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Posted by: Jerry Gaffney on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 - 06:13 AM

Dr. B. said it wouldn't be long now so we came home. We had several big name preachers pray for her.

But it wasn't in God's plan yet. Ruth wrote, Did l come home from Montana to die..well I thought so

Dear Friends,

It has been a long time since I last sat down to write to my friends. Sometimes people think that no news is bad news. Are you still in the ministry? Is God still working? Have you been sick? Just the opposite has been true. We have never been busier. As I am writing this letter, we have had over 400 meetings just this year, to over 50,000 people. Thousands have been saved and healed and filled with the Holy Spirit. I find busy people just let the fruit of their work do the talking for them. Jan and I have been home, or slept in our own bed, for less than five weeks this year so far. The harvest is so great, and so many are pressing in to touch the Lord. I have never seen such hunger in the lives of the lost as we have seen this year. They want to come to Jesus. They are looking for a real church home. They are not looking for three songs and an offering. They want real answers to real problems. They just want to touch a real God Who will save them, Who will heal them, and Who will help them with their families. Didn't they come to Jesus to hear, and be healed, and made whole? Town after town, and place after place, keep calling for someone to come. Can't you hear them call? I'm just an old fat man and they still call. Please come, please come, we are ready for revival. Please come, we need a fresh touch from Jesus. So many are hungry. So many are dying out there. Don't you hear their cry? Oh, my friends, please, hear Jesus calling the laborers to the field. Look up, and see that the fields are white and ready for harvest. It reminds me of the days when I was a child in Nebraska and Arkansas. When it was harvest time, everybody worked. The wind would blow across the wheat fields, and it would look like a golden ocean of waves. It would look like a golden sea. Oh, you would have had to have lived in those days to understand. The wheat is in and ready, and corn is in and ready. The fields are ready. It is harvest time. Come to the harvest before winter comes. We cannot afford to lose this harvest. Please, hear the call. Please, don't delay. Please, hear Jesus calling you to come to the harvest. He needs laborers who are not afraid of hard work and are ready to go to work. Please, hear him call. Don't be one who missed the greatest revival this country has ever seen. I will never forget a quote from Smith Wigglesworth when he was here in Tacoma. Washington, you will be part of the largest harvest this nation has ever seen. Five million people need to get saved in Washington. Let's not miss this harvest!

PRAISE THE LORD! MY SON DAVID GOT SAVED & FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT!

I want to take this time to thank all of you who have been praying for me and my family. One of the most precious gifts the Lord can give any parent is to see their children come to the Lord and get good- saved. My 25- year old son, David, came to the meetings in Quilcene. I had asked him Saturday night if he wanted Jesus in his life. He gave me an answer that struck me to the bone. He said, Dad, I don't want a new value system in my life. I am having a hard enough time keeping the one I have. I don't want to exchange my value system for yours. Well, I want you to know I cried all that night. I realized that I had failed my Jesus, and my son, by not showing him the real Jesus. He thought serving Jesus was nothing more than some kind of rules and regulations that no one could keep. I had failed to show my son the love and wonder of, What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bare. What a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer. I rose early in the morning, went into the woods, and cried for hours. I cried to Jesus and He gave me the sermon for that Sunday morning. We are saved by grace, not rules and regulations. You can keep all the rules and still go to hell. You can break all the rules and still go to heaven. But, if you keep breaking them, on purpose, they may keep you out. I preached my heart out that Sunday. David sat on the third row. I asked if he wanted Jesus in his heart and he took that first step to finding Jesus as his friend. He said, Dad, I want to find Him slowly. Thirty other people ran to the altar for salvation that day. He later came to Evergreen Christian Center in Vancouver, WA. There, he saw Jesus for the first time as his Saviour. Below is my David being baptized in water. He was so overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit, when he entered the water, he could not stand. It was as if he was hit by a bolt of lightning. He had to be carried out of the baptismal after his old sins were washed away. My old David died that day and Jesus made him all new. In a matter of a few days, David was saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit and baptized in water. In December, he is going on a missions trip to Haiti! Wow, what a year! ROM 6:4 Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.& No trace of leukemia one year later!

