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Testimonies
Amanda Eicher - October 2007 Grace Christian Fellowship Sturgis, MI. Dear Dennis & Melanie (& David) Just wanted to send you a great big THANK YOU for all that you did for us in Sturgis. I've waited to send you a note because I wanted to hear and see some of the results of the conference. It has been amazing to see how much of an impact this conference and you have had on our church. We were all very blessed. Here are some of the exciting things that we are feeling/sensing since the conference: People have been more free and burdened to pray for the sick. It's been great to see so many people use prayer as their first response when they find out someone doesn't feel well or is struggling with a physical ailment. The week after the conference Nick H. who attended the conference, met someone at work who has been struggling with asthma and asked if he could pray for him. After he prayed with the man he shared with him all of the things he learned over the weekend at the conference and how he experienced God in a new way. Nick said that he had had several conversations with this man before but never felt strongly enough to pray and share with him. Now his relationship with this man has moved to a new level. Yea God! At the ladies bible study we had a conversation about fear and worry. We talked about the conference and what was taught. Several ladies mentioned the bit that I think Melanie shared about worry being false intercession. Lots of ladies commented on how big of a revelation that was for them. It's encouraging to hear that so many people are making a conscious effort to surrender fear and begin to trust God in a new way. We also felt a breakthrough in our worship at the conference, especially Saturday night, which I'm sure you felt as well. Since that night it seems that people are more free to express themselves during worship. Some are dancing for the first time. Yea God! One other thing...several people (including myself) felt such an overwhelming love from you. It was like we were getting a visit from the Father. Your genuine love for each other and all of us was so attractive and warm. We felt so encouraged and blessed by your real, fatherly/motherly love. Thanks for sharing that with us. It was very refreshing! It seems that God is speaking some very clear things to our church during this time and you were just the beginning of it. Thanks for being so real with us! We loved everything that you brought. It's opening up a whole new realm for all of us! Yea God for both of you and your ministry!! We hope that our relationship with you will only continue to grow! Blessings to you all! Amanda Eicher.
Phyllis Stickle - August 2007 Emmanuel Christian Fellowship - Lerwick, Shetland. I AM HEALED! On 10th June, Melanie and Dennis Morgan-Dohner, from Big God Ministries, visited Emmanuel Christian Fellowship. In the morning we heard their amazing testimonies of healing and hope. They asked us to think of areas in our lives where we felt defeated and had lost hope and prayed for God to bring hope into these areas. For me, it was my health – I had suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME) for 5 years. I had done everything the doctors had suggested, given up work, rested, paced myself but I was getting worse instead of better! After being a ‘busy’ person all my life, always pushing myself beyond what I could manage, I found it very hard to ‘pace’ myself and rest. I knew I was unlikely to recover from the kind of CFS I had, brought on by years of stress and not taking care of myself, and was trying to come to terms with that and was trusting God to keep me from self-pity and to allow him to use me in my illness. He did in so many ways! I knew God healed – he had healed me from Arthritis 13 years before – and I had been prayed for again this time, but it seemed as if this was not God’s will. Yet that Sunday, when Melanie and Dennis prayed for us to have hope, I knew I wanted hope in this area of my life.
I don’t usually attend the evening meeting but this Sunday I knew I had to go. Again we heard more testimony of God’s power, love and mercy. When they said they had an anointing to heal people with Dyslexia, I immediately thought of my son who is Dyslexic and my thoughts and prayers turned to his healing. Everyone was asked to come for prayer and Melanie prayed for me I asked for prayer for my CFS but also for my son and she prayed for us both, and gave me hope for him. Melanie herself had been healed from CFS and she asked for God to ‘lift me out of my black hole’ – exactly how I felt! I felt nothing ‘dramatic’ happen, just a wonderful sense of God’s LOVE for me. I cried for a long time and returned home exhausted. After telling my son all about the wonderful services and praying with him for his healing, I went to bed early. As I lay awake, I was so aware of God’s peace and a sense that God was ‘breathing life and health into my body’! I was so aware of every heartbeat, my blood flowing through my veins, my breathing felt different and I felt ‘movements’ inside me, like the kicking of a baby – ‘new life?’ I must have eventually fallen asleep.
