Dr. Debbie
You visited House of Hope Bible Church in July of last year, during which I became a partner with your ministry. At the time of filling out my envelope to be a partner, I made a specify request in believing God for a permanent job. In November of last year I sent an email of my testimony of a job offer that came along and that I would become permanent. By the end of January of this year I received a call for an interview for another job, which I was hired for starting on March 20th, which is now a full time and permanent position. I was basically being faithful where I was planted at the time on both occasions when I received both calls respectively. Both offers came with an increase to what I was earning before becoming a partner with your ministry. I would like give God the Glory and for you to believe with me that I would prosper in my health as well so that I can continue to be a greater blessing to the nations and changing the lives of thousands worldwide through your ministry!
Marilyn B., New Jersey
Dr. Debbie
This is my testimony so far - I am confident that much more is to come!
After graduating from Bible school in 2001 I moved to the mission field. I spent 2 years on the mission field and at the end of that time, I found myself so far in debt that I couldn't see the light of day. I had to make the hardest decision of my life - to come home. I figuered I could work for a little while and then I would be able to pay things off. But after months of working I was further behind than ever. It was then that a friend told me about your meetings and your testimony. At first I thought well that's nice, another preacher, yada yada yada. Honestly I was ready to give up. I was tired and more discouraged than I had ever been. And I just didn't know what to do anymore. Well, my friend kept telling me about you and invited me again to come to your meetings. At the time it didn't make any sense - I didn't have the money to go, and missing work would put me further behind. But something began burning on the inside of me. I knew in my heart the Holy Ghost was leading me to come. So at the last minute I made arrangements to come to Indiana.
The first night of the meetings you were preaching on giving. I had barely got to Indiana and didn't really have any money at all. But I wanted to give! God put it on my heart to give my "Alabaster Box". It's a ring that I wore on my wedding ring finger. My mom had given it to me as a symbol of waiting for my spouse. It is the only real piece of jewelry I have ever owned. And it's value to me is far more than money could ever be. But that is what God spoke to me to give. So I put it in the offering that night. That was the step of obedience that brought my breakthrough.
I went to the meetings so hungry and crying out to God. I found myself for the first time really desperate for Him, not just because of the finances but for more of God. And I must say He does not leave us disappointed. During the 5 services I was at, 1 thing after another was deposited into me. I had an experience with God like I have never had before and it has stirred such hunger inside of me. Durning the Tuesday night service, especially, after you called me up and prayed over me, while I was laying on the floor, I got lost in the Spirit. It was the most amazing thing. It was in that moment that God restored to me the passion for the call. Something hit me in those moments. As I laid there I saw myself going all over the world and ministering to children. Everything I had almost given up I could see, and it wasn't far off anymore - it was up close and it is time to go after it.
After I left Crawfordsville, I came back to Atlanta. Well first off everything went wrong that could go wrong. But I knew it was just happening to try and steal the key I had gotten at your meetings. So to make a long story short - I kept stirring myself up by watching your videos that you gave me and every time I did tears would run down my face again just like that first night. I spent time praying and from there just determined I was going to stand and prove my God. Well last Wednesday my bank account hit 0. I knew I wouldn't get paid for another week. But I just kept standing. On Thursday evening someone called me and said they wanted to put $1000 into my account and how could they do that. Praise God for the first time in months I get to pay things ahead of time. And then last week I had the most sales I've ever had at work. In one week it was as much as 1 month normally. (we get commission on top of our hourly pay).
Anyway it will just keep going up from here!!! Debbie I've got the key and I'm running with it! Also I wanted to share this with you. Not only has my financial situation begun to change, but there are changes that happened in me. There were deposits made. I have been so bold about the call of God since I got back and so bold about His favor and lots of things. That week was a turning point for me - I will never be the same. Also ministry opportunities have started opening up right and left. By the end of September I will be able to leave my job and be back out itnerating full time. As I write this tears just fall because what I thought was lost has been restored. Where I thought I had failed, God has shown me His faithfullness. Thank you so very very much,
Sarah Stucky, Atlanta, GA
Dr. Debbie
While you were here you visited a certain lady and prayed for a young boy named Porschie. The boy had been having three to five seizures a day. We've just received a report that he has not had another seizure since that Sunday that he was prayed for. "This is a mighty miracle... God is sooooo good and thank you for reaching out the way you did... it was so special!"
Christine from Sowetto, South Africa
Dr. Debbie
Before you came to Crawfordsville, Pastor Dan prophesied that people would get healing at your meetings, and that people would no longer need their medication. When he said that I thought, "That's me!"
