In November of 2006 Kathy and I traveled to Madras, India to hold a healing crusade. We were the guests of Pastor J. Jab, and his mother Patty. Patty Jab is a powerful evangelist in her own right, and I was happy to be working with a man who shared the name of one my favorite saints recorded in the canon of scripture. You see, it was the prayer of Jabez that transformed my life in the first place. (See 1 Chronicles 4:9, 10).
Jabez had invited King of Glory Ministries to come after he heard the Lord speak to him about our ministry having found us on the internet. At the same time the Lord has spoken to me that I was going to be hearing from someone from India and that I was to accept their invitation to go there because He would meet me there. I had even told Kathy that we would be getting a call from India and that we were going to be going to India soon. So when I got the phone call from a man names John Jab from India I was elated because I know that the Lord was up to something extraordinary. We were not disappointed.
I must admit that India was one of the most difficult places that I have ever sought to preach in crusade ministry. I was actually physically assaulted while I preached almost every night. On that last night of the crusade it felt as if I had been punched or stabbed in the stomach as I gave the altar call for salvation. When I returned to the USA it appeared that I had developed a hernia. I never accepted this diagnosis; however I did have the symptoms for over three years until I was sovereignty healed in the spring of 2009. I preached for several nights and there was little fruit from the meetings and only about 1500 people had answered the call for salvation even though there had been dozens of healings and miracles in the meetings.
Church as Unusual
I was asked to speak a very large church on Sunday morning and was told that there would be about 20,000 in the service. I was told that I was to perform miracles, and that I must speak for only forty minutes, and that I could not do any altar calls, I could not step off the platform and that I could not wear my shoes on the platform, and that I could not take any testimonies from those who were healed. And by the way I had to stop speaking at 10:50 and I was to perform all the miracles before 10:58 because they had to have Sunday school meetings then. All of this information was told to me about twenty minutes before the service and I was also told that the pastor of the church would not be attending the “miracle service” because he was suffering from a sore throat.
As I sat on the platform that morning in the midst of the other forty pastors from the church I was truly astonished to see about 19,000 people in attendance. They had opened the sides of the building and had set up tents on the sides. To be honestly I do not think I was a welcome speaker by some of the clergy. The reason for this was that many fell asleep and began to snore as I preached. I remembered that the Lord has said that he would meet me in India, but up to that point He was nowhere in sight and I was beginning to think that I had missed the Lord by coming. What would transpire next forever changed my life.
I began to preach on faith, the currency of Christ and the total salvation Jesus bought for us on the Cross of Calvary. I was looking at the clock as I know I did not have much time, and the interpreter seemed to take about three minutes to repeat every sentence I was preaching. At about the same moment that these thoughts entered my mind I heard a funny sound coming from behind me on the platform where the forty pastors were sitting. While the interpreter was relaying my last sentence I turned around to find the source of the sounds. I was a little astonished to see that a handful of the pastors had actually fallen asleep and were snoring. At that instant I let out a hearts cry or prayer to the Lord; “Oh precious Holy Spirit I need your help!” I noticed that a breeze began to blow into the church and ruffled the tents on the sides of the meetings.
The Grace of The Lord
I worked the sermon and sought to finish a little early with the thought of giving the Lord a little more time than ten minutes to work miracles. Something began to stir in my spirit and a Holy desperation began to pour out from me. Surely among all of the thousands of people who were here there were many who needed healing. But I would only have ten of more minutes to see the Lord touch all of the 19,000 or so on hand. “Oh, Jesus won’t you come and help me this morning” I began to think as the interpreter rambled on.
With the grace of the Lord I finished the preaching and had an extra three minutes to work the miracles. You may be thinking, why didn’t you just move directly into healing and not preach the sermon. That is a good question and the answer is that I was seeking to be obedient to the Lord as possible as He had clearly told me to preach to the people about faith and salvation. When I finished I told the people over the snores of the pastors that I was going to ask the Lord Jesus to come and release healing to everyone. I quickly told the people to place their hands of the part of their bodies that needed a miracle.
I said; “If you have a tumor put your hand on your tumor, if you have a blind eye put your hand on you blind eye, if you have a bad back touch your back, if you are deaf, or have a deaf friend place your fingers in the deaf ear, if you have a special need from God silently pray and ask Jesus to meet you at your point of need”. I then asked everyone to bow their head and close their eyes; I asked that anyone who was not sure if they were saves to pray a prayer of salvation with me. Then I began to pray and to be released to the sick.
