Thanks be to God for His wonderful healing ministry. Where would we be without the incomparable love and mercy of our dear Jesus who was and IS so caught up in compassion and pity for the hurting and the afflicted. Ezekiel foresaw the ministry of Jesus as a river flowing eastward having its source from the temple of God. It becomes a DEEP river with banks lined with trees with healing in their leaves. It is God's River of Healing. There are times in the gospel accounts of this amazing Jesus that indicate a DEEP RIVER of HEALING came into certain places or towns. In Luke 4:17-19 it says:

"He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. An all in the crowd were trying to touch him for power came out from him and healed ALL of them." (Emphasis mine)

In this reading Jesus healed ALL the sick and troubled. The power was so manifest, so powerful, that not one person walked away disappointed. I believe the GLORY of God must have been obvious all over this meeting. Jesus did not always heal each and every person in His meeting with the crowds of desperate people, but here He did. This is a real picture of what it means to SWIM in God's River of Healing.In 1980, the Lord showed us something very special. My friend John Mark Searcy and our wives decided to hold a healing service at our Methodist Church. Inez, who had been healed of debilitating allergies at the communion altar, came in to testify of her touch from God. (After God touched her, she ate a whole pan of cornbread which used to send her to the hospital if eaten.) She did speak, but had a decided burden for her nephew who had been shot and was refusing food in the hospital. She feared for his life. We sat her down on a stool in the front of the sanctuary and began to pray for her nephew. All of a sudden my hands began to burn red hot (not just warmly), and I looked up to see what was happening! I literally could not see John Mark for the golden light that flooded the sanctuary area. I said, "Do you see what I see?" Each of us saw the same thing; the Shekinah Glory of God was there. I remember saying, "Ask what you will, but be careful what you ask." I mean to tell you, this was a very holy moment. In our circle of prayer the man standing next to me came in with kidney stones that night and he was in sever pain. He asked to be healed and was instantly cured. His wife, who could not reach her son who had the flu, asked that he be healed. Later she called and his broken phone worked (she had tried all afternoon to call him and could not get through) and she found out that about the time we prayed he sat up in the bed and got up to watch TV and fix something to eat. Each thing we asked for (and one we did not even ask for - fixing the broken phone) was immediately answered, each situation total resolved. Praise God! Often, when I think of what happened that night, I know it was an unmistakable FORETASTE of what it means to SWIM in the River of God. As God turns up the anointing in meetings for healing that Glory will be loosed on us.Last issue the statement was made that THERE IS COMING SOON, AND EXPERIENCE THE BIBLE CALLS SWIMMING IN A RIVER THAT COMES FROM THE THRONE OF God. In our meetings over the past several months the Presence of God has been so strong!

• In Beaumont, a man with Parkinson's disease was healed. He no longer walks with his cane, and the tremors are gone!
• In Pueblo, Colorado a precious young girl who had gone deaf in one ear and was losing her hearing rapidly in the other ear, woke up after prayer on Friday night to find that Jesus had healed her hearing!

God is so Mighty, so Awesome! The God who manifested His Glory, whom John said we beheld Him, we touched Him, this same Jesus is in our midst. He has us waist deep right now in His Healing River. No more shallow waters. The waist is the place of reproduction and of giving birth. God is bringing people to Christ in a very real way, some for the first time, some for the second or third or fourth time with very real breakthrough experiences out of bondage and into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of Light! Let us give thanks with all our hearts! Some are saying this is going to be a dark holiday season, but THANKSGIVING will plunge us into the River of God's healing and open the windows of heaven for blessings that cannot be contained!

 

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2008

August 22-23
Alpine, Texas
OSL Conference
Contact Thelma Hoyle for information
1-432-837-2088

September 5-6
Plainview, TX
Harvest Christian Fellowship
contact: Alecha Sheppard
alecha@harvest
christianfellowship.org

September 21-24
Shrinemont
Orkney Springs, VA
contact: John Harler 
jharler@verizon.net

October 3-4
St Alban's Church
3001 Wisconsin Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20016
contact: Jim Cantwell
jcantwell@cox.net

October 17-19
La Porte, TX
St. John's Episcopal Church
Contact: Sandi Harris
281-471-0383
sandi@stjohn-laporte.org

October 24-25
Christ Healing Center
135 W. Olmos,
San Antonio, TX
Contact: Hope 210-930-7760
Region V- OSL Healing Conference
Please register!! Space is limited
Speakers: Norma Dearing, Healing Touch Ministries and
William Standish Reed, MD

November 14-16
Del Rio, TX
St. James Episcopal Church
OSL Healing Conference
Contact:  Diane Pattison
830-774-5286
t6airplane@yahoo.com

2009

January 10-11
Houston. TX
Healing Mission
Mission Bend United Methodist Church

February 2-7
Cruise Your Blues Away!
A women’s healing retreat at sea. (spouses are welcomed)
Anna Marie Leading &
Angela Nelson of The 4th Voice providing
Praise and Worship!
Click here for registration form    

February 20-22
Lake Havasu, AZ
OSL Healing Mission
Contact: Jim Wright
928-453-8404 (h)
jimgloriawright@aol.com

March 6-8
Hudson, FL
OSL Healing Mission
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church
The Church is north of Tampa, about 40 miles and is located on the coast just
north of Tarpon Springs, Fl.
The church office phone #:  (727) 863-8560. 
Fax #: (727) 862-9275. 
Email address:  stmartins123@aol.com  
www.stmartinshudsonfl.org. 
Our Order of St. Luke Chaplain: Fr. Fred Scharf
fred.scharf@verizon.net

March 13-14
San Antonio, TX
Christ Healing Center
OSL Mission
WE host: Speakers: Don Jaeger and The Rev. Nigel Mumford
Come hear Don’s awesome testimony of  healing from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Please register!! Space is limited!
Call: Hope 210-930-7760

April 24-25
Philadelphia area
Healing Conference
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church