A TESTAMONY OF HEALING AND PROTECTION

A TESTAMONY OF HEALING AND PROTECTION This Testamony is about our own son, Steven...

July 10/97
Steven wentt to spend a week of his summer holidays with his cousins in Calgary.

July 12/97
It was decided that everyone would go to Calaway Park for a day of fun. So early that morning Steven, his 5 cousins, 1 brother and a friend headed out for a day of fun at Calaway Park.
They were all having a great time. They went on all the rides that by reputation should make one lose their lunch (and some of them did by the way.)

No weapon formed against you shall prosper...(Isaiah 54:17)
Not to long into the day Steven began to have the odd annoying little stab of pain on the right side of his body. It was only once and a while and he thought it must be from all the junk food he had recently consumed. It would probably go away by tomorrow.
July 13-17/97
Through out the next week Steven and his group would play many games of basketball. Sometimes the game got a little rough.
"Must have pulled a stomach muscle" Steven thought. There was still that stabbing pain in his right abdomen. Only the stabbing pain was more frequent now and intense.

July 18/97
Steven returned home from his little holiday happy and full of stories about the awesome rides at Calaway, how his cousin Jen lost her lunch on one ride and stories about the many games of basketball they all had. He had a wonderful time, except for that annoying little pain on his right side.
"I really must have pulled a muscle", Steven said. I'm getting more sore every day".

July 19-23/97
The pain in Steven's side had moved into his back. Every day the pain grew a bit worse. He still had lots of energy, but he couldn't really eat. When he would eat he felt like he would be sick.

For there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are maked and open to Him...(Heb4:13)
July 24/97 Steven lay on the sofa with a fever. The pain had now graduated to extreme.
A doctors appointment was made and Steven was loaded into the car.
After the examination the doctor was concerned that it may be gallstones. So the doctor set up and appointment to have an ultra sound done. He also had blood tests done.
