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FAST AND PRAY

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This Is Part 1 OF A 3 PART SERIES ON THE MINISTRY OF FASTING AND PRAYER  

PART 1 SHARES DENIS`S OWN AMAZING INTRODUCTION TO A LIFE OF FASTING & PRAYER.

PART 2 SHARES THE AWESOME AND ABSOLUTELY STAGGERING TESTIMONY OF YOUNG KEN CANTRELL WHICH HAD SUCH A LIFE-CHANGING EFFECT ON DENIS.

PART 3 IS A BIBLICAL TEACHING ON FASTING AND ANSWERED PRAYER BASED ON 40 YEARS OF FASTING EXPERIENCES FROM SHORT FASTS OF UP TO 10 DAYS TO FASTS OF 40 DAYS AND MORE.

IN PART 3YOU WILL FIND MANY PERSONAL TIPS, HELPS AND EXPERIENCES FROM DENIS` OWN LIFE; AND ALSO FASTING TEACHINGS FROM THE MINISTRY OF REV. FRANKLIN HALL, AUTHOR OF MANY BOOKS ON FASTINGS, WHICH CAN HELP YOU AS YOU SEEK TO SERVE YAHWEH IN FASTINGS AND PRAYER.

A NEGLECTED TEACHING

ONE OF THE GREATEST TEACHINGS OF THE WORD OF YAHWEH SELDOM EVER EXPOUNDED ON IN THE ECCLESSIA IN THIS MODERN AGE IS THAT OF `FASTING`.. INDEED FEW THERE ARE OF THE SERVANTS OF ELOHIM WHO HAVE EVER FASTED 1 OR 2 DAYS, LET ALONE A PROPHET-LENGTH FAST OF 21-40 DAYS.

IT SEEMS THE 21ST. CENTURY `CHURCH` IS MORE INTERESTED IN BURGER BREAKFASTS AND CHICKEN SUPPERS THAN FASTING PRAYERS.

ONE OF THE GREATEST SINS OF 20/21ST CENTURY BELIEVERS IS GLUTTONY. ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM GENES TO GERMOLINE IS BLAMED FOR FAT BELLIES AND BLOCKED INTESTINES !! .. FOOD GLUTTONY IS NEVER BLAMED.

THE `CHURCH`IS NO DIFFERENT THAN THE WORLD WHEN IT COMES TO GLUTTONY. FOR, AS SOON AS THEY WEAR OUT THE SET OF TEETH NATURE GAVE THEM, BY MUNCHING THROUGH A LIFETIME OF GLUTTONY, THEY ARE QUICKLY OFF TO THE  DENTIST  TO ACQUIRE AN ARTIFICIAL PAIR TO FINISH OFF THE JOB.

VERY FEW IT SEEMS ARE INTERESTED ENOUGH OR COMPASSIONATE ENOUGH FOR A HURTING WORLD TO SEEK THE FACE OF YAHWEH BY ENTERING INTO A 40 DAY FAST IN  ORDER  TO RECEIVE THE ANOINTING THAT SHATTERS THE YOKES OF DOUBT AND UNBELIEF, SICKNESS AND DISEASE, INFIRMITIES AND DEMONIC POSSESSION THAT HOLDS FAST THE LIVES OF BROKEN MANKIND IN FETTERS AND CHAINS.

INDEED IF ONE WAS TO ATTEND THE `PRAYER MEETINGS` OF MANY `CHURCHES` TODAY, ONE WOULD NOT BE AT ALL SURPRISED TO HEAR PRAYERS ON BEHALF OF THE SICK AND SUFFERING POURED OUT IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER...`LORD, WE KNOW YOU CAN HEAL THE SICK...WE KNOW YOU ARE ABLE...ETC` BUT THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PRAYER IS OFFERED IS SO FULL OF UNBELIEF, DOUBT AND FAITHLESSNESS...IT IS AS IF THE SUPPLICANT IS REALLY SAYING, ...`BUT LORD, WE KNOW YOU WON`T HEAL THE SICK...WE KNOW YOU ARE UNABLE..` THE LEVEL OF UNBELIEF IS SO GREAT THAT A HEAVY  CLOUD  OF DESPONDENCY IS TANGIBLY FELT IN THESE GATHERINGS, AND NO ONE EVER COMES OUT OF SUCH `PRAYER MEETINGS` WITH A QUICKENED SPIRIT OR JOYOUS SPRING IN THEIR STEPS OR WITH `MOUNTAIN-MOVING FAITH.` .. BUT OFTEN THEY WILL QUESTION EACH OTHER "DO YOU THINK GOD WILL REALLY HEAL `BROTHER SO AND SO` OR `SISTER SO AND SO ?` ...

