700 Club Testimony
Dramatic Deliverance of a Homosexual
just heard another unbelievable testimony. This one came off of the Pat Robertson 700 Club. Pat Robertson said it was one of the most moving and inspirational stories of deliverance, healing and forgiveness he has ever heard. The power of God was all over this story as this guy was telling everything that had happened to him!
This story will serve as a very nice follow-up to the article I just did titled “ How to Handle Negative Feelings When Wronged by Someone Else.” This story has a dramatic example of God wanting this man to fully forgive someone who had horribly wronged him as you will see as I tell you the story. As a result of being able to fully forgive this man, it set up an astounding healing and a sequence of events that was truly mind blowing!
You will also see some unbelievable chess moves made by God in this story to help a few other people out. This story is a whopper! Per the article we have on homosexuality in the Current Issues section of our site, give a copy of this story to anyone you may know who is gay and really struggling as to whether or not God can really heal and deliver them from this condition. As I said in that article, the power of God can deliver any homosexual from this condition if they really want the deliverance. This story proves that point without any shadow of a doubt.
1. The man’s name was Matthew Manning. He said he was sexually molested by one of his older brothers before he was 10 years old. All of the cool kids at school used to make fun of him and he was not getting any true nurturing love and acceptance from either his family, friends or school.
As a result of craving some type of unconditional love, he started hanging out at a park that was known to have gay men frequenting it. This was when he was only 10 years old. He said he literally became a practicing homosexual at the age of 10.
He said he would go to the park whenever he would have problems at home. All he was looking for was a hug from an older man. This obviously led to other things in the park and he always felt shame and guilt afterward, but it was the only place he could find any type of unconditional love and acceptance from anyone.
As a result of all this in his early years, he became a full pledge homosexual as he got older. He was also raised up in a Christian school and recalls one of the teachers always making him memorize Scripture verses.
2. When he got old enough, he joined the Coast guard. And where did he first get stationed at after joining? San Francisco – the gay capital of the world! He said he was out saving people during the day and then going to gay bars and living the gay lifestyle at night.
During his time with the Coast Guard in San Francisco, he had a horrible experience. He did not know it at the time, but a serial killer had been operating in the area killing gay men and throwing their bodies off of a bridge.
One night as he was sitting by himself close to the bridge and water, a man approached him from behind, put a knife to his throat and told him to follow him. This man had told him that he had been sent to teach him a lesson. When Matt asked him who had sent him, the man replied back “You’ll find out when you end up burning in hell.”
Matthew did not know it, but he was being accosted by the guy who was the serial killer. The man took him off to the side and molested him. During the molestation, Matthew was able to break away and run to safety. There was no doubt that this guy was going to kill him. He immediately went to the police to report what had happened. Initially, the police thought that these were all suicides from the bodies they found floating in the waters, but later this guy admitted to killing other people as you will see further down in the story.
3. After all of the above, Matthew continued to live the gay lifestyle. During all of this time, he had encountered numerous street preachers trying to get him saved and delivered from the homosexual lifestyle. He thought all of them were judgmental and wanted nothing to do with any of them or even God Himself. He figured, like most homosexuals, that he was born with this condition and that there was nothing that either he or God could do to change his condition.
Then one day he met a woman and her five-year-old son who were out preaching on the streets. This little boy comes up to him and tells him “Jesus loves you, Jesus loves you.” He had heard all of that before and was not really moved by it. However, the little boy kept trying to get him to come to his church, which was just around the corner.
Initially, Matt had no desire to check the church out. However, one day as he was driving past the church, he literally heard an audible voice say to him – “This is the last time I am going to ask you.”
He knew right of way that this was the voice of God talking to him. Beset by some fear from this statement, he decided to check the church out. When he walked in, they had a band playing very lively worship/praise music and he initially thought that he had walked into a cult. As he went to sit up front, he saw the little five-year-old boy who had been witnessing to him earlier in the streets. This boy was sitting up in front where they could see each other. Then here is where miracle #1 occurs.
As Matt was gazing around the church, he was not really being moved by anything he saw. And then all of sudden, he looked over at the little five year old boy who had been witnessing to him out in the streets earlier. The little boy was standing up, hands held straight up in the air and he was crying. He was praying to God and the words he was praying to God were – “Please God, show Matthew that we are not all nuts in this church. Please God, show Him that You are real.”
When Matt saw this little five year old praying with that kind of sincerity and intensity, he was immediately touched and moved. He said that when he saw that, he knew that this was the agape love he had been searching for all of his life – someone that could unconditionally love him for who he really was.
Matt then gave his life to the Lord that night and got saved, but told God that he would have to change him on the inside to handle his homosexual desires for men.
Matt continued to go to church and began to study the Word. However, he also continued to live in his gay lifestyle. He said the desires were still there and he figured he’d still act out on them since God had not taken away these desires.
Now here is where miracle #2 comes in. One night while in a church service, he gets slain in the Spirit. While resting in the Spirit on the ground, he gets a vision and sees Jesus standing in front of him. As soon as he sees Jesus, he starts arguing with Him in reference to his homosexual desires and the fact that he can’t get rid of the desires. Jesus then looks him straight in the eye and says to him:
“Every time you commit a homosexual act, you are committing that act against Me.”
