THE MOST STARTLING DEVELOPMENT IN WORLD HISTORY [REAL TITLE RE RESURRECTIONS NOW]

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Writer's note: You may have more trouble with this column than with anything you have ever read. I can't say I blame you. It took me a lot of research time before I fully accepted the now-well-attested fact that God has been bringing hundreds of people back from the dead in recent years.

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As I was leaving New Delhi in 2003, I called an Indian friend, Rodrick Gilbert, who leads a network of house churches with 26,000 former Hindus.

"Rod," I said, "I have a little credibility problem in the United States when I teach people about resurrections. Could you send somebody over to my hotel who has come back from the dead? I'd like to take a few snapshots."

Rod graciously brought someone over himself – 7-year-old Arjun Janki Dass, along with his mother Mina, and Savitri, the lady who prayed him back to life.

At six o'clock on an April evening in 2001, Arjun was accidentally electrocuted by 220-volt wires touching his head.

His parents took him to a medical clinic where they worked on his body for two hours without success. They tried CPR, electroshock paddles, adrenaline shots – all the usual. But they couldn't get him off flatline. So the doctor charged them 5,000 rupees (about $110) and told them to call an undertaker.

But they didn't. Instead they called Rod at the nearby Deliverance Church. He then called upon Savitri, one of his staff members.

Savitri brought two other Christians to Arjun's home, and the five of them began praying over the dead body about 10:00 p.m. They prayed their hearts out for six hours with pleading and tears. Then, at 4:00 a.m. the next morning, Arjun snapped back to life with no brain damage, no physical problems.

Today, he's a normal 9-year-old kid except for two nasty scar lines behind his left ear where the wire hit.

Savitri is a 62-year-old widow, a Dalit (formerly called "untouchable") from the lowly Dom class. She spent her life as a street sweeper, which made her, in the caste system, the lowest of the low. The broom was her livelihood. In 1992, she turned from Hinduism to Christ. She remains today a fine, humble lady, and among the more serious people I have ever met.

As she and the others were leaving, I asked her through an interpreter: "I understand you've been active in ministry for six years. In that time, how many resurrections have you been involved with?"

I would give you Savitri's e-mail address so you could check her out for yourself, but she doesn't have one. She can't read.

You can view a few photos at Megashift.com. (After the intro, click on "About Megashift," then on "Resurrections.")

The most shocking aspect of the growing turn of the world toward Christ is this: People are coming back from death after being prayed for by ordinary folks like you and me. To be specific, my newest book, "MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," documents resurrections in 52 countries, mostly in the last 15 to 20 years. And these are not the well-known, "near-death" experiences where someone on an operating-room table passes out and goes down a long tunnel toward a light. These are stone-dead corpses.

The flood of solid new evidence is compelling. Two or three reports could be dismissed as faulty rumors or candidates for "Unsolved Mysteries." But hundreds of firsthand reports from 52 nations? Some with death certificates? No way. (Yet a few of the miracles in "Megashift" are even harder to believe than a resurrection!)

Here is what it all means: The lockdown of the common man has come to an abrupt end. Many of the limitations your ancestors endured for centuries are now fading into the bleak and brutal past. The resurrections are only the most obvious evidence of a megashift in the functioning of eager-hearted believers whom the book of Revelation calls "overcomers."

The recent changes in the quality of human life are profound. God is pouring His grace and power into people in ways not seen before. I don't expect that most Christians will be doing miracles on a daily basis, but a radically new Christian lifestyle now spreading around the globe will soon dramatically enable you to upgrade your own way of living.

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"MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," documents resurrections in 52 countries and is available today for a 25 percent discount.

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James Rutz is chairman of Megashift Ministries and founder-chairman of Open Church Ministries. His recent book, "MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," announces major upgrades in human life and a coming transformation of society.

Hello PingList, Received this in email today & wanted you all to see it.

Quix is on travel for a couple weeks, he will have sporadic access to the Net.

JM

Foreword by Eddie Smith
From the book, Godsize Stories from Around the World
(c) Copyright 2005, Carl Blunt and Eddie Smith

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We serve a big God who’s doing Godsize® things today around the world. Every day God is intervening in the lives of ordinary people just like you.

