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13 New Articles
Prophecy Fulfilled - Cal Pierce
Wed, 9/26/2018
Cal Pierce
Prophetic Word Fulfilled
This past weekend, we launched our new Healing Rooms Global Network, which is the fulfillment of the prophetic word that was given to the Healing Rooms by Shawn Bolz in October of 2016.
(You may read the prophetic word in this newsletter under "Prophecies")
The Healing Rooms Global NetworkBy joining our Apostolic and Prophetic Network, you will be empowered, through current revelation, to advance the Kingdom of God in your city, region and every nation today! This program includes everything you need to become proficient in the supernatural realms of God in every sphere of life!
Our vision for the Healing Rooms Global Network is to prepare the Body of Christ to bring about healing, signs and wonders through the Great Awakening! Our goal is to lay the foundation for this transformation and build up the body of Christ with Apostolic and Prophetic teaching, according to Ephesians 2:20.
We must be built up together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit in order to bring His Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven!
The “Healing Rooms Global Network” brings together some of the most profound Prophetic and Apostolic voices to equip and mentor you every single week. This is your opportunity to grow with a community that will support you and build you up at the same time!
Our mission is to equip passionate people worldwide with Kingdom mindsets resulting in personal transformation and therefore becoming catalysts of transformation within their God-given spheres of influence.
Visit the website at www.healingroomsglobal.com
I invite you to take a moment to listen to the video below for an inside view of what will be available, should you choose to sign up. Hopefully, you will enjoy my interview with Wesley Campbell that explains the prophetic journey that has brought us to where we are today and where we hope to go from here.
Wesley Campbell interviewing Cal Pierce
Testimonies
Wed, 9/26/2018
Hepatitis C HealedI went to the Syracuse Prayer and Healing Rooms a few weeks before a doctor's appointment with my gastroenterologist for hepatitis C. I had my usual blood work done. The doctor called me at home a couple of days later to report that my hepatitis C was undetectable. The doctor went on to explain that she'd never seen anything like this before. I asked my doctor if she believes in God and prayer. The Dr. says that she wants to believe it was God and prayer. I had another test and, to God be the glory, I'm healed!
--ANONYMOUS- July 8, 2018
Syracuse Prayer and Healing Rooms
Syracuse, New York, USA
Back Healed
I have had back problems since I was in the 5th-6th grade. I had surgery in 2004 at age 26 for scoliosis and have two rods in my back. The doctor did not touch the lower two vertebrae because I would have lost too much mobility. I had a lot of pain every day in my entire spinal column. My husband has been wonderful in helping relieve my pain by endless nights of rubbing. I had one leg longer than the other, so I had to wear a lift in my left shoe, and if I went longer than 5-10 minutes without it, I would have lots of pain in my hips and back for the next couple of days. I have prayed for healing for years, always knowing God can heal. I went to the praying/ healing room (on 8/20/18 at Healing Rooms of Green Bay) knowing God could heal me then if He chose that time. He did heal my legs to the same length. I walked out of the healing room without my shoe lift and have not worn it since, and I am pain free in my lower back; and have had little to no pain in my upper back. I am still believing God will finish what He started and totally heal the rest. When God heals, He is glorified! It is always for His glory. Spiritual healing and understanding are also taking place. I have been asking God for truth from Him, and He has been giving it over and over! He who has begun a good work in us will see it through to its completion! God is and will be glorified through me! Thank you Lord for Your everlasting love and mercies! Great is Your faithfulness!!
- Suzanne S - August 20, 2018
Healing Rooms of Green Bay
Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
Macular Degeneration Healed
"I came to the Healing Rooms to receive prayer for my eyes. Four months ago, the eye doctor told me I had problems with my macula. It was thinning on the top and bottom, and it was bumpy and irregular. Three years prior to this I had a hole in my macula on my other eye that required surgery. I went to the doctor 3 days later. When the doctor examined me, he said they (my eyes) looked great. I asked him about what he said four months ago. He looked at my x-rays from last time, and said if I hadn't brought it up, he wouldn't have known. It (the macula) looked perfect! I praise God for this, and this would have been enough, but God had more for me. As the team prayed, God delivered me from fear. They encouraged me to sit before the Lord and ask Him to pour down His love on me and keep asking for more. I have done this and the results have been amazing. So many areas of my life I didn't know I had fear in. Perfect love casts out all fear! I am so grateful to God for His love, faithfulness and healing. I am also grateful for the Healing Rooms here in Starkville."
