Woman Receives Lung Transplant

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