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| The hope to which he calls us...part 2 |
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My Healing Story
Sometimes we meet people in our lives that completely change the direction of it. I pray a lot about the people God puts in my path, I pray He will keep liars and deceivers far from me, I pray for special God connections with people...I pray for that "peculiar people" to be placed in my path because I am one of them myself...God was about to take me up on all those prayers...
I was on a Christian singles website, I had posted I was not interested in a relationship, I mean by this time I figured who would WANT to be in a relationship with someone that had all the obstacles in their life like I did...but I did enjoy the boards. I posted frequently by answering questions to those that asked, I rarely initiated a post, but one day I did and it was really a frivolous question but then suddenly someone special responded to me. I had not seen him post but a couple of times before but there was just something different about this particular man. Talking online soon progressed to phone calls, we seemed to have quite a dynamic and conversation flowed freely of who we knew the Lord to be. One night he hit the mark, He just started to talk to me about the Lords love for me to such depth, and quoting so many scriptures to support what he was saying, all I could do was quietly weep...I don't really remember saying much..just weeping...
The next day when driving to work I noticed something was different but I did not know what..it took a few hours for me to figure it out...I WAS NOT IN PAIN!!!
How could this have happened? Then I remembered the conversation I had the night before, the remembrance of what had been said had truly penetrated my Spirit, to such the extreme I had no pain...now that was amazing to me, what I also realized at that time was there was no way I could be out of pain overnight if this was not based out of this being a spiritual disease, at that time I realized this disease had a significant spiritual hold on me..and I knew I had to find out where the open door for Satan had come in my life...I had some prayer and fasting to do...This man and I started a fast for 40 days, at the time it seemed like the thing to do, we didn't really understand the reason but we knew we were to do it...NOW, I understand...Read the verses below...
9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
This unbelief began to shatter once I was reminded of Gods love for me, it continued to shatter over the next 40 days of fasting. During this time I began to listen to Andrew Wommack. I had already learned it was crucial to put the right stuff into my Spirit and I began doing just that. I listened to his free downloads frequently and often all through the night...my eyes were beginning to be opened and the scales were falling off...I was beginning to believe in the hope to which God has called me to...
One day I went to Andrews website and viewed everyone of the healing videos he had all at once, it so filled me with belief after hearing Nicki's story and the ones that followed I made a decision and I kept quite about it too. See, I believe that Satan knows our plans if we speak about them so many times when I am going to do something that challenges me...I'm silent. It was during this time my heart started to race in my chest, I had medical testing done and I needed to decrease my thyroid medicine and pick up my potassium intake, the thought hit me, had God touched me already and I really didn't need my medicine, had my healing began the night I was told of Gods love? I mean when I stopped the thyroid medicine I had no heart ectopy and when I stopped my diuretic I had no drop in potassium. I had stopped many of my medications on and off but I was honestly in so much pain it only lasted for a day or two. By this time I had taken myself off of Lexapro, I was no longer depressed and I had taken myself off Xanax, I was on 13 meds including chemo and another injection these were not just frivolous medications...I had NEEDED them to just even get up and work but I made a decision that day...to believe in the living God, the power in me, I had a great feeling about this in my Spirit so that morning dose was the last time I took any medications. I was done, I was over being sick, I was going to be healthy Gods way for me. Now, let me say I will be the first to say as a medical professional I don't suggest anyone just going cold turkey...this was a process and God took me through it His way for it to be long-lasting, He also was giving me signs I WAS ALREADY healed, see my fatigue had just disappeared, that had never happened, I took naps and slept in late every day I was off, now I couldn't sleep in nor could I nap, I was able to get up and ready in 45 minutes vs the 2 hours it took me before. I use to have to wake up 2 hours before leaving for work just to stand upright, I needed a shower and a hot one for about 20 minutes to help loosen up my joints...I knew something was happening in my body and I was not about to deny it, the medicine I was taking was giving me such side effects I needed to stop it, so I did, and again I told no one...
Two weeks later I went to an Andrew Wommack conference with this fabulous man, it was not until that time I told him I had been off my medication for 2 weeks. He asked me if I wanted to go forward for prayer and to have Andrew lay hands on me...NO, I knew I was good, I knew it was done...this was not in my head it had manifested in my body with living proof...maybe this is why we can call Jesus the living God...He sure was showing me that He is just that...
I want to say that what got me over the edge of this whole thing was when Nickie talked about how after she received her healing she had to continue to stand against symptoms, she often thought if she had any similar symptom in her body that the disease had resurfaced. During those times she said she just stood against those symptoms by speaking to them and that is how she maintained her healing. I can tell you I had symptoms of disease, not all of them at once but just a few, this joint hurt, I would get swollen, I just spoke to those symptoms and the pain I felt and told them to come in line and flee my body, they did so immediately. See Satan WILL give us what we are willing to accept, I wasn't willing to accept any disease or symptoms of it..I believe God had provided so I could be whole. If he can heal me of RA and Thyroid disease and migraine headaches what is a little pain to Him or swelling...I have never known God to do anything half-way...I believe if I had started on meds again vs standing against those symptoms I would not be now 3 months out on no medications with energy that makes my kids heads spin...