AND IF PERCHANCE ONE DESPERATE, SEEKING SOUL BEGINS TO CRY OUT IN ANGUISH OF HIS BEING TO YAHWEH WITH VEHEMENT TEARS, ON BEHALF OF SUFFERING, DYING MANKIND, EVEN HIS PENTECOSTAL OR CHARISMATIC BROTHERS WILL CONSIDER AMONG THEMSELVES THAT SUCH AN ONE HAS TRULY TAKEN LEAVE OF HIS SENSES, AND LIKE THE ANCIENT HEBREW PROPHETS HE WILL VERY SOON FIND HIMSELF CUT-OFF AND OSTRACISED FROM FELLOWSHIP.

WHAT THEN IS THE ANSWER TO SUCH DOUBT AND FAITHLESSNESS?

IS THERE A SOLUTION FOR SUCH UNBELIEF?

INDEED THERE IS, YAHWEH BE PRAISED, FOR YAHSHUA IN THE BESORAH REVEALED TO HIS TALMIDIM WHO EXPERIENCED THE SAME LEVEL OF FAITHLESSNESS IN PRAYER (EVEN AFTER THEIR EARLY COMMISSION) THAT THERE IS NOT ONLY A REASON FOR THIS LEVEL OF UNBELIEF BUT ALSO A CURE.

AND AFTER HIS TALMIDIM CAME TO HIM SECRETLY IN SHAME, HUNGRY FOR THE ANSWER, YAHSHUA REVEALED TO THEM THE CURE FOR THEIR UNBELIEF.

AS A YOUNG MAN IN MY EARLY TWENTIES, OVER 50  YEARS AGO, ELOHIM REVEALED TO ME THROUGH PRECIOUS SERVANTS OF YAHWEH THE ANSWER TO SUCH DOUBT, PRIDE AND UNBELIEF IN MY OWN YOUNG HEART, AND AFTER IMMEDIATELY APPLYING THE CURE THE ANSWER CAME IN SUCH A FORCEFUL AND LIFE-CHANGING MANNER THAT MY MINISTRY AND LIFE WAS TRULY NEVER THE SAME AGAIN.

MY LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE

LET ME SHARE WITH SIMPLE HONESTY THIS LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE THAT I WENT THROUGH THAT TOTALLY AND RADICALLY CHANGED MY OWN MINISTRY AND WHICH FOREVER COMPLETELY SHATTERED THE UNBELIEF THAT WAS IN MY OWN HEART THAT I DID NOT EVEN REALISE WAS THERE AND BIRTHED WITHIN MY VERY SOUL A FAITH IN THE MIRACULOUS THAT IS AS STRONG AND POWERFUL TODAY AS IT WAS ON THAT FATEFUL DAY MANY YEARS AGO.

AS A YOUNG MAN IN MY VERY EARLY TWENTIES, LIVING IN ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, IN THE LATE 1960`s, I WAS A MEMBER OF THE `CHRISTIAN BRETHREN`MOVEMENT, AND WAS INVITED TO ATTEND AN APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL PRAYER MEETING BY A YOUNG FRIEND. THIS FRIEND TOLD ME THAT THE PRAYER MEETING WAS TO BE PRECEDED BY A DAY OF FASTING AND WOULD I LIKE TO JOIN IN THE DAY OF FASTING. I AGREED.

AT EVENING TIME, AFTER WORK, ON THE WAY TO THE PRAYER MEETING, AND AFTER HAVING FASTED SINCE 10.00PM THE PREVIOUS NIGHT I PASSED A FISH & CHIP SHOP.

THE LOVELY AROMA FROM THE CHIP SHOP WAS SO OVERPOWERING THAT I RETRACED MY STEPS, WENT IN AND, HORROR OF HORRORS, BOUGHT MYSELF SOME FISH AND CHIPS. I MUST CONFESS THAT I TRULY DID ENJOY THIS `FISH SUPPER`, ALBEIT WITH QUITE A MEASURE OF GUILT.

