A Glorious, Soul–Saving, Miracle Crusade in the Dominican Republic
by Debbie DeRonde
February 2015
Rev. Angley never takes a missionary journey unless it is God’s will; so we knew we were divinely called to Santiago, a city of just over one million people in the small island country of the Dominican Republic. As the crew of Star Triple Seven, the ministry’s missionary airplane, made final preparations for our flight that chilly September morning, the Lord let us know through Rev. Angley that we were indeed in His divine will.
Thus saith the Lord, I have called you. I tell my servant where to go…and you are on the right track…but you have to take time to be with me. Then I can be with you in all freedom and liberty and spirit, and we can have perfect unity. Souls will be drawn to you, and I have given you great favor in that country. Rev. Angley then added, “The Lord will know exactly where to send you, how to direct you and how to work with you.”
The majority of people in the Dominican Republic speak no English; so prior to our trip, one of our Spanish-speaking congregation members and a few helpers dedicated many hours to teaching our tour members useful words and phrases, prayers, songs and children’s stories in Spanish. Therefore, many of our people spent the short, three-hour flight reviewing what they had learned.
God began performing miracles as soon as we landed in the Dominican Republic. After our tour members had disembarked, a local businesswoman was invited to tour God’s anointed airplane; and she received an instant miracle for her back when she stepped onboard.
Our Work Began
God had used Rev. Angley’s weekly television program to prepare the people for a great crusade; so when we arrived, they were ready to receive. On our first day, the Lord quickly showed us that His love and anointing could overcome any language barrier as one of our new tour members shed tears of humility when she led her first soul to the Lord. Another worker prayed for a 90-year-old man with a paralyzed wrist, and the man received an instant miracle. Our field crew was hard at work building the stage and preparing for the services, but they always took time to pray for those in need; and on that first day, a man received a marvelous back miracle and a backslider came home.
The prisons opened their doors to Rev. Millar, his team and the Cathedral Trio right away; and Tuesday morning, they made their first visit. As the Trio sang, it prepared the prisoners’ hearts and minds to receive the Gospel message; and Rev. Millar then led over 200 men in the sinners’ prayer. He also prayed for two deaf prisoners who received their hearing. On Wednesday morning, Rev. Millar and his team encountered a roomful of hard, cold stares at a women’s prison; but after just one song from the Cathedral Trio, the cold stares began to melt away, and many inmates were weeping before the Lord by the end of the service. One woman who was scheduled to be released the next day said that she knew she would have ended up back in prison if she had not received deliverance.
Institutions all over the city were welcoming our people with open arms; and during the first three days, our teams were able to witness to and pray with 40 orphans, 400 primary school students and over 700 secondary school students.
At a boys’ juvenile detention center, the testimonies of two of our workers who had been delivered from suicide spirits touched the heart of one boy who was planning to hang himself. Then all the boys gave so completely over to God that many of them were seeking for the Holy Ghost before the visit ended.
First Ministers’ Meeting
Over 300 pastors attended the Wednesday evening ministers’ meeting, and Rev. Angley greeted the standing-room-only crowd with a big Jesus smile before getting right to the point. “If you are ever going to win souls, it has to be now!” he proclaimed. “The Lord has special people marked for us to win; but if you are not on fire for the Lord, you will miss those souls.”
Rev. Angley was anxious to get to the message God had given him for the ministers—“How to Run the Race with Patience”—and he began with Hebrews 12💯 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
“Weights are things that hinder you from doing the work of God,” Rev. Angley explained, “and some of you have weights that you don’t even know are weights. Wrong imaginations and opinions, self-pity, pouting, grumbling and battles of the mind are weights; and those things will slow you down because you become more concerned about them than you are about running your race. You have to let the Word and the Holy Spirit flush these things out of your mind…and take God’s thoughts.” For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD (Isaiah 55:8).
