A Miraculous Holy Ghost Time in Kraaifontein, South Africa
by Ernest Angley
June 2017
This was our fifth trip to the Cape Town area of South Africa and our second crusade in the township of Kraaifontein, but the harvest is ripe there; and the Lord keeps drawing us back. Before we took off on Star Triple Seven, the ministry’s God-provided Boeing 747, Rev. Angley announced, “We are on the verge of the greatest outpouring of Heaven that has ever been since man has been on Earth. Be sober-minded and carry the burden for souls. Yield to the Spirit and expect great things to take place.”
Then the Holy Spirit took over in such a beautiful way that just before we landed in Cape Town, Rev. Angley said, “We have had the sweetest trip ever, and Jesus was onboard all the way. The Lord manifested Himself to me, and God is pleased.”
Ready to Go
After a nearly 16-hour flight, we arrived in Cape Town at approximately 9:30am; and by the time we made it through customs, claimed luggage, got to the hotel and attempted to unpack, everyone was exhausted. But God gave us divine strength; and by 3pm, two busloads of our people were ready to use that strength to begin ministering to the people of Kraaifontein. As we worked, the Lord plainly showed us that when we make an effort for Him, He will do the rest.
Our missionaries are prepared to pray for people with a blest cloth wherever they go; and at a nursing home, two people received their hearing, and one of the workers was instantly healed after being sick to her stomach all day. A man who had suffered three strokes began moving his afflicted hand and arm and even started walking, and that miracle shocked the nurses’ aides at that facility.
A few of our people visited a nearby children’s home where they showered them with both human and divine love. Generous donations from our Grace Cathedral members help to buy clothes, shoes, food staples and other necessities for the needy children we encounter on our trips; so the children always have much to be thankful for, both spiritually and physically, when our people leave.
In the neighborhoods, a woman was very excited to testify of receiving a miracle for arthritis in her legs during Rev. Angley’s 2015 crusade. A crippled man who received prayer was able to walk just fine without his cane, and he was still praising the Lord when he attended one of our weekend services.
As one of our workers witnessed to two people on a loaded bus, God’s anointing attracted the attention of all the passengers; and soon, everyone on the bus was repeating the sinners’ prayer—hallelujah!
Busy for the Lord
A local man working with our ministry had spent countless hours organizing special visits for our missionaries. On many days, we had four buses taking our people to souls, young and old, all over the region. That was a great blessing to us and to the people.
Friday morning, the Cathedral Trio accompanied a group of our missionaries to several schools. People fall in love with our ministry singers and performers wherever they go, and their anointed music penetrates hearts and changes lives, just as it did that morning.
At a secondary school, a group of 12-15 mothers had been having a prayer meeting and then stayed for our workers’ presentation. Afterward, Rev. Millar ministered specially to those mothers; and the power of the Holy Ghost fell. One of them prayed through to the baptism in the Spirit before our people had to leave, and that was just the beginning of an outpouring of the Spirit like we had never witnessed before.
At a small nursing home, a 90-year-old woman with shingles watched the redness disappear from her blistered skin. Three women received hearing in either one or both ears, and another woman received both her hearing and sight. A man with severe sciatic nerve problems felt the numbness and pain vanish after prayer.
God had the people at a busy, local clinic ready to receive. After prayer with a blest cloth, a boy received sight in his blind eye; and the white haze that had covered it began to disappear. His miracle amazed people, and they began to line up to receive one for themselves or a loved one.
A lady said she felt the power of God hit her between the eyes, and the pain in her head suddenly vanished. A woman who had badly injured her foot began stomping it on the ground crying, “I got it!” Then she walked out of the clinic without even a limp. A lady could feel the extreme swelling in her legs go down, and a pregnant woman felt her baby begin kicking in her womb after prayer.
A large hospital allowed our workers to minister to every patient who wanted prayer, but there were so many that they had to schedule a return visit for the following week. In addition to praying for the patients, our workers conducted a short salvation service for the staff on each of those floors; and the hospital management team requested a special service for themselves before our people left.
Watching God’s divine love and miracle power at work drew the hospital’s marketing manager and his wife to the service that night where she was delivered of smoking, and they were both saved.
