MY OWN PERSONAL TESTIMONY AS TO HEALED BY THE POWER OF GOD - Mr. Downunder from South Australia
By the time I was 41 years of age after living an alternative "hippy" lifestyle for over twenty years I was pretty much a wreck.
As a junkie I was malnourished, skinny as a garden rake, an addict to cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol and injecting mostly speed (amphetamines) and a bit of heroin from the wife at times.
When I passed urine it was the colour of coffee (blood) and I had smoker's lungs.
I was a small time crim - mostly shoplifting, buying goods that had fallen off the back of a truck, rorting the welfare system, not paying back debts I owed.
But all that changed dramatically when I was witnessed to by a man who told me about how I could have God dwelling within me by the Holy Spirit and that my life could change for the better for this.
He opened up his KJV Bible and read out many scriptures to me about being born again, being baptised in water and being baptised in the Holy Spirit; along with scriptures that believers would speak in new tongues.
The scriptures came off the page and entered my heart and I was troubled and moved by the word of God.
Eventually I got baptised by full immersion confessing my faith. Not a lot happened to me, but I continued going to this new Pentecostal church for their afternoon meetings.
I would go into the prayer room and pray for the Holy Spirit.
Then on the 1st December 1996 I did indeed receive the Holy Spirit and spoke out in tongues. What a wonderful marvellous revelation I had from Jesus as my Lord and my God.
I was that very afternoon instantly healed from cigarettes and marihuana, along with my other drug addictions. All gone in a moment, No pain. No withdrawal symptoms. It was as if I never done them before.
Alcohol I still held onto a bit believing that alcohol was OK still. But when a couple of elders explained about me possibly being a stumbling block to others the penny dropped and when I resolved not to drink anymore
suddenly I had no need to drink any alcohol.
God went on to heal my kidneys pretty soon afterwards and I was peeing without the blood. He also healed my lungs from severe bronchial scarring.
But above all else God healed my lifestyle and brought me over to his righteousness.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world,
13 awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good works.
Nick from Oz
PS: I have gone on to have many many healings and miracles over the years, but this is where it all started.