Recent Miracles

I want to share this testimony with everyone. I hope that by sharing what God has done for me and my family, that it will bring hope to those who are going through trials and suffering. God has done something quite miraculous in my life. Just a few days before Thanksgiving 2007. I was arrested for stealing. It was not something that I had planned. I had made a bad decision that resulted in so much grief and stress for me and my family. It was my 20th birthday, and I had gone out with my friends and had a lot of alcohol. I had gone into 3 unlocked vehicles and had taken the radios and some cds. The next morning, I saw more clearly the seriousness of what I had done. A couple of days later, two detectives showed up at my door. I knew that I was in some trouble. I confessed what I had done. I invited them in to see what I had taken and wanted to return the items. They told me I had to go with them. I hugged my dad goodbye. I was then handcuffed and taken to jail. Fingerprinted and had my picture taken. I was now in jail with a bond of $30,000.00. I knew that my parents were having financial issues and could not easily pay the bond to get me out. I was in jail for days.

We were told by a friend that knew someone that worked at the jail, that sometimes it is good to not bail out of Jail, but to say in; so that when you do go before the judge, he might say the time has been served and you may go. This was my first offense. I had never been in jail before. But this was not the case. The detectives then started questioning me on every crime involving vehicle thefts in the entire area. I had to give an account for where I was and who I was with at the time of those other crimes. I explained that on one of those occasions, I was with a girl…Then things become worst….much worse. It was later discovered that this girl was under age. I didn’t know that the girl was underage. I wanted to be honest and confess all that I had done.

My mom and dad cried out to God on whether or not to leave me in or to bail me out. My mom asked God, if I was to stay in jail, let it be according to His will; otherwise, He would need to provide the bail money. The next morning at 6:00 am, mom received a call for my aunt who said that she had $3,000.00 she could wire to her that day. My dad came and bailed me out that day, the day before Thanksgiving. About a week later, I had a warrant out for my arrest due to I had been with a girl that was under age. My mom and dad had already hired an attorney who had advised me to turn myself in. I was now in Jail again with a bond of $25,00.00. My mom and dad paid another $2,500.00 to bail me out.

Now there were two different charges against me; the second charge was much more serious. My attorney stated that this was very bad and I had better pray to God. This charge carried a mandatory sentence of 15 years in prison. I had never been so scared in my life. Will I go to prison. Is my life over? My mom and dad had tried to warn me about the people I hand around and the consequences of not living a godly life. I thought nothing could happen to me. I am a good person. But it was happening. It was like a bad dream. I wasn’t sure how to connect with God or how to even begin. My mom and dad had been attending True Light Ministries for over a year now and encouraged me to come to get prayer on Thursday night. At first I thought, why would God save me? I have been so rebellious in so many ways….I didn’t get into the word and I didn’t pray that much. I was busy doing my own thing. I started going to TLM on Thursday night for prayer. I know that Pastor Ricky is a man of God and I knew that I needed prayer now more than ever. For the next 2 months I continued to get prayer every Thursday night. Pastor Ricky had given me a word that God was going to get me out of this, that this was my wake up call. I believed that God would deliver me and I held on to this hope.

The next day, Friday, February 1st, my mom received a call from the attorney to say that something amazing has happened. The prosecuting attorney has agreed to drop the charge to a misdemeanor and that probation would be sufficient. That means no jail time, no prison time. This was miracle! This was supposed to be mandatory 15 year sentence. But it was by God’s great mercy and grace that I had been delivered…I believe that word that Pastor Ricky spoke over me has come to pass. God has gotten me out of this. God has put mercy in the hearts of the judge and the prosecuting attorney.

