Signs, Wonders, and the Works of the Living God!
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"So Jesus said to him, 'Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe'" (John 4:48).
Manmin Central Church have seen signs, wonders, and powerful works that have unfolded constantly during the last 31-year-period since the opening, just like in the Early Church as recorded in Acts chapter 2. Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee believed the Word of God recorded in the 66 books of the Bible 100%. He offered up a great deal of fasting and many prayers and asked for the power that belongs to God. It caused the church to be able to manifest miraculous and extraordinary works that go beyond human understanding. In 2013 the members of the church have been experiencing not only the work of recreation, but also the work of the original voice that compels human's freewill to turn. Celebrating the 31st Anniversary of Church Opening, let's look back upon the sign and wonder that the members experienced during the very beginning stages of Manmin.
Wonder - "The torrential downpours stopped in a moment when we prayed with faith and showed the deed of faith"
Pastor Hyuncheol Joo (2-12 Parish, South Korea)
Manmin's first Summer Retreat was to be held on August 1st in 1983. In those days I was an 11th grader and served as the president of Students' Sunday School. We were to have the retreat at Daebu Island in Incheon, so we needed to leave at early dawn to arrive at the right time for the ship's sailing.
The previous day, we slept in the sanctuary and woke up at around 4 A.M. to offer up a Dawn Service. Right then, a torrential downpour beat against the windows with a crash of thunder and lightning. We had been preparing for the retreat with longing hearts, expectations, and excitement, but it was raining heavily! But no one was worried and no one complained.
The Dawn Service commenced at 4:30 A.M. The violent rain and winds did not seem to stop. By the time when the service ended, Pastor Jaerock Lee (now Senior Pastor) said, "We have offered up fasting and vowed prayer for this Summer Retreat for the last two months. Now it is raining a lot. Do you believe that the rain will stop after we pray together and I pray to God?" We all said loudly and assertively, "Amen"
After the prayer, Pastor Lee stated, "We prayed with faith. It is still raining outside. But when you go down to the lobby with your luggage, it will stop raining." "Amen!" Our resounding answers filled the sanctuary. We never doubted it for we had already experienced many works of God that had been unfolded through our Pastor Lee.
All of us went downstairs with our own baggage without any hesitation. It took less than a minute to get from the sanctuary on the second floor to the lobby. But when we took a step on the ground outside of the gate, an amazing scene came to our sight. The fierce winds and rains stopped. Hallelujah!
The rainfall data of August 1st in 1983 by Korea Meteorological Administration shows that the amount of rainfall was 12.4mm at 5 A.M. in Seoul. After we prayed after Dawn Service for the rain to stop, however, the amount evidently dropped according to the report. This proves that the incident truly happened.
The first Summer Retreat caused us to feel God was with us and we grew in faith, for the time was full of astounding firsthand experiences. Other churches usually pay attention to possible accidents that might happen in their summer retreats. They have many problems from small to big though the number of participants is usually only a few dozen people.
However, for the previous 30 years God has protected Manmin so that we have not had even a single small accident. Furthermore, God has blessed us to see every kind of healing miracles, signs, and many wonders. I give all thanks and glory to God who has been with us in love.
Sign - "I died of the gas poisoning but revived through the powerful prayer!"
Senior Deaconess Minseon Lee (1-5 Parish, South Korea)
I returned home after Friday All-night Service around at 5 A.M. in March, 1985. The fire on the briquettes died, so I kindled fire and went to sleep about at 6 A.M. I was alone trying to get a little bit of sleep before going to work. Behind the fireplace was the wall with the door of my room. I laid my head beside the door.
A little while later, I tried to get up but I could not control my body. I tried several times, but I just knocked my head on the wall and the door and I ended up passing out. I heard later that I was leaning against the door with my mouth foaming.
Thankfully, the woman who lived next to my house found me. I was very close to death. She called to Deaconess Hangsim Kim (Senior Deaconess at present). Deaconess Kim asked a student with her to carry me on his back. Helping him, she rushed me to Pastor Jaerock Lee's residence (now Senior Pastor of Manmin).
It was between 1 and 2 P.M. It means that I breathed in the gas of the briquette for as many as 7 or 8 hours. The student laid me down in the small room of Pastor Lee's house and knocked on his room's door, saying with an urgent voice, "A woman is dying! Please pray for her!"
But there was no response from the room. In those days, the church members believed that God can revive the dead because they had seen Pastor Lee praying and bringing a young man and Dr. Lee's three daughters, who were dying due to the carbon monoxide gas poisoning, back to life after Friday All-night Service in early 1983. That is why they also took me to Pastor Lee. But the room showed no sign of anybody present. How helplessly frustrated they felt!
At that time, Pastor Lee was offering up prayer to God. It was not until he finished his prayer that he laid his hands on my head and prayed. "Gas of the briquette, go away! Get out from the body through all holes of the body and cells!"
Right after the prayer, as I heard, I came around and opened my eyes with my eyelids quivering. A member saw a vision at the spot and said to other members, "When Pastor Jaerock Lee prayed for her the gas like black smoke went out through her nose, ears, eyes, and cells."
Opening my eyes, Pastor Lee was there beside my head. I tried to get up in embarrassment but I couldn't move. I wanted to say, "I can't move" but it felt like my tongue was stiff. In a couple of minutes, my stiffened body became normal and I came to sit up, stand up, speak, and move freely. Hallelujah!
Around 30 years ago in Korea many people died of the carbon monoxide gas poisoning. And those who had been poisoned led miserable lives due to aftereffects though they came to life. I was also on the doorstep of death due to the poisoning. If I had survived by any chance I would have been in a vegetative state. However, I was revived by the powerful prayer and have been leading a healthy life without any aftereffect.
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