- Anonymous - August 13, 2018
Starkville Healing Rooms
Starkville, Mississippi, USA
Like a Roaring Lion - Jesse Utz
Wed, 9/26/2018
Jesse Utz
Like a Roaring Lion
Sometimes a subject, a number or an object comes up over and over again in a person’s life. This object or phrase seems to keep showing itself in conversations, dreams, stories or testimonies and it makes one think, “God, what are you trying to tell me?”
I have a good friend that is always seeing the numbers 18 or 19, either on the clock, in scripture or hearing them in a normal conversation. When she hears or sees these numbers, she takes notice, because God seems to be telling her something and she had better listen. Much like myself, ever since the bombing of the Twin Towers, I am always drawn to look at the clock at the exact time of 9:11. I always say a prayer for those who lost a loved one on that day when this happens.
So when the two subjects of “Authority” and a “Roaring Lion” came up time and time again over the three days Karrie and I spent at the International Association of Healing Rooms Summit in Spokane, I took notice.
It wasn’t just hearing it in the words of the guest speakers, although it came up again and again from the speakers from Australia, Africa, Montana, Canada and many others. They all spoke of a lion in some manner in their presentations. But that wasn’t all. It became more personal for me.
It wasn’t even that the artist who was painting during worship up front painted a lion right before all of our eyes. No, it was even more personal than that for me.
At least a dozen people came up to me and Karrie over those three days and spoke the word “Authority” to us. Or they said they could see a roaring lion in us, near us or on our shirt. Our shirts had no designs on them; there were no lions in the building that we knew of! You see, many years ago when I was sick, Karrie’s sister gave me a walking stick. I used it a lot during my illness. After I was healed, I put the stick away. But not long after I was better, that walking stick that had been sitting in the corner collecting dust, started to become a prayer staff. Then Butch and Kim Stanger blessed it for me. And then…God did!! When others saw that staff for the first time, they “sensed” something. When they held it, they “felt” something. And when they saw me with it, they “knew” something. They all used the word “Authority”.
But it gets even more personal. I did see Jesus at this conference! Some of you will think I am crazy. That is okay! Come and talk to me sometime and I will tell you the whole story. If you still think I am crazy, well, that will be on you then, because I know what happened to me. I will give you a little summary here, if I can.
I had what some might call a “vision”; not my first, but by far, the most intense and personal. I did see Jesus and He did talk to me. I also saw roaring lions with our King. But to give you a clearer perspective, I will break it down like this. We are all meant to be like roaring lions! We are to take authority over what God has given us. What He gives us is power over our one and only true enemy. We are to act on His behalf with that authority, knowing the whole time that it is not by anything we do, but because of Christ and what He already did, because we can do nothing without Him. We think we can, the world thinks it can, leaders think they can. But really, God is the only One with that kind of power and authority. I had a “wake up call” from on High!
I am nothing special; just a man obeying a call from the Lord God Almighty. There is a shift coming in our atmosphere. I believe it has already started. We must wake up as a body, wake up as a future bride of the King. We must wake up and take that authority mantle that was placed within each one of us and begin to roar like we were meant to! Like a roaring lion, walk in that authority that Jesus gave to us. The ultimate sacrifice of love was made so that we could live in authority. I am committed, as well as many others, to praying for every one of you to “wake up and roar!”
Jesse Utz, one of our Saturday prayer team members, writes for The Star in Grand Coulee, Washington.
It's Overflow Time - Linda Keough
Wed, 9/26/2018
Linda Keough
It’s Overflow Time
Yom Kippur was just celebrated, Yom Kippur is the most holy day of the year. Once a year the Priest would go to make atonement for the people of God; there was always a blood sacrifice. If you went into the Holy place with any sin, you would die.
