Fresh healing claims from Elim worshipper
A WOMAN who went up to Pastor Brian Madden in the Elim Christian Centre asking for healing for her terminally ill friend claims she herself was "healed from the psoriasis which had tortured her all her life".
Sharon Moore, a child minder from Glengormley, said Sunday May 4 was forever etched in her memory.
Sharon said she received healing during a normal Sunday morning service at the Elim Church in Tiger's Bay.
"It was the very first Sunday Pastor Brian had come back from Florida and after the service he asked people who wanted healing to come up," she said.
"I went up for someone else. I went up for a friend who lives in another country who has very serious cancer throughout her body.
"When I went up Pastor Brian asked me what a patch of redness was on my arm and having had chronic psoriasis all my life since I was seven-years-old I said that is just psoriasis.
"The pastor said we will pray for your psoriasis. I have had lots of prayer in the past and I thought why not."
But the mother-of-two said that day changed her life forever.
However sceptic Cecil Andrews, who runs a website called www.takeheed.net spoke out to warn Christians about "what we believe to be deceptions or possible deceptions".
He said the idea of clergymen travelling to meet people like Todd Bentley in Florida to obtain the ability of administering healing to other people, was contrary to the scriptures.
But Sharon is adamant she was healed by the "power of God".
"This healing is down to God and no one else. Pastor Brian came back a man totally changed by the Holy Spirit, a man on fire for God who believes the God who healed in bible days can still heal today.
"There are many times the sick have been prayed for. But in this country you do not hear of many healings even though they may happen."
Sharon said almost as soon as she went home from the Elim church that Sunday she would "see my psoriasis leaving me, the crusts and the scales falling away".
"Psoriasis is horrible and there is no cure for it, you can alleviate it but nothing can take it away," she said.
"The redness started to fade out of my body and the dryness started to leave. Over a period of three or four days it started to get less and less.
"In the past my body has been covered from head to toe. At the time of the service that Sunday I had a few pieces on my knees, but the worst part was my forearms from the wrist to the elbow, where Pastor Brian noticed. It is hard to hide in the summer."
Sharon, who has been hospitalised in the past with psoriasis, said she believes "the Lord saw I was going up for someone else and he decided to help me with my need".
"By the Tuesday or Wednesday of that week I was clear. Now my skin is fine, totally fine."
Since her "healing from psoriasis", Sharon said she went back to the hospital for one of her usual appointments.
"I told them I thought God was healing me," she said. "But they said they thought I should still take some treatment. I said I would not go against them and went along with it. But I know God has healed me."
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