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Signs, Wonders and Miracles Magazine ISSUE 122
Contents FEATURE COVER STORY:
JIM BARBAROSSA 11. Miracle Provision!
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6. A Heavenly Visit By Hollie Saunders 9. The Turnaround! By Emma Easton 10. How God Delivered Me From Crack! By Gary
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11. Miracle Provision! By Jim Barbarossa
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5. HELP HOTLINE 5. BUSINESS DIRECTORY 12. Where Will You Go When You Die?
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4. A Note From The Editor 7. Meditate On The Word Of God 8. Church Directory
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A Note From The Editor
Hello to all of my sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus. Please visit me on WWW.SWMMAG.COM and give us your praise report! This magazine was birthed when in 2005 God miraculously healed me of a cancerous tumor, and a hospital in OH couldn’t even understand how something so big could just disappear without a trace! When the hospital had to let me go, I asked God what I could do for Him to show the world about His miracles. That’s when God allowed me to start Signs, Wonders and Miracles Magazine, to publish others who have experienced miracles in their lives so that others could be encouraged and can see how awesome our God is!! I believe that people need to tell the world about the miracles that God is doing in their lives! There are so many people that do not know that God is real! This is an outlet for the world to know how GOOD GOD IS! Therefore this magazine is a free quarterly magazine to the public, this way not only Christians will know, but people of different religions, nations, and backgrounds will know that JESUS is the only one who died for all mankind, then three days later God raised Jesus from the dead, and He now sits at His Fathers right hand in heaven! ( Acts 7:55-56 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.) Also Read: ( Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;) Jesus will return and the time is soon! It is time to share with everyone the good news and show how God loves us so much that He sent His only Begotten Son to be the sacrifice for you and me, this way we can spend eternity with Him! EVERLASTING LIFE! I hope you enjoy this issue and please fill free to share the miracles that God has done in your life with us! May God bless you and keep you in His perfect peace. In Gods service, Tamara Cornelius SWM Magazine: P.O. Box 24771 Columbus, Ohio 43224 WWW.SWMMAG.COM
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A HEAVENLY VISIT
By Hollie Saunders
About a year ago I went to a meeting at East Gate in Lancaster, Ohio to hear an evangelist and his wife speak. I have never heard of this Man of God before, so I was not really sure why I was at the meeting. However, I received so much more that I could have ever anticipated.
I was sitting at a table alone listening to the worship music. Suddenly I felt very sleepy and I laid my head on the table. I felt myself (my spirit) leave the room and transported, if you will, to another place. I found myself in an ancient stone building looking down a long hallway. It was dark but as I walked down the hallway, the lighter it became. I came to a doorway with curtains. A small angel stood on each side of the doorway. They pulled the curtains to the side and I walked through. I continued down the hallway and came to another doorway with curtains. The two angels were taller and had wings. They pulled the curtains to the side and I walked through. Even taller angels with bigger wings guarded the third curtained doorway. They nodded as I continued. The fourth door was different. The two angels on each side were very big and had wings so big they overlapped each other. I was reminded of the angels pictured on top of the Ark of the Covenant. I hesitated and was not sure if I should go on through. For some reason, I felt unworthy to enter whatever was on the other side of the curtains. Then I remembered that Fresh Fire evangelist Michael Kristy once said that we have the right to have access to the very Throne Room of God. When I thought, “I have the right to enter the Throne Room of God,” the angels bowed slightly and opened the curtains to the most amazing moment of my life. I saw a big throne made of gold from the back but to the side. God was sitting on the throne. He was tapping his fingers on the arm of the throne and nodding his head. He seemed to be enjoying Himself. At that instant I could