Let me say this too for those that wonder...Gods healing for me was NOT progressive, it was done on the cross 2000 years ago but my understanding of the process WAS progressive it continued to require me to actively DO things I was not accustomed to doing, it required me hearing the Word of God, and it required me to fast...It required me learning anew what His love for me was...
This is my story and this is how I actively sought out and found belief again in the power that Christ's death placed IN ME. This is how I found my healing Jesus at a time where I had lost my hope...My prayer is this story helps many, but more than anything I hope none of us ever forget the power Jesus so graciously left with each one of us. God is no respecter of persons, what He did for me He will do for anyone...
In Him, Lori |
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| November 25, 2008 |
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| AWESOME TESTIMONY- I AM SUCH A FAN OF ANDREW WOMMACKS- HE IS ONE OF THE FEW BALANCED TEACHERS OUT THERE. I KNOW OUR LORD HAS REALLY USED HIM TO OPEN MY EYES TO THE TRUTH IN THE WORD. TO GOD BE THE GLORY! THANKS AND KEEP SHARING JESUS AND HIM CRUCIFIED!!!!!!!! |
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| November 25, 2008 |
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| Thank you Heather! I love how you stated...keep sharing Jesus and Him crucified...that is an awesome way to put it... Thanks My sister...Lori |
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| November 25, 2008 |
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God is an Amazing Healer. That's Good News.
AWESOME GOD. KEEP SHARING YOUR TESTAMONY.....IT'S HELPS MORE THAN YOU KNOW.
God Bless & Happy Thanksgiving. |
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| November 26, 2008 |
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| Terry happy Thanksgiving to you too! And thanks for the comment...to God be the glory...In HIm, Lori |
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| November 26, 2008 |
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Praise the living God!
As you have said Lori, it's apparent that you became sick and tired of being sick and tired. God will be the God we believe Him to be. I thinks its awesome that your eyes were opened to the fact that you were not waiting on God to move, yet He was waiting on you to receive.
Hearing of God's immeasurable love for you was the trigger for this healing. and that's what the world needs to know. It is the goodness of God that leads a man to repentance.
Praise God for you Lori. I am so proud of you, yet even more amazed by Him.
Thank you for sharing your story with us.
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| November 26, 2008 |
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As you have said Lori, it's apparent that you became sick and tired of being sick and tired. God will be the God we believe Him to be. I thinks its awesome that your eyes were opened to the fact that you were not waiting on God to move, yet He was waiting on you to receive.
All key things...as we mature in the Lord I believe He expects more of us as His children. We have to come off that milk diet...we also have to really dig into the Word and let our eyes be renewed to the way He has already set things up for us....I went on a quest, and I believe the Lord placed just the right people in my path for me to get the answers I was seeking...I am amazed by his graciousness as well....
Thanks for you kind words Michael, they always touch me...In Him, Lori |
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| December 01, 2008 |
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Over the years even "I" :-) have noticed that there is a pattern that occurs with healing like yours and Niki's (mentioned in connection with Andrew Wommack: she has an awesome testimony too!), as well as others that I've seen receive a miraculous healing: they always believed that it was theirs before it actually manifested. Actually, learning to live the Christian life will actually drive you to that same conclusion. Romans 6 definitely lets us know that we have been immersed into Jesus' death and are alive to God in Him; completely, and totally, free from sin. It really is the same thing because we learn that we must believe what God says is true about us before we actually begin to experience the fact. It is a very difficult concept to get across to people because they see it as lying or pretending (and the tragedy is that we can get into real problems when that's what it is) rather than merely believing a greater eternal truth in our hearts. Sin may still dwell in my members but the truth is that I am told that I must consider myself to be dead to it and alive to God in Christ. It's really the same with sickness, it may still be present but that does not change the fact that God has already done something about it, in Christ. It isn't pretending that God has done something nor is it pretending that it isn't there...it is learning to rest in the finished work of God in Christ on the cross. As Watchman Nee puts it; most of us know about the blood of Christ and how it sets us free from our sins, but very few understand the cross of Christ that sets us free from our sin. So healing is yet another way to learn to abide in these other realities of Christ too. Once we accept the fact that "as many as may be the promises of God they are 'Yes!' in him, and our 'Amen!' is to the glory of God"...it's hard to shut that door of grace that is opened to us! Not because of our faith, but because of His grace. Thanks for sharing your story Lori!
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| December 01, 2008 |
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I can't agree with you more Craig that this is indeed a difficult concept for people....they think it involves lying or faking it, but that is not it at all...a transformation does need to take place in your mind, then it does your body...at least it did mine.
I will also say I believe healing can be different for different people...Jesus went out and healed the unsaved, then many of them came to know the truth. For me I had to figure out what I was to do as a mature Christian, I believe God expects more out of us as we mature in our faith, adults act different than teenagers, toddlers, and babies...sometimes we have to act on things unseen first...we each have to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling....many just miss this message for some reason...and inevetibly they will stay sick...it just grieves me...
My hope is the body of Christ really gets a hold of what Christ has done and healings become an everyday occurrence in the Body of Christ....
Thanks so much Craig for what you had to say, I find you just put so much scriptural clarity to things....God Bless! Lori |
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