In 2001 I was not living for the Lord as I should, but I was trying to taste how life
was in pursuit of my passions. I was not allowed to get very far in that pursuit, but
I wanted to. In the end things changed for me and I had no choice but continue
going in God's direction.
I closed my little shop and moved out about May of 2001. I retained my job in the city.
About this time our older daughter entered a new area for her, she joined a Christian charismatic church,
and my wife followed her. They went into prayer for others. I came to see much later that
it was all part of his timing and his plan.
In January of 2002, I was just home from work ahead of my family and I started cooking a frozen
dinner and this is when my illness struck. I collapsed to the floor and I knew I was dying, but
daughter came home and found me and called an ambulance and I was out cold, but was in the
hospital. I was prepared for a long operation to try to save my life. When it happend it was eight
hours long and even afterwards the Dr. said that I would die, or brain dead. Nice choice.
Wife came to the hospital and prayed over me and brought our daughters to also pray for me.
They asked Christians of many types, and whole churches to pray for me.
I didn't think that I would recover, and thought that only God could bring me back. I wanted
another five years, but ever so slowly I improved. When I got back home, I prayed and asked
the Lord if he had healed me, and I was told that it was done for those who had prayed for me, but
I could thank him, if I wanted to. I did want to. I had been too ill to pray more than just say Amen
once in awhile, but the time for my praying for others would come.
As I came back I asked the Lord, also in prayer, if I could pray also for the very ill and the dying.
In the next three or four years I prayed for many very ill people all in the name of Chirst. They
did not all get healed, but many did, some healed of cancer, and others of anueurysms, or breathing
problems or whatever. The blessed Lord is master of all diseases and master of everything actually.
And then I was told in prayer to ask for something for myself, I guess for a reward.
A reward? I already got healed and in time totally healed from my illness, and so far I got to live
12 plus more years, more than I even asked for. And to be involved in those healings of others made
me happier than anything before, even more than my own healing.
And later I opened my little shop again some months after my recovery. And I returned to my
job and worked until I retired at the proper time. My complete recovery came by the summer of 2007.
Thank you God for everything, my healing and my new life, and healing for those I prayed for.
Thank you, Jesus. It is true, you are Lord.
was in pursuit of my passions. I was not allowed to get very far in that pursuit, but
I wanted to. In the end things changed for me and I had no choice but continue
going in God's direction.
I closed my little shop and moved out about May of 2001. I retained my job in the city.
About this time our older daughter entered a new area for her, she joined a Christian charismatic church,
and my wife followed her. They went into prayer for others. I came to see much later that
it was all part of his timing and his plan.
In January of 2002, I was just home from work ahead of my family and I started cooking a frozen
dinner and this is when my illness struck. I collapsed to the floor and I knew I was dying, but
daughter came home and found me and called an ambulance and I was out cold, but was in the
hospital. I was prepared for a long operation to try to save my life. When it happend it was eight
hours long and even afterwards the Dr. said that I would die, or brain dead. Nice choice.
Wife came to the hospital and prayed over me and brought our daughters to also pray for me.
They asked Christians of many types, and whole churches to pray for me.
I didn't think that I would recover, and thought that only God could bring me back. I wanted
another five years, but ever so slowly I improved. When I got back home, I prayed and asked
the Lord if he had healed me, and I was told that it was done for those who had prayed for me, but
I could thank him, if I wanted to. I did want to. I had been too ill to pray more than just say Amen
once in awhile, but the time for my praying for others would come.
As I came back I asked the Lord, also in prayer, if I could pray also for the very ill and the dying.
In the next three or four years I prayed for many very ill people all in the name of Chirst. They
did not all get healed, but many did, some healed of cancer, and others of anueurysms, or breathing
problems or whatever. The blessed Lord is master of all diseases and master of everything actually.
And then I was told in prayer to ask for something for myself, I guess for a reward.
A reward? I already got healed and in time totally healed from my illness, and so far I got to live
12 plus more years, more than I even asked for. And to be involved in those healings of others made
me happier than anything before, even more than my own healing.
And later I opened my little shop again some months after my recovery. And I returned to my
job and worked until I retired at the proper time. My complete recovery came by the summer of 2007.
Thank you God for everything, my healing and my new life, and healing for those I prayed for.
Thank you, Jesus. It is true, you are Lord.
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