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Radiation hand imprint by faith healing

John G Lake

A severely ill woman—afflicted with a cancerous tumor so large that doctors initially mistook it for an advanced pregnancy—entered one of Lake's healing services. She was in extreme pain, her body swollen and disfigured by the growth, and medical professionals had given her little hope, advising surgery or palliative care. Desperate for a miracle, she approached Lake for prayer.Lake, known for his bold faith and emphasis on the "power of God" flowing through believers (inspired by Acts 19:11–12, where handkerchiefs carried Paul's touch to heal the sick), laid his hands directly on the tumorous area. As he prayed in Jesus' name, commanding healing and the expulsion of the disease, an intense supernatural heat emanated from his hands. The woman later described it as "fire" or an overwhelming surge of divine energy coursing through her body, burning out the sickness at its root.The effects were immediate and dramatic:The tumor began to dissolve rapidly, shrinking before witnesses' eyes over the next few hours.

By the following day, it had completely vanished, leaving her body restored and pain-free.

To the astonishment of all, the woman's skin where Lake had placed his hand turned a deep, glowing red—resembling a severe radiation burn. This mark persisted for weeks, serving as a visible sign of the "burning power of God" that had coursed through her. Doctors who examined her afterward confirmed the tumor's disappearance and were baffled by the burn-like imprint, which healed slowly without infection.

Lake often taught that this wasn't mere "heat" but the literal fire of the Holy Spirit, akin to the "consuming fire" in Hebrews 12:29, destroying disease like a divine surgeon. He claimed over 100,000 documented healings in his Spokane ministry alone, with this case standing out for its visible, lingering evidence.

Cancer in the mouth healed in Asuza Street

William J. Seymour

He recalled one of the miracles he observed that was performed through Seymour while the flames were shooting out of and in through the roof of the warehouse. The whole place was full of the Shekinah Glory.This miracle involved a man who had smoked a cigar all his life. He always had one stuck in the corner of his mouth. The mouth grew cancerous where the cigar touched. Brother Sines said that it was eaten away, and there was a hole in his cheek. What wasn't eaten away was black and rotten. Brother Seymour said, "It's gotten some of your teeth, too. How long does the doctor say you got to live?"The man could hardly talk and said, "No more than a year."Seymour answered, "Now, they're right, but God can change it." The man said yes.Seymour slapped hands on him, began to pray and then took his hand away. The black was gone, and they watched missing gums, teeth and flesh fill in where there were none before! Can you imagine that? 

Source: Beyond Azusa Street

Praying for teeth

Lucille Mcgillicudcy

Sister Lucille's next story was not a cookies-and-milk story. It was more like a toss-your-cookies story. She would tell about the miracles performed on people who had very bad teeth, and usually I would lose my appetite. Lucille would have them open their mouths, and she would stick her fingers on the teeth that were bad and pray for healing. I asked her, "Were they infected and filled with bad stuff?" She would look at me with a half grin on her face. I said, "You stuck your finger on their teeth?" With that half grin on her face, she said, "Yeah." "What if there wasn't a tooth there?" I would ask playfully. Sister Lucille took her story over the top. "I would stick my finger on the bare gum. In fact, many times I would push against the gum and let the new tooth push my finger up. On the really decayed teeth, all the bad stuff would come out, and we would use a handkerchief to rub the bad stuff off and there would be a new tooth. Even crooked teeth would straighten."

Usually teeth rotted because of diet and/or poor hygiene. This next story she told me was of a child whose second teeth grew in rotten and black from the start. The mother asked, "Will God heal this?" Lucille said, "God will heal anything. And I love praying for teeth." Lucille brought the girl over to her and asked others to get a handkerchief and a cup. Lucille took the handkerchief and laid it over the child's mouth. She prayed, and then a handful of blackened teeth just dropped out of the girl's mouth and into the cup.
Can you imagine what that this girl is thinking as this little woman is taking out her teeth? Completely toothless, the child just kept looking at her. Lucille told her, "Now, Jesus is going to give you a new set of teeth, and we're going to have fun getting them in there." She went through the child's whole mouth, pressed on her gums, and teeth grew in one at a time. She could have had them all done at one time, but Lucille wanted to pray. That little girl's teeth grew in perfectly. "Did it hurt when the rotten teeth were coming out?" I asked. Lucille said the child felt nothing. However, when the new, "Jesus teeth," came in, the little girl said, "It kinda tickled."
I just sat there shaking my head. Even though her descriptions of the teeth often caused my stomach to turn, I sat in awe at the miracles she described.She would ask me, "Tommy, wouldn't you love to see those kind of healings in our services today?" I would just nod in agreement.