“God has set our race before us,” Rev. Angley continued, “and we have to run it the way He wants us to.” He went on to explain that God’s way includes getting quiet before the Lord, studying the Bible, leaving all works of the flesh behind, obeying God in all things and making use of every minute for the Lord.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). “Jesus will guide you to the goal,” Rev. Angley said, “and the only people who will count are those who finish the race. So, you have to let go of self and anything else that would hinder you and hold onto the promises of God.”
The message closed with a beautiful visitation by the Lord: Thus saith the Lord, I am your Lord; and I will pour out my Spirit in unbelievable ways. Lift up your eyes and behold my glory. I am raising up witnesses in your country. I sent this great revival to you, and this is an hour of great deliverance and freedom.
Then the Lord poured down His healing power; and Rev. Angley revealed that people had received miracles for nervous stomachs, arthritis, back trouble, migraines and cancer. The ministers departed gratefully with three of Rev. Angley’s sermon booklets that had been translated into Spanish especially for them and their people.
First Week Ends in Victory
Thursday and Friday included opportunities to touch nearly 3500 young souls in four schools. The Spanish language tutoring our people had received was definitely paying off as they were able to conduct entire assemblies in Spanish, complete with songs, testimonies and short messages. One of our workers testified of receiving an amazing miracle for prostate and colon cancer, and it brought a young school boy to tears because his father had the same type of cancer. When the boy shared the testimony with his family, his father attended the first crusade service; and before he left that night, he declared he had definitely received a touch from the Lord. And a little child shall lead them (Isaiah 11:6).
Some of our people shared God’s love with nearly 250 children at two orphanages. The second orphanage was located way off the main road, and our people had to hike quite a distance to get there; but God had sent them. The meeting room was too small to accommodate all of our workers; so while some spoke to the children inside, God was using others to save souls and pray for people outside. A toddler who appeared almost lifeless with a high fever opened her eyes and began to fidget after receiving prayer with a blest cloth. A woman with a seemingly impossible request was amazed to receive salvation and divine hope from On High.
On Thursday, Rev. Millar and his team held three prison services in one day—something that has never happened before—and on Friday, they visited a juvenile center and a drug rehabilitation facility. Again, the Lord used the testimonies of some of our tour members who had been delivered from drugs, alcohol and suicide spirits to really affect the residents. One young man had been hearing voices in his head telling him to commit suicide, but he received a miraculous deliverance.
First Friday Service
A warm and pleasant evening seemed to welcome the Spirit of the Lord as we prepared for the first service, and the people were so happy Rev. Angley had returned. The Cathedral Trio ministered to the people in song during the first half of the service, and the crowd especially loved the songs the Trio sang in Spanish.
When the people’s hearts were ready to receive God’s message, Rev. Angley taught them the truth about prayer because that would have to be their lifeline when the crusade was over. Ask [according to God’s will], and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (Matthew 7:7). “God loves to answer our prayers of faith when we pray them according to His divine will,” Rev. Angley announced.
He went on to explain that the Holy Ghost and even Jesus Himself make intercession for those who pray according to God’s will. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:27). Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us (Romans 8:34).
Rev. Angley ended the message by stressing the importance of praying for one another. Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much (James 5:16). “Many people are saved and healed when they see others being saved and healed,” Rev. Angley declared.
That ushered in the healing line; and after Rev. Angley had ministered onstage to the deaf and those without the sense of smell and taste, the Lord began moving for people in the audience. He revealed through Rev. Angley that a pregnant woman’s baby would be born deformed, but God was giving it a miracle. A person with stomach trouble for 14 years was healed; and Rev. Angley said to a lady who had suffered with arthritis for over 11 years, “You will walk out of here feeling fine, but you must not doubt.” A person with an incurable eye disease had been told he would go blind within three years; but the Lord proclaimed through Rev. Angley, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
That miracle increased the faith of others in the audience, and God offered healing to 14 people with eye conditions; but Rev. Angley warned, “You will go totally blind if you don’t get saved.” He led the entire audience in the sinners’ prayer because he did not want any of those people to miss the gift of deliverance God was offering them.