First Friday Service
Just one day after arriving in Cape Town, it was time for the first service. It seemed impossible to get the stage, lights, audio equipment and other necessary components erected and ready so quickly; but we were blessed that a few local companies had done a lot of the preliminary work, and our field crew worked hard to finish things up knowing that all things are possible with God.
The people were very excited to see Rev. Angley again, and they were anxious to hear the Word of God; so after just two songs, Rev. Angley began his message, My Little Lamb and Yours. Behold the Lamb of God [Jesus], which taketh away the sin of the world (John 1:29).
“Jesus can be found in every book of the Bible,” Rev. Angley proclaimed. “He was with Daniel in the lions’ den and with the Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace. The prophet Isaiah described our little Lamb saying, His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6).
“Our Lamb made the way for us to live righteous and holy. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (I Peter 1:18,19).
“Our Lamb brought healing. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings (Malachi 4:2). He brought the Holy Ghost, the fullness of divine power and everything we need,” Rev. Angley declared. “We can do nothing of any lasting worth without Him. Jesus said, I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing (John 15:5).
“When you say, ‘My little Lamb,’ that shows ownership,” Rev. Angley pointed out; “and Jesus will be yours if you will serve Him and live holy.”
Rev. Angley transitioned right into a Holy Ghost rally; and although many of the people still had much to learn about the Spirit and divine power from On High, God was quickly bringing them into that knowledge, and a good number prayed through to the real baptism.
A Saturday for Souls
Saturday morning, our missionaries carried the anointing from the Friday night service to weekend shoppers in busy market areas. A lady with arthritis said she felt a strange sensation in her head after prayer with a blest cloth, and she walked away with no pain. A woman with pain radiating down her arm received instant relief.
At a children’s home, a young deaf boy could hear and speak while another little boy who wore one hearing aid could hear perfectly without it. Those miracles shook the place.
When Rev. Angley stepped on the stage that night for the second service, he immediately announced, “The gifts are ready to work tonight!” Then the Lord began revealing people’s diseases. A lady who had suffered with cancer for two months, one week and one day was healed. Every breath was an effort for a man with a collapsed left lung, but God made him whole.
God revealed that a 19-year-old sinner had AIDS; and Rev. Angley told him, “If you give your heart to God, live for Him and receive the Holy Ghost, the Lord will heal you; but those are the conditions, saith the Lord. You are on the verge of eternity without the Lord, and hell is an awful place.” The audience joined him in saying the sinners’ prayer; and then Rev. Angley warned, “You have been given life; but if you ever go back on God, a worse thing will come upon you.”
A person suffering with severe arthritis pain was unable to sleep; but Rev. Angley said, “You will sleep tonight. You also have a brain tumor that is growing fast; but you are healed, saith the Lord.” God knows every detail about us.
There were other miracles for cancer, a debilitating spinal condition, severe peptic ulcers and weak eyes. Then Rev. Angley announced, “Healings are taking place everywhere; faith has risen high. Even people standing outside are being healed, so let the Lord move for you.”
Live by Promise
Miracles and healings are promises of God, so those miracles led perfectly into Rev. Angley’s sermon, Live by Promise. “You don’t know what tomorrow holds,” Rev. Angley began; “but if you want a bright future, then live by the promises of God. There is life and power in His promises.
“A promise is assurance that something will definitely happen,” Rev. Angley continued; “and when you live by God’s promises, you have the greatest assurance ever. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (II Peter 3:9).
“God’s promises have the power to take you out of the dry deserts of everyday life and put you into the flourishing abundance of God’s life. They will take you from weakness to strength, from depression to gladness, from confusion to peace. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee (Isaiah 26:3). Without God’s promises, fear and anxiety will be your companions.
“God said, Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me (Jeremiah 32:27)? To live by promise is to live in another world—God’s world!” Rev. Angley boldly declared.
Rev. Angley pointed out that the Holy Ghost is the most important promise of all. And, [Jesus] being assembled together with them [the disciples], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father [the Holy Ghost], which, saith he, ye have heard of me (Acts 1:4).
Then the service ended with another great Holy Ghost rally, and our workers spent close to an hour helping people of all ages pray through to the true baptism. Children as young as six and seven were pouring their hearts out to God with tears rolling down their faces.