Thank God, Jesus is the Lamb that was slain once and for all, and His blood makes us holy and clean. Jesus is our High Priest.
The Word says we enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of the Lamb. That means we have entrance to His Presence. (Hebrews 10:19) Christ in us, the hope of glory. He moves in many ways and speaks in many ways. He is in us, He is with us, He is upon us and He flows thru us.
He is calling us to enter into the Holy Place by the blood of the Lamb; calling us into the eternal realm, the unseen realm, the realm of angels, the realm of revelation and visitation, into the glory realm that He has prepared for us.
He is saying;
"Take the limits off – Take the limits off of Me – Take the limits off of yourself. You are welcome to come by the blood of the Lamb. Remember how I grabbed Ezekiel by the hair and took him up in a moment’s time and brought him into the heavenly realms. (Ezekiel 8:3)
"Come on up! Come on up to the place where I dwell. Come on up to the heavenly realms. For I have much to teach you and much to show you. I will fill you, I will fill your mouth, I will fill your hands and I will fill your pocket books.
"It is overflow time. It is time to live in the overflow of the goodness of God! Suddenly “No More Lack” but Fat. The anointing shall break the yoke. Get ready for the overflow. Get ready for restoration and for the blessings that I Am about to pour out. Nothing Can Stop it! For it has already been released! It is on its way. It is overflow time!
"For you have been faithful and I AM a rewarder of those who diligently seek me. You shall reap the reward. Look up for I AM about to pour upon your head My Goodness and My Glory, My Anointing. You will be saturated in My manifest presence. You will be changed in a twinkling of an eye and those things that I have spoken to you in the night hour shall come upon you Suddenly.
"For I AM not a man that I should lie. That which I said, you shall walk in... you shall walk in! Look up for your redemption draws nigh.
"Every Hope – Every Dream – Every Vision shall come into the Earth.
Not by might and not by power, but by My Spirit."
Linda Keough
Prophecy - Shawn Bolz
Wed, 9/26/2018
Shawn Bolz
This is a prophecy given to the Healing Rooms by Shawn Bolz on August 13, 2016:
God is saying that He wants to give you a media strategy for the nations that is actually going to be a recording mechanism that can fill households faster through media than they would ever hear it through the written word. I saw Him giving you several people who will be media based who would be able to spread the good news of what's happening. I felt like He was saying "I want to align whatever you are doing with media right now to be a source of good stories and good news." It reminded me of Bethel where they are doing those little videos of people's testimonies and they are being shared like 10,000 times. I feel like the Lord is saying "I have a sharing mechanism through the internet for your media that will blow you away..."
...I feel like the Lord is saying, "I am giving you the mountain of media and I am setting up the structure you are already working on to create a voice that will go further", and I saw the more creation you've had for 17 years being dwarfed by the multiplication you will have over the next 5 to 10 years. I feel like the Lord is saying "It is actually like an accelerator to where you will be shocked at the growth." I know you have done media stuff, so I'm not sure what the key is, but I know God will give you the word of wisdom that will unlock the key to this successful growth plan and connection plan because I kept hearing the word Connection! Connection! Connection! To where everybody would feel connected together as if they were watching the same thing, doing the same thing from all these locations in the same week. They would feel connected to each other's stories and what is going on. I felt like it was popcorn. It was't just the media you were producing but the media that was being produced in other places. I felt like the Lord said it was like this channel of communication of the goodness of God through the miraculous power that would begin to populate some sort of channel where people with all kinds of diseases would have role models of healing that they could look at and they are already there, but there is a media platform that God is saying "I want to release" that will create one of the biggest places and containers of faith we've had in this generation. So He is going to give you some key people who will help bring this about. But this IS going to unlock your next stage. Media will unlock your next stage.
