Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tosh Sturgess Ministries News - June 2010


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In John 6:63 the Lord Jesus says, "The words that I speak are spirit and they are life."

When God speaks He does not speak to cut down or to limit. He does not seek to make us perfect-looking robots, but quite the opposite! He speaks to us things that are of substance that will cause us to grow and flourish into the uniqueness that God has designed for us to live out. To listen to God is to position ourselves to hear things that fill out hearts with grace and also challenge us in our weakness, which both call us to grow on out of our present state, to grow into His glory, hope and purity. He wants us to be bigger, stronger, more loving, more joyous, more whole, more alive than we've ever been. For this is eternal life, simply to know Him. (John 17:3)

Next time you open your heart to listen to God be ready to hear His encouraging, stretching, edifying call! His words are "spirit and they are life". The spiritual nature of His communication means that His words cannot be understood too obviously by our natural, often proud and broken thinking. His Words are "spirit" revelation and call on the noble and humble parts of us to run with. This I believe is what gives His "life" to us. He speaks "spirit" revelation and as we accept that word His "life" bursts forth on the inner parts of who we are.

No sin or personal agenda can match the glory of His "life" nor can it corrupt the purity of His life in us. Walk on in His overwhelming presence, in eternal life now!

I know for sure that God is merciful. The depths of His mercy never cease to amaze me! Here are a few great testimonies of the Lord's healing power from the last month of ministry in the USA.

Blind Eye Healed
A lady came out for prayer in Georgetown, Texas. Her testimony was that all she could see out of her left eye was haze, either bright or dark, depending on the room she was in. We prayed for her in the precious name of Jesus and she began to see great detail. We prayed one more time and she could see clearly. It was absolutely amazing!

I've seen many different reactions as people are healed by the Lord. Her reaction I've never seen before. When the vision started to come good she was almost in denial of it. Words like, "I can't believe this… this isn't happening… I CAN'T see out of this eye…" came spilling from her lips. But there it was - she could see!. She covered her good eye and she had clear vision out of the 'bad' eye! At this point she went into some kind of shock and began to cry and then scream at the realisation that this blindness was gone. I thought it was like a mechanical overload - too much emotion for her to process at one moment - so she screamed out and shook and fell down crying. It was so glorious to see someone not just healed but so set free from the personal struggle that went with the burden of the physical ailment.

Deaf Ear Healed
In the same meeting as above in Georgetown we saw a lady healed whose ear had grown more and more deaf. She could not hear phones ring anymore but came forward believing to receive a miracle from the Healer even though she was advanced in years!

We prayed to the Lord and He healed her, simple and easy! One of the folk took out the mobile phone and set it to ring like the old school house phones and when the call came through "ding-a-ling-a-ling" she could hear it! God is so good!

Ringing Ear Healed
Again, in the same meeting, there was a lady who had extremely bad ringing in her ear. When we prayed for her she testified of feeling heat all over her head and the ringing stopped right then. She sent back an email a couple of weeks later that the ear was good and she had no trouble from the ear since the moment we prayed. Glory to the Lord!

Shoulder Healed
Just this last week we saw another cool miracle. I call these "Collateral Miracles". We were praying for this guy on the prayer line and the Lord was doing some awesome inner healing work in his heart. There were some serious tears flowing and burdens being lifted from his heart as we prayed. This alone was wonderful. I just love seeing people encounter God and how in a moment He can drop such amazing love and power into their world. So once his eyes and nose were cleaned off he looked like a new man, like 10 tonnes had been lifted off his shoulders. We moved on and kept praying more with other people. Then when the meeting was over he came up to me and said that there was a real miracle take place in his shoulder when he was having his encounter. His shoulder had been troubling him for quite some time and had given him a lot of pain. After the dust settled he realised that God had totally cleaned him out from that infirmity.

Men's Retreat Healings
I did a men's retreat in Austin, Texas and saw the Lord really move in the lives of the men. The ministry time at the end of the first night went so late as the Lord began to move, I started to step back a lot, as I like to do, and let the Lord move through others. This is a great way of edifying the saints. There were a couple of great healings there. A man with tennis elbow was completely healed. All pain left his arm and he has been fine since that night to this (I saw him yesterday and he said that it was still strong and normally healthy). Another man I prayed for was healed of pain and weakness in a wrist that had been operated on years ago. I saw him about a week later and he said it was still doing great!