Rev. Angley turned to the audience and declared, “It doesn’t matter whether other people believe God or not because the God of miracles lives!” For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar (Romans 3:3,4).
The Lord was still moving backstage after the service had closed, and a man possessed with 17 devils was set free while another man spoke for the first time since suffering a stroke.
A Miraculous Saturday
Saturday morning, souls were again being touched by God’s anointing as our tour members canvassed the market areas and neighborhoods. A woman with AIDS received a blest cloth and was amazed when she immediately felt the anointing of the Lord. Near a city park, an elderly beggar received salvation for his soul and hearing in his deaf ear; and his tears of joy and thankfulness were a beautiful confirmation of what God had done for him.
Rev. Millar and his team spent several hours ministering at a local hospital to patients who desperately needed God’s healing touch, including several who were near death. When one of our workers placed a blest cloth on the belly of a 15-day-old infant in the neonatal unit, the tiny boy immediately placed his hand over hers and kept it there. God was indeed moving for that baby.
Miracles for the soul also took place as many of the patients’ family members tearfully gave their hearts to the Lord. The hospital director followed the group from room to room, and she could not get over all she saw taking place.
Rev. Millar and his team moved on to a children’s home/day care center where they encountered a very excited, young boy who had received his hearing in the service the night before. God used that boy’s miracle to prepare the other children to receive the Gospel message with open arms.
Our people sacrificed much to make that first week a great success for the Lord, but God had also used others to help make that possible. A local dentist took a two-week vacation from his practice to help with the crusade, and a devoted ministry partner from Puerto Rico left his personal obligations behind to work with our people. A well-respected, international business consultant from Santiago was Rev. Millar’s key to getting into the prisons and other institutions, and a local pastor and some of her parishioners worked with our people every day. All the sacrifices these people made were a gift from God, and each person was a great blessing to our people and to God’s work.
First Saturday Service
Saturday night, Rev. Angley presented an unusual subject—“Good Cheer”—something God knew most people did not have. “What causes a person to have good cheer?” he asked. “Is it perfect, trouble-free surroundings, possessions or having no persecutions?—No. Jesus said, Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee (Matthew 9:2). Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid (Matthew 14:27). Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (John 16:33). Good cheer brings joy, happiness, encouragement, comfort and gladness; and nothing can bring good cheer like becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus and having all that He brought.
“It was in trying times that Jesus told people to be of good cheer,” Rev. Angley continued. “Jesus was letting them know that He was bigger than any sickness, disease or storm and that He had come to deliver them from all oppression, depression and demonic spirits.” I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD (Psalm 121:1,2).
Rev. Angley encouraged the people to study the Apostle Paul because he suffered more than any of the other disciples, yet he always had the joy of the Lord inside. When Paul was falsely accused, he said, I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews (Acts 26:2). Even in prison, Paul sang praises unto the Lord. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them (Act 16:25). “Only Jesus can give that kind of strength,” Rev. Angley declared. Behold, we count them happy which endure (James 5:11).
At the end of every service, some of the ministry’s dedicated and consecrated tour members used the anointed blest cloths to pray with each person in the invalid section. That night, a stroke victim who still had a lot of trouble with his right arm and hand after four years was so excited when he began to receive freedom.
Backstage, the devils in a young lady began manifesting themselves and violently shaking her when she was brought before Rev. Angley, but he quickly took control over those spirits through the power of God and cast them out. The girl’s demeanor totally changed when she realized she was free; and when she returned the next weekend, she still had a big, Jesus smile.
First Sunday in Santiago
On Sunday morning, the Lord miraculously supplied interpreters from around the city to accompany our people to the local churches; and they successfully preached, testified, taught Sunday school and sang in 20 churches. Then our thankful teams returned with glowing reports of how God had moved for the congregations.
When Rev. Angley stepped onto the platform Sunday evening, God began performing miracles right away. As he marched across the platform crying, “The blood, the blood, the blood,” he turned to the audience and said, “A man’s heart was just re-created.” That miracle was followed by another heart re-creation, a miracle for a lady with an injured spine and a healing for a person with a severe skin condition.
