The Power of Testimony
A great story in the Bible that shows the impact of a single testimony is the Samaritan woman at the well. It says in John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” She was more than happy to tell anyone and everyone in the town about her encounter with Jesus... and we all know how that story goes! Every testimony that glorifies God and shares our encounters with Him has the ability to create ripples in the world around us, and that's what we would like to start here. While the Bible is a wonderful love letter from our Father, it is also encouraging to see how God is moving now, how He is showing up in our lives today.
If you have a short testimony or praise report of how God is moving that you would like to share we would love to hear from you! If you are needing encouragement or hope, take some time to read through these testimonies and hear how God has shown up for others. Whatever brings you here today, may God's blessing be upon you.
If you have a short testimony or praise report of how God is moving that you would like to share we would love to hear from you! If you are needing encouragement or hope, take some time to read through these testimonies and hear how God has shown up for others. Whatever brings you here today, may God's blessing be upon you.
Testimonies
Pastor Aaron
March 27, 2024
I’ve always believed in the authority of a believer in Jesus to cast out demons, but for 15 years as a senior pastor, I did not cast out a single demon from anyone. The second night of our revival meetings a young man I was praying for began growling and writhing on the floor - instantly I knew it was demonic. 90 minutes later there were 35 demons cast out of this man and I knew two things:
1. I needed to repent for allowing so many in my church to suffer under demonic bondage.
2. I knew God was opening me up to a fresh anointing to walk in His authority in the spirit realm.
Now, four months later, I estimate that at least 75 deliverances have taken place, many among pastors and leaders within our own church. God is bringing freedom on a weekly basis throughout all our ministries. Even tonight a man who had never met me before walked up to me at Celebrate Recovery and asked if I could do deliverance on him! I suspect we are becoming a safer church for Jesus to bring people who are desperate to find freedom. Praise the Lord!
Danika H.
March 24, 2024
There are so many wonderful things that God has done in my life since I came to M4 back in October, but the one I would like to share with you today is one of the deepest prayers that God has answered for me. For the last 5 1/2 years, since I became pregnant with my daughter and gave my life to Jesus, one of my biggest prayers to God was that she would grow up knowing that He loved her and she wasn't alone. That we would be surrounded by other believers, that she would have other people pouring the love of God into her, that she would have wonderful role models to look up to, and that she would have friends with parents who shared our beliefs.... coming from a non-christian family/background, and a life built away from the church, it was a HUGE transition to go through.
Between the pandemic, my own struggle with not feeling "christian enough" and feeling like I had too much trauma to bring value to my new relationships... making friends in the church was really difficult. I was in and out of churches in the area for the last 5+ years trying to find a place that felt like home. I was struggling with feeling like I was failing and unable to provide that dream for my daughter and myself... and then God led me here through a Facebook ad of all things. After some incredible encounters over these last few months at Hunger for Revival and the Friday Night Fires, I have received so much inner healing/deliverance and have finally felt like I belong somewhere. I don't feel like an outsider anymore, I'm no longer carrying that weight of unworthiness, and I'm really starting to grow roots in this community. God has been faithful to those deep cries in my heart for all these years, and I am seeing my daughter and myself stepping into that dream I had at the beginning. God has brought me to a place where I have found more community, connection, friendships and mentors in the last 5 months at M4 than I had in the last 5+ years of struggling on my own. After all those years of isolation and walking alone I am so incredibly grateful to be where I am today and give ALL glory and praise to Him. God was faithful through it all, even when I couldn't see it.. He is such a wonderful Father. <3
March 24, 2024
There are so many wonderful things that God has done in my life since I came to M4 back in October, but the one I would like to share with you today is one of the deepest prayers that God has answered for me. For the last 5 1/2 years, since I became pregnant with my daughter and gave my life to Jesus, one of my biggest prayers to God was that she would grow up knowing that He loved her and she wasn't alone. That we would be surrounded by other believers, that she would have other people pouring the love of God into her, that she would have wonderful role models to look up to, and that she would have friends with parents who shared our beliefs.... coming from a non-christian family/background, and a life built away from the church, it was a HUGE transition to go through.