Osteoarthritis Healed
In San Antonio there was a special Sunday night which I was invited to minister at where four churches came together to get into the presence of the Lord and see what he would do. It was so exciting. That night there was a lot of prophecy and inner healing but there was an awesome healing. A young man came for prayer with pain all through his back and legs. We prayed for him and the pain left his back, so we prayed again and His legs stopped hurting. He stood there silently weeping. He felt the fire of God wash over him and I could feel him burning up as we prayed. There was some serious heat coming of his body. So I asked him how he was and he just cried and said, "I feel fine." And he kept crying. I began crying - I can be such a sook! But when God moves who cares anyway?

Prayer
Vicki and I pray for our friends and partners in ministry regularly and we've seen some awesome healings take place through remote prayer, so whatever your needs are send them through to the admin email and we'll be praying for you too!

Sow Where You Want to Grow

A friend recently said, "Sow where you want to grow." If you like to read of the things that God is doing through this ministry, I encourage you to partner with us and so sow into this ministry as God leads you. If a palm tree flourishes near the ocean it's wise to plant palm seed near the ocean.

In the same way, if you want to grow into the move of the Spirit of God and you see in this ministry some spiritual DNA you'd like to have grow in your life, why not sow a seed into this soil? The soil needs more seeds and the seed will grow in the soil. Thanks for your prayer and your support as you sow in faith!

Coming up soon I will be heading out to Asia and Africa to preach the Gospel in crusades and train the Body of Christ in how to move in miracles, signs and wonders. As these are entirely missions ventures we are stepping out by faith that the Lord will provide our need. Please ask the Lord how you can share in the joy of these exciting opportunities and if he would have you sow into them!

ASIA MINISTRY
Earlier this year I conducted one of my "Simple Supernatural" Seminars in Australia. I was then approached by a friend of an attendee who was present at the seminar. I have now been invited to another area of Asia not welcoming of the Gospel to go in and train youth leaders from 500 churches. The event will be four days long followed by two night rallies where all of the youth groups will come together for a combined event where we will press in to the Lord to see him touch the whole region for Christ in Salvation and power. Pleeeeeease... Keep us upheld in prayer about this exciting opportunity. May we see much fruit!

AFRICA MINISTRY
After the Asia trip it looks like I'll be taking up a few invitations to minister in Africa - in South Africa, Mozambique and Uganda. Last year's Africa trip was so powerful. We saw the Lord heal many blind eyes, deaf ears by the bucketful and even a lame boy walked out of the meeting in Jesus' name. This year we expect there to be an increase in the work! I am believing for many souls to come to the Saviour and many lives changed forever!

A recent photo of the Sturgess's.

G'day from steamy Texas, where the steaks are big and the trucks are bigger!

What an exciting time to serve the Lord. We've been on the ground here in the USA for about a month and what great things we have seen the Lord do in people's lives and hearts.

For the first week I ministered in California and I don't think I've ever seen so many tears at the altar. The people were pouring their hearts out to the Lord He was moving so powerfully to set people free.

I travelled to Texas with Vicki and the kids and have been so busy here with ministry. The first meeting I ministered at was in Georgetown, Texas, and we saw some of the most awesome miracles I've ever seen. Also through other meetings we've found that there has been such a hunger for the Lord. This has led to the Holy Spirit moving in power and many other wonderful healings have taken place.

The scene on the ground here is very exciting. God is moving in the churches and the people of the USA are rising in faith. There is a sense of uncertainty about the present financial climate but I see the churches rising in faith declaring that the US is not a 'Titanic' but an 'Ark'. I feel that God will be doing some great things here in the next few years!

Please keep us upheld in prayer. We are on the move a lot. Sleeping and ministering with the little ones around is exciting and challenging.

REMEMBER TO EMAIL US YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS.

Every Wednesday we spend the night praying for our friends and partners in ministry, so send us through your prayer requests. It's time to believe for that miracle!

June 2010 - TSM PRAYER POINTS

Tosh -
Strength and focus for all of the meetings in the USA
Health & safety in travel
Planning & Distribution of Tosh's first book "Simple Supernatural"
Music production for 2 CD's.

Vicki -
Supportive role to Tosh
Preparing to take a more active role in the ministry
Caring for the family's needs 'on the road'
Educating our children
Music development

Ministry -
For people to be saved at the preaching of the Gospel
The Anointing of the Holy Ghost to move in power
Planning for the next 3 years
Administration

Equipment -
HD video camera
New computers and software
Music recording equipment
Office furniture
Vehicle

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