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Two blind men healed in Mozambique

It was the summer of 2006. A blind man, a Muslim, asked an American woman in Mozambique for money. She prayed for him, but he wasn’t healed. So she gave him some money and suggested he come to the church service on Sunday. He came and brought a friend, also blind, also Muslim.

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Dead man raised

A man in Nigeria at a gathering fell to the floor, in cardiac arrest. Someone pulled out a video camera. Those around him performed CPR for some minutes, and then gave up. Then the preacher took over.

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After 23 years in wheelchair, gospel singer walks

For 23 years, Delia Roman Knox was the gospel singer in a wheelchair. A drunk driver had put her there at the age of 25. She was paralyzed from the waist down. Many had prayed for her over the years, but two months ago the time was right. At a revival meeting, she walked! And has been walking since. Even the evening news took notice.

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A case of depression

My friend N. returned to the St. Louis area to live with her mother, following divorce. She was despondent. In fact, she spent a year “in bed”–not going out, not communicating with anyone, oppressed by darkness.

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An “impossible” coincidence

But someone stole her wallet. In the wallet were her credit cards and her driver’s license, among other things. The credit card situation could be handled, but the driver’s license posed a problem. In order to get a new driver’s license she would have to come back to St. Louis on a weekday, meaning losing two or three days of the precious intensive summer school instruction. That would set her way behind. She prayed about it.

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A healing miracle

Things did not get better when we went to the orthopedic doctor . She looked at it and x-rayed. She told us that we were going to have to schedule surgery next time that we came in to see her. I asked if she was sure, she nodded her head; yes these kinds of injuries culminate in surgery. She gave him a brace with instructions to be careful, to not jump etc.

Phyllis Wheeler, a very dear friend, called me and told me about a lady coming to her church. That woman went on missions to poor countries and tremendous miracles were happening for those people; blind see, lame walk, etc.

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