Doctors had told a lady with cancer that she had only three months to live, but God gave her life; and Rev. Angley cried, “Now you can live on and on and on!” Another cancer victim received a miracle for a large tumor; and Rev. Angley told a woman with a stomach growth the size of a quarter, “Do not fear! That growth will pass through your bowels on the fourth morning, saith the Lord.”
God revealed that a 13-year-old boy had received a miracle for AIDS; and Rev. Angley instructed him, “Wait three days before you go back to your doctor to get your report.” Other miracles included one for a lady with a very rare and deadly disease and 21 for people with throat conditions. “It is so easy for God to heal us of anything when we will look up,” Rev. Angley declared.
The Lord revealed there would be 14 miracles for AIDS as the Cathedral Trio sang their next song; and when the song ended, God told Rev. Angley that one of those people had not only been healed of AIDS but had also received the perfect miracle—he had been healed of every disease and affliction in his body.
The miracles continued to pour out; and Rev. Angley announced, “Angels have come in and are touching some of you now. Touch yourself, and feel God’s power. God gives me many signs and wonders through the Holy Ghost to let you know that there is reality in the Lord today.”
Next, Rev. Angley said, “Eyes are now being healed, saith the Lord. Hold up a finger on each hand, and the Lord will anoint them with His shed blood. Now, touch your eyes and think about Jesus. If you believe with all of your heart, the Lord said it would be done.” At that moment, a woman in the audience who had been totally blind exclaimed, “I can see!” One of our tour members standing close by confirmed that miracle when the woman easily counted each one of our worker’s fingers.
Rev. Angley began his message for the night declaring, “The Word of the Lord is strong enough to deliver every person from all sickness and sin. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions (Psalm 107:20).”
Rev. Angley continued to give the attentive crowd scriptures from the Word of God on peace, love and faith. Then he prayed on their behalf saying, “Lord, bring these scriptures alive in their hearts because they hold all the faith, love, power and hope these people need. Help them to reach to Heaven and receive all that Jesus brought when He came.”
At the end of the prayer, Rev. Angley turned to the audience and revealed that a cancer victim was in danger of losing her right breast. “But you can have a miracle!” he proclaimed. “God is real, and He is ready to heal people.”
At the close of the service, a totally blind man in the invalid section clearly saw one of our worker’s hands waving in front of his face. God had continually proved throughout our first week that He was indeed the Almighty One.
The Second Week Begins
Early Monday morning, our tour members were again on duty for the Lord. A small group visited a children’s center; another busload went to a large school where they spoke to the students classroom by classroom, and others ministered on the city streets.
One young lady who gave her heart to the Lord in a downtown market area was so thrilled with her new Bible that she couldn’t put it down and even began reading it to the girl sitting next to her. Two of our workers prayed for a man who needed salvation for his soul and healing for a very painful, swollen foot; and when they encountered the same man the next day, he was walking with no trouble and even announced that he had quit smoking.
Rev. Angley has said that God’s anointing rests on every piece of the ministry’s literature; and that became visibly obvious when one of our couples handed a woman a crusade flyer, and she immediately had goose bumps running up and down her arms. To our people’s amazement, that incredible manifestation happened again on several other occasions during the trip.
A few of our tour members who had received lifesaving cancer miracles accompanied Rev. Millar to a cancer care center where their testimonies filled the patients with divine hope and faith and prepared them to receive prayer. They took that same divine faith to a home for disabled children where they prayed with young souls for whom God was their only hope.
Tuesday morning, everyone boarded buses and headed for the largest hospital in the Santiago area; and the extremely cooperative staff members allowed our people to enter nearly every ward, including two intensive care units, a nearby rehabilitation facility and a very busy cancer treatment center.
