"HEALING - THE CHILDREN'S BREAD"

 I love what the Slavic people of the Former Soviet Union call healing.  They call it, "The Children's Bread".  Sara and I have found that to be true in thirty-six years of our ministry there.  Crumbs still fall off the table and touch the unregenerate and unsaved but in a very special way, God has called His people up to His table where provisions have been made through Christ and Calvary for our atoning and healing.   

 

Isaiah in the 53 rd chapter, looking forward to the finished work of the Cross says prophetically that "By His stripes we are healed." Then Peter in his Epistles to the Churches looks back on the completed work of  the Cross says, "By His stripes we were healed."   God links our salvation with healing through a prophecy from the Psalmist David who declares in Psalms 103:2-3 "Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits - who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases." NIV

 

The link between sickness and sin is a strong one; however, it is not the only door of entry the enemy has used to attack humanity.  Let's look at several hindrances to healing and then let's examine God's answer to each of these situations. 

 

In the 9th chapter of John, the disciples ask concerning the blind man, "Who sinned, either he or his parents?"  Jesus answered, "Neither he nor his parents, but rather this sickness was to the glory of God."  The disciples knew there were consequences to sin, one of which is the area of sickness.  However, Jesus made clear that not every sickness is linked with sin.  James tells us in his Epistle that when we are sick, we are to call for the elders of the Church to be anointed with oil and it further declares, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." James 5:15 KJV  This shows our need to be part of a regular Church Body so its covering and eldership can be available to us in our time of affliction and failure. 

 

Another major area of sickness is demonic assignment and assault against our person.  We have an enemy, the devil who wages war against God's people; oftentimes manifesting himself in the area of sickness and disease against the people of God, their bodies, their mind and their resources.  Acts 10:38,  God declares, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil: "for God was with him."  Christ tells us that He has given us as believers power over all the power of the enemy, that he should hurt us in no wise.  So in these two categories alone, sin and Satan's attack, we as believers have total victory, each and every time because of the Blood Covenant of Calvary.  By far the majority of the source of sickness primarily come in these two arenas. 

 

Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthian Church speaks to a portion of the Church who have not been able to discern the Lord's Body and have partaken of the Lord's Table unworthily.  He says, "For this cause shall a man examine himself," and tells us that many prematurely sleep or die and many are feeble and sick among God's people for their coming to His table unworthily.  This is not the unpardonable sin but like every other sin and short-coming in our lives, it must be addressed by a broken, repentant heart and Spirit; confessed to our Heavenly Father, asking for His forgiveness and thus receiving His release which often manifests itself with the blessing of healing. 

 

Another area of hindrance would be harboring ill will against a person or persons; in so doing, hindering our healing.  God's answer is to humble ourselves and pray one for another and confess our failures and short-comings to each other that we may be healed.  James 5:16 KJV.  In that same vain Matthew says, "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 6:14-15 NKJV  The Word further amplifies that if we regard or hold sin in our heart, God will not hear us when we pray.  It is in the forgiveness of others that we bring release to ourselves and to them; thus opening the heavens and giving God the opportunity to affect our healing.  An unforgiving Spirit often is manifested with arthritis and the drying up of the bones.  A forgiving Spirit is often punctuated by a joyous heart which is our strength.  The Word says, "A merry heart  does good like medicine But sorrow dries the bones." Proverbs 17: 22 NKJV

 

An additional area that I would like to address is the slandering of God's servants.  There are many things that God will tolerate but there are some that bring swift retribution and reaction from God's judgement; that is the slandering of God's ministers and servants.  The Bible tells us, a servant rises or falls before His Master and the Master is the final Judge concerning a servants faithfulness in His House.   We are not to judge but rather pray one for the other.  Miriam in Numbers, chapter 12: 1-15 learned that lesson the hard way. Through haughtiness and pride, she announces, "Hasn't God also spoken through us?" Then God asks Miriam and Aaron to draw closer and as they do so, immediately Miriam is stricken with leprosy.  We see God's heart in Moses who immediately pleads for Miriam's healing.  God's reply however, is "NO, put her outside the camp and let her bare her shame for seven days." On occasion God says "NO" to healing for a reason and for a season. 