Media will unlock your next stage of not only growth but momentum. After I heard this word from God, I thought this is one of the most important things for the Healing Rooms' contribution to the world. You are going to give us faith for the amount of storage we are going to be able to hear of cancers healed from the word of their testimony in front of our eyes - on our computers, on our smart phones, on our devices. There will be no end. We will start to think of some things as lesser than healings because of the recording mechanism that will come out from you guys. It will create a momentum in the healing movement like we've never seen before. And you guys the Lord is asking you to carry that torch. I actually saw an angel that looked like a lampstand. It was keeping a fire before the throne of the testimony of God. I feel like this isn't just an assignment, but there is heavenly power, there is resource to make this happen. You are going to start to attract some people who work in the media field who will take it to different levels as you go. You just have to bite off the piece you can chew now, and God will multiply it.
Shawn Bolz. Shawn Bolz is a prophetic minister whose passion is to influence Christians to take on their journey of intimacy with God wholeheartedly. He has used his prophetic ministry and his fresh Biblical perspective in his teaching/life coaching messages to help people come into a relational approach with God that is both organic and revelatory.
Coming Events
Wed, 9/26/2018
Prophet and Author Harold Eberle is coming to Spokane!
Come and receive on October 19th and 20th 7pm.
115 E. Pacific Spokane WA
$15 Register now at Healingrooms.com to save your spot!
Brian Simmons, Author of The Passion Translation Bible
,is coming to Spokane!
November 9thand 10th at 7 pm
Healing Rooms
115 E. Pacific
Spokane, WA
$15 Register now at healingrooms.com to save your spot!
Testimony:
I met Brian when he was ministering in Hawaii at the WLI School. I was able to attend 3 days of meetings; morning, noon and night. After the first meeting, I was so overwhelmed by the presence of God that I sat in my van during lunch and all I could do was cry and pray.
The encounters of God that Brian has experienced will melt your heart and cause you to hunger for more of Him. When he shared about his encounter with the Man of Fire, his hands turned beet red. He ministered time and again with the love of the Father.
You will be blessed by his ministry to the saints.
Regional Director to Hawaii
Linda Keough
Resources
Wed, 9/26/2018
This month we are featuring books by Cal Pierce on health and healing that will help to give you a better understanding on how to walk in Kingdom health, how to maintain that health and how to pray for others to do the same. You will most certainly be enriched!Blessings to you!
Healing Rooms Bookstore Team
Preparing the Way
by Cal Pierce
B-029
$11.00
Take a journey with Cal as he takes you from the beginning, in May of 1996 when he first experienced the power of the Holy Spirit to his call to re-dig the wells of John G. Lake's Healing Rooms in Spokane, Washington, which led to the reopening of the Healing Rooms Ministries.
Receive Your Healing and Reclaim Your Health
by Cal Pierce
B-060-194
$15.99
We are in a health crisis. Breakthroughs are needed if we are to experience the divine health and healing that God wants for us, breakthroughs that can only come when we partner with the Holy Spirit. Cal gives you the keys to experience the divine health that was designed for you. God has the power to eradicate sickness through prayer. And when you give the Holy Spirit control of your health, He becomes a partner, guiding you in truth regarding nutrition, exercise, and every aspect of a healthy life.
Healing in the Kingdomby Cal Pierce
B-245-769
$14.99
Healing in the Kingdom lays a foundation from God's Word that shows you how to receive healing by faith, how to address the roadblocks to healing and how to move in authority through the Holy Spirit to see healing and divine health manifested in this present age. In order to move in God's power to see the sick healed, we must first know that we have the power to heal the sick--and that certainly can only be found in the Word of God.
Being the Body of Christ - Cal Pierce
Thu, 8/30/2018
Cal Pierce
We need to receive the revelation of what it means to be the body of Christ. This isn’t just a spiritual idea. When we are re-born, filled with the Holy Spirit, we become the occupation of God in the earth. Let’s look at Colossians 2:9-10.
We are the body of Christ. (1 Cor. 12:27). We are a spiritual body and a physical body. This scripture tells us the fullness of the Deity or Godhead dwells in bodily form. This is astounding, when you think about it! When we are born again, we are made complete, He becomes our head, and we become His body on earth to establish His Kingdom here as it is in Heaven. He is our head and He rules over and has authority over all the earth. Luke 10:19 says.