The extremely crowded hospital was a soul winner’s dream because people everywhere were ready to hear and accept the salvation message of Jesus Christ. Even many staff members humbly lifted their hands to say the sinners’ prayer and request prayer for their bodies.
Just some of the miracle reports from that visit included a deaf woman receiving a glorious miracle for her hearing and unresponsive patients becoming alert after prayer. In one intensive care unit, our workers watched the heart rate monitor of a seemingly lifeless, young man change after prayer; and a mentally ill woman in the psychiatric ward became a new person after asking the Lord into her heart. The whole morning was filled with victory in Jesus!
Later that day, a group of our workers conducted a service at a home for abandoned children; and the anointed singing intrigued a neighbor lady so much that she joined the session and went home with the gift of eternal salvation.
Wednesday morning, a visit to a primary school turned into a mini-revival for the students and the staff. A second busload of our people traveled to a small village where most of the residents did not have the transportation needed to make it to the services; however, the Lord seemed to cover that whole town with His presence, and entire families were saying the sinners’ prayer with all honesty and sincerity. Even seemingly uninterested groups of young men would suddenly sober up and listen to the words of life our people shared with them. That village will never be the same.
That same morning, Rev. Millar and his team ministered to and distributed Spanish Bibles to nearly 400 inmates at a men’s prison. One man commented that it was the best gift he had ever received; and another sat quietly with his eyes closed, clutching his new Bible to his chest. Only the Word of God could give those inmates the guidance they would need in the days to come.
Second Ministers’ Meeting
Wednesday evening brought the second ministers’ meeting during which Rev. Angley spoke to the pastors for over two hours about “The Power of Words”; and they drank it in. He began by asking, “Do your words bless people, or should you not speak them? Words can totally change the way people think about things,” he continued. “They can cause people to be deceived or enlightened, so you have to be very careful with what you say. You must seek the Lord as Job did to help you say the right things. Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forcible are right words (Job 6:24,25)!
“Words can help people or destroy them; they can minister grace, or they can rob and kill. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers (Ephesians 4:29). How many times has a word spoken in season lifted you up when you were going through a valley?
“Those who allow themselves to get hurt or become bitter find it easy to justify themselves by lying; but the Bible says, But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth (James 3:14). Lies can cause confusion and make people second guess the truth,” Rev. Angley explained, “but lies never set people free. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32).
“Most people don’t consider that God hears every word we speak; but the Bible says, For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether (Psalm 139:4). People will reap what their tongues have sown. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7). You can hold onto your words before you speak them, but you can never get them back,” Rev. Angley warned.
He continued to make one profound point after another; and he ended by saying, “In this last hour, we must hold fast to the words of Jesus and not let anyone’s lies, deceit or persecution compromise the power of God’s truth. The Word of faith must be your safety.”
At the end of the message, the Lord spoke through Rev. Angley saying, Thus saith the Lord, I am here seeking to reveal myself through my prophet. I trust him, and he trusts me. I want to use my people because there is so much work to be done. Then Rev. Angley warned, “The Lord has put a lot of hope in you, and you must not disappoint Him.” Then the power of the Holy Ghost took over as the ministers poured their hearts out to the Lord.
A Busy Thursday
Thursday morning, a busload of our people took on the challenge of evangelizing at an overwhelmingly busy, outdoor Haitian market. They worked tirelessly to not miss a soul; and in just a few short hours, they managed to freely distribute over 3000 Giant Little Books and crusade invitations in addition to Bibles, books and other special gifts. They had planted the seed, and it was up to God to draw the people to the services.
Another group ministered to over 1000 high school students in four separate assemblies; and the Spirit of the Lord took over in such a new and miraculous way that one of our veteran tour members commented, “It was like a bit of Heaven.”
Rev. Millar and his team conducted a service for a gathering of AIDS victims during which two of our tour members gave personal testimonies of family members who had been healed of AIDS, and that gave the people great faith. Later, addicts at a drug rehabilitation center were gloriously saved and delivered after prayer.
