I am often asked how I and my wife Deb got started in healing. Growing up, I have always had a sense of God, but I did not have a personal relationship with the Lord like I do now. Back then I guess I was like most nominal Christians. I did not always go to church and when I went, I remember sliding into the back pew of St. Peter's Roman Catholic church, just before the gospel was read and always leaving just after communion. I remember hearing the Mass in Latin, and although I could not understand it, it brought a mystical feel to the whole liturgy. I remember when it was later done in English, how it seemed something was lost. But I never lost this sense of God's presence.

After high school, I went to LeMoyne College where I graduated with a B.S. degree in the physical sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Math) and with a minor in Theology. A few years after that, after four years of dating, I married my wonderful wife in a ceremony officiated by a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister. -- that seemed to keep both sides of the family happy, but due to our different theologies, we solved our differences by not going to church. We both settled into our careers and daily living.

Unfortunately, there where a lot of incidents in our lives which resulted in some difficult health challenges. One such occurrence was when my wife (then girl friend/fiance') was hit by a 90 foot dead elm tree that was being felled -- but it fell in the wrong direction. It did significant damage to her body including fracturing her pelvis and breaking her back - an event that would later play a role in my growing interest in healing and miracles.

As I recall, it was through other health challenges that a couple from the Nazereen church reached out to us. It was through that interaction and subsequent divine appointments that we both came to the realization that we both needed to by "born again". It was interesting that John 3:3 said the same thing in my Catholic Bible as it did in her Methodist Bible. So we simply asked Jesus to forgive our sins and to come into our lives as Lord and Savior (Romans 3:23, 6:23, 5:8-9, Romans 10:10). A few things changed dramatically at that time. We had hope again, we had a peace and the Scriptures came alive to us.

I started to read the Bible and many other books that helped me learn about this new life in Christ. We started to go to that Nazereen church, attended Bible studies, and before long I was teaching Bible studies. I started listening to Sid Roth on the radio around that time and I developed a real interest in Bible prophecy. But he not only interviewed various authors of biblical prophecy books, but he also had a lot of interviews that dealt with miracles and healings. I was fascinated with the whole subject and began to read about both subjects. I eventually stepped out in faith and started to pray for people - just headaches and minor stuff which seemed like it wouldn't be too hard. In addition, it seemed that if they did not get healed, it would not be viewed as a major failure. But even dealing with these "minor" problems, took faith. The enemy would always try to bring fear. After all, what would these people think of me, if they didn't get healed? Isn't it that attitude, fear of man, that keeps people from stepping out in faith today.

I eventually started teaching classes on Biblical prophecy and on healing. I trained many people to minister to the sick in that Nazereen church. We started to see people healed.

But there was one area of my Christian walk that was becoming problematic in my life. I did not hear the voice of God. I remember crying out to God about not being able to hear His voice one night. I argued that He said His sheep should hear His voice. I got down on the floor, face down and just kept crying out to God, why don't I hear your voice? Then, I heard what sounded like static, with a few words getting through in spots. This was really strange. I more emphatically cried out, why can't I hear your voice. At that point I heard the voice of the Lord very clearly. He said, very simply, because of sin in your life. And so started a journey that continues to this day. We all fall short of the glory of God. It's a process where God points out where we fall short (miss the mark - sin), and God lets us repent so He can restore us. I did some business with God at that point.

I was named to the elder board of that church, and in addition became the chairman of the Christian Life and Sunday School program. I got really busy at this point - running all the ministries in the church, leading Men's ministries, and teaching a Bible study. At that time, I also had a demanding secular job in the computer field. In addition, I had also got involved in a software business with a couple of friends and started to develop and market software for mainframe (large corporate systems) computers.

Spiritually, I started to get dry. I was getting to busy for God. I remember telling God at that time that I knew I was ignoring Him, but look at all the money I was going to make for the Kingdom. I didn't really expect an answer, but I got one. I heard, in my head: "I don't want your money, I want you." It was one of the few times I heard the voice of God, other then having Him speak to me, in a manner of speaking, through the Scriptures.

