Our Guest Aliss Cresswell
ALISS: So… and I’m like oh no. I’ve killed a woodpecker and I was feeling so bad. But my headache had gone. Like all the symptoms had gone. And I’m like I just felt really bad. And it was just lying there. And I, you know after about 5 minutes… so 10 minutes went by and I’m looking at it. And I’m like should I do something? It’s obviously broken its neck. It’s completely dead. And I thought there isn’t much teaching on raising the dead. So are you supposed to lay hands on it? Or can you just speak to it? Do I have to go outside? Can I do it through the window? I thought well… so after about ten minutes I thinking okay, I’ll give it a go. So I spoke out loud. Because when you speak out loud it’s very powerful. So I spoke out loud. And I said in the name of Jesus I command that spirit of death, because it was a spirit of death obviously it killed this woodpecker, or it was some kind of curse or something to do with death. I said spirit of death I command you to leave that bird now. Now as soon as I said that this woodpecker… it’s like this… and it goes… turns around, it sits up, opens its eyes and it’s like… well it wasn’t smiling, but if it could it would be.
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHING)
ALISS: Just looking at me like that. (laughs) And I’m like “YES, my first resurrection!” Come on! (laughing)
AUDIENCE: (APPLAUDING)
ALISS: Because you’re going to practice these things. I’ve been practicing. Praying for people who have died cause I want to see the dead raised. But were not going to see it if we don’t actually practice it and have a go. Well you’ve got to practice. You know you’re learning all the time. I learn a lot from my mistakes, I have to say. I make a lot of mistakes but I just keep going. And I keep saying Holy Spirit, what should I have done? Holy Spirit, what were you doing right then? Can you show me? I’m always asking Him. Just get to know the Holy Spirit. So this woodpecker’s sitting there. You know it’s alive. And it’s sitting there for like 5 minutes and it’s not flying away. And I thought wouldn’t it be ironic if a cat comes round the corner and just like swoops it up so I was like in the name of Jesus fly and I pointed to it and said it and it flew off into the trees. Now about 6 months later I was speaking at a after dinner, I was an after dinner speaker at an event. And before I went I said Holy Spirit what would you like to do this evening in this meeting? And suddenly two woodpeckers came and sat in the tree right outside where I was looking. And I thought you know something happens like that, anything that happens that’s slightly unusual or you have… you’re just thinking, hmmm. See if that’s spiritual. Okay? Just always do that. And then you have to ask the Holy Spirit so what are you telling me? What was…think laterally. It’s not always obvious. You got to keep digging. Keep asking the Holy Spirit. He’ll show you the next thing cause He wants you to know. Cause He wants to, you know He wants to extend His kingdom, doesn’t He? The Lord wants to extend His kingdom but He’s going to do it through you. We’re waiting for God to come and to start revival but He’s waiting for you to start revival everywhere that you go. Cause you carry revival on the inside of you. The kingdom of heaven is within you so you’ve just got to let it out! So anyhow, yeah, these 2 woodpeckers come in the tree. So when I get to the meeting that night I said is there… I told the woodpecker story like I just told you… and I said is there anybody here who has similar symptoms to the ones I had when this evil spirit came, you know it was like headaches, dizziness, deafness, disorientation. And I said I think it might be two people cause I’d seen two woodpeckers. So those are words of knowledge. Okay? And it usually happens… kind of you got to just keep thinking what is that? Is God trying to show me something? Because if you ask the Holy Spirit to tell you something He usually will tell you straight away. It’s usually the first thought in your head or the first feeling you have is usually the Holy Spirit. So two women came out and they’d had those symptoms for a long time. But when I said well it’s just an evil spirit they let go! Well that’s all right then! So we just tell the evil spirit to leave. What I’d like to do is when somebody’s got an issue it’s like a demonic thing or it’s caused by an evil spirit I normally… I will get them to say Father God, please will you forgive me for allowing this thing a place in my life, for coming into agreement with it. Because you know when that happened with me I could have thought well I’ve got this illness now. I could have gone to the doctor and got medication for it. And sort of come under it and lived under it for a very long time. I wondered why when I pray I’m not getting better. All it was, was an evil spirit. So we’ve got to see in the spirit realm just like Jesus did. He only did what He saw the Father doing in heaven. He spoke what He heard being spoken in heaven. So anyhow these people got completely set free. We prayed for them. The evil spirits come out and they get completely healed by Jesus. That’s good isn’t it?
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