Pastor Don Dickerman describes what started to occur: “I continued to preach at the prisons just as I had before, but there was now a difference — people were getting healed right there in the service! I started to get letters from the men saying things like, ‘While you were preaching, heat came over me and I was healed.
“I gave altar calls for the inmates and sometimes people fell down under the power of the Holy Spirit without my even touching them. I had never seen this sort of thing before. I was amazed at the healing and spiritual manifestations; I knew it was God at work, and I had deep gratitude to Him, but no understanding.
“As these healings continued to happen, my boldness increased and I began to expect it. I was overwhelmed, and sometimes after the services I would weep from joy and gratitude. It was very humbling.”
The First Vision and Healing
“I started having visions related to healing — not often — but always accurate. The first healing was through a vision at one of the prisons in Huntsville, Texas. I was in the prison chapel with about 400 inmates. There was praise music being played and I was sitting, waiting for my time to speak.
“Although I got up and said that, I had no idea really what was going to happen. I sensed it was the Holy Spirit giving me the Word about healing, but I thought there was a chance it was just my imagination.
“As soon as I spoke the words, an inmate jumped up and started saying ‘That’s me! That’s me! That’s me!’ I prayed for him and he went back to his seat. But I knew that he was not the one.
“At the close of the service the others were filing back to their cell blocks. An inmate came up and put a note in my pocket. I pulled the note out and read it, and it said ‘I’m the one.’ He had just come back from the prison hospital in terrible pain with an abdominal swelling, like a big knot hanging over his belt. He told me he needed surgery, but since he was getting out soon, they were not going to treat it.
The Power of God at Work
“This inmate pulled up his shirt and I saw a knot right above his belt buckle. I knew he was the one I was supposed to pray for. I laid my hands on that spot and commanded demon powers to leave him and for healing to come.
“He threw up blood and bile — it was an ugly situation, but some of the other inmates got towels and cleaned it up. I walked to the door and he went back to his cell saying, ‘The pain is gone!’
“The next month when I was there again to preach, he met me at the door and said, ‘Brother Don, I don’t have any pain!’ I was overwhelmed because I knew that I did not have anything to do with it. It was a confirmation of the Holy Spirit revealing something to me. The power of God had cast out a demon of illness.”
TO BE CONTINUED…
Miraculous Monday: 18th December 2023
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