LATER ON AT THE APOSTOLIC PRAYER MEETING I HEARD THESE DEAR FOLKS PRAYING AND CALLING TO ELOHIM IN SUCH FERVENCY AND FAITH THAT I KNEW THAT THEY HAD AN EXPERIENCE FROM YAHWEH THAT I DID NOT HAVE. THERE WAS SUCH ANOINTING, SUCH POWER IN THEIR PRAYERS.

NEVERTHELESS, IT DID NOT SEEM TO STRIKE ME THAT THEIR FASTINGS WAS THE FOUNDATION TO THEIR LEVEL OF FAITH.

AFTER THAT EXPERIENCE OF FAILING TO FAST LONG ENOUGH TIL PRAYER-TIME, THERE WAS CREATED IN MY HEART THE THOUGHT THAT FASTING WASN`T FOR ME AND PERHAPS NOT EVEN FOR THE BELIEVERS OF TODAY; THIS WAS STRENGTHENED BY OTHERS TELLING ME THAT SINCE JESUS FASTED 40 DAYS THERE WAS THEREFORE NO NEED FOR US TO DO LIKEWISE.

I BELIEVE NOW THAT A SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF AND PRIDE HAD TAKEN UP RESIDENCE IN MY BEING ALTHOUGH I WAS UNAWARE OF IT AT THE TIME.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IN MY FOOLISHNESS I EVEN WENT AS FAR AS PREACHING SERMONS DECLARING THAT "SINCE WE HAVE RECEIVED THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST TO MINISTER THE THINGS OF GOD, THERE IS NO NEED FOR US TO FAST IN THE 20TH. CENTURY."

O HOW DARK AND FOOLISH OUR MINDS CAN BECOME. HOW FULL OF PRIDE AND UNBELIEF AND YET NOT KNOW IT. AND HOW GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE IS THE ELOHIM WHOM WE SERVE WHO IN LOVE PERMITS SUCH FOOLISHNESS TIL WE COME TO MATURITY.

2 YEARS AFTER THE ABOVE EXPERIENCE, I FOUND MYSELF LIVING AND WORKING IN READING, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND.

I WAS EMPLOYED AT THE TIME AS A CONFECTIONER IN A LOCAL BAKERY FIRM AND ATTENDED AN INDEPENDENT PENTECOSTAL FELLOWSHIP CALLED, `MOUNT EPHRAIM CHURCH OF GOD` AND PASTORED BY A VERY DEAR AND GRACIOUS, BROTHER BURNETT.

THE FELLOWSHIP HAD BEEN GREATLY USED OF GOD IN THE LATE 1950`S WHEN A MIGHTY REVIVAL OF `TEDDY BOY` CONVERTS HAD TAKEN PLACE AND MANY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WERE BROUGHT TO SAVING GRACE THROUGH THE WORK AND MINISTRY OF PASTOR BURNETT AND HIS DEAR WIFE SISTER BURNETT.

THE PASTOR AND HIS WIFE WERE ALSO FOLLOWERS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE REV. FRANKLIN HALL OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, WHOSE MANY BOOKS ON FASTING HAD STIRRED A MIGHTY HEALING REVIVAL AMONG THE HEALING EVANGELISTS OF THE LATE 1940`s.

WILLIAM BRANHAM, T.L. OSBORNE, ORAL ROBERTS, TOMMY HICKS, A.A.ALLEN, JACK COE, KATHRYN KUHLMAN AND OUR OWN BRIAN WILLIAMS OF ENGLAND WERE AMONG THE MANY HEALING EVANGELISTS OF THAT ERA AND LATER, WHO HAD READ, DEVOURED AND PRACTISED THE FASTING TEACHINGS OF REV. FRANKLIN HALL.

IT WAS DURING MY 6 MONTHS IN THIS PRECIOUS FELLOWSHIP THAT THIS LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE OF MINE TOOK PLACE.

AN OLDER BROTHER IN THE FELLOWSHIP NAMED FRANK CAME TO MY DOOR ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN LATE AUTUMN 1971 AND SAID THAT

"GOD HAS ASKED ME TO GIVE YOU THIS LEAFLET AND WANTS YOU TO READ IT" .

