For man to be saved, he must first realize he is lost.  What does it mean to be lost?  To be lost is to be without God in your life.  We know that Adam, the first man whom God created from the dust of the earth, was created perfect.  He was also given a choice.  In Genesis, chapter 3, we see that Adam fell away from God by his disobedience.  God said, in the day that you eat the forbidden fruit, surely you will die.  Adam lived 900 and some years after he fell away from God, so we know God was talking about spiritual death.  Adam had become spiritually dead after he sinned against God. Now you and I have to be brought back to life.  God sent His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). If you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then you are saved!  Are you ready now?  If not, would you like to call Pastor Bill with further questions?  (859-620-7729).  If yes, then pray this prayer:

Heavenly Father, I recognize my sin and know that I need a Savior.  I believe Jesus died on the cross in my place to pay the cost for my sin!  I believe that God rose Him from the dead.  Jesus is alive!!!  Lord, now forgive me of all my sin, I receive you as my savior. amen . . .

If you said that prayer and meant it with all your heart, call Pastor Bill or someone you know and let them know what has happened to you.  Email me at contactpreacherbill@gmail.com  or call (859)-620-7729

Long ago, you counted the very hairs on my head, and in eternity past, you engraved my name both in the palms of you hands and in your heart.  A sweet smile flutters across your face as you think of me.  I bring you much pleasure.  You have named me, Gentle Spring Rain.”  Just by being here, i fill you up and overflow you with the effervescence of a water fall. Each day you fine tune me toward new growth in our relationship.  I thank you for showing me how to praise you and thank you for sanding of life’s circumstances.

Many times I’ve found myself sitting in a heap of the gravel, grit and grime: after the sandstorm passes by.  But even from that heap, i still can call out on you, calling you Lord.  You are closer than the skin that covers my body, closer than the air I breathe in through my nostrils.

You still know the number of the hairs on my head, though they change from day to day.  You are acquainted with the highways I’ve taken in life.  You know the soles of my feet.  They identify me with you, even though they may be raw and bleeding, like my thumbprint.  You new blood still flows though my body.  I’m a brand new person, and I don’t have to serve sin anymore.

I stand up from this heap of life’s circumstances – equipped to march beneath the flag of an undefeated champion.  The smell of victory is in my nostrils; I hear the cheering from both sides of the aisle of life – cheering and applause rings from those who have gone on before me.

There is a great cloud of witnesses – the very angels cheer.  To some I may still bear the crust and dirt of old wounds – old wounds afflicted upon me from battles lost.  Many of those battles I engaged in through bad choices along the way.  Many times I sinned against you by not reading, meditating on and absorbing  the truth of your Holy Word.

An ill prepared soldier slips easily off the path, but you have revived me, made me aware of the pumping of this new life’s blood of truth, that flows through my veins.  Forgive me, Jesus, for days spent with my eyes locked on circumstances, obeying the enemy when he made my surroundings loom so large in view.  Forgive me for despondency, depression and despair.

I stand up today on top of this heap of gravel, grit, and grime, and in obedience I walk toward the power of Jesus name.  I hear the keys jangle on the key ring.  I have the key and I unlock every door that Satan can place in front of me.  I walk in the power of Jesus name, not in the power of my flesh.  In my fleshly power I am deserving of a life in deepest hell, but because of the price that you paid with your shed blood,

I walk on in the power of your Spirit.  I have a high calling.  The drum beat that I march to is the very beat of your heart from your Holy scripture.  I have heard the clear call of your truth.  I praise your name and thank you that you have not left me alone, but I am here on a mission, in the name of Jesus Christ..  I pray only in your Holy name and live only for your glory!

Written by
Jan Rose Lee
Corbin, Kentucky, 2010

When I was born again back in the early 80s, I began to question the Lord about the church.  Not a particular church, but the overall church of our Lord.  I began to see people who were sick, broken down and financially in ruin.  I could not understand why the people in the church looked no different that the people who were not born-again.  I saw individuals who had developed cancer just like the cancer of those who did not serve Him.  I saw that most of the church was financially in dept and living from day to day just barely making ends meet.  I saw that most of the church had no peace.  And again, I saw many struggling with high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and many other infirmities that should not be in the church.  I cried out many times asking God why these things are prevalent in the body of Christ. 