I am still waiting on the other case for the theft to be over. I am trusting in God to deliver me from this as well. While I was in jail, I realized that there is not much to do; there are not many distractions. Out in the world, there are many distractions that can keep you busy and away from God. I still struggle with keeping my focus on God. I am trying my best to read God’s word every day and to spend time getting to know him. I still continue to go for prayer every Thursday night. By God’s grace, I still have my job and I continue to help my mom pay for attorney charges. I just have to say, that there was no way that I deserved such mercy, but God has heard our prayers.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the righteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

I had been at another church for four years and my mom went back and forth from another church to TLM. On the way to school my mom always played Dr Roberts sermons. I could feel the authority and knowledge that he spoke with and liked it. My mom brought me one Thursday night and I could feel the power and fear of God all night. I came another Thursday and eventually every Thursday. I could not believe that the church wasn’t bigger!!! Then it came to a point where the other church wasn’t as filing and appealing anymore and I knew I would have to make a choice. I know leaving the other church would mean no friends, no youth group, no loud music but I had to do it. I thought to myself I only have one life, and if I ever was to desperately need prayer, the other church would have no solution. I knew if I really wanted to have what God has destined and dreamed for my life I would have to join a church of power and dedication. I know for a fact God has His hand upon TLM and that’s exactly where I want to be.

In 2009, Dr. Ricky Roberts prayed for me and then began to describe a woman, telling me the exact hair color and clothing she would wear. He warned me that it was a trap of Satan to mess up what God has for me. Weeks later, I was at college and saw this exact girl with the exact description for on entire week straight! She wore the clothes he said she would wear. I stayed far away from her. Praise God.

I’ve been attending True Light Ministries for almost two years now, and in that time God has recreated me and my family. Though the Lord has worked many miracles and deliverances in our family over these few short months, the greater miracle I cannot deny is the true conversion of my soul. I have considered myself a Christian my whole life…raised in the church by God-fearing parents. And yet, I didn’t know Jesus. In all that time of attending church and “doing” my religion, I never gained a full understanding of who Christ is, much less developed an interactive and meaningful relationship with my God.

Seemingly endless factors played a part in my spiritual failure (including a healthy portion of rebellion on my part) and yet I thought I was fine and right with God. I turned a blind eye to how closely my life resembled the lives of the blatantly unsaved around me. God in His mercy pulled me up out of the pit I truly was in and He helped me see that my commitment to my relationship with Christ resembled a twig house built on sand. I realize now that I was, to use Patrick Morley’s words, a “Cultural Christian.” I mixed cultural norms into my faith and thought nothing of it. The problem is, a little leaven leavens the whole loaf, and the worldly standards I accepted in my lifestyle contaminated my faith and weakened it to the point that I was powerless to fight against a major attack from Satan. The Bible teaches us that sin weakens the hedge of protection God places around us: “He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him” (Ecclesiastes 10:8).

And powerless is exactly how I found myself when I darkened the door of TLM for the first time (though I had visited the church a few years prior). It was a Sunday morning and I was at death’s door (as many people seem to be when they come to True Light for the first time), fresh out of the ER from the Friday night before. Satan had attacked my heart, and I almost died. But God is merciful and He used my weakened physical state to strengthen my spiritual man.

Through the teachings and leadership at TLM the Holy Spirit began rebuilding my foundation on the rock of Jesus Christ—and I have watched in awe as I have truly changed from the inside out. It’s been an interesting start to a journey that I pray will never end. Miraculously, I didn’t try to change, and yet it happened. He changed me—God’s precious Spirit. The worldly things that never used to bother me grieve my spirit today. I can see now where all the “Church” rules come from that, in my youth, seemed (to me) to stifle people and make them feel unaccepted in the church unless they “cleaned up” their lifestyle. These “rules” must come from people who totally surrendered to God and were transformed by His Spirit and then they turned around and tried to force their heart-changes onto others who had not yet experienced the same process of sanctification. We can do nothing to set ourselves free…it is Christ’s Spirit working in us that sets us free!