 

In the 15th chapter of Exodus we see a God who makes covenant with His people that none of the diseases that came upon Egypt will come upon His people if they obey His statues and His ordinances.  In our obedience to the law of God, there comes a protective covering of grace.  As we look at God's laws, we are finding vast wisdom in the 21st Century that we have not known until recent years. For example: throughout the wilderness wanderings, Israel was told to wash its instrumentation and utensils with running water.  Running water is aerating as it hits stones in a brook and becomes the closest thing in nature to a natural disinfectant with properties like hydrogen peroxide. 

 

Israel is told to bury and to burn their refuge outside of the camp.  Had the residence of Europe in the Middle Ages heeded this commandment alone, they would not have had the 'Black Plague' that ravaged and killed entire communities and hundreds of thousands of people. 

 

God calls certain animals and describes them as being clean or unclean and tells His people not to partake of the "Unclean".  It is only in recent years we are finding the wisdom of God through these statues and ordinances.  As we learn more, we find the wisdom of God manifested at every turning.  Moses declared, "The life is in the blood." and how many of our fore-fathers were killed by ignorant medical practices when they were bled to death in an attempt to remove sickness from their bodies.  Trichina worms from eating pork, toxins from shellfish and contaminated tissue from non-cud chewing animals, plus un-bled live-stock at the point of slaughter have been the source of sickness to generations.  All the while, God says, He will cover and protect His people from the diseases, common to their day if we walk in obedience to His Word.   

 

Sickness never comes from God but comes through our fallen nature, a fallen earth and through Satan's attack. Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of Light in Whom there is no variable or shadow of turning.  However, God can even use the things that the devil means for evil against us and turn them into our eternal good.  So when we are sick and when we are afflicted, cast all our cares on the Lord Jesus Christ for He cares for us.  We call out in mercy, God responds in grace, either "YES", "NO" OR "WAIT AWHILE" until His work is complete in us and His glory is seen through us.   

 

One of the Names of our God is "JEHOVAH RAFAH", meaning, "I AM THE LORD YOUR HEALER".  True healing comes from heaven and the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ and are meant to be a testimony to a far greater eternal truth. God is our ONLY Salvation, our Healer and our Help in time of need.  The greater truth is, God cares for your body but is more concerned for your eternal soul.  He is  the source alone for our Salvation, our healing and our health.  Trusting Him and His Word in faith believing makes us candidates for Christ's divine intervention and the receiving of Jesus' miraculous mercies. 

 

by: Richard Michalski

President/Founder of Impact Ministries International

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MID-LIFE CRISIS OR MID-LIFE TUNE-UP

Most automobile manufacturers insist on major tune-ups often at the thirty, sixty and a hundred thousand, mile mark. Our bodies need tuning more frequently than these lengthy intervals and thanks to the Holy Spirit and the Word of God that God makes this possible in a daily provision as we seek His face. In missions work, it is not that we would often eat a deadly thing but rather that we are exposed to variances of diet, water, weather and other variables that take their toll on our bodies. God likens our body to a temple of the Holy Spirit and what we put into our temple is just as important as what comes out of our temple in the form of verbage and action. In automotive terms,"You are a Ferrari" and God never intended that you fuel your tank with fish oil. God's optimum is high test, carefully refined, fuel and oil of the finest degree to make your motor run according to the manufacturers specifications and manual.

I am beginning to realize some of the Old Testament laws that God had put in place was not filler space of types and shadows, bridging us into the New Testament but rather by the inspiration and wisdom of God,all of what is written and said in the Word has merit for us in the 21st Century. On the mission field, sometimes "fish oil" is the only fuel available and I am presently undergoing a sixty-year tune-up. My filters have been changed, my spark plugs have been changed and I am coming home with a new vitality and vision for what God wants to do through Sara and I and Impact Ministries in the future. The treatments here in Perm, Russia have consistently brought my blood pressure down to 120/70 and my blood sugars have been returned to the normal range. I feel new strength in my legs and my heart doesn't seem to be stressed out, despite the very HOT TEMPERATURES and stair climbing we have been doing daily to our fourth floor of our apartment.