Could it be that we are much like the people in Jesus home town.  When Jesus left the place where He was brought up, his heart was filled with discouragement.  All those in His home town who were crippled died with their infirmity.  All those who were blind died with their blindness.  How horrible Jesus must have felt when He discovered that all he could do there was heal a few colds & flues, maybe a few fevers.  Unbelief was so strong that even Jesus could not heal their diseases.

 3     Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. 4     But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. 5     And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them (Mark 6:3-5).

I believe there are many hindrances to receiving what we need from the Lord.

No Desire To Grow Will Hinder Your Ability To Receive.  Some people want to just live on the edge of what they can get away with.  They want to give God 10%, then when they are in trouble, they want a God to dispatch armies of angels on their behalf.  Why should we think that God will give us any more than we have given Him.  We will not raise our hands, we will not get involved in the service, we have set rules with our attendance, sad to say, but most Christians will not read the Bible.  If you want what God has promised, then we may have to change to get it.  Grow in the things of God.  Get on the meat of the Word and go all the way with God.  In doing so, He will go all the way with you!

Failing To Repent Of Sin Will Hinder Your Ability To Receive.  You cannot have what God has and live anyway you want to.  I had a man tell me one time. “I will not allow anyone to tell me what to do.”  Well, that attitude certainly will not get you anywhere with God.  We must be pliable in His hands, willing to admit our failure, willing to call sin sin.

In today’s world, people want to have every excuse for their sin and most will not call sin what it is.  There is only one thing to do with sin, repent and go the other way.  There is only one lifestyle expectable with God, that is one which is holy which is described by the word of God.  Anything other than that is Sin.  You cannot think that God will heal you and at the same time you can continue in your sin.

Unforgiveness Will Hinder The Move Of God In Your Life. We must be willing to forgive those who have hurt us, those who have wronged us, those who have somehow sinned against us.  Failure to forgive will rob you of every blessing the Lord has to offer us through his promises.  Let’s look at the scripture:

 ²³    For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. ²⁴    Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. ²⁵    And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. ²⁶    But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses (Mark 11:23-26).

Maybe you have not talked to your mother for the past five years, maybe there was an argument at a family reunion and you have not forgiven her!  Maybe you were abused.  Did you know God will help you to forgive?  In doing so, you will untie the hands of the Lord.  He will do what he has wanted to do all along.  Healing is the children’s bread!!!   

This story begins in the foothills of a little mountain town called Ravenna Kentucky about 35 miles east of Richmond.  The church, New Vision Full Gospel, is located in the middle of a residential area.  Pastor Buford Powell, with just a small 10 or15 person congregation, told the Lord he would take all the people that other churches did not want.  A mighty revival under the leadership of Pastor Shaun Campbell came to this little church in October of 2007 and the church grew to over 150 with 79 people giving their lives to the Lord!.  Drug dealers and whiskey moonshiners were saved and gave their lives to Jesus.

Pastor Shaun asked me to come during that great outpouring to help him with the masses of people who needed not only to be saved, but healed of all sorts of sicknesses and diseases.  Many were healed during that wonderful time in which the Lord poured out his goodness upon his people.

Since that time in 2007, I have been invited back on a regular basis, to preach the gospel and lay hands on the sick!  Pastor Buford Powell along with his wife Lisa are ministers of great faith!  It is a pleasure each time I come to see the miracles that God will do.

a blinded eye open

several deaf ears open

a diseased throat healed

carpal tunnel in both wrist healed

numbers of necks and backs healed

severe allergic reactions healed in a small boy

The list would go on and on!!!

In November, our ministry team fasted and prayed for the meeting coming up.  We were prepared to preach the morning service at 11:00 am, and the evening service at 6:00 pm.  The Lord spoke so plain proclaiming a shaking of the entire city!   