Rev. Angley stepped onto the platform Thursday evening crying, “The blood, the blood, the blood!” He wanted to get the people’s minds off of themselves; and he instructed them, “Touch someone and believe for them to receive whatever they need tonight.” But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him (Matthew 6:8).
Rev. Angley’s sermon that night took the people to the story of King Belshazzar’s devilish feast. Thou…O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart…But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven (Daniel 5:22,23). Belshazzar was evil and had forgotten about God, so the Lord spelled out the king’s doom by writing it with His own hand on the wall for all to see. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote (Daniel 5:5).
Daniel was a true prophet of God, and he was the only one in the kingdom who could interpret the writing; and the sobering message the Lord had given to the king was, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it…Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting (Daniel 5:26,27).
“When God hands down such a verdict, it is too bad,” Rev. Angley warned. “God has written some of your names on the wall; and you had better change tonight, or He may cast you into hell.”
God’s spirit of condemnation rested heavily upon those people; so before the healing service began, Rev. Angley asked everyone to stand and renew their covenant with the Lord so they would be fit candidates to receive all the Lord had for them. Then Rev. Angley announced, “Jesus is here, and angels have come to serve you; and they will be touching people tonight. Reach out and feel their holy presence. The Lord is here on business to help you receive from Him.”
Angels continued to touch people as Rev. Angley ministered to the sick and afflicted onstage, and then the Lord poured out a mass miracle for back injuries. When Rev. Angley asked the people to stand and test their miracles, people popped up all over the congregation to rejoice in what they had received. “Miracles from God are so wonderful!” Rev. Angley declared.
The Lord was still moving in the invalid section after Rev. Angley left the stage, and the blind man who had begun to see the weekend before had returned; and he could see fingers and even the watch on his wrist. God was honoring his divine determination.
A young boy sitting by himself will never forget that he had come to the service with a bad toothache, but it was gone after prayer. Two security guards who were watching the invalids receive prayer could not wait to receiver prayer themselves, and they both went home with the greatest miracle of all—eternal life.
As Rev. Angley prayed for people backstage, one of our bus drivers was shocked to receive an instant back miracle. One of our interpreters received a beautiful miracle for his shoulder, and a woman with a collapsed lung began breathing with much more freedom. A teenage girl was so tormented by devils that Rev. Angley plainly told her, “If you don’t get delivered tonight, you will kill yourself or someone else.” Thank God, she yielded; and the Lord set her free. Later that weekend, she returned to glorify the Lord for what she had received.
A Friday of Opportunity
On our last Friday morning in Santiago, our people were spread out all over the city. Some went to a busy, downtown intersection where hundreds of cars waiting at the traffic lights provided the perfect opportunity to pass out service invitations and literature; and the people were quick to reach out for whatever our tour members offered them.
A second group of our workers prayed for the patients in a hospital located across the street from the crusade grounds, and one of our young nurses came across a room full of nearly 100 interns preparing for a meeting. She quickly used her common ground, divine tact and holy boldness to convince the man in charge to delay it; and after she and one of our Spanish-speaking girls had shared the Word of God and a few testimonies, they were able to lead all of the interns in the sinners’ prayer.
That afternoon, Rev. Millar conducted a service for children in a very poor school district after which he and his team were able to walk throughout the neighborhood offering anointed literature and prayer to the children’s families. Other opportunities that day included visiting a rehabilitation facility specializing in the treatment of autistic children and holding two assemblies at a primary school of about 400 students.
Friday evening, Rev. Angley immediately focused the people’s attention on receiving from God when he marched onto the stage crying, “The blood of Jesus heals everything! Take this blood anointing and touch yourself wherever you have pain; then praise God for your miracle!”
After the people had worshiped the Lord in song along with the Cathedral Trio, Rev. Angley preached a message entitled, “I See Four”; and he took them to the story of the three Hebrew boys. They were true children of God, and they refused to bow to the golden image the king had created. The king threatened to throw them into the fiery furnace; but still, they would not compromise.