The Angel of the Lord
Suddenly I saw what I can only describe as a explosion of light in the far back left side of the church and immediately I was aware that the power of God had just entered the church and the Lord was about to do something spectacular! Unexpectedly my body burst into a series of pains and symptoms of sickness. The first thing that happened was that I went blind for a second or two, and I began to declare; “Jesus is here to heal blind eyes!” When I said this there was screams that seemed to come from the back corner where I had seen the blast of light.
When my vision returned I looked back in that corner of the church I saw the Angel of the Lord! I saw Jesus step into the sanctuary! He was wearing a white robe and a talite with blue and gold trim over His head. Jesus was walking from the back left corner of the church towards the platform! I could see that the Lord was touching people on the heads. And as He touched the people many would faint or scream. I kept feeling explosions of pains, or what some call “empathetic words of knowledge”, shooting through my body. Each time I felt a symptom I would call it out and it seemed that healing and miracles were exploding throughout the church. People began to scream and fall over. I no longer waited for the interpreter to catch my words as I knew that the Lord was now moving sovereignty in our midst. (See John 5:17).
I continued to watch as Jesus slowly walked through the entire crowd of about 19,000 touching various individuals. Jesus walked from my left to the right and when he got to the middle of the crowd he turned his direction a little and walked right to the right hand corner of the church touching people every step of the way. I continued to call out healing after healing. It seemed that as Jesus touched each person I had a “knowing” of what He was doing and would simply declare the healing. “Someone’s foot is growing; several deaf ears just popped open, a tumor on the breast just dissolved, several people with skin conditions are being cleansed, another blind eye just opened” I went on, and on like this for about ten minutes.
Nations Through the Internet
When Jesus reached a place near the front right side of the platform He stopped for a moment and turned to the platform. Jesus smiled at me. It was such a sweet smile. In an instant I remembered his words to me in Newfoundland, and in Tanzania; “I am going to open the nations to you and you will preach my Word with power, and know that I will be with you always.” For just a split second I wanted to jump down and run to fall at the Lord’s feet, but I knew that He wanted me to minister to the people. I was crying, and I was in a state of ecstasy in the same instant!
The Little Children
By now people all over the church were standing and falling and weeping and all sorts of commotions were taking place, except behind me on the platform where several of the pastors continued to sleep soundly and snore. I watched as Jesus slowly walked to the right hand corner of the church and slowly strolled out of the building touching on last child that ran up to gaze up at Him. Jesus reached out with His left hand and patted the boy on the head and then He disappeared.
I looked at the clock and estimated that Jesus had been in the church for about ten minutes. I have often wondered what would have happened if the leadership would have allotted more than “ten minutes to work miracles”? I asked for everyone to sit down and to listen to me carefully. I told them if they had been healed to stand to their feet. To my amazement about 17,000 people stood up. I told the people to sit back down, and listen to me very carefully. I said; “Only stand up if you are 100% certain that you have been healed of your sickness. If your tumor is gone, check for the tumor, check your deaf ear, check your blind eye make sure that you are hearing and seeing, check you bad back, check to see if your fingers or toes or feet actually grew back make sure that are certain that you are healed. If you are sure that you have been healed stand to your feet.” Again about 15,000 people stood up!
Again I told the congregation to sit back down and listen to me very very carefully; “Only stand up if you are 100% certain that you have been healed of your sickness. If your tumor is gone, check for the tumor, check your deaf ear, check your blind eye make sure that you are hearing and seeing, check you bad back, check to see if your fingers or toes or feet actually grew back make sure that are sure that you are healed. If you are sure that you have been healed stand to your feet. Do not stand up unless you are 100% sure that you can prove you have been healed.” This time about 12,000 people stood to their feet! I said let’s give Jesus Christ a great shout of praise for the healings He has just done! The congregation with one accord lifted up a great shout and praise to the Lord. It seemed at that moment that the earth literally shook and the praise lasted for about two minutes until I asked them to stop shouting and praising the Lord. (I only had two minutes left before Sunday school was due to start.).