After the message, we moved into the altar service and the people began to come forward, I saw a woman with an oxygen bottle who was coming up the isle to be prayed for.  I began to question her about her condition, as far as I know, I had never seen this woman before in my life.  She was an above middle age woman.  Her appearance was sickly with about all the color gone out of her face.

I learned later that she has had severe breathing problems for over 50 years.  As a matter of fact, she began having these problems at the age of nine years old when the doctor said she would not live to be ten.

Over 50 years of medication, inhalers, and other paraphernalia had kept her alive until, at this point, she was 62 years old, and suffering severely with lung disability.  The doctors said that her lung capacity was about 20 percent.  The doctors continued that the inside of her lung was like leather, not being able to expand or extract.  The only thing that will keep you alive is a lung transplant!  “Even then,” the doctor went on, “you will have to live in a bubble with perfect atmosphere.  Pastor Powell revealed to me, without her oxygen bottle, she could not walk to the altar from her seat (about 20 feet) without passing out.
The Miracle

It was November 22nd, 2009, about 1:00 pm when all that changed.  She came walking forward at our great altar call carrying her oxygen with her as usual.  She had no idea, this would be the last she would ever need it.  As she arrived, I told her to remove the oxygen from her face, telling her it would never be required again.  She quickly was obedient to the Lord, removing the hoses and setting the tank on the floor beside her. 

Prophetic message began to come forward saying, “The inside of your lungs are like leather, having no ability to expand or extract, but from this moment forward, I am giving you a new lining for your lungs.”   I laid my hands on her face.  Immediately she fell to the floor completely restored by the power of almighty God! 

The evening service was exciting as we all praised the Lord with the church’s wonderful praise and worship.  All of a sudden, the back door opened and in walked the woman who was healed with no oxygen attached to her.  A roar of applause and clapping of hands filled the sanctuary as she came and took her seat toward the back!  She had gone several hours now with no help from neither medication or oxygen from a tank!  What a service we had as people were healed from the back to the front.  The altar was filled with every person in the building wanting prayer for whatever they needed from God.  We saw numbers and numbers of healings and rededications to the Lord Jesus! 

Pastor Buford called me about four weeks later to testify about the wonderful move of God they had all experienced.  Then he told me about several miracles including the woman who was miraculously healed of severe lung disease.  She had not had any oxygen from the tank for a month.  The doctor’s are now saying that she has truly received a miracle.  Checking her oxygen level, they discovered she has 91.5% oxygen in her blood without any outside help of medications or oxygen from a bottle.  Normal level is anywhere from 90 to 100%.  God has performed a supernatural healing this woman will never forget.  She has a new life and will live many more years, thanks to God himself who loves people, and will make them whole if they will believe!

 Pastor Buford called me again December 15th, 2009, six weeks after the miracle.  He told me that the woman was making a trip to one of the western states to show her sister what God has done in her life. 

Since the doctor said the only hope is a transplant, we know that God indeed did transplant a brand new lung, a heavenly surgery. 

Thank God for his signs, wonders, and miracles that continue even in the year of 2009.  His love and mercy is to all generations!

from: Evangelist Bill Campbell  

“You will not die; your baby will be fine!  You will carry the baby full term; you will deliver the baby, and the baby will live!  Be of good cheer, for I, the Lord am with you; and so shall I be with your child!  Thus saith The Lord God almighty!”

“Brother Bill, pray for me!”  I heard a voice call out somewhere in the crowd.  As I looked to see, a young woman, with tears streaming down her face came running toward me.  In her expression, I saw the look of desperation as she arrived to stand in front of me.

The Miracle Service had just begun about an hour before.  We had enjoyed praise and worship for about thirty minutes; I had brought forth the Word of life, and the actual prayer time was just starting.  Earlier that day, I had prayed for God’s special touch to minister to His people!  I was down on my knees in the living room, crying out to the one God who could make a difference in so many desperate lives!