Jesus then says something else to him that I can’t recall verbatim, but it had something to do with His sacrificial death on the cross and that His death on the cross had already set this man free from this condition.
Matt said that when Jesus said all of this to him – it was the “truth of God” cutting right into him to go against a lie that he had been living all of those years. Matt was still trying to hang onto his homosexual lifestyle and yet serve God. When Jesus spoke these direct words to him, he knew that he had been living a lie and that he had no more excuses for remaining in this lifestyle.
Right after Jesus said all of this to him, he got up and literally started puking all over the place. I believe the puking was God’s way of vomiting all of the contamination that was in this man from his homosexual lifestyle all those years. I also believe there was a possibility demons were being expelled out of him at this point.
When he got up and went outside the church, he heard God say to him that he would heal him from this condition if he would agree to witness to other homosexual men about God’s grace, mercy and power to set these men free from this condition. Matt agreed with God on this condition and he said from that day forward he has never had another homosexual encounter and has lost all natural desire for it!
4. Now hang on – the story is not over.
Matt then proceeds to totally serve God. He then joins the church’s prison ministry team to preach to criminals behind bars. As he is doing all of this, he suddenly starts to get physically weaker. He couldn’t swim as long as he used to, his endurance and stamina are weakening, and he starts having problems with his intestines. He goes to a doctor, tests are run, and he finds out that he has full-blown AIDS – he is HIV positive!
He then starts yelling at God – how could He do this to me? God had healed him from the homosexual lifestyle and he was fully serving God and now all of a sudden he comes down with AIDS. God then very quickly tells him that the AIDS he has come down with is not as a result of any judgment being passed onto him by God – the AIDS has come upon him as a “consequence” of the homosexual lifestyle that he had been living in earlier and that he was simply reaping what he had sown over all of those previous years.
Matt then received realization and revelation that what seeds you plant in the ground will grow. And if you plant seeds of destruction, then you will eventually reap death and corruption as a result.
God then tells Matt that He will fully heal him from the AIDS, but only if Matt is willing to agree to fully forgive everyone that has ever wronged him in this life – including the man who had given him the AIDS.
Matt at first wrestled with God on the issue, but he went ahead and did it. He forgave his brother who had molested him, he forgave his parents who had not properly loved him, and he forgave the man, whoever he was, who had given him the AIDS. Matt said he did not feel any forgiveness towards these people when doing this before the Lord, but he went ahead and confessed it out with his mouth and gave it all to the Lord.
Shortly after doing all of this, Matt’s AIDS takes a turn for the worse. He literally comes down with all of the symptoms of AIDS and ends up bedridden just waiting to die. As he is in bed literally dying from this disease, he keeps telling the doctors that God is going to heal him. Everyone thought he was crazy. They had also put him on AZT, which eventually makes him sterile as you will see further on down in the story.
Then one day as he was lying on his deathbed literally waiting to die, he gets a Word of Knowledge from the Holy Spirit to speak out this Word of Knowledge to the man who was attending to him in the hospital. God tells him to tell the man that he knows that he is gay! Matt speaks the Word of Knowledge out to the man. The guy can’t believe Matt would know something like this since they did not know each other. This man had been a Christian, but had turned away from God.
This man then tells Matt that if God will really heal him like he is claiming, then this guy would give his life back to Jesus and turn from his homosexual ways!
Then here is where miracle #3 occurs. While in bed dying from the AIDS and being hooked up to the life support machines, all of a sudden his vital signs start to rebound! Several doctors come running back in, check out the machines and tell him that they don’t understand it – but that all of his vital signs are rebounding back.
Matt literally stands up in his hospital bed and starts jumping up and down saying God has now healed him. They then do some more tests and tell him that even though his AIDS has miraculously gone into remission – that he is still HIV positive – the AIDS bug is still in him and that it could re-activate at anytime during his life.
As a result of the above miracle, the man who Matt had spoken the Word of Knowledge to earlier gave his life back to Christ and renounced his homosexual lifestyle!
Matt then continues on his walk with God believing that God will someday complete the healing and completely take out the HIV virus where he will no longer be HIV positive.
5. Now here, in my opinion, is the most powerful part of his testimony. This is miracle #4.
Matt continues to stay on the church’s prison ministry team, witnessing to criminals and homosexuals. One day he was scheduled to speak in one of the prisons to 20 criminals wanting to hear his Christian testimony.
When he walked in, he saw 20 men sitting in chairs directly in front of the podium he was going to speak from.
And guess who was sitting in the front row directly in front of where he was going to speak? The serial killer who had raped and molested him years earlier when he had been serving in the Coast Guard.
As soon as he sees this man, he starts feeling anger and wrath rise up in him. But then he had remembered his deal and covenant with God, that God would completely heal him from the AIDS if he would be willing to forgive all of those who had ever wronged him in the past – including the serial killer who had raped him.
Matt knew he was being tested and knew he had to try and forgive this man – even though his feelings were not initially lining up with it. Matt’s sermon for this particular group just coincidentally was going to be on forgiveness!