Dance Like David
I pivoted supernaturally on my right foot like a spinning top and began to point at each pastor on the platform in turn. By now they had been aroused from their slumber and were wondering what on earth was happening? I went down the row and told the people who had been healed, all 12,000 or so to come to the pastors in person and to tell the pastors exactly what Jesus had just done for them, to give their testimonies. The pastors were all now wide eyed and did not know what to think. I turned that each pastor had several hundred people who they were responsible to oversee and shepherd, so it seemed that this last minute plan to glorify Jesus for His miracles would work out great.
My time was up! I walked off the platform and motioned to Jabez to take me to the hotel. I wanted to fall on my face and praise the Lord privately giving Him thanks for the mighty miracles he did in Madras that morning. I invested the rest of the morning praising God. Kathy and I told our guests that we wanted to rest the next day and did not wish to be disturbed. Jab continued to call about every two or three hours. He was very excited. The people had begun to come to the pastors immediately after the service as I had asked to report their healings. The pastors were astonished. Jabez would call and report another powerful miracle about every two hours.
Later that night he told me that many people who were blind were healed. I asked; “you mean people who wore glasses of do you mean people were totally blind.” He said; “Brother Kevin, I mean that they were totally blind; there are many blind that were healed.” I asked Jabez how he knew and he said that they are coming to give the pastors the testimonies, and he said that the blind all sat in the back corner of the church together and many were healed”. I asked; “Which corner did the blind sit in.” Jabez said; “In the back left corner from the platform.”
That was the place I had seen the Angel of The Lord step into the room. Jab went on; “Brother Kevin the pastors are amazed there are hundreds of people coming to them giving all kinds of testimonies. There are deaf who can hear, one man’s foot grew back, another woman who is a famous singer has had her back healed, she has had serious back surgery but she is totally healed, many tumors have disappeared, and the people are still coming to the pastors. They have been coming all day. We need to get all of these testimonies.” I laughed and told Jab thanks, we decided to have lunch the next day before we flew out to Goa.
The Lord in His sovereignty had met me at my point of weakness and in my weakness His strength was made perfect. Kathy and I flew to Goa for a much needed rest as we had been traveling extensively that year and wanted to take a break before we got back on another airplane for an international flight. We checked into our hotel in Goa and decided to take a walk by the ocean. It was a beautiful sunny day and we enjoyed each other’s company. We were also talking about the fantastic miracles and healings the Lord had done the past Sunday. It still boggles my mind. We enjoyed our stroll and stopped to have a cool refreshing drink in the restaurant before returning to the room. When we walked into the room the phone rang almost immediately. I looked at Kathy and shrugged saying; “Saying who on earth could that be.”
I answered the phone and it was Pastor Jab! He was very excited and said; “Brother Kevin you must come back to Madras! The Pastors they all want you to come back, the Lord has done marvelous things! They are all astonished, the people have continued to come and they are still getting the testimonies every day, they really want you to come back.” Again I chuckled at Jab and asked when they wanted us to come back. Jabez said; “Now! They want you to come back right now!” I told Jabez that we could not comeback so quickly, but in hind sight perhaps we should have cancelled our reservations and returned, but Kathy and I both felt the mission in Madres had been completed when The Angel of the Lord appeared. After a few too short days we returned home to Kansas City. We have told Jab that we would return another time when the Holy Spirit told us to return, but that appointed time has not come as of this writing.
Need More Money
We had been in Kansas City about two days when the phone rang. It was our friend Jab he said; “Brother Kevin you have to come back to Madras. It is amazing what the Lord has done we are still getting the testimonies, some of the pastors are a little upset that they cannot get any work done because too many people continue to come to them with testimonies. It is really amazing. We must document these healings; can you help us to do that”? We agreed to help Jabez and send some funds to record the testimonies on video, and Jab set up a day to shoot the testimonies, as of this writing we have not received these video testimonies, but Jab told us that hundreds of people attended the meeting to have their testimonies recorded. Perhaps we will return to Madras again, although I really doubt it? But. we will pray about that too.
Prayer of Activation:
Lord you know my heart. Help me to see and to discern You and Your Kingdom each and everyday of my life. Help me to draw closer to you Lord. Keep me from evil and help me to walk in the victory that You purchased for me on the Cross of Calvary. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen.
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