We attribute this most of all to the mercy of God's healing covenant, provided by the stripes of Calvary in Jesus Christ our Lord. We thank each of you who have affectively released that covenant and its efficatious application to our lives through your prayers. Sara has had several other health issues that God has addressed which we are also eternally grateful for. We thank God for each of you that covered us with your prayers, your giving and just being our friends. God is better to us than our feeble words can tell and we can indeed say with the "Psalmist" "That the lines of our life have fallen into pleasant places." Isaiah is right when he declares, "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."

Thank you for waiting with us and believing together for our heavenly tune-up. We are coming home July 26th, renewed in the Lord and the power of His might, due largely to your agreed participation and prayers. God bless each and everyone of you with health, healing and God's greatest happiness in your lives and family.

In Christ,

Richard & Sara Michalski
Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500

KNOWING THE WEATHERMAN

I have often said, "It really pays to know the 'Weatherman". I am not referring to the syndicated news of ABC, NBC, CBS or FOX News. I am however, referring to the 'Weather Man" of 'AIJ" which stands for ABRAHAM, ISAAC and JACOB, the God of the Bible. From one cover of the Scripture to another, from the opening chapters of Genesis to the final chapters of Revelation, God's divine intervention have often been punctuated by the weather. The Psalmist declares that "Lightening goes before Him and the clouds are but the dust of His feet. He rides upon the wind and the storm obeys His Word."

It came as a personal revelation to me the other night as the Lord spoke to me in a form of a question. The question being, "Haven't you noticed, son that when you come into a city or a nation; when Sara and you come prayed up, the level of Spiritual conflict is often manifested by sudden changes in the weather?" I remember just a few short years ago, we brought a team with us from City Church and several other churches. Pastor Jay Smith, one of the associate pastors from another church has blessed the Body of christ as a gifted song writer. He had a melody in his heart and head for ten years but no words to complete the song. While flying to the Ukraine with us, at 30,000 feet in the air, the words began to flow, "Letit rain upon the Ukraine as never before; Let it rain on the Ukraine with the floy of the Lord. I can see the lightening flashing; I can hear the thunder roar; Let it rain upon the Ukraine, with the Glory of the Lord."

Several nights later in a village venue, Pastor Jay decided to sing this song with God's new words. Just as he began to sing in an area that had not seen rain for over three months, God punctuated the daybeau of the song with lightening flashing and the roar of thunder. Needless to say, the congregation and all under the covering of this "House" were electrified by the punctuation of Heaven. As he began to sing, the tin roof of the church began to be pelted with a heavy saturating rain. Heaven was making a statement and earth got the message in the Ukraine.

As I watched the news real the other night, here in Perm, Russia, the news was punctuated by a heatwave and fires in Greece, Crete and France; a snowstorm in Austria and a heat-wave in New York. Jesus rebuked His generation for being able to discern the skies and not know the hour of their visitation. Is it possible that all nature is convulsing and groaning for Its' REDEMPTION AND THE RETURN OF THE LORD, JESUS CHRIST! Perhaps our generation needs to be rebuked because we see all these things happen and so many millions on the planet are unaware of the part that weather is playing in the final pageant of time.

When in the Ukraine a few weeks ago, one of the elders made a statement that resonated in my Spirit. He said, "We are so glad to see you and your team because whenever you come to town, the weather dramatically changes." Our cry before the Lord upon our leaving the Ukraine was, "Lord, one more time, bring the rain to this dry and thirsty land." I can see the tears of the 'babushka's from the villages telling us this summer, "All we have left from the crop is straw; all else has been burned away from the heat. Unless God does a miracle, we will have nothing to eat!" During the time of Elijah, there was a famine where it had not rained for 3 1/2 years, yet God had provided for His Prophet through blessing a widow and her son. Whether God supernaturally ministers to these widows or better yet, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.

