Testimonies

Restoration 101 – Testimonies

All my life I have struggled with fear and anxiety.  About a year ago it became overwhelming when my doctor was concerned about something and wanted me to see a Cardiologist.  After having some tests done I found that my heart is healthy and there is not a problem, but this was a seed planted in my mind that led to a flood of fearful thoughts and anxieties about my health.  At Miss B’s suggestion I contacted Mike.  He told me to go to his website and go over the material.  I did.  I printed it out, highlighted key points, and went over the material several times.  I asked the Lord to speak to Mike about when I was ready for counsel and prayer. 

We set up a time, and I went to Mike and Julie’s home one evening.  Mike asked me questions about my past, including my childhood and even when I was in my mother’s womb.  He then anointed me with oil and prayed for me. As he went through the prayer I felt such peace.  When he was finished, I felt like I had taken a tranquilizer.  This lasted for about a week.  Then I called him on the phone for prayer when my anxieties returned.  I called him several times after that when fear would become overwhelming, and the prayer always worked. 

One time when I called him, as he started the prayer I literally felt insanity grip me; and as he prayed I felt the insanity being pulled out of my head!  It was amazing.  He prayed for me once more, in the church lobby with an anointing of oil.  He also taught me how to focus on Jesus when the attacks come.  It has made a tremendous difference in my life, in my relationship with our Father and Jesus, and in how I am able to deal with the attacks when they come.  I even went to see my doctor recently and my blood pressure wasn’t sky high as it had been in the past due to overwhelming fear and anxiety!  Thank you Jesus.

–Barbara

 

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I truly felt the awesome presence of God in that prayer session.  I am not usually a crybaby; my husband has probably seen me cry twice in all the years we have been together but I shed some tears in that room this morning.  I have that same feeling sometimes in the praise and worship…I think the music added and if there is one thing I would suggest is to let everyone know that from the time they enter the room it is to be a reverent atmosphere.  I could sense some were in a lot of pain in that class and sometimes I think we turn the reverence on and off too quickly…Anyway it was just an awesome time in the Lord and we both have so benefited from the class.  It is truly wonderful to see someone operating in the flow of what God has anointed them to do.

God bless…Teresa

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I really enjoy your teaching style.  I think it is wonderful that you help people be put at ease...if the Lord has not 

moved in their life in a dramatic way, telling them to be patient...that God has a plan and is moving in them in a 

different timing or way.  That is very encouraging, and helps us not to be worried that we are left out.  I also enjoy 

your passion for the Lord and His work; and your confidence that He is doing the work in us; each one at a d

ifferent level and timing.  Your teaching is very gracious; which is so very refreshing to me.  For many years I have 

not had the privilege of receiving this type of ministry, and I'm very thankful for it.  --Debbie

 

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My husband & I both benefited immensely from your Restoration 101 class and feel we probably would not be involved with some of the things we are now if we hadn’t overcome some issues.  This group is so needed.  I attended services almost five years and yearned to be a part of a specific ministry but could not follow my passion until after I attended your group and another one.  Both helped to heal me and give me a “holy unrest” to be a part of the ministry I was called to.  –Teresa

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There were two areas that the Lord dealt with me strongly on - Generational curses and rejection from my father.  

I have since talked about past experiences with my father and have not cried about them at all.  I have such a 

peace - I can't even explain it.  It's almost like it never even happened.  I feel differently about myself. I even feel 

like I walk differently - maybe with more confidence.  I can't even explain it. I am positively thrilled and give Christ 

all the praise and glory for it! –D. S.

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It was a wonderful morning of the gentle cleansing of the Spirit of God.  Praise Him!  When you were praying 

through the addictions and spirit of heaviness, I saw a number of the people in the group myself included in this 

picture.  We would be swirling around in a vortex struggling in the ocean and then we would be pulled down to the 

bottom where it was beautiful and the Lord was waiting. We are scuba divers so probably that's why the Holy 

Spirit gave me this image.  At the bottom He would anoint and cleanse and minister to each of us and then send us 

back up. We would go up slowly like you do in diving with bubbles accompanying us.  Then we would burst out of

the water with a spray of light and we would be brilliant. Next each of us would walk on the water and play on the 

ocean. One person had trouble breaking through at the top so the Lord brought him back down, ministered some 

more to him and then went up with him to the top.  Then we all played (the entire class this time) on the surface of 

the water.  It was awesome!  --M.G.

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Thanks for working so hard on everything.  I believe the prayer of deliverance was a true success this morning for everyone.  I felt the Holy Spirit moving in my life.  I know this because my body would rock back and forth on its own during different segments of our prayer.  That only happens when the presence of the Holy Spirit is very strong. –D.S.

 

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TESTIMONIES from the PAST

 

Dear Mike,

Back when you were pastoring at MVCC, you counseled me a few times because I had been required by the courts, due to shoplifting. I was only 17.  In the session you confronted me about my spiritual condition.  ”I don’t think you really know the Lord or have a relationship with Him.”  You were so right.  I didn’t.  But didn’t know how to come to terms with it or what to do about it.  So I put my head down and began to think.  Unfortunately my mother interupted and defended me, “Yes she does know the Lord.”  Well yeah, I was a believer but not truly serving the Lord or baptized in the Holy Ghost and was never discipled.  That was God’s-divine-moment for me to truly get saved.  But it didn’t happen.  

 

Anyway… God got a hold of me when I was almost 25 and I dedicated my life to Jesus wholeheartedly.  The Holy Spirit filled me and changed me.  I began to go to church regularly and studying the Bible in depth and grew and healed tremendously.  Later God connected me with deliverance and inner-healing ministries which really helped me alot and God also used me to minister to others and counseling. 

 

I was excited to hear about you and your ministry.  I always wondered what happened to ya’ll and just wanted to thank you and for trying to reach me.  God got through to me and I praise Him for that and for using you to minister to my family and our community at  MV. I’m 39 now and very happy serving the Lord.  Mama thanks you too.

 

God bless you and your family and your ministry.  –Sharon B.

 

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