My testimony

 I thought a church is a church and they are probably all the same, boy was I wrong. 

I had serious eye issues in both eyes for over 8 years. I reached a point 2 years ago where I was borderline legally blind. I couldn’t read anything. I couldn’t even enjoy TV unless I was 12 inches in front of it. I had my computer hooked up to a large tv screen inches in front of me and I would have to copy things from websites or facebook that I wanted to read and paste them into a word document and enlarge it until I could read it. 

About a year ago, I reached a point where I had enough about my eyesight. You see about 28 years ago I was given two weeks to live, and I was miraculously healed during the night with no surgeries, medication or doctor intervention.

Let me back up a few years. I was saved in a Pentecostal church that my girlfriend was going to (now my wife). I saw miracle after miracle and healing after healing in that church. You can say I was raised through my Christian infancy believing that nothing is to big for God and He did in fact want ALL of His children healed. The problem was we were living in Palos Park, Illinois and the church was in Addison, Illinois quite a distance away to be going Sunday morning, Sunday Evening and Wednesday evening.  But what made it worse was the best friends we had in that church lived in Barrington and Palatine both over 1 hour away. It wasn’t real easy to continuously meet at each other’s houses during the week in the evening, so we decided to look for a church closer so we could have Christian friends closer.

I thought a church is a church and they are probably all the same, boy was I wrong. We started attending a church closer to our house and I started realizing while their handbook said they believed in all of the things I did, that is not what was coming out of some of the pastors, deacons, elders and people there. About a year after we started attending the new church I got severely ill, after multiple test, the doctor informed me it was fatal and there was nothing they could do. The disease had progressed too far. They wanted me to stay in the hospital so they could try and make me more comfortable during my last days. I told the doctor no, I’m leaving. He tried to convince me it would be the best for my family if I was not at home and in the hospital. I replied, if there is nothing you can do, I’m going home and calling some friends to pray. If I am not better by the morning I will consider going to the hospital.

My wife drove me home (I was way to weak to drive). ALL of the teachings I heard and miracles I saw at my old church were running through my mind. Something that was strongly running through my mind was the story I read in the Bible about Jairus asking Jesus to come to his home and pray for his sick daughter. That story gets lost in the Bible because on their way to Jairus home Jesus encountered the woman with the issue of blood and that story seemed to be the focus of everyone’s attention. But my focus was always on what happened after that. When Jesus got to Jairus home he told the people there do not worry the girl is only sleeping and the people mocked him. Jesus then had EVERYONE removed from the house because of their unbelief, accept for Jairus, his wife and the apostles that were with them. Jesus spoke to the girl and she got up. That story taught me something, that unbelief does not belong anywhere around someone that needs healing. Then I remembered that Jesus did not do many might works in His own town because of the people’s unbelief and then how Jesus told the disciples that cold not heal the man’s son with seizures that it was because of their unbelief. 

I started thinking about the people we knew that absolutely believed that God wants ALL of His children healed and I started calling them and asking if they would come over to pray with me that evening.  When someone called me back and said they had called a specific deacon and pastor. I told them no. I know how they feel about healing, I don’t want someone there praying “if I’ts God will to heal me”. If they don’t know God’s will for healing His children I don’t want them praying for me. The person on the phone was shocked, but I explained this is not a coffee and donut prayer meeting, where it’s more about hanging out with each other than seriously praying. This was literally a matter of life or death, MINE. If they don’t understand that I’m sorry for them, but I wasn’t concerned about hurting people’s feelings at that point. 

That evening as people were praying I kept falling in and out of sleep on the couch as people kept praying into the night. After the last person left my wife sitting on the floor next to the couch holding my hand asked how I was feeling and I said the same. But I will NEVER forget the words I said next,
“The Bible says by Jesus stripes I am healed and I believe that, I will not settle for anything less than a complete healing.” I guess I fell asleep on the couch and the next thing I knew I woke up in the morning and I felt completely fine. I woke up my wife, jumped around the living room for awhile and “I” drove us to the doctor’s office for him to examine me. The office wasn’t open so we sat in the car and praised God. When we went in I told the nurse what had happened and to tell the doctor I was there. A few minutes later they called me into his office and he examined me and said he can’t believe it. He sent me out to repeat the test they did before and the test came back and showed I was completely healed. Not one spec of disease left in my body.

PLEASE understand:
1. God DOES in fact want ALL of His children healed and that is according to the Bible.
2. Uncertainty, doubt, unbelief or questions about the meaning of a scripture WILL stop you from receiving the blessing it is promising you.
3. Not all churches are the same. NOT AT ALL. Some churches will empower you with Biblical truths and some will plant seeds of doubt, uncertainty, unbelief and questions about the truth of Scriptures. They will not only steal your blessings and God’s promises but they will make you believe they are doing you a favor while they do it.
4. If you are going to a church that is NOT preaching the empowerment of the Bible LEAVE, don’t walk away, run away. If you are attending a church that is preaching the whole truth of the Bible, then take a minute and send a message or call your pastor and thank him for having enough faith to not submit to the world’s carnal view of the Bible.