Sunday Morning Churches
Sunday morning, our people preached, testified and prayed with a blest cloth for those in need in nine churches. Many of the services ended with a Holy Ghost rally, and people received the baptism of the Spirit.
Three of our people attended a traveling, street church where the young pastor takes his tent services to different neighborhoods throughout Kraaifontein each Sunday to reach those who cannot or do not go to church. As one of our husband and wife teams sang and taught about the necessity of the Holy Ghost, the anointing of God held the people spellbound. Then the power of the Holy Ghost fell; and many poured to the front, humbly crying out for more of God. A notorious gang member was so moved by the service that he gave his heart to the Lord just as it ended.
At another church, one of our ladies had the privilege of praying with two young sisters with hearing problems; and they were so excited when God gave them their miracles.
While more than 30 of our missionaries were in church, others were spreading the Gospel in busy market areas and neighborhoods around the crusade grounds. One of our couples received an amazing report from a woman who had an eye problem, swelling in her head, shingles and open wounds on her legs. She had received one of our crusade flyers the previous day and had decided to rub it on her afflicted eye. When she did, hot water ran out of her eye; and her sight began to clear up. She rubbed the flyer on her head, and the swelling started to go down. She rubbed it on her open wound, and the oozing drainage dried up. That woman used incredible faith, and God rewarded her.
First Sunday Service
When Rev. Angley opened the Sunday night service, he declared, “All the miracles you see tonight will come through the Cross. The gifts of the Spirit will be working in an unbelievable way.”
Several of our singing groups shared the Gospel in song, and then Rev. Angley launched right into his message, Get Off the Boat. He took the people to the night the disciples spent out on the sea in the midst of a terrible storm. They were so afraid, but in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea (Matthew 14:25). At first, they thought He was a spirit; but Jesus said, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid (Matthew 14:27).
When Jesus said that, Peter’s faith went sky-high; and he said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he [Jesus] said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus (Matthew 14:28,29).
“Always remember that Peter actually walked,” Rev. Angley pointed out. “Peter had it made until he doubted. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt (Matthew 14:30,31)?
“Get off your boat of fear, despair and frustration and walk the waters with Jesus tonight,” Rev. Angley urged. “The Holy Ghost will give you the power you need to stay on top, and you will be unsinkable! God wants His people to be well, so don’t rob yourself of God’s best any longer and get the miracles you need.”
The people soaked it in, and God was free to perform miracles throughout the audience. Through the gift of discerning, Rev. Angley told a person in the fourth stage of cancer, “When you go back to your doctor, he won’t find any cancer.” A lady who also had cancer was scheduled to have her breast removed, but God healed her; and Rev. Angley instructed her to request another X-ray before going through with any further procedures.
Twenty people received a back miracle; and then Rev. Angley told a person with a nonstop cough, “You will sleep good tonight.” A lady who had suffered with migraine headaches for 10 years was delivered. Seven people received miracles for arthritis; and Rev. Angley said to one of them, “You need to be more consecrated to God or you won’t keep your miracle. God was so merciful to give it to you, so you must serve Him in love and faith and never get cold in the Spirit.”
Then Rev. Angley announced to all, “You can have a miracle whether you are pointed out or not. God honors faith wherever He finds it.”
After a short healing line, Rev. Angley called the power of the Holy Ghost down on the people; and while hungry hearts were seeking for the true baptism, miracles were taking place in the invalid section. A young boy with no strength proudly stood for the first time. Witchcraft spirits had taken away a lady’s ability to walk properly; but through God, she began taking her first steps without crutches and then stayed to seek for the Holy Ghost.
A Harvest of Souls
Monday morning, Rev. Millar, the Cathedral Trio and their team carried the anointing from the weekend services to a boys’ juvenile prison. They had been to that prison in 2015, and the head chaplain was so excited about their return that he cancelled his already scheduled time off to be there.
When they arrived, many of the inmates were happy to see them again. One young man could not say enough about how much Rev. Angley’s Battles of the Mind book had helped him. Another young man who had been saved and delivered of smoking in 2015 confessed that when one of the inmates had offered him a cigarette, he had started to smoke it. But just then, his heart began pounding out of his chest; and he never smoked again. When Jesus was here, He said, Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (John 5:14).
During the service, God’s amazing love and mercy humbled the hearts of many of the inmates as He saved and delivered them; and that visit ended with some of the inmates receiving the Holy Ghost right there in the prison.
