Kay Foster of California was healed in our service at Storm Lake, IA. She had severe pain due to a degenerative disk and sciatic nerve problem. After the service she testified that all pain was gone. See details on the video near the end of this article.

By Tom Shanklin

I had a wonderful time of ministry in September in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa.

I was at New Life Fellowship in Tolna, ND with Pastor Jeff Kapelle. This church has experienced revival and a move of the power of God in recent months with their “Great Awakening” meetings.

At Tolna, Sharon Walter, who I had prayed for two years previously, told me that she had been healed. At the time I prayed for her, she had just been released after spending 60 days in the hospital recovering an operation that did not go well. I had prayed for her along with her church family and then I gave her a copy of The Healing CD, which she listened to over and over again. She believes that it was the Word of God in that CD along with the prayers of God’s people that enabled her to recover from her illness. See video below:

On Sunday morning we had a wonderful time in the presence of the Lord. Both the pastor and I were unaware that I didn’t start preaching until 12:20 p.m. but the people stayed with me and we had a good time of ministry. I spoke on “The Will of God” from 2 Pet 3:9:

Pastor Jeff Kapelle

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9, KJV.

The main thrust of the message was that God is not willing that ANY should perish. In other words, it is His will for everyone on the earth to repent and to obtain salvation. It is God’s will that His message and love of forgiveness through Jesus Christ would go out and reach every single lost person. But how does our lives, our thoughts, and our actions line up with this will of God. When we are aligned with God, we will share this same vehement desire to see every man and woman, boy and girl on the face of the earth come to know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior and it will be reflected in the choices we make.

I also shared this message at a Wednesday night service at the First Church of the Nazarene in Jamestown, ND. It was a challenging message, to be sure, but it was received well in both places. I also had a home meeting with friends at Steve and Julie Nelson’s home while I was in Jamestown, where I shared about God’s redemptive plan for healing and salvation  from Isaiah 53.

Pastor Loren and Cheryl Carlson

In September, I also visited for the first time Faith Bible Christian Outreach Center in Storm Lake, Iowa, where I had a great time with Pastor Loren and Cheryl Carlson and the congregation.

In the adult Sunday School class, I spoke to a wonderfully receptive group on the subject of “Doing the Works of Jesus.” (Jn. 14:12) The Spirit of God flowed freely though the teaching of the Word of God.

Then in the Worship Service, I spoke on “The Woman with the Issue of Blood” from Mark 5:25-34. I love that story of the woman with a great need in her life who when she heard about Jesus Christ pressed through the crowd to receive a miracle. “For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.” Mark 5:28, KJV.

Tim Loraditch was healed completely of severe pain in his shoulder which he had for 6 months. His wife Jeannette was also healed of knee pain which she had for 2 years.

At that moment, it was just her and Jesus, though a great crowd of people was surrounding Him. Likewise, we need to press through the doubt and unbelief and the pressure of others that would hinder us from getting a hold of all that the Lord has for us in this life and the life to come.

There were several instant healings during our service in Storm Lake, for which I praise our great God. Kay Foster received a healing from severe pain from a degenerative disk and sciatic nerve problem. As I was videotaping her testimony, she shared that all the pain and discomfort was gone from her legs. She said, however, that she still had a dull pain in her back. So with the camera still rolling, we prayed, thanking the Lord for what He had done for her legs and commanding the pain to go from her back. We concluded the video session, but within a few minutes she came back into sanctuary rejoicing and testifying that the pain in her back was completely gone. We also got that testimony on video.

Today I read in the October edition of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Decision Magazine the testimony of a man who was raised from the dead after his pastor prayed. I have never known BGEA to report on this type of outstanding physical miracle before. Their emphasis is primarily on the miracle of salvation through the new birth. But I believe that time has come that all of us are realizing that we need the mighty hand of God to move to demonstrate to this sin-sick world that we serve a living God who raises the dead and calls those things which be not as though they were. (Rom 4:17) We cannot be satisfied with business as usual in the Church. We must let the Holy Ghost out of the box and let him do his miraculous works, giving the Lord all the glory, in Jesus mighty name.