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CanadaTHE POWER OF GODELECTRIFIES IN TORONTO“Let the preaching and the teaching of the Word be confirmed by miracles, signs, and wonders!”123With those words, Richard Roberts kicked off an explosiveMiracle Healing Rally at Queensway Cathedralin Ontario, Canada. Working together with Queensway’sPastor Billy Richard and an Oral Roberts Ministriesteam, Richard and Lindsay brought God’s healingpower to the people of Toronto.First, Lindsay encouraged those in attendance to fightthe good fight of faith, using the mighty, spiritualweapons God has given us in Christ. (See page 10 formore of this message, which Lindsay also shared in Nicaragua.)Then, in an auditorium charged with expectation,Richard took the stage to preach on the powerof God to heal.SENDING THE WORD FOR HEALINGKnowing it is important for people to build up their faithto receive healing, Richard began by teaching on God’shealing power with Psalm 107:20 nkjv, He sent His wordand healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Inhis message, Richard explained that God’s Word is designedto give health, restoration, and life to anyone whoreceives it.He then shared the story of the Roman centurion whocaused Jesus to marvel at his faith by believing Jesuswould heal his servant just by commanding it to happen.This soldier told Jesus, “I recognize Your authorityis above all authority. So you don’t have to physicallycome to my home. All you have to do is speak theword, and my aide will be healed.”HEALED IN A CLEAN SWEEPMiracles, signs, and wonders manifested mightilythroughout the Toronto crowd. Within minutes afterRichard and Lindsay began praying, a line of peoplecame forward to share how God had just healed them.Several people testified to receiving immediate healingfrom pain or other ailments. Among those who came forwardwas a woman who proclaimed, “I got a clean sweep!”She described several problems she had been having—astress fracture in her left foot, a frozen shoulder, backpain, and even cataracts. “I could hardly stand when Icame in tonight,” she shared, “but I can move now. Ihad disc problems, hip problems…It’s all gone. I caneven see better.”Another attendee’s ears were healed the moment he arrivedat the Healing Rally. Showing Richard and thecrowd his hearing aids, he said, “These two hearingaids have not been in my ears since the beginning ofthis service. It was a miracle not to use them,” he said.Perhaps the most amazing testimony of the night camefrom an older man attending the meeting with his family.Forty years earlier, he had been injured on the job,and his arm had atrophied as a result.“My shoulder and arm were bent for 40 years,” he toldthe crowd. “I couldn’t turn my arm around. Now I canbend it!” Excited, he showed everyone what he couldnow do because of God’s healing power, with his familythere to witness the miracle.471. As Richard lays his left hand on someone in prayer, as he did this man in Toronto, he often feelsthe “heat” of the Holy Spirit radiating through him for healing. 2. One woman came forward and toldhow she had experienced a “clean sweep” of healing—from a stress fracture in her left foot to a frozenshoulder, back pain and even cataracts. “It’s all gone!” she said. 3. God miraculously healed thisman’s ears as he walked into the Healing Rally. His hearing aids were no longer needed. 4. One ofthe most amazing testimonies came from a gentleman whose arm and shoulder had been bent froman injury 40 years earlier: “I couldn’t turn my arm around. Now I can bend it!” 5. In an electrifyingservice, Richard encouraged the hungry crowd to reach out and claim the miracles they needed. “Godis a healing God,” he proclaimed. “What He did in Bible days, He’s still doing these days.” 6. Not longafter Richard and Lindsay began praying for this woman and others, people came forward to sharehow God had healed them. 7. This partner from the Ontario area, Marg Parr, came to the HealingRally to seek more of God and to celebrate her testimony of stomach healing she has shared on ThePlace for Miracles TV program. 8. Richard and Lindsay lead a prayer of salvation at the altar call.56Through his faith, the soldier received exactly what heasked for. His servant was healed that very same moment.And Jesus was thrilled at the soldier’s faith, sayingin Luke 7:9 nkjv, “I have not found such great faith,not even in Israel!”The evening’s message reminded everyone that God isready and willing to pour out His healing power today,just as He promised He would in Psalm 107:20. Andby the time Richard finished sharing God’s Word, theaudience at Queensway Cathedral was ready to receivewhat God had for them.Even after the service officially closed, peoplestreamed down to the front to share how God hadhealed them that night or through another outreachof Oral Roberts Ministries…a man set free from cripplingback problems...a woman healed of skin cancer…aman whose HIV diagnosis had been medicallyreversed…and many others.As Richard noted, God is in the business of doingmiracles. “God is a healing God,” he told the Torontocrowd. “What He did in Bible days, He’s still doingthese days.” And that is truly good news!Jan/Feb/Mar 20098 8 9