The Healings Continue At Galena

The First Wind that blew through this area began when a believing woman was healed of blindness. From that moment forward, the hungry, the needy, the sick, the curious flooded the home of Mary Arthur, then the tent in the empty lot behind her home. Thousands of people were saved and healed and baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Revival, the Second Wind of Holy Spirit revival, will come again, I believe with healings. In recent months, the people of Galena Assembly have seen miraculous healing take place. A young man, Hayden, was healed in his ear. Unable to hear, Pastor Kurt prayed for him three times in one service. The third time, fluid began to leak from his ear, opening his hearing.

Galena's children's pastor prayed for a blind man at his workplace, Choptix restaurant. The man came back a week later seeing. Pastor Kyle prayed for another person at the restaurant who was healed of diabetes.

A young college student at the church was diagnosed with tumors on her uterus. After praying and returning to the doctor, they disappeared.

Most recently, a woman who drives the bus for our children on Sundays and Wednesdays was given a bad report about a spot on her left chest. The doctors were gravely concerned and wanting to send her to a specialist. Pastor Kurt prayed with her about it and she returned to church this last week reporting the doctors could no longer find the spot. She was completely well.

Finally, a precious baby boy was brought to us for prayer. His grandmother attends our church and watches him frequently. He was not gaining weight and not able to keep formula down and it was very clear this child could not see. Waving your hands in front of him, taking your finger and almost touching his eyeball caused no reaction, no blinking, no response. He was listless and lethargic. As Kurt and I and Pastor Kyle, the church secretary, and his grandmother prayed for him at the front of the church after most people had gone, I began to cry. There was something so special about this boy. He was set apart for a purpose. His deep, brown eyes seemed unable to find us, but his sweet spirit was so evident to all of us. This is a picture of this precious, beautiful baby now. God opened his eyes. The doctors gave him a good report. He is now active and engaging, clearly seeing those around him. As Kurt and I stood on the platform testifying of God's great power in this child's life, he smiled up at me, a gorgeous testimony of God's love for His children.

God is at work at Galena Assembly. The Second Wind is beginning to blow. Raise your expectancy. Prepare your hearts to receive what God has for us and then share the Good News with all who will listen. There is a vast world of hurting people and God is ready and willing to exhibit His mighty power on their behalf. Don't hoard what God is doing at Galena Assembly or in your life. Be a conduit of His Presence in the lives of those around you.

If you have a need, feel free to share it and we will pray for you at Galena. What God began in 1903, He is about to bring to fruition again. And the latter will be greater than the former! Feel the Second Wind!

After surviving the tornado, people stood from what once used to be their homes to find everything gone, from horizon to horizon. This was a fully populated area, full of homes and tress and businesses. We need God in this hour.

The Comforter Needed

Ninety years ago, eighteen years after Mary Arthur was healed catapulting Galena, Kansas into pentecostal revival, Mary Arthur wrote these words..."When I was healed August 17^th, 1903, joy and gladness filled my soul continually, yet with it came a greater thirst for God than I had ever known. I sought to be guided by His Spirit and in His word He gave me the promise of John 13:15 and 15:26. I read them over and over. It was for me and I must have the COMFORTER to abide, so I prayed and waited until September. “Oh Lord, I know when you saved me, called me, sanctified me and healed me. How will I get the Comforter? You went away to send Him, and I can’t live without Him.” Then the Lord questioned me, “Would you give up friends, mother and sisters?” “Yes, Lord, you were misunderstood, and what am I to withhold anything? I give all, only let me have the Comforter.”

His presence was made manifest in a white light filling the room. That night as I prayed, a fear came over me, then I prayed for the “perfect love that casts out all fear”. In the morning, while I was dressing, He told me that the Comforter would come to me that day. I hastened to be ready as for a guest. It was a busy day in the home and it was not until evening that I got alone to pray, then I said, “Now He will come to me according to his Word, and as I praised Him for His faithfulness and asked Him to take the throne chair of my heart, the blessed Comforter came in, and my joy overflowed in another language, also the most beautiful songs in the Spirit, indescribably glorious and so different from our singing."

In this desperate hour, sixteen days from the Joplin tornado, the Comforter is ever needed in the four states area. Without the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit, our Comforter, our Guide, the One who reminds us of our right standing with the Father, we will falter and fail during this time of great need. As family after family comes to Galena Assembly for clothing, food, shampoo, dog food, and every possible material need...they carry with them the loss and trauma of an EF5 tornado. Although recounted numerous times, it seems to be therapeutic for them to share again what they experienced as the tornado ripped through their home. The shock is evident and fear real. Three cyclonic tornadoes within one ripped through the heart of a city, taking lives and property, security and peace. Only the Spirit of God can mend what has been broken. It's time to call out to our Comforter, just as Mary Arthur did 108 years ago. When we call, He answers...