Barnabas Ministries UK

Rev. Mrs Stuart Bell

I PRAYED AS MY SON FOUGHT EYE TUMOUR

Rev stuart bell

The father of a boy who had a tumour at the back of his eye has told how he never gave up hope of his son being given the all clear.

Church leader Stuart Bell and his wife Irene were stunned when they were told their son David, who was then 16, had a tumour.

The news came after five years of turmoil in the family’s life. Irene had to undergo ten operations on her back and several close family members died during that difficult time.

Mr. Bell, from Lincoln, said, ‘We’d had about three years where everything was going well.

Suddenly a page turned and we entered a very difficult period. We were thrown into a world we weren’t prepared for.

We were taking him [David] to Leicester for chemotherapy and Nottingham for radiotherapy. We had to battle through and believe God for a serious breakthrough.’

The couple realised that prayer was their lifeline and over many months they started to see that their prayers were being answered as David’s trips to the doctors became less frequent.

Many years on, and David has no trace of the tumour at all – something Mr Bell has put down to prayer and faith in God.

He said, ‘It was a combination of treatment and prayer. A lot of things that they said medically could happen, didn’t happen. If you were to look at David’s eye now, you wouldn’t know anything had taken place.’

During their son’s battle, the couple continued as pastors at New Life Christian Fellowship in Lincoln. Some asked how they’d managed to continue during their five years of turmoil.

Mr. Bell said, ‘We just wanted to trust God and believe for a miracle. It was a season of testing and trial, but by the grace of God we got through.

‘We came to the conclusion that it’s not about the circumstances we face, but rather our attitude.’

CAROL AND HER FAMILY

HOW I TUNED IN TO BE HEALED

A Halifax woman says she was healed of a heart condition while watching Christian TV

Doctors told Carol Wadley she was suffering from ’silent heart attacks’, but the pain mi­raculously stopped as she tuned into GOD TV to watch a Nige­rian preacher speak on healing.

Carol, a children’s worker at Halifax Elim, described how she fell on her knees in front of her TV screen and asked God to heal her.

The 60-year-old amazed her doctor, who said he couldn’t understand how the condition had vanished.

She said, ‘The first tests showed a problem, but the doctor couldn’t find anything at all wrong with me - and that was after seven minutes on a treadmill!

‘While they were doing the tests I kept saying, “Thank you, Lord, for healing me.”

‘God is still in control heal­ing, saving, restoring and setting people free.’

Carol had been enduring the pain since December 2006.

‘I had been unwell and was feeling weak. I’m usually a very active person and it concerned me, but I just thought I would work it out of my system. How-ever it didn’t get any better. Even doing simple jobs in the home - like putting clothes into the washing machine, for example - was making me feel weak.

‘Eventually I went to see the doctor He did the usual tests and told me I needed to see a specialist as it could be my heart where the problem was. Expe­riencing what they called “silent heart attacks”, I didn’t want to die. I was afraid.’

But the mum-of-seven, whose husband died at a young age through heart trouble, con­tinued to believe for healing. Af­ter hearing the message on TV, she felt the pain had gone.

I was getting really bad pain all down my arm. I had never heard of silent heart attacks, but it was such agony. After watching the Nigerian I knew something was going to happen when he began to pray for people with heart conditions.’

Children’s worker Carol says it was an attack from Satan that caused her to be sick.

‘When you work for God, the enemy is bound to have a go back at you. But I don’t have time to be poorly; there’s too much to do for God, and he knew that which is why he healed me.

‘Often you can feel down and depressed, but turn on Christian TV and it has the exact answer for you. It’s such a powerful tool.’

Carol’s pastor Dave Green backed up her theory that she ‘had to be healed’ because of her workload at church.

He told Direction, ‘I’ve known Carol for 17 years and she’s really got the favour and grace of God on her life. She has overcome personal tragedy on more than one occasion and everything she experiences is genuine. This latest setback was a struggle, but she needed to be healed’

Rev. E. Anderson

AUSTRALIAN Christian songwriter Mike Guglielmucci claims he flew across the world with terminal cancer - and was then healed in the UK.

Despite fighting fierce bone cancer, Mr. Guglielmucci decided he would bat­tle through the pain to preach at a youth event in Britain this summer.

He was at a church in Bristol when he managed to stand up and leave his wheelchair behind!

Mr. Guglielmucci, reporting on his page on social networking site My Space, says, ‘This is incredible news! The healing process has begun. On Mon­day I went to John Wesley’s chapel in Bristol.

‘As I stood in Wesley’s pulpit God’s power touched my body. To cut a long story short, I left my wheelchair there. My back is healed, my hips are healed, and my legs are healed!

‘I still have pain in my upper body but it has started! Praise and glory to the King of all kings! My Saviour! My portion! My freedom! My healer”

Mr. Guglielmucci’s own song ‘Healer’ - has since been played 88,000 times on his website.

Close friend and Audacious spokes­person Stuart Keir said news of the healing was phenomenal.

He told New Life, ‘Here we have a man who believes God has told him to go to Wesley’s chapel. He goes there and feels the power of God touch his body.  He says his legs and back are still broken but there is no pain.

‘The doctors simply cannot understand bow he is able to walk and carry on preaching. This is a huge answer to prayer. We love spending time with him. Mike is a man who has been such a blessing to Audacious and to young people all over the world.’

Mike’s website is flooded with mes­sages of support and prayer.

South African Alex, 19, writes, ‘1t’s amazing to see God’s power working in your life. Most people in your situation could lose faith.’

· 18th.C preacher John Wesley helped establish the Methodist movement.

Rev. E. Anderson

CANCEROUS LUMP 

A man says a cancerous lump on his body has miraculously disappeared. 

Steve Smith, 40,-believes his faith in God has led to the miracle. He told New Life how his battle with testicular cancer was one of the toughest of his life. He said, ‘We had been going through hell. I was constantly asking God the question “Why?” and could not understand why all this was happening. ‘I always believed God could heal me, but it wasn’t easy going through the trial.  

I was facing surgery and that can really knock you off your feet. I  was so over­joyed when God performed a miracle.’ 

Steve, a pastor in Essex, revealed how he jumped off the doctor’s table when she told him the lump was no longer there He added I jumped off the doctor table thanked the doctor and gave all the glory to God for this healing.

The doctor was amazed and was looking at all previous scans. I couldn’t believe what I had heard. ‘My wife and I went for coffee and I rang the peo­ple who had been praying for me’. 

In the midst of the cancer crisis, Steve was also having trouble paying the bills at home. He was on the waiting list to find a new church, and had to settle for a job­ stacking shelves at a supermarket. Having pre­viously earned a large sum in the jewellery trade, this was a humbling experience. He said, ‘I thought God had told me I was going to be a pastor and here I was facing surgery and in unem­ployment. It didn’t make sense to my natural mind. I had to put the focus away from me and on to God. 

‘The doctor told me I had depression, but I knew it wasn’t that. ‘The Holy Spirit actually told me it was oppression. I was feeling so low and didn’t understand why this was happening to me Little did Steve know that another miracle was about to be performed in his life.  

Just weeks after receiv­ing the all clear from the doctor he was offered a job pastoring a church at Clacton-on-Sea Essex.  Before long, Steve, wife Elizabeth and their three children were on the move. ‘God has taken us from the depths of despair and doubt. He is al­ways sovereign and He always does what he wants to do. There will be troubles and trials but we must never forget that God is a God who delivers us, and if we are obedient to him he will be faithful to us’. 

The family now hopes to bring God’s healing power and love to the people of Clacton.  ‘Clacton is a church that has experienced difficulties, but God has told me that I must show His love and care to this congregation’.