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New strong confident women

I went to the Ark Healing Room for the first time this past Saturday. I know the spirit lead me there. My first visit was for the Worship encounter, I love it! The freedom to worship our lord and savior with passion. Although I love Jesus and study the word, I felt trapped.

My past deals with being force to participate in Santeria rituals and many other dark things at an early age, due to that being my mother's religion. I was never a believer! I hate it all with all of my heart and soul. Although decades have past, I have struggled with guilt, confidence, inadequate, with deep roots of insecurity. Sometimes even paranoid, I knew I needed healing. 

All glory and Honor to God!

He lead me to the Healing Room! Markus and two other beautiful ladies prayed over me. I could not stop crying while they prayed. They ended up having tp give a new face mask because it was wet lol. I felt lighter, weight of my shoulders, trying to figure out the best way to explain it. I was filled with joy and peace and could not stop smiling on my way home. The next morning, I woke up with this, out of no where confidence! I felt as if I was a tall standing upright tree! And nothing could bend me. I prayed for almost 2 hours with a heart full of gratefulness and tears rolling down my eyes. My prayer felt stronger, and louder even though I wasn't speaking loud. Not sure if that makes sense lol.  I now feel free, taller, a new strong confident woman. 

Thanks to The Ark Healing Room, I now have a new confident life to live with my Trinity.

May God Bless you all abundantly.  R.V.

Dream of an Angel 

Thank you for praying with me the other day.  As I mentioned to you after praying I had a dream.  In my dream there was a woman with a distinctive gold or bronze skin color wrapped in white.  She looked exhausted and I felt she was wounded.  It was as if she had just went through  a tough battle and she was left laying on the ground.  As she was laying on the ground she was also being dragged around.   After I woke up my sense of this woman was as if she was a wounded angel, but I wasn't sure.  So I prayed.  I prayed to God to confirm if this woman in the dream was an angel or just someone of my imagination.  I prayed to God and I read about angels.  I read that one of the ways we know if angels manifest in any way is that you receive healing.  Well.... this was the answer to my prayer.  Since December I have been experiencing a very strong knee pain. I had some nights where I could not sleep.  I was taking medicine, putting on creams for muscle relaxer and although they provided temporary relief the pain and discomfort were still there.  After my dream, I went to do my regular run for the day, and as I was exercising I realized my knee was no longer in pain.  It has been few days since then.  I wanted to make sure that the no pain feeling was because one of the medicines or the cream were doing the work.  I have not taken any medicine nor I have applied the cream that was helping ease the pain.  I don't have the pain nor the discomfort I was feeling.  I was healed. 

I am in awe of God and how He works.  Although my prayer request was regarding a different situation I was facing at the time.  The relief the of that stressful situation brought that physical healing in my knee.  I hope this makes sense.  I am still processing the events and nonetheless feeling blessed.  God Bless, Jenith

House sold within 2 days during Covid 19 

When we spoke Saturday I mentioned offhand that we had the funny (but not funny) situation that we had just put our Tennessee property on the market a few hours earlier, at a terrible time. Given the pandemic we didn’t really expect much interest, but who knows. When we prayed at the end of our call we were focused more on spiritual and health matters, but you threw in a prayer that the house would not only sell but that it would sell above the ask price with multiple offers. I thought this was nice but didn’t think much about it.

So here’s what happened: the house had ~20 showings in 2 days and sold above list price with multiple offers! (It was viewed 850 times on Zillow alone). I’ve sold 4 properties before this and didn’t have 20 showings combined, nor did any sell this fast. The agent said he was astonished at the level of interest. 