Between the pandemic, my own struggle with not feeling "christian enough" and feeling like I had too much trauma to bring value to my new relationships... making friends in the church was really difficult. I was in and out of churches in the area for the last 5+ years trying to find a place that felt like home. I was struggling with feeling like I was failing and unable to provide that dream for my daughter and myself... and then God led me here through a Facebook ad of all things. After some incredible encounters over these last few months at Hunger for Revival and the Friday Night Fires, I have received so much inner healing/deliverance and have finally felt like I belong somewhere. I don't feel like an outsider anymore, I'm no longer carrying that weight of unworthiness, and I'm really starting to grow roots in this community. God has been faithful to those deep cries in my heart for all these years, and I am seeing my daughter and myself stepping into that dream I had at the beginning. God has brought me to a place where I have found more community, connection, friendships and mentors in the last 5 months at M4 than I had in the last 5+ years of struggling on my own. After all those years of isolation and walking alone I am so incredibly grateful to be where I am today and give ALL glory and praise to Him. God was faithful through it all, even when I couldn't see it.. He is such a wonderful Father. <3
Alicia P.
March 27, 2024
I was delivered from the spirit of suicide.
I was delivered from the spirit of manipulation.
During prayer, I was set free from the fear of a particular person in my life.
Being prayed over, for me to be able to see myself the way God sees me, God called me precious and I saw myself as precious and felt it too.
All of these things have had a major impact on pretty much every other aspect of my life.
Praise God. Thank You so much for loving me.
Sheri Y.
March 22, 2024
I have known my Lord Jesus since a very young age. I have received and witnessed many actual miracles in my life and yet I struggled with feeling love, especially from God. I have gone to a few churches throughout my life and been very involved in some of them. A year ago April 2023, I was led to Marysville Foursquare. I have never experienced a church body like this one! On my first Sunday here, I prayed before arriving asking that God would confirm to me if this is where I was to be. During worship, a man, (who I later found out was Doc.) stood up and gave a prophetic word that was so extremely detailed and clearly for me that I fell apart and thanked God.
This is my home, people here are family to me, we’re real, and we love and care for one another; sadly this isn’t in every church body. Pastor Aaron and many others desire to teach the Word of God, fully, not a watered-down version or just parts of it. Because of this and the ever-present presence of the Holy Spirit in this place and the body; I have Grown in my relationship with Jesus, been healed, delivered, and am being used by God to heal and bring deliverance to others. I have experienced and grown closer to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit like never before. It’s amazing what he has done in a year!
After attending a recent prophecy training at M4 I was discussing with another member, Kitty about how I have never really felt loved by God, It sounds ridiculous, I knew of His love in my head but it wasn’t connecting to my heart, not fully. She brought up the story of the man who was lame and how God asked him "Do you want to get well?"..... I've heard and read this scripture dozens of times and always thought well ya! Of course, he did! (I feel qualified to answer about wanting to be healed). At that moment, as she was talking I heard God say "Do You Want to be loved"? I understood and I couldn't answer Him. I told Kitty what I heard and she gave me a look and said well!? I replied, "I don't want my heart to hurt anymore, and I don't want to be hurt anymore, It’s too hard to trust I can't. It's too much."
Later that day I was working/driving, I was praying and worshipping, and I heard Him again… "Do YOU Want to be loved"? God is so good, so patient so loving, he left the 99 and wasn't going back without me…I flooded with tears pulled over and told him "The hurts of my heart" how every person who said they loved me Hurt me or abused me and I told him my fears of trusting Him and getting hurt. Finally (as He said nothing patiently waiting for me to get it all out) I whispered tearfully Yes. His love... His word, the truth, it flooded me. I heard "I love you, child, I will Never leave you or forsake you". I felt a huge weight lift off me and Joy, "Actually Joy was in me in a way I've ever felt. The next day, Sunday, during worship, I was so overcome by His love and the presence of the Holy Spirit in me, that I began praying and singing in tongues (I often speak in tongues) but this was incredible it was non-stop flowing for two songs. God loves me even me! While writing out this testimony I realized that this had occurred on Saturday, March 16th as in 3:16 what a day for God’s love to break through!!!
