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Podcast 003: Jeremy Mangerchine Interview – Part 1

 

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This is the part 1 of my interview with my friend Jeremy Mangerchine. In this episode we discuss  hearing God’s voice, how to live from a place of rest,  writing books, and much more. The interview went long enough that we recorded a second message. You can find Part 2 in the podcast archives after it’s published.

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Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Check out Jeremy’s book The Longest Bridge Across Water

If you’re looking for rest, check out his book The Quitter’s Manual

The message I mentioned where Ken Nichols was instructed by Jesus to relax while healing the sick can be found here.

Past Episodes

Your Greatest Dreams are Yet to Be – Isaiah Appel

Today’s guest blogger is my friend Isaiah Appel. This message was originally posted on the social network Mewe.

I keep forgetting I was supposed to share a dream with you all from about a week ago, but I was reminded

I was in a house seeing through the eyes of a young boy, maybe 7 or 8 years old. His grandpa had recently moved in due to the loss of memory and dementia he had begun experiencing at 73. In the spirit it looked as if I saw the words,”24/7, ADHD, and Alzheimer’s” follow the grandfather’s head. I knew in the dream that the little boy’s dad was coming home soon. His dad was the son of the grandfather. The grandfather, I believe, began to pray or read his bible when an angel (yellow, amber, and peach colored radiant robe) came in and touched his mind and he was completely restored. He was convinced that with faith he would never see this disease again and he wanted to go and travel the world. When the boy’s dad came home, he asked where the grandfather was going.  The grandfather said he was healed and he would go travel. The dad smiled and said,”Are you sure that’s what you want?” He didn’t seem to doubt, but also didn’t care if the man stayed or went because he thought maybe it was just a moment of coherence. I watched as the words which had disappeared tried to reappear as the grandfather thought about it. They quickly fled when he said,”Yes! This is what God has done for me, I’m healed and this will not come back.” Suddenly it was like I was sucked back to my bed and as I was sucked I heard God speak to the grandfather,”Your greatest dreams are yet to be.”

I woke up knowing God was saying that old people would have restored health and was promising them that would live out the dreams they’ve had, but never seen. I had four more dreams that night that all declared the same thing over multiple groups/generations of people, such as single mothers.

I love you all, I feel God is giving a window for us to walk in an anointing that hasn’t yet fully been seen as normal in Christianity. It’s coming, let’s get a head start and equip some others. The generations will be restored. Wow, as I write this I can feel he is speeding up the process of bringing all things to completion that the enemy has stolen from previous generations. He’s restoring more than we’ve ever thought. Seven fold from generation to generation.

Podcast 002: Praying Medic & His Wife – Lets Talk Books

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In this message (recorded in September of 2014) my wife and I discuss our first book and the progress we’d made on our second book My Craziest Adventures With God.  I read one of the stories from the book, and we discuss whether or not you need to have the “gift of healing” to see people miraculously healed. To wrap up the program we briefly discuss what God is doing with emotional healing.

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Past Episodes

I Am Your Tower – Rob Coscia

Photo by Adam Schallau

My guest blogger today is Rob Coscia.

I had a dream a few nights ago in which Jesus took me to a stone tower, somewhere between a city and the edge of a desert. We climbed the stairs about 50 feet to the top windows. I could see miles farther than I imagined. The wilderness was beautiful, from mountains and mesas to canyons and rivers, and was dotted with gorgeous oases. From this window, I could see most of the roads connecting them. He asked me, “What is a tower for?”

I thought about it a moment and said, “Historically (yeah, I used the word ‘historically’ talking to God in a dream- I know, I’m such a nerd), a tower has been used to watch for the enemy.”

He didn’t speak, but part of a scripture popped in my head. “You are my strong tower. You are my rock.” I looked at Him.

“This tower is Me. It is a manifestation of My presence in your life. Every stone represents a time in your life in which I demonstrated My love, grace, and glory to you.” As soon as He said that, I could see it. I also knew that the tower was continually being built up, stronger and taller.

Then He said, “You have been taught that intercession and prayer are a watchtower in which you must keep a constant lookout for the enemy. You have built your own towers to guard yourself against all that you believe will hurt you.” I nodded. “This is My tower. It is the only one you need. My people are more concerned with what the enemy is doing than what I am doing. Like Elisha’s servant, they are panicked at the weak forces of the enemy, instead of living in My glory that surrounds them. This must change.” The truth of that crushed me.