FRANK WAS AN EXTREMELY QUIET BROTHER, VERY NERVOUS AND UNSURE OF HIMSELF AT THE BEST OF TIMES, AND ALWAYS DISPLAYED AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND I CONSIDERED RIGHT AWAY THAT IT MUST HAVE TAKEN A LOT OUT OF HIM TO OBEY THIS `LEADING OF THE LORD` AND THAT HE MUST BE ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED THAT HE HEARD THE LORD TELLING HIM TO COME AND KNOCK ON MY DOOR AND I KINDLY ACCEPTED THE OFFER OF THE LEAFLET.

I INVITED BROTHER FRANK IN, BUT BEING THE VERY SHY PERSON THAT HE WAS, HE DECLINED. AND SO I WENT INSIDE TO READ IT.

WITHIN 2 MINUTES OF READING THAT LEAFLET I WAS ON MY KNEES WEEPING BEFORE ELOHIM, SEEKING HIS FORGIVENESS FOR THE PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNISED PRIDE IN MY HEART AND AFFIRMING A DEEPER DEDICATION AND CONSECRATION OF MY LIFE TO HIM.

THE LEAFLET WAS PUBLISHED BY REV. FRANKLIN HALL AND TOLD THE AMAZING STORY OF A YOUNG AMERICAN SAILOR BOY WHO ESCAPED ALIVE FROM THE MIDST OF A BURNING HELL CAUSED BY AN EXPLOSION ABOARD THE U.S.S. LAKE CHAMPLAIN AIRCRAFT CARRIER 18 YEARS EARLIER IN AUTUMN 1953.

KEN CANTRELL, AFTER BEING DIVINELY LED TO FAST 21 DAYS, EXPERIENCED ON THE 17TH DAY OF HIS `WATER-ONLY` FAST AN EXPERIENCE AKIN TO THAT OF DANIEL`S 3 FRIENDS, SHADRACH, MESACH AND ABEDNEGO IN THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE...AND SURVIVED!!!

THE STORY IS SO BREATHTAKING THAT WERE IT NOT DOCUMENTED ONE COULD HARDLY BELIEVE SUCH A THING COULD TRULY OCCUR. BUT IT DID!!!

THAT SATURDAY AFTERNOON AS I READ THIS AMAZING STORY, I WAS SHOWN BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD THAT MY YEARS OF RESISTANCE AND OBJECTIONS TO FASTINGS WERE NOTHING BUT SELFISH AND STINKING PRIDE AND I IMMEDIATELY REPENTED WITH TRUE, DEEP, HEART-FELT SORROW FOR GRIEVING THE LORD IN THIS ATROCIOUS MANNER.

I THEN FELT STRONGLY COMPELLED IN A WAY I HAD NEVER BEEN, TO IMMEDIATELY ENTER INTO A 5 DAY FAST, DRINKING ONLY WATER, THIS ALTHOUGH I WAS WORKING IN A BAKERY DOING HEAVY WORK AND WORKING VERY LONG HOURS, RISING AT 04.00AM EACH MORNING AND HAVING TO WALK ALMOST 2 MILES TO WORK EACH DAY.

AMAZINGLY, I FELT NO HUNGER PANGS AS I ENTERED THE FAST, AND ON THE FULL 2ND. DAY OF THE FAST, TUESDAY EVENING, I WAS AT PASTOR BURNETT`S HOUSE ATTENDING THE WEEKLY PRAYER MEETING. DURING PRAYER TIME PASTOR BURNETT RECEIVED AN URGENT CALL TO ATTEND TO ONE OF HIS FLOCK IN MAIDENHEAD (A TOWN A FEW MILES FROM READING) WHO WAS QUITE ILL AND DESPERATELY NEEDED PRAYER.

AS PASTOR AND SISTER BURNETT AND 2 ELDERS LEFT TO GO, SISTER BURNETT TURNED BACK AND SAID, "BROTHER DENIS, WILL YOU COME WITH US?". I WAS TRULY AMAZED AT THIS REQUEST AS SISTER BURNETT WHO WAS A VERY LOVING, CARING, `MOTHER` OF THE CHURCH, NEVERTHELESS WAS A VERY STERN AND STRICT LADY AND NORMALLY WOULD NEVER CONSIDER TAKING A NOVICE ON A PRAYER MISSION.

HUMBLY AND QUIETLY I REPLIED"YES".