So, thank you for the prayer! And thank our Father who hears our prayers. Regards, Erik

restoration of my period 

God healed my knee just a few days after a random knee injury, so I went to the Ark Healing Rooms to praise God and ask for continued healing in other areas of my leg. While I was there, I remembered the thing I had been asking from God for a long time: the restoration of my period, so I ended up writing it on the consultation sheet. In recent months, I placed feminine products in all the purses/backpacks I own as an act of faith. We only prayed for my injuries, but at the end, Markus said "I wouldn't be surprised if your period comes back, soon". Three days later, the miracle happened and my period started again for the first time in four years! I couldn't believe it! Praise God, who is in the business of creating out of nothing and aligning things into balance that even doctors cannot explain. 

Stress fracture healed

I've been training for a marathon and all the excessive running caused my right foot to hurt really bad. I walked around limping for 2 weeks. I saw a specialist and they told me it could be a stress fracture and I wouldn't be able to run for a month. I was at the Ark Wednesday service, said as small prayer for my foot but didn't really think much of it after. I thought it was something I would have to wait for it to heal on its own. I was sad, thinking I wouldn't be able to run for a while. However on my way out of church that night I realized there was no pain in my foot at all. I pinched and squeezed my foot, stood on it for minutes, walked around and was just so surprised the pain was gone. I walked in limping and walked out pain free! God is so good :)  -Jess

Heaven in Business

After prayer last week at The Ark, the next day, my former boss at my last job called me. In the seemingly small conversation over a work matter, we managed to laugh and joke, and the pain from that season felt released. (Also, my last project won an award so that was cool to hear!) I've had authority issues growing up with a non-communicative/affectionate father, but God is softening my heart with deeper understanding and wisdom. 

I wanted to share and say thank you! Thank you for your prayers and the ministry you guys are leading in the city. See you around, R

Tumor contained in a sock

The day my group visited The Ark Healing Rooms I had a list of people we were praying for and from that list God has been faithful in answering our prayers.

Another lady from  the group the husband was diagnosed with throat cancer. The Week we prayed for him he was supposed to start chemo, however, the family decided for a second opinion. The doctor ordered another biopsy and decided to do surgery to remove tumor instead of starting chemo. During surgery the doctor found out the tumor was contained in a sock (praise God).  It was removed and did not affect the entire area. Thank you Jesus

Cancer ruled out

The day my group visited The Ark Healing Rooms I had a list of people we were praying for and from that list God has been faithful in answering our prayers.

The husband from one of the ladies in the group was going through a lot of test due to a low count of white cells.  The white cells are now stabilize and the scared of possible cancer was ruled  out. Praise God! 

Guitarist left forearm healed

Dan who came on March 23 due to a prolonging pain of 2 weeks on his left forearm. When we prayed for him the pain on his forearm dropped from level 6 to zero in two healing prayers. He was the guitarist on the worship team in LifeCenterNYC and he told me his forearm has been completely healed and he's playing guitar without any problem!  Yay! God! 

Legs Becoming Even

While browsing through the internet during the early part of the summer 2018, my eyes fell upon the Ark Healing Room Ministry. I immediately fell the call to volunteer and pray for people. The Ark was having a worship/prayer service on a Friday night in a church in the city and I went there. As I sat in the back, I saw a man distributing water to the staff. While I was looking at him, he handed me a bottle as well which I gratefully accepted as I was thirsty. I found out later on that his name was Markus, one of the leaders of the Ark Healing Room. Another young man Ben approached me and asked how I found out about them. “The internet” was my response. I inquired about the healing room venue and I went there the following Saturday. 

Several people were gathered in the back room, praying and soaking into worship songs. As people got into small groups later on, Markus asked me if I had a prayer request. ”As a matter fact, yes I do.” I replied. I proceeded to explain that I recently found out that I was born with one hip higher than the other, and it wasn’t caught in time during my youth to correct the situation with back braces. I was in constant back pain despite several physical therapy sessions. As nature would have it, as I got older, I started to notice that l was leaning on one side on ALL my pictures. This situation got me concerned enough with an added curved spine on top of it. I figured that I was too old now to be wearing back braces anyway.