At a home for children without parents, our workers were met by a skeptical director and about 20 rowdy kids; but the Word and God’s anointing changed everything. They all repeated the sinner’s prayer, and then the power of the Holy Ghost took over so forcefully that it even shocked our people. When the Spirit lifted, a great change had come over everyone; and they stood in awe of what God had done for them.
In the afternoon, our workers spread the Gospel at several busy train stations and surrounding neighborhoods. One of our ladies prayed with a deaf boy who received his hearing and speech; and as she turned to leave, the boy said in sign language, “I love you.”
A group of our young men prayed with an elderly gentleman who was paralyzed on his right side and not able to see much out of his right eye because of suffering a massive stroke. After prayer with a blest cloth, the man instantly could see better; and soon, he was walking like nothing had ever happened. God restored his wife’s failing eyesight as well, and they both received salvation.
A Miraculous Tuesday
Tuesday morning, Rev. Millar and his team traveled over an hour and a half to return to a men’s maximum security prison they also had visited in 2015. One of the inmates couldn’t wait to report that he had read three of Rev. Angley’s full-length books from the library they had left behind. Another inmate told of receiving a fabulous back miracle, and yet another man was so happy to receive the answer to a question he had carried in his heart for two years.
The service was like a glad reunion, and the inmates were thrilled to hear the Cathedral Trio sing in their language. Following Rev. Millar’s message, many of the inmates gave their hearts to Jesus and then went on to seek for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the power they would need to continue walking the straight and narrow road that leads to Heaven.
Just before leaving, Rev. Millar prayed for a crippled man who was at the prison to visit his son; and he lifted up his cane and began walking without it—a perfect ending to an incredible service.
The rest of our missionaries were busy throughout Kraaifontein. The principal of a primary school was skeptical when our ministry’s visit was initially scheduled; but after hearing one of our services from the previous weekend on the Ernest Angley Ministry’s internet radio station, he was excited to have our people speak to all of the students.
God performed amazing miracles through the blest cloth when a small group of our people visited a busy, outpatient clinic. A very weak teenager hooked up to an IV had severe stomach pain; but her pain instantly disappeared after prayer with a blest cloth. A woman who had been saved and then delivered of smoking was shocked to realize that her severe stomach pain had disappeared as well. A man who was struggling to breathe even with an inhaler began to breathe easy; and then he pointed to his inhaler and said, “No more.”
A young man who had been severely beaten with a wheelbarrow could hardly move his arms or legs. He gave his heart to the Lord; and after prayer, he was shocked to suddenly be able to raise his arms above his head and to walk without even a limp. A gentleman was healed of debilitating knee pain, and he took a victory walk across the waiting room. As our people were leaving, a middle-aged woman was making her way out of the clinic in a wheelchair; but after prayer, she stood up and walked with no pain.
In the afternoon, some of our people visited a children’s home with close to 50 very active kids; but when one of our couples began to sing about God’s love and care, it brought a beautiful, divine calm that allowed God to work.
A young teenager who was constantly ridiculed for wetting the bed said she felt a beautiful sensation when she received prayer with a blest cloth, and she was so excited. Another girl with very weak eyes could see well again, and a 17-year-old gang member was completely changed after he asked Jesus into his heart. Even one of the counselors at the home received hearing in her partially deaf ear.
The majority of our missionaries were spread throughout several busy train stations, sharing the news of the crusade services with the crowds of people returning home from work. One of our young men pulled aside a naughty boy who kept stealing things from the other children. Their little love chat ended with the boy saying the sinners’ prayer; and soon, everyone was shocked to see the boy voluntarily giving back all the things he had taken.
A young man’s encounter with one of our ladies changed his life forever. He was saved and then prayed through to the baptism of the Holy Ghost right in the midst of all those people. The latter rain of the Spirit is pouring down.
Ministers’ Meeting
Wednesday morning was the much-anticipated ministers’ meeting, and we were expecting a Holy Ghost time. Rev. Angley briefly greeted the ministers and then got right to his teaching for the day—The Mind of Christ.
“We must arm ourselves with the mind of Christ,” he began, “so we can live our lives in the will of God. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God (I Peter 4:1,2).
