STEPHEN'S STORY - MAN CURED OF LYME DISEASE FOR FREE - PART II
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD DID - THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
How Stephen was delivered of 15 years of Lyme Disease - in one day - is straight out of Luke 9 & 10. His deliverance was - at the end of 15 years - anticlimactic. That is, he did it himself. Like Dorothy, he had the shoes all the time.. and didn’t know it.
HIS CHURCH didn’t teach it. Most MINISTRIES DONT TEACH IT.. but ALL in the church of Jesus Christ, called ‘disciples’, can do what Steve did for himself one stormy night - in Fayetteville NY…
For a while there some charismatic ministries taught that the members of the body of Christ can and should heal themselves! They need not run to a ‘minister’ or ‘prophet’ of ‘elder’. If they are a disciples, they HAVE the tools. The ENABLEMENTS.
Consider T.L. Osborne..
T.L. Osborne had a terrific deliverance ministry. Yet, Osborne never pretended that believers needed to beat a path to his door. He’d say ‘The man in each Christian house ought to be spiritually responsible for his family, doing the Lord’s ministry, effecting any healing or deliverance they need.’ In fact, all of these men taught on how to walk in the power of Jesus Christ.
THAT is a reflection of the 1st Century Church modus of operation.
That ALL believers are to walk in power.
Not a handful of the specially gifted, or annointed. We are not living in Old Testament times with 1 Elijah on hand. This is the CHURCH age.
STEPHEN
In 2021 a man came to my house as a B&B guest with his wife and 3 children. I learned he’d been suffering from Lyme Disease for 15 years. How did this subject come up? As I recall, he had trouble climbing stairs.
Ironically, I had no idea just HOW bad off he was, until after he was delivered, and his wife wrote me the stunning testimony that you’re about to read.
How was he delivered?
On their first visit, I briefly taught the family about deliverance, specifying that one key would be - to discover, with the Lord’s help if necessary - where the open door was. That open door was the reason for Lyme Disease taking root. The disease-carrying-tick was an agent, but not the cause. Note the difference. Find the door, close it, and often a sickness will go away of its own accord. BTW - This is called ‘repentance’.1
Eventually, Stephen and his wife returned to my home for a few days’ stay. They thought I was going to minister healing to Stephen. I did too. The Lord had other ideas.
SURE I LOVE WHEN I GET TO LAY HANDS ON PEOPLE AND SEE MIRACLES. I’ve done that many times. But this time would be different., and so much better!
The Lord had me give them a Bible class.
A Bible class that I first took in 1978, called POWER FOR ABUNDANT LIVING. (AKA - PFAL)
The PFAL Class is probably what launched the Christian revival of the 1970s. It’s that good.
PFAL singlehandedly launched ministries in probably every country on earth, and ever state in the Union. It started my ministry and my walk of power.
Dr. Wierweille passed away in 1985, but his singular class lived on. They malign the man. But the class he prepared about
HOW to understand the Bible, and
HOW to receive the gift of Holy Spirit, and
HOW to receive the Baptism of the Spirit and
HOW to WALK in the POWER, has never been paralleled.
Ever, at any time. It stands alone.
Steve and his wife Gina took the long class over the course of 2 weekend visits. When they graduated, they thought I would lay my hands on Stephen and deliver him of Lyme Disease.
AGAIN the Lord had other ideas. He told me to ‘TELL STEVE TO HEAL HIMSELF’. So I did. I sent them upstairs to their room, and I went to bed.
I found out in the morning, that they went to bed very upset. Very disappointed.
AND.. I only found out in the morning, that, during the night - Steve delivered himself of the demon of Lyme Disease - plus a few other demons that were there as well. HAHAH!
HOW’s THAT!?
After everything he’d learned in the 36 hour class over a 5+ day period.. Steve had the tools. And now he had used them. Now, here, is his wife’s testimony of that night:
GINA’S TURN
“Learning to Walk in the Abundant Life July 5, 2021:
We took a class with Victoria about living the abundant life as promised in Scripture. This is the testimony of Steve Laffin as we drive home after 2.5 intensive days of study while the experience is fresh in our minds! He came to this weekend with the expectation that she (Victoria) would pray for and deliver him from the sickness and disease that has plagued him.