March 22, 2024
I have known my Lord Jesus since a very young age. I have received and witnessed many actual miracles in my life and yet I struggled with feeling love, especially from God. I have gone to a few churches throughout my life and been very involved in some of them. A year ago April 2023, I was led to Marysville Foursquare. I have never experienced a church body like this one! On my first Sunday here, I prayed before arriving asking that God would confirm to me if this is where I was to be. During worship, a man, (who I later found out was Doc.) stood up and gave a prophetic word that was so extremely detailed and clearly for me that I fell apart and thanked God.
This is my home, people here are family to me, we’re real, and we love and care for one another; sadly this isn’t in every church body. Pastor Aaron and many others desire to teach the Word of God, fully, not a watered-down version or just parts of it. Because of this and the ever-present presence of the Holy Spirit in this place and the body; I have Grown in my relationship with Jesus, been healed, delivered, and am being used by God to heal and bring deliverance to others. I have experienced and grown closer to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit like never before. It’s amazing what he has done in a year!
After attending a recent prophecy training at M4 I was discussing with another member, Kitty about how I have never really felt loved by God, It sounds ridiculous, I knew of His love in my head but it wasn’t connecting to my heart, not fully. She brought up the story of the man who was lame and how God asked him "Do you want to get well?"..... I've heard and read this scripture dozens of times and always thought well ya! Of course, he did! (I feel qualified to answer about wanting to be healed). At that moment, as she was talking I heard God say "Do You Want to be loved"? I understood and I couldn't answer Him. I told Kitty what I heard and she gave me a look and said well!? I replied, "I don't want my heart to hurt anymore, and I don't want to be hurt anymore, It’s too hard to trust I can't. It's too much."
Later that day I was working/driving, I was praying and worshipping, and I heard Him again… "Do YOU Want to be loved"? God is so good, so patient so loving, he left the 99 and wasn't going back without me…I flooded with tears pulled over and told him "The hurts of my heart" how every person who said they loved me Hurt me or abused me and I told him my fears of trusting Him and getting hurt. Finally (as He said nothing patiently waiting for me to get it all out) I whispered tearfully Yes. His love... His word, the truth, it flooded me. I heard "I love you, child, I will Never leave you or forsake you". I felt a huge weight lift off me and Joy, "Actually Joy was in me in a way I've ever felt. The next day, Sunday, during worship, I was so overcome by His love and the presence of the Holy Spirit in me, that I began praying and singing in tongues (I often speak in tongues) but this was incredible it was non-stop flowing for two songs. God loves me even me! While writing out this testimony I realized that this had occurred on Saturday, March 16th as in 3:16 what a day for God’s love to break through!!!
Valynthia H.
March 27, 2024
A few weeks ago I went to see my daughter in Pennsylvania. Just before I left, my lower back started to hurt. I had received a distant prayer and it went away, then it came back just before I came home. It only hurt for a day the second time. I haven’t had problems since.
David B.
March 30, 2024
God has set me free from so much bondage in the last five months I feel like an entirely different person. On the second night of the revival, I went for prayer and demonic spirits started to manifest from my body. They would throw me to the ground and shriek from my mouth. Pastor Aaron and the ministry team prayed for my deliverance for an hour and a half where about 35 spirits were cast out that night. This was the first of many deliverances God has brought me through.