Usually sleep does not relieve the fatigue but in the morning I felt as if I’d been asleep for weeks! My mind felt clear and my body felt strengthened, but most of all, I was so filled with JOY. It was a lovely day and I went out to work in the garden, as if it was the most natural thing, yet I hadn’t done any proper gardening for years. I even worked with the garden fork and shears, which was impossible for me before! Then instead of resting, I went straight to work - a few hours office work I had started in May but was already feeling ‘too much’. That day, I ‘rushed’ around the office and suddenly realised I had RUN up the 16 stairs instead of taking the lift! All day my heart was filled with THANKFULNESS AND PRAISE TO GOD, I was overflowing with JOY. That night I was able to hold my sleeping baby grandson in my arms without my arm aching, I cried with joy. I WAS HEALED, PRAISE GOD. My family were amazed at the difference in me and I gave all the glory to God. The next day I had no ill effects of my busy day and over the last few weeks my muscles have continued to strengthen, my mind is clearer, my legs no longer shake with fatigue, I am able to keep going each day without resting BUT I also feel God wants me to appreciate the health that he has restored and look after the body he has given to me and use my health for his glory, to serve him. I feel so unworthy of God’s blessing but over the years I have held onto a promise from Isaiah 43 given to me on my baptism “Fear not for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name and you are MINE”. God has been faithful and has been with me “through the waters, the rivers and the fire” – they have NOT overwhelmed me! It is a promise for every one of us who know Jesus as the “Lord our God, the Holy One of Israel, our Saviour”. God tells us, “since you are precious and honoured in my sight and because I LOVE YOU”, he blesses our lives, no matter how unworthy we feel, that is how God sees us.
Melanie and Dennis told us our testimonies are “for other people”, we are “anointed to deposit hope”, God has given us the power to “change the island”. SO MANY PEOPLE NEED HOPE, there is so much illness, grief, hurt and disappointment. JESUS IS THAT HOPE. Everything God has done for us is a miracle, we have so much to share! Ephesians 3 v 14-21 says it all - “Out of his glorious riches he can strengthen us with power through his Spirit in our inner being”. We need to “grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God, he is able todo immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen”. As his church we must share our testimonies and share God’s love and power.
“May the God of HOPE fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may OVERFLOW with HOPE by the power of the Holy Spirit”. (Rms 15v13). We must let that ‘overflow’ touch other people’s lives and change their lives forever as God has changed ours.
We truly worship and serve a BIG God, and we are so small, but he loves us and wants to bless our lives. Phyllis Sickle. A ‘Very Thankful Shetland Christian’
Yvonne Carroll - March 2005
In March we attended the More Light Conference with Dennis and Melanie. For me it was an eyeopener in how to minister Jesus to someone. During these days the Lord spoke to me about several things I needed healing in myself, one was that you don't need to please anyone not even Me and during the day the Lord kept repeating, "no pleasing". Yvonne Carroll.
Liz Welch - October 2003. Retford Baptist Church
Thank you so much for a fantastic conference weekend at Retford Baptist Church. It was awesome to see God at work in so many lives in so many ways. Here is my little testimony as given at the final Sunday night meeting :- Liz Welch
Gill Johnson "I am a woman who has realised that there is so much more of God available but who was one who did not see that reality in her life! I came from the best family upbringing the Brits could provide!!! on top of that God gave me a superb husband, one whose credentials YOU COULD DIE FOR as they say!! ...faithful, loving, secure, considerate God fearing.....etc , etc so why did I not feel that I was able to get closer to God the Father? ....... " > Read More Gill Johnson, THE WELL
Fiona Ingham ".... there we were, having come back from a meeting, relaxing in the kitchen and the Holy Spirit prompts Melanie to share something with us. Put simply it was POWERFUL and the Lord, once again, blew up some of the lies I had believed for so long. You folks ooze with the love of Jesus and like me, many are getting free as a result of the Big God message He has placed in you. Amazing! and it's not over yet!!!" Fiona Ingham, Northern Ireland
Brian Spencer Dennis and Melanie cut through the stuff that has grown over the roadsign which reads, 'THIS WAY TO FREEDOM AND WHOLENESS.' And, as they, themselves, dance along that road of freedom and wholeness they challenge and encourage us to join them. We do not know what we would do without Dennis and Melanie's love, input and support -- they are truly a special blessing to the Body of Christ." Brian and Mary Spencer, Gateway Christian Fellowship, Harlow, England
C.K, Lafayette, Indiana, USA "Revelation, Repentance & Recovery, the three R's; that's what I experienced. I wish everybody could just talk to you once!" Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Will Law, England. "You really bumped up my faith, and I can express my love for God to my friends" William Law, Age 12 Winchester, England
Chris & Karen Roe - Follys End . "God uses you two guys in a truly awesome way. You prayed for us and ministered to us a while back and it was a VERY signifiant turning point in our lives.in fact, it was truly life-changing and set us on a path that could have taken us who knows how long to get to where we are now. So thank you!!! we love you both very much." Chris & Karen Roe, Follys End Church, Croydon, UK |
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