Miracles at Foursquare Church, Butaun, Minadanao

Dear Pastor Albert

To all the TEC Teams, Thank you for the prayers!  All glory belongs to JESUS

I was ministering at Butuan Foursquare church last Sunday May 17, 2010. Instead of preaching a sermon, I taught them how to heal the sick using the Elijah Challenge Model of End-time Evangelism material. I showed them how to heal the sick using the authority that has been given to us when we become born again.
There were more than 10 people who received instant healing and deliverance from pain. One American, who received healing, has a prison and hospital ministry in Butuan City, Agusan Del Sur. He was a military Chaplin from Florida and now living in the Philippines. He was amazed to see ordinary believers, including himself, laying hands on the infirm and healing them instantly.
The miracles included severe arthritic pain gone and numbness in limbs for two years completely gone. A lady who had pain in her back for years was praising God. She had suffered constant pain whenever she had her period. She was weeping with joy because the pain in her lower back had immediately disappeared.

I heard a rumbling sound coming from the stomach of Pastor Johny, who is the pastor of this church, after I had commanded healing to his heart and intestines. Pastor Johny also felt the heat inside of his body. At this moment, he is here in Cebu for a final medical check up because he is scheduled for a bypass operation.  I am waiting for the good news of his healing being confirmed medically. There was another instant healing of enlarged spleen but we needed medical confirmation. I thank God for all the miracles that are now happening in my ministry.
Hallelujah! Praise the Name of Jesus

Your brother-in-ministry
Rev Butch Nacua
Pastor
Kingdom Praise Assembly
Mandaue, Cebu
Philippines

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The Elijah Challenge Trainers Are Not Superstars

The purpose of Elijah Challenge Training is to train every believer to utilize his or her God-given authority to heal the infirm as they share the Gospel.

1. This approach means that we do not get invited back (Unlike Superstar healing preachers). After training, the believers in the church can organize their own evangelistic healing rallies. They have no need for us to come at all. Thus this means that we the trainers actually work ourselves out of a job… and that is our purpose.

2. If you were to check our websites, you will notice that we train believers from all types of churches. Big or small is not important. As long as the believers learn how to share the Gospel without fear of exercising their faith to show the pre-Christians the power of God and share the Gospel.

3. Like all preachers, we receive a love offering after we train or preach. In third world countries, we seldom receive love offerings and we have to pay our own fares and expenses. We live simply so that others might simply live.

4. To be fair to us, please do not include us with all the other ’superstar’ preachers who have the gift of healing. You will notice that during any Elijah Challenge rallies, the local Christians are the ones doing the healing. Benny Hinn never does that. He is the superstar and we are definitely not ’superstars’.

5. We only train the local believers and they are the ones who do the healing in the name of Jesus. We do not believe in a so-called “special anointing” on some individuals. We believe that the anointing is on the Body of Christ – all the believers in the Church of Jesus Christ.

6. We do not claim to have the gift of healing. We only know that Jesus has given His Church the authority and power to heal and preach the Gospel. When we point this out, believers who exercise their faith, would actually heal the sick in the name of Jesus.

7. Do all people get saved when you share the Gospel? No, not all. By expecting people to be saved, do you violate the sovereignty of God? No! In the same way, not all people get healed or saved when the trained believers minister. The key word is ‘obedience’. 

We have to share the Gospel and people from other faiths will challenge our faith. However, when we heal the person in the name of Jesus, we actually earn the rights to share the Gospel with the healed person.

When the disciples of Christ could not heal the demon-possesed boy, Jesus said, “Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”(Matthew 17:19-20)

We trust that as we learn to exercise our faith, we will be able to move ‘mountains. 

8. Having said that, please understand that the purpose of the miracles is to share the Gospel. That is the reason why in the Book of Acts, the Church continues to heal and share the Gospel. 

9. In the New Testament, after every miracle, the glory is given to Jesus our Lord and the end-result is salvation of souls.