Do you remember Jeffrey? His mother wrote last year. The doctor told me Jefferson's spinal tap came back with some severe problems. His white blood cell count was over 100,000 and the doctor said Jefferson's leukemia was relapsing. I started to cry. I tried to be strong because my three children were with me but I just couldn't ... I went to my church in Ontario, Oregon on Wednesday night, but I wasn't really there. After church was over I didn't feel like going home. I put the three children in the car and for what reason I didn't know why I drove to Payette, Idaho. I saw my best friend there at 9pm. She told me Jesus brought me there for a reason. There was a man at Payette Assembly of God church who was praying for the sick. I didn't have the faith to believe that it could work. I need to hold the tangible. We went to the meeting anyway and Jerry Gaffney prayed for my son. Then he looked at me and held my face in his hands and said. You don't need to bring him to me anymore he is healed. Don't Worry, it is not your faith that the Lord is looking at tonight but our faith here. I will never forget the day his mother brought him into the service. She had no hope. The battle was getting to her, and now she is about to have that second Christmas we only dream about. All of his checkups show no sign of cancer. Oh what a mighty God we serve! I just love this job!

40 Years Multiple Sclerosis
She came home to die
Pastor Ted &amp Ruth L wrote,

Dear Jerry,

I am an Assembly of God minister and a witness to Ruth's total healing from M. S. We've been married for 41 years. Ruth had something seriously wrong with her from the day we were married in 1956. I took her to the Big Name doctors on the west coast at USC, UCLA &amp others. As the pain grew more than she could take her brain would overload and she would faint. During September of 1995 she fainted 50 times. It was then Ruth's body started to shut down. Her longs were shutting down. She couldn't hardly breathe. She couldn't hardly walk. Dr. B. said it wouldn't be long now so we came home. We had several big name preachers pray for her. But it wasn't in God's plan yet. Ruth wrote, Did l come home from Montana to die? Well, I thought so, but Ted wouldn't give up. So we went to the pot luck dinner at TBN. This is hard to put into words, Jerry. You were the speaker that night...You were at least 5 feet from me when you said, In the name of Jesus Christ, pain leave this body. In all my years of life I had never been without pain. l thought l had died because l had never been without pain. It was gone. Ted was laughing and praising the Lord. I got up and ran around TBN for a little over 2 hours. It is 2 years later now and I just came from the doctors and they said I am totally healed. All the MS is gone even the lining in my spine is healed!!!!! Isn't our God awesome? MAT 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible but with God all things are possible.

Fourteen years of ministry had left a lot of scars.

Pastor Terry Mengle wrote: Tears streamed down my face. I was overwhelmed with emotion. I was unable to speak. There were few time in my life that I knew I was genuinely in the presence of God and this was one of those times. The spirit of God just seemed to flow into my soul like a healing balm. It calmed my troubled heart and seemed to put oil on the scars within. This was happening to me because of my unexpected introduction to a bona fide and powerful man of God. His name is Jerry Gaffney. Fourteen years of ministry had left a lot of scars and hurts from those once considered trusted and intimate friends ....Three months before meeting Jerry, my wife and I had come to a point of total burnout...My wife, Gale, and I had been trudging bleakly through life's duties like zombies: too tired and numb to feel much of anything. While officiating a home- schooling support group meeting in the basement of a local church, Gale noticed some unusual activity in the church above. People were running around excited and shouting. She went upstairs while her guest speaker conducted her meeting. What she saw in the meeting above was unusual by any standard, but it somehow began to build hope within her. Honey, you have to see this, God is moving in that church. She later reported to me...One morning I arranged to sneak into the back of the church to observe. It was then that I began to be, slowly and surely, renewed in faith through the ministry of this unusual man...At the end of the meeting Jerry came up to me, looked upon me with the love of God in his eyes and asked tenderly, You're a pastor aren't you? Startled by this obvious word of knowledge that seemed to confirm that God, really was moving here I choked out, Yes I am. One of the problems I had with this wonderful touch of God was that the evangelist who had been ministering looked nothing like what I would have expected. I would have thought that a man of obvious spiritual power would look like an angel from heaven or, at least, like a handsome, well-coifed, televangelist. Not so, this man weighed about 300 pounds, was dressed in plain brown slacks, white shirt and suspenders that held his impressive girth. Almost nothing about this rumpled, plain man was impressive except his expressive eyes, flashing alternatively with deep love and the holy fire of God. The other impressive thing about him was his simple yet healing message delivered with great power. Astonishing healings of all kinds were accomplished during the next couple of weeks in addition to his powerful and life changing messages from the Word of God. What happened during those two weeks of glory changed me, my family, and my church forever. There's nothing I can add to what the Lord had him say.<
Filled with Holy Spirit at 4