When I fully surrendered to the Holy Spirit and asked Him to transform me into the image of Jesus, He began stripping away my desire for and acceptance of things that I didn’t realize were separating me from a deeper walk with God—things that, in His eyes, blended me in with the rest of the world. Before I knew what hit me I found I couldn’t wear half of my old wardrobe to church; the thought of standing at the altar and pouring my heart out to the Lord in some of my outfits made me shudder. Of course God would accept me “as is”…but He was changing me and teaching me what pleases Him—and some of my old “norms” had to go. This is just one small example pulled from a mountain of proofs. The beautiful part is that the change I experienced was effortless; meaning it didn’t come from me. I’m the kind of person that if you tell me not to wear something or not to indulge in something, I’ll do it just to irk you and make sure you know you don’t control me. So this change was coming from somewhere else—and it amazed me! What happened? I still am awed by the influence of the Spirit in my life now. I tested it out with an old movie that I used to love to watch. It’s a harmless comedy—centered on drug addiction (nice, right?)—and it always made me laugh. I put the movie on a while back and after about twenty minutes I couldn’t watch it. I was uncomfortable; it wasn’t funny this time around; and I literally felt sick to my stomach. I had to shut it off. Physically sick? I can’t fake that. It was the convicting power of the Holy Spirit reminding me to be careful what I set before my eyes.

Since I made TLM my home church and have followed the teachings there, I have proof in myself that the Lord is working in my life. This has not been a painless process—Satan has instigated full-on attacks against me and my family and we have suffered physically and emotionally. I have also silently watched as many of my friends and family have pulled away from me into the shadows and background of my life. They see the changes in me now too, and many of them, I believe, are not sure what to think—so they stay away. I think of how David must have felt when he wrote these words: “Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors; I am a dread to my friends—those who see me on the street flee from me. I am forgotten by them as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery” (Psalm 31:11–12).

To be abandoned by loved ones and friends is considered disastrous by most people’s standards, but for me it is all the more reason to rejoice! It is proof that I have changed. It is proof that God’s anointing is upon my life and that He’s using me to influence others for His glory. I have His peace. I have the contentment of knowing for certain that I am running the race and I’m contending for the prize—no longer am I sitting on the sidelines while the battle rages on. I have stepped into the fight; I’ve accepted the call to be a part of the “chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). By doing so I’ve been awakened to the reality of spiritual warfare and the fury of Satan, our accuser, toward God’s saints. When we are willing to surrender to the Lord and become a slave of Jesus Christ, Satan zeroes in on us and focuses his efforts on destroying us. The Bible tells us to “be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). He’s not seeking after his own—he already has them under his thumb. This verse is referring specifically to the blood-bought saints—the Christ-centered warriors who are sacrificing life in this world to bring glory to Jesus Christ. I pray now that the Lord keeps me under the shadow of His wings that He keeps me from the fowler’s snare. Father God, let me never again fall back into Cultural Christianity. Keep me set apart; a drastic and offensive contrast to this wicked world—ever moving forward on the path toward Your marvelous light.

