God Did It: Healing Testimonies Across Time and Religions - Softcover

Palmer, Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491733713 ISBN 13: 9781491733714

Verlag: iUniverse, 2014

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I thank God for the opportunity to do this work and know that He will use it in a mighty way to bring people to Him. So many I know were raised in the church and no longer believe. They are such good people, but no longer believe that God exists. So many stories of God’s power must have an effect, crowds of witnesses ...

A collection of stories about healing of individuals from life threatening illnesses. Each one is medically documented so that there is no doubt about the source of the healing. Stories are written in a lively fashion. Even though the author, Rose Ann Palmer, died from brain cancer, it was her belief and the belief of her husband and her son that she received her healing in ways none of us can ever understand.

 

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Trust that Our Love is fully alive in the pages of this book. The stories here are documented as being miraculous. We invite you to get a glimpse of Our Love at work in impossible ways in the lives of people across time. We are the healer. The healers are Our Instruments. How can this be? We are a God of Impossibilities. If you don’t believe in Us, then that is all the more reason why you need to read this book! Are you afraid to face truth? Let go of doubt. Give Our Stories of Miraculous Healings a try. Who knows? You might even get a healing as well.

We hope you enjoy Our Love Stories. Dear friends, you begin a journey in Our Love that is unmatched anywhere. Tell your friends about what We do in the lives of those in need. As they read Our Love Stories, they too will be touched by Our Presence in them. All We ask of you, dear readers, is to suspend your human logic and accept the truth of Our Impossibilities.

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God Did It

Healing Testimonies Across Time and Religions

By Rose Ann Palmer

iUniverse LLC

Copyright © 2014 Rose Ann Palmer, Ph.D.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4917-3371-4

Contents

Author's Note, xi, 
Introduction to Rose Ann Palmer, 1, 
Father Robert DeGrandis, 12, 
Father Emiliano Tardif, 21, 
Jesus Heals Today: St Paul's, New York, 77, 
Jesus Heals Today: Dodie Osteen, 93, 
Jesus Heals Today: John and Joel Osteen, 96, 
Jesus Heals Today: Annette and Ed Eckert, 100, 
Jesus Heals Today: Joyce Meyers, 106, 
Sister Briege McKenna, 109, 
Sara Hopkins O'Meara, 127, 
Come, Holy Spirit, 135, 
Judith and Francis MacNutt, 148, 
Agnes Sanford, 167, 
Babsie Bleasdell, 195, 
Father Peter Mary Rookey, 210, 
Oral Roberts, 225, 
Solanus Casey, 240, 
Padre Pio, 257, 
Sister Francis Clare, 279, 
Elizabeth Seton, 299, 
Appendix: Miracles and the Sainthood Process, 309, 

CHAPTER 1

Father Robert DeGrandis

Massachusetts's native Father Bob DeGrandis did not start out in the healing ministry. From 1959 to 1969, fresh out of the seminary, he worked in the civil rights movement in Miami (Florida), New Orleans (Louisiana), and Birmingham (Alabama) as a member of the Society of St. Joseph, an order of priests who work with African-Americans. Although the work was satisfying, Father felt uneasy with his role, identifying himself more as a social worker than as a proclaimer of the gospel. He felt powerless and ineffective.

Then late in 1969, the National Catholic Reporter published an article about Catholic Pentecostals: priests and nuns praying in tongues and laying hands on people for healing. His interest piqued, Father Bob read Catholic Pentecostals, a book describing how the Holy Spirit comes upon us and moves us as was described two thousand years ago in the book of Acts. He knew he had found what his spiritual life needed.

After becoming involved with Catholic Pentecostals, Father DeGrandis saw his prayer life blossom. The Lord Jesus baptized him in the Holy Spirit. The sacraments and the Mass held new dynamism. The New Testament took on deeper meaning. The Holy Spirit renewed him in a powerful way, giving greater vitality to his daily Holy Hour. He began bringing people together to study Scripture and pray.

Then miracles started happening. During prayer meetings, people noticed that long-term health problems were vanishing. Everyone who participated in Bible study and being prayed over was healed. Symptoms of arthritis or sinus or headache or whatever disappeared.

