Miraculous manna

Stories of healings, miracles, salvations, delivrances, prophetic dreams and visions; all bringing glory to God.

The story of Carol Whipkey written by Carrie Christopher

Carol’s story begins with repentance, bolstered in tears, and finished in emboldened miracles. Carol lived her life in the comforts of outward appearance, having done some model and pageant work in the past. The pursuit of beauty gave her a false sense of control and comfort. Carol went on to a financially affluent marriage, being given everything a young wife and future mom would want. Carol’s marriage seemed to model the American dream of wealth and adventures. Two children joined Carol and her husband’s perfect story. Everything she ever hoped and dreamed was becoming a reality. But her inward desire to maintain outward perfection reared its ugly head when she found out she was pregnant with child number three. She went through great lengths to end the pregnancy, but God put many obstacles her way. The Lord who loved her, led her. Carol believed in God but hadn’t come to repentance and regeneration yet. Although she had not yet surrendered in prayer to Jesus, God gave courage to Carol to fight the inward idols of beauty, allowing her to continue the pregnancy. Clearly God’s hand was upon every part of her life, calling her forward.

Her third son arrived on Carol’s birthday; the Lord gave her a wink of His providential plans for her precious family and child.

Four years had gone by since God’s intervention. The Lord began to show Carol that although her belief in God was surely there and she was on track for salvation, she had not yet been born again. Her heart and life were not fully surrendered. It was there in that time that the Lord joined her and some others in an antique store for a Bible study. What the Lord was packaging in that store that very day was the will of God intersecting the right time and positioning a rebirth. In walked a pastor, shopping at the store. Little did the small, close-knit Bible study participants know, the true purchase that day would be Carol’s salvation - purchased in full by a payment with Jesus’ death in exchange for Carol’s life. An eternal forever home and an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. The exchange of payment for her sins was instigated by the pastor’s presentation of the plan for salvation, the gospel revealed. It was at this time that her heart desired a new birth, an abandonment of former ways, a desire to be freed from her sin and to be accepted in the heart of the beloved Son and Father.

What she received from that tarnished, old, rickety antique shop was the greatest treasure awaiting here on earth for her, a treasure waiting for years to be accepted, a truly unique story of the old becoming new.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

Baptism of the Holy Spirit invaded Carol’s life with the one of Jesus.

Opposition soon struck after that bold encounter with God. Carol’s child, age four at the time - the one she wrestled to keep - fell ill. Illness was pouncing.

Soon her child was diagnosed and hospitalized with encephalitis, a deadly pox that invades one’s brain.

Carol described her greatest fears in the hospital as such.

Up against a wall, my tiny helpless baby lay red with a fever in a bed way too big for him, with his hair all wet and just a diaper on his little body, he lay in a semi-coma, motionless. I cried and cried. I was so scared.

Doctors reported a prognosis of a 50% survival rate. Carol wrestled with deep theological divides. She argued with her own self as she fought condemnation for entertaining abortion years prior. The temptations were previous to her conversion, yet were being thrown in her face as God’s punishment against her past sins. But God, being rich in mercy and omnipotent in presence and power, reached Carol with his word.

God brought her a song, “Only trust in Him, only trust in him now.”

Then He spoke to her to open His Word. Her weary eyes, tear-stained clothes and feeble heart landed on Psalm 102:28. (KJV). “The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.”

Carol knew nothing else mattered but the power of God’s love and the truth of His holy Word. She experienced the very real presence of God on that day and came face to face with suffering that the enemy had intended for evil. God was not punishing her, this was not truth, it was a lie from the enemy. He is a God who eternally loves and forgives.

He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

(Psalm 103:10 NIV)

The enemy desired to steal Carol’s faith and twist her thoughts with condemning accusation, but what the enemy intended for evil, God would ensure would be used for good.

When the doctors marched in with hopelessness on their tongues and doubt in their hearts, for the first time in days Carol stood up straight, postured in faith, having just experienced the presence of God. Her voice once stolen from weeping, now bold as a lion, rooted in trust and His power, succeeded in saying, “My baby will be fine, because God assured me He will be.”

The doctor got up, shook her hand, and replied, “I wish I had as much faith as you.”

What Carol experienced that day was the intimate presence of the Holy Spirit, God with us, supernaturally speaking and holding all power and controlled dominion over life’s most vicious schemes.

As she released her trust, God fed her hope and vision for the future through His Word and presence. When she came back into her son’s room, He was miraculously awake. The enemy didn’t steal his life on that day of trial. The Lord’s Word, active and alive, operated in healing. After a spinal tap, there was no longer a trace of encephalitis. Heaven’s hope, kingdom’s joy, invaded a doctor’s doomed prognosis.

The Lord’s miracle provided Carol a mountain of faith to live in and into. These mountaintop arrivals would launch Carol into eternally powerful magnitudes of His love working in and through them.

Carol is alive and rejoicing continuously in the Lord, she remains a faithful warrior of truth, and she has birthed some of the greatest warriors known to this day. Carol is Kimberly Hobbs’ mother, founder of this Women World Leaders ministry. Carol is a mother who modeled our mission here on earth. Carol heard God’s Holy Spirit give her a lifelong commission: the Lord said to Carol, “Now go to the world and tell your story. A story of true love, not punishment.”

You see, Women of God, Kimberly, who has built this ministry with the Lord from the ground up, has taken the baton of faith from her mother and is running this race, on this very day, speaking and spreading here good news of His unrelenting love. This is the goal of this entire magazine. And do you see where it was birthed and how God spoke this very proclamation long ago? Proclaim, Sisters, what He has done for you. Our God leads and loves you with excellence and zeal, pursuing you and your affections, yearning to give you God-given encounters and endless days of His presence. Like Carol’s story, He desires to lead you from idolatry to intimacy, from lies of punishment to miraculous blessings.

Believe in Him. Believe in miracles. And leave a legacy of hope and healing to the nations, proclaiming the Lord’s greatness and deep love for His people.