hear the music that was being played and sung at East Gate as clear as I did earlier. I moved a few steps to the side. I saw angels of various sizes, forms, and looks. Some were laughing and dancing, some were even flying around the room. The room was very bright. Rainbows with distinct colors and brightness were everywhere. I also smelled a sweet aroma, almost like vanilla with a hint of cinnamon. Suddenly, as if I came to my senses and realized where I was, I felt I should not be there and took a step backwards towards the curtains. I felt a strong but warm hand on my shoulder. Without looking I knew it was Jesus. He had a beautiful smile on his face. I felt so much peace. He invited me to sit on big pillows that were on the floor. As He sat down next to me, I automatically put my head on His shoulder. I just as quickly lifted my head and said, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t do that.” Jesus smiled at me and said, “Why not?” So, I put my head back on His shoulder. There was an easy, peaceful silence between us. I asked if I could ask Him a question. He nodded. I asked about all the rainbows in the room. “That is the praises of the people to God,” Jesus answered. “When His people sing songs of praise and worship, the sound comes into the Throne Room and turns into rainbows. This reminds God of the promise and the covenant He made with Noah and unto all generations.” I asked, “Well, what was the sweet aroma I smelled?” “That is the prayers of the saints,” He said. “When the righteous pray, it’s like a sacrifice and God receives it as a sweet smelling incense.” “What about the people who pray but aren’t saved?” I asked. “You don’t have to worry about those. They don’t even reach the Throne Room so God doesn’t even hear them,” Jesus said a little sadly. “However, he does hear the prayer of a repentant heart.” After a while longer, I sighed and said I probably should go. He again smiled and helped me to my feet. I looked at Him and thanked Him for spending time with me and for answering my questions. His response took me quite by surprise. I will never forget the love I felt when he said it while looking me straight in the eyes. “No. Thank YOU for spending time with me.”
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Jesus gave me a hug. I then felt my self crashing hard back into my body so that I bounced and gasped in air. I looked around the room, but no one seemed to have noticed that I had not been there. I grabbed my notebook and wrote down all that I saw and heard. When I finished, I tried to focus on what the minister was talking about, but couldn’t. I heard a voice say, “You received what you came here for. It’s alright for you to leave.” I closed my notebook and Bible and left, feeling as if I was floating instead of walking.
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MEDITATE ON THE WORD OF GOD
1 Corinthians 13:1-7 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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THE TURNAROUND! By Emma L. Easton
Emma Easton and her younger sister Charlene Franklin
It was a Sunday morning in February 2005 during church
service when I felt a sharp pain on my right side. I got in the prayer line and told Pastor Howard of my pain. He asked his wife to place her hand on my side. Although I felt better afterwards, later in the week the pain grew worse. I visited with my doctor. After numerous tests, my doctored informed me of a large complex mass residing on my right ovary. He felt we had to move quickly and eradicate the mass because of my family history: my father had died of cancer, my mother was a colon cancer survivor, and my sister, Shirley, had just come through a serious bout with ovarian cancer. So, he scheduled me for surgery. Having seen my sister so ill after her chemo treatments, I shared fears with my mother. She told me to stop focusing on Shirley; the effects might be different for me. So, I started thinking about God instead. I thought of things God had called me to do. The day before I was to go in for surgery, I started having chest pains. I shared the new symptoms with my doctor. The anesthesiologist refused to “take me under” because it was too risky. So, the surgery was cancelled. After I went through another series of test to determine what was going on with my heart; the doctors determined there was a strain on the muscles around my heart, but that the organ itself was fine. I wondered – so, what was that all about?
