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Miracle
Testimony
by:
Dick & Marge Statham, Lestock, Saskatchewan MY
HUSBAND WAS AN ALCOHOLIC But
then Dick saw the handwriting
on the wall
Before
we got married, Dick went to the altar and confessed the Lord as
his Saviour. We were happy for a couple of years, but then
one night he went out drinking with a neighbor.
Alcohol
was controlling our lives
From
that day one things went from bad to worse. Dick continued
to drink and soon the alcohol was controlling him and the
alcohol was controlling our lives.
The
night the pastor & his wife from the White Rock Pentecostal
Church accompanied me home from prayer meeting, Dick was
drunk and ordered them off the property and said, “You may as
well go too, wifey." So I did.
Dick had
become an alcoholic
Dick
had become an alcoholic and our happy life was not happy
anymore. Instead of having a loving husband I had to
contend with an abusive, drunken, cursing alcoholic.
Very
graciously my brother & sister-in-law Rev. Jack & Erma
Williams who were living in Hazelton, BC, took me in. They
already had a house full with their daughter Maxine and her 5
children, as well as our Mom. (Jack & mine).
Jack
had his hands full with three churches to serve, besides working
full-time. I finally got a job and worked for 9 months. Later, I
moved to Nanaimo.
Things
started happening with Dick at home
I
was in Nanaimo working when things started happening in White
Rock. I knew something good was going on. The old devil was
working too, and didn’t want me to come home. I stayed up
& prayed all night for God to work a miracle in Dick’s
life!
God
speaks to Dick in a very unusual way
On
May 1970, my husband phoned me and told me that God had sent him
a message. Dick told me that he was in bed one night and
something woke him up. A bright light had lit up the
bedroom and on the wall was the words clearly written, 'Either
you give up the whiskey or I will take your life.
Dick
said he was so frightened. In
the morning when he got up, Dick went to the kitchen and
fixed a glass with water & whiskey. But he didn't
drink the whiskey.
The
handwriting on the wall scared Dick
He
told me, "I thought of the handwriting and I was
scared." "I couldn't drink the alcohol because I
was too afraid of what the writing on the wall said."
After
shaving, he came out of the bathroom and stood facing the table
upon which was the bottle and the whiskey glass.
Dick
couldn't move - he was paralyzed
But
Dick couldn't move or walk. He was completely paralyzed.
He said, "It's the whiskey that is going to go.
Then
a voice said, "Pick up the bottle in one hand and the glass
with whiskey and water in the other hand and pour them right now
down the sink.
Then
Dick said, "I did. I did exactly what the voice said.
I poured the whisky down the sink and poured the contents in the
glass down the sick too. Then I dropped all of it into the
trash can. I picked up my lunch kit and met my neighbor
Harry- the boss where I worked.
I
said, "Harry, I have quit drinking." Harry said,
"I believe you Dick and that was the end of it.
God
changed Dick - My husband is a totally changed man
Dick
came over 4 times to see me and the 4th time I returned home
with him. We were very happy together - Praise the Lord!
MY
HUSBAND WAS A TOTALLY CHANGED MAN
Bible
Verse Can Cure
Sickness & Diseases
By: Pastor Max Solbrekken
GOD'S
HEALING COVENANT
"And
said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD
thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt
give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will
put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon
the Egyptians: for I AM the LORD that healeth thee."
(Exodus 15:26)
NONE
OF THESE DISEASES
One of the
most helpful books in print today is the classic, 'None of These
Diseases' by Dr. S.I. McMillan.
The author,
Dr. S.I. McMillan, a prominent medical doctor uses humor, common
sense and a biblical perspective, in dealing with the causes and
cures of today's diseases.
"It is
lamentable that peace does not come in capsules", he utters
in failure as he remembers the thousands of patients who left
his office with "nothing but a prescription for a bottle of
pills that would only relieve the symptoms of their illness but
not attack the diseases.
The good
doctor laments that he now wishes he had rather prescribed his
book, 'None of These Diseases', so that a permanent cure could
have been affected! According to Medical Science, between
60 and 100% of all diseases are caused by nervous tension,
emotional stress and strain.
Dr. McMillan
states that emotions such as fear, sorrow, envy, resentment and
hatred are responsible for the majority of our sicknesses and
diseases. And that emotional stress can cause high blood
pressure, toxic goiter, arthritis, migraine headaches, apoplexy,
heart trouble, gastro-intestinal ulcers and other serious
illnesses and diseases.
And recently
(about 1996) the American Medical Association released the
findings of a nation-wide survey of tens of thousands of their
medics. One of the questions dealt with their success ratio in
treating patients. The answer is shocking - Only 10% of
patients had received any lasting help through their medical
procedures.
MEDICAL
SCIENCE HISTORY RESTS ON SHAKY FOUNDATION
Having any
problems with falling hair? What do you do to cover up
that bald spot and receding hairline?
Probably the
only solution is to massage your head, comb your hair forward,
get a toupee or just simply let it fall.
CRAZY
CURES FOR DISEASES 3500 YEARS AGO
If you had
lived about 3500 years ago you would have gotten very different
advice - not from a therapist but from your physician.