Markus requested a chair and made me sit down and stretch my legs. To my utmost surprise, l had one leg shorter than the other. As he prayed first inviting the Holy Spirit, I watched in amazement as he slowly pulled and tug on one leg (can’t honestly remember which one) and they both came into alignment. Still in awe, I got up and walked a straight line, feeling the evenness of the hip. I can honestly say that I stand tall and erect on all of the pictures that I took since that day. Glory to God in the Highest! Thanks to God who used the Ark Healing Room volunteers to carry one of his mandate to heal the sick.   

Malou H.   

Waking up from a coma

I have been working late  nights as I’ve started a new role.  It’s been sweet bc I've gotten to  know the evening cleaning crew.  One women was quite downcast, I asked  her what was wrong and she mentioned her mother had been in a coma  for a month.  She was open to me praying over her mother in Jesus’  Name, so I did, and kept believing over the weekend her mother would  wake up.  She did on Sunday!  I just ran into her tonight , not to my  surprise (I totally knew Jesus would wake her up!)  she had the testimony.  So we praised Jesus in the lobby, others  hearing and seeing

Boom! Love That Name!

Kara

I can’t say enough about  The Ark Healing Rooms. I initially came in about 6 months ago with  chronic wrist pain that I’d been putting up with for about 6 years.  After my healing, the pain had decreased significantly. It went from a 8  to an almost nonexistent 1. 

Thank you Ark Healing Rooms!  

Sanyya

I  am a volunteer at The Ark Healing Rooms.  I have been battling sciatic  pain for at least a year and it has been lifted in prayer often.  Several  weeks ago, I came to serve at The Ark and this day I was in a lot of  pain and was feeling particularly discouraged.  I said to myself, "I’m  not going to talk about it and I don’t want to pray about it…I’m just  going to go and serve".  As  people started coming in for prayer, I was extremely blessed by the  transformations I was witnessing.  As time went by and we were reaching  the end of the prayer rooms, I realized that after over three hours of  being on my feet that I had ABSOLUTELY NO PAIN!  Not one ache!  I  started jumping around and crying because I realized that even though I  did not ask, that the Lord took away the pain. 

The  total healing has not yet been completely manifested in my body, but  the healing I experienced that day showed me another part of the  beautiful, willing heart of Father God.  I saw God’s compassion, love  and His GREAT desire to heal and bless us even when we don’t ask!" 

Norma

Healed Hip

A friend of ours shared with her business partner about the Healings  happening when people pray. The business partner, a young Jewish women,  who doesn’t know the Lord, yet, had 2 years prior a hip replacement.  Since then she couldn’t exercise  anymore as she used to and started having problems with the other side.  The doctors recommended her already to do the other side as well. After  hearing what her business partner shared, she was open to meet with us  to get prayed for. As she left home she told  her mother that she is going to get healed, not really knowing what’s  about to happening. We met with her on a beautiful Fall day in New York  City in the Meat Packing District where a lot of people were walking  around. We were sitting around a table, shared  a little bit about our ministry and then prayed for her. After a quick  prayer we asked her to do something she couldn’t do before. Right there  she got on the ground and made some moves she couldn’t do since the last  surgery. She was completely healed on the  spot. A few weeks later she went to the doctor to do some x-rays and  they confirmed that she doesn’t need a hip replacement anymore.  Obviously, they couldn’t explain what has happened, but she gave God the  glory and told them that some people prayed for her.  As the girl got home and told her mother that she got healed, the first  thing her mother asked, how much was it! It was free, they just prayed  for me, was her reply. 2 weeks later her mother invited herself and  asked for prayer. The young Jewish women tells  everybody about her healing, no filter. Thank you Jesus.   

Healed From Offset Shoulder

We were at a prophetic  workshop when  the Pastor said to lay our hands on the shoulders of the  persons next to us and pray. Markus was next to me and laid his hand on  my shoulder. I felt an intense heat on my shoulder blade as we were  praying. I asked God what’s going on and I heard God say that I’m being  healed. “I was confused. Of what?” He then reminded me of my injured  shoulder from cutting and styling hair. I have been living with pain for  years and my right shoulder is higher. After  the prayer, I had no pain. Markus didn’t know about the condition of my  shoulder. After church I told him and our friends what happened and one  friend said that my shoulders were perfectly aligned! Amen!! 

