SID: Miracles started breaking out among the Aboriginal people, but then, you go to Scotland.
JOHN: Yeah.
SID: That’s where you really saw it break out.
JOHN: That’s right.
SID: What happened?
JOHN: What happened in Scotland is, it began, I went to a small church in the slums of about 11 or 12 people.
SID: You go from the witchdoctors to the slums.
JOHN: Yes.
SID: What a ministry!
JOHN: And the place was so dangerous the police wouldn’t go into this area. And the pastor had his cars torched twice. They had knives to threaten us, to beat up the people from the church.
SID: Weren’t you afraid?
JOHN: I wasn’t afraid.
SID: I see why God has entrusted you with this great anointing. What’d you see in Scotland?
JOHN: Well what I saw in Scotland was outstanding miracles. I began going in the street, and preaching from the street corners and the bus stops, and crying at the people to come to Jesus, and then the first small group came of about 12 people. And one lady didn’t have an eardrum, from five years of age, and she was in her late fifties. She had no balance, she had chronic pain, and God amazingly healed her.
Deaf Woman: I can hear!
Crowd: Hallelujah! Glory!
JOHN: She went back to the surgeons, they examined her, God grew an eardrum.
Deaf Woman: I told you, it’s a miracle.
JOHN: After half a century.
Deaf Woman: I can hear everything you’re saying.
JOHN: And what happened, this lady could never swim, she couldn’t go in an airplane, she couldn’t even get a driver’s license. After the miracle, she got a driver’s license, she could go on an airplane, she could swim, do everything. A creative miracle.
SID: I would imagine that you had more people than you could contain trying to come to your meetings.
JOHN: It’s amazing. People came from all around the world. Oh, and Europe. In fact, the newspapers did major stories. The biggest newspapers. It made front headlines of papers.
SID: Tell me a miracle that they wrote about that they liked.
JOHN: The first miracle, I came back to Australia, and once again a reporter came to expose me. He set up a camera, waitin’ to see I was a fraud. A lady had MS, was disabled, that they helped to the front. She couldn’t move her toes, she had numb legs, chronic pain. They helped her to the front, after prayer, power of God touched her and she could walk. Her toes could move, and this reporter put front headlines, major paper, “I saw a miracle.”
JOHN: Secular media.
SID: And now sometimes, people pump the press to get them to do things. What did you do to get such front-page coverage?
JOHN: Pray and fast.
SID: No press agent?
JOHN: It’s no press, people that ask me, “Who’s your press agent?” I said, I don’t have anyone but Jesus.
SID: Most people, after you pray, if nothing happened would go into unbelief.
JOHN: Yeah. And many times we see people come they might get healed the first time. First time in Scotland, the lady came from Belfast in a wheelchair disabled, couldn’t walk for nine years. She came to three meetings. Each meetin’ I said, “You come next time, we’ll keep believing for you.” The fourth meeting, she just, she got out of the wheelchair and walked. Still healed today.
SID: One time, you asked God, “How are all these great miracles happening?” And you had a vision.
JOHN: Yeah well I, one time in Scotland we just saw the pastor went from having, like a handful of people, to a church overflowing. People couldn’t get in the door. Miracles go out, newspapers coming, and reporting the miracle, different newspapers. And what happened was that, one time I was, they brought a lady, she couldn’t walk, they carried her in, her hands were like claws. Her feet were clawed up, she had chronic pain, nerve pain, arthritic, she was from about eight years disabled. And they had to carry her in and they sat her on a chair. And as I laid hands on her, I just touched her hands, same as a rosebud would open when the sun comes up, you know, her hand just unfurled. Her legs unfurled. And she walked normally, totally healed. And so, and so the next day, I was sitting in the church, I told the pastor, “I’m tired. Just have a normal service.” I’m sitting there, you know, asking God, “God, how did that happen last night? “Are you…? What happened?” You know, I don’t really ask God, “How did that happen?” And you know, I don’t always get visions, but then God showed me such a clear vision of the night before, I’m standing there, they bring the lady up, they carried her up, hands all look like claws, her feet are clawed up. And then I saw in the vision, as I reached over and touched her, then, I saw Jesus next to me, and as my hands reached out, his hand moved with mine. I thought… He’s… It’s so real, it’s so real. We don’t always see the spirit world, but if we knew how close he is. And, you know, we are the hands.
SID: Okay, okay but wait, people look at you and they say, “Okay, he’s got it.” What do you say to them?
JOHN: Well you know what? I don’t have it. But I have Jesus. I don’t have it. And you know what? And the people who know me would know, “That can’t be John Mellor!”
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JOHN: It’s gotta be, it’s Jesus. You know what, it’s by, I found this Sid, one thing I learned amongst Aborigines, it’s simple, child-like faith, it’s so simple it’s difficult. People often over-analyze. People out there, I wanna tell you, you often, you often over-analyze everything, it’s so simple, it’s easy. It’s so, so simple. The Bible says, “Lay hands on the sick.” That’s it. “Lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.” It’s not complex, Sid, it’s simple.
SID: You know what, when we come back, and this is what I love about this guy, he makes it so simple but that’s the way. Look, didn’t Jesus say, “Become like a little child”? We’ll be right back, he’s gonna pray for us.