Dear Brother Jerry:

I want to praise and thank God for your ministry! This letter is a testimony of what the Holy Spirit did in my daughter Ashley. Ashley is four years old and a bundle of joy. Last Monday night she was filled gloriously with the Holy Spirit. I had my eyes closed and heard you say, This is God. You had two little girls on your lap speaking in tongues. It was my daughter Ashley and Pastor Bob's daughter, Alexa, who is 5 years old. You held the mike up to their mouths so everyone could hear. Shortly after this Ashley started praying for other people in the Spirit and they started to get filled. God has been flling her since this time and she has received a greater boldness. Julie K.

Look up...See Him coming ...The harvest is here

I had been asking the Lord what He wanted me to do. He gave me the following: Habakkuk 1:1 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: Though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come, it will not tarry. In 1926, Smith Wigglesworth was here in Tacoma, Washington. He looked up and saw a map of Washington, and started to cry. As he pointed to the map he said, Washington, you will see one of the largest revivals the world has ever seen. As he was pointing to the Olympic Peninsula, he saw hundreds of little fires grow into thousands, and finally millions. It started as a ring of fire which became a wave of fire no man or demon could put out. The wave swept over the whole Pacific Northwest, then over the whole nation. John Lake had the same vision. Charles Price had the same vision, and some say Aimee Semple McPherson did too. On Thursday, March 4, 1994, Pastor Alec Rowlands, of Westgate Chapel, and I were in Washington, DC attending a Rodney Howard-Browne meeting. Even though there was a foot of snow on the ground, even though the airports were closed, the building was almost filled with those hungry for the Lord. The Holy Spirit had Rodney walk to the back row of the church, then to where Alec and I were sitting-on row 23. Rodney reached out and was praying for Alec. As he did this, he put his right hand on my heart because he could not reach Alec. He said, Thus saith the Lord, Washington, you will be visited with a mighty revival. Thousands of small fires will be lit. These fires will become hundreds of thousands then millions till they sweep across the land. These fires will join together to become one large fire no man could ever put out. Pastor Alec fell back in his seat and cried. It was there the Lord asked me to take the vision to the Pacific Northwest. I did not understand what He wanted me to do then. Now, I do. This was the same message Smith, Charles Price, John Lake, and Aimee had. The Holy Spirit was again getting His message to His people. Why would the Lord say so much, through so many, if He wasn't about to do something great? He has brought in His best army, His best soldiers from all over the world, for one of the largest battles fought for Jesus. Ninety-five percent of all the people in Washington alone, do not know the Lord. What a victory that will be! Can you imagine what it will be like to see 5 million saved? The Lord said write it ...keep it simple, not too fancy:.. run with it...speak it...wait for it, and believe in it. I have been lighting fires for three and a half years now. I have been running with the vision. I have been making it plain.<

On the following page, you will see just a few of the fires. I know I am not the general who will lead us into final victory. I have been faithful to light the fires, 1,700 services to over 250,000 people. Will you help me continue to keep the fire burning?

The fire shall ever be burning on the altar.
It shall never go out.

Watch out! She has a gun!

