My personal testimony!
The day I was baptized a miraculous healing took place in my body. I had severe asthma that required a pill of a morning, 2 inhalers and a breathing machine I had to use many times a day. When it rained, snowed or got cold, I was a prisoner inside and a slave to that breathing machine. This went on for a year. I became known at church as the girl that passes out when she tries to sing. They began to have a nurse standing by at the back of the church and sometimes an ambulance in the parking lot or close by. Everyone knew of my love for praising God through song and I was determined to sing His praises and glorify His name through song. I knew it would usually end with me in the hospital a few days each week..and it did. It was so worth it to get to sing as best I could to honor Jesus. One day I had the worst episode so far and it landed me in the hospital fighting for my life. As my body began to shut down, I went numb all over and could not speak or move at all. Tears just flowed from my eyes as I heard the doctor bring my family in to say their goodbye's. I heard the sniffling and crying of my family and my doctor. Then my doctor said I've done all I can do. Her heart rate is over 200 and her blood pressure is 90/20. I can't raise her blood pressure without her heart exploding and I can't lower her heart rate without her blood pressure plummeting further. All we can do is pray now. My eyes had closed and I had no control to open them or even twitch. Every muscle in my body tightened up. Oh how I hurt for days after that. The doctor took hold of my family's hands and I heard their prayers. I started coming back! They kept me a few days then let me go home saying it was indeed a miracle of God that I had survived.
It was a cold day on the day of my baptism. As I'm waiting in line for my turn, I'm shaking from nervousness and not liking the idea of cold water. I see everyone before me shivering as towels are placed around their shoulders after their baptism. It's finally my turn. The pastor asks me questions and then it got quiet. I then heard him say.. I don't know if we're supposed to do this or not during a baptism but I really feel led for us to pray about this asthma as a church. The church and the pastor prayed over me. I was immersed into the water and I felt the power of God!! I felt a warmth go through the top of my head, travel through my entire body down to my feet. When I came up from the water, I literally felt like I had been on a beach with the sun shining down on me. I declined the towel and they said I was literally glowing! Since that cold November day in 2000, I have never been the same. I have never had another asthma attack and I devoted my life to singing and ministering for my Father in heaven to bring Him glory. For those that know me or have heard my former band and ask why I'm so passionate when I sing.. This is why!
Apart from Him, I can do nothing.. I cannot sing a note. God has blessed me with a great gift that I will not take for granted and that is why I express so much passion through my music and through music at church and anywhere else. GOD put that passion inside of me and what God put in someone should never be seen as a show or a performance. He has restored me and I will not forget who He is and what He has done for me simply because some may mistake my passion for the Lord as a show within the church. We tend to condemn what we don't understand even though it's wrong to do so and because we don't understand, does not mean that what we see is not real.
Christians.. we cannot ultimately see God but we know He is there. Just because we may not have experienced the healing and the passion that comes from that healing, does not mean that God didn't heal and that the passion is not real. In closing.. my Passion comes from the Healer and if there's has not been a noticeable fire started in each of us, then maybe we need to find out why!
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