God had demonstrated His tremendous love for His children so many times in these meetings.  We had seen several brain tumors healed; two little girls who were delivered of oncoming blindness; and others with heart problems completely healed with doctor’s verifications.  The list would actually go on and on of the things the Lord had done as we prayed.

This particular day I will never forget.  Many had been prayed for and the Spirit of the Lord was moving!

This was when I began to hear the young female voice crying out, “Brother Bill, pray for me.”  As she approached the altar where we were praying, I knew God was about to do something phenomenal. 

She began to explain how she had seen a doctor after discovering her pregnancy.  Thinking it was just a routine visit with the physician; her whole world seemed to fall apart as he gave the unwanted news.  “You cannot carry this child – your heart cannot take the stress of childbearing — either you will die or you will lose the child. My advise to you is to get an ABORTION.”  Sobbing even harder than before, she cried out, “Pray for me.”

After she had finished telling of the horrible situation she was in, we gathered around her to pray.  About ten men and women placed their hands on her.  I began speaking in tongues in order to enter into the spiritual realm.  You see, I have learned that nothing can be done in the natural.  Speaking in tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance is our way of entering into the spiritual.  In the Spiritual mode, all things are possible. 

Being familiar with the gift of prophecy, I could feel the Word of God coming forth from deep within. 

“You will not die; your baby will be fine!  You will carry the baby full term; you will deliver the baby, and the baby will live!  Be of good cheer, for I, the Lord am with you; and so shall I be with your child!”

Through sobbing tears, the pregnant woman walked back to her seat with new hope deep in her heart.

She returned several times to the Miracle Services for prayer.  The Spirit of the Lord spoke the same Word over and over until her delivery drew near.  I tell you of a truth, she had that baby, and the child was healthy.  Little Carrie is nine years old now, and has a three-year-old brother who is also healthy.  God certainly has plans for those two children.  The devil tried to steal those kids, but the Lord brought deliverance to a crying mother who believed Him for a miracle!

Faith Must Have A Work

Just like the woman with the issue of blood that we find in the Bible, this woman believed if she could touch God with her faith, all would be well.  Miracles do not just happen on there own.  This particular woman had to believe the Word of God concerning her situation.  It’s not enough to say that I believe God, but she put feet to her believing and came to a meeting where God was moving by His Spirit.  If you want what God has, you have to come where He is moving and where these kinds of things are happening.  Its not enough just to have faith.  The book of James speaks to us about these things.

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.

All who are born-again have faith.  The Bible says,

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he aught; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3).

We must do something with our faith.  The woman in our story came to the Miracle Service.  The fact that she came was an act of faith.  A lot of folks will tell you that they can get what they need from God right there in their living room.  That may be true as long as you are exercising your faith in some manner.  This woman knew she needed to get where God was moving by His Spirit.

The Importance of Humility

Another thing about this miracle was that the woman humbled herself in the sight of God.  The Lord really can’t do anything with someone who is unteachable or high-minded, thinking that they know it all.  There’s only one who knows all things and that is God Himself.  The Bible says,

Wherefore He saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.  Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you (James 4:6-8).

Humility is a must to receive what God want to do in your life.  Whether you need healing, salvation for your family, or a financial miracle, we must humble ourselves before God.  When we humble ourselves, we are saying to our Heavenly Father that we are unable and we know that He is able.

Two Or More Believe Together 

I have learned this lesson over and over as I have held hundreds of Miracle Services believing God for the supernatural to take place.

Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them (Matthew 18:19-20

Christianity is not meant to be lived alone.  Those who have separated themselves from the rest of the body are trying to live this thing by themselves.  The Bible is very clear that we are to assemble together to share our needs and testify of the goodness of the Lord.  Your testimony may be what I need to get through another day.  But what if I don’t hear what I need to hear.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as we see the day approaching (Hebrews 10:24-25).

The Bible teaches on the power of agreement.  This is where two or more will come together such as we did with the woman in our story.  Two or more have come together to agree upon whatever they need.  The Word of God gives us perfect direction concerning this agreement.  If you agree, it will be done.  This woman came to be with others who were trusting God for the needs of others as well as their own.

