drunk any water all night and was in a lot of pain. I was on the toilet floor with my head in the bowl when I called out to the Lord for help and He delivered me. I completely sobered up and the excruciating pain left me. This experience humbled me and made me realise the importance of God in my life. I soon found myself back in the church and I thank God for that He made a way for me to return.

Allan : I knew it was more than a coincidence.

Webmaster — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:49:56 +0000

I was brought up in a main line church and attended a religious school. I believed in God but had teachers who taught evolution and explained away the miracles of the bible.

When I reached my teens I followed my peers, I stopped going to church, started drinking and smoking and became a social drug user. By 1982 I was living with my girlfriend (Sharon) in Cairns, thinking life was nice and ‘cruisey’. Whilst spending time apart due to work, Sharon and I both had the true gospel told to us by completely different people, thousands of kilometres apart. We were told about water baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit.

When I realised that we had both heard the same message, I knew it was more than just a coincidence. We moved to the Gold Coast where we were baptised. When I called on the Lord from my heart, I received the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. From that moment on I had no desire to drink alcohol or smoke drugs. I felt I was shedding a burden I never knew I had. Sharon and I were married and together live a life of complete contentment.

Come and meet Allan this week at the Gold Coast Revival Fellowship

Liz : Searching for love

Webmaster — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:00:24 +0000

I grew up in a family that lacked nothing, however when I was 13 my mother started drinking and became an alcoholic. This produced a terrible environment to live in. My family lived in fear and shame of what each day would bring. I dreamed of a white knight rescuing me, to live happily ever after with children of my own, but I knew I would never bring children into the world I was raised in. So I left home at 18 looking for love, but became like my mum, drinking nearly every day. My life was a mess. I had nowhere to go and no one I could trust, until one day in desperation, I cried out to God to help me. Someone told me how I could know God personally. I was baptised by full immersion just like Jesus was and received God’s Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, a language I had never learnt. Since then Jesus has mended my heart and my mind, taken away the pain and placed me in his loving family. The huge void in my life has been filled, God gave me my hearts desire when I married my husband Neville and had four children who fill our lives with love. I thank God for putting joy and peace in my heart.

Come meet Liz and find out more at the Gold Coast Revival Fellowship