I had hardly settled into the car seat after my 20-hour trip from Houston to Lagos, Nigeria when my host, Pastor George, began telling me how he had raised a woman from the dead the day before. I listened courteously, yet incredulously to his story.

The elderly and frail mother of a woman in his church had passed away early that morning before dawn. Two men from her village carried the dead body on a cart to her daughter’s home in a neighboring village, informed the family of the death, and laid the woman’s corpse on a bed.

When the church member sent word to the pastor’s home about her mother’s passing she discovered Pastor George was in the city on business for the entire day.

At 8 o’clock that evening when he returned home his wife told him of the woman’s death. So, Pastor George freshened up and went to the home of his grieving church member. Once there he was taken into the bedroom where the woman’s body had been lying for more than 12 hours.

George told me, “She had been dead the entire day. I touched her hand and her body was cold and hard. So, I said a brief prayer over her and began to leave the room. When I got to the bedroom door the Holy Spirit said, ‘tell her to get up.’ I immediately thought, ‘that’s crazy.’ Then I felt the Lord say again, ‘tell her to get up.’

“So, without any faith whatsoever I turned back to the corpse lying on the bed and said, ‘Lady, get up.’ I waited for a moment. As I had suspected it was clear that nothing was going to happen. Then as I turned to leave, out of the corner of my eye I saw what appeared to be a twitch on her face.

“Pastor Eddie, she began to slowly move her extremities and in a few moments she sat up, dazed and confused. I walked over to her and helped her stand. Wobbly at first, she grabbed me and hugged me.

“We were standing there rejoicing with each other when one of the men who had delivered her body that morning came through the door. As soon as he saw her standing beside me, he screamed and ran from the house with his friend close behind!”

When I arrived at the civic center to speak that night I told the leader of the crusade, “The pastor you sent to pick me up at the airport this morning, Pastor George, thinks he raised a lady from the dead yesterday.”

This well-known national leader said, “Eddie, such things are commonplace in Nigeria. Many of the 15,000 Christian leaders you will be speaking to have raised someone from the dead, been raised from the dead, or have someone in their family or church who’s been raised from the dead.”

Six months later I was enjoying prime rib with two friends at the world-famous historic Broadmoor Hotel at the foot of Pike Peak in Colorado Springs. While we were eating I shared my Nigerian story with them. As I did, they looked at each other and smiled. I stopped.

A bit indignant I challenged, “You guys don’t even believe me, do you?”

“Oh, we believe you alright,” one answered. “We just think it’s interesting you’re telling us this story. You see, we just returned from a trip to India. The missions organizations we work for sent us there with a videography team from New York to produce a one-hour video about people who have raised someone from the dead, have been raised from the dead, or who have a member of their family whose been raised from the dead.”

Six months later, my wife Alice and I were teaching a conference on spiritual warfare at the base chapel of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Those attending the conference were all military officers and their wives from all 5 branches of the U.S. military, as well as officers from various armies of the world.

At one point, I shared with them the story I just shared with you. At the break, a group of the officers rushed to the back of the room and cornered a black officer. After a moment or two they turned with a smile, a nervous laugh, and walked away. I stopped one of the men and asked, “Why did you all rush back to talk to the black officer? And who is he?”

“He’s a Kenyan Army major,” he explained. “He’s been here a little over a month. Two weeks ago he came to Christ. We went back to see if he could verify your story about God raising people from the dead in Nigeria.

“And what did he say,” I asked.

He replied, “The major told us he’s from Kenya, not Nigeria. He said, ‘I have no idea what happens in Nigeria. But in Kenya, God raising people from the dead is commonplace.’”

Western Christians are settling for far too little. God wants to do so much more. Scripture says of Jesus, “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58). Is it possible that our unbelief is keeping God from performing many mighty works in our cities?

God wants to do “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Our hope is that as you read the stories in this edition of Godsize® Stories from Around the World you will be inspired to trust God for more than you’ve ever trusted Him for before.

Godsize® stories are stories of God doing incredible things in the lives of ordinary people. We are looking for your stories. You can submit them at www.godsize.com.

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