Testimonies
Isabel Wilson: I just wanted to share the
healing I received during ministry at the Fathers House. I
had lifted a heavy object earlier that week and had twisted
my body and when I arrived at church was uncomfortable and
unable to stand without pain.
I sensed the love of God and his presence during the healing
prayer and afterwards was led to the following scriptures:
1 John 4 v 16 .......rely on the love God has for us
1 John 5 v 3 This is to love God and carry out his commands.
The Lord has been showing me issues of self reliance and
not relying on his love and how to love him and to be obedient.
That evening I was able to stand straight and without pain
- praise the Lord!
Yvonne Fountain- Fathers HouseFinding Lara
A testimony of the miraculous love of God to bring family
restoration between my daughter Lara and myself-
Each Thursday morning I hold a soaking prayer meeting and
on the first Thursday January 3 this year a friend and I had
rhema about household salvation. That afternoon I listened
to a teaching by Bill Yount " How to partner with heaven
for household salvation in your house", released my family
to God, and, after the shofar was blown to activate Acts 16
v 31 “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved,
you and your household." I shouted 'Jubilee' loudly many
times. At the time I was thinking of my husband and our two
daughters, though briefly did about a daughter I had had adopted
when I was 16, 37 years ago when I lived in South Africa.
My husband arrived home that evening from hill walking all
day and gave me a cheque for a significant sum of money as
his walking group investment club had cashed in some of their
shares - given with no strings attached at all. On Saturday
5 January I attended Father’s House and Mike and Carole
were blowing Shofars during worship; the message was about
only moving in God's anointing. On Sunday 6 January the message
at the Community Church I then attended was about breakthrough
and giving to the LORD. So I was able to give a freewill offering
to God in thanks for the money I had received, in addition
to my tithe, and, at the end there was a call to give again
which I could also do. After prayer the LORD told me to use
some to buy a Shofar. (Mike arranged for David Silver to bring
me one from Israel, which I received in February at the launch
of Christians for Zion.)
On Monday 7 January I had a message on my answer phone from
my sister who lives in SA that someone had contacted her about
my daughter who I had known in my heart for 37 years as Felicity.
On Tuesday 8 January Lara (the name given by her adoptive
parents) and I made contact for the first time by fax and
email, then spoke to each other on the phone for about an
hour on Thursday 10 January exactly one week after I had first
listened to the teaching download. I had listened to it again
on the Thursday morning before ringing Lara and realised then
what a sovereign work of God this was, as Bill Yount had testified
it would be with lost family members even in another country
being found. God is so good - Lara had only received her adoption
records on her 37th birthday on January 2 2008 and knew my
name for the first time. We made contact after all that time
on January 8 the same date Lara was taken to the baby sanctuary.
It is so awesome as well for she and her family all believe
in Jesus Christ as LORD. What a surprise to find that I was
a grandmother too!
Another thing that God organised was someone called Yvonne
like myself that Lara sews for, as she is a seamstress, was
told the story then said that she was coming to England near
where I live that following Saturday and was willing to take
anything Lara wanted to send to me. We met up briefly and
I was able to send some things back with her for Lara and
family. A lot of healing took place in both our lives in those
first few weeks and we waited on God to know when we could
meet up and where. At first my husband was not keen to visit
South Africa, then decided that he would. So on 19 March 2008
my Dad, my husband and I met with Lara, Sam, Jason and Abigail.
We had a truly joyful and blessed time with them for eight
and a half days and are waiting on the LORD for the next time
we meet. All glory, praise and thanksgiving goes to our awesome
God for such a Sovereign miracle of restoration and love.
Mike & Claire North from Helsby: "I
simply felt surrounded by the presence of God and so comforted
by the love I felt within the people of Father's House.
