No Pain
A MIRACLE HAPPENED TO ME TODAY!!! This is
true and it happened today:
My Testimony - 9-8-02 Today the Lord Jesus Christ as Healer
and Helper visited me. I am standing in awe, right now,
tears of joy and gratitude running down my face, that MY
LORD should visit me - let me tell you what happened. He is
good, folks, and He is real - He is a Person and He is
awesome. Words cannot describe.
As some of you might know, for the past 11 months I have
suffered from a very severe, extremely painful rectal
condition that just has not been healed. I have had prayer,
etc., but lately have had to rely on strong painkillers and
a very restricted diet to get some kind of relief. There has
been none, and I have really been suffering. But this is not
a complaint -- this is all background.
Well the time came the other day when I said, Lord is this
it? And He seemed to tell me in my spirit that, yes, the
time had come for surgery. Nothing else has worked, so I
went ahead and made the appt. with the surgeon, the third I
have had with him; he has always said, well, let's try
something else. NOTHING has helped so surgery is scheduled
next Thursday on the 19th of this month. This is not bad
surgery, not MAJOR surgery, but as you may know I am in my
60's and as we age, our bodies don't bounce back as quickly
and of course there are always complications that can happen
at any age, like staph and blood clots, arrythmia, etc., so
surgery is not a fun thing, not a thing to be taken lightly
at any time. But this is still background.
In this extreme, severe painful state I have suffered every
day for the past 8 months, every morning with about 3 hours
of debilitation, where I am laid flat out from pain and have
had to take narcotics for the last four months to get rid of
that pain. Not a good thing! But this this is still
background.
So picture me in this situation -- nothing of course
compared to the suffering of many others who have it MUCH
WORSE than me with other conditions MUCH graver -- but still
enough to strike fear and trepidation in my heart at going
to the doctor and having to undergo another digital rectal
examination. The last time it hurt so bad, I cried. Carol,
the nurse can remember that and said she felt so sorry for
me. I apologized for crying but it hurt so bad. They were
very nice and understood but needless to say, this morning I
was very, very much in dread - but knowing of course that
the doctor had to examine me and I couldn't complain and
tell him not to, for heaven's sakes.
I had been praying of course, calling out to the Lord in my
mind, asking Him to be merciful to me, to lift me out of
this and help me. I arrived into the exam room and had a few
minutes to wait for the Doctor. It was there as I sat with
my head in my hands in anguish and dread that a calm came
over me - no kidding - it was like a lovely cloud settling
on me and I was able to relax. Then I began thinking about
the Lord Jesus and how dreadfully it must have hurt Him to
have those nails pounded into His hands and His feet; I wept
and told Him to give me just a little bit of that grace He
must have had as he let US (yes, you and me, we are human
you know) pound those awful things into Him, Our God and
Savior and that if He could do that for me and for us, I
certainly could stand up to a momentary hurt from the Doctor
that He had obviously provided to help heal my body.
Then THE MIRACLE STARTED. I climbed up on the exam table
with a heavy heart and laid down and the Doc started to
examine me. I knew he was doing the exam because I felt a
touch. The nurse said, Does that hurt? and I said NO IT
DOESN'T HURT ONE BIT; IN FACT I CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING!!!! DO
YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANT - I COULD NOT FEEL ANYTHING,
HONEST. THE EXAM FELT LIKE A FEATHER BRUSHING OVER MY SKIN,
I COULD NOT BELIEVE THIS AND I JUMPED OFF THAT TABLE,
PRAISING MY LORD, TOLD THE DOCTOR ABOUT THE MIRACLE, THANKED
HIM, THANKED THE NURSE, TESTIFIED TO THE OFFICE PEOPLE as I
made arrangement to schedule the surgery.
The LORD JESUS HAD VISITED ME IN THAT DOCTOR'S OFFICE AND
TAKEN AWAY MY PAIN DURING THE EXAM TIME!!!!
OH, FOLKS, PRAISE HIS NAME, HE IS MIGHTY AND GOOD; HIS MERCY
ENDURES FOREVER; THOUGH HE SLAY ME, I MUST SAY WITH JOB, YET
I WILL TRUST IN HIM! THERE IS NO ONE WORTHIER OR BETTER TO
TRUST WITH MY LIFE AND MY FATE. THANK YOU MY GOD! MY TIMES
AND MY LIFE ARE IN YOUR HANDS. YOU ARE MIGHTY AND JUST.
AND HE ACTUALLY VISITED ME, A NONE-ENTITY IN THIS VAST
UNIVERSE, AND YET ONE THAT MUST BE IMPORTANT TO HIM.
AND THAT MEANS YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO HIM, TOO.
God bless you for reading this and listening to my
testimony. Scripture tells us that when we receive the
bounty of the Lord, we must tell it in the midst of the
people. That's what I am doing!
Sharon Warden, September 8, 2002
"Sing to God, sing praises to His name; lift up a song to
Him who rides upon the clouds; his name is the Lord, exult
before Him!" Psalm 68: 4
Sharon (Received on September 9, 2002)
