Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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Wed 21, 2012

TRAVEL
Wow. Like, WOW! What a day Wednesday was! I woke up at about 5:30 am Australia time. My uncle Ross picked me up at 6:00 and dropped me at the airport before 7:00. After a delayed 11:00 departure. We were then airborne. About 12 hours of flying time saw the plane land in LA just before 7:00am. So Wednesday began, again! 

Thank you International Date Line for giving me a new day, (even though you will take it from me when I go home...). 

So I got the hire car about 9am then I needed coffee, badly. It had been about 18 months since driving on the "right" side of the road so I left a bit funky driving but it all came back to me quick enough. Not too much "driving by braille". Got to the hotel that the good people of New Hope Corona had organized for me and had Mexican Food with Ps Ron & Ps Otto. The fajita's were out of this world. Then the sweet ol' Mexican mama who owned the place gave us a free dessert. the three of us couldn't finish it there was so much... They know food here in America!

Then I slept. Three hours later I got up and got my stuff together for Wednesday night church.

Getting to church I met Ps Ron King's wife Delonda. What a sweet lady! 

CHURCH
Ps Ron's son in law Greg led worship and led us right into the presence of God it was beautiful. Then they struck up the Delerious song "Rain down" and the place went banana's. I had asked Ps Ron over lunch what the philosophy or direction of this church was. He gave a simple one word answer, "love". Man I could feel the love of the Lord in the house as Greg led us to the King to worship.

I was invited to speak and totally strayed from my notes. But God showed up. The Lord was just moving among the people. They were so hungry for the Lord, I could feel the hunger I began. So I kept sharing mostly different stories of what we've seen the Lord do by His power and love, to touch broken or hurting people and I just knew this was doing to be a long meeting!

At the end of the meeting five people gave their lives to Christ and we open up the alters for ministry and away we flew in the Holy Spirit.

PRAYING FOR HEALING
The Lord was so kind. We started off praying for people by Word of Knowledge (1 Cor 12). The first was for people with pain in the base of their ribcage in their back close to the bottom of their ribs. Out came a couple of ladies in pain, they went back to their chairs with no pain, glory to God. Then there was a bunch of other words and God met the people right there. one was for sharp shin pain for which another lady mended prayer, another was for headaches behind the right eye and into the back of the skull. Two people needed prayer for that and felt the Lord touch them as we prayed, then it went on.

As we opened it up for whatever was in people's hearts the Lord had really built faith in people and they came forward to meet the Lord like a bunch of dry sponges to a bucket.

There were so many people needing prayer and God was there to meet them. Some were touched instantly others had to be patient to share their testimony, to see if they were in fact healed. It was quite interesting, most people who had pain that came and went had no pain in the meeting so we prayed in faith that they would see NO pain return.

One lady we prayed for had had a operation on her throat and when they removed the cancer from her thyroid they had accidentally damaged her vocal chords. We prayed for her, it was awesome, I asked her to sing, she was a singer. As she sang she was hitting notes she had not sung for years. I asked her how it was going, I did not know if anything had happened. She started laughing and said, "well I can sing higher." PRAISE GOD! She had always been a worshippers and desired to sing like she had before. The room broke out in praise to the Lord.

One thing I find to be so beautiful is how the Lord loves His people. We can never understand the power of His love in all of it's fullness. 

We prayed for a lady who had a brain tumor. As we prayed I could sense she was tense. Poor old lady, she was wound. So tight about here medical condition that she could hardly receive the prayer. So I just asked the Lord what to do for her. Se was crying - probably would have been too! I just felt the lord love for her flood the moment. And I said to her don't put Amy pressure on yourself right now, just let the Lord take the pressure right now, you've put yourself under enough 
Pressure for long enough. Just let those "everlasting arms" carry you here. She burst out crying and the Holy Ghost flooded her. It was beautiful to see how the Lord just met her in her pain.

I often think to myself if I were the one needing healing how would I want the Body of Christ to pray for me? So I asked the people to pray for her how they'd like to be prayed for if they had a tumor. They responded in kind!

We didn't see anything change on the night for this lady but I know something shifted so please keep her in prayer. 

I think that the power of God and the moving of the Spirit is so simple. Sometimes we forget that his power moves through His love. If we just find His love to minister through, His power is inevitable if we simply hold to His Word in simple faith and love.!

The night went on and on we finally got out of there at about 10 or so! Thank you Holy Spirit and thank you for those of you who prayed. 

Thus ended Wednesday after a quick feed. I rolled into be and missed and slept like a log. What a day!

PRAYER
Please keep me in prayer as I am on the road for the next two days, then I will be preaching again in Fresno on Saturday morning to a men's group. 

ALSO please keep Vicki and the kids in prayer as they are not with me on this trip. 

Keep tuned for further posts on this blog. I will be keen to keep the stories of His power coming...

God bless you, talk soon,

Tosh

http://www.toshsturgess.org.au

March 2012

ON THE ROAD WITH TOSH

Testimonies of salvation and healing in Jesus name!