I had been trying to get off of Paxil, an antidepressant, for months. I did not like the side effects but getting off of it was really hard. The withdrawal symptoms were bad and I could not get totally off of it.
Since your meetings in Crawfordsville, I am free of Paxil! It has been over two weeks since my last dose. I did not have bad withdrawal symptoms and I am feeling better without Paxil's side effects.
Before your meetings, I was only believing to get off Paxil. I was planning to find another antidepressant without side effects. But now I am believing I am free from all antidepressants!
Thank you, and LaShawn, for coming to Crawfordsville. God bless you and your ministry!
Also, I found out today that I got a new job! I've been believing and praying for a different job for the past year. But I just recently started sowing for a new job, to my Church Alive as well as DRM, and I know that's why I received a breakthrough. GOD IS SO WONDERFUL! I LOVE HIM!!!
Stacy DeBusk, Crawfordsville, IN
Dr. Debbie
Since 1999 I have struggled with pain and sickness in my body in one way or another to a degree that I had never experienced prior to that time. Though I was in many healing meetings and was healed, I lost it every time. When you came to Aberdeen it was my first week back to work after being off for over six weeks recovering from gall bladder surgery. I was supposed to be back to work after one or two weeks but the pain had continued getting worse instead of getting better. One doctor after another found nothing wrong with me. By the Monday before your meetings I was angry and more frustrated then ever before. I blamed the drugs for my short temper but inside I was feeling hopeless, like the call of God on my life had just been something I created in my head. I was ready to give up on everything, find a different job, move to a different city and lay it all down. Some friends of mine were going to the meetings but I had no intention of going myself. Why should I go when I was just laying around? I wasn't giving out, why would I need to be filled up? Besides I had to work and that would be a long, difficult drive given how I felt physically.
On Saturday I decided at the last minute (by the Holy Spirit's urging) to go to Sunday morning's meeting and come home. I'm so glad I did! Sunday morning during the meeting the Holy Spirit arrested my heart. Your teaching on offenses was exactly what I needed to hear and God revealed offenses going all the way back to Bible School that I had been harboring in my heart. I had no idea they were there. I came forward at the altar call and repented before Him, giving myself to Him and to His searching like I never have before. I felt clean for the first time in a long time and the stirring of hunger that I almost didn't recognize.
I came back Tuesday and it was another wonderful night, preparing my heart and cleaning me out even further. Again I drove back home on Tuesday night and went to work. Despite several people "encouraging" me not to make the drive back because of the pain I came back on Wednesday night. Oh the wonderful glory of His presence that night! As I laid on the floor laughing in His glory God was rebuking me and revealing more of my heart to me. He told me that I had been wallowing in self-pity; that I had opened the door to sickness and pain because of the fear of becoming who He called me to be and that I had embraced the sickness and the pain all these years because it was more comfortable than paying the price of obedience. o be sick and in pain then it was to grow up and walk in my calling and take on that responsibility. He showed me that I was angry with Him because I wasn't healed and the list goes on. So as I laid there laughing on the outside on the inside my heart was being broken and poured out before Him in repentance and surrender. After that, I felt His hands wrap around me and He pulled me up onto His lap. I could hear His heart beat and feel the safety of His arms. In the six years that I've been saved it's the first time I have so completely abandoned myself to Him and so thoroughly trusted His hand. The reality of His love for me was so real!
Thursday night, right in the middle of your teaching you called me out and I knew I was going to be healed! You told the spirit of infirmity to go and the power and fire of God hit me so hard - and in that same moment all the pain was gone - not just the surgery pain but the abdominal pain that had been there since 1999 off and on and the back pain that I had battled for over 2 years! All of it, in a moment in His glory - gone! Thank You Jesus! But that was not all of the healing that took place on Thursday night. You preached like I'd never heard you preach before, hitting practical things right where we live. It was so wonderful. At one point you talked about God being able to heal people fully of the scars of sexual abuse, even to the point of taking away the pictures. Again, you hit my heart. In the last six years I have been walking through the emotional and spiritual healing process of overcoming 18 years of sexual, physical, emotional and mental abuse at the hands of my dad. Still, over the past several weeks while recovering from the surgery I was getting bombarded with pictures and nightmares -the feelings were gone but the pictures were tormenting. I didn't really fight them because I figured that it would always be a part of me and I should be happy with the healing that I had already experienced. But again, God rebuked me and told me that I was afraid to let that go fully, that I had to stop coddling my past too and if I would let it go and fully embrace Him that He would do a complete healing and take away the pictures too. I was amazed and again repented. At the altar call I just told Him again - He could have it all and I would just embrace Him and trust Him to make me whatever He wanted me to be but that I didn't want anything holding me back from all He had for me any longer. I got really drunk as He purged my heart and then was covered in a wonderful wave of His amazing peace. I have not had a single nightmare or picture come back since then.