He has given us authority over the enemy to carry out the rulership of His Kingdom. The fullness of God is available to us to rule the earth. So many Christians lack this knowledge and the enemy rules over them. The enemy will measure you by how you see yourself. The problem we’re having is a lack of knowledge or knowing, and that will cause us to perish in the world.
The Truth is, Jesus is our head and we are His body. We have the mind of Christ and by the Holy Spirit, we can think supernaturally. The power of the Godhead flows through this process. When we embrace this with our knowing, the Holy Spirit occupies our learning capacity. We are not limited by what we know, but unlimited by what He knows. When we take this position, His surpassing greatness toward us brings the power to destroy the work of the enemy and live an overcoming life.
Testimonies
Thu, 8/30/2018
Neck HealedGOD the HEALER!! I came across this man sitting in line to have an X-ray taken as he had been in a car accident, could not move his neck and was in much pain. I held his hand and commanded the pain to go and his neck to move freely! All pain left and his neck moved freely from side to side! Not sure what the X-ray showed. God loves scrambling man's beliefs! instead of walking by sight and facing the enemy, we walk by faith and face God!
- Carol Campbell - AUGUST 10, 2018
Divisional Director over Africa and National Director over South Africa
Capetown, South Africa
Healed of Cancer
The Good Lord has restored my health and healed my wounds!
After a year and a half of chemotherapy and radiation, three surgeries, kidney failure and much, much more the enemy tried in order to take me out – Praise to my Father, I am cancer free!! Doing well!! And I am alive to declare His faithfulness!
- Rebecca Asbury ON AUGUST 16, 2018
Sterling Healing Rooms
Sterling, Illinois, USA
Creative Miracle
The Holy Spirit is at work in Africa!
God is great!! A lady has received back her uterus and fallopian tubes she lost after a surgery. Actually, when the uterus and ovaries are removed, there is no way a woman can see her menses again. But amazingly, as we were busy praying for the lady's daughter, instead of just the daughter being healed, the mother sensed something coming out from her tummy. When she went home, she noticed she was bleeding. Her menses were back! When she went to double check with the gynecologist who did the surgery and removed the uterus, through the scanner, they noticed that the uterus was back. This is a creative miracle! Praise God! Woweee!!
-Augustin Ndjoumbi - AUGUST 21, 2018
Director of the Swimming Pool HR
Libreville, Gabdon, Africa
Tased by Love - Carol Krum
Thu, 8/30/2018
Carol Krum
It is known that some children are born with an “old soul” having a depth of simplicity and profundity that leaves adults wondering how they could know some of the things that come out of their mouths.
Such is the case with a little seven-year-old boy named Logan.
My dear friend and sister in Christ, Diane, has been his nanny since he was about 2 months old. It didn’t take long to know that she was falling head over heels in love with this new little man in her life. It also didn’t take long to see that the feeling was mutual, as every time she entered the room, he lit up with great delight. It has been pure joy watching this relationship develop into something so unique and precious over the years.
Recently, Logan’s mother was telling Diane that he had started telling lies, which was a shock to everyone, as he wasn’t at all prone to doing this. Later, Diane sat with him alone and told him that his mother had told her that he was telling lies, to which he responded, “Yes, DiDi, I have been.” She proceeded to tell him how very disappointed she was in hearing this and went on to tell him how wrong it was and the consequences that would come if he continued. She ended by saying “I want you to promise me that you will never tell another lie with a “Pinky Promise”. He wrapped his little pinky around hers and promised that he would never tell another lie, ending with “I love you!”
A few days later, his mother told Diane that something had changed in Logan. He had two opportunities where he could have lied, but he told the truth. She told him how very proud of him she was that he was telling the truth and not lying. Finally, she asked him what had happened that had made him stop lying. His answer was simple. He said, “DiDi tased me!” She asked him to repeat what he had said as she wasn’t sure what he meant. He said, “DiDi tased me with her love and I can’t ever tell another lie.”
Some may chuckle at his response, while others are speechless when hearing this story. I was speechless (which if you knew me, you would know that is a miracle!) I knew that I knew God was in this somewhere with a message from Heaven and I was determined to find out exactly what it was.
