What’s going on in Stephenville, Texas?

A man is diagnosed with an incurable, hereditary spinal disease at age 28. He’s
told that he would be an invalid by age 50. In pain, walking with a cane, trying to
sleep in a sitting positions, he moves to Stephenville in 2001 to get closer to his
children so they can assist him. Today, at age 47, he’s remodeling homes and
living an active life.

What happened?

Two years ago, a young man in his 20’s is in a coma after a car accident. A
woman from his town makes his situation known to a group in Stephenville who
makes this a matter of prayer. His family eventually “pulls the plug” but
the man does not die. The group in Stephenville decides to visit him, lay hands
upon him in his nursing home room and pray and sing and anoint him with oil.

Shortly afterward, he begins talking, moving and, today, he’s married.

How so?

A man claims that his horse has been trying to kill him. He asks if a horse can be
demon possessed. The group from Stephenville goes to the corral where the
big, black stallion is nervously watching. As the group prays and sings around
the corral, the horse grows increasingly more calm. Eventually, the owner anoints
his head with oil and the horse bows his head and is licking his lips, a sign of
contentment. In a few minutes, the owner slips a bridle over its head and leads
it around the corral. The next day, the owner calls to tell us that the horse,
which also had a disease called strangles, a highly contagious and serious infection

that can be fatal, is totally healed.

Why?

A young Christian woman attends a Bible Study with this group in Stephenville

and requests prayer. As she is being prayed for, tears rolling down her cheeks,

she suddenly raises her head and growls, “She doesn’t deserve it! She doesn’t

deserve it!” After several hours of prayer accompanied by demonic manifestations,

her countenance is completely changed. These days, she’s happily married,

pregnant with her first child, with a wonderful disposition. A changed woman.

What happened to her?

What do all of these cases…and others…have in common? They were all healed
and delivered by the prayers of Christians who believe that Jesus still heals the
sick and oppressed.

What else do they have in common? They are still meeting and praying for the
sick at Vanderbilt Place, 614 N. Clinton in Stephenville, 7:30 PM each Thursday.
If you need healing or deliverance, please write so we can make an appointment.
If you know someone who needs help, please FORWARD this message.

God loves you. We do, too.

Following is an article written by Robert Fitts who recently ministered in
various towns throughout Texas, including Stephenville.

The Healing Rooms Ministry
The ministry of the healing rooms that is springing up in cities across the USA

today is one of the brightest and most encouraging developments in the

worldwide move of the Spirit!
Most of us want to go back to John G. Lake to find the beginnings of this

wonderful ministry, but in reading the life of Lake, I find that there was another

John who preceded John G. Lake who more than likely planted the seed for the

Healing Rooms ministry. His name was John Alexander Dowie.
Dowie was a famous pastor in Chicago late in the 19th century who, in his later

life, founded Zion City, IL as a Christian community. He had a marvelous healing

ministry with thousands of remarkable healings that attracted multitudes from all

over America. A part of this healing ministry was Healing Homes. People with

terminal illnesses would actually move into these homes, almost like our modern

Convalescent Hospitals, and stay till they received total healing. They would

receive ministry over and over again till the healing was complete.
John Lake was born into a family of twelve children, a family who, over the years,

bore the pain of almost constant sickness and death among the children. When

John grew up he took two of his sisters who had terminal diseases, to Dowie’s

Healing Homes in Zion City and, after a period of time, they were both healed.

Lake was a highly successful businessman and amassed a fortune early in life.

His heart for God, however, became so overpowering that in the midst of business

deals he would be diverted into evangelizing his client. This began to cause a

problem.
Eventually he heard to call of God to quit his business and go to the foreign

mission field by faith. He sold everything and gave away his fortune; went to

South Africa and spent five amazing years. God gave him a remarkable anointing

to heal the sick and more than five hundred churches were started as a result

of those five years of signs and wonders.
After that he moved back to the USA to the city of Spokane, WA where he

started a church and a Divine Healing Institute. The school was actually a

workshop for divine healing where the students learned to minister divine

healing by hands-on experience. Lake rented office spaces for the institute
in downtown Spokane and called them “Healing Rooms.” Over the next five

years thousands of people came to those healing rooms and were healed. Some

reports say there were more than one hundred thousand healings in that five

year period.
His vision was to start healing rooms in every city in the USA, but he died at

the age of 66 and his vision died with him.
About eighty years later, God spoke to Cal Pierce of Redding, CA to move to

Spokane and “re-dig the healing wells” of John G. Lake as Isaac had done in

the book of Genesis after the Philistines had stopped up the well his father

Abraham had dug years before.
Pierce was not disobedient to the heavenly vision and in the space of three or

four years, the Healing Rooms Ministry was once again flourishing in the very

same rooms in the very same building that John G. Lake had used eighty years

before. Now this ministry is popping up in city after city all over America. No

doubt the healing rooms vision will be planted in every other country in the

days and years ahead.
The ministry of divine healing belongs to the entire Body of Christ. Cal Pierce

has freely shared with the Church how he has gone about to re-establish the

healing rooms ministry. On your computer you can go to www.healingrooms.com

and gather enough information to start the Healing Rooms Ministry in your town.

Or you can take the training offered by the ministry in Spokane, or you can do as

Sam Buick and his leadership did in Kitchener, Canada. They took the simple

idea of Healing Rooms with very little explanation, set aside a day and an hour

and a place and began to lay hands on the sick. The results? People started

getting healed! Not only physical healing, but also inner healing and deliverance.

They meet at 3 PM in a home every Sunday afternoon and sometimes the healing

session goes on till 9 PM.
I encourage you to avail yourself of all the help you can get in launching into this

exciting ministry of divine healing, but at the same time, be aware that every

situation is somewhat different and we must not try to do this by a formula, trying

to follow what others have done in other places. I was in four churches who tried

to copy the methods of Dr. Cho of Korea for church growth and all four failed.

Then one day I overheard someone interviewing Dr. Cho on the radio. When

asked what was the “bottom line” formula for building the largest church in the

world he said, “I just pray and I obey.” Six simple words that will work anywhere,

anytime, among any people. Get the idea, then pray and fill in the blanks.
Suddenly I saw how simple it is to enter into any ministry the Lord calls us to do.

There may be more and varied principles and methods attached later, but behind

every step forward it is, “I just pray and I obey.” We can learn from those who

have gone before us into the Healing Rooms Ministry, but there is still a

uniqueness that God wants to retain in every one of them.
HEALING ROOMS
The group that ministers healing in Stephenville has received its training through

Cal Pierce’s ministry which Robert Fitts mentioned, as well as the personal ministry

of Robert Fitts himself on two separate occasions, at Vanderbilt place. Additional

training and impartation came about through a group of women in Coppell who

spent a day at Vanderbilt Place training the 30 individuals who attended their session.

Cal Pierce currently has established over 600 Healing Rooms throughout the world.

You can receive that same kind of training, too, regardless of your denominational

affiliation.  The group that meets at Vanderbilt Place is available to assist you.

Following are two websites which pertain to the two most prevalent healing ministries

of this kind. I lived in Zion, Illinois as a boy and can attest to the power of BOTH ministries.

I’ve also included an article on HEALING that has blessed many across the globe.

www.healingrooms.com
www.zionhealingrooms.com

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2007/sonchild813.htm

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Jesus STILL heals the sick!

Every blessing,

Michael Tummillo

A servant of God