I was scheduled for heart surgery and one week before the procedure was to take place my insurance refused to pay for the surgery. My husband and I took a step of faith and went forward with the procedure (after months of prayer, we knew this procedure was God’s will). Though we were risking being hit with $100K worth of medical bills we decided to trust God to defeat Satan’s attack against us. During my surgery my husband was called down to the hospital’s offices to pay a $20K down payment on my surgery. He talked them down to $10K, swallowed hard, and wrote the check. The very next morning, while I was recovering in the hospital bed, the insurance company called and said they put my case through another director and the procedure was approved for full coverage. Over the next six months the Lord led us through battling for this coverage—Satan was still trying to steal our miracle. I prayed daily for six months for our $10K check to be returned as well. God is faithful and one Saturday morning, out of the blue, I opened yet another “medical” envelope and found my refunded check! As of today, all medical bills related to this surgery have been paid in full. Greater is He that is in us than he that is in this world!
A loved one was totally delivered from alcoholism and has kept it. The smell of alcohol makes this person sick. They say it smells like rotting flesh to them now. This is someone who drank every day—all day. God mercifully delivered them during a Thursday night prayer session at TLM. By Friday morning they were clean and sober without having to go through withdrawal symptoms or any sickness. They haven’t even had to struggle with temptation. The Lord completely erased all desire for alcohol from their mind, will, emotions, and physical system.
My cousin’s newborn baby was suffering from lung problems and was totally healed. The child was in intensive care in a hospital in Texas. We prayed on a Thursday night for the child and the baby was home and doing well a few days later.
My 2-year-old son was suffering from 104-degree fever for four days. The fever would not break, even with medicine. The doctors offered no solution other than Motrin and Tylenol. We brought him for prayer on a Thursday night and around 1am Friday morning I heard him screaming in his room because he was drenched with sweat—the fever had finally broken. He was perfectly well by morning.
My four-year-old son was suffering from violent nightmares that would hit every night at 10pm. After consistent prayer in the TLM prayer line and having him sleep with anointed handkerchiefs the nightmares have disappeared.
My husband suffered from unexplained abdominal pain for over ten years. He went to every specialist imaginable—even spent time at Mayo Clinic for testing—and no one could figure out what was causing the pain. Dot and Ricky Roberts prayed for him throughout these long years and today he is completely set free from the debilitating pain.
My husband also had a rare condition where his jaw bone was growing up through the gums, causing excruciating pain. Sharp bits of bone would break through the gums and crack off in bits and pieces. The dentist said there is nothing he could do—just live with it. My husband went for prayer on a Thursday night and the condition ceased. No more bone fragments—no more pain. Praise God!
My husband was suffering from tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Doctors said there is no cure and that he would just have to get used to the ringing. There are reports of people actually going insane from this condition. He came to TLM for prayer on a Thursday night and the ringing completely stopped. No problems since.
I had a painful lump in my left breast—came for prayer at TLM and then went for a mammogram. No lump could be found.
My father-in-law was suffering from a back injury. He came for prayer at TLM on a Sunday morning and the back pain was completely gone by the next morning. He had been to the doctor and gone through physical therapy—nothing was helping the pain. God delivered him through His great mercy!
When we first began attending TLM my small children were afraid of the prayer services. They didn’t know how to handle all they were feeling as the presence of the Holy Spirit would flood the sanctuary. I prayed diligently that God would calm their fears and that they would someday be comfortable enough to come down for prayer. The Bible says that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalm 111:10). Today all three of my children are at peace in TLM’s sanctuary and they look forward to Pastor Ricky praying for them. I remember one Thursday night I was blown away as my daughter sat on the second row, coloring a little picture, while a demon was being cast out of woman five feet in front of her. My daughter was in total peace; she didn’t even look up. God has transformed my babies over the past two years. Discipline problems have lessened and honest discussions about Jesus and our faith abound on a daily basis in our home. My children are hungry for more of the Lord. They have some spiritual wisdom that I didn’t acquire until I was an adult. They pray in the name of Jesus and trust God for the things they need. When a prayer doesn’t get answered, they respond, “Well, it must not have been God’s will. We need to make sure we pray God’s will next time!” They have a love for Jesus that inspires me to cling more and more to our Father in heaven. I know that He is keeping all of us under the shadow of His wings.

Deborah and I were sitting near the back of the church while Pastor Ricky Robert’s was having personal ministry. We were just quietly sitting and waiting.

All of a sudden I noticed a little white fluff floating down. I gave it a puff of my breathe, and it went floating away. Then another appeared, but it was about one half inch long, and I knew it was a feather—and angel feather!

I looked at Deborah and asked her if she felt the presence of an angel, too, and she said yes.

Pastor Ricky was at the opposite end of the room, laying hands on a person. He turned and looked back towards our way and said, “There are angels in this room.” (We knew it to be so!)