I started to burn out and it did not take long before I did. I became depressed and God taught me that depression has nothing to do with your will. You just can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps. At that time I was teaching a class on the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. As I studied the Scriptures, I began to grow increasingly alarmed that Jesus really was coming back soon (and He is) and the world was oblivious that time was running short. I remember pacing the floor in the family room and crying out to God. "Lord, you're coming soon, I've got to tell them, but how can I do that, it seems I can't even remember my own name. Burnout and Depression will do that.

Then something amazing happened. I felt the Presence of the Lord come over me. It's hard to explain what it felt like. And then God began to speak. In my mental state, I asked the Lord to wait until I got paper and pencil so I could write down what He was saying or I would not remember it. He stopped, I got the notebook, sat down in a chair in the family room, and God stated to speak. He met me there, just about every day for 40 days. He told me some awesome things. The first word He gave me had to do with the fact that I was so worried about His future return, that I had forgotten all those that died everyday. Here's the word:

"Persevere and walk in the things I have given you. Prepare my body for My return; for the time is short and many tasks remain. Teach them to purify and wash themselves daily by the washing of the Word; for I am returning for a Holy and Spotless Church.

Today is the day of salvation for many who are perishing. Their tomorrow shall not see my return in glory to judge the living and the dead. Today is the day of their salvation. Many are called and few are chosen - do the work of an Evangelist day-in and day-out for the time is short.

Behold, I come quickly with swift judgment in my hand and who can stand in the terrible day of the Lord. Soon you will understand for my way is not your way. Trust and Obey. Do not harden your heart. Danger surrounds you, but it shall not come near you; whose heart is fixed on me.

Deliver unto me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give them Rest. For without Me, none will stand. The Great Shaking has begun. Prepare straight paths for the Lord. The Great Day of Wrath is at hand."

That word, brought balance to my ministry. Yes, we need to watch and pray so we can escape the judgment coming upon the earth, but we can't be so future minded that we forget the souls that are perishing everyday without the Lord. Yes, the Great Day of Wrath is at hand, but thank God, He is long suffering and not willing that any should perish. But one thing is for sure, although a day to the Lord is as a thousand years, we are closer to His return today then when we first believed.

I'll share some of the awesome communications that I had with the Lord at that time in the future. Many of those words had to do with the Lord's desire to heal.

I can't remember the timing, but I remember when Sid Roth came to town. We went to see him where he was speaking. We brought some friends who needed God's healing touch. When the time came, we encouraged them to go forward to the healing line that had formed across the front. My wife Deb, at that time, was having severe problems with her pelvis and lower back. She would bend over and not be able to get back up without help. But she did not want to go forward, saying that our friends needed healing more than she did. But I persuaded he to go forward and she was the first person Sid Roth was drawn to. He commented that there are certainly some interesting anointings here tonight. We didn't have a clue what he was taking about. He then proceeded to anoint her forehead with oil, but as I recall, he never actually touched her forehead when she went over in the Spirit. When she got up and tried to talk, what came out was not English. She sat down and decribed what felt like warm honey flow down her back and settle into the areas that were injured. It lasted about 10 minutes and after that she was completely healed.

I was hooked and started to read everything I could get my hands on about healing. As I mentioned earlier, I started praying for headaches and God was faithful. It was a few years down the road when God honored my faithfulness and I graduated to brain tumors disappearing and all kinds of amazing healings and miracles. God's word is true, if you are faithful with little, God will increase it.

So I start praying for those whom God put in my path. Jesus is the Healer, but you are His Body through which He continues to do the works of the Kingdom.

Will everyone get healed that you pray for? Well let me ask you a question. Does everyone who is presented with the salvation message receive the Lord? Healing and salvation are both found in Isaiah 53. The provision that everyone should be healed is provided in the Atonement of Jesus Christ, however, man has free will and we can limit the Holy One of Israel. Even Jesus could do no mighty works in His hometown because of their unbelief. But know this, zero blind eyes prayed for equals zero blind eyes opened. Sid Roth said that and I have never forgotten it. We have to step out in faith and do the works of the Kingdom and leave the results to Jesus and the Godhead who resides in every born again believer.

In the days ahead, we'll discuss how to position ourselves for miracles and not limit the Holy One of Israel. The time is coming when there will be such an outbreak of signs, wonders and miracles that every born again believer will be astounded. It's time to prepare straight paths for the Lord.

Be Blessed, Vince