{"id":1020,"date":"2020-02-20T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:13:53","slug":"every-person-i-touched-was-healed-francis-chan-opens-up-about-incredible-physical-healings-while-ministering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2020\/02\/every-person-i-touched-was-healed-francis-chan-opens-up-about-incredible-physical-healings-while-ministering.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every Person I Touched Was Healed\u2019: Francis Chan Opens Up About Incredible Physical Healings While Ministering"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1022\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2020\/02\/francis-chan_credit-ChicagoPhotographer-Shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"Francis Chan\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ChicagoPhotographer\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former megachurch pastor Francis Chan recently opened up during a lecture at Moody Bible Institute about what he calls a miraculous experience while ministering in a remote village in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>This was a village that at one point, had no believers, Chan said. A woman who had created a relationship with the head monk in the village leader was able to work out that they could go into the village, he shared.<\/p>\n<p>While the translator had warned of violence and threats to the area, the entire village showed up to hear the Gospel through a translator. Chan felt a sense of calm when he was in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way I can communicate to you how much peace I felt,\u201d the pastor stressed. \u201cI am sharing the Good News with a village of people who have never heard of this before. I can\u2019t tell you how right it felt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chan shared in his message that while he was in the village, he asked God to help him heal those suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going, \u2018God, please, please hear,\u2019\u201d he shared. \u201cPeople started coming forward for healing\u2026Every person I touched was healed,\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys, this is craziness to me. I have never experienced this in 52 years,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about a life-changing instance where he saw a little boy and little girl have their hearing supernaturally restored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[There was] a little boy and a little girl who were deaf. We lay hands, she starts crying, and she&#8217;s freaking out,\u201d Chan said. \u201cAnd we&#8217;re, like, lay hands on your little brother &#8230; we lay hands on him and he starts hearing for the first time! You guys, this is out of my comfort zone, this is stuff I&#8217;d read about but I&#8217;m going, man, it happened. It happened!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that this experience was out of his \u201ccomfort zone\u201d as he had never experienced anything like it.<\/p>\n<p>After this experience, his faith was on fire, going on to say that during those moments his \u201cfaith was at another level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chan recently announced that he was moving with his family to Hong Long to become a full-time missionary, an announcement that stunned many.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, he will be heading off to Hong Kong, in a couple weeks, Cha said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former megachurch pastor Francis Chan recently opened up during a lecture at Moody Bible Institute about what he calls a miraculous experience while ministering in a remote village in Myanmar. This was a village that at one point, had no believers, Chan said. 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