By Charles and Frances
Let’s go from the west coast to the central part of the nation, shall we? Don’t miss a single Healing Explosion, because each one of them has its own unique and different flavor as you’ve already seen.
The Cleveland Healing Explosion started off with a bang. As soon as we arrived, we had to dash to a radio station for an exciting interview program. From there we rushed back to a press conference at the hotel.
During our entire stay, we were competing with the Annual National Rib Burn-Out in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, next to the Convention Center. All of the famous barbecue cooks around the world presented their unique blend of barbecue sauces. All types of barbecued foods were sold on the already jammed streets making transportation difficult, but that didn’t stop God and His miracles at the Cleveland Convention Center on August 14, 1987.
The first night of our training sessions we ministered to a fireman who had a back problem caused by a failing building ten years previously and he had suffered much pain ever since. We did “the neck thing”, “the leg thing”,
“the arm thing” and “the pelvic thing” - in other words we did “the total thing”. He was totally and completely healed.
We had the opportunity to share this miracle on the
“A.M. Cleveland” NBC television talk show bright and early on Thursday morning. The gracious host allowed us approximately twelve minutes to tell the Cleveland audience all about the Healing Explosion.
Every Friday from 12 noon to 1 p.m., a “Prayer on the Square” is sponsored by Pastor Ward Potts of the Christ the King Lutheran Church. He had invited us to be guest speakers and little did we realize this was going to happen in the middle of Cleveland during a Friday noon hour.
Dismissing all the healing teams at noon, we all walked to the Square. Can you imagine what downtown Cleveland thought as they heard us all shout “Jesus” five times in a row at the top of our lungs? There is power in the name of Jesus and it literally resounded for blocks around. Some members of our staff were on the fourteenth floor of the hotel with the windows shut and they could hear everything we said because the acoustics were so fantastic.
Then we asked the healing teams to turn first to the north, then south, then east and then west and we commanded Satan to let our people go and allow them in to the Healing Explosion on Friday night. What an exciting thing to see 1,400 people standing on a public square at the noon rush hour lifting up Jesus!
The city of Cleveland proclaimed August 14, 1987 as the official “Hunter Healing Explosion Day” and we were presented a beautiful proclamation signed by the mayor of the city.
We were delighted when the councilman, (a born again Christian), presented it to us. He announced the proclamation over the loud speakers and what a joy it was to see him fly the banner of Jesus. He also told the audience that the mayor of Cleveland is a born-again Christian. What a blessing to be in a city where God has touched the lives of some of the top officials!
The excitement as we walked into the Convention Center on Friday night was just unexplainable. We saw and felt the presence and the power of God.
Faith was exploding as the people came to receive from God. One man was being dragged in as he hung on to the shoulders of two friends. He was obviously dying of cancer.
When we made the call for people with cancer to come forward, approximately two hundred people lined up to be healed. What an opportunity for God to show His power!
Charles saw the man we had watched being dragged in by his friends. He immediately ran over to this man, laid hands on him and said, “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give unto thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk, and RUN!”
The man got up, grabbed Charles’ hand and began to run as fast as the two of them could run, down the center of the Convention Center and all the way back. The screaming crowd stood to their feet and praised God for His healing power.
Cleveland is over for our part. However, the work for the healing teams has just begun. They are going throughout the area operating in power and making
“Supernatural House Calls” ministering to the people in their homes, on the streets, in the grocery stores.
A friend wrote about “wavering faith” and it will help you!
“I just returned from the Cleveland Explosion, and I just have to write this letter. The Lord has been speaking to me all of this year. He told me to go to Cleveland, and, on blind faith, I went. I love the Lord with all my heart, and I have given my life to Him but there have been doubts as to whether He would heal through me. My faith wavered.
“When I got to Cleveland, I realized I had forgotten my checkbook. At the first two offerings I put in $10.00 each
time. During the sessions I could see all the deep, strong faith you have for the Lord and the confidence you have in His healing power through you. I was feeling so empty inside, and I knew it was because of my wavering faith and the fact that I should have been putting more in the offering. I made up my mind to put $50.00 in the Thursday afternoon offering. I felt pretty good. However, when the time came to listen to God’s voice, He said to put in
$100.00, and I did. I thought to myself, ‘I can’t believe I’m doing this.’ My spirit began to lift as the afternoon and evening sessions went on. I knew the Lord had tested my obedience. At each session I put in what He told me. I can never thank you enough for all the lessons you taught me during the training sessions. On Friday night, in spite of my wavering faith, two persons received healings in their backs and both of them also received healings in their eyes. Three persons were slain in the Spirit.”
The Rochester, New York Healing Explosion was different in flavor than any other one we’ve had to date.
The most outstanding thing about the Explosion was the fingers that went out from it to various other regions. There was a group from Wooster, Massachusetts who had watched the video tapes and were now excitedly believing that God would bring us to that area next year.
There were people from Connecticut, Long Island, Pennsylvania, Florida, Louisiana, Nigeria, Texas, Canada, Latvia, Belize, California and many other locations. Each person or healing team came with the vision of taking Healing Explosions back to their own city or country.
A Spirit-filled medical doctor is taking Spanish tapes and books to Belize for a medical missionary trip. We gave books and tapes to the Nigerian couple. The couple from
Latvia are going to translate the book and video/audio into the Latvian language.
Friday, the day of the Healing Explosion, was also
“Lend-A-Hand Day” in Rochester. We had a prayer meeting at the Seven Sister Cities Bridge and approximately 1,500 people attended. The mayor had written a welcome to us, but the councilman went to the wrong location so he didn’t get to deliver it until the night meeting, but we had a wonderful time praising God. We prayed over the entire city as we called the people in from the north, the south, the east and the west.
The Holy Spirit spoke and told us to take up an offering for the Lend-A-Hand of Rochester, and their newspaper reported the following:
“Among the more unexpected events during Lend-A-Hand Day, Democrat and Chronicle reporter Barbara Isaacs and photographer Karen Mitchell were covering the ‘Prayer in the Square’ portion of the Rochester Healing Explosion slated for the War Memorial last night. Church officials set two empty guitar cases out for Lend-A-Hand donations, and Mitchell and Isaacs ended up carrying about $700 back to the newspaper offices in paper bags.”
Rochester is over, but it will never be forgotten because of the rivulets that will reach around the world because of this one Healing Explosion.
Dallas, Texas was another excited turned-on city for Jesus when we arrived for the Dallas Healing Explosion.
The prayer meeting at noon at the Reunion Arena brought forth tremendous results as people shared their desire to take the healing message all over the world! As the tremendous crowd gathered, they unashamedly claimed the entire city of Dallas for the kingdom of God. As we