Testimony of Healing through the Forge

Is it possible that someone who was completely crushed and broken, having given up on life and God only three years ago, could ever be transformed, healed and renewed?
Now feeling ready, equipped, and eager to step into all the good plans and purposes God has in mind for them? The answer, I have discovered, is yes!
Through the welcome, teaching and prayer ministry of Ellel Flagship and the Forge, I was enabled to encounter Jesus and His great love at the core of my being and walk with Him into freedom and wholeness.
Now feeling ready, equipped, and eager to step into all the good plans and purposes God has in mind for them? The answer, I have discovered, is yes!
Through the welcome, teaching and prayer ministry of Ellel Flagship and the Forge, I was enabled to encounter Jesus and His great love at the core of my being and walk with Him into freedom and wholeness.

I was sitting under a cloud of hopelessness, darkness and oppression. A broken, orphan person restricted by deep fears and lies. Particularly, that I was alone, unlovable and that not even God really cared about me.
A deep emptiness and longing for love in my heart that could never be satisfied had led to much addictive behaviour. I became increasingly vulnerable to abusive and controlling relationships.
Not valuing myself and burdened by a heavy load of guilt and shame, I hit rock bottom. Could I ever find my feet again?
The journey was long and painful at times. I needed courage and perseverance and the support of wise, Spirit-filled men and women of God.
Jesus is indeed a most wonderful Saviour and does come to our rescue when we cry out to Him. Even if we can only manage a faint cry from the depths of a very deep dark hole.
God knows everything about us, Psalm 139 v 1-16, and knew just where to start in the complicated mess to begin to draw me closer and show me that He could be trusted. Unlike everyone else I had ever known.
A deep emptiness and longing for love in my heart that could never be satisfied had led to much addictive behaviour. I became increasingly vulnerable to abusive and controlling relationships.
Not valuing myself and burdened by a heavy load of guilt and shame, I hit rock bottom. Could I ever find my feet again?
The journey was long and painful at times. I needed courage and perseverance and the support of wise, Spirit-filled men and women of God.
Jesus is indeed a most wonderful Saviour and does come to our rescue when we cry out to Him. Even if we can only manage a faint cry from the depths of a very deep dark hole.
God knows everything about us, Psalm 139 v 1-16, and knew just where to start in the complicated mess to begin to draw me closer and show me that He could be trusted. Unlike everyone else I had ever known.

I had always asked why I couldn’t sense God’s love for me, despite having an undeniable conversion, being baptised and filled with the Holy Spirit back in 1980.
Now, by laying hold of the teaching and ministry, I was gradually being cleansed and delivered from many things that had crushed, bound, and imprisoned my human spirit. As childhood trauma was lifted off, and I chose to forgive my parents, I was able to connect with God spirit to spirit and receive the healing flow of His life and love.
God was indeed strengthening my innermost being with His divine might. Through faith, the life of Christ was being released deep inside me and now I find that the resting place of His love has become the very source and root of my life. I am increasingly discovering the astonishing magnitude and intimacy of Christ’s love being poured into my spirit. I am being filled to overflowing with the fullness of God. (Reference, Ephesians 3:16-19 TPT).
Now, by laying hold of the teaching and ministry, I was gradually being cleansed and delivered from many things that had crushed, bound, and imprisoned my human spirit. As childhood trauma was lifted off, and I chose to forgive my parents, I was able to connect with God spirit to spirit and receive the healing flow of His life and love.
God was indeed strengthening my innermost being with His divine might. Through faith, the life of Christ was being released deep inside me and now I find that the resting place of His love has become the very source and root of my life. I am increasingly discovering the astonishing magnitude and intimacy of Christ’s love being poured into my spirit. I am being filled to overflowing with the fullness of God. (Reference, Ephesians 3:16-19 TPT).
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