“Look out this window. What do you see?” He pointed to an area far away. At first I saw nothing. But as I stared, the image came closer into view, like a telescopic lens. There was a young family I did not recognize, struggling to walk down an old path. The parents were each carrying a child. They were exhausted, hungry, and thirsty. I looked at Jesus.

“What else do you see?” I could see that they were very near an oasis, a gorgeous one with clear water and fruit on the trees. But there was a hill blocking their view, and they were heading away from it.

“What do I do?”

“Intercede.” At first I had no idea what to say, but another scripture popped in my head. “Every mountain and hill shall be made low. The crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth.”

“Lord, I agree with that scripture.” I put my hands on the stone of the window sill and leaned out. I could feel His love for this family, and His joy at what was about to happen. “I pray that the hills around them shall be brought down.”

There were streaks of light in the sky, which I assumed to be angels rather than lightning. They flew to the family, and a moment later there was a small earthquake. I could see panic on their faces, but they were completely shielded from harm. When it was over, the hill blocking their vision was gone. They could see the oasis, and headed straight for it.

I looked at Jesus. He was smiling at the family as they reached the desert garden. “Lord, what is this place? Where are we?”

“Don’t you know? Look again.”

When He said that, I could see. The revelation took my breath away. When I began treatment for cancer, I had a dream of being in the “valley of the shadow of death”. It was dark, stormy, red with fiery mountains and very scary. In that dream, Jesus came to me as I sat on the ground weeping. He reached out His hand, and smiled at me as He lifted me up. I had that dream repeatedly, and would see it in my mind when I was awake. We walked together every day. He led me through every dark place until I was healed. He still walks with me like that. As I looked around at the hills and paths, I realized that this tower was on the spot He first lifted me up. But it was so different. It was wilderness, but it was beautiful, alive.

Knowing my thoughts, He said, “Wherever you walk with Me, that place is transformed. That is what you get to do. My people get to walk with Me through the darkest places and change them, to occupy them with My love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, generosity, power, grace, and glory. They get to see Me every day. They get to look out at what I am doing and join me in it. That is what will transform this world, and them.

“You are my lovingkindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and the One in who I take refuge.” (Psalm 144)

“From the end of the earth I will cry to You. When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For You have been a shelter for me, a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in Your tabernacle forever! I will trust in the shelter of Your wings.” (Psalm 61)

My Journey of Learning to Heal – Matt Huskey

This testimony of learning how to heal was shared by my friend Matt Huskey.

I grew up as a Christian and while I was taught God was able to heal, I never witnessed any supernatural healing. I first began to learn the truth about God’s desire for us to be healed after stumbling across Andrew Wommack’s God Wants You Well in May of 2014.

Unfortunately, I never saw any results, but God next brought me to Roger Sapp’s teachings in August. I enjoyed his calm demeanor and learned more about healing, however, I still never saw any fruit from my prayers. My relationship with God continued to grow and I knew it was His will for us to be well, yet I never witnessed any physical manifestations of healing.

Last November, my wife began having intense lower abdominal pain. We ended up in the hospital ER an hour later where she was given several tests and required painkillers to lessen the level ten pain she was experiencing. The tests never revealed any definitive cause and after a few hours the pain subsided. The hospital doctor gave her a diagnosis, referred her to a specialist and discharged her. We went home and she had waves of mild pain for the next 24 hours. Specialists disagreed with the hospital’s diagnosis, and to this day we don’t know with any certainty what medical condition caused the episode.

On the way to the hospital, I tried praying and rebuking the pain. God orchestrated many events behind the scenes and helped her recover, but I was very discouraged by my inability to heal her in Jesus’ name. I understood the enemy was behind these attacks, but I still felt very defeated. What was the point of learning about healing if nothing ever came from it? However, I refused to give up and continued to believe that the miracles would eventually manifest.

In December, God lead me to Praying Medic’s book and from him I learned about Pete Cabrera Jr and Todd White. PM’s book and YouTube videos of Cabrera and White were amazing, and I knew that God wanted me to learn from these teachers. Three days later, I finally saw my first healing! My wife had hurt her wrist, so I rebuked in the pain in Jesus’ name, and the pain left. I was ecstatic and more than a little surprised that it had finally worked!