Expect the Unexpected 

A few months ago, Church of the City's "Healing Prayer Training Session" announcement instantly piqued my interest. How do you pray for healing?  I went with much curiosity. After a few praise songs, Ale and Ben came up to introduce and share what their healing ministry was about.  When the main speaker, Markus, came up to speak, I said to myself, "I should pray for my ear."  My left ear had been bothering me, and swelling in that ear was getting worse due to (underwater MP3 Player) ear plugs for swimming.  I had even made an acupuncture appointment for the next day, hoping that would make it better because I was dreading the thought of going to a medical doctor.  "Lord, would you heal my ear. Clear it," I prayed as Markus was sharing countless testimonies.  As he was wrapping up his stories and sharing practical tips for healing prayer, he said he wanted to pray for the people in the room.  "You guys are here because you are hungry for more of His Spirit."  I relaxed, got in a comfortable position in my seat, palms up and eyes closed. Less than a minute later, I felt a woman's hand placed on my head.  I was glad that someone had the opportunity to physically lay hands on me.  As soon as her hand was lifted off, I felt this tinkling sensation on the lower left side of my head, and the swelling and pain went out from my left ear.  As I was feeling this, I saw the sparkles of many tiny lights flying off as if lights were falling out of a black frame. It reminded me of fireflies. Well-orchestrated fireflies.  I opened my eyes and thought, "Stop. Are you serious?!" My ear felt completely back to normal.  I waited to see if it was for real before sharing the story with a friend who was sitting next to me.  I went to this gathering with the hopes of learning how to pray for healing. But God showed me how to do it by letting me sample a healing prayer.

What a creative, generous God we serve who knows how to teach us in the language that we speak in. He meets us wherever we are, and all we have to do is just SHOW UP!  What a gift. I expect nothing but miracles from Him. 

Born Again Feet 

I  came in to 39th St. a week ago Saturday, St. Patrick’s Day, and London  and Markus prayed for me.  My lovely wife couldn’t leave the apartment.  We prayed for her and for  the same things for me as two weeks before –  the effects of probably a  stroke – and this time, more so for painful  arthritis and possibly  fasciaitus (sp?) in both feet. Well, during the  prayer, a very strong  surge of God’s love power flowed through their  hands and filled my  entire body. After they were finished praying,  Markus asked me, “Did you  feel that?” How could I not?  He suggested I  just  accept it, and I  almost forgot my walking staff as I left.  Walking across town, on St.  Patrick’s Day, was a bit of a trial because  of crowd control. I saw an  art show, I felt better, but life was  pretty much the same. Monday morning  though, my feet were immediately  different at the beginning of the day.  Not only did they no longer  hurt, but they worked with a freedom that  was completely new. The toe  joints all move. The plantars  are no longer  in such tension that it  feels they’ll snap. The ankles comfortably  rotate to all angles.  
I’ve  searched in my vocabulary for words to describe this. I call my  feet  Born-Again Feet because they are not the same as they were years  ago,  before the disease. They’re an up-grade. At work, I’ve said it’s  like  walking on clouds when the clouds squeeze up between my toes like   mashed potatoes. Each step is truly enjoyable, like nothing I’ve ever   experienced before. And not only are my feet new and born-again, but my   experience in life is transformed in a way that will play-out in time.   The first healing of me, at Vineyard in 1982, The Lord set up   circumstances and a cast of thousands to heal me. This time He went   right into my body and changed it, never to be the same again. Now I’ve   got Gospel Feet and had another encounter with Forever.  
So – how can I  say thanks? 