It haven't had to take so much as an aspirin since Thursday, two weeks ago. I had been averaging two Vicodin every 3-5 hours for two months and the week before the meetings I had just started cutting that down but now I don't even need Tylenol! He took the pain and the withdrawals away with just one touch! Every day I wake up without pain and just glorify Him for what He did! I know I will never be the same again and my life is forever changed.
Thank you, Miss Debbie, for paying the price for the anointing and for sharing it all over the world! Thank you for your obedience, your hunger and your determination to do only what you see the Father doing and to say only what you hear Him saying. I am grateful beyond words.
Anysia, Vancouver, WA
Dr. Debbie,
I just wanted to write and let you know how much of a blessing you were when you came to Columbus, Georgia. A year ago when we first heard you, the teaching on giving was so new to us, yet we listened with open hearts and we started to grab a hold of it. This time when you came, we really stretched our faith and began to give like we had never given before. When you taught on the Alabaster Box, I knew that the Lord would require me to break mine open. When you shared about Mary and the sacrifice that she made, I knew it was time for me to make that same sacrifice that would take me to the next level in God. I still remember that night like it was yesterday; as I gave my alabaster box, I felt a release and I have not been the same since. The Lord reminds me from time to time that I needed to give it in order to release what He had in store for us. I have been forever changed and will never go back to my old way of thinking. I am truly grateful for you making duplicates of the key and giving them away. I have caught that key and I will make duplicates and give them away! Keep handing out that key, even when it seems like no one is taking it, because someone like me will take one and then their life will forever be changed!
Susan, Columbus, GA
Dr. Debbie,
Thanks for pouring your heart out in Columbus, Georgia. I am still in His presence and duplicating keys. I had to take a moment to let you know how my Friday went after you left. First, I went to work and a gentleman I had invited to come with me during the revival, that was unable to attend, asked how the service went. As I began to tell him, the power of God fell in the office. I began to laugh then cry; he looked at me and said "What is it?" I told him, "Joy unspeakable and full of glory." As I said that I touched him and the power fell on him and he just fell over in his seat. People asked me what I did to him and I told them it wasn't me but the power of God. I still have people calling me off to the side with questions about God. That's just the beginning though.
Each Friday, I go to a homeless shelter here in town to preach God's word of hope. I told the director that I had been in revival and had received a key that I'd like to share with them. As I shared about the week of revival meetings, the Holy Ghost fell in that place and there I was laid out on the floor! I eventually got back up and started sharing from your new book concerning the alabaster box. I gave people in a homeless shelter with no job, a chance to act on God's Word and received almost $200 in the offering. I gave this to the director and she said, "Thank you Jesus! We need this and I'm going to the bank right now!"
Thank you! I am now a fellow evangelist that is now passing out keys!
Melvin, Columbus, GA
Dr. Debbie,
I want you to know how thankful I am for you and your ministry. You allowed the Lord to use you in such an awesome way and allowing the Holy Spirit to flow through you so freely. He has impacted my life in a way that is indescribable. The way you give has pushed me to want to give all I have to show God where my heart is and that He has my whole heart now. Before you came to do this revival, I was struggling. I knew I had a calling on my life and I loved the Lord but I had gotten to a place in my life where I had compromised everything I believed in and ran from Him. I got so far away from God that I could not hear His voice. I felt so dry. Even when I did everything that I knew to do, I still felt as though I wasn't worthy and that I had messed up too bad. I want you to know that on Monday night, I was sitting on the front row while you were preaching and you ran over to me and said, "This is that!" And you grabbed me by the arm and tried to pull me up but I couldn't stand up-I just fell out in the Holy Ghost crying! I was so messed up! I can't even explain what happened to me! All I know is that ever since Monday night, I haven't walked the same and I haven't talked the same. Everything changed in my life and I have a hunger for God like I have never had before and all that I want is Him! You have given me a new hope and I know now I am worthy, even though I detoured off the track, God doesn't see that detour now! Another thing that I want to share with you is this-I had not been giving my tithes like I knew I should because I didn't think the Lord wanted my 10% after I had messed up so bad. On Sunday, you were teaching on the tithe and I gave my tithe and I said, "Lord, I trust you to do whatever you have to do to help me change." The next morning I got fired from my job! Most would think that is sad but I knew it was the Lord's will. That Monday night during your meeting, the Lord told me to give all the cash that I had and put it in the offering. It was my Christmas money that I had been saving for some new clothes. I immediately gave it because I did not want my treasure to be in clothes. After the service, a fellow church member offered me a receptionist job and it pays $1 more than my last job! Praise God! You have impacted my life and I will never be the same again!