Since then I have prayed for more and more people in the name of Jesus, often seeing success and praising God every time! Even though I have come to expect healing to occur, it still marvels me every time I witness it!

On January 18, 2015, I was reflecting with my wife about her hospitalization two months prior. I said that if it happened again I knew God would heal her and take away the pain. Five days later, at around 11:00 PM, she began having waves of pain that alternated between a one and a six on a scale of ten. This was the exact same kind of pain she experienced the day she was hospitalized.

Immediately, I sat down and prayed with her and rebuked the pain and whatever was causing it. The pain subsided during the prayer but returned seconds later. Rather than giving into fear and doubt, I put my trust in God and prepared to pray again in full confidence in His power. First, I told her that God will heal her of this, and to not think about the previous occasion and allow fear and anxiety to take hold.

For the second prayer, I thanked Father for lessening the pain and I rebuked the enemy, all his works and every spirit of pain, fear, anxiety and infirmity. I then largely repeated the previous prayer. I rebuked the pain and commanded her body to be made whole and well in Jesus’ name.

Something new happened as I was finishing the prayer. Both of my hands began pulsing which felt similar to a mild throbbing. At first, I thought I was feeling my pulse, but I realized one hand was on her and the other on me. I then noticed that it felt like healing was traveling out of my hands. So I put both hands on my wife and waited 15-30 seconds until the sensation subsided.

I asked how she was feeling and she said the pain was almost entirely gone! She occasionally felt very light pain, (a level one) but God had healed her! Within a couple of minutes all of the pain was gone! I then thanked Jesus and rejoiced in prayer for the miraculous healing we just witnessed!

It was a joyous event in stark contrast to two months prior. I doubt if we would have seen such success in such a short period of time if it had not been for the teachings of Praying Medic and the demonstrations of healing by others like Todd White and Pete Cabrera.

Praying Medic March Update

I wanted to update you on a few things that have been happening lately. (Yes, that’s my writing desk.)

First, I’ve been very busy and I haven’t had time to write blog posts lately, so my friends stepped up and provided some great material for the blog, which allowed me to focus on other things. I’d like to thank my guest bloggers for filling in during my absence and I’d like to thank everyone for supporting them.

One thing that’s been keeping me busy is my latest book Seeing in the Spirit Made Simple. My editor has one chapter left to edit then her work will be done. In the coming weeks we’ll begin formatting the book and designing the cover. Our goal is to have the book available by the end of March.

We seem to be in a season where people are challenging traditional beliefs. The challenges are not an effort to be different, nor are they due to rebellion. They’re an attempt to examine whether the things we believe are true. My next book will put some long-held beliefs about seeing in the spirit under the microscope. In the same way I demonstrated that healing and miracles are not just for a few gifted people, I hope to convince readers that seeing in the spirit can be done by anyone.

Seeing in the Spirit Made Simple will be available as a paperback and as an e-book. In addition to making it available on Kindle, Nook, Kobo and iBook, I may offer the e-book directly from this website, if I can get things prepared in time.

Over the last week I’ve been learning the art of podcasting. The process is more complicated than I imagined, but I’m making progress and we’ve recorded a few interviews. I’m excited about making podcasts a regular feature here.

Lately, I’ve been entertaining the possibility of recording teaching videos. As excited as I am about podcasting, I’m not very excited about the prospects of having my face all over the internet, but I’ve been weighing the pros and cons and I’m leaning toward making a limited number of teachings available on video. They would essentially be companions to the books in the “Made Simple” series. (I have 5 more books planned for that series.) Short videos could be made available on my YouTube channel, while longer videos could be purchased from Amazon, or here on my website.

The leap to making videos would require me to purchase and learn how to use recording equipment, which is an investment in time and money that I’ve been reluctant to make. I realize that I could record in a studio, but I prefer at least trying to do things like this myself. I haven’t made a firm decision yet on making videos. Let me know your thoughts on it in a comment.

I have a few more guest posts scheduled before I return to my normal blogging routine. That’s it for now. Thanks for your support and your prayers.

~ Praying Medic

 

 

C.S. Lewis on Christianity

This is one of the few audio recordings of C.S. Lewis in existence. It contains some of the foundational concepts upon which he based his book, Mere Christianity.

