Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Supernatural



*REAL Testimony: Bishop Altheresa's Brother: Gunshot wound to the head - Declared DEAD, but the Supernatural Power of God brought him back to life!
It's not spooky, not crazy, but it is real and available for God's People to operate in.
 As we add the final touches to the September Newsletter, I personally think back over these 28 years of serving God and seeing Him manifest His Supernatural Power over and over again on behalf of ourselves, our family and friends; as well as, to use us to pray or lay hands on others.

I'm so thankful to Abba, Father God for every time He has manifested His presence on our behalf. There is no God like our Father, God. I don't have enough time here to share all of the things that we have seen God do or even the things He has used us to do, but during our teaching time this month, We will try to share some of these testimonies with you. 

It is our desire to help stir your desire to go deeper in the things of God, to stir your faith to go after what God says is available to you and to teach you how to operate in the things of God, so that you will experience the Supernatural Power of God in your own life; as well as be used by God to help others.

We will share this most recent personal testimony with you. On Friday, July 22, 2011, my younger brother was shot in the head and declared to be dead. When the family arrived and through a course of events, surgery was performed on him to try to save his life. After surgery, the diagnosis was still no hope, no brain activity; only the respirator was technically keeping him with us.

Prayers all over began to go out for him through family and friends from SC State University and through Facebook. I didn't get the message until the next morning, July 23, but I wasn't able to get to him right away. I consulted the Lord as to what to do and I was given the leading to follow through with my commitment and assignment. (We were conducting Leadership Training for the Next Level Leaders of our church and the Blood of the Lamb Church with Pastor Carolyn Spellman, all that day on Saturday July 23.)

But because of knowing the word of God, who the word says I am in God and how the Spiritual Realm of the Supernatural operates, though I couldn't get there in the natural, physical, right then, I went by way of the spirit, through the Power of the Word of God in prayer.(I'll teach you what I mean. It's all biblical.)

I began to command death to obey my authority in and through the name of Yeshua Jesus and get back, leave my brother alone. I declared the word of God that, “he shall live and not die and declare the works of the Lord." And then, I called life to return back into him, In Jesus name. When I finished praying, I gave God thanks and praise for the miracle. I said, "little brother, I will see you in a few hours," and then I went on in to my training class. 

That evening, I was able to go to the hospital. I met our sister and we went into his ICU room to pray. We laid hands on his lifeless, cold body and I began to pray in the Spirit. Then, what I heard by the Spirit, I began to call out and call forth. A few minutes later, our little brother started moving a finger on his left hand and trying to open his eyes for the first time. That was the first sign of life, Hallelujah!

On the next day, Sunday when Bishop Ed and I went back to see him, he had more hand motion. He was kicking his left leg and trying to wake up. But for some reason, during that first week, every sign we saw, the doctors tried to dismiss and down play. They still said that there was not enough brain activity to really acknowledge that he would make it, or that he was even really alive. They said that it was just reflexes, BUT GOD. My sister and I began to stay at night with him and pray. By that Wednesday night, I stayed all night in the room with him and prayed over him. I prayed for the brain to be quickened and the activity to show up on the monitors and tests.

The next day, the swelling on his brain had gone down, the doctors were able to see there was real brain activity and then they began to be hopeful and more positive. By the first of the next week, he was out of the coma, off the respirator and breathing on his own.

You all are the first to hear this, but on today, Tuesday August 30, my little brother is being released out of the hospital to go home. HALLELUJAH! GLORY to GOD! The Supernatural Power of God is real and available to all. The more you know about it, the more you can see it manifest.

Join us on Sunday Mornings and Wednesday Nights this month of September, and receive greater understanding of "The Supernatural." You can learn more of How to operate in it to see more breakthroughs and miracles take place in your life and those connected to you.

Prepare to be empowered to the next dimension....