Brandy, Georgia
Dr. Debbie,
I've started to send you my thanks and testimony several times now, but each time I get overwhelmed all over again. I wish I could just bottle up the tears that fall even now, and pour them out for you to see how my spirit runs over with thanks, joy, wonder and love! In all the weeks that you were with us at Evangel, there was not one night that the Lord did not touch me in some unique, powerful way. Everything has become new since I was first touched by God in revival. I moved into a new house within ten days, started a new business within a week and above all, my own brother received the Lord in a supernatural way! There is one night that stands apart as a turning point. I had been enjoying the Lord and found myself stepping out into the aisle where you were praying for people. I was reasoning with the Lord as to why He wanted me prayed for, and had thought I was mistaken for stepping into the line. I noticed the people before and beside me fall under the power of God and presumed you had not sensed the Lord's leading to pray for me and had gone down the line. And suddenly, as your hand came upon me, I heard the name of Jesus spoken with all His power and fullness and a strong wooosh of the Spirit fell on me with it. At first I didn't sense anything really different, wasn't even sure if anything was happening. But I figured I might as well enjoy it and at least soak a little while. Then some glorious worship broke out all over the congregation and I wanted to rise to join in but found that I couldn't communicate to my body the message to get up! So, by default, I kept soaking, having no idea that wave after wave of His presence was covering me again and again. I was under the assumption that when the service finished I would just get up and go home as everyone else. When the time came, I couldn't move a finger and I couldn't see a thing. I was literally pinned to the floor. His Spirit began to rush thru me like I've never known. Surge after surge of electric like power charged from the top of my head through to my feet, over and over again.
This pales in comparison, but it was almost as if I had been on the edge of the subway platform, just walking with my back to the oncoming train. And just at the last moment, I had stepped over the line, off the edge of the platform and was now plastered to the front of the train. As it sped down the track, all the electric power that runs through it now ran through me. That's how it felt as I stepped into another realm-no longer just looking into the realm of the Spirit, but stepping over. That is the number one thing that changed and daily remains since. His presence is so very real.
Dr. Debbie, something truly BIG is breaking in the Spirit here. I'm just new to the things of the Spirit and have so much to learn, but this move of God is so strong. The testimonies I could give of what God is doing in our cell, in the youth, in business and at church are awesome! I will be forever indebted to you for how you have imparted into my life! I thank God for His keeping power to continue to walk in the Spirit and in destiny and in such glory. Thousands will be impacted for eternity for the seed you've sown in my life. May the Harvest be great!
Stacy, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Debbie,
My wife and I attended the Summer Campmeeting in July. While you were teaching on stewardship, we felt led to sow what we had as well as an "alabaster box" type of seed, which was my wife's mother's bracelet. Last Saturday, we received a letter in the mail saying that our $43,000 debt was canceled! God opens the windows and rebukes the devourers!
Tom and Tami Rogan
Dr. Debbie
Isn't it amazing how much God can do through one person? Before you came to our church, my relationship (if you can even call it that) with God was so dry, lacking in every possible way. I began hating church. I quit praying and reading my Bible and I tried to ignore the Lord. But last night, your teaching awakened something inside of me. Suddenly, right in the middle of the service, I wanted more. I wanted to know God like I've never known Him before. For the first time, I became desperate for the Lord.
One thing you said really caught my attention. You were telling the church how you go through phases where the ministry is hard but then right when you need it, someone hands you a letter or a card and you know you can go on and push past the hard times in order to touch just one more person. Hearing that blew me away because for a while I've been in situations like that daily. I get pushed to the brink of quitting then out of nowhere I get a card from someone letting me know how much they love me or how much I've helped them. Then from that point on, I know I can handle it. Of course slowly I'm pushed beyond what I think I can handle and I go through the "process" all over again!
Recently I asked myself why I bother helping people when in return, I'm just beaten up both emotionally and spiritually. In your teaching you managed to unknowingly explain it to me. So now I know that I can't give up on people because helping just one person find Jesus is worth all the pain in the world. Thank you for being such a wonderful example for me. I hope one day I can be like you. I can't wait till I can be in church again. I love reading my Bible and I love spending time with my one and only Father God!
Brittany - 17 years old
Dr. Debbie
I can't get away from the notion this morning that I need to write you this letter to say thanks. It's been a year now since you came to our little church to preach at our women's conference. It was a miracle that you came at all, considering the crowds you normally preach to and the size of our group. You ended up speaking on giving more than anything else, because that was what we needed the most. And I don't think you thought your messages were very well received. Perhaps that is why God is pushing me this morning to write this. Maybe you need to kow that some of us "caught the key" you held out to us that weekend and are forever changed because of it!