“The mind of Christ wants nothing but the will of God,” Rev. Angley emphasized further. “Jesus is our example; and He said, For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me (John 6:38). People are born again to do God’s will; but without the mind of Christ, excuses will come fast and easy.”
Rev. Angley explained that the mind is the place where people reason and come to conclusions. “With the mind of Christ, you will always reason with God and come to the same conclusions He comes to. Without that mind, you will not make the right decisions, say the right things or act in ways that God approves of.
“You have to claim the mind of Christ for yourself,” Rev. Angley declared, “but you can’t do that if you think it is beyond you. The Bible says, But we have the mind of Christ (I Corinthians 2:16). The Bible never tells us we can have something that we can’t have, so every child of God can have the mind of Christ.
“You must have the Holy Ghost to have the mind of Christ,” Rev. Angley told the ministers without a hint of compromise, “and so many preachers have failed their people by not teaching the Holy Ghost. He makes all the difference because He reveals God’s will to you. Jesus said, For he [the Holy Ghost] shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear [from Heaven], that shall he speak (John 16:13). Let the Holy Spirit take you out of self and open your understanding to everything He is saying to you.”
After the message, the power of the Holy Ghost rained down on those ministers; and many of them stayed for well over an hour, pouring out their hearts to God and receiving the true baptism.
A Great Afternoon Harvest
That afternoon, our missionaries traveled to one of the largest and busiest train, bus and taxi stations in the Cape Town area. Thousands of people funnel through there every day, and it was a harvest field ready for gleaning. A man received sight in his blind eye, and his severe back pain disappeared. An ambulance driver was so excited to receive his hearing that he jumped back in the ambulance and told his passenger all about it. Then she wanted prayer and received her sense of smell.
A heroin addict picked up a ministry magazine that had blown into the street; and minutes later, three of our young men who had been former addicts walked around the corner. After hearing their testimonies and receiving prayer, she was saved and completely delivered; and she threw away all of her drug paraphernalia, never to go back to that life again.
One of our men encountered an engineering student who said he was too busy to make it to the crusade services. As he turned to walk away, he suddenly stopped and said, “The Lord just told me not to leave until you pray for me.” After a prayer of salvation, the Spirit fell on him so forcefully that he prayed through to the Holy Ghost in just a few short minutes.
Later that evening, four of our workers went to one of the area’s largest Salvation Army homes for men. Our people had visited that facility in 2015, and the captain was so happy to have them return that he changed his normal service night to accommodate them. Then he gave them freedom to preach, testify and pray for the men—a perfect ending to a Spirit-filled day.
Thursday Service
Our missionaries spent Thursday morning ministering at a secondary school, a day care center and in the neighborhoods; and then it was time for the second weekend of services to begin. Before that night’s service, two sisters who had attended the 2015 crusade excitedly announced that the one sister was completely free of AIDS.
Rev. Angley greeted the people with a victory shout that evening; and after just one song, the Lord began to reveal miracles taking place in the audience. Five people received miracles for arthritis, and one person’s lungs were re-created. “You will be able to lie down and sleep tonight,” Rev. Angley gladly announced.
He told another person, “An accident took place when you were born, and your spine was severely damaged. It was crooked until tonight; but now, it’s straight.” The Lord revealed a man in the back of the crowd who was in the fourth stage of cancer. “You must come back to the Lord tonight, or you will die and be in hell within the next 30 days,” Rev. Angley warned. “Then you can’t ever go back on the Lord or something worse than cancer will come upon you, saith the Lord.”
Thirty-five more people received miracles, and then Rev. Angley began his message, What Are You Doing Here Tonight? He took the people to the time in the Prophet Elijah’s life when he had killed 400 prophets of Baal. King Ahab’s wife, Jezebel, was so angry that she wanted to kill him; and Elijah got scared and ran.
“Then the voice of God came to Elijah and said, What doest thou here, Elijah (I Kings 19:13)?” God had performed amazing miracles for and through Elijah, and God wanted him to know that he had no reason to run. “You don’t have to be afraid of the devil,” Rev. Angley proclaimed, “and God can’t use you when you run and hide. Everything you need comes through miracles from Heaven. God sets a table before you, and all you have to do is reach.”