Susan and Ben Estanislao and family were in Jacksonville on furlough from Nicaragua, their mission field under LifeLink, International. Susan and her daughter went to a Thursday night meeting at True Light Ministries. At the end of the service she went up for prayer, and the prophecy was one sentence: “It is broken, and if you had not come it would not have been broken.” She wondered what that meant.

When they got back to Nicaragua, she found out exactly what the prophecy and the breaking of the curse was about.

For about seven months they had had a battle with the native-born former pastor of the church they had built and established. In the beginning they had been so thrilled with the pastor. He had been a Sandanista soldier years before and had been born again and was zealous for the Lord. The ministry was going so well. He had started an outreach to the children, had a weekly feeding program, and weekly services. He had a positive, people-pleasing personality. His wife joined him in ministry, and they had three children.
They were living in quarters built into the back of the church for them.

The poverty level in Nicaragua is pervasive; people live in shelters made of cardboard, plastic sheeting, tin, etc. So the pastor was well off comparatively. The enemy came in and he wanted to take the ministry for himself. He tried to take it from LifeLink and put it under a Nicaraguan title so he could transfer it to himself. LifeLink asked him to leave, but he refused to vacate the property. (During all this, his wife and children left him.)

Susan received the prophecy on a Thursday night. They arrived in Nicaragua on the following Tuesday. Through the lawyers they found that the pastor had left the property that very day.

I have five brothers, a son and a husband. I told my son and husband what Ricky saw and felt compelled to tell my brother Charlie. Charlie listened to what was said, he went to church with me two weeks later on Thursday night, went up for prayer because he has “feet problems”. The Holy Spirit kept Charlie up for prayers for a very long time, others sat down after prayer but Charlie just stood there, for maybe an hour!

Two weeks later Charlie called and said, “I beleive it was me who had the Spirit of Death”. Charlie was in an accident yesterday in a store while shopping for floor tile. He has a concussion and cut his knee so deep they could hardly stop the bleeding. Praise the Lord he did not die.

Now Charlie is asking me to send the article about the young man in Iraq who was miraculously healed after prayer from TLM this past month. The Lord gives wake-up calls, he may call several times, and he may call once. Answer when he calls, recognize it is HIM calling!

Dear True Light Ministries;

I am writing to report that twice within two weeks, (2/14/08-2/22/08), I personally received a miraculous Word and a healing at True Light Ministries in Jacksonville, FL. These gifts came from the Lord through Dr. Roberts and Sister Dot. The prophetuc words were by Dr. Ricky and said, " Islam, ..Islam.. I hear the word Islam. Is this a group? I believe this is a group. I beleive they are in danger. I don't think they know that they are all in danger. Can you get in touch with them?" What the Prophet did not know was this. My team leader was in Africa with a small group of women & children. I had only asked him to pray for a pastor in Africa. He then got the above words. As Intercessors, three of us had seen a danger for the pastor but we thought it was an african disease. We thought he needed to come home and see an American doctor. This was not true. The entire picture changed at the Words of the Prophet. I immediately called Africa and spoke to Pastor Louis. After telling him the Words of the Lord, he told me something that he had never told the Intercessors. He said, "We are renting an apartment within a compound where there is set up a "Muslim Altar". My team has converted one of the Muslim women who live here. She has a brother who is very angry with us." Well, I just screamed and we began to bind and loose and pray protection over them and this is what Dr. Roberts had done in his meeting. Presently, they are making plans to return home to the USA . They will return to different living quarters in Ghana in the future. We are all grateful to the Lord and his servant for His unexpected words to the team.

Well Pastor, you have been asking me to do this for a while, so here it is!!!
I first attended True Light Ministries in July of 2005. I was very ill the night I came, so much so that I was seated on the floor waiting for prayer because I could not stay standing. Of course, all I could think about was getting prayer for my illness. However, when you came to pray over me, you did not address the illness. Instead, you gave me a word from God to "stop condemning myself". I had absolutely no idea what that meant and I was somewhat disappointed because I wanted prayer for my sickness.