Talk about an unbelievable chess move made by God to arrange for all of this to occur!
Matt then delivers his sermon to the 20 inmates. After he gets done, he then makes an altar call to see if anyone wants to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Only one guy raises his hands to come up to get saved – and it is the serial killer!
Matt says that the man then starts to break down and cry in front of everyone. He then proceeds to tell Matt and the other 19 inmates that he has killed other people, that he has AIDS, and that he has given AIDS to other people during the course of his crime sprees! Matt finds out, right there on the spot, that this man was probably the man who had given him the AIDS when this man raped him back when he was in the Coast Guard.
Matt then asks the man to come forward in front of everyone else. Matt then tells this man that he was one of this man’s past victims. He tells the man that he was the 18 year old that he had raped at knife point at the location that it had occurred. Matt then tells him that he has fully forgiven him for what he has done to him and that God will also fully forgive him and accept him into His kingdom if he is truly sorry for his sins and is willing to accept Jesus as his personal Savior.
This man ends up getting saved that night with Matt. As a result of this man’s dramatic confession and Matt’s response to him, the other 19 inmates, who initially had not raised their hands to come forward to get saved, all broke down, came forward and accepted God’s free gift of eternal salvation as the serial killer had just done.
Matt later found out that this serial killer, whose name was Kyle, died a year later in prison. Matt firmly believes that this man is now in heaven as a result of getting saved that day with him.
6. Now here is where miracle #5 comes in. Shortly after all of the above occurs, Matt receives another powerful message from Jesus. Jesus tells him to go back and re-check his status on his AIDS. Jesus tells him that he has now received a full healing.
Matt says that Jesus spoke these specific words to him and he says he will never forget these words. Jesus said to him – “This day I have purged your blood with My Blood.”
Matt was literally choking up as he re-said those words back to the person who was interviewing him for this story. Matt then goes back to the doctor and has his AIDS checked out again. The doctor comes back completely dumbfounded and said he was now HIV negative. There was no trace of the virus anywhere in his system!
This doctor then interviewed other doctors who are experts in the treatment of AIDS. They said they have never seen anyone get diagnosed HIV positive, then break into full blown AIDS with all of its symptoms, then go back into remission while still continuing to be HIV positive, and then all of a sudden go into complete HIV negative!
7. Now here is miracle #6. After all of this occurs, God then leads Matt to the woman He wants him to marry. Matt had become sterile as a result of all the medication he had been on earlier trying to combat the AIDS.
At the time of this interview with TBN, Matt’s wife is now pregnant and they will be having a brand new baby boy very shortly! God has now also healed this man from his sterility! Matt gets himself checked out every 6 months to see if the AIDS have come back. The AIDS has not come back on him since 1994 when he had received the complete healing from the Lord on it.
Matt continues to serve God full time preaching about the mercy, love, forgiveness and power of God and that God can forgive and set anyone free from their past – no matter how bad or shameful their past may be.
Lessons
There are several major lessons to be learned from this story.
1. The Love and Mercy of God
This story is a dramatic example of the love and mercy of God. Per the description of this serial killer – at first glance and appearance this man looks like there is no way that he would be salvageable in the eyes of the Lord. He’s got AIDS and he is running around raping and killing other gay men and infecting them with AIDS. This man appears to be pure evil.
However, God must have seen what was really in this man’s heart and knew that he was really salvageable. God obviously sent Matt in there at the right time to preach to this man to get him saved. The way the man broke down and confessed to all of his evil deeds to everyone present does show that he was truly sorry for all of his evil acts.
God must have seen his repentant heart, knew that he would be willing to admit and confess these sins, and sovereignly chose to get this man saved. From the outside, this man deserved nothing less than to burn in hell for all of eternity for the heinous acts he had been committing. For God to have mercy on this kind of heinous sinner really does show how merciful and loving God really is. This act, in my opinion, was an awesome act of love and mercy that goes way beyond the bounds of how far some people think God would really go!
This dramatic story shows all of us that you never know who is salvageable and who is not. That is why I always tell everyone to stay open to the leadings of the Holy Spirit as to who to pray for and who not to pray for. It may just surprise you the people God may have you pray for from time to time.
God can see much deeper into the human heart than we can and that is why we must be very careful not to judge too harshly by what we are seeing on the outside. The Bible tells us that God does not look on the outward appearance of a man. He looks on the inside – to the core of a person – to the heart.
Sometimes what is in the heart of a man is not shown or being expressed to the outside by the person. Some people are very good at hiding their true feelings and emotions on things. Only God can see past the outer appearance of a man to see what kind of person they really are on the inside.
The most touching part of this story was the little five year old boy who was used by God to get Matt saved.
If you’ll notice, Matt had quite a few conversations with other adult Christians who were trying to get him saved. However, none of them were getting the job done. Matt felt most of them were too judgmental and too condescending and he thus was not open to allowing any of them to properly preach the basics of the gospel to him. It wasn’t until Matt saw the little 5 year old boy praying for him in church that he was moved to allow God to start to touch him.
This little boy had been praying specifically for him right in the middle of a service. Matt knew that this was a true act of true love and figured if one person could show this kind of love in God towards him, that maybe there was something with the Christian God that they were all talking about.
