Through Physical Act Testimonies
27 stories of God's work from believers across 24 locations.
Laying on of hands, anointing with oil, communion, baptism, prophetic act
All 27 Testimonies
The Plastic Bag Miracle
1980s•🇸🇪Sweden
Swedish businessman's plastic bag company faced ruin when 1,000+ pallets mysteriously sealed shut. After family prayer, every bag was restored.
Cal Pierce and the Healing Rooms of Spokane: Where the Holy Spirit Still Heals
🇺🇸Spokane, Washington, USA
In 1999, Cal Pierce reopened the historic Healing Rooms in Spokane, Washington — originally founded by John G. Lake. Over 25 years later, thousands of documented healings have occurred through prayer, and the model has spread to over 3,000 locations worldwide.
Christen Cota: Thirty Years of Ministry, Twenty Years of Deafness, One Moment of Holy Spirit Power
🇺🇸St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Christen Cota, a pastoral associate in Kansas City with over 30 years in ministry, had been severely hard of hearing for 20 years. At the Holy Spirit 2024 conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Holy Spirit restored what medicine could not.
The Machine That Started After Prayer
1970s-1990s•🇸🇪Sweden
Swedish executive J. Gunnar Olson prayed over a broken factory machine at Alfapac, and it immediately started working after technicians couldn't fix it.
Smith Wigglesworth
1900s•🏴Menston, Yorkshire, England
Smith Wigglesworth transformed from an illiterate plumber to a globally recognized faith healer, demonstrating extraordinary divine healing power across...
Walking the Camino de Santiago Broke My Addiction to Control
2022•🇪🇸Camino de Santiago, Spain
A control-driven marketing executive walks the Camino de Santiago without plans or bookings and discovers through the physical act of daily surrender that God was never asking him to hold everything together.
The Plumber Who Anointed a Dying Woman Back to Life
1921•🏴London, England
Smith Wigglesworth, a barely literate plumber from Bradford, anointed a dying cancer patient with olive oil in 1921.
A New Beginning at 98
2020•🇺🇸Nursing Home, United States
A 98-year-old woman found faith in Jesus Christ at her nursing home during a revival meeting, proving it's never too late for salvation and new beginnings.
The General Who Almost Missed His Healing Over Pride
850 BC•🇮🇱Jordan River, Israel
Naaman, commander of the Syrian army, was healed of leprosy after reluctantly washing seven times in the Jordan River as instructed by the prophet Elisha...
Communion on the Moon
1969•🇺🇸Moon (Sea of Tranquility), United States
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin secretly took communion on the moon during Apollo 11, finding God's presence even at humanity's farthest frontier in 1969.
From Tehran to Freedom
2012•🇩🇪Munich, Germany
Iranian Muslim finds faith in Jesus through secret Bible reading, flees persecution to Germany where he discovers freedom and community in Christ.
Agnes Ozman - First to Speak in Tongues
1901-01-01•🇺🇸Topeka, Kansas, USA
In 1901, Agnes Ozman became the first person to speak in tongues at Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, launching the global Pentecostal movement...
Cyprian of Carthage
🇹🇳Carthage, North Africa (modern Tunisia)
Cyprian of Carthage transformed from a wealthy pagan rhetorician to a Christian bishop and martyr. Baptism changed everything for him around 246 AD.
From Comedy to Christ
April 2024•🏴London, England
British comedian Russell Brand found spiritual transformation through baptism in the River Thames after 21 years of sobriety, discovering the peace he...
Forgiving the Unforgivable
1947•🇩🇪Munich, Germany
Corrie ten Boom's powerful testimony of forgiving a Nazi guard who betrayed her family, demonstrating how God's grace enabled supernatural forgiveness...
The Moravian Pentecost
1727-08-13•🇩🇪Herrnhut, Germany
In 1727 Germany, God transformed a quarreling refugee community through supernatural outpouring during communion, birthing a 100-year prayer meeting and...
The Prisoner Who Walked Out of a Maximum Security Prison on Broken Legs
May 1997•🇨🇳Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China
Brother Yun, imprisoned in China's Zhengzhou Maximum Security Prison with documented broken legs, walked out of the prison on May 5, 1997, passing through...
Three Hundred Orphans, Empty Plates, and the Man Who Set the Table Anyway
1840s-1890s•🏴Bristol, England
George Muller, who ran orphanages in Bristol without ever asking for money, instructed his staff to set tables with empty plates for 300 orphans when...
The Priest Who Finally Felt What He Had Been Preaching
May 1738•🏴Aldersgate Street, London, England
John Wesley, an ordained Anglican priest who had spent over a decade in ministry without a personal experience of faith, felt his "heart strangely warmed"...
Baptised in a Pool She Could Not Enter on Her Own
1968•🇺🇸Maryland, USA
Joni Eareckson, paralysed from the shoulders down after a diving accident at seventeen, chose to be baptised in 1968, requiring others to carry and...
Twenty-Two Years in a Wheelchair, Then Someone Said Stand Up
August 2010•🇺🇸Mobile, Alabama, USA
Delia Knox, a gospel singer paralysed from the waist down since a 1987 car accident, stood and walked for the first time in twenty-two years during a...
Cyprian's Transformative Conversion
246 AD•🇹🇳Carthage, North Africa
Wealthy lawyer Cyprian of Carthage experienced radical transformation through baptism in 246 AD, abandoning worldly pursuits to become a devoted...
The Lawyer Who Walked Into a Forest and Came Out Someone Else
October 1821•🇺🇸Adams, New York, USA
Charles Finney, a sceptical lawyer in Adams, New York, knelt in a forest clearing on October 10, 1821, and experienced a transformative encounter that led...
Communion Wine in a Concentration Camp
1944•🇩🇪Ravensbruck, Germany
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom held secret communion services in Ravensbruck concentration camp using scraps of stolen bread, creating a physical act of faith...
Heidi Baker and the Night She Couldn't Get Up from the Floor
January 1996•🇨🇦Toronto, Canada
Heidi Baker, exhausted and depleted from years of missionary work in Mozambique, experienced a transformative encounter when Randy Clark laid hands on her...
A Treasury Official Stops His Chariot and Gets Into Unknown Water
c. AD 34•🇺🇸Road from Jerusalem to Gaza
A high-ranking Ethiopian treasury official, permanently excluded from full religious participation because he was a eunuch, encountered Philip on the road...
The Sikh Who Walked Barefoot Through the Himalayas Because He Couldn't Not Go
1905-1929•🇮🇳Himalayan Passes, India/Tibet
Sundar Singh, a former Sikh who burned a Bible at fourteen, became a barefoot sadhu who walked tens of thousands of miles through the Himalayan passes for...
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— Psalm 77:11