Dear Ark Healing Rooms,  

Thank you for praying for my little brother Lucas ~ after 5 weeks of  anguishing internal bleeding and 2 months waiting to receive his medical  test results all the results came back PERFECT ~ no trace of anything.  They met with one of the top gastroenterologists of Spain and they  don’t know what he had but it is clearly gone. Praise God for his  Faithfulness in Healing Lucas ~ I pray this testimony would strengthen  Lucas’ and my  family’s faith

I have a steel plate and screws in my ankle and leg  from a ski accident a few years ago. After Markus’s prayer last night,  something was different, but I couldn’t figure out what  it was. It wasn’t until I was home and in bed, that I realized what  felt strange was that my right leg was squarely in alignment! And it was  comfortable to lay straight because my right leg wasn’t swaying one  way... and it was chronic so I hadn’t even realized  that it was a big deal, until it went away!! And so then I kneeled down  in prayer, and it was crazy because my right foot was all of a sudden  painless. The places where it was stiff before, I could only feel on my  left foot now. So I praised God and slept  so well.... and I wrote everything down to tell you all, but wanted to  wait until after I had gone for a run today to see if there was any  change in pain... and low and behold. Again, the chronic pain that I had  been feeling for forever, in my ankle, knee  and hip - was gone!!! The only place I could feel the impact on my  right side was the old fracture wounds where the bone itself had healed  over. And throughout this entire time the difference was so stark  because my left leg had been compensating and had pain  too, but my right side was always more problematic so I didn’t even pay  attention to the left. But the fact that I could feel just how much  pain my left side had too for the first time, was just a testament the  healing on my right!! PRAISE GOD!!!!!! He is  SO AMAZING.

I was involved in a auto collision 20 years ago, while riding my  motorcycle a car pulled out of a street right in front of me and we  collided head on. I was thrown two car lengths over the car and landed  on my back, I was taken to hospital  and the doctors told me I was lucky that no bones were broken and I had  no injuries, although I had a lot of pain in my wrists and lower back  they could find nothing wrong. I then spent about a year visiting  various specialists who also could not find anything,  so I decided to try pain management instead of looking for treatment. I  had regular visits to the chiropractor for traction, this helped reduce  the pain. Over the years I had learnt to live with the pain, until I  heard about The Ark Healing Rooms and asked  Markus to pray for me. As he was praying I could feel the pain  radiating from my lower back up to his hand on my shoulder, and as soon  as he finished praying I was blown away by the instant relief. After 20  years the pain in both my wrists and my back was  gone, I couldn’t believe a 2 minute prayer had completely healed me.  The next few days were amazing as I had forgotten how good it felt to  wake up in the morning without excruciating back pain. 

Thank you, again, for  praying with me two Saturdays ago; it has made a world of difference for  me in my relationships and also in my health. After we prayed, I  experienced a relief from wheezing and other asthmatic  symptoms. As you walked me through the very powerful prayer, "Jesus, I  quit," so much anxiety and religiosity was released from me. Thank you  for praying for me to abandon a spirit of performance, so that I could  freely receive healing and acceptance from  God. 

 I have to constantly remind myself that I cannot earn healing, but that  healing is a free gift from God for all who believe and embrace identity  as His children. I believe that God accepts me and is proud of me all  by myself. I believe that I cannot do anything  to make Him love me more, and I cannot do anything to make Him love me  less. God bless you and everyone else at Ark Healing Rooms. 

It was my first time yesterday. I heard about it  from my friend Clara a year ago. I’ve been meaning to come for a while.  One of the prayer ministry leaders Ally prayed for me last night. I lost  my taste for 2 weeks. I wasn’t sick. It was  just gone. Super sad. No taste of coffee wine or food! I had a few  people pray for healing. It came back partially. Last night Ally prayed  for me, I tasted some gum. I couldn’t get the same flavors as she  described. She prayed again. I tasted the sweetness.  But still not all. Then she prayed again and she had a granola bar. So  she didn’t show me what it was but gave me a piece. I knew it was cashew  cookie Lara right away!!! And when I got home I could taste ALL of my  food!!!  