She later admitted that was her original plan, she said Holy Spirit told her to share this teaching series with us instead. It is the same teaching she received in 1978 that delivered her from possession and oppression and led her to the LORD in a profound way!
Just some back-story: Steve was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2006..this was the beginning of his decline, although it took several years for satan to really take him down. We spent many thousands of dollars on alternative medical treatments after the original course of traditional medicine had no lasting effect.
He muddled through until 2013 he made a decision that he needed to make a change and sell our plumbing business and take a job with a large ministry doing their HVAC work. He thought this would take the pressure off his having to work so hard physically.
Then in 2016 we moved again, he was just running, trying to figure out the key. We never really entertained the thought that his physical ailments had a spiritual root. This was not something we were taught.
There was a time we believed in divine healing (although we would not have called it that) but never saw anything so when other issues happened in the church we attended we threw out the baby with the bathwater, in a sense. At this time we were attending a church that would say God is ABLE to heal but doesn’t always choose to.
So, at this time Steve was compensating for his physical condition (very painful knees, gut issues, legs “locking up”, stumbling/staggering occasionally) but expensive alternative medicine, drastic diet changes, etc.
Then comes 2020!! Every one of us probably knows someone that went off the deep end in 2020. The stress of all that the “plandemic” brought on just pushed him over the edge.
He could no longer regulate his body temperature (hat, coat inside. Constantly freezing),
Thoughts of suicide,
convinced he had a heart condition and wanted to go to ER nearly weekly.
He lost about 40 lbs. because he was constantly nauseous.
Sleep either eluded him or over took him.
He was convinced he had cancer or some other awful sickness.
He wanted to die.
I knew in my heart he was fine. I take no credit for this knowledge, it was the mercy of God. Had I bought into these feelings I honestly believe Steve would be at best in a wheel chair or at worst dead today.
So, back to July, 5, 2020: We sat for MANY hours listening and learning about how to properly interpret Scripture.
Arriving Saturday 7/3/2021 early afternoon we watched from 2:30-10:30 pm with 2 short breaks.
That alone is miraculous for Steve…sitting has been very difficult.
He was also angry that she was not praying for his deliverance.
He had a horrible night’s sleep and great difficulty even falling to sleep.
At one point he had the feeling we had to leave that house. He work up to a nightmare about hell being not so bad!
Sunday we started watching by 8:45am, took a long lunch break (1.5 hours) where he took a nap. Then watched until 6:30, had dinner then 7:30-10pm. We were getting delirious at this point with fatigue and information overload.
Victoria sits down and started to talk to him. She explains he has had the authority in him (after confirming he is saved), since accepting the LORD, to deliver himself.
She prophesied he is to have a healing ministry (something that has been on his heart since 1990’s but he was scared away from every praying for healing again after he prayed for a young man in a wheelchair who eventually passed away).
She explained Jesus wants him to deliver himself using the authority given to him in the Holy Spirit.
We went to bed. He was very angry.
He realized if any healing was going to happen he would have to do it! He started doing just that. He started casting demons in Jesus’ name.
He did sense some change and deliverance of some but was so focused on needing sleep he went to bed (after praying for me to be delivered of a cough that had been lingering for weeks; I did not cough again that night!)
We prayed together thanking God for all He had shown us, for good sleep and for the kids. We went to sleep.
I, Gina, stayed asleep the entire night. Steve woke up between 2 or 3 am with extreme leg pain. He knew it was a spiritual attack and needed to rebuke it but didn’t want to wake me up. When he tried to stand up he realized his right ankle was dislocated, his foot was turned completely in.
He hobbled into the bathroom and started rebuking! He said, “I rebuke any curses placed on me, in the name of Jesus”, (by the customer he was working for at the time he originally injured that ankle 13 years prior to this night, he apparently had a sense she was against him…
He put his foot down and instantly his ankle was straight and all the pain there left and no damage to muscles or soreness!
This greatly encouraged him, he said “It’s ON!” He began casting demon after demon saying: “You have no authority over me demon of (stomach pain, left side, leg weakness, chest pain, left rib pain…..”) on and on; “I cast you out in the name of Jesus.” He prayed against anything _____ (a therapist he was seeing that had been a Riki witch).
Steve sensed something like electricity going through his fingers and toes. He struggled with his left side, it would not leave him.
So he grabbed his left finger tips with is right hand and pulled away with is right hand. He could feel something like strings starting from his left toes all the way up his left side and out of his fingers!