Suddenly, Rev. Angley turned toward the invalid section and said, “A crippled person is being healed right now.” Then he declared to the audience, “You can have a miracle, too! All you have to do is look to the Cross of Jesus. There is life for a look for soul, mind and body. But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (Isaiah 40:31).”
At the close of the message, Rev. Angley called the Holy Ghost and miracle power down upon the people. In the invalid section, a young boy who could not talk started saying words. A mentally disabled little girl received her hearing and began to focus on things for the first time. A newborn baby’s completely stiff fingers began to curl and grip, and a woman who had come to the service on crutches walked out with them over her shoulder. It was a rejoicing time!
The Last Weekday
Our missionaries returned to the large hospital on Friday morning, and the visit began with a wonderful praise report: One of the little boys who had received prayer the prior week was going home.
A few of our workers prayed for a woman who appeared to be almost lifeless. There was no immediate change; but a short time later, they saw her sitting up, smiling and intently watching all that was going on.
Rev. Millar was the leader of the hospital group that day, and he prayed for a man who received his hearing. Then one of the hospital workers pointed out a very shy woman who also was deaf but never would have come forward on her own; however, God saw her, and she wept in thanksgiving for her miracle.
The rest of our workers that morning were divided up amongst visits to a primary school and a day care center and working in the neighborhoods. One of our young men encountered a woman who said she had attended a service in 2015 with her brother who did not have a job. The brother was skeptical and was not interested in reading the Bible he had received that night; but when he got a job the next day, he realized that God had done it, and he immediately began to read that Bible.
One of our ladies prayed with a few of the hotel staff members, but one prayer led to another; and before she was finished, she had prayed with and distributed Bibles to nearly 40 housekeepers, cooks, servers, porters and even the restaurant manager.
Second Friday Service
Friday night, Rev. Angley began the service exclaiming, “Everything comes through the Cross—salvation, miracles, the Holy Ghost baptism. Hallelujah!” After just one song, 67 miracles took place in the audience; and Rev. Angley instructed the people, “Touch yourself and take a miracle!”
Rev. Angley’s message, The Gospel Must Be Preached, showed the people the great responsibility they have to reach lost souls. “The Gospel is the true story of Jesus and His teachings,” Rev. Angley began, “and it has the power to change lives spiritually, physically and mentally just like it did when Jesus was here. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people (Matthew 9:35).
“Why must we preach the Gospel?” he asked. “Paul gave the answer when he said, How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher (Romans 10:14)? Paul also said, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth (Romans 1:16). The world needs salvation!” Rev. Angley proclaimed.
“Jesus told the disciples, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15).” Rev. Angley told the people that they would not be able to spread the Gospel as God wanted them to without the Holy Ghost.
During the healing line, God handed out a very special miracle to a woman who had such loud ringing and hissing in her ears that she was losing her mind. A little girl received her hearing and speech; and her father humbly said, “I have been chasing God for that miracle.” Another man had cancelled an appointment with an audiologist to attend the service, and he left with hearing in his deaf ear.
After the healing line, Holy Ghost and miracle power poured down. A drug addict was delivered of devil possession, and a young lady was set free of epilepsy. A woman with severe diabetes had so much swelling and stiffness in her legs that she was in a wheelchair; but after receiving an amazing miracle, she proudly pushed her wheelchair across the field in front of the platform for all to see.
A young man in a wheelchair was passing by the crusade grounds that evening, and the Spirit of the Lord drew him to come in and see what was happening. He had been stabbed and was paralyzed from the waist down; but through God’s miracle power, he was saved, and then his paralyzed legs began to move. He returned Sunday night, and he began taking steps.
A lady had a brain tumor that caused swelling in her head and took the sight in her right eye. After prayer, she started to see the lights on the platform, then shadows; and before the service ended, she could count fingers held up in front of her as tears streamed down her face. She, too, returned Sunday night to receive more of her miracle and to testify that the pain in her head had disappeared, and the swelling was going down.
At the end of the service, a man testified that his dying brother, who had stage four cancer, had started eating and was gaining strength every day. Hallelujah!
Additional visits throughout that 12-day crusade included seven schools, 13 day care centers and two children’s homes. So much was going on that only God knows all the miracles, deliverances and salvations that took place.