The Holy Spirit was obviously on this little boy by the way he was crying and the specific words he was saying in his prayer to God. This little boy was truly praying in the Spirit and look at the result – a homosexual who had thought that he and his condition were completely hopeless ends up getting saved and born again – all probably in the space of 45-60 minutes!
And as a result of this man getting saved – the attendant in the hospital ends up getting saved, the serial killer and 19 other inmates end up getting saved, and who knows how many other people have been saved off of this man’s testimony as he continues to preach about God and His ability to save and deliver people from their past – no matter how bad it is.
And all of that domino effect was started by the actions of a Spirit-led five year old boy! The Bible tells us that God will sometimes use the foolish and simple things of this world to confound the wise of this world.
The Spirit-led actions of this five year old boy show all of us how powerful it really is if you will allow God to use you to get others saved. If you get just one person saved in this life, you never know how many other people will get saved by the person you have just saved yourself. The domino effect could be tremendous! And this is the stuff that will really be rewarded by the Lord once you enter into heaven.
2. The Homosexual Lifestyle
Per the article I did on homosexuality, the Bible is emphatically clear that God will not condone or accept this lifestyle in any way, shape or form. The Bible says that homosexuality is an abomination in God’s eyes and that it is one of the specific sins mentioned in the Bible that will keep you out of heaven!
Many liberal Christians are trying to persuade others that God is open to accepting this kind of alternative lifestyle and even going as far as ordaining gay and lesbian ministers.
If you’ll notice, when Matt first gets saved and starts serving God, he continues to stay with his gay lifestyle. My guess is that God was giving him a certain amount of time to see the errors of his ways on this issue. When Matt was not getting it after a certain length of time, God then literally arranges to have this man flattened to the ground. He literally gets slain in the Spirit right in the middle of a service.
While resting in the Spirit, Jesus literally appears to this man. I didn’t mention this above, but the first thing Jesus says to him is why is he continuing to remain in the gay lifestyle and still trying to serve God at the same time. At this point, Matt said he actually started arguing with Jesus, trying to somehow justify his actions as to why he was still choosing to remain gay.
It was at this point that Jesus speaks a very powerful word to him telling him that every time he commits a homosexual act – that he is committing that act directly against Jesus Himself. Jesus then goes on to tell him that His death on the cross has already given him the power to defeat his homosexual desires and lifestyle, and that he is suppose to step out and use this power by not engaging in the gay lifestyle, to completely turn away from it.
Matt said those words were so sharp – that they literally broke through and demolished the lie that he had been living all of his life – thinking that the gay lifestyle was all right in the eyes of God.
If this man’s entire testimony is true, and I believe it is, it is just more proof that God will not accept or condone the homosexual lifestyle. Jesus made that loud and clear to this man when he appeared to him and confronted him with it – telling him that every time he committed a homosexual act, that he was committing that act directly against Him.
I don’t think there is any other interpretation on these words other than God does not approve of any part of the gay lifestyle and that it is a direct sin and transgression being directly committed against God Himself!
From that point on, Matt had completely given up any part of the gay lifestyle for good. His decisions and actions perfectly line up with what God was telling him to do on this issue.
Those liberal Christians who think that God has no problems with this type of lifestyle are going to be in for a big surprise when they have to face God for their own personal judgment when they die and cross over.
The Bible says that God will not be mocked! Liberal Christians who are trying to re-interpret Scripture on this subject to justify their own actions in order to remain in the gay lifestyle are mocking God and His Word on this issue and are treading into extremely dangerous grounds with Him.
3. The Deliverance Power of God
This story also shows that God can completely deliver a homosexual from these desires – no matter how long they have been living in it.
Matt had been a practicing homosexual ever since he was 10 years old. He thought there was no hope on getting rid of these desires. Once he was faced with the true word from God on this issue and agreed to abide by it, he literally started puking right there in church. I believe at this point, the power of the Holy Spirit had moved in on him to literally take these desires out of him. This was the Holy Spirit literally doing inner spiritual surgery on him.
If you’ll notice, Matt was completely delivered from his gay desires at this time. He had lost all desire to want to engage in the gay lifestyle and has never ever gone back to it since. This dramatic deliverance does show that God can deliver any homosexual from these desires if they are open to receiving it. And for some, He can do it very quickly – sometimes in a matter of minutes like He did with Matt!
4. Unforgiveness
Probably the major point to take off of this whole story is the importance in God’s eyes that we try not to hold any unforgiveness against anyone who has ever wronged us in this life. If you will notice, God did not start the healing of his AIDS until he would agree with God that he would fully forgive everyone in his past that had ever wronged him, including the man who had given him the AIDS.
And then God even goes one step further to test out his resolve on this issue – God arranges for Matt to meet and confront the man who had probably given him the AIDS – the man who had literally raped him at knife point. Talk about a test! But Matt was smart enough to realize that he made a deal and covenant with God and that God would completely heal him from his AIDS, but only if he would agree to fully forgive everyone from his past, no matter how bad he had been wronged by others.