She was standing right next to the side entrance of the altar area. We did not know if the gun was loaded or not. We knew if it went off, it could hurt or kill many people. Very few, inside, knew what was going on outside. They were with the Lord, praying and praising inside. I brought two bodyguards with me. They were both over 6 feet tall. As we came around the corner of the building, you could see her in the shadows. There were no lights on this side of the church. The only light shone from the open door and windows of the church. There she was- the same girl who had run from the altar to the darkness. My heart leaped because of her pain, because of how rejected she felt, because of the condemnation she saw instead of love. A man was trying to talk with her. It was her youth pastor. The painting was the same we have seen so many times. Don't come any closer or I'll ...., leave me alone ...., it won't work for me.... The words of pain, hurt so much. I asked the Lord what to do!! You know the prayer Jesus help!!! My mind was racing with thoughts. Lord, is the gun loaded? It's a big gun, Lord, a 45 automatic. Lord, just one stray bullet could kill her and hurt many other people. Lord, do I call 911? Do I call the SWAT team? That's what they are trained for. I didn't call 911. I called God-11. I said, Father, what do you want me to do? Do I dare risk the lives of the men here to help me? People from the church were starting to notice now. They were starting to gather outside. Jesus, what would You do? Then it came to me. A holy hush, a wave of peace I cannot describe. I knew what I had to do. An overwhelming sense of love hit my heart, as if she was my own daughter. I HAD TO DO WHAT JESUS DID. JESUS ASKED ME IF I WAS READY TO DIE TONIGHT! I had to do what Jesus already did. I had to die that night. I started to walk closer now. Don't come any closer ...., she said. She was in a panic, Don't come... You see, it did not matter anymore to me. I had already died. I walked right through that wall of fear, because Jesus was with me. As I came closer to her, she just stared at me. Now, Jesus had me say these words to her. My little child, do you know what I just did? She said, No. I said, I just died for you. You see, it did not matter what you did to me with the gun. Jesus told me you were worth dying for. So, I died tonight when I started to walk to you. I died tonight, because you are worth it - my life for yours. Now, my daughter, I know someone much greater than I. He died for you also. He saw you sin. He saw your dirt, and He saw your shame. It was there, He paid the price, and died for you. Yes, that's right, it's Jesus. As I reached out my hand to touch her, it was not me reaching out that night. That night, it was as if Jesus Himself touched her. As soon as she felt the Master's touch, she started to cry. She then fell into my arms. But you see, that night they were not my arms, they were the arms of the Christ. She and I knew we both would never be the same. I took her into the church to cheers and shouts of joy. She was where she needed to be, in the arms of her Lord. Oh, what a mighty. God we served !

HER HANDS LOOKED LIKE LEPROSY

Her name is Ruth. She is one of the most precious Baptists I have ever met. A friend had asked her to come to the morning meetings at Fairwood A/G, in Renton. She sat on the front row, and listened to every word of the teaching on the Holy Spirit. When she raised her hand to ask a question, she had white gloves on. I did not hear the question. All I could think of was those gloves. I asked Why are you wearing gloves in church? Are your hands cold? She look down almost in shame. She said My hands have a disease like leprosy. Immediately, the Holy Spirit came on me, and I asked her to take off the gloves. You could see that this made her uncomfortable, but like a good Baptist, she complied. When I saw what satan had done, I asked her to come forward in front of everyone, about 200 that morning. I ran and got my camera. Some were almost mad at me. They saw the disease. I saw the miracle that was about happen. The Lord had me command that disease to leave. And these signs shall follow them, ...Cleanse the leper.

And her hands were made whole! Some of you will see the miracle. Some of you will be looking for something wrong. We are not professional photographers. As we are only using a home printer, the pictures do not do justice to the miracle. The color you see on her hands in the after picture is the new, pink skin growing after all the scales fell off.
I'M SO EXCITED!

As I am writing this letter I can't help, but get excited. You see, I know what the Lord is about to do here in the Pacific Northwest. It is so exciting, I just can't stand it sometimes! People ask me all the time, How are you doing? Aren't you tired yet? What does it feel like to see God move so much? Well, let me tell you. I see people saved almost everyday. I see people healed almost everyday. I see people filled with the Holy Spirit almost everyday. I see families put back together almost everyday. I see people delivered from drugs almost every week. How would you feel? I see Jesus move everyday in so many lives, it's like heaven on earth! I want to take this time to thank all of my partners in God's army who have been supporting us. You met the call, and helped us get the TV camera equipment and audio equipment to help get the message out. Everyone of you share in the same reward, just as if you were preaching and giving the altar call with us.