Once again, my doctor scheduled surgery to remove the mass. This time, it was scheduled for the first week of August. Then, on the Sunday immediately preceding this 2nd scheduled surgery, I incurred another health issue. Usually I am sitting at the organ, this time I was by a window. Everyone was standing, waiting for Pastor Howard to say the dismissal prayer. Instead, he looked toward the window and said, “Come here Sis. Emma let me pray for you.” I heeded the call. After church, my family and I went to the Spaghetti Warehouse for dinner. During dinner, I dropped my fork, looked at my sister, Charlene, and frantically said, “I need help!” I didn’t know what was going on in my body; but my right hand had started to paralyze and I could not get the words out to share symptoms. My son, Colin, grabbed my arm, got me up and out of the restaurant immediately. Charlene drove me to the hospital emergency room. Because of the paralyzed state of my hand, I could not even sign the
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papers for treatment. Now, granted the night before, I had felt strange while at a business meeting at another restaurant. I had felt twinges in my lip and in my foot and was exhausted. I ignored the symptoms thinking I might be coming down with something. Rest and coffee might resolve the symptoms. Now, after multiple tests, the doctors informed us I had experienced a series of mild strokes. They told me that everything was, “ripe for me to have had a massive stroke.” God blocked it! Needless to say, my doctor thought it best to stabilize the current situation, which was severe so surgery for the mass was cancelled a second time. Although I adjusted my behaviors, within a month, I was back in the hospital for another bout with the mild strokes. So, after discharge from the hospital, my doctor recommended I reconsider more adjustments – including my employment. He felt that when I returned, I could not continue working 60 hours a week. He also felt I needed to be in a less stressful situation. I said I would think about it. What was interesting is that a year prior, I had asked God if I could do what I did secularly (market and promote concerts) for Him! My response was that I had to wait a year. So, now a year later, my doctor was telling me to reconsider my employment!?! Was all of this illness just for a turnaround? I surmised that without this situation, I would have continued the path I was on. As 2005 neared a close, I received a certified letter in the mail from the specialist advising that the complex mass was a serious issue. It was not in my best interest to ignore it. Therefore, I called his office to schedule the surgery for the mass a third time. So, the week after Christmas, the office sent me to St. Ann’s Hospital to undergo another round of tests. In January 2006, I met with my doctor to review the results and to confirm the date for the re-scheduled surgery. After flipping back and forth through the hospital reports and my records, the doctor said he could not explain what had happened, but that the mass was gone! I said, “I experienced a miracle!” I was overjoyed! Of course, after leaving his office, the spirit of doubt attacked me. So, I got a second opinion. It confirmed the first! I repeated the words of my late grandmother, Mother Emma Anderson, “If God can’t do it, it can’t be done!” Two months later, when I returned to my employer, I was told that my position had been eliminated. Within four months, I was called to interview for a position. Unfortunately, I was denied; however, the employer created another position for me wherein I could do what I used to do secularly, but now for God!! WHAT A TURNAROUND!! Not only did God block the massive stroke, but he removed the complex mass, and through it all, He positioned me to work for the Kingdom! Visit Emma Easton and her husband Elder Easton on their website today! www.justanointedmusic.biz
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HOW GOD DELIVERED ME FROM CRACK! By Gary Thomas
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irst of all, I would like to say how great God is in a persons' life even when they are out of His will. My life portrays of how God had His hands on my life even when I was out there doing my mess. The name of Jesus has power over anything that the enemy tried to do to me. The devil tried to steal, kill and destroy me. I must say that God had His hands on me throughout my life. I was living in the darkness of the enemy, but now God has brought me to see the light of Jesus Christ. When I called out the name of Jesus when I was about to be killed, He instantly sent an angel down to come into a person to save me from death. This is why I know that there is power in the name of Jesus if we believe in Him. God is not a respecter of persons, what He did for me He will do the same for you because God knows our hearts. I am living proof that God is real! There were many more situations where my life was saved, and I know that I have a purpose in this life here on earth because I have been saved from death so many times. Now I live my life for Jesus Christ and I am going to continue to do His will. We all have a purpose here on earth if we do not let the enemy devour us before we complete our assignment or calling to benefit God's Kingdom. God is now the head of my life because He has given me another chance with a new life, heart and mind stayed on Him. What I can say is that now I have power over any attacks that Satan throws my way because I am rooted and grounded in God's Word and have an intimate relationship with Him. God has a purpose for all of us, but sometimes it is us that can get in the way of God using us to do His will. There are so many people who are no longer here that may have had a calling on their lives, but then they let the wiles of the enemy destroy their destiny. When you read my book, you will be able to realize that God had a calling on my life because of what He has brought me out of. God saved me from the pits of hell. It is about a person submitting