December 2011

Just thought I'd throw this one in here :)

Below is a recent testimony emailed in from someone who attended a "SIMPLE SUPERNATURAL Seminar" at City Church in Brisbane, Australia.

"[Our daughter] has now been off her medication for 2 weeks today, with no repercussions!! God has certainly worked a miracle in her life, and things have gone from a poor prognosis from her paediatrician that she would most certainly be on medication for years to come (having been on daily high-dose medication for 2 years already), to having no medication at all for the last 2 weeks."

February/March 2012

PREGNANT - Testimony Over Facebook

Highway Church (Gold Coast, Australia)

I last ministered at this church about eight months ago. Last time we were there we prayed for this lady!“please let Vicki know too.. we're pregnant! our miraculous God has worked wonders through you both, you both prayed for me when I last heard you at [church] ...”

Bayside Christian Family Church (Brisbane, Australia)

I was invited to minister over the weekend for the start of February for Pastor Nick Watson at BCFC. They were hosting a Conference entitled "Supernatural Living". Over the weekend we had some great seminar sessions and the Lord moved powerfully. One the Friday night the youth were in the house and we really went for it in the Lord. About a dozen or so young people responded to the Lord that night. There were some great healings too. Through the weekend we saw the Lord touch people in their backs, legs and eyes. 

As I sat in the back of the room talking after a meeting a lady came up to me and told me that last time I ministered in the church the Lord healed her from serious pain in her leg. 

As we prayed for the people in the altars one young lady told me her testimony of what the Lord had done for her. She had not long come to Christ. She was finding it difficult in her home after coming to Christ. The spiritual atmosphere was making it hard to concentrate and even sleep. So as we prayed for her she felt the peace of the Lord and went home to sleep like a baby that night. She came back the next day and reported to me that her sleep had been sweet. But something else had happened. Since coming to Christ she had been coughing up blood. That day there had been no problem at all! Glory to God!

Hosanna Church Brisbane (Brisbane, Australia)

This was a great day. The people of this church are so hungry for the Lord. The worship was incredibly powerful and after the preaching of the word about 9 or 10 people responded to Christ. The Lord was awesome in His house. Then He started to heal!

The Lord gave me a ‘word of knowledge’ about healing as I was preaching. He told me about someone with pinched nerve pain in their left hip which was sending sharp pain down their inner leg which terminated in the top of the left calf. He told me that the pain had been increasing over the last few months but now in the last week it was getting to be excruciatingly painful, almost to the point of immobility.

A man came forward with this exact problem in his right hip. We prayed and nothing happened for him – but the Holy Spirit began to move. Next a lady came out for prayer who had the problem with the left hip. We prayed and the pain went out by half. I asked God what to do and he told me to leave her up to the Spirit to work on for a moment. I went and prayed for another lady who had a degenerative disease in her knee which caused her knee to grind. She could not extend the knee fully or contract it fully. As we prayed all pain came out of the knee, she walked on the knee and the grinding was gone. She stretched out the knee and she was completely pain free, she could walk and support her weight perfectly! 

GLORY TO GOD!!!

So I went back to the lady with the bad left hip. She was completely healed – in Jesus name! Then I asked her to pray for the man with the right hip problem and he was healed as soon as she prayed. This went on and on as we prayed for people for about the next hour. It was amazing to see the power of the Lord at work. There were a number of people with back pain which went instantly. One man had trouble moving his neck. He felt heat in his neck like fire and God had totally freed his neck up with full movement.These are exciting days we live in and God is moving, all we have to do is be ready to step out in faith as He moves.

Simple Supernatural Seminar (Brisbane, Australia)

We have been doing a few of these lately. It has been great to see the people of the Lord trained up and gaining confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Stiff Ankles (and Knee)

The first night of this Simple Supernatural Seminar I prayed for a lady the Lord had pointed out through ‘word of knowledge’.

She had bad pain in her ankles and they we stiff to the point that she could not move them much at all without the pain worsening. She came forward for prayer and sat down so I prayed for her and the anointing of the Lord came upon her with feeling of warm oil running over her ankles. Right then and there she testified that her ankles were free, no more pain, no more stiffness. Praise God! He is worthy of all our best praise!As I was ready to move on she was not. She was hungry for more of the Lord. She told me, “My knee too!” So I leant down and prayed for her knee too. Just the same as ankles she was free now in her knee also. All glory to God… He is worthy of our best praise!

Tennis Balls in Throat

Two weeks ago there were a couple of men involved on the church building committee who were having trouble with their throats. It was exactly the same for both of them. They both complained about having what felt like a tennis ball stuck in their throats. Often attacks of the enemy are often like that. People involved in a common cause can be struck with the same illness. So we brought them forward and had the people pray in the mighty name of Jesus that the problems would be gone. Well, in an instant it was mostly gone. The next week the men came back and the tennis balls were gone from both of them.

Migraines

That same night there was a man present who had been suffering from regular migraines. Again we prayed and in a moment it was gone. He came back next week to give God the glory that his migraines had not returned.

http://www.toshsturgess.org.au/