Miracles for Soul, Mind and Body
Saturday morning was our missionaries’ final opportunity to minister to the people of Kraaifontein. At a neighborhood clinic, a woman testified to all who could hear of receiving a leg miracle from God. Then people began to line up to receive prayer with a blest cloth.
Two women received miracles for their hearing. A young lady could hardly breathe, and her heart was visibly beating out of her chest; but the gasping and pounding suddenly stopped. A young mother received an instant miracle for excruciating back pain and requested prayer for her sick baby. She came to the service that night and testified that her baby’s fever was gone.
In the neighborhoods, a lady’s neck and shoulder pain disappeared; and two men received miracles for chest pain. A 12-year-old girl received her hearing and speech, and a young man with a badly injured arm could easily lift a duffle bag. The relatives of an eight-year-old girl with a lazy eye rejoiced when they saw an immediate change in her condition, and a street vendor danced for joy when she received a miracle for her back.
A small group of our workers prayed for a man’s salvation and for his young neighbor boy’s deaf ear. The man was amazed at the boy’s miracle and immediately wanted prayer for his own deaf ear as well. Then he directed our people to a small house where they found that his wife, his little girl and his baby boy were all deaf. It was all part of God’s miracle plan, and all three of them received their hearing and speech; and the mother gave her heart to the Lord.
Second Saturday Service
At the beginning of the Saturday night service, Rev. Angley proclaimed, “God will be healing people throughout the crowd tonight!” Then after just one song, the miracles began. Through the Spirit of God, Rev. Angley told a lady whose rotting toe was to be amputated that it would be normal by the morning. A person who could hardly breathe received a re-created lung, and a person with a severe skin allergy was given divine relief from the tormenting itching.
Nine people were healed of cancer, and three people received miracles for AIDS. “Faith in God brings miracles,” Rev. Angley boldly declared. “I am just the instrument the Lord pours His power through, and He gets all the glory.”
The Lord’s message that night was The Anointing Breaks the Yoke. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing (Isaiah 10:27). “The anointing is the presence and the power of God,” Rev. Angley explained. “It is the same anointing that Jesus brought, and you can have it if you live holy.
“If you are weighed down with a burden today, you must know it is not God’s burden because Jesus said, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28). Your yokes cannot be broken through human strength or power, only through the anointing of God.
“When Jesus was on Earth, He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18,19). The Lord has given this same anointing power to His people for this last hour through the Holy Ghost, but you have to want God’s anointing and move toward Him to receive it.”
Rev. Angley prayed for the people in the healing line; and just as he finished, a woman full of witchcraft spirits started screaming and fell to the ground. A few of our men escorted her to the back where she began foaming at the mouth and vomiting. They had faced situations like that before; and they told her to start saying “the blood” over and over again. The power of the divine blood is greater than the power of the devil; so the more she said it, the more God was able to take over until He delivered her from those devils. She was then saved and went on to receive the precious Holy Ghost. Only God could make such a dramatic transformation in such a short period of time.
While the fire of the Holy Ghost was falling, miracles were taking place. Three women with severe pain in different parts of their bodies received instant miracles. One young lady had been coughing up blood; but she felt the Spirit of God move inside of her, and then her back pain also disappeared.
One woman’s whole body was pulled over to the right from a stroke, and her right arm and hand were paralyzed. After prayer, she was so excited to be able to raise her arm, stand up straight and walk properly. A woman with a very swollen leg and knee came to the service using a crutch, but she walked away without it.
Another young lady had suffered a stroke that had left her paralyzed on her right side and unable to speak. After prayer, tears streamed down her face as she started clenching her fist and raising her arm. When she returned the next day, she could plainly speak the name of Jesus; and she started walking.
The Last Day
Sunday morning, our people sang, testified, preached and taught Sunday school in nine churches; and they returned with praise reports of people receiving miracles and the Holy Ghost baptism.
While some of our workers were waiting at the crusade grounds for the others to return from their churches, a small group of mothers and their children walked in thinking there was a service that morning. No doubt, God had led them there; and our people used that divine opportunity to share the true Gospel with the mothers and have Sunday school with the children. That impromptu service ended with the mothers earnestly seeking the Holy Ghost.
Before the Sunday evening service, Rev. Angley was praying with the performers when the Lord spoke and said, “This is a great night, and I have come to join you. People will receive the Holy Ghost in great numbers.” God Himself had joined the last service before it had even started.