Jesus Teaches Me to Relax While Healing the Sick – Ken Nichols

My guest blogger today is Ken Nichols. If you read my book Divine Healing Made Simple, you may remember Ken’s dream where Jesus instructed him about His will for healing. This is Ken’s story about another encounter with Jesus.

In a dream, the morning of 1/29/15, what I recall was that Jesus and an Angel were teaching and encouraging me in healing the sick. All three of us were standing in an area with lots of green trees and bushes around us. It seemed we had been walking along a path, but at this moment, we all paused so that they could share a point with me before walking on again. They seemed very much in a fun, light-hearted, smiling, manner (almost chuckling as they looked at each other and then back at me) telling me to just have fun while I am here. Their primary point to get across to me was the emphasis on persistence.

“Do you believe it is really My will to heal, ALWAYS?”

“Yes,” I said.

“Then just keep going until you get results with each one”.

“I know it’s Your will always, but what I don’t know is if I am in a place to get those results each time, like something is wrong with me, because at times it seems nothing is happening at all. ”

Jesus replied, “Well, you are a new creation in Me, all things have passed away and all things have become new and all things are of God, and We don’t make defective and broken children. There is nothing wrong with you. A carpenter doesn’t hit a nail one time and if it doesn’t go all the way in, he throws away his hammer thinking it defective or doesn’t think his nails are good enough. He hits it again, and again UNTIL it is all the way in. They know if they hit it over and over, eventually it will go in. Builders use many types of fasteners: screws, nails, rivets, bolts. If they want to remove a rivet, they can’t use a wrench or claw hammer. They need to use the right tools to remove whichever item they are working with. Depending on what the person has going on with them, an injury involving simply damaged or dead tissue, a sickness or disease caused by an infection, or body chemistry out of balance, a missing body part, a spirit of some category; you have been given tools which are appropriate for and able to remove any of these condition and bring the healing. Remember how you have been told that it is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to discover and search out a matter? You have heard it said that these things are hidden for you, not from you. So use your toolbox, of power, authority, gifts of the Spirit such as the word of knowledge, to know what is going on and what to do, and other gifts. Declarations of faith, and all of these working by love, and find which tool is the best fit to remove the problem you are facing. The more serious you get and harder you concentrate, the more it becomes your works, instead of just having fun, relaxing and placing your faith and confidence in My works. If one thing doesn’t work, try something else, but always be listening as we may give you clues or guidance that will help you discover the answer. But it’s no fun at all if you give up or quit after only trying a short time. Sometimes you may come across a suborn nail or a screw with a stripped out head and you’ll have to be ready to do something outside the box. I sent people to wash mud from their eyes. Sometimes I had to deal with a spirit of infirmity first, sometimes I just told them to do something, so don’t make it a formula, just do what you know and then if it becomes a challenge, have fun and explore and listen for clues and directions, kind of like the ‘Hotter or colder’ game you used to play when finding a hidden item.” He took hold of my shoulder and rocked me back and forth saying, “You’re so tense. Relax and have fun. So many have forgotten how to have fun. It really is easier than most make it. If it seems hard, then you’re doing something wrong. Does this help?”

“Yes, it does,” I said.

Responding to the Attack – Cherieann Riley

Until she gets her own blog, from time to time, I’ll be featuring the writing of my friend Cheriann Riley. Here’s her latest message:

We’ve been under a new assault this week, as a family, especially the husby. You probably already know our reaction to it.

We blessed each other, Dad, the company the husby works for, and every other thing we could think of. We increased our rejoicing and gratefulness and our worship. We retreated even deeper into Dad, stepping up our Rest and Peace to yet another level, and we focused even more intently on how we can bless each other and work together more excellently than ever before.

See, I have no desire to love a life guided by circumstances. I don’t respond to circumstances, I respond to Dad. I am ever learning how to abide deeper and deeper in him in the everyday.

My heart is for vengeance against the enemy. If they are going to pull anything, my response is to go that much deeper in Dad, learn that much more about Love, Rest, Favor, Peace, Freedom, Joy, etc., that we emerge from any fire that much more blessed, that much more confident, that much more in every good thing Dad has for us that the enemy hates themselves for even thinking of moving against us. They are put in the position that if they do nothing, we rise up higher and get blessed. And if they do something against us, we rise up higher and get blessed with a multiplier on it. So basically, the enemy is always in a lose-lose situation, and we are always in a win-win situation in partnership with Dad. Now THAT is vengeance. And our inheritance.