Your heart has always been there to help. I want to thank all the people at Fairwood A/G, who sent the $8,000.00 to Central Park A/G to help finish their new church they are building, debt-free. May the Lord bless all of you at Evergreen Christian Center, who helped buy Pastor Bob Lindseth his first house after 20 years in the ministry. I want to thank all the people at Eastgate A/G, who bought me the new car. It really is a chariot of fire! When missionaries came to the meetings, you gave over $15,000.00 to them this year. I will never forget the day we said, Let's break the bondage of the massive debt at Milton A/G, and you pledged over $400,000.00. All of this money was collected by and stayed at the local churches. Oh, what a blessing it was to see the Lord move so mightily! Churches have been started, missionaries sent, and kids have been given scholarships for college. WOW!

God has given me the vision of what the Pacific Northwest will be like when the harvest is coming in. He told me to get the message out even more in 1998. I had no idea, 3 years ago, how large this ministry was going to grow. I had no idea how many thousands would be saved. Once He put us on this chariot of fire, we have learned it's Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.

He said, Jerry, you have reached thousands. Now, I want you and your partners to reach millions. Don't worry about the impossible. That's My job! You do your job, and I will do Mine. You do what's possible, and I will do what's impossible. Call your army to believe with you for the 7,000,000 souls. I will give them the faith. Call your army to trust Me, Jerry. I want to do this. If I am for you, who can stand against you? Call your army to pray and I will answer.

The Lord told me that we share each other's reward when we work together. Can you imagine what that day will be like when the harvest comes running in? Oh, what a glorious day it will be! There's so much work to be done. I just want to thank you for helping. I Cor 3:7, So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth but God that giveth the increase. 3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 3:9 For we are laborers together with God: Will you be one with us? If you have been saved, healed, freed from drugs, filled with the Holy Spirit, or really blessed in the meetings you are part of the army.

You can't be in 400 services a year, but I can. If you partner with us, it is just like you being there. We receive the same reward!

So, today, I am asking you to stand with us in answering the call. This is a call to arms, to storm hell's gates in 1998, and take back what he stole from us. Just like Gideon, the Lord told me to blow the shofar, and see who hears the call to arms. So many of you have asked what can you do to help. It is always hard to just say what your needs are, but the Lord has said to let the army know. We are not a one man army. We are together in this war.

WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT BY SENDING $5 OR $10 per month, (that's 2 big macs, fries and a coke per month). I have discovered that many people say they will pray, but many forget to do so. Then, I discovered that those who sent monthly support pray every time they write out the check and then pray more. I really want your prayers. If you send support, I know you will pray.
Your financial support will help us get the equipment needed to get this message out, and continue to go to the small churches, no one else wants to go to.
A pastor told me he said to another evangelist after talking about the cost, You mean I can't afford revival ....
Can you imagine Jesus saying your church is too small, or you can't afford Me?

We need those who will start fires with us across the Pacific Northwest. Every place we go, a small fire starts. Every place you help us go to start the

fires, you will share in the reward. The fulfillment of the prophecy is almost at hand. Will you be standing before Jesus and saying you did your best or??

Over 10,000 people have gotten saved. Some of them are your brothers and sisters, your mothers and fathers, your sons, daughters, and grandchildren.

We need 10,000 soldiers, chosen And called by God, to stand with the 10,000 people who have been saved in these meetings and say, Jesus, I believe we can win this war, because we are the army of God. I stand with my prayers and intercession and support.
We are so close to victory. Let's not stop now!
Will you stand with us in getting this message out?<

May the Commanded Blessing of God be upon you and yours.
Jerry & Jan Gaffney Jerry Gaffney Ministries
PO Box 1020 Centralia, WA 98531 <
360-807-9180
http://www.anointed.net/
E-mail jerry@anointed.net
18 November 1997