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Testimonies From Silver Springs Nv - Joe Cicchino
July 23, 2005
FW: more testimonies from Silver Springs NV- Joe Cicchino
Joseph Cicchino
Jul 22, 2005
These are some testimonies from Pastor Art in Davis what happened in Silver Springs to his people . He was traveling almost 3 hrs each way to the meetings
God Bless
Joe Cicchino
vision of love
Good Shepherd International Fellowship
219 "E" Street, Suite C
P. O. Box 1108
Davis, California 95617
Phone (530) 758-7750
E-mail: gsif@gsif.org
Web site www.gsif.org
Rev. Nolan B. Peschke General Superintendent
July 20, 2005
Angela Cox
P.O. Box 24
Atascadero, CA 93423-0024
Dear Angela:
Thank you for your generous support, prayers and encouragement.
I have good report for your. Simply read on.
For over a year I have been reviewing testimonies reported on the Internet from meetings conducted by Pastor Joe Cicchino's in small out of the way churches in California. According to the reports many people have been saved, delivered from addictions and received inner healing from deep emotional hurts.
As a pastor and a counselor these testimonies intrigued me. I know that most Christians with severe emotional problems rarely go to the kind of in-depth counseling that will permanently set them free. Because of this, I have prayed for years that the Lord will give the Body of Christ the gifts of the Spirit that would heal these life-crippling problems.
Nancy and I now know from person experience that the testimonies I read on the Internet are true. It is clear that in Joe's ministry the word of knowledge and the word of wisdom works along with a special anointing to heal the broken hearted (cp. Luke 4:18).
His meetings continue every night for months at the same church. For example, he ministered for five and one half months in a church in Tulare, California a small town south of Fresno. The reports from those meetings were so amazing that people from different parts of the world came to Tulare. Charisma Magazine wrote an article about what God did there featuring a testimony about a woman who was born blind, but was healed little by little.
After a while Pastor Peschke and I became curious about Pastor Joe's ministry. We wanted to check him out, because in the past we had gone to meetings that did not live up to the reports given over the Internet. Pastor Peschke did not want to travel long distances before his vacation in Texas, so on Friday June 24, my wife Nancy and I decided to go to the meetings Joe was holding in Nevada.
On the way to the meeting we enjoyed the forests and lakes of the Sierras on our way up and over Carson Pass south of Lake Tahoe. We ended up driving over 200 miles before arriving in Silver Springs, a small town in the high desert of Nevada about fifty miles northeast of Carson City.
We were an hour late when we arrived at the small red and white tent where Joe had been ministering for about six weeks. There were only a few cars in the dusty parking lot. Trying to lessen any disappointment, I said to Nancy, "Well at least we had a nice day together. The worst thing that could happen is that we will pray for a couple of hours then return to our motel room in Carson City."
Although Nancy had her doubts, but was not going to be denied. She said to herself, "I didn't drive 200 mile to the middle of no where to come back unchanged." She had taken a week off from work and was determined to return to work different. She knew she needed get off the prescription drugs she had gotten her doctor to give her seven months before. These medications made her emotional challenges worse. They negatively impacted her home life and job performance. Our daughter Rachael was really turned off by the way the medications made Nancy act.
I had prepared Nancy as well as I could for the meetings. From the Internet knew Joe's meetings were different. Many times people would just sit, lay or and quietly pray in the church in the presence of God before Joe would speak or pray for them.
When Nancy and I entered the tent an hour late there were about thirty people inside. No one greeted us, so we sat down on the plastic chairs and prayed. There was no pulpit and no musicians -- only nice worship music playing in the background. Some people were lying quietly on the carpeted floor of the tent.
I did not feel the presence of God in the tent, maybe because my mind was distracted by all the hassle of finding the tent. I asked God to have Joe preach so my mind would be free to receive something.
Nancy on the other hand, sensed that Jesus was in front of her clothed in a gold and purple rob. He was reaching out to her asking her to let go of something she was holding onto.
About an hour after we arrived Joe got up and shared a brief but insightful message. He was dressed causally and no one introduced him. After sharing he asked people who wanted prayer to come forward. Quietly he ministered to them and they all fell backwards under the power of the Holy Spirit.
I watched and continued to pray. Soon Joe invited me to receive prayer. I told him, "I am not going to fall down, because I can yield to the Spirit easily and fall down" (I could tell by his email messages that I could be honest with him). When he prayed for me I felt the Holy Spirit move through my spirit like a soft wave of electricity. This convinced Joe had a strong anointing. In thirty years of being a Christian I had never experienced anything that strong when someone prayed for me. I staggered around like a happy drunk.
Later in the meeting this thought came up from deep inside me, "I hate my father." I did not expect that. I went to Joe and told him what happened. I asked him, "Is this for me or Nancy?" He quickly answered, " For you." He led me in a prayer of forgiveness; laid hands on me and down I went "slain" by the power of the Holy Spirit. Consciously I had forgiven my father, but now I am free from this hidden hatred.