(Below : SISTER BURNETT WITH JOHN FRANKLIN, CHURCH MEMBER... 1971)

I SAT AT THE BACK OF THE MINIBUS ON THE JOURNEY WHILE THE OTHERS ALL SAT UP FRONT. I PRAYED, "LORD, I DON`T KNOW WHY SISTER BURNETT HAS ASKED ME ALONG, BUT IF YOU WANT ME TO PRAY FOR THIS SICK LADY WE ARE VISITING, PLEASE, ANOINT MY HANDS FOR THE HEALING OF THE SICK." I HELD MY HANDS UP BEFORE THE LORD IN PRAYER AS I SAID THIS.

JUST A QUIET, NERVOUS PRAYER OF A YOUNG LAD.

AN AWESOME ENCOUNTER

WE ARRIVED AND ENTERING INTO THE HOME, WERE USHERED UPSTAIRS BY FAMILY MEMBERS AND THERE LYING ON A BED AND WEEPING WAS A LITTLE INDIAN LADY. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HER AND NEITHER THE PASTOR NOR HIS WIFE TOLD ME. PASTOR BURNETT AND HIS TEAM PRAYED OVER THE LADY FOR SOME TIME AND THEN SISTER BURNETT TURNED TO ME AND IN A COMMANDING VOICE SAID,

"BROTHER DENIS, PRAY FOR THIS SISTER". WELL, TO SAY I WAS SHOCKED AND SURPRISED AT THIS REQUEST WOULD BE A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT. I HAD NEVER PRAYED PUBLICLY FOR ANYONE TO BE HEALED BEFORE, AND CERTAINLY NEVER IN THE PRESENCE OF A PASTOR OR SISTER BURNETT WHO AS I SAID WAS VERY STERN.

THIS, REMEMBER, WAS THE EVENING OF THE 2ND. DAY OF MY FAST. I APPROACHED THE BED-SIDE AND GENTLY LAID MY HANDS ON THE HEAD OF THE SICK LADY. THAT VERY INSTANT SOMETHING STRUCK ME LIKE A MILLION VOLTS OF ELECTRICITY. I FELT MY WHOLE BODY, FROM THE CROWN OF MY HEAD TO THE SOLES OF MY FEET SHAKING LIKE A LEAF IN A MIGHTY HURRICANE. NEVER BEFORE HAD I EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THIS.

NEXT MOMENT A GREAT MIST OF DARKNESS ENVELOPED ME, AND ALTHOUGH MY EYES WERE OPEN I DID NOT SEE PASTOR OR SISTER BURNETT OR THE ELDERS. THEN AS THE MIST CLEARED I COULD NOW SEE THE SICK LADY ONLY BUT SHE APPEARED AS IF SHE WAS SUSPENDED IN THE AIR, FOR I COULD NOT SEE HER BED.

AS I LOOKED AT THE FORM OF THIS LADY, I THEN SAW SOMETHING WHICH QUITE ASTONISHED ME, FOR SITTING, CROUCHED, HEAD DOWN AND ON THE LOWER PART OF THE LADY`S STOMACH, WITH IT`S TALONS EMBEDDED IN THE LADY`S FLESH WAS WHAT I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE AS A DEMON SPIRIT. I WAS ASTONISHED BECAUSE I HAD BEEN TAUGHT IN CHURCH THAT DEMONS CANNOT AFFLICT CHRISTIANS. THIS DEMON WAS ABOUT 2 FEET IN HEIGHT, HAD SHARP FACIAL FEATURES AND WAS MONKEY-LIKE IN APPEARANCE.

IT STRUCK ME THAT THIS DEMON WAS TOTALLY UNAWARE OF THE IMPASSIONED PRAYERS OF PASTOR BURNETT AND HIS TEAM ON BEHALF OF THIS SICK LADY. AS I CONSIDERED THIS THERE AROSE WITHIN ME A DEEPLY RIGHTEOUS ANGER AT THIS DEMON, FOR I CONSIDERED THAT THIS DEMON HAD NO RIGHT TO AFFLICT THIS LADY AS SHE WAS A CHILD OF GOD. I OPENED MY MOUTH TO SPEAK TO THE DEMON AND SOMETHING SO STRANGE HAPPENED. I KNOW THAT I VOCALISED THE WORDS BUT IT SEEMS THAT THE VOICE OF ALMIGHTY GOD SPOKE THROUGH MY VOCAL CORDS TO THIS DEMON.