The next day I was driving and praying about something for someone when I suddenly had a realization of what your word the night before meant. Without going into detail, I can say that that completely opened up my prayer life.
So, I decided that TLM was a place God was in and I wanted to be there. God knew that night what I really needed and Pastor Ricky was able to look past the illness that I obviously wanted prayer about and listen instead to what God was showing him about me. So, I continued to attend the prayer meetings each week.

The next week I asked for prayer about trying to conceive a child. My husband and I had been trying for about 6 months without success. My doctor was just saying to give it more time, but since my husband was already in his 40’s I was of course anxious for it to happen soon. That night you prophesied that I would have a baby. You even asked me if I wanted a boy or a girl. I said I wanted a girl, and you hesitated and said that I was having a boy, but that God would give me the desires of my heart. Later in that meeting you said there was an angel in the room and it was knitting baby booties. You also said that night that when the “male child is born, nations will tremble”.

I continued to come to the meetings month after month even though I had not been able to become pregnant. Every time God would continue to confirm that I was going to have a child, possibly more than one. At some point along the way I felt as though God was asking me to give up something in my life that I did not want to let go of. It was not a sin per se but something He wanted me to let go of. I kept holding on to it, which of course then made that a sin.

Finally in the summer of 2006 my husband and I sought medical intervention to become pregnant. We found that there were medical reasons for the infertility and that without the treatment we had a 1% chance of conceiving. After much prayer and believing that God was ok with us doing it, we had the treatment done. At that same time, I finally decided to let go of the thing that God had been asking me to let go of.

Well, we conceived with the first treatment, even though it was only supposed to give us a 10% chance. Praise God. At week 19 we found out that it was a boy, just as Pastor had prophesied more than a year and a half before. Well, as for God giving me the desire of my heart? This baby is exactly that. God knew what I wanted even though I thought I did. I LOVE being the mom to a beautiful boy. God continues to tell me that this child is great in His kingdom and I continue to come to this ministry where God is because now I have the job of raising this precious child of God to love Him and do His mighty will in his life. Thank you Pastor for your faithful prayers over this child and me. I tell him every night that you and Mama Dot love him!! Cherish

Arrived at Ft Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX on Tuesday morning
(22-Jan-2008) to receive treatment for the burns.

I want to thank you and everyone for their prayers for my nephew, Donnie. He is now at home with his wife and receiving outpatient treatment for the burns. He is doing well, still feels a bit “beat up” and still in pain from the burns and back, but spirits are good. I am going to speak to him and his mother to request their own testimony in regards to this miraculous blessing/healing from God. I know that she (his mother) has been praising God daily and spreading the news of her son’s miracle to everyone that will listen.
On another note, Donnie had no idea as to the request made by my son or the prayer on that Thursday night. When his mother told him the story last week she said it brought him to tears. He could not believe that his cousin loved him so much as to “keep his own sickness to save his cousin”. He couldn’t get over the fact that God would do this for him…heal him like he did. That there were people left in this world like you and your ministry out there still working for God in the ways you guys are. I think he gets it now.
His mother told him that once he is well enough to come back to Jacksonville, I wanted him to join us one Thursday night at True Light. She told him that I wanted everyone to see our family’s miracle. He, of course, agreed. So, as soon as he is here, I will let you guys know that we are coming.
Again, thank you. It is so seldom that we open our eyes and faith to see the miracles that God has for us, to accept them….to “take” them. I feel so blessed as to have been able to open my eyes, stand fast in my faith and take this miracle for my family. And I feel even more blessed that I have a nephew that is a walking and talking testament to what God can and will do for us and that I have been blessed with the opportunity to not only tell everyone, but show everyone that God is truly an awesome God!!!