This made the king so angry that he commanded the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than it had ever been before, and the boys were thrown in. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace (Daniel 3:21,23).
When the king looked into the furnace, he could not believe what he saw and said, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God (Daniel 3:24,25).
“If you see only three,” Rev. Angley declared to the people, “you will never get to Heaven because the Fourth Man is the one who counts; and His name is Jesus! The Fourth Man is here, and He is passing through the crowd. Reach out and touch Him because if you see four, you can be healed right now!”
Before calling for the healing line that night, the Lord directed Rev. Angley to invite those who had received a miracle during any of the services to come to the platform and testify. One woman who had suffered with a stomach condition could eat anything she wanted after receiving a miracle the first weekend. She had also attended our 2008 crusade after which her doctor confirmed that she no longer needed surgery.
Another woman testified that her horrible headaches and the severe pain in her arms were gone. A woman who had received miracles for back pain, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol was so overwhelmed that she stood on the stage with her face lifted toward Heaven crying, “You are the Healer, Jesus! Glory to God!”
After a mass miracle for arm trouble, a woman who had been scheduled for surgery testified that she could immediately raise her arm over her head; and she stood before the people that night raising her arm in praise to the Lord. A man told of the amazing back miracle he received when Rev. Angley had instructed the people to touch themselves and be healed, and he demonstrated that he could easily bend over and move in ways that he had not been able to before prayer.
The miraculous testimonies set the stage for the healing line, and one of the first people to step onstage was a young, deaf man who could not believe enough to receive his miracle. Directed by the wisdom of God, Rev. Angley told the man to stand on the platform while others were receiving their miracles. After watching several of them, Rev. Angley prayed for the man again; and he instantly received his hearing because he had seen God at work and believed.
At the end of the service, there was a miracle reunion in the invalid section as a young boy who had received his hearing onstage watched his totally blind grandfather receive his sight. Another young boy was very scared when he suffered an asthma attack, but Rev. Angley quickly cast that afflicting demon out of him; and the boy could breathe normally. Hallelujah!
A Miraculous Saturday
Saturday was our last day to reach the people of Santiago, and our tour members were busy working in crowded, downtown market areas where they again witnessed amazing miracles for soul and body taking place. The staff and visitors at a police station gave their hearts to the Lord. After prayer with the blest cloth, a totally deaf person received hearing; and two blind people received their sight. The Bible says, They [meaning believers] shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:18); and that promise was manifested in an amazing way during our trip.
Rev. Millar and his team were on their way to an orphanage when they were told of a Haitian baby dying in a nearby hospital; so after dropping off his team at the orphanage, Rev. Millar immediately went to pray for the child in the critical care unit. Later, he learned that the boy had dramatically improved and been released from the hospital.
Throughout the trip, our people worked hard not to miss one soul who had been marked for them. Aside from praying with and speaking with thousands, they distributed over 170,000 tracts, 20,000 Giant Little Books and 3000 Bibles as well as thousands of handmade bracelets, toys, stuffed animals, shoes and clothing items. They gave the people everything they possibly could to help them on their way after the crusade was over.
When Rev. Angley stepped on the stage Saturday night, he lifted his hands toward Heaven proclaiming, “Praise the Lord! You can receive so much by praising the Lord, so practice it daily; and angels may even join in.
“God is pouring out miracles in abundance,” Rev. Angley continued; “but you have to keep them coming after we are gone through prayer, fasting and living in the Word.” This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21).
That thought led into the sermon, “Move Those Stones.” Rev. Angley knew the people would have to clear all the obstacles out of their lives to be able to receive and keep all God had for them, and he began with the story of Lazarus’ death. At that time, everything looked all wrong; but Jesus was going to use His friend’s death to perform a great miracle. When Jesus arrived at Lazarus’ tomb, He said, Take ye away the stone (John 11:39). But Lazarus’ sister Martha replied, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days (John 11:39).