During the next five months, I was set free from 87 different spirits and strongholds that had me bound. The following is a list of all the named things that the Lord has delivered me from, but many were unnamed: pornography, masturbation, lust, unforgiveness, hatred, bitterness, depression, loneliness, witchcraft, procrastination, slothfulness, complacency, trauma, abandonment, fantasy, death, suicide, unfulfilled purpose, fear, shame, guilt, profanity, disqualification, unbelief, atheism, Mormonism, confusion, idolatry, distraction, pride, voyeurism, criticism, yoga, Satan worship, filth, uncleanness, fear of man, nothingness, rejection, and multiple spirits of unforgiveness that were tied to different people. Two big things I struggled with were depression and pornography, but my mind has never been clearer, and I haven’t looked at porn since October!
Years ago, I felt called to ministry as a teenager, but my sinful lifestyle kept me from fulfilling what God had for me. Shame and guilt consumed my soul. I felt like God could never use me, but He saved me from the schemes of the enemy. Now I have new life and a new sense of purpose! I am living for His Kingdom and fulfilling the ministry He has for me. The things that dominated my life are the very things that God is using to bring freedom to those around me! I have documented most of what Jesus did for me and put it into a blog. If you are interested in reading the details go to HowChristFreedMe.blogspot.com
March 30, 2024
God has set me free from so much bondage in the last five months I feel like an entirely different person. On the second night of the revival, I went for prayer and demonic spirits started to manifest from my body. They would throw me to the ground and shriek from my mouth. Pastor Aaron and the ministry team prayed for my deliverance for an hour and a half where about 35 spirits were cast out that night. This was the first of many deliverances God has brought me through.
During the next five months, I was set free from 87 different spirits and strongholds that had me bound. The following is a list of all the named things that the Lord has delivered me from, but many were unnamed: pornography, masturbation, lust, unforgiveness, hatred, bitterness, depression, loneliness, witchcraft, procrastination, slothfulness, complacency, trauma, abandonment, fantasy, death, suicide, unfulfilled purpose, fear, shame, guilt, profanity, disqualification, unbelief, atheism, Mormonism, confusion, idolatry, distraction, pride, voyeurism, criticism, yoga, Satan worship, filth, uncleanness, fear of man, nothingness, rejection, and multiple spirits of unforgiveness that were tied to different people. Two big things I struggled with were depression and pornography, but my mind has never been clearer, and I haven’t looked at porn since October!
Years ago, I felt called to ministry as a teenager, but my sinful lifestyle kept me from fulfilling what God had for me. Shame and guilt consumed my soul. I felt like God could never use me, but He saved me from the schemes of the enemy. Now I have new life and a new sense of purpose! I am living for His Kingdom and fulfilling the ministry He has for me. The things that dominated my life are the very things that God is using to bring freedom to those around me! I have documented most of what Jesus did for me and put it into a blog. If you are interested in reading the details go to HowChristFreedMe.blogspot.com
Sheri Y.
April 22, 2024
n 2012 I fell 20 feet from a ladder, three days later I woke up at the Harborview Trauma Center and I was told I was lucky to be alive and not paralyzed. I had a broken pelvis, a broken left knee, and had shattered my right leg from the knee down and I was to be non-weight bearing for several months. Those months were excruciating and I was taking an enormous amount of prescription medications including Fentanyl, Oxy, Gabapentin, Pregabalin, and steroids to just name a few. At one point the various doctors hadn't coordinated well and I nearly overdosed because of the levels and combinations they had me on. I think back on that now as Satan still trying.. and failing...to take me out. Nearly 3 years, many surgeries, and tons of PT and hard work later I had proven the doctors wrong on everything they said could never do again. I was walking normally, even jogging, dancing, and finally, back to a good job I was thankful to God for all of this.