~hey dot... this is Kimlin - you asked me to share testimony regarding my experience with the Angel of God (on the stage). If you need more than this, let me know, but I thought I'd get this to you while I remember that you asked this of me.
December 20th 2007, Ricky (Roberts) communicated to the congregation that an Angel of God had visited on several occasions, and after some people had encounters with the Angel - having walked across the stage at True Light Ministries - they received vehicles, the keys handed to them free of charge. My 1996 Ford Windstar minivan had for some time been "dieing", and so I decided that I wanted to walk the stage, and see what God may do for me. There are many other things that my heart asks God for, including complete restoration of my spine, having been diagnosed with several problems - which I refuse to give in to. Ricky also spoke of huge financial prosperity coming in the lives of some people, a few of whom already know who they are. When I visitited True Light about a year ago, God spoke through Ricky: "Son, this woman standing before you has been abused by the church... but I have given her many Promises. I will restore to her all that the locusts have eaten."... so I walk in Faith that He will Provide.
After climbing the few steps to the stage, I crossed over some cables on the floor. It was like crossing a threshold. I'm not a stranger to God's Presence, and I felt it after crossing this "threshold". I began walking toe-to-heel, and giggled because it was like what I've seen on tv of a drunken person walking a straight line in a sobriety test. A lady usher held me back with her hand, stating that I needed to wait for the person who was ahead of me to move further along. I literally felt a hand on my lower back - even though there was no human touching me. It gently pushed me forward, but because the woman held me back, my spine gently twisted to my left, little-by-little, toward her. She removed her hand, and my spine automatically straightened up as I took a step forward. My body felt like "jello", but I remained upright, and kept walking toe-to-heel, with my hands on my thighs. About halfway across the stage, I heard God say, "You're walking a tight-rope, and I AM the One keeping you balanced. You are My Bride... I will provide." The Hand remained on my back until I stepped off the first step at the other end of the stage, but I still felt a little like "jello" for a short while after sitting down.
I have had Favor in God's Eyes for years, and therefore in the eyes of many people as well, but there have been several back-to-back Blessings since the experience of God's Hand on my back:
~2 days later, I found a Jeep for sale at $54,000, with 16,500 original miles; I checked it out, and found the vehicle and engine in really good shape - and the man dropped the price another $500; so I'm waiting for God to provide the money to purchase the SUV...
~my mom gave me $260 for Christmas, which is a big thinig for her, as my step-father isn't always in agreement with her being that generous...
~I was REALLY surprised when a coworker, whose not known for his generosity or favors, gave me the $25 Winn Dixie gift card that he received from our employer...
~my van "died" a week ago, and I'd decided to sell it to a junk yard; my landlord asked if I'd donate it to the charity he works for, because his mechanic can use the parts; the man gave me the $50 I would have received for the van from a junk yard...
~the same man, who needs the title to the van (which I haven't been able to find, due to moving a few times since I bought the van), said he'd pay half of the cost for the replacement title...
~another Blessing was just a simple but heartfelt "thank you" from a young lady I was able to help after witnessing her car accident (she hit a highway guard-wall head-on, but was onlky stunned)...
~and another Blessing came from a homeless woman I minister to, when she gave me some sticky-notes she'd found - I use "stickies" all the time...
It seems that there a few other things as well, but I don't remember them at the moment.
I hope this is what you needed of me... let me know. I'll see you again soon - it depends on my transportation (I live in Historic Riverside).
Thank you for the opportunity to share!!!
Kimlin