If God was expecting Matt to fully forgive a serial killer who had raped him at knife point – can you imagine what God wants from the rest of us if we have any issues with others who may have wronged us on much smaller matters?
This whole part of the story really lines up with God’s Word on this issue. He says in the Bible that He will not forgive us if we don’t forgive others and that we cannot even approach Him for prayer if we are holding any unforgiveness towards others. God means serious business on this issue and each Christian needs to get these matters straightened out with the Lord before they can really expect to move forward in their own individual journeys with Him.
I really feel that God is confirming the importance of keeping our slates clean in our walks with Him – especially in the area of holding any unforgiveness towards others.
The above story has quite a few twists and turns in it all showing us how active God can really get in your life once you are willing to open up and allow Him to come into your life.
The one thing that really blows my mind on this whole story is just simply the love and mercy God really has for all of us and the extreme lengths to which He will go to try and get all of us saved.
To arrange to get this serial killer saved after all of the horrible and evil acts that he had committed shows us a side of God that is almost beyond human comprehension.
The depth of God’s mercy, love and goodness may just be truly unfathomable. Our God is truly an awesome God and He more than proves it by the lengths He goes to in this story to get everyone saved and delivered.
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Deliverance from Homosexuality
This was the best testimony about deliverance from homosexuality, HIV, and Aids. I too have had a serious situation about this topic, but my trwist was I got married and then got sick with HIV and had a vision with Jesus saying he had heard His peoples cry. I was able to walk out of the hospital after miraculous prayer, visions, and faith in the blood of Jesus. I caused a lot of problems for my family and has asked them for forgiveness and also forgave them of the horrible things they said about me. I am currently HIV positive but believe God is going to eliminate this as I exerise faith, seedtime, harvest wrapped in expectancy. I have share my condition with many prayer partners and I believe my blessings are over taking me. Thanks for such a wonderful testimony of our powerful and strange acts and unbelievable steps that God will take because He runs to us to get us saved.
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i really dont know where to start. the lord has always been there for me all the time trying to guide me into the right directuon but i keep on disobeying all his rules. when i was young i used to love praying with my parents and siblings . and after my mother died i felt i had lost everything in my life and i sort of blamed god, asking him “why me” all the time . i never realised all the things he did to me, taking me to a very good ophanage that still caters for my needs up to today. i really want to recieve the annointing but i dont know where to start i am lost and i need help
Thank you so much for writing about this testimony. Sometimes I feel isolated in my journey, but I pray many others will read this and be blessed.
I’ve been blogging about my journey out of homosexuality: http://free-in-christ-from-sex-addiction.blogspot.com/
I pray many others will hear the truth of who God created them to be and take steps toward freedom too!
He is indeed an Awesome God.but am at the same place you are in Monalisa.God has been kind to me too,ever since i was young.i grew up feeling unloved and it has greatly contributed to my self loathing.sometimes am okey sometimes i reach a point whereby i just break.ive thought of suicide,hated myself but at the end of it all,i still cry to Him…Jesus Christ.my only true Joy.I am 28 yrs old and i pray that i finally get delivered because i realize i will never find true love like the love Jesus has to offer,and my life will never amount to anything as long as i live this way…i will pray for you…pliz pray for me!
oh my god!i have never heard such a powerful testimony as this one.Lord Lord Lord,the lengths you would go to save miserable wretched souls as ours is unfathomable.I’m truly amazed by God’s power&mercy. it encourages me to know that no matter how vile &evil i may be,no matter what atrocious acts i may have done, God is willing to forgive&embrace me as his own! but most importantly,it teaches me just how SUPREMELY VITAL it is to let go of unforgiveness. truly,some miracles can only occur when we release the wrongs&hurts we carry in our hearts!i am thoroughly blessed by this story & i will share it with others!may GOD’S HOLY NAME BE EXALTED!
Hello,
I am a lesbian who has been saved by God’s mercy and grace, and I want to know how I can start witnessing for the Lord. If you can, I would like some direction and guidance on how to start witnessing for the Lord.
I have recently jonined a church, in hopes that I will gain some insight into what to do and where to start to make witnessing and volunteering my life.
I believe, too, that I was called to witness for God, and I have a great story to tell, although, it may not be as profound as this one. It is still a great story, as I think all of God’s children have one.
Any information would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Lesa M. Jerkin
A Letter to the Editor:
Relating to the content of this article it seems that several fallacies, omissions, and possibly fabrications have been made in its writing. Matthew C. Manning, while capable of proving his current HIV/Negative status, has never provided documentation or medical testimony of his claimed previous HIV infection (despite frequent requests). More implicating is that individuals diagnosed with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) have never before been documented as going into remission or being re-diagnosed as HIV/Negative. If Mr. Manning had actually been diagnosed as HIV/Positive then HIV/Negative his story would be in every medical journal for several months after the event yet no such articles exist. Mr. Manning has also never provided any proof as to his previously claimed infertility so his wife’s pregnancy, while a miracle in itself, is not noteworthy. The existence of this repentant serial killer should also be questioned as while has been sent to jail his name is never given, always simply referred to as “The Serial Killer” in this story, it gives the impression that he is a simple boogeyman plot device. Mr. Manning claims to lead a pure life but as late as 2005 he was convicted of public sex acts and molestation.