I am one of those. As a stay at home mom, I've always used the excuse that because I don't contribute to the family income directly through a paycheck, that I'd let my husband decide when and where to give. And yet I always carry around in my wallet a given amount of cash that I have discretionary spending power over. You helped me see that money I spend on lunches with friends and clothes for myself could also be given to God. We have always tithed, supported ministries and given offerings and God has blessed our lives because of it. But in recent years, our finances had grown increasingly tight. We would just barely get by each month and our credit card debt began to rise alarmingly. At one point God spoke to me about giving, challenging me to give more extravagantly. I tried it for a while, but gave up when the finances seemed to get even tighter. I told myself that I couldn't give money that was needed to pay bills. That was three or four years ago, and our finances remained unchanged.
Then you arrived on the scene and shared your testimony and what you'd learned on the subject of giving to God. And God challenged me again to believe Him and trust Him with my finances. So I began again to give sacrificially…and the same thing happened. The money got even tighter. I remember clearly where I was when the breakthrough happened. I was in the habit of walking up and down my street for exercise, headphones in my ears and tapes for playing on the walkman. I had picked up several of the tapes of your messages on giving and I was listening to one as I hiked up the road. At that same time I was thinking of my own finances, how I had to decide NOW if I was going to keep giving along the lines God had dictated to me or go back to what I had been doing before. It was the moment of decision. In the tape you had said that changing your giving for a few weeks or months wasn't going to cut it. We had to make lifestyle changes if we wanted to see the promises of God come true in our finances. And so I decided to try it for a year. For twelve months, I determined to try and OUTDO God in the area of faithfulness, giving according to the guidelines He'd given me. It became almost a game at times. In times past, if I was called out of the meeting service for some reason and missed the offering, I'd rejoice! Now I found myself chasing down ushers, mailing in money or sealing it up in offering envelopes to join that which I'd give the next time. It wasn't always easy. I still faced moments of doubt and would wonder if I could really afford to give the amount God directed. But I always ended up with the realization that in truth, I couldn't afford NOT to give it! And into the offering basket it would go!
A lot has changed in my life as a result. I've seen miracles in our finances that continue to amaze me. When I couldn't figure out how we'd ever catch up on the credit cards, God somehow managed to pay them off almost completely. He literally paid my property tax bill this past month, made it like He did with the coin in the fish's mouth in the Bible. A check arrived in the mail a week or two before it was due for almost the exact amount! I have come to realize that I limit the freedom I experience in my finances by my own willingness to obey God and the extent to which I trust Him.
But an even bigger change has taken place in my heart. I give now not just to get out of debt, but as an expression of love and thanksgiving and in the realization that it ALL belongs to Him to use as He directs. And so a year has gone by and God has "upped the ante", so to speak, for the coming year, and in excitement and anticipation I'm eagerly signing on!
I'm not the only one who took hold of what you had to say. Our associate pastor has experienced such freedom in his own finances that he regularly takes the offerings in our services and teaches each week the messsages we first heard from you. So thank you for coming. You gave sacrificially that weekend in your willingness to come and share with us!
Elaine Dr. Debbie, Last July in Norway, I attended one of your meeting for the very first time. During the service, you came near me and I was overcome by the Spirit of Goe, laying on the ground adn laughing uncontrollably. Prior to that, I had never experienced anything like that. YOu told me that I would never be the same again, and I haven't been since. Agot, Skotselv, Norway. Dr. Debbie, When you ministered on Vision Norway back in 2008, I watched and grabbed the “key” you taught on for financial breakthroughs. Now I pay my tithes, give offerings, and I never lack finances. I want to be able to sow even more into the Kingdom of God and receive even more seeds. Thank You! Mai Elisabeth, Norway. Dr. Debbie, My life with Jesus was very difficult before. I had never experienced God`s power or salvation. My life was terrible because I had so many wounds and so much pain in my life. But suddenly one day I was invited to a meeting with Debbie Rich in Drammen, Norway! I was curious and decided to go to that meeting. Once I came into the meeting, I could feel God`s wonderful holy presence. Dr. Debbie prayed for me and Jesus through her knew that I needed to be set free, so she said, “Free…Free in Jesus”. I fell on the floor in God`s power and Jesus set me totally free! My heart was so filled with the Holy Spirit. It was wonderful and I have never been more happy in my life. My heart is running over for Jesus. This has changed and rescued my life forever. I thank Him every day. Thank you Jesus! Testimony from a 22 year old girl, June 2009 |