The children prayed for me and their accurate words spoke
into my life in a way I would not have thought possible, thank
you!" - Claire
"Never before have I experienced worship at such a
deep level - I closed my eyes and thought I had died and gone
to heaven!" - Mike
Jane Demaine, Father's House: "I have
struggled with loss of hearing in my left ear for eight weeks
and had begun to feel hopeless over the situation. After some
prayer for healing my ear buzzed and popped but nothing
immediately happened. Later that evening as I was quiet
and peaceful at home, my ear suddenly squealed and opened
up and I can now hear perfectly - Praise The Lord!"
Sound The Trumpets
In 1997 the foundational members of the "Fathers House"
congregation joined together for a three year monthly prayer
walk on the Mountains of The Clwydian Range of North Wales
after believing that we had heard God calling us to gather
50.000 believers to pray for Wales and Israel on Moel Fammau,
the highest Mountain peak on the range, on 10th September
2000. We began our monthly preparation prayer walks in 1997
in readiness for the appointed day and obediently walked the
mountain in both good and bad weather to pray and sound Shofars
for the two nations. As September 2000 approached there was
little evidence that anyone other ourselves, a small group
of determined followers, would be praying on the mountains
on 10th September. Despite a great deal of discouragement
there was the encouragement that God had asked us to do this
and so we continued. Two weeks before the 10th September 2000
reports began to reach us of other groups from not only Wales
but from other Nations being called to sound Shofars and pray
on Mountain tops. On the day God appointed we, a group of
only fifty, climbed our mountain and prayed for Wales and
Israel and sounded the Shofars. On that same day over 120
groups throughout Wales did the same, as did Churches from
many other Nations of the world. Testimonies from intercessors
from all over the world reported that on that day they had
seen Angels on mountain tops in Wales blowing Shofars.
It is certain that over 50.000 prayed on that day and that
God had his way.
We have had visits since from Pastors in USA who on that
very day took up to 2000 of their own congregations to pray
on high places, and there were many such groups. God is faithful
to all His promises. Psalm 145 v 13.
Witchcraft and Paganism
In January 2004 our congregation were asked if we would go
to the town of Machynlleth, a two hour journey from our homes
to pray for the town. The people of the town had been systematically
taught the eight sabbat witchcraft festivals over a period
of ten years and were so involved in witchcraft and paganism
that, on 31st of October, the previous year the total population
of 2500 both young and old had joined in the Samhain lantern
procession to follow the god cernunnos and invoke dead spirits
in accordance with the ancient practices of this festival.
Two organisations had led this 10 year long programme and
both were growing in strength. More disturbing was the fact
that the Vicar of one of the local Church in Wales churches
was supporting this event and in fact had become involved
in goddess worship as well as Buddhism and Hinduism. His Bishop
supports the Vicar. The local Christians were clearly disturbed
as to the spiritual condition of the town. We sought The Lord
and we heard Him telling us to go and to praise Him in the
town but not to go whilst we were involved in any form of
paganism ourselves. We examined our traditions as a Church
and God made it clear that our Christmas celebrations, which
involved the tree, holly and ivy (all symbols of the god cernunnos)
and which is a pagan festival, was more aligned to paganism
than to true Christianity which is based in the Hebrew Scriptures.
We knew the correct date of the birth of Jesus to be the time
of His Festival of Tabernacles held in September and October.
The Easter celebration represents the cycle of life and fertility
and the spring equinox and the celebration of the goddess
Ostre whose symbols are the egg and the rabbit, again pagan.
The true date for remembering the sacrifice of Our Lord was
God's Appointed Feast which is Passover. We recognised that
the traditional Christian Festivals were brought about as
a result of a victory of paganism over the early Christian
Church as well as hatred towards the Jews. We prayed and abandoned
the Christmas, Easter and Sunday worship and moved completely
to celebrate The Lords Festivals and Sabbath AND THEN we began
our praise events in Machynlleth. Within just a few months
the two pagan/witchcraft organisations folded and the Samhain
festival has since been a decreasing event in the town. We
can only thank God that He has honoured us as we have been
obedient to Him. We now worship in the building of one of
those two organisations. He went before us when no one could
accuse us of doing as the pagans do, as explained to us in
Leviticus 18 v 3.
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