As a personal request i ask that this article be removed based on the factual errors in it as well as for its attempted demonization of the LGBT community. Thank you. Sincerely, Jeremy Hines
You need to make this testimony into a video feed! – you should get this recorded and put it onto the air – host it on one of the God channels and put it onto youtube! – Matt if your reading this! Godbless you! – I believe that Jesus can deliver me from what I also face! Keep testifying!
This is an awesome testimony for anyone who wants to hear the Good news. Jeremy Hines is a guy will do anything to make sure that this story will be removed. You see the truth will always show us our sin. And again Jeremy Hines doesn’t want that to happened. I am a formal Homosexual myself and let me tell you that God delivered me from same sex acts. This is true. God even showed me a Homosexual spirit and believe me there is one because I have proof of one. It reminds me every time when I see that photo of how Satan will do anything to deceived us. I am on Facebook and what I do is I help people who struggle with Homosexuality. God knows it is a Sin. And we know it is a Sin. What we need to do is to change our ways of believing that we can be a Gay Christian. We can’t continue to have a Sinful life style that God dis please with. There are people who will struggle with the desires and thoughts. But we need to be always remind that God put Homosexuality on the cross also. He died for every sinner there is. I am Saved by the Grace of God and because of the Holy Ghost that show me that I needed him back in my life. If it wasn’t for that time in my life, I will still be in the Gay life style. It was perfect timing on God’s part. I was actually sick for almost a week and I didn’t see my boyfriend at all. I was thinking whether God wants me to continue to be engaged to my boyfriend and I told him please show me and reveal to me about the truth of Homsoexuality. One night when I was sick, I was on my dad’s computer and went on a website of my church that I used to went. I heard a worship music that touch my heart so deeply that I literally broke down in tears. I literally cry for a long time. At that moment, I had the Holy Ghost back in my life and I was finally at peace. I never knew how Powerful God is really is. i never knew he can used a church website to get me back to follow him again. I never knew how awesome he is and how Graceful he is to me. I had to break up the relationship with my ex and I had to let go of that life style once and for all. This happened in the summer of 2010. I am so at peace with the Lord and I am truly happy. This is so amazing to feel his presence very time I worship him. I want to let everyone know that God is real and he lives in us. All we have to do is FULLY SURRENDER ALL OUR SELF to HIM. When we do that, he will be moved by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is so powerful that nothing can stop you. Its really is amazing. So please everyone really really get down on your knees and really let the Holy Spirit examming your heart Daily. Only then when you will see the truth. When you are in slain in the Spirit, anything can happened and God will be moving in a mighty way when it happens. Please everyone really think about if your life style is really pleasing to the Lord. And ask him for guidance and understanding. Thanks everyone for taking your time for reading my message and God Bless you all so much. If you ever want to respond and let me know what you think, please feel free to do so. Thank you again and God Bless you.
Brian Kusiak,
I’m not entirely sure what a “formal homosexual” is but as for the other points of your argument I do in fact take God into my heart every day and am a productive and loved member of my community here in Idaho and it is because I follow the Golden Rule. The Rule which your rhetoric completely ignores by lambasting members of my community and calling them sinful when it is conservative anti-LGBT elements such as yourself that are always the violent aggressors in any altercation. Rhetoric like yours is the reason many LGBT children commit suicide so I cannot concieve how your statements could be considered gospel of a loving God. As for your claims to have left the “gay-lifestyle” that either means you were never gay to begin with (and if that is the case you have no right to speak on the behalf of gay people)or you are denying who you are and have turned away from those you once called friends. If it is the later and not the former then you are a traitor to yourself and your community and I pray God has pity on you because while I would never condemn you I’m sure you have heard through the church that hell has a very special place for traitors. I pray you repent your sin against Him and return to the community before it’s too late.
Your friend in the light of God, Jeremy.
Jeremy the Lord rebuked Peter when the the truth was being twisted. The Lord God does deliver folks from homosexuality as he did myself. To believe in God is to believe in the Bible. Man you cant argue the truth. You can try and manipulate it. The Bible speaks directly to homosexuals in several places. Rant and rave all you’d like but brother The Truth Will Set You Free. Your in my prayers, I love you and Forgive You. My God is not a lier, I rebuke all spirits of Strife and division in the name of Jesus any spirits of confusion in your holy name Jesus. Father I loose Peace and understanding in your Name Jesus.
I agree that you cannot argue the truth but generations of closed-minded communities have perverted its meaning. Leviticus 18:22 (i’m using an oxford edition)says “Do not lie with mankind as one lies with womankind; that is detestable.” but the term “lie with” was not originally meant to imply sexual denotation. It stated that you do not treat a man as you treat a woman (because women were considered property back then). It was trying to teach civility. Ironically it is now used by self-justified individuals to condemn the LGBT community much in the same way racists used the story of Cain & Able to condemn black people. All this aside, even if you don’t agree with me you have to admit that this story is rife with factual inaccuracies.
