My wife and I are missionaries here in Lyon, France working in a pioneer church planting situation together with a Brazilian missionary and a family from the UK.
This morning in our service Daniel dos Santos, a missionary from the Assemblies of God in Brazil with 23 years of experience on the mission field as a healing evangelist shared with us.
In August 1993 he was preaching in a church in Rumania, in a village called Soimos, near the city of Arad. It was an evangelistic service where many people had come to receive healing from the Lord. The church was packed and a non-Christian lady called Maria, who was suffering from heart problems, and who had come to the service with her brother to be healed, became unwell because of the heat. She left the service and went into a side room. There she suffered a stroke and died because of a heart failure. The pastor was informed and then interrupted Daniel who was preaching. The pastor told the choir to start some chorus while he took Daniel to the side room and showed him the dead body. The pastor was very discouraged and wanted to finish the service. He felt the service had, in a way, failed as this lady had died. Daniel said that he then felt faith rise up in him and the Holy Spirit telling him to pray for this lady to be raised from the dead. By now she had been dead for 30 minutes; all resuscitation attempts had been given up 20 minutes after she had died. He commanded the Spirit of Life to come (or go back) into her. Immediately this lady started breathing again and came back to life again. When the pastor went back into the service to share what had happened the church broke out in praise to the Lord. Many were healed and became Christians during the service. The lady later testified that she had felt her spirit leave her body and then later on return again. She wasn't a Christian before but became one through this experience of the resurrection power of our Lord. She was also completely healed of the heart problems. Glory to God!
Daniel's father, who is in charge of a subdivision of the the Assemblies of God in Brazil, being responsible for some 100.000 people, went to Rumania to meet this lady and saw her death certificate. Daniel is visiting us at the moment, and he and his family will be joining our church plant in June as his work in building up churches and leaders in Rumania has finished. The Lord called him in a dream to come to France to continue his work here.
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