Dead Raised, Deaf Hear, Blind See—6 Healing Testimonies to Bolster Your Faith

The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the lepers are cleansed, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Somebody has Lied.

Who it is? The preachers of many of the regular churches, theologians, professors in almost every university and college, and the man who has not investigated have all said that the days of miracles are past. We contend that the days of miracles are here now, they always have been here, and always will be here to him who hath faith in God. We contend that God answers prayer today as readily as God ever did, and further, that the same faith that has received answer once will bring answer from God again. That the same power of the Spirit of God that moved upon the waters, and that performed wonders both in nature and in man, both in the spiritual and the physical, is still available. It is here in Portland. It is at work every day. If you do not believe it, come to our Healing Rooms and observe for yourself.

The Blind Receive Their Sight

Mr. Adam Striet, of St. Johns Portland, was blind for several years in both eyes. He was ministered to on three different occasions through prayer and laying on of hands by the ministry of The Church at Portland. He is now perfectly healed and gave public testimony to his healing in The Church at Portland, at 129 Fourth Street, a few days ago.

The Lame Walk

A most conspicuous case. Mr. Roy Ferguson, head bookkeeper for the State Industrial Insurance Commission at Salem, the State Capitol, was stricken with tuberculosis of the bone, the disease affecting the spine. He was encased in a plaster of Paris cast and confined to his bed for more than a year. One leg was amputated just below the hip in the hope of checking the progress of the disease, but without avail. He was abandoned to die by his physicians, brought to Portland specialists who said nothing could be done. He was brought to the Healing Rooms, was prayed for, and God instantly healed him. He is well. He was saved from his sins and baptized in the Holy Ghost and is now ministering this power of God to others and is one of the representatives of our work at Salem, Oregon.

The Deaf Hear

Mrs. Mary Evans of Corvallis, Oregon, was deaf for twenty years. She heard of the healing of Mr. Roy Ferguson through friends and came to Portland to visit the Healing Rooms and called Dr. Lake on the phone to come to the Multnomah Hotel parlours where, in the presence of a group of friends and others from the city who were present, she was ministered to, and was instantly healed and conversed freely with her friends and Dr. Lake. She reported by long distance phone today that her healing was perfect and she will come to Portland in the near future to give public testimony and praise to God in The Church at Portland.

Lepers are Cleansed

Mrs. I__­____ S____­___, of Council Crest, Portland, a beautiful, cultured, high-class woman, became diseased so that a score of physicians and institutions assured her there was no possibility of recovery through medical assistance. The disease progressed until she was a skeleton, her throat became so badly affected from the disease that her power of speech was almost entirely ruined, and her mind became affected. She was brought to the Healing Rooms, ministered to, and as prayer was offered and hands laid upon her, the power of God came mightily upon her and the disease was destroyed. There began from that moment a gradual reconstruction of her entire person. She is now in perfect health and soundness of mind, the bloom of wholesome, healthy womanhood in her face, the joy of God in her soul, the pace of God in her heart and the victory of God in her life. She was baptized in the Holy Spirit and has begun in turn, to minister the same blessed spirit to other lives.

The Dead are Raised Up

Mrs. W. E. Stoughton, Portland, Oregon, was sick with double pneumonia, hemorrhaging over a pint of blood at one time. We knelt by her bedside while she was in the very throes of death, and even as we prayed, her heart ceased to beat, her respiration stopped and she lapsed into apparent death. We continued to pray—nine long minutes passed before evidence of returning life were manifest. We continued in faith and prayer but in less than twenty minutes, another lapse came, this time eleven and a half minutes of seeming death, and yet again, thirteen minutes, and then came the final struggle when, for nineteen minutes, no evidence of life was apparent. We believe that the spirit and body were kept united through persistent and unwavering faith of those who prayed. At 2:30 in the morning, the glory of God burst from her soul, flooded her with the joy and the presence of God. She was perfectly healed and arose from her bed glorifying God as a well woman. Her little daughter Beaulah was healed of cancer of the mouth, after surgeons had said the child’s life could only be saved through an operation to remove a portion of the roof of the mouth which would have destroyed her speech. She was healed through faith in Jesus Christ, not only the cancer disappeared but she was also healed of leakage of the heart through prayer at The Church at Portland.

The Poor Have the Gospel Preached to Them

Day by day we go among the poor and the lame and the halt and the blind, sin-stricken and disease-smitten, ministering God’s blessed love and power fulfilling once more the declaration of Jesus, the mark and stamp of real Christianity.

These Signs Shall Follow Them That Believe

“These signs shall follow them that believe, in my name they shall cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.” Mark 16:17-18