When Joe prayed for Nancy and I as a couple he had us put our heads together. He told us that from that time on would share each other's spiritual gifts. Things got really exciting when he ministered to Nancy individually. She told Joe, "I am not going to fall down, because I am tired of falling down and getting up the same." Joe patiently listened and through the gift of the word of knowledge began to "read her mail", telling her things about her life Nancy and I knew were true. The Holy Spirit then healed her deep inside.
After Nancy sat down Rick and Teresa the directors of New Hope Recovery Ranch ministered to Nancy (They invited Joe to come to Silver Springs). Nancy told Rick him about her prescription drug problem and explained that she wanted to quit taking them, but was scared she couldn't. Rick and Teresa agreed that she needed to get off of them. After they prayed for Nancy and cast a spirit of fear off her, Nancy was ready to stop taking the drugs.
Nancy received more healing as the night progressed. Now she had the strength to begin detoxing. She quit the "meds" and coffee cold turkey. (We did not know at the time that it was not advisable to go off all the medications at one time).
The first three days were hellish for Nancy. Teresa Rick's wife (who was on prescription medication for thirty years) told Nancy that the third day of detoxing would be the worse. This was absolutely true. On Sunday, Nancy had diarrhea, a severe headache and was throwing up. She was getting dehydrated. This problem was solved when she took a tablespoon of water with electrolytes every ten to fifteen minutes.
It is now over three weeks after Nancy's initial encounter with God in the tent in Silver Springs, Nevada. The real Nancy has returned. She is a joy to be around. Her sleep pattern has returned to normal. She has more energy than ever. I have a new wife and therefore a better life!
She is free from coffee and all the medications. She refuses to use her ephedra-laced energy drinks and pills. The left side of her back is pain free. She does not use Vicadin any more. We praise God for His love, mercy and goodness!
After witnessing the life changing power of the gifts and anointing God has given to Pastor Cicchino, I wanted my whole church in Davis, California to go to his meetings. Pastor Peschke told me to check Joe out more, so I confirmed that he was an ordained minister in a well-known ministerial organization in Tulsa Oklahoma. I also had a long conversation with the wife of the pastor of an Assembly of God church in California where Joe ministered for ten weeks. The pastor's wife told me that not one word of knowledge he gave to people in their church was incorrect. She also said he was very respectful guest in her home.
Once Pastor and I were convinced Joe was solid, about seventeen people from our church attended two of Joe's meetings. Almost everyone received deep inner healing and was filled with joy. Two adults, two young teenagers and one young man in his early twenties accepted Jesus into their hearts.
The word of knowledge that moves through Joe is very powerful. He told one lady that she needed to forgive those in her family that hurt her. As Joe said that, she thought, "Nothing like that happened to me. My parents were both Christians. I had a great childhood". Despite her doubts, she did not totally reject what Joe said. Even though that night she did not "feel anything," the next day in Davis the Holy Spirit brought to her attention a childhood "problem" with a relative that her mind had repressed. After letting that go she was "hit" by holy laughter.
When Joe ministered to my friend Bill he told him to let go of the abuse he had suffered as a child. As Joe said that, Bill thought to himself, "I wasn't abused. I had a great childhood". Then Bill felt an invisible hand grab something deep down inside of his belly.
A few days later Bill received a fuller manifestation of the deliverance and healing that began when Joe ministered to him. Bill realized that he and his extended family had been damaged by a generational curse. This curse caused Bill's grandmother and mother to die in their early forties. There have also been deaths of newborn babies and/or miscarriages in his mother, his sister, his daughters and in both his brother's wives.
Joe told a x drug user to forgive her parents and the priest. After the incident with the priest she never attended any church again. Now she is free. How do we know? Three days later she attended our church and told everyone what God did for her in Nevada.
Joe told Trish to "let the rope go." She knew this meant she had to let go of her emotional attachments to her friends who had died. Trish knows the Lord healed he inside, because last week she did not overreact when she found out about another friend who died in a car wreck on July 3.
Dee received a lot of healing in the tent in Nevada. Her childhood was very dysfunctional and abusive. To cover and compensate for the pain she took methamphetamine for twenty-six years. Her journey to inner freedom continues. Last week she became so hurt, jealous and angry at someone at church she threatened not to come any more. As she confessed forgiveness and received loving prayer, she wept like a baby and let more pain and guilt go.
Joe told Willis, a blind man in our church, "You are an honest man. You can believe that God will heal you little by little." This was almost word for word what Willis told us at church a year ago. Willis reports that his sight is slowly improving.
Our church in Davis is experiencing the blessings of a corporate impartation Joe released on us as a group. Our Sunday morning services have been filled with more of the Lord's manifested presence. Inner healing continues.
It is glorious how God supernaturally heals long repressed hurts in Joe's ministry. People testified for one and one half-hours on one Sunday night about what God did for them at the meetings in Nevada. These testimonies are available on two cassettes and CDs.
I hope you enjoyed these wonderful testimonies. Joe will be in Truckee starting July 24. It would be great if you could attend some of these meetings.
We appreciate your prayers during the remodeling of the Oddfellows Hall for six months beginning in mid to late September.
May the Lord continue to bless you.
Yours in the love of Christ,
Art
Joseph Cicchino
pastorjoevol@earthlink.net
Location: Silver Springs, NV, United States
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