Father got so caught up in the healing power of the Holy Spirit that he began inviting people to come up for laying on of hands after Sunday Mass. Usually the whole congregation would respond, and he'd move along the altar rail laying hands on each individual.

All kinds of things began to happen. Father DeGrandis prayed with one woman whose son had come back from Vietnam and locked himself in his room. Dirty and disheveled, he refused to come out for months. The day after the group prayed, the vet came out of his room, cleaned himself up, and went job hunting.

Emboldened by such obvious signs of the Presence of God, Father began a prayer meeting in his own parish. Hearing of extraordinary healings, many affluent white people from over the mountain started coming down to Father's parish in the ghetto. Robert DeGrandis knew this was it! The Spirit of God was doing what no human had been able to accomplish: Blacks and Whites were acting like brothers and sisters, singing and praying together. Many said this was the first time they had related as equals. Father called it an authentic spirituality of the New Testament, built upon the Holy Spirit.

At this pivotal point in his life, Father Robert DeGrandis made a deep commitment to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, but influential people in his parish didn't like what he was doing. Angry parishioners criticized him for introducing spontaneous prayer, singing, and clapping. Father was transferred back to New Orleans.

Despite the setback, that year he was invited to minister in Puerto Rico where for the first time he really experienced the power of God.

"As I went around the island talking and praying with people, there were tremendous healings. They blew my mind. Every time people complained of pain, we would simply pray and the pain would leave. People with difficulty walking would move normally after prayer."

During that trip in 1971, he was invited to speak to a group of priests on the island of St. Croix. At a little prayer meeting up in the mountains led by an American priest, Father Mike Kostak, Father Bob testified to being baptized in the Spirit [a renewal or actualization of the Graces of our baptism], gave the priests a "tongues workshop," laid hands on each of them, and prayed for a release of the Spirit. It wasn't until 1982 that he saw the results of that seed-planting experience when he heard that Father Mike Kostak now preaches worldwide on the Charismatic renewal.

Another seed sprouted in a well-known television personality, Mother Angelica. When Father DeGrandis was in Birmingham in 1969 praying at a Poor Clare monastery, he said to the Mother Superior, "This Charismatic renewal is beautiful. People are really melted by the love of God."

She responded, "We don't need all of that. We have the Holy Spirit. We have everything."

One day Barbara Shlemon and he prayed over Mother Angelica. A few nights later, the nun received the gift of tongues while sitting in bed reading the Gospel of John. Within two weeks, every nun in the monastery had been baptized in the Spirit. Mother Angelica founded the nationwide Eternal Word Television Network. In her biography she calls Father DeGrandis a young, aggressive Josephite priest who bugged her to let him pray over her.

Father planted another seed in Eddie Ensley, a young Presbyterian seminarian, who went to Father's prayer meeting because there was nothing Charismatic in his own Church. Later in 1975, Father heard Eddie give his testimony. He became a Catholic, traveled around the country giving talks, and is the author of Prayers That Heal Our Emotions and also Sounds of Wonder, a book on tongues.

On a year's leave to examine his ideas, Father Bob made a thirtyday retreat, then went to Mexico for two months to study Spanish. In January 1973 while in Mexico, he was invited to the island of Grenada.

"The prime minister was a man very much involved in the occult and very erratic. He said, 'I'm going to throw out all of the priests on the island.'

"There were only 26 priests for 65,000 people. We started the house of prayer and began training prayer group leaders, feeling that in a few months the Church would be thrown off the island.

"We went into different towns as we were invited and said, 'Give us eight or ten people to start with.'

"We would usually get 150 people the first night ... The people were so simple and so close to God and nature that by the middle of the first prayer meeting they would be baptized in the Spirit, and by the end of the first prayer meeting they would be praying in tongues. (I remember one Catholic theologian who admitted it took him more than two years to come into the gift of tongues!)

"That time in Grenada bore fruit. A woman stood up in a Miami conference in November 1985 and said, 'When the communists took over Grenada, the prayer groups met and prayed and prayed for deliverance. Finally the Americans...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1491733713
• ISBN 13: 9781491733714
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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