The only thing I could think to connect the word “tase” with was a taser gun that the police use. So I decided to do a word search. There had to be a hidden spiritual meaning in this word that had caused my spirit to rise up within me when I heard it! Turns out that the only reference used is associated with the taser gun. But a sentence used in the definition is where the hidden message was waiting for me. “The police tased the man just in time before he was able to do harm to himself or others.”
Bam! I found it!
We can easily relate to living out Isaiah 53:6 which says “We all like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way.” It is no wonder that Jesus tells us in Matt. 26:41 to “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” But He also promised to send us His Holy Spirit to be our helper. And He did! Read Acts 2!
Our God is a good God, kind, gentle and tender in heart toward His people whom He loves. He doesn’t condemn us in our sin, because Jesus bore it all for us on the cross at Calvary. He has always known our weaknesses. So, it is through the power of His Holy Spirit, that He “tases” us with His love just in time before we can do more harm to ourselves and others when we are about to do or say something we shouldn't. Keep in mind, He loves us just the way we are…but too much to let us stay that way!!
How gentle was His love in that “Pinky Promise” as His power flowed from one soul to another, bringing conviction into the life of a sweet little boy. This is a picture He wants us all to have of Him and His great love for us. It is always the “goodness of God that leads us to repentance.” Romans 2:4. “He is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.” Psalm 145:8-9
Pray with me:
Father, thank You for this beautiful demonstration of Your love and tender mercies toward all Your children. Today we lift up our loved ones to You, as well as ourselves, and ask You to “tase us with Your love.” Through the power of Your Holy Spirit, convict us of anything that may lead us away from You through sin and gently bring us back into truth. What a loving God You are! May You find us bowing down in humility with hearts full of thanksgiving and praise for loving us on earth the same way You love us in Heaven. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen!
Carol Krum is the Partner Coordinator at the Spokane Headquarters and our resident encourager in joy.
Coming Events
Thu, 8/30/2018
Glad Tidings Church, Vancouver to GT - Rise Up, Healing Conference
Prophet and Author Harold Eberle is coming to Spokane! Come and receive on
October 19th and 20th 7pm.
115 E. Pacific Spokane WA
$15 Register now at Healingrooms.com to save your spot!
Partners
Thu, 8/30/2018
Prayer of Saint Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
Resources
Thu, 8/30/2018
This month we are featuring books by John and Lisa Bevere that are sure to be great additions to your resource library for emotional and spiritual growth.Blessings to you!
Healing Rooms Bookstore Team
Killing Kryptonite
by John Bevere
B-158-71x
$14.99
Just like Superman, who can leap over any hurdle and defeat every foe, followers of Christ have the supernatural ability to conquer the challenges we face. But the problem for both Superman and us is there's a kryptonite that steals our strength.
Of course, both Superman and kryptonite are fictional . But spiritual kryptonite is not.
This book offers answers to why so many of us are unable to experience the divine strength that was evident among first - century Christians.
In Killing Kryptonite, John reveals what this kryptonite is, why it's compromising our communities, and how to break free from its bondage.
Nurture: Give and Get What You Need to Flourish
by Lisa Bevere
B-047-596
$14.99
This beautifully describes what God's daughters so desperately need. In this heartfelt work, Lisa explains how women of all ages must awaken and restore their capacity to give and receive nurture. If you have never experienced nurture, this is your season. Lisa's stirring message shows you how to make these vital heart connections. We need each other's comfort and assurance as we define ourselves, find our voice, and begin to fulfill God's purpose on earth.
Without Rival
By Lisa Bevere
B-085-582
$13.99
There is a reason we look at others as rivals and limit ourselves to comparison and competition. We have an enemy assaulting our mind, will, and emotions in the hope that we'll turn on ourselves and each other.
In Without Rival, bestselling author Lisa Bevere shares how a revelation of God's love breaks these limits. You'll learn how to stop seeing others as rivals and make the deep connections with your Creator you long for--connections that hold the promise of true identity and intimacy.