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Miracle
Testimony
by:
Louise McCarthy, Parksville, B.C. EPILEPTIC
SEIZURES DESTROYED
MY LIFE UNTIL
JESUS HEALED ME AT
2 WEEKS OLD, I HAD AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE AND DIED I
had an epilepsy seizure and died when I was 2 weeks oold on May
23, 1955. After I turned blue and cold, my mother, who was
a registered nurse, managed to revive me and rushed me to the
hospital. I
was in and out of the Vancouver Sick Children's Hospital for the
next several years under the caring expertise of Dr. Auciandd They
found among other things, that I had an intense allergy to milk
which would set off epilepsy seizures. When i was 3 years
old, I spent most of the summer in the hospital. I
remember feeling abandoned and terrified of the many injection
needles that seemed necessary to keep me calm. After this
time in the hospital, my parents were extremely careful to keep
all anxiety and anticipation out of my life. EVERYONE
HAD TO MAKE SURE I WAS KEPT CALM OR I WOULD HAVE EPILEPTIC
SEIZURES Over
and over I heard the words: "Don't get Louise
excited." When it was unavoidable, they would up my
dosage of tranquilizing drugs in order to avoid a seizure.
When I was cranky or hostile, I often became violent and my
mother would say, "Did you remember to take your pills
today?" I
remember a Saturday when I was 10 years old. My mother
made all of us 4 children have a bath in the morning. Then
we all had our hair done. Next we put on our fancy dresses
and crinolines. I
realized that something special was happening. no one had
told me that we were going to a wedding in the afternoon.
My little sister who was five had known about the wedding for 2
weeks, but had been instructed not to tell me, so that I
wouldn't get excited. I
STARTED SNEAKING ALCOHOL FROM MY PARENTS As
I entered my teenage years, the levels of dosages were "all
over the map". I started drinking (on the sly) from
my parent's liquor cabinet when I was 14 years old. This
would mess up the affect of the tranquilizers even more. I
found that if I skipped my noon time pills, I would have
excessive energy for the evening but I wouldn't be able to sleep
until I was emotionally and physically drained. I usually
cried myself to sleep and was often violent. When
I was like this mom mom would make sure I took my pills by
standing and watching me. At stressful times I would lose
weight which again would play havoc with the drug levels. With
the games I was playing with tranquilizers and alcohol, I don't
know how I survived my teenage years. By God's grace, I
think. I
WAS REBELLIOUS AND ELOPED AT 19 YEARS OLD The
doctors DID NOT want me to go through the stress of marriage and
pregnancy until I was stabilized - hopefully in my later
20's. But being quite rebellious, I eloped at 19 years
old. We
bought a house when I was 20 years old, by alot of scrimping and
saving, and I had a baby just before my 21st birthday. My
husband was as violent and unpredictable as I was - twas a
stormy, unhappy marriage. MY
BABY WAS BORN WITH ADHD & FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME My
baby was colicky, underweight, ADHD (although that was
not diagnosed until many years later) as FAS (fetal alcohol
syndrome - again not diagnosed until much later). Danny
never slept more than 2 hours. I was in a bad physical
state and looking for a divorce, when my girlfriend invited me
to a Max Solbrekken Crusade. I
came up to Kelowna, B.C. (from New Westminister) on a bus with
my 4 1/2 month old son, thinking that I would go to this meeting
to satisfy my girlfriend (from high school days). I
thought I would stay the weekend and then go to a lawyer on
Monday to get a divorce. I
WENT TO THE MAX SOLBREKKEN TENT CRUSADE Then
we went to the crusade tent, everyone was so full of joy.
A man was running around and around the tent praising the Lord
with his hands lifted up. Lillian told me that he had come
at the beginning of the week with a very serious heart case,
unable to lift his hands up enough to comb his hair. I
didn't believe her, but I thought this could be interesting to
see the trick the evangelists use to make people believe in this
stuff. I
knew God could heal, I just didn't believe He would heal
me. I thought, as a deist, that God created the world, but
then just left us to figure out the rest. He'd be too busy
to bother with someone's aches and pains.
PASTOR
MAX SOLBREKKEN BEGAN PRAYING FOR THE SICK
After
singing some songs, Pastor Max Solbrekken asked if anyone wanted
prayer for healing.
A
lady suffering from back pain went forward. He asked her to sit
down and put her feet out straight. In the meantime, Lillian had
taken my baby and pushed me right to the front, so that I could
see.
I
crouched down to look for the trick, so I was about 18 inches
away from the lady's feet and from Pastor Solbrekken.
Pastor Solbrekken had hold of her heels and he was showing us
that one leg was shorter than the other causing the pain,
so I watched Pastor Max to see how he would pull on one leg and
I watched to see if the man behind the chair would twist the
lady's shoulders giving the impression
of lengthening the one leg.
But
as I watched, the man stepped back and raised his hands and
started glorifying God, while Max Solbrekken's fingers, under
the lady's heels just dropped slowly from her heels as he
said, "Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus! Thank
you Lord."
As
he said this, I watched her leg MOVE OUT. The 'brick wall'
of all my unbelief came tumbling down and I was confronted with
a God who actually cared.
