Reverend Raymond Mooi was 19 years old when he first witnessed God’s supernatural hand of healing.

It was during the final week of his course at the Morris Cerullo School of Ministry in 1978, and he was at a healing rally with others to pray for the sick.

“There was a man with a cataract in his right eye who came up to me for prayer. I prayed for him and, with my own eyes, saw a thin film wipe across his eye. Right there, his eye cleared up. Oh, how that built my faith,” Rev Mooi shared.

Since then, the 66-year-old Malaysian pastor, evangelist and teacher has prayed for hundreds of thousands at mass miracle rallies and healing services. He has seen the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear and hopeless conditions cured by God.

A mass miracle rally in Maesot, Thailand. Rev Mooi has conducted rallies in 21 provinces of Thailand so far.

Today, he is the principal of the School of Acts, Malaysia, a training school he founded in 1994 for believers seeking to do the supernatural works of God today. He is also the senior pastor of He Is Sovereign (HIS) Church.

Speaking to Salt&Light ahead of his visit to Singapore for HEAL SG, a national evangelistic healing rally, he shared how his call into the healing ministry had been far from straightforward.

Answering the call

Rev Mooi came to know Jesus at 15 years old after he was brought to church by a schoolmate. By 17 years old, he had experienced three clear calls to full-time ministry.

He approached his church elders for direction. “They were not surprised and had been waiting for me to open my mouth,” he said with a chuckle. “But they wanted me to go into seminary, and I absolutely did not want to!”

The young man detested studying; he had dropped out of high school. The church, however, was firm in their stance.

“That was Sunday. On Tuesday, the Head Elder called me and asked to meet that evening. When I arrived, they laid out photocopied sheets announcing the launch of the Morris Cerullo School of Ministry,” he shared.

They wanted him to spend six months there, in San Diego, California.

Rev Mooi was initially unfamiliar with Dr Morris Cerullo, but when he discovered the American evangelist’s heart and ministry for the lost, his excitement grew.

“My church sponsored my flights there and back, and the School of Ministry made an exception for my age. I was the only Malaysian and the youngest of 800 students that year. The School also gave me a full scholarship: school fees, food and accommodation – all covered. Only God could have done it,” Rev Mooi said.

A gift untapped

At the School of Ministry, Rev Mooi witnessed astonishing miracles daily. By the end of six months, these miracles became a norm to him.

He returned to Malaysia, fired up and ready to use his gift of healing as a means of bringing the lost to Jesus.

At 20 years old, he was appointed pastor of his church. However, he was not allowed to use his gift of healing.

“They meant well because they were afraid of the fallout if I prayed for the sick and they didn’t get healed,” he said with an understanding smile. “But I was disappointed.”

It was another church that took a chance on this young man with a passion to see the sick healed by Jesus. Rev Mooi was invited by a church in Sitiawan, Perak, to conduct a healing service there. It was his first opportunity since returning from the US.

At the service, Rev Mooi prayed for all who came. Many were restored to health and wholeness.

As time passed, he felt a prompting to move out of Ipoh in faith, though he had no idea what God had in store for him. Taking a bold step, he moved to Kuala Lumpur.

Unsure what to do, he found work selling copier machines. It was a quiet life for two years.

Then Youth With A Mission (YWAM) invited him to Singapore in the early 1980s to attend an event. There, he received a pivotal word from YWAM founder, the late Loren Cunningham.

Seven years of preparation

“At one service, Loren pointed a finger in my direction from the stage and said, ‘Young man, God wants you to give up your reputation, and He will give you His reputation.’ It left me reeling,” Rev Mooi remembered.

The next day, Loren spoke to Rev Mooi directly: “I have been praying for you. You are a Joseph. If you let go and allow God to lead you, He will promote you.”

Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Rev Mooi reached out by faith to a man who was Morris Cerullo’s international director at the time and asked if he could become his assistant.

Rev Raymond Mooi (left) with the late Dr Morris Cerullo, an American Pentecostal evangelist who conducted healing rallies.