Again with trying to manipulate what the Word of God Says, Romans 1:26-32, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,1 Timothy 1:9-10, 2peter 2:6, jude 7, isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 13:19, Lamentations 4:6, Ezekial 16:49… I can go on all day with this. quit playing the victim, own up to what the word of God says. You either believe what the word of God says fully or you don’t at all. You can try and sit on the fence but you know what he says about that, your either hot or cold you can not be Luke warm.
What crackpot edition/translation of the bible do you read? All of the passages listed in you statement are devoid of sexual connotation or reference to gay sex in my copy. That aside we are going off-topic, the article above’s argument is based entirely on factual inaccuracies. Mathew C. Manning has no proof that he ever contracted HIV and no proof that he was infertile and “the serial killer” doesn’t even have a name. Oh and Mr. Manning was still engaging in “homosexual acts” years after having claimed he was “cured”.
LOL, deciding weather or not someones testimony is true is not something I am going to do. It goes along the lines of judging some and that the Bible talks about also. And when the Bible talks about sexual sin, its talking about homosexuality as well. Its all sexual sin but it does say that God does consider homosexuality an abomination that’s punishable by death.
Now wait that is hypocrisy, saying you shouldn’t judge others then turning around and condemning my community. There are more passages in the bible promoting slavery than condemning gays, should you not exalt them both in the same breath?
Your crying victim again, where did I condemn the gay community. No where I spoke the word of God. The Truth Will Set You Free.
Here is where you you condemned the gay community: “And when the Bible talks about sexual sin, its talking about homosexuality as well.” and it shows baseless privilege and hypocrisy. Just because it’s your “religion” does not mean it doesn’t qualify as slander, harmful rhetoric, and blatant bigotry.
Furthermore you said “You either believe what the word of God says fully or you don’t at all.” So either you must defend slavery in the same breath that condemns homosexuality or you must concede that the bible has been subject to reinterpretation by those who seek there own interests and if that is the case then you must prove the that gays are immoral instead of just saying “it’s God’s word”
And it’s perfectly reasonable to “cry victim” as you put it when your community has been victimized by cowards hiding under the guise of religion.
Homosexuality is a sexual sin so no.condemnation there, the Lord says its an abomination punishable by death. And yes you cant pick and choose the Bible its like saying oh I need a right handed glove but I don’t have a right hand. Its true from becoming to end. End of story now argueing with you isn’t going to do me any good and I wont argue the truth. Seek God on this on his word he will reveil it to you. Check out. Romans 1:22-27, and 2 Timothy 4:3-4
So you admit you’re advocating slavery as well?
We’re under a new system that includes not only the Jews, but all nations of earth; a spiritual kingdom that has no end (Daniel 2:44) New Covenant.. enough said.
But that doesn’t refute that the bible advocates slavery. I don’t even see how that’s relevant.
, those who condemn the Bible because, as they say, it condones “slavery,” need to understand the actual truth about the topic. Most notably: A lot of people have become slaves—by their own choice. Jesus said:
“I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.” (John 8:34)
You have the power now—through Jesus Christ—to remove yourself from slavery to all forms of addiction and all other types of sin.
So what you’re saying is black people were asking for it?
Nope that’s what you are saying, your entitled to your opinions. This is a farewell my friend May you find your way to the Lord.
Obviously i don’t advocate slavery, i’m a liberal. But you just said that people become slaves by their own choice, that’s really ignorant of you and by definition slavery is something you are forced into. So either you’re a racist or you’re an idiot.
As are we all.
Th is Jeremy guy thinks he has it all together. Wow, to this day Homosexuals and Lesbians continue to mock God, mock his people and continue to want us to love their sexual relations. They want us to blessed their sexual sin. What is up with that? I tell you the truth people. Sodomites and Lesbians will love us if we love their sin, but once we are against they act and their behavior, that is when they are the ones that turn their back on us. It is very sad that Gays want everything for themselves. They want us to embrace their life style. Is that right? Nope it isn’t and it is wrong. If we don’t embrace the Gay’s life style, then they condemns us without blinking an eye. This is so true. Thank the Lord, I left the Gay life style and thank you Jesus for delivering me from Homosexuality. God will and always condemn the sexual act of two genders having sex with one another. But, God will not condemn the person. There is a difference. No matter what people please don’t take your time to agree with Jeremy on here. You are going to waste your time and breath talking to some one who think he knows everything. Please people don’t embrace his life style or the gay community. They don’t even have God in their knowledge. All they do is wine and cry. Because if they can’t have what they want, they will complain like sissies until they get what they want. They are filled with LUSt, pride, selfish, self-center and so on. The bible is very clear on this. If you read Romans after verse 27, there are other sins that the Homosexuals will capture if they continue to reverse the word of God. Its the Gay community that turns their back on God. Why is that? Because they love their sin more than God. God will never ever embrace their sinful life style. That is a plain simple fact. God loves the person. But he will never ever embrace their life style. All Homosexuals and Lesbians care for is Sex. This is proof. They want sex. They are addictive to sex. This is always true in the Gay community. Look at Sodom and Gomorrah in the bible. There is proof that All the men ever wanted was to have sex with the visitors in the town. Did they ever wanted to care for them and love them? Nope, all they ever cared about was to Used them for sex. All the men in the town wanted to used the visitors for sex and sex and sex. They wanted to have sex with the visitors. They didn’t care for them. Gays will used others like that. This is so sad in their community. They think they love others, but all they do is Lust all the time. I know because I was ONCE was like that. Its a good thing that I left the Gay life style before it was too late. Thank you Lord for delivered me from that wicked, mess up, very deceived , very abnormal life style. Its a good thing that God gave me the wisdom and understand to leave that wicked, self-center gay community life style. Wow, this a good thing that I left before it was too late. The Gay community will do what is takes for us to Embrace their wicked life style. Please people lets pray for them for the Lord to delivered them from their sinful life style. Lets pray for Jeremy to be delivered and be completely set free in Jesus name. Lets pray that God will delivered Jeremy from the Gay life style and the gay community once and for all.
