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A Gift Of Healing A true testimony written by Linda Law
It has now been sixteen years since my near death experience and it is
just as clear today as it
was then. Allow me to share this testimony with you as the Lord spoke to
me then that I would not
die but tell the world of His works. Since then I have told anyone and
everyone who is willing to
listen and praise God some have even come to the Lord with repentance
through this testimony.
It was late January of 1987 and I had abdominal surgery for adhesions.
After surgery instead of
getting better I got really sick with fever and vomiting. At first they
thought it was a sort of flu but
after a week they decided to take me back to surgery to find the
problem. My bowel had been
accidentally perforated during the first surgery and I was now full of
poison. Another surgeon was
called in to repair and bypass the damaged area. I was taken to ICU
(intensive care unit ) after
surgery with little hope of recovery. My husband was told the news and
my family was called to the
hospital expecting the worst. The very first night in ICU my husband was
playing the Psalms on our cassette for me to hear since he was not allowed to stay in my room.
As I laid there wondering
in and out of consciousness I heard the Lord speak to me through the
tapes. He said " You shall
not die, but live and tell the world of my works ". I instantly received
that word from the Lord and
knew I ! was not going to die. I tried to explain to my husband, Ted,
what had happened but he
thought I was delusional. I knew that I knew that I knew that I was NOT
GOING TO DIE. I tried
telling the doctors and the nurses and anyone that came into my room but
no one could believe
me. But it would not change what I knew. Each day something else would
happen to worsen my
condition but it didn't matter because I was not going to die. Ted would
cry and ask God to give
him the assurance I had but for some reason he just couldn't believe. I
remember on my forth or
fifth day in ICU that I ask Ted to read to me my favorite scripture,
Psa. 27.
Just as he began to
read all the beepers went off and the nurses came running in and told
him he had to leave. It took
a couple hours to get me stabilized and then he was allowed to come back
into the room. When
he did Pastor Menke was with him . He only stayed a few minutes and
prayed with us and got
ready to leave and then he paused and said "wait! ! God spoke to me in
the elevator to read some
scripture to you and I almost forgot " ! Can you guess what it was? Your
right!!!! Psa. 27 !!!!!
I wish I could tell you I was instantly healed but that was not the way
the Lord choose to do it. That
day the doctor told Ted that he should call the Red Cross to have them
fly our son, Mike home
from the service. Again the family was called together.
The next day and night had been very hard on us all and I was just about
to doubt what God said
to me. I remember crying out to God and saying, " Father, I know that
Jesus is my Savior and that
the Holy Spirit is my comforter but I need you Abba Daddy right now. I
had no more than said that
when I was lifted out of my bed and carried upward to heaven.
I didn't
see any bright lights or hear
any singing but I do remember how sweet the fragrance was and I felt a
peace that I cannot begin
to explain. In the distance I saw a huge chair and a shadowy figure and
as we came upon it I was
laid in the lap of my Father. He cupped the back of my head with his
tender but large hand and
drew me to His chest and softly said, " daughter, fear not for all is
going to be OK " and the next
thing I knew I was back in my bed in the ICU. That was the first night
that I slept peacefully
through the whole night. The next morning I tried to tell everyone what
had happened to me but
again no one b! elieved. You would think that after being to the throne
that I would have been
healed but it wasn't to be until a few days later when a deacon from our
church, Brother Swartz,
came to visit and pray for me that God finally touched me. As Brother
Swartz was praying for me
he began to tremble and said he felt the power of God in his hands and
at that moment I took his
hands and laid them on my stomach and instantly felt the power of God go
through my body. ( I
must insert here for reference that after I was reopened the second time
they could not close my
incision because of all the poison so I had to be packed every 3-4
hours. I also had a bag
attached to the drain hoses to catch all the poison that was flowing
from my body).
The next morning when the doctors came in I told them that I had been
healed!!!!! I was so
excited that they wanted to give me something to calm me down. I just
kept repeating what God
had done to me and finally the doctor ask Ted if he could talk to me and
calm me down. But this
time even Ted knew that something had happened so he too told the doctor
that I had
experienced something. I told him that they could remove the bags and
the packing but he still did
not believe. So to pacify me he told the nurses to remove the drainage
bags and to pack me real
good and by next morning I would see that I needed them. BUT glory to
God by next morning not
only had the drainage stopped but the tubes had also fallen out. From
that moment on it was just
a matter of time before I would be going home!!! The doctors thought I
would be in ICU at least
another week, but I was out in three days, and then they thought I would
be in another room for a
couple weeks and praise God I went home i! n three days. I know that my
Father imparted upon
me the supernatural gift of faith to receive my healing and since that
time I have not been able to
get angry or hold any bad feelings toward anything or anybody. We are
born to do God's work on
this earth and I will try to be obedient till the day I finally do get
to go home and be with the Lord!!!!!!!!!!
I would also like to add that every time Satan tried to end my life that
the Lord would call up prayer
warriors to stand in the gap for me. Brother Jim Wahlie was awakened
several nights to walk and
pray for me as the Lord showed him in the spirit how the enemy was
trying to destroy me. If you
ever get a urge in your spirit to pray for someone or a heaviness in
your spirit that you cannot
identify then get in your prayer closet and stay there in prayer until
the Lord releases you. You may
not always know who, what or why but that doesn't matter. Just be
obedient and God will surely
bless you!!!!