This way, my life is lived in responding to Dad’s goodness, which, I must admit, is WAY more fun than worrying about whatever the enemy is up to. I choose not to be overwhelmed by circumstances or the enemy or any lack in myself or others. I choose to be overwhelmed by Dad’s goodness over me, over my life, over my family, over my city, over my country, over my world.

And to all those who told me this wasn’t possible this side of eternity, I love you dearly. But I am living it anyway. Not in the future. Not the other side of eternity. Not when circumstances are a certain way. RIGHT NOW. No exceptions. I’m not trading in my inheritance just because it makes some people uncomfortable. ♥

My Friend’s Deliverance – Kazuko Onishi

This testimony was sent to me by my friend Kazuko Onishi. I’d like to introduce her to those who don’t know her. Kazuko lives near Kobe, Japan. She was the first person in the country to purchase my book Divine Healing Made Simple. We became friends on Facebook and she asked if she might translate my articles and parts of the book into Japanese for her friends as there is very little written on healing and deliverance in her language. I agreed and before long she was teaching her friends what she was learning, mostly from my writings and those of Bill Johnson and Randy Clark, which she is also translated for her friends. This is the message she sent me about her first deliverance session, which came unexpectedly while having dinner with friends.

Hi Joseph, (That’s what she calls me.)  

I don’t know if you are interested in my story but I want to share it with you. I had G4 summit meeting last Saturday.  Two months ago I received a FB friend request from Tomomi who lives in New Zealand. She was impressed by your “Power and Authority” in Japanese on my FB.  She asked me if she could talk with me about healing and deliverance when she comes back to Japan. She is from Osaka. So I asked her if I could invite Robert too. (Robert is a mutual friend of ours.)

She came back to have a wedding to Diego whom she met in New Zealand. Diego, who used to be a Muslim is now a fervent Christian too. So Tomomi, Diego, Robert, and I met together in Kobe. We had a great time talking, praising God, sharing testimonies, and praying together at my favorite cafe (The coffee there tastes so good).  We were talking for three hours and more and then Robert had to leave.

Diego invited me to have dinner with them so we went to my favorite Chinese restaurant.  After eating, I asked Tomomi if could pray for her because at the café she had said she always had pain in her toes. I asked about her pain level and she said she had no pain then because there was God’s presence around us.  Whenever there’s presence of God, she has no pain but only stiffness.  So I prayed and commanded her stiff toes to be flexible.

“Strange to say,” she said, “the pain came back to my toes.”

So I laid my hand there and commanded the pain to leave in Jesus name.

“It’s very strange, but it moved to another part,” she said.

“Where?” I asked.

It moved to her right cheek, then to her right neck and lastly to her throat. I prayed each time when it moved.  We were convinced it was the evil spirit that caused her pain and I commanded it to come out and leave from her mouth.  It became smaller and smaller but it was still stuck inside her throat.  I felt something in her throat moving under my hand.  Her body twitched a few times. I switched praying in Japanese to tongues and then she exhaled something. Finally it came out from her mouth and she said she saw a snake leaving in her vision.

It is the first deliverance I’ve ever had.

I sent a mail to Robert about it yesterday and he said he could see the snake manifesting in her at the cafe but didn’t say anything. He asked the Lord to show him the way to deliver the snake from her that night. He says that deliverance from a snake means much to us.

Robert is a seer and I always wanted to be like him. But now I think God gives each of us a different gift. I think God gives me a gift of healing (Of course I know every believer can heal the sick in the name of Jesus. But mine seems to be stronger). Tomo’s headache was instantly healed when I laid my hand and prayed at the Café (she said my hand was so hot). Diego’s running nose was completely healed when I laid my hand on his nose and prayed twice at the restaurant. I’m sure Coreen has some special gift too. (Coreen is a mutual friend of ours.)

I’ll send pictures of us at the café.

Good night, Joseph!

Mimi

If you know anyone who might benefit from the material Kazuko is translating into Japanese, she can be found on Facebook, (here) or you can e-mail me and I can help you get in touch with her.

Tomomi and Kazuko