Let the testimony of the Lord fill the land that God answers the prayers of the destitute and hears the cry of His own. The day we were preparing to leave the Southern Ukraine, already the clouds were beginning to form and light rains were beginning to fall here and there. Our petition and prayer is, " Lord, let it RAIN ON THE UKRAINE, both in the natural and in the SUPERNATURAL."

Pray with us that the testimony and the goodness of the Lord will lead many wayward sons and daughters to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ through the tangible testimonies they understand; food on their table and grain in their garners. Let it be Lord for your NAME SAKE, AMEN! In Christ for the Whitened Harvest,

Richard & Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500

Sara and Richard meetings in Seattle

Sara is scheduled to speak at a Noon lunch on Thursday 8/2 and Richard will speak at a noon lunch on Thursday 8/9 at the Crab Pot restaurant on lake Bellevue. Go to http://www.citythursdaylunch.com for more info.

Richard will also be speaking at a Noon lunch on Tuesday 8/7 at the Denny's in Issaquah off Gillman blvd. For more info go to: http://www.eastsidefullgospellunch.com the public is welcome.

Exciting special details of the Russian trip will be given

News From Russia

We are still receiving medical treatment here in Perm as well as ministering in the surrounding areas. Today we led one of the top doctors who has been treating Richard to the Lord. The process has reduced Richard's blood pressure to 120/70 and his glucose in his blood has been brought down to normal. The only one drawback to the procedure is, Dr. IGOR's solution to everything is a bigger needle. Any moment we are expecting to meet Dr. "Frankenstein". It has been a very interesting journey from the fruitfulness of our ministry trip in Ukraine where we saw over a thousand decisions for Christ to Russia where we have seen handfuls come to the Lord. We are trusting God for final weekends of 500 Kilometers north of Moscow in an area where we have never ministered to before, a region not too far from Arch Angel, where numerous churches are coming together for Evangelism like we had in Kansk. We are praying and believing God that His Holy Spirit will be present to save, heal and deliver.

Thank you for entering into our fruitful harvest, your prayers and intercession and sacrificial giving. As you have sown and as we have watered, God has been faithful to give us increase. We have seen many astounding miracles, including large cancerous growths instantly removed, hearing in the middle ear restored and dizziness for many years stopped by the power of Christ. Children coming to Christ have been coming by the bucket fulls, alcoholics, drunks and Satanists were jeering and mocking in the last crusade, were instantly sobered by the fear of the Lord to a quick transition of weeping and repenting. All this fruit is on your account that have joined us in covenanting with your covering through prayers and giving.

We get home the end of July.

Love in Christ,

Richard & Sara Michalski

PHASE I of our Eastern European trip completed

PHASE I of our Eastern European trip was completed.

We saw well over a thousand decisions for Christ and our last meeting in the Ukraine with NoondaySun saw several thousand young people gathered together on a Sunday afternoon for the International Day of the Child Festival. Some of the crowd was drunk and hostile; others were Satanists trying to disrupt the meeting and trying to put a curse on our team members, but greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world." I John 4

The authority of Christ came upon us and Richard spoke to their laughter, saying, "You may be laughing now, but unless you come to Christ and repent of your sins, there will come a day when your laughter will cease and you will be crying out for mercy." It was like a shockwave that hit the crowd and a Godly silence hit the people. Moments later multiplied hundreds raised their hand for Salvation, prayed the sinners prayer of repentance and received New Testaments.

Thank you for making these miracles possible through your giving and through your prayer covering. We were able to purchase over 100,000 Russian New Testaments. During our leadership and women's conference, God was present to heal. We received a testimony of a Cancerous growth that was instantly removed and scores of other testimonies of hearing being restored, ulcers being healed, stomach disorders instantly being cured by Christ and speech being restored; all by the precious blood and power of Jesus Christ. God's mercy flowed like a stream among these precious people in the Ukraine as hundreds of hands were raised in our conference, attesting to the healing power of the stripes of Christ.

Thank you again for your covering and prayer.