I HEARD THIS AWESOME AND AUTHORATATIVE VOICE ADDRESSING THE DEMON, "THOU FOUL UNCLEAN SPIRIT, YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO PUT YOUR FOUL DISEASE ON THIS WOMAN. THIS WOMAN IS A CHILD OF GOD. I REBUKE YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AND COMMAND YOU TO TAKE YOUR FOUL DISEASE OFF THIS WOMAN NOW !!."

AS THESE WORDS RANG OUT, THE DEMON SUDDENLY LOOKED UP AT ME, LOCKING IT`S EYES WITH MINE AND WITH SUCH A LOOK OF ASTONISHMENT ON IT`S FACE, IT`S JAW LITERALLY DROPPED WITH SHOCK AND SURPRISE. INSTANTLY IT WITHDREW IT`S TALONS FROM THE LADY`S BODY AND IMMEDIATELY FELL BACKWARDS. THE NEXT MOMENT IT BOUNDED FORWARD, LEAPING OVER THE LADY`S HEAD AND IN KANGAROO-LIKE FASHION LEAPED AND BOUNDED INTO THE DISTANCE AHEAD AND DISAPPEARED.

THEN, AS IF FROM SOMEWHERE FAR, FAR AWAY, I COULD HEAR SOMEONE CALLING ME; AS I LISTENED I REALIZED IT WAS THE VOICE OF SISTER BURNETT, "IT`S OK, BROTHER DENIS, IT`S OK, BROTHER DENIS, YOU CAN STOP PRAYING FOR THIS LADY NOW". HER VOICE SEEMED QUITE STERN.

AS I CAME OUT OF THE TRANCE-LIKE VISION I COULD FEEL SISTER BURNETT TAPPING ME ON THE SHOULDER AND I QUIETLY STOOD UP AND MOVED AWAY FROM THE BED. THEN I BECAME AWARE OF THE VOICE OF THE LITTLE INDIAN LADY SAYING OVER AND OVER...

"JESUS HEALED ME, JESUS HEALED ME".

AS I STOOD WATCHING THESE THINGS UNFOLD I REALIZED THAT WHEN I CAME OUT OF THE TRANCE I HAD BEEN KNEELING WITH MY HANDS LAID ON THE LOWER PART OF THE LADY`S STOMACH. THIS PUZZLED ME IMMENSELY FOR I KNEW THAT WHEN I WENT TO PRAY OVER HER I HAD BEEN STANDING NEAR THE TOP OF THE BED WITH MY HANDS ON HER HEAD. I COULD NOT RECALL MOVING FROM MY STANDING POSITION NEAR HER HEAD TO A KNEELING POSITION NEAR HER STOMACH AND I CONCLUDED THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD MUST HAVE SO MOVED ME DURING THE TRANCE-LIKE EXPERIENCE.

THE NEXT MOMENT A WHITE MAN ENTERS THE ROOM AND LOOKING AT US, REMARKS,

"I AM A DOCTOR AND THIS LADY IS MY PATIENT AND I NEED TO EXAMINE HER".

WE ARE THEN ALL USHERED DOWNSTAIRS AND I SIT DOWN ON A SOFA, FACING THE DOOR. AFTER A FEW MINUTES THE DOCTOR COMES DOWNSTAIRS, LIFTS A TELEPHONE FROM THE WALL, RINGS THE HOSPITAL TO CANCEL AN AMBULANCE WHICH HAD BEEN ARRANGED TO TAKE THE LADY TO HOSPITAL. HE THEN PICKS UP HIS HAT, DONS IT AND NODDING HIS HEAD TO ME, EXITS THE HOUSE.

DIVINE DELIVERANCE

THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY, THE LITTLE INDIAN LADY ARRIVED AT CHURCH WITH HER FAMILY AND A HUGE BASKETFUL OF FRUITS TO GIVE TO THE CONGREGATION AS A THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR HER DIVINE DELIVERANCE AND TOTAL HEALING. I WAS THEN TOLD THAT THE SISTER HAD BEEN SUFFERING FROM SEVERE HAEMMORAGING, WAS, UNDERSTANDABLY, VERY WEAK AND HAD BEEN SCHEDULED TO GO INTO HOSPITAL. YAHSHUA IN HIS INFINITE GRACE AND MERCY HAD MET HER NEED OF HEALING THAT WEEK.

HE MET MINE OF UNBELIEF AND PRIDE AND THUS PERFORMED 2 GREAT MIRACLES.