On Thursday night, you asked if I would write something about what the ministry has meant to me.....Gladly! Since you indicated that you only have a small space for this in the newsletter, I will be brief....(and I can be a very wordy writer!) I could tell you a story about how I came to be a searcher for the truth, but let me just say, thats all that I will accept from a ministry. I am not any kind of scholar, but I do love the WORD, and have studied on my own quite a bit. I am very attuned to ignorance, lies, false teachings etc.... and, I do not want my "ears tickled". I need truth. At True Light Ministries, I hear the truth of God taught. Not only does Dr. Ricky teach the truth, but he is so gentle with the people. It is so obvious that he loves us all, every single one who walks in that door. It is God's love that dwells in him, and which was in him even as a retarded student before his healing. The teachers used him as a babysitter in class, and in high school after being healed, he was helping the other students. He is gentle when he teaches and when he prays for people. No one could ever be offended or feel threatened, and I think it is for that very reason, people who have big problems, like witches, or homosexuals are willing to come to him for prayer and deliverance.
I have certainly been blessed by the teachings, the love of the staff, and by personal "Words" from God during prayer time. I get the annointed prayer hankerchiefs, carry one on my person and sleep with one under my pillow. I have given several to people in need; this is very exciting to realize God can use me for something! I just get more hankies and wait for the next assignment! I love to buy the CD's of past teachings and listen to them over and over again. We do not get to come to the service as much as I would like, since we live in the Ocala area. It takes about 1-1/2 to 2 hours to get to the church in Jacksonville, so for the Thursday evening service, we have to leave Ocala by 4:30, then we get home after 1:00. If I had my choice, I would not walk out of the service until the last person had been prayed for; who knows what time I would finally get home! But there is a lot to learn as Ricky prays for other people, he is teaching even during that time, and sometimes will stop and give a word for the "church". The prayers and words from God have given me hope and encouragement. One time I was delivered from something that caused me a lot of pain in my upper back. A few days after prayer, I realized it was entirely gone! Praise God for his abundant love and mercy!
I am tired of churches that have no "meat". I do not have the patience to go to a service just to say I went to church, then go home feeling flat or empty or dissappointed. I'd better get something out of it, or I am waisting my time. There is "meat" at TLM, and God's almighty power and abundant love is demonstrated. Yes, I will make a 5 hour drive for this! This is not the Sunday morning "Social Club"!
I was going to write more, but its already too long......Miss Dot, you can edit this in any way you wish for the news letter (or anything else).

Within the last two weeks, between December 2007 and January 2008, my family received a great healing, which in itself must be a miracle. A member of my family, a child, was suffering from Leukemia. I had Dr. Ricky Roberts pray over a handkerchief, and we immediately sent it to where my family live. They placed it upon the child, and within days the leukemia disappeared. The doctors are dumpfounded to say the least. Praise God.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. According to the Doctors, the only hope was surgery or radiation. I was prayed for by Dr. Ricky Roberts and his staff and I was instantensously healed. There is no more prostrate cancer.

On January 13th, 2008, I was greatly suffering from kidney stones. I knew that I would have to go to the doctor if God did not move. I knew also that I would probably go into surgery. I went to the service held in Douglas Ga. The power of God came upon me and I received total and complete recovery from my kindney stones. In other words, the stones disappeared and my pain also went away. Thank God.

I was unable to conceive and have a child. I went to the services again and again, crying to God to have a child. God moved and I was able to have the child, a boy, that the doctors said could not be.

At a Thursday night prayer services Pastor Ricky said he saw the faces of TLM church members whose family members had the Spirit of Death over them. When I went for prayer I asked Ricky if he saw my face and he said, yes. I have five brothers, a son and a husband. I told my son and husband what Ricky saw and felt compelled to tell my brother Charlie. Charlie listened to what was said, he went to church with me two weeks later on Thursday night, went up for prayer because he has “feet problems”. The Holy Spirit kept Charlie up for prayers for a very long time, others sat down after prayer but Charlie just stood there, for maybe an hour! Two weeks later Charlie called and said, “I beleive it was me who had the Spirit of Death”. Charlie was in an accident yesterday in a store while shopping for floor tile. He has a concussion and cut his knee so deep they could hardly stop the bleeding. Praise the Lord he did not die.
Now Charlie is asking me to send the article about the young man in Iraq who was miraculously healed after prayer from TLM this past month. The Lord gives wake-up calls, he may call several times, and he may call once. Answer when he calls, recognize it is HIM calling!