Brian the only thong you can do is love and pray for the guy. The enemy will use all that he can to try and get us angry and confused. Just stick to your word of God and Pray. Congrats on the deliverance, I to was delivered from it. Spent 18 years in that lie and wow what freedom I have in Jesus now.
“All homosexuals and lesbians care for is sex” Now i know personally that this is baloney, i myself hate sex. I never really want to have it(and hetero sex is just as disgusting so don’t try to convert me) but i fall in love with people of the same sex, have nice long term relationships. Brian you are obviously not gay and never were. It’s plain to see from the way you talk about it so stop pretending you know what it’s like or that “you’ve been there”. You’re a straight male homophobe pretending to love God so you can hate on my people without persecution.
You don’t know the bible very well (you probably just googled “anti-gay verses” or you would have learned in church the the bible was compiled from 40 different authors and 66 separate books over a period of 400 years. The bible is not “the word of God” as you put it but was written under inspiration of the holy spirit and most religious scholars agree that it is rife with personal stigmas and influence from the various writers, this is why the age of enlightenment came about, people began to see that the bible was rife with personal vendettas and stigmatization so they used reason to find God. You can’t “out bible” me because i’ve had to study the bible over and over again for my Major; in class, in group discussion, in examinations, in review, and in church. All you’ve done is google some verses from Romans which is probably the sketchiest book this side of Corinthians.
god is so good and just wanted to find out the meaning of santification and i happen to end up on this sight,and i got all the information i wanted thank god that he is the same today and forever
If the love and physical expression of love between two people is a sin then I will gladly go to Hell. And please hear me out, because I am certain countless others would agree.
Personally, I refuse to believe a God would condemn true love, especially if his love for us is meant to be ultimately agape.
I accepted a long time ago that I had broken many of God’s commandments and I would not blame him if he never forgave me. If he truly forgives all then maybe he will forgive any and every sinner, who knows? All I do know is that I do not need to be forgiven.
I will take the punishment for my sins, the mistakes and the things I would never regret. At the end of it all, I would not change a thing.
I am who I am and I always aimed to do what was right.
It saddens me when sound doctrine is right there but folks are still surrounding them selves with people who tell them what they want to hear to make them feel better about disobeying out right what the word of God says. You are either for God or you are against Him there is absolutely no inbetween.
If God is for us then who can be against us. Absolutly nothing and No One. When you talk Law sure all that can go into play, but When Christ died so did the Law we are now covered under Grace.
When we follow Christ as he says and are obedient to his word and follow His perfect Will the Abudance over flows. I am def a sinner saved by Grace through and through. God be given all the glory in everything we do and go through.
Jeremy I love ya man and have kept you in my prayers
No body in there right mind would argue the Bible. Christ is love that is the image we were all made in. You can call me what you will. Your words have no power over what Christ is in me. If I were still in grade school sure I think the ignorant terms in which you speak of would have maybe effected me. Jeremy I do love ya and I do pray for you and I know that if you used your passion and knowledge for Christ it would be powerful.
Does anyone on here know of someone or maybe even yourself who’s been delivered not just from homosexuality, but from incest homosexuality i.e. between dad and son or sons, or two brothers? If so, how do they treat each other now? Do they even hug, or just shake hands? I’m sure lip kissing is out of the question.
Praise be to God for the above testimony. I am a licensed, ordained Pastor to the glory of God. I was involved in the homosexual lifestyle for 32 years before God delivered me and set me free. I was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 but that did not convince me to change my behavior. I have always known God, but I did not serve HIM. 17 years ago, I asked God, when was He going to deliver me? HE simply said “Stop”! He had already began a good work in me. I have never been sick from the AIDS. Never experienced any symptons. God gave me a good wife and I found favor with Him. This is not to say that everyone who is delivered from this lifestyle needs to get married, absolutely not! But this is what God had for me and I thank Him everyday for the wonderful wife and life He has bestowed upon me. I was raped at a very young age in a basement in a young man’s home. And raped several more times by heterosexual men after that. But to God be the Glory, he brought me out of darkness, into HIS marvelous light. Homosexuality is an abomination before the Lord. This does not mean that we are to bash those in the lifestyle, but offer them loving kindness and the Jesus that we all know and love. Love covers a mulitude of sins. Thanks so much for the testimony. It is a blessing to know that God is still working miracles.
Pastor Roger Ford