He felt like was not winning the battle so he called on the angels commanding them to help him. He sensed about 6 beings (angels) pulling demonic forces (felt like strings) from his left side. (as I type this I’m reminded how I felt the first time he shared this with me…if I didn’t know this man, how level headed and smart he is…I would have never believed this account!)
He then went back to bed and slept until 6:30.
I was downstairs already, sitting on the couch reading. I heard someone come down the stairs and assumed I’d look up to see Nick, Victoria’s 21 yr old son, bounding down the stairs but no….it was my husband!!!
I can’t quite explain what that meant to me. When I tell you how slowly and painfully Steve would walk up or down stairs…one hard step at a time, in the middle of the day, let alone first thing in the morning. This was miraculous!
And, I had no idea what had happened to him during the night.
After sharing his testimony Victoria said it occurred to her that Jesus would not open the door to a healing ministry until He “cleaned his house”. Steve said he had had that same thought during the weekend…second witness! Steve continued to struggle with many lying symptoms but he had at least realized the authority he had available to him in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. There was still a great deal of work to be done.
We learned more about the spirit world. Victoria gave us many CDs of Thurman Scrivner and they were very helpful. That summer was slow going but he was improving. Still focused on himself, not Jesus.
We returned to Victoria’s in September of 2021 to complete the Abundant Life teaching. The information was extraordinary.
We learned so much. Steve was a much different person on that trip. We were able to walk around the neighborhood, enjoy the beautiful back yard, enjoy fellowship! As the months went on the Lord placed people in our lives that steered us toward divine healing and spiritual warfare. Some more effective than others. We read Derek Prince’s book They Shall Cast out Demons that helped us to understand a lot more about spiritual warfare. He also found Joseph Prince, this teaching on the Gospel of Grace was a tremendous encouragement to him.
There were various other men that ministered healing to people that he watched through YouTube. Again, all of these tools built up his faith and increased his ability to accept the truth of Scripture. He focused on the finished work of Christ on the cross and what His resurrection did to essentially remove the curse of the law on our lives.
Steve continued to get stronger and stronger physically and, more importantly, spiritually every week. His Biblical knowledge and understanding grew dramatically.
We have come to understand the importance of our prayer language (speaking in tongues, through the baptism of the Holy Spirit) and practice it often!
As we learn more and more about all that is available to us though the Holy Spirit we both are becoming bolder in our walk as spirit filled believers. After all God has not given us a spirit of fear (timidity) but a spirit of power, love and a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7)!
We are currently (January 2023) embarking on a greater understanding of the Mark 16:17-18 commandment that Jesus gave to all those who believe. These are strong words that the church at large, at least here in the US, seems to have left out of their teaching. We as a culture have been focusing on our carnal (5 senses) knowledge and ignoring the fact that we are spiritual beings and therefore ignoring where the majority of our life’s battles take place….namely in the spiritual realm. Remember…Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10)”
End of testimony of Gina Laffin
Isn’t God good!
I wanted you to have this information to contrast the use of the POWEr given to us by Jesus Christ, when we are baptized in the holy spirit - with the idea that we need to GO TO SOME SPECIAL PERSON - to receive healing from God.
There are far too many people hurting - waiting - as it were - for someone to put them down into the pool of Bethesda, when all they ever needed was the Baptism of the holy spirit’ so that they could HEAL themselves.’
(Personally, I am opposed to water baptism; because it tricks saints out of realizing that they didn’t receive power. Water baptism was of the Jews. The Lord was water baptized FOR US, just as he was circumsized FOR US, just as he died FOR US. Water baptism confers NOTHING. The disciples were filled with power, NOT when they were water baptized - as all Jews were - but when they were BAPTIZED in the HOLY SPIRIT - with FIRE. (DO read Acts 1:5)
YOU NEED training in the Word of God - which is what Romans 10:17 is about, (faith comes by HEARING) and → THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
THEN YOU TOO CAN HEAL YOURSELF OF LYME DISEASE.
VJCBingham
I admonished the pair to leave the church they’d been elders in for the last 15 years. Friend, if you’re in a church that does not believe in, or practice healing as the Lord showed us, you’re wasting your time with the little remaining on earth for us all. Go somewhere that is walking in the full ministry Jesus taught us. To their credit, this couple did just that.