Rev. Angley greeted the people for the final time declaring, “There will be a lot of miracles here tonight!” He wanted to increase the people’s faith to receive all they needed, so he called for several people to give their testimonies on the stage. A man testified to receiving his hearing during the Thursday night service. A woman told of how she had received her sight during the ministry’s 2015 Kraaifontein crusade. “I am a two-year living testimony,” she proudly proclaimed, “and I say glory to Jesus.”
A woman who was supposed to have both her knees replaced told of how she was made completely whole when Rev. Angley was in the township of Elsie’s Rivers in 2014. Her enthusiasm for that miracle had not diminished one bit as she danced across the platform giving glory to the Lord.
Not all miracles are physical, and a young man testified of receiving the Holy Ghost in the 2015 crusade. “When I came to the service, I did not expect anything to happen. But I said, ‘Glory, glory, glory,’ and it worked. The first time I sought, I did not break through. I went into a three-day fast. The next time, I received the Holy Ghost right here. All you have to do is believe and yield to the Holy Spirit. I am a living testimony that it is real, and I am happier than I have ever been.” Surely, the Lord had directed that man in what to say.
Next, God’s gifts of miracles and discerning went into operation; and seven people were healed of AIDS. “Three of you are backsliders,” Rev. Angley said through the Spirit of the Lord, “and God is giving you one last chance to get right tonight. If you go back to your old ways, you will die with AIDS and go to hell.”
The Lord revealed that 17 people had a rare blood disease; and Rev. Angley said, “Man does not have the remedy for your disease, but Jesus was beat almost to death at the whipping post for our healing; and all you have to do is reach for it.” Then Rev. Angley instructed everyone, “Lift up your hands and help pull down Heaven on these people. As you pray for them, there will be more miracles for you.” Pray one for another, that ye may be healed (James 5:16).
Filled with God
Rev. Angley’s final message was Filled with the Fullness of God. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith…And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:17,19). “People may claim to be filled with the fullness of God, but do their actions agree?” Rev. Angley challenged. “Many people are on a daily pursuit of things that will only satisfy their ego and their empty hearts.
“An empty heart is eagerly wanting to be filled; but if you don’t fill it with God, it will be filled with self, the world and the devil…and it will never be satisfied. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase (Ecclesiastes 5:10).
“Only the things of God can bring true joy and satisfaction,” Rev. Angley declared. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost (Romans 14:17). He explained that the Holy Ghost is the key and that no one can be filled with the fullness of God without being baptized in the Spirit. Then the power of the Holy Ghost fell one last time, and people lingered as long as they could seeking the true Comforter and Guide.
The final miracles of the crusade included three women being delivered of arthritis and chronic hip and foot pain. An alcoholic was delivered of 91 devils, and a security guard was surprised to receive good sight. A little boy was blind in one eye after being hit in the face with a stick; but suddenly, he could see out of both eyes. As we pulled away from the grounds that night, we knew we had done all God had called us to do; and we had to leave all those precious souls in His hands.
Mission Accomplished
That missionary journey was like one continuous, power-packed service. God’s miraculous saving, delivering and healing power poured out wherever we went; and those who believed and yielded to the truth received miracles and the baptism of the Holy Ghost even on street corners. It was power from On High, and it covered that area like an ocean. Rev. Angley had told us before we left that “I Am” was sending us, and He certainly had. God directed all of our steps as He made Himself very real to those people through the power of the Holy Ghost.
As we finally settled into our seats on Star Triple Seven for our flight home, Rev. Angley announced, “The Lord said that this has been the greatest crusade ever, and this is just the beginning. Holy Ghost fire is falling, and we must be real witnesses to that power and get people ready for the Rapture.”
If that was just the beginning, then no human mind can possibly fathom what is yet to come.
June, 2017, ERNEST ANGLEY, founder & editor in chief, Vol. 62, No. 3, The Power of the Holy Ghost USPS 516-050) is published bimonthly by Grace Cathedral, 1055 Canton Road, Akron, Ohio, 44312. Periodicals postage paid at Akron, Ohio, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Power of the Holy Ghost, P.O. Box 1790, Akron, Ohio, 44309.
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