SID: Thirty years without seeing a miracle, then in the same year, Janet has a major miracle in her knee. And by the way, she has so much faith with knee problems. I’ll have her pray for you in a little bit. You go to a meeting and you see a little girl whose growth, she just stopped growing, and James Maloney the evangelist says, “I’m going to pray for her and you’ll see her grow.” You’re all eyes. Tell me what you saw.
JOHN: The greatest miracle I had ever witnessed, seeing a girl stretch several inches right in front of me. It’s life-changing and her leg, her pants were way up in the air afterwards, she had grown so much. And I said, in that moment, I said, Lord, this is one of the greatest moments of my life. I said, I will give my life for this to see a manifestation of your goodness this way. I witnessed the goodness of God like I had never experienced before when I saw the look on that girl’s face and I saw her grow, knowing that her life was never going to be the same. In that same moment, I believe, is when a stronghold of unbelief was broken off of my soul by the witnessing of that miracle. How do I know I was changed? Well we went back to the hotel that night and I’m just overjoyed. I can’t help but tell everybody about it, you’re not going to believe this, we just saw a little girl grow.
SID: You couldn’t believe it either.
JOHN: And I’m telling people, I couldn’t keep quiet. This man is walking through the lobby and I say, “Hey, you’re not going to believe this, this little girl, she was like this and she then was grew.” He was very skeptical and he says, “Oh yeah, but what’s your God going to do about this?” And he stretches his arm out and it’s all like white and clammy, and he’s got no color. If this had happened four hours ago before the meeting I would have freaked out seeing that arm. I would have been, oh no, God, what am I going to do. But now I look at it and I say, that’s nothing, that’s easy for God to heal.
Like everything had shifted. As we begin to pray for this man, a little dot like the size of a quarter, red dot appears amidst the whiteness and it slowly begins to go down his arm and he begins to get the feeling back. He’s never, he’s a 26-year-old male, has never felt anything in that arm his entire life and he’s getting a miracle, amazing miracle. You can feel here and not feel here, but then you feel here and not feel here, it slowly just goes down. He eventually gets the entire feeling in his entire arm and hand. He’s had an amazing encounter with God and he gives his life to Jesus. He goes from skeptic to born again in less than an hour.
SID: Okay. Just pull two miracles out and tell me about it that you’ve seen with your very eyes.
JOHN: We were doing in a meeting in Moscow and a boy had a big large firm tumor, and God just took this thing and it was completely, there wasn’t even a trace of the tumor afterwards. And God did a great miracle, and he had no feeling in his leg. Again, like the other miracle, the no feeling. He got complete restoration of his feeling. God had restored the nerves in his leg, two miracles at one meeting. And there was another lady, notable miracle, that she had a big indentation in her leg from being kicked by a horse. There was flesh missing in her leg. I said, “Test it out. Do something you couldn’t do before. Just rub over that spot where the flesh is missing.” As she’s rubbing, as she’s rubbing, I tell her do something you couldn’t do. The Glory is strong. This was a healing meeting and faith was rising up in her because she was testing it out. As she’s testing it out God restores missing flesh to her leg and it becomes completely smooth.
SID: Okay. You had a dream and then the miracles doubled up on you. You call it the take it fast dream. Explain that.
JOHN: Yes. In this miracle, in this dream, I was standing doing ministry in front of a large gathering, a large congregation. The Holy Spirit was highlighting certain people in the audience for healing. And I would say God is touching you, do something you couldn’t do before. As soon as they started to test it out they were like encased in a bubble of water even though it was not in water. They were encased in a bubble of water and it was happening all over the room, all over the room, and people were getting healed very quickly. As soon as they tested that bubble of water and crazy, just wonderful miracles were breaking out.
Then I look down at my own leg and I see that it’s completely mangled, and I say, “Oh God, help me, I need to heal me, too.” And I hear the Lord say, “Take it fast.” As soon as he says, “take it fast”, I stretch out my leg and I’m like encased in that bubble of water and God completely restores my leg. It’s like he was giving me the perspective of what other people in the meeting were experiencing when they got healed. He gave me the first person perspective of it. And then I woke up from the dream and I said, “Lord, what was that all about?” And he says, “My people are too slow at receiving healing from me. Teach them to receive healing quickly.” So I get that word. I’ve got an evangelical background, so I’ve got to have confirmation in the Word to make sure I’m hearing from God. I studied the miracles of Jesus and I notice that Jesus says very quick, short prayers, “Stretch out thy hand.” They stretch out their hand and it’s healed.
SID: Short sentences.
JOHN: Short ones. “Arise. Take up your mat and go home.” And the paralytic does what Jesus says.
SID: It’s not a big flowery thing.
JOHN: No, it’s a short prayer and they listen, and they’re healed very, very quickly. So I started to teach on this principle then in the healing meetings from then on, and I started to teach people to take it fast. Step in quickly, don’t delay, don’t hesitate. The healing presence of God is here now. Take it fast. And I started seeing more than double the number of people healed in the healing meetings, and they were getting healed at a much faster rate.
SID: You know what this reminds me of. Do you remember the story about the pool of Bethesda, the first one that could get in the water when it was stirred? Well you don’t know this, I know this. Janet has a beautiful singing voice and when she sings it’s like a river of healing comes out. I would like, after she sings and prays for the sick, I would like you to then break all the chains of unbelief off of people. Would you do that?
JOHN: Yes.
SID: Be right back.