Even though I still fought through daily unending pain. I had accepted it as best I could, as my new life. I was thankful to be alive for my children. Yet I was very angry that God let me live "just to suffer" constant pain, a lost marriage, lost home, and a career. This was the version of God I had come to know my whole life. The God that told Satan he could mess up Jobe's life, the one who let me go through so much, even before this. God didn't love me, I was paying consequences for my sins....These were some of the lies I believed. Then I got breast cancer, another sucker punch from the enemy. The surgeries, radiation, and mental stress exhausted me. I was pretty inactive, other than going to work and doctor's appointments. A few months after the radiation stopped I was still healing and still lying around a lot. This is when the "normal pain" I had learned to live with started to become worse and worse for many years to come. At times it was so debilitating I would crawl just to get to the bathroom or cling to furniture and lean on the walls just to get around the house. This eventually brought on, a nearly complete loss of mobility, the beginning stages of muscle atrophy, lots of weight gain, more pain medications, spinal injections, nerve cauterizations, depression, high cholesterol, diabetes, and me wanting to die and sometimes planning it. I was angry at God for waking me up again day after day, this "season" and unbelievable pain fueled my untrust in Him, and increased hopelessness and despair.
And yet, By the Grace of God and through His strength I kept going and fighting. It had to get better or I wasn't going to make it. I remember when I first heard about Hunger 4 revival coming to M4...something in me sparked and I had some knowing and anticipation but I didn't know for sure why. I took time off work because nothing was going to keep me from attending every service! I was Hungry, Starving, Desperate for God to do something... anything.. because I just couldn't and did not want to go on. I was part trusting God and part challenging His word. For about six months I had been clinging to 2nd Kings 20 : 5 "I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you."
On October 19th, the first night of Hunger 4 Revival, Julie said something about someone having a dark heaviness in them and I knew that was for me. I had a heavy but empty dark hole in my chest my entire life and I had tried hard to fill it to make it go away to no avail. Yet I had never voiced this to anyone. I thought it was normal but knew it wasn't right. I went forward and asked for prayer to heal my back. Well... God showed up! The holy spirit came on me in a way I had never experienced, and I was on the floor. For about the next hour and a half. I cried ugly crying ..Spirit led, God was bringing a rapid fire of names to my mind and I truly forgave each of them.. I repented for a lot. It was part peace part battle and yet I still had pain in my back and hips. Several people were praying over me and Someone said to break off self hatred and as I began to think, I don't hate myself..., I couldn't even finish thinking the lie. I forgave myself for many things and then someone asked if there was anyone else I needed to forgive and one word came to my mind... GOD.
I fully surrendered and told Him I didn't care about the why anymore and asked Him to forgive me for my anger at Him and I told Him I forgave Him. Instantly His peace came over me in a wave, I have no idea how long I lay there. But when I got up Julie asked me how I felt and I seriously couldn't think of any words as if I'd forgotten the English language. I finally said FREE... Because That black dark heavy hole in my chest was gone and I was in a beautiful state of awe. She asked me "What about your back?" It was then I realized I wasn't feeling any pain at all! I was healed!!! For the first time in 11 years no pain! I hadn't had oxy since earlier that afternoon, and I haven't since. I have had to stand firm in my faith as the enemy has tried to lie and attack and some pain comes back once in a while. I remind myself I'm healed! And that I may have a little pain but it's nowhere near what I had "while taking all those pills and treatments" and the pain leaves.
Since that day, I have had several deliverances each time God breaking chains and setting me more free. I have watched in amazement, God heal others as I pray over them. To see God use my trials and pain to help others and build their faith and mine, bringing glory to Jesus is unexplainably beautiful. If you have pain, if you Hunger for change for healing in your heart, in your body, if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, let the next step you take be toward Jesus He is waiting for you to step out in faith.
April 22, 2024
n 2012 I fell 20 feet from a ladder, three days later I woke up at the Harborview Trauma Center and I was told I was lucky to be alive and not paralyzed. I had a broken pelvis, a broken left knee, and had shattered my right leg from the knee down and I was to be non-weight bearing for several months. Those months were excruciating and I was taking an enormous amount of prescription medications including Fentanyl, Oxy, Gabapentin, Pregabalin, and steroids to just name a few. At one point the various doctors hadn't coordinated well and I nearly overdosed because of the levels and combinations they had me on. I think back on that now as Satan still trying.. and failing...to take me out. Nearly 3 years, many surgeries, and tons of PT and hard work later I had proven the doctors wrong on everything they said could never do again. I was walking normally, even jogging, dancing, and finally, back to a good job I was thankful to God for all of this.
