Healing Waters Ministries--RoofTop Church

A WORD FROM THE FOUNDER AND GENERAL OVERSEER, TIM SAM COLLEY

Let me introduce you to one of God’s biggest moves of our time - the HEALING WATERS ministries. I sincerely believe with my whole heart that God has spoken to me as His messenger to the body of Christ and to the people of the world, particularly, Ghana. I believe also that through the various ministries of Healing Waters the Lord will bring His people one step close to Himself.

During my childhood I experienced an unusual inner voice prompting like someone was speaking to me. Then I would hear myself saying to myself, "I don't belong to my mother, I don't belong to my father. I belong to God" This coupled with strong inner longing for God drove me restless. But could not say a thing about it to anybody. It was the strangest thing to happen to a boy born and raised in a pagan African home in total spiritual darkness.

I was totally ignorant of the strange thing happening to me that I hid it from everybody else. One day the craving inside of me for God was became so strong that I ran out to the backyard all by myself and cried, not knowing what to do. The most painful experience was that I knew there was God somewhere and I knew something inside of me was pulling toward Him but how and where to find Him I did not know

Things came to a climax when I turned 17. I was restless and could not sleep for several weeks. And there was severe pains all over me, particularly, my head, chest, and stomach. As the spiritual hunger on the inside of me grew with every passing day so was the mysterious sickness that had taken hold on my body. The devil was closing in on me. The enemy was about to kill me before I could find God.

On a fateful Sunday when it was certain I was not going to see another day, my mother began telling me stories about a powerful small church in town where people received answers to their prayers and miracles took place. But at the same time she also told me of a powerful witch doctor who claimed the power to cure sickness. My mother in her spiritual ignorance could not see any difference between a witch doctor and a church. Bless her heart. Without hesitation I asked her to take me to the small praying church where people could speak to God. Thank God He is always a step ahead of the enemy.

The evening found me standing at the alter of a small church in response to the alter call. I was the only one standing there at the alter. With a whole congregation standing on their feet praying to God to heal and appear to the little boy standing at the alter. Nobody laid hands on me, the whole church just stood up and prayed for me.

As I stood there with my head bowed, suddenly, all the years of fear, anguish and pain came to an end. The awesome presence of Jesus Christ fell on me. I was in the presence of the Ancient of days. It dawned on me that God had been leading me all the time to this very point.

In the 7th chapter of Daniel, the prophet Daniel reveals a mystery when he said “ I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before Him”. No revelation can better describe the awesome experience I had that day as I stood in that small church in my hometown. And thereafter, on two occasions I have found myself in the spirit standing before the Ancient of days with thousands of angels watching.

Mystery surrounded my teenage years. One day, our neighbor, an Islamic teacher told me the reason of my supernatural experiences was because I was innocent.

When I look back to those early years of my youth I see that he was not far from the truth. Those were the days when smoking and drinking was fashionable among the youth in Ghana.

But I neither smoked nor drank. Something inside of me rebelled against it. I hated immorality. But my high school years cast a dark shadow over these years of innocence.

The temptation to please my friends was so strong. And I did not know any better. I had never read the Bible and never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ preached.

Needless to day, I begun to meddle with sin. But this was to prove a turning point for the rest of my life. The ultimate crisis began the very first day, which was also the last time; a friend enticed me into smoking

I lost my sense of peace. I felt like my world had come to an end. I ran away from the place. The mighty hand of God which was after me would not let me go very far.

Later at my baptism, an angel of the Lord appeared who reminded me of that fateful day when I tried smoking. He explained he was standing by me that day and he was the one who put an end to my folly.

Someone may ask me, Brother Colley, are you saying smoking is a sin? I don’t know if smoking is a sin, but one thing I know. God prevented me from smoking.