My Personal Testimony

Around early 2001, after discovering I had a double pneumonia, my doctor sent me directly to the hospital emergency room. Once the emergency room workers drew blood from me, a doctor came back to tell me what they had found. Without saying a word, I knew by the look in that doctor’s eyes and by the way he was acting, how serious the attack was. To make a long story short, my blood counts (RBCs, WBCs and platelets) were 1/10 of normal levels. Ultimately they diagnosed me with a pre-leukemia condition and said the only way that I would even have a chance of living was to get a bone marrow transplant because my DNA and chromosomes were damaged.

After 8 or 9 months of stressfully going back and forth with the insurance company to get them to pay the claim for that hospital stay, I decided that I was not going to put myself through that again. The hospital accounting department actually admitted to me that the insurance company was known for trying to get out of paying claims.

I had two little girls who needed their mommy. My husband had a job and could not stay home to watch our children while I moved to the other side of the state to undergo a bone marrow transplant. Back then they didn’t do those operations in Grand Rapids, MI. I would have had to go live in Ann Arbor for close to a year to get a bone marrow transplant at the University of Michigan Hospital.

I didn’t feel spiritually prepared for this level of attack at the time. Thankfully I can tell you that if we will just yield to follow Holy Spirit’s leading, God will gracefully meet us right where we are. That’s the too good to be true good news of His gospel!

I tell people that whether or not they are currently under attack, they need to get their minds renewed to know what God’s Word promises about healing. If we are to go into the world to heal the sick, like the Great Commission commands us to do in Mark 16, how can we settle the matter of healing for others if we don’t settle the matter first for ourselves?

For me, I decided that if I can trust Him for my salvation, which I cannot see, I can trust Him for my healing, too. Psalm 103:3 DRB says, “Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.” I had no problem believing that He forgives all of my iniquities. Therefore, because He said in the same verse that He will heal all of my diseases, then both of these statements must be true.

The Lord leads people different ways in their healing journeys. I knew that I was not going to spend the next year contending with that insurance company, which had been chosen by my husband’s employer. I also decided that I was not going to bow to the dictates of this healing protocol, to move to Ann Arbor for 10 months. So these circumstances in my personal journey had a major impact on my decision to not pursue a bone marrow transplant. I decided to resist sickness by speaking to it as I confessed the promises of God (spiritually), while taking alternative medicine supplements (naturally).

This battle for my life was really a battle against fear. I had to regularly give blood and then receive the calls reporting the blood counts. Because the blood counts were not changing, fear was my biggest foe. One day I had had enough and I decided to tell the enemy to just take my life if he could. When I called his bluff and saw that he couldn’t kill me, fear was exposed as nothing but a liar.

I want to encourage anyone reading this testimony for themselves, or for someone else, that it isn’t too late to grab a hold of God’s promises and reject the facts in exchange for the truths in God’s Word. Seek the Lord for yourself on which path He has for you to follow to obtain your healing. I wanted a miracle healing, however that wasn’t how it happened for me. Frankly, I never would have learned everything that I have if I would have received a miracle healing. Each person must study out what God’s Word says about healing and then embrace healing as the Lord leads. I chose to follow peace and to judge God to be faithful to perform His Word for me.

Renewing our minds to the truths contained in God’s Word is a process of progressive revelation. An immature believer hasn’t had their minds transformed by God’s Word yet, nor do they understand their new identity in Christ. When I sought healing, I was unaware that because Jesus purchased my healing 2,000 years ago, I didn’t need to try to get healed or try to get God to move on my behalf. I already had a healing covenant. We have an enemy who attempts to steal our healing covenant by planting thoughts in our minds, symptoms on our bodies and by luring us to go in agreement with bad, fact-based reports. Once we understand the inheritance that we already possess we will see the attack from a new vantage point, walking out our victories with more confidence and trust in our great God!

God is so gracious. He honors faith. Sometimes it’s the parent’s faith for his/her child. Sometimes it is the faith of a believer for another believer or an unbeliever. Sometimes it is the faith of the child or adult who is under attack themselves. We must remember that the Source of our faith is Jesus. He never doubts. Therefore, trust Him to bring you through on His faith! Glory to God forevermore!