NOT LONG AFTER THIS EXPERIENCE I MOVED FROM READING TO SOUTH LONDON.

THE NEXT TIME I SAW THAT DEAR LADY WAS ALMOST 12 YEARS LATER (1983) IN SOUTHALL, WEST LONDON, WHERE MY WIFE AND I HAD AT THAT TIME ACCEPTED THE CALL TO THE PASTORATE OF THE SOUTHALL ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH.

SHE AND HER DEAR HUSBAND HAD MOVED TO SOUTHALL IN 1973 AND WERE NOW LIVING NEAR TO OUR CHURCH AND STILL FERVENTLY TESTIFYING TO HER INSTANTANEOUS HEALING OF 1971 AND CONTINUED TO DO SO UNTIL 30 YEARS AFTER HER HEALING WHEN SHE WENT HOME TO BE WITH YAHSHUA JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO.

Below : Sister Pritto Jitto many years after her healing .....

INCIDENTALLY, ONE OF HER SONS, PETER, WHO WAS A VERY YOUNG BOY AT THE TIME OF HIS MOTHER`S HEALING, LATER ON BECAME A DEACON OF OUR CHURCH IN SOUTHALL AND THEN RECEIVED SUCH A PRECIOUS ANOINTING OF GOD THAT HE HIMSELF BECAME A PASTOR. ANOTHER SON, ASHOK WHO WAS INSTANTLY HEALED THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF AMERICAN EVANGELIST REV. DON STEWART OF AN 18 YEARS LONG-STANDING KIDNEY DISEASE, IS A WELL-KNOWN GOSPEL SINGER, AND ALL HER CHILDREN DEVOUT FOLLOWERS OF YAHSHUA.

HER DEAR HUSBAND, BROTHER JITTU RAM AND FAMILY STILL TELL OF THE WONDERFUL HEALING YAHSHUA PROVIDED.

Below : Sister Pritto Jitto (many years after her healing) with one of her granchildren, Shadrach, in the arms of Pastor Denis and Sister Polly his wife. Also, extreme left, friend and church member, Brother Fred Masih.

DURING OUR MANY YEARS AMONGST THE ASIAN COMMUNITY OF WEST LONDON WE WERE DEEPLY PRIVILEGED TO SEE YAHSHUA DO MANY WONDERFUL AND OUTSTANDING HEALINGS AND MIRACLES AMONGST THE PEOPLES WHO ARE FROM A CHRISTIAN, HINDU, SIKH AND MOSLEM BACKGROUND.

THERE ARE MANY IN THE ASIAN COMMUNITY WHO CAN TESTIFY TO THE AWESOME HEALING POWER OF OUR BLESSED YASHUA AS HE MOVED AMONG THEM, DURING THOSE WONDERFUL YEARS, AND HIS POWER IS JUST THE SAME TODAY FOR ALL PEOPLES.

THAT FIRST FASTING EXPERIENCE SOME YEARS EARLIER IN 1971 WAS A VERY DEEP LEARNING TIME FOR ME FOR I KNEW THAT PRIDE HAD TO BE REMOVED FROM HEARTS IN ORDER THAT ELOHIM CAN USE US. FASTING NEEDS TO BE A PART AND PARCEL OF THE HEALING MINISTRY SO THAT THE ANOINTING CAN BE POURED INTO AN EMPTY-OF-SELF VESSEL, FOR IN MANY CASES OF SICKNESS AND DISEASE....

"THIS KIND COMETH NOT OUT EXCEPT BY FASTING AND PRAYER".

AMEN

THE PROFOUND TESTIMONY OF KEN CANTRELL THAT CHANGED MY LIFE IS FOUND ON OUR WEB-PAGE

`FAST AND PRAY :PART 2`

YOUR HEART AND SOUL WILL SURELY THRILL WITH JOY AND PRAISE TO YAHWEH AS YOU READ OF BRO. CANTRELL`S AMAZING DELIVERANCE.

AND MAY YOU TOO, AS YOU READ HIS AWESOME STORY FIND, LIKE ME, SUCH A REVOLUTIONISING LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE THAT WILL FOREVER DEEPEN, STRENGTHEN, ENVELOPE AND PERMEATE YOUR WHOLE BEING THAT YOU TRULY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.

MAY YAHWEH BE PRAISED!!

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