Tommy Bates Ministry

Oh, how we need Him; we really need Him!  One thing I know, that is the importance of the Holy Spirit in the present day church.  When I speak of church, I’m referring to the body of Christ made up of individuals who are born again.  Oh, how you and I need Him in our everyday lives, in our everyday walk, and through problems and situations that sometimes defy the mind!  The church, or the born-again believer, needs the Holy Spirit, not only on a daily basis, but on a moment by moment basis.  Like never before in history, we need the Holy Spirit in our everyday lives.  In this article, I want to talk about the person of the Holy Spirit and how He wants to change everything about your life.

First of all, the Holy Spirit is a gentleman.  He will never force His way into your life.  We must be willing to allow Him to change us.  His goal is to make us just like Jesus.  As a matter of fact, everything the Spirit of God does in your life is to cause you to look to Jesus, to give Him praise, to honor Him, and to point you in the way of Christ.

Once you have received Christ as your Savior, He begins to nudge you to go deeper into Christ.  His goal is for you to go deeper and deeper into the love of the Savior.  John, the Baptist, speaks in the Word of God concerning Jesus, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire” (Matthew 3:11).  It is Jesus that will baptize you in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.

Once you have received this great baptism in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God begins a fresh work in you.  Before the foundations of the earth, God had a plan for every individual life.  God starts with you where you are and takes you into your destiny or the ultimate plan God has for your life.  The Holy Spirit wants to take you from point “A”  to point “B”.

And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither  knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you  (John 14:16-17).

As I began my experience with the Holy Spirit, I began talking to Him.  I have always believed there is no jealousy in the Godhead. Simply, the Holy Spirit will always lift up and lead you to worship Jesus.  The more I talked to Him, the more I fell in love with Jesus.  I said, “Holy Spirit, I thank you for loving me.  I’m so glad you have come to be with me.  Holy Spirit, you are the best friend I have ever had.”   I would talk to Him daily until I began to notice His presence becoming stronger and stronger.  There is a difference between the presence of God and His glory when it falls on you!  As I would talk to Him, His glory began to fall.  I could barely move under such ecstasy – I could have stayed there for ever. 

One particular evening as I was talking to Him, I felt His glory fall in such an unusual way.  As I was standing with my hands lifted up, all alone in my living room, I felt myself being lowered to the floor.  No one touched me; no one spoke over me; it was just me and the Spirit of God alone.  As I lay there under such glory that had fallen, He began to speak to me about things He was going to do in my life; about ministry He would bring to pass and promotion He would bring into my life.  Many of the things He told me that day are reality today!  He said things to me that healed my spirit; things that I have never been able to speak to others.  These experiences have continued for years, day by day as I would enjoy my time with the Holy Spirit.

It was in 1995 that I began to meet with the Holy Spirit on a daily basis.  Literally, I set everything else aside, making an appointment with Him at 3:30 in the afternoon.  Oh, the times we have had together; just the two of us as we enjoyed our relationship.  I could feel the power of the Holy Spirit wanting to move in my life!

There is nothing like having a relationship with God.  Whosoever will can have this same thing.  God is no respecter of persons; what He did for me, He will do for you!  Call on His name; begin to build a relationship with Him; and you, too, will enjoy His presence in your life.

Since the days when I began to talk to the Holy Spirit, my life has been changed dramatically.  Recently, He led us into full-time ministry, preaching in over 25 churches last year.  In 2003, the Holy Spirit helped me write my first book entitled, The Amazing Faith That Works.  In fact, the works of the Holy Spirit that I’ve witnessed in my personal life, in my ministry, and here at Community Pentecostal Church are far too numerous to be written here!  The dividends of the relationship are untold when we fall into God’s plan and follow the precious Spirit of God.

I want to send out a message to all.  The way up is down on your knees.  It’s all about relationship.  It’s all about talking to God through the person of the Holy Spirit.  Make your appointment today with the blessed Holy Spirit!  Your life will forever change!

Evangelist Bill Campbell