Even though I still fought through daily unending pain. I had accepted it as best I could, as my new life. I was thankful to be alive for my children. Yet I was very angry that God let me live "just to suffer" constant pain, a lost marriage, lost home, and a career. This was the version of God I had come to know my whole life. The God that told Satan he could mess up Jobe's life, the one who let me go through so much, even before this. God didn't love me, I was paying consequences for my sins....These were some of the lies I believed. Then I got breast cancer, another sucker punch from the enemy. The surgeries, radiation, and mental stress exhausted me. I was pretty inactive, other than going to work and doctor's appointments. A few months after the radiation stopped I was still healing and still lying around a lot. This is when the "normal pain" I had learned to live with started to become worse and worse for many years to come. At times it was so debilitating I would crawl just to get to the bathroom or cling to furniture and lean on the walls just to get around the house. This eventually brought on, a nearly complete loss of mobility, the beginning stages of muscle atrophy, lots of weight gain, more pain medications, spinal injections, nerve cauterizations, depression, high cholesterol, diabetes, and me wanting to die and sometimes planning it. I was angry at God for waking me up again day after day, this "season" and unbelievable pain fueled my untrust in Him, and increased hopelessness and despair.
And yet, By the Grace of God and through His strength I kept going and fighting. It had to get better or I wasn't going to make it. I remember when I first heard about Hunger 4 revival coming to M4...something in me sparked and I had some knowing and anticipation but I didn't know for sure why. I took time off work because nothing was going to keep me from attending every service! I was Hungry, Starving, Desperate for God to do something... anything.. because I just couldn't and did not want to go on. I was part trusting God and part challenging His word. For about six months I had been clinging to 2nd Kings 20 : 5 "I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you."
On October 19th, the first night of Hunger 4 Revival, Julie said something about someone having a dark heaviness in them and I knew that was for me. I had a heavy but empty dark hole in my chest my entire life and I had tried hard to fill it to make it go away to no avail. Yet I had never voiced this to anyone. I thought it was normal but knew it wasn't right. I went forward and asked for prayer to heal my back. Well... God showed up! The holy spirit came on me in a way I had never experienced, and I was on the floor. For about the next hour and a half. I cried ugly crying ..Spirit led, God was bringing a rapid fire of names to my mind and I truly forgave each of them.. I repented for a lot. It was part peace part battle and yet I still had pain in my back and hips. Several people were praying over me and Someone said to break off self hatred and as I began to think, I don't hate myself..., I couldn't even finish thinking the lie. I forgave myself for many things and then someone asked if there was anyone else I needed to forgive and one word came to my mind... GOD.
I fully surrendered and told Him I didn't care about the why anymore and asked Him to forgive me for my anger at Him and I told Him I forgave Him. Instantly His peace came over me in a wave, I have no idea how long I lay there. But when I got up Julie asked me how I felt and I seriously couldn't think of any words as if I'd forgotten the English language. I finally said FREE... Because That black dark heavy hole in my chest was gone and I was in a beautiful state of awe. She asked me "What about your back?" It was then I realized I wasn't feeling any pain at all! I was healed!!! For the first time in 11 years no pain! I hadn't had oxy since earlier that afternoon, and I haven't since. I have had to stand firm in my faith as the enemy has tried to lie and attack and some pain comes back once in a while. I remind myself I'm healed! And that I may have a little pain but it's nowhere near what I had "while taking all those pills and treatments" and the pain leaves.
Since that day, I have had several deliverances each time God breaking chains and setting me more free. I have watched in amazement, God heal others as I pray over them. To see God use my trials and pain to help others and build their faith and mine, bringing glory to Jesus is unexplainably beautiful. If you have pain, if you Hunger for change for healing in your heart, in your body, if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, let the next step you take be toward Jesus He is waiting for you to step out in faith.