PASTOR
SOLBREKKEN ASKED IF ANYONE ELSE WANTED JESUS TO HEAL THEM - I
PUT UP MY HAND
I
stood up shaking! When Pastor Solbrekken asked who else
wanted Jesus to heal them, to give them a miracle, I put up my
hand, still shaking uncontrollably. He said, "Oh, the
Holy Ghost is all over this little lady", as he turned to
me and asked what I wanted to be healed from.
I
STARTED
TO CRY AND SCREAMED 'EPILEPSY
I
couldn't
answer although I was shaking like a leaf, my insides were
frozen, the pit of my stomach was a 'tight knot', my
throat was like dry ice.
I started to cry and finally screamed 'EPILEPSY!'
Pastor
Solbrekken put his hands on my shoulder and led me up to the
platform. He announced on the microphone what God was
about to do. That God was going to heal and deliver me
from Epilepsy. He came towards me with his hand upraised.
As
he brought his hand down toward my head, an electric shock went
between us and threw us apart a couple of feet. Then he
said: "In the name of Jesus...." and his hand came
down on my head.
A FEELING
LIKE WARM OIL WENT THROUGH MY ENTIRE BODY
I
yelled
"JESUS" (that was my salvation prayer), as I fell back
into a chair. Immediately Pastor Solbrekken's hand went on
my head and I felt as if it were a bead of warm oil (about the
size of a baseball) enter the top of my head and I could feel it
moving all around, then stopping, then moving. This warm
oil went throughout my entire body. I could feel it moving
up and down each finger and eventually each leg and toe.
This whole process took about 25 minutes as I sat in the chair
while the service went on
JESUS
APPEARED TO ME: HE KEPT TELLING ME HOW MUCH HE LOVED ME!
When
I went back to the congregation, everyone was worshiping, so I
took my baby to hold and joined in the worship with all of my
heart - I was so happy - I was so grateful. As
the gratitude and thankfulness welled up inside of me I fell
over backwards. Fortunately, Lillian chose that very
second to look over at me and took my baby as I went down under
the power of the Spirit. It was then that I saw the Lord and
heard the voice of a waterfall saying: "I
love
you, Louise. Never forget that I love you. I love you more than
you can imagine..."
He went on saying this for about 45 minutes!
When
I got up, I started to worship and as I did, I started singing
in a language that flowed and flowed, but that I had never heard
before. I was so filled with joy for Jesus, healing me,
forgiving me, delivering me and filling me with His Spirit. I
asked question after question of my hosts, that night and kept
them up till
3
a.m.
I
slept in peace for the first time in my life and when I woke up.
I found that my baby had slept from
11:30
until
8:30
for
the first time in his little life.
I WAS
HEALED OF EPILEPSY AND I AM STILL HEALED 26 YEARS LATER
Pastor
Max told me to keep taking my pills until I was checked by the
EEG (I used to have this test every 6 months) to check my brain
waves. Well, I threw the pills in the toilet in Kelowna. I
KNEW I WAS HEALED and would never need another pill. That
was June 26th, 1976. That night I was set free from
unbelief, epilepsy, hatred, including self-hate, hopelessness,
alcohol, etc.
I
went
to my scheduled EEG on
September
20th, 1976
.
When
I went into Dr. Auciand's office after the test, he said: "Well,
this is wonderful! We've
finally got this under control! Your alpha waves were completely
NORMAL!"
He was so pleased. Bursting his bubble of medical
accomplishment, I said: "Well, Praise the Lord! I haven't
had a pill in three months! I'm healed!"
He
said, "WHAT?!"
My reply was "Jesus healed me in June and I haven't
had any medication since then." He called me crazy and
assured me that I would be back in his office with more trouble
very soon. That
was 26 1/2 years ago.
JESUS IS
THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME
Soon
after I started attending a Holy Ghost filled church where I was
loved, nurtured, discipled, taught, trained and shown how to
love and serve God, by loving and serving people. All three of
my children were snatched from death through the power of God at
one time or another in their lives. Danny
was in hospital at 2 1/2 years old, the doctors made a bed for
me because they said he wouldn't live through the night. Now
he's 26 and has married an on fire for Jesus beautiful
young lady.
I
am
now married to a man who likes to serve and pray as much as I
do. I have assisted in planting a few churches over the years,
ministering in the prophetic and intercession and all the
practical hands-on work that is needed.
I
think my gifting is my willingness to do anything that will help
Jesus be made manifest, from babysitting to washing the
washrooms, taking graffiti off walls, turning overheads, leading
worship, Bible studies, preaching, giving money to the Lord's
work! I
just love the Lord.
The
revival that started in my heart on June
26th, 1976
never
wore off. Jesus is the best thing that
ever
happened to me! Hallelujah
WOULD
YOU LIKE
TO RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST INTO YOUR HEART TODAY?
PRAY
THIS PRAYER NOW TO RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST IN YOUR HEART
"Dear
Heavenly Father,
I
ask for Thy great mercy and grace. I acknowledge my
sinfulness and confess that I cannot save myself. I
believe the GOOD NEWS that Jesus paid the penalty for m sins,
through His vicarious death on the cross."
"I
believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead according to the
Scriptures and He has the power and authority to forgive my sins
and save my soul. I repent of my sins and am willing to
forsake them with the help of the Holy Spirit."
"I
now renounce the devil and all his works and all his ways and I
now receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, my Master and my
God. Come into my heart and save me now, for Christs'
sake. Thank you Lord, for saving my soul. In Jesus
precious' name, I pray." Amen.
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