“Martha made an excuse, and God hates excuses,” Rev. Angley plainly stated. “If you want a miracle, never make an excuse. Jesus came so we could have miracles in abundance; but if you have any stones of envy, strife, lying, gossip or deceit, God’s Spirit will leave you, and you won’t be able to receive the miracles you need.”
The people began to grasp the message and get their stones out of the way, and the Lord started moving in the audience. A woman who had fought cancer for over five years was made whole; a person’s spine was re-created, and Rev. Angley told another person who had suffered with extreme pain for six months that he would wake up in the morning with none. A backslider was offered a miracle for a bad heart and lung if he would give his life back to the Lord. “God is merciful,” Rev. Angley declared, “but you must come back to Him.”
More miracles followed, including 17 for anemia and 18 for skin conditions due to poor blood. “You will notice a difference in your skin right away if you don’t doubt,” Rev. Angley declared.
After the Cathedral Trio had finished performing that night, an alcoholic who also suffered with asthma made his way to them. The man’s mother was a devoted viewer of Rev. Angley’s program, so he knew he needed deliverance for both his soul and body. He was taken backstage to Rev. Angley, and the man was delivered from 19 demons. He gave over to the Spirit of God so completely that he could not even stand; and before he left, he declared, “My life is changed forever. I will never be the same.”
Our Final Day
The local pastors had loved our people’s Sunday morning church visits so much the first weekend that we had more requests than we could fill the second Sunday. The Lord again provided a miracle supply of interpreters, and our people were able to visit 23 different churches. An additional eight churches received extensive libraries of ministry literature and beautiful, hardback Spanish Bibles for their congregations.
The final service began with the largest crowd yet; and Rev. Angley greeted the people proclaiming, “This is miracle time!” The Cathedral Trio’s anointed songs gave the people a rejoicing spirit of praise; and one of the crowd’s favorites about marching around the throne of God had many of the people flocking out of their seats and parading up and down the aisles.
While the people basked in the presence and the anointing of the Lord, Rev. Angley began ministering onstage to those in the healing line. As miracles took place onstage, the Lord started moving for people in the audience. He poured out a mass miracle for deaf ears, and people all over the audience waved their hands when Rev. Angley asked how many had received their hearing.
The Lord continued to pour out miracles as Rev. Angley joyfully announced, “God’s power is working for your legs, so start moving them. Many of you will be able to stand who had not been able to stand before.” People immediately began standing and lifting their legs, and then they raised their hands in praise to the Lord when they realized what they had received.
That final service ended with the people wholeheartedly and unconditionally pouring out their hearts to God in all faith to receive everything God had for them, and the Lord sent them on their way with miracles from On High and His song in their hearts.
As our tour members used the anointed blest cloths to pray for people in the invalid section one last time, yet another blind man started receiving his sight. A middle-aged man who had been partially deaf began to hear much better, and his wife received relief from excruciating, abdominal pain. God had started a miraculous work in those people, and He would continue it in the days and weeks to come if they would live for the Lord and yield to His ways.
A Crusade of Perfect Unity
Our people gave everything they had during that two-week crusade, and they worked harder than on any previous trip; but they were truly humbled that God had used them in ways that they had never been used before, and He had made them to sit in a new, heavenly place with Him. And [God] hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6).
As we prepared to take off for home, Rev. Angley proudly addressed the whole group saying, “In many respects, we have had the greatest crusade we have ever had. We had perfect, heavenly harmony, and we blessed the people so much.”
A few short weeks before we headed for Santiago, the Lord had used Rev. Angley to give his Grace Cathedral congregation a prophecy that was definitely fulfilled in the Dominican Republic: Thus saith the Lord, I am going to be with you in a greater way…trust me. I will work in you, for you and through you. I offer you all power, and it is yours to use if you are my son or my daughter. Seek my face daily, and you will go forth in the power of my Spirit; and you will be used in mighty ways. You will see me do the unthinkable through you, my children. I am depending on you for this great outpouring that is about to take place for the nations. I am your everything; only believe.
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