TESTIMONIES

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Testimony — Joy P.
Fall Virtual Conference 2021

“We just held our fall 2021 conference, September 26-28. Art Thomas was our speaker. Wow! What a dynamic, spirit-filled speaker he is! We were so blessed that we have asked him to return for a future conference.
One of his talks was about our identity in God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. He reviewed our identity, throughout the Old and New Testament, and I learned so much!
After he finished, that night and the next morning, I was overcome by the power of our identity. I realized that all of this time, throughout my life (I accepted Jesus as my Savior when I was 12 ...), I have thought about all of us ... myself and all of you ... as people. Believers, yes, but just people. I started looking at everyone at the conference, and myself, as children of God, vessels of the Holy Spirit, sisters and brothers of Jesus, saints, and Wow! Everyone looked and sounded different, so beautiful. I am now looking at people I am with in this light, and it is so beautiful and so powerful Thank you, Art!!

I gave this as a testimony at the end of the conference and Art confirmed it with this from 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 -

"So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are, therefore, Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 

Testimony — Wayne O.

“Sunday, my wife and I felt quite at home after being prepared by multiple years at CFO and multiple church small prayer groups.
My wife, Diane, was not able to attend Monday and Tuesday as she had to be with her daughter in Los Angeles who was dealing with a very difficult family situation.

Phillip Dunn encouraged me obviously in his testimony about waiting to be healed and having faith for the right time. I perked up when he talked the Voice of Healing magazine and Gordon Lindsay. I had attended Christ for the Nations in Dallas in 1983-1985 and reaped many fruits from Gordon and Frieda's teaching and lives.

Ruth had a prayer for deliverance and I felt something life from my mind. I had been having some terrifying dreams occasionally over several months as well as tormenting rehearsal of regrets. I was a bit anxious knowing my wife would be gone for several days trying to minister to our daughter and thinking I would be even more prone to these dreams and night thoughts. I did not have those issues! I appreciated hearing comments as, Don't be Afraid, Let My Servant's eyes be Open, an old rabbi... do you believe in miracles?...I rely on them!, Rev !2:11, He will walk with us through an open door, This unrest will set the stage for a revival unlike any others, and we received personally --for a couple at the 11th hour a God-prepared answer will come from a direction you are not aware of!

Monday Night — Greg and Anita Stonestreet sharing they could not have children and then encountered Bill Reed and had their first child and I think 3 more was faith building. Hearing Scott Hinkle challenge us was like blowing the trumpet into our spirits and not to be like many denominational prayer groups that sound like they "tip toeing through the tulips in their prayers to an almighty God". Carolyn Miller during the public prayer time said that each of us are the salt and a light to the world. A question was asked "Who has God used to motivate you? Now is our time!"
Holy Spirit was in our break out session and there was only one person I knew. It was a productive time.

Tuesday Night — Phenomenal breakout session. God placed one couple and a young lady in the session who I had hoped I could meet from hearing their prayers in the previous 2 days public sessions. God showed me some specific things to pray for the lady and another man that I had no way of knowing that were beneficial. There was such an atmosphere of caring and safety and love in the group We also prayed for all of us that had issues with family/friends being so abnormally stirred up during this election time along with riots and hatred, misunderstandings-- the word was that smokescreens would be torn down and a divine restraining order issued. My wife and I are living through this right now with the majority of our family. Greg Stonestreet said my countenance on the Zoom Screen in the breakout room looked so much different that on the public screens of Sun and Monday. God had been pouring his life back into me during this time I have to say. Greg also said he has a brother named Wayne so now he has two brothers named Wayne! That sums up a highlight -- even if we did not know everyone the Holy Spirit truly made us family during the 3 nights.
Kenny and Kim Davis also played some of my favorite songs.

Great job, John and team, for causing this time to happen even though the scheduled in person meetings could not.”

Testimony — Anonymous

“During my prayer group, Anna Marie & Jack Sheffield prayed that the dagger would be removed from my heart, so that the wound could begin to heal. I realized that I had been holding on to this "hurt," and that the wound could not begin to heal until the sharp instrument was removed – as in surgery! Later, at the Experiential Workshop, Anna Marie suggested that we try hard to go further into whatever disturbing feelings we might be having. She then asked God to show us the source of these feelings. Immediately I was transported back to the night when I was 13 and my Dad came into my room, saying that he had read my diary. I experienced so much fear and panic that night that I still cannot remember what happened ... I can only remember screaming. Anna Marie then asked Jesus to come into the scene and be in that room, with me. Suddenly I saw Dad in a yellow spotlight, but growing smaller and more distant.... Jesus made it very clear to me that Dad’s feelings were a result of his having put women on a such a high pedestal that they weren't even allowed to have any curiosity about growing up and the perfectly normal feelings that we all experience during puberty. I could see that Dad was expressing his own fear and revulsion at the idea that I wasn't a little girl any more. I had felt that night, so many years ago, that I had permanently lost his love and that I was totally unacceptable, ugly and unwanted. In contrast, Jesus told me the truth: I was beautiful in His eyes, completely acceptable and loved by Him, and that my earthly father was frail and human. He had been influenced by forces (such as the Masonic Order) that had distorted his view of womanhood from what Jesus sees.... I then realized that my Dad's view of me as a "bad girl" became part of my identity during my teen years - I was not obedient to my parents and I know I missed a blessing because of that. (As they say, "Oh, to be able to go back and know what I know now!")

When I opened my eyes from that "waking vision," I suddenly realized that there were heavy iron shackles around my neck, arms, & body, held together by chains! The "exercise" was supposed to be finished, but there was more! Jesus gently touched the metal around my neck and it fell away, dissipating into the air: I was free! All of the tension that was connected with trying so hard to please everyone was released and I felt SO relaxed and wonderful!!! Finally, I felt that I was really "Okay"!!

Ever since that day, I have felt that Jesus truly loved me, and that I was worthy of love not because of what I accomplished but: "Just as I Am." Thank you, Lord, and thank you, leaders and participants in this amazing Healing Conference! I was richly blessed!!!”

- Anonymous

Testimony — Anonymous

“Just as one girl was weeping quietly because she had never seen or talked with her birth mother, a lady, not knowing why, put her arm around her, held her, and said, "Would you like me to be your mother for a little while?"

In several small group sessions led by Rev. Brad Long on the gifts of the Spirit, individuals began to receive words or visions of knowledge for others in their small group without anyone mentioning their needs.  For example, one woman saw a vision of a heart (like valentines), and another wept, because her husband was recovering from open-heart surgery.  In another group, someone saw a picture of gifts, and a woman wept violently as she confessed her uncle had given her gifts as a child as he was unkind to her.  In both cases, the small groups were able to minister Christ's love and healing.

One woman was able to experience for the first time the ability to TRUST others as her group allowed her to free fall backwards into their arms of love!  She later wrote to the Board about this experience of healing in her life.

At breakfast one Wednesday morning, one radiant lady who had come utterly exhausted, even concerned about being able to drive to the center, said, "It's been so long since I woke up feeling good!"  She had reduced her medication for panic attacks each night, and planned to ask her doctor if she could do without it.

A lady said at the Wednesday's sharing that she had been healed of fibromyalgia.

Another lady had been healed of a ruptured disc in her back at a CFO camp, and came "armed" with her pre and post healing MRI scans to give God the glory!”

— Anonymous