Ethiopian Orphanage

My name is Haptamu and I live in southern Ethiopia, Lekant and run Rhema church some 600 kilometres from Addis. We had heard that one of our brothers sister was sick. When we reached the village she had died. (This was within the last six months) We asked to be shown the body. We went to where she lay and began to pray for her. All the people around on seeing us praying loudly began to scream and fell down manifesting demons, for there is much witchcraft practised in these parts. We had to stop praying and deliver the people from these demons. When they were all cast out we returned to the business of praying for this women. After praying we laid hands on her and her life returned and she sat up and we fed her some food for she was hungry , she was healed and delivered praise God!

We went to another house there where a lady had aids. This happened within the last month. We led the parents to the Lord and then prayed for the lady and she was healed. She received Jesus and now prays for the sick in that area. There are three AIDS victims healed so far. And we now hold a house meeting each week in this lady's house, praise the Lord! The doctors from the nearby hospital send all the hopeless cases and AIDS cases to us now. They say "Go to Rhema we can't help you but they will" and they come to us now.

I went to the hospital in Atad to witness about Jesus and to see if I could pray for people. Whilst I was there I notice a stretcher with a dead women on it and all the relatives mourning and crying out. They were saying in their sadness that they would never see their girl again she was gone from them forever and their grief was great. My heart went out to them and I went across to them to see if I could console them in some way or pray for them. When I got to them I sympathised with them and tried to help comfort them in some way. They were very distressed this daughter meant a lot to them and she had been sick for some time and now had died. After some time I helped clean the body and prepare it for burial. My heart began to yearn to help them more and I began praying. As I was preparing the body and praying I feel my hands moving across to her stomach and then I heard my mouth began to speak. " I am the resurrection and the life. If a man believe in me, though he were dead yet shall he live!" I repeated it over and over again, getting louder and louder. The family, nearby began to get more distressed and angry but one of them was a Christian and realised that something was happening from the Lord and so he move the relatives out temporarily. By this time I said I wanted to pray and the boy joined me, whom I did not know. I turn to the corpse and laid my hands on her stomach and began to pray to Jesus. I could feel fire come into my body and through my hand sand suddenly the women open her eyes and sat upright in bed.. She was perfectly well. Her relatives came running back in and there was great rejoicing and I preached to the whole family testifying of the gospel and the power of God.

The next day I went back and she was discharged and met the Christian boy and told him that he must now teach the family the ways of Jesus as they were going back to their home which was some distance away in the countryside. She was discharged by the doctors and being perfectly well no disease that she had previously nor any other thing wrong with her. Praise the Lord!

I was holding a housegroup meeting and heard of one of the women's relatives that was sick in hospital in Addis Ababa. She was very sick and this girl was very worried about her. The next day I went with the girl to the hospital and we asked to be admitted to se this lady. The authorities refused us entry and so, not knowing what else to do we sat down and began to pray to the Lord. After some time the authorities came back and said that I could come in to see this lady but not the girl that was with me. I took this to be a directive from the Lord that I was to pray for this sick lady. I was taken to the ward only to find that this lady had died and the doctors were being notified at that very moment. The guard left me alone with her and I was perplexed. Why did God bring me here when the lady had already died. I was going to pray for her sickness to be made better. Then suddenly I realised that the Lord might want me to pray for her even now.

I began to pray and during the praying I realised that I was calling her back to her body. Suddenly her eyes opened and she was better. She was brought back. When the doctors arrived they examined her and asked why the nurses had brought them to a patient that was already better. The nurses were confused. Later this lady was discharged from the hospital and she came to Rhema on the Sunday to testify to her miracle. Praise the Lord!

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A team was working in Gotchwan and they were praying. It was impossible to get people to listen in the area. It was as if the area was dead to the things of the Lord and their ears could not hear. Whilst praying one day the Lord lead them onto the witchcraft of the area and they began to pray against a very powerful witchdoctor who is world renown. White Europeans come from USA to receive anointings from this one. He had 100 witchdoctor under him and had been practising witchcraft for 50 years. He had 20 wives. They began to pray that the Lord would send someone to him to break his power and while doing this the Lord said. What's wrong with you?

I send you. They were very scared but they agreed. They travelled to this place and not having been there before they were praying all the time in tongues and the Lord lead them to the exact house. When they ask around where this man was they found out that they were standing outside the very door. So they went in and asked for an appointment. The house was structured like the Jewish temple with the holy place and the holy of holies.

They were admitted the people thinking that they were after a blessing from the witchdoctor. They entered to see the man smoking hashish, marijuana. He said who are you and why are you here? They said we are messengers from the Most High God and he was thrown over the chair and onto the ground. He stood up scared and said what have you to say and they said Repent! And once more he was thrown to the ground. Then all the demons ran amok. People all around came running and throwing rocks and sticks and all kinds of abuse but nothing hit them. They stayed in the spirit, praying in tongues. One man came right up to them with a rock in his hand but one of the girls (4 girls involved) held him and prayed in tongues over him and he was thrown to the ground. They walked free. Unharmed. However the witchdoctor was so cross he went to the police and they were put in prison for the whole area came under his domination.

In prison they witnessed to all the inmates and many were saved. One became the preacher overnight and began preaching to all the other. The case was dismissed eventually the witchdoctor lost all his power and all the other 100 apprentices also and he went back to farming his land. The area was released and they were able to preach freely all the people responding now and listening to the gospel.