He would have
quoted from the famous medical authority of that day, Papyrus
Ebers.
"When it
falls out, one remedy is to apply a mixture of six fats, namely
those of the horse, the hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat,
the snake and the ibex. To strengthen it, anoint with the tooth
of a donkey crushed in honey."
THE PAPYRUS
EBERS - AN ANCIENT MEDICAL WORLD GUIDE - REMEDIES FOR DISEASES
1552 BC.
The Papyrus
Ebers was published about 1552 BC and occupied a dominant
position in the ancient medical world and was one of the leading
guides for practicing physicians for a long time.
There are
literally hundreds of remedies for diseases in this book, such
as lizard's blood, swine's teeth, putrid meat, stinking fat,
moisture from pig's ears, milk goose grease, asses hooves,
animal fat from various sources, excrete from animals, including
human beings, donkeys, antelopes, dogs, cats and even flies.
THROUGH
MOSES, GOD MADE HIS HEALING COVENANT WITH THE JEWISH NATION
Moses was
born about the time the 'Papyrus Ebers' was written in Egypt.
He was educated in their highest schools of learning - scholars
think he was also a physician - as the son of Pharaoh's
daughter.
But when God
called Moses to lead His people out of Egyptian bondage, he did
not borrow from the "occultist clap-trap" in their
medical books of disease remedies. He rejected the
highest, most respected medical authority of that day.
Moses'
directive was "Heed the voice of God, do right, obey His
commandments, keep His statutes and I will heal you."
God did not
borrow medical advice from the 'Papyrus Ebers'. His advice to
Moses was contrary to the most highly respected medical thought
of that day.
THE
CHURCH WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN STOPPING
THE BLACK DEATH DISEASE
Millions of
Europeans died of the disease Leprosy for hundreds of years.
Some physicians thought the cause of the disease Leprosy was
eating hot food or the meat of diseased hogs. Others
blamed the disease Leprosy on malign conjunction of the planets.
Approximately
60 million people died from the BLACK DEATH disease in the 14th
century. Dr. George Rosen of Columbia University writes:
"Leadership was taken by the Church, as the physicians had
nothing to offer. The Church took as its guiding principal
the concept of contagion as embodied in the Old Testament.
DISEASE
OF LEPROSY - PEOPLE AFFLICTED WITH THIS DISEASE WERE QUARANTINED
"Once
the condition of leprosy has been established, the patient was
to be segregated and excluded from the community...it
accomplished the first great feat...in methodical eradication of
disease".
Possibly, the
Church needs to investigate measures to insure that the AIDS
epidemic does not leap from high risk groups to the general
population, since governmental and medical bodes are again
"doing nothing:.
For centuries
in Europe, multitudes perished from deadly diseases because of
improper hygiene, sanitation and sloppy hospitals. In many
villages, human excrement and waste was dumped into the streets,
bringing deadly diseases, creating epidemics of typhoid, cholera
and dysentery!
GOD HAD
GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BURYING OF
WASTES 3500 YEARS AGO
The solution
to the problem that was causing these deadly diseases, the
burying of wastes, had been given by God 3500 years before (in
Deuteronomy 23:12-13).
HYGIENE
CUT MORTALITY RATE - GOOD HYGIENE STOPPED DISEASES FROM
SPREADING
Venna
in the 1840s was famous as a medical center. One of the
most famous teaching hospitals of that day was Allegemeine
Krakenhus. In its maternity ward, one out of six women
died.
Dr. Ignaz
Semmelveis discovered that if doctors washed their hands well,
after doing autopsies and before examining expectant mothers,
the mortality rate dropped drastically.
Dr.
Semmelveis was not applauded by the Medical Profession.
However, he was ridiculed by his peers, discredited, lost his
position and eventually succumbed to the pressure, dying in a
mental hospital.
Moses had
given the same advice many centuries before (in Numbers 19).
If wasn't until 1878 that the method of cleaning hands and
instruments was introduced by men like John Tyendall, Louis
Pasteur and Sir Joseph Lister that the mortality rate began to
drop.
The New York
State Department of Health, in 1960, issued a book describing a
method of washing the hands very similar to that found the BIBLE
- Numbers Chapter 19.
JOHN
WESLEY, FOUNDER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH DECLARED IT WAS GOD'S
WILL FOR MIRACLES TO BE IN THE CHURCH, BUT THE MIRACLES HAD BEEN
LOST DUE TO UNBELIEF.
It's
interesting to note that John Wesley - founder of the Methodist
Church declared that it is God's will for miracles to be in the
Church, for the entire Church age, but have been lost to the
church because of UNBELIEF.
He further
stated, "The only method of physics employed by the Early
Church for the first 400 years, was the prayer of faith."
Medical
science has come a long way since Papyrus Ebers was published in
1552, BC and even since the 1840's in Vienna, but I still think
that when your family physician advises you to get a second or
third opinion about an operation, its a good idea.
Now if anyone
wants to try the remedy for falling hair, don't let me
discourage you. But then where would you find a hippopotamus
these days?
As for me and
my house, we will Trust the Lord and serve Him only!
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