PHASE II of our trip takes us today by rail, 23 hours into the Ural mountains where we will be ministering until our return to Moscow on the 20th where we will be traveling 500 kilometers, 8 hours by train from Moscow by rail and ministering to a grouping of churches where we have never been to before. Their youth are coming together in several cities and we are believing together for a mighty visitation from the throne of God. Pray that God will save the lost, heal the sick, transform families and that Jesus would be greatly glorified. Pray for our health and our medical treatments that we will be undertaking while we are in the Ural Mountains and we are believing God for a complete healing in this season of our life and ministry.

Gratefully Yours in Christ,

Richard & Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500

Upcoming trip to Ukraine & Russia June 15th - July 26th

Dear Friends of the Faith,

 

Sara and I, with our daughter Leah, Sara's sister, Natasha and her father, Michael Ilyin are part of a team of 17 that will be ministering extensively in the Southern Ukraine over the next few weeks.  We desire that God would sovereignly move in these services, marriage encounters and prosperity with a purpose session, as well as crusades and ministering in the orphanages.  To this end, we are asking you if we have offended you in any way, either by word or by attitude or lack of concern; PLEASE FORGIVE US as we want no hindrances from God's best in these days of HARVEST. 

 

June 17th -Sunday, We will be ministering in Victory Church in Kiev with Pastor Henry Madava

June 18th - Monday night we travel all night from Kiev to Kherson (Southern Ukraine).

June 19th - Tuesday will be doing a leadership meeting

June 20th - Wednesday -  10:00 A.M. Orphanage in Kalininskoe & another orphanage in Alexandrovka.  At 17:00 P.M. (5:00 P.M.)  will have a crusade in a village called Evgenovka, where we will help to plant a new church.  Alman's will be doing a marriage seminar at the Great Commission Church in Kherson at 6:00 P.M.

June 21st - Thursday - at 10:00 A.M. visit orphanage in Tsuroupinsk and minister in a crusade in the evening in Alexandrovka at 6:00 P.M..  Same time the Soleim's will be doing a business & marriage seminar at the Great Commission Church in Kherson. 

June 22nd - Friday at 9:00 A.M. minister in the orphanage in Nova Zbourievka;  Then we will be going to our Youth Camp, one hour out of Kherson where we will have a leaders fellowship time.

June 23rd - Saturday 10:00 A.M. visiting Nova Mayachka orphanage and at 6:00 P.M. (International Day of the Child Celebration in Kherson weekend begins. 

June 24th - Sunday 10:00 A.M. Church service at the Great Commission church in Kherson: Afternoon - preparing for the concert and the  Citywide Concert begins at 7:00 P.M.

June 24th - Sunday 8:00 P.M. The Soleims and Almans depart on the night train from Kherson to Kiev.

June 25th - Monday 8:40 P.M. team takes the night train from Kherson to Kiev.  Day off!

June 26th - Tuesday A.M. arrive into Kiev (DAY OFF)

June 27th - Wednesday Depart from Kiev to Amsterdam; Overnight in Amsterdam

June 28th - Say farewell to our team from the States and Richard & Sara, with her father, Michael Ilyin continue on to Moscow and then to Perm, Siberia until July 26th. 

July 1st - will be ministering in Moscow

July 2nd through 26th will be ministering in villages throughout Siberia.  Need special covering in prayer.  During this time Richard will be undergoing lymphatic cleansing treatment which will address some of his major health issues.  Please pray for his healing and believe with us for the cost of the treatment as we are presently $5,000 short of meeting our budget there. 

 

You can reach us by email in our absence and our schedule for return home to Seattle will be July 26th. 

 

Thank you for your covering and your fervent prayers.  Believing for a mighty Harvest of souls and to be able to purchase at least 100,000 Russian New Testaments for the new converts and for the outreaches of the churches that we will be working with in Ukraine and Russia.  Our God is a mighty God and let Him be mighty in you and through you.  Our U.S. office of Impact Ministries will be able to wire any funding that comes in, in our absence.  So please give as the Lord directs. 

 

Yours for Souls,

 

Richard & Sara Michalski

IMPACT MINISTRIES

P.O. BOX 2500

Redmond, WA. 98073-2500

Tel: (206) 321-2407  email: impactmini@aol.com