Heaven in Business

A week before the Holidays I was at a  customer in Toronto. The second day I was there, the head of HR  department came to ask me if I would be willing to pray for one of the  workers. ( She heard from the CEO that I am a Christian )The HR person  is a lovely women who always tells me when I come to see them that I  carry such peace into the company which is a testimony for Jesus itself.  Of course I agreed to pray for the woman so we went straight down to  see her. It turned out that woman, who is from India, experienced a  rather sad loss in her family which caused her a lot of pain emotional  and physical. She then she had a frozen shoulder and no feeling in her  left hand. Just looking at her the way she spoke to me in a broken  English gave me the faith that she will be completely healed. One quick  prayer and she was completely healed. She looked at me after the prayer  wanted to say something but couldn’t. She just had an encounter with God  who healed her. Over the next few days she kept coming to see me  telling me how free she feels and that the pain and numbness is  completely gone. Praise God.

2 hours later I  was called to the front desk, so I went. As I approached the front desk  the lady sitting at the desk stood there with a smile on her face. She  said “rumors say you are a healer ?” “No, it’s not me, it’s the one who  lives within me,” I replied. Well, she said, the cleaning lady has a  condition she is afraid to ask me if I would pray for her. We walked  straight to the lady and there she was in the back with another  coworker. It turned out that she had back pain for a few years that  lasts all day and that she has a bone growing out of her heel which  causes a pinching pain on every step she takes. Apparently there was  nothing the doctors could do about it. I realized that she was limping  when I saw her walking through the factory so I thought one of her legs  is shorter but it turned out they were completely even. I prayed for her  back and heel. The pain in her back left on the spot but the heel was  still the same. She was so happy about not having pain in her back  anymore and said “ maybe one day my heel will also be healed”. The next  day when I saw her I asked her how she felt and she said that the heel  is still the same, still pain. The next day I asked her again and she  responded the same way. The next day when I saw her she came running  toward me when she saw me with her hands raised up to heaven, a big  smile on her face and shouting “ it is healing “ almost no pain anymore.  God is sooooo good.
One hour later,  a coworker from the first lady came to me and asked me if I could pray  for her wrist and her ankle. She hurt her wrist a few weeks ago, went to  the doctor, did an x-ray when they found out that some bones got  twisted but they couldn’t do anything about it. You could see a bump on  her wrist. So I prayed for her but nothing happened. I prayed again,  nothing happened. So I said, “ I believe everything will be OK again”.  She also had an encounter as I was praying for her. Her eyes were  glowing and she felt so much peace. The next day I asked her too how she  felt. The reply was ” still the same.” The next day she too came to see  me and said it is already so much better. Almost no more pain. Praise  God.
The last day I was at the customer, the  head of HR department came to see me. She said that she told her whole  family about what happened over the past few days. They have a few  people they want me to pray for. The lady said that she wants me to pray  for her before she leaves today for the Holidays, and that she wants me  to teach her about Jesus and healings. When I prayed for her she almost  passed out. She just stood there for a few seconds after I was finished  with her eyes closed and a huge smile on her face. When she opened her  eyes she said. I feel so much peace right now. 

Thank you Jesus.
Heaven in Business. Revival is happening.

 We were at a prophetic  workshop when  the Pastor said to lay our hands on the shoulders of the  persons next to us and pray. Markus was next to me and laid his hand on  my shoulder. I felt an intense heat on my shoulder blade as we were  praying. I asked God what’s going on and I heard God say that I’m being  healed. “I was confused. Of what?” He then reminded me of my injured  shoulder from cutting and styling hair. I have been living with pain for  years and my right shoulder is higher. After  the prayer, I had no pain. Markus didn’t know about the condition of my  shoulder. After church I told him and our friends what happened and one  friend said that my shoulders were perfectly aligned! Amen!!