themselves totally over to God and accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and living their lives for God and not our own because if we do it our way it will not be successful. God saved my life numerous times. After all that I have been through in life, since God saved me, I want to be a vessel that God can use to get people saved from hell and have everlasting life in Him. My nickname used to be "Crack" in my later years. When I first got this nickname, it was not even a drug back in 1967. That nickname stayed with me throughout the years, and how people pronounced my future even when I did not realize what they were doing. But oh, how God can turn a persons' life around for the building up of His kingdom with transformation and restoration of body, mind and soul. It is about having a new mindset stayed on Him so that now I can live a more prosperous lifestyle, not meaning just money, but spiritually living by the way that God intended us to by His grace and mercy that brings about peace and joy. I will not take anything back that I went through because now I am doing it all for the glory of God, and He has given me new life to see how awesome He is. His Word will help you through this life, if you are being obedient to His commands and what His Word profess that we do as Christians, you will be blessed!
With God all things are possible! God had to have a calling on my life because of what He has saved me from. So now today, I have made the choice to serve Him and do His will and not my own will, because doing it my way will only lead to destruction or death and I wanted neither. God will bring you through anything if you let Him so He can use you to spread the gospel and to win lost souls over to Him. This way they get out of the darkness of the enemy and come over into the light of Jesus Christ. May God bless everyone that reads this book, and let them know about the unconditional love that God has for all as His children. From the book “From Crack To Gary� on sale today at: www.barnesandnoble.com
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iracle Provision Follows Obedience. Has God ever told you to do something that you just did not want to do? He has told me!! Over the last 5 years I have felt that God was telling me to plant new churches in America. My reasoning was, God we already have to many churches, we do not need any more churches. God's question to me was: "Is church being done my way?" My answer was no! My Conclusion, Yes Lord, We do need to plant new churches in America. In June of 2011, I wrote out the plan as God gave it to me to plant new churches in America. In July of 2011 as I was driving down the road the Lord spoke to me and told me to call apostle Cozey and explain to him the vision that God gave me to plant new churches in America. In obedience I called him and explained the vision to him. In August of 2011, Carla and I attended the Macedonian call 5 fold leadership conference. On a Wednesday morning during the apostolic summit, Apostle Cozey introduced me to the pastors and leaders and ask me to share the vision with them that God had gave me to plant new true 5 fold ministry churches in America. This was the first time that I had ever spoke this vision in a public setting. After the meeting as I walked out of the building my phone rang. When I answered, the person on the phone said to me you will soon be getting a large check . The next thing I heard was the Holy Spirit saying, this check will help you to plant the first new “church beyond the box community center". On January 1st 2012 we launched the following vision on our website. At that same time we started hosting monthly vision casting meetings. In April 2012 we started construction on a pole barn, build like a community center. On Saturday night Sept15th 2012 at 6:30pm we held our 1st Gathering of the saints in the New Church Beyond The Box Community Center in Northwest Indiana. Remember the check I told you about at the beginning of this article? That check paid for the complete building!!! Praise The Lord!!! The next thing The lord said to me was to start believing NOW for super natural provision to build new church beyond the box community centers all over America! To believe for each new center to be paid for in full before we open the doors!! Visit us at: www.facebook.com/churchbeyondthebox Request a free CD! Could it be in Gods plans to plant a "True 5 Fold Ministry Church Beyond The Box Community Center" in your city? For more info: Church Beyond The Box / Jim & Carla Barbarossa 815 S. Babcock Rd. Porter In 46304 (219 787 9933) Website: www.step-by-step.org & email: jim@step-by-step.org
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