“He was in charge of Morris’ international healing rallies and services, so (he was the) first in and last out. I became his literal shadow for four years, from getting his coffee to seeing how he worked. Little did I know that the Lord was preparing me, teaching me how to organise a rally from start to end,” he said.

In 1985, Dr Cerullo recruited Rev Mooi as his Malaysia office director. A year later, Rev Mooi took over the Asia portfolio. For the next seven years, he organised Dr Cerullo’s rallies in Asia, where he saw God’s healing over and over again.

Breaking hard ground

In 1993, Rev Mooi resigned and started the School of Acts, which trains believers in using their supernatural gifts for Christ. He had felt a shift in his ministry and a growing desire to bring God’s healing and love into “hard places”.

“The Lord gave me clear instructions to go into places the big names would not go, but where millions needed to experience His love. These were contexts including unreached people groups, where church presence was weak, and you’d have to fund everything,” he explained.

He started organising mass miracle rallies, with the first in northern Thailand. “God showed up, and so many miracles occurred. It was the start of what my life would look like for the next 30 years.”

At the tender age of 18, Rev Raymond Mooi had his first experience of seeing God work a miracle of physical healing. Since then, he has spent over 30 years operating in the supernatural and teaching others to do the same.

Since then, the travelling evangelist has conducted mass miracle rallies in many countries where there is resistance to the Gospel, including Cambodia, India and Myanmar.

“I’ve been kicked out of countries, held in police stations, surrounded by paratroopers. I’ve even had my car set on fire as I was speaking on stage. (Yet) I can live a life of faith because I rest on my relationship with my Father in heaven,” he said.

“But that is the trademark of our ministry: To break hard ground so that the lost come to Christ because they see the supernatural. Where we go, churches are revived.”

In these countries, he has seen blind eyes opened, cripples walking, those born without eardrums being able to hear, reconstruction of bones and the mute speaking. “Some with sicknesses and injuries for over 30 years receive instant healing,” he testified.

An ecstatic lady lifts up her walking aid in praise to God, demonstrating that she can stand without it, as Rev Mooi (right) rejoices with her.

For example, one Madam K suffered from severe back pain and was due to undergo a high-risk spine surgery. In December 2021, she attended a miracle rally and the Lord healed her. Several months later, doctors confirmed that her spine had been restored. It has been four years and she lives pain-free, said Rev Mooi.

However, he acknowledges that not all whom he prays for are healed. Asked why some receive healing and some do not, Rev Mooi said he does not have a clear answer. Only the Lord knows.

“I definitely don’t walk away with 100% healing for all. Jesus is the Healer, not me. But as His vessel, I regularly check: am I spiritually leaking anywhere? Do I have enough of the Spirit’s infilling and power to give?”

That the lost may know Jesus

When praying for healing, Rev Mooi only uses his words and does not touch the sick. This approach, he says, ensures that people know it is God, not he, who has done the healing.

A packed mass miracle rally by Rev Mooi at the indoor stadium of New Delhi, India. Filled to the brim, the stadium’s capacity is a little over 14,000.

He also makes sure that he keeps up the spiritual discipline of daily communion with the Lord.

In the lead-up to a mass miracle rally, everyone is busy. From operations to logistics to people management, it’s easy to get caught up and become mechanical in approach.

“That’s why I need a lockdown time to say the same prayer I have prayed all these years: God, give me compassion for the hurting and suffering. I need to feel Your heart for them.

“I don’t want to see the forest and miss the trees. I need to get overwhelmed over and over again by compassion for the lost,” he said quietly.

A man jumps up and down when giving praise to the Lord for healing him in Amnat Charoen, Thailand.

The battle, he maintains, needs to be won in the prayer closet and not on the stage. Rallies and services are the time to reap the harvest, not toil the ground.

“When I preach the Gospel, it’s life or death. My desire is to … give every person every chance to experience God’s love through healing and give their lives to Christ.”

Reverend Raymond Mooi will be in Singapore on September 7, 2025 for HEAL SG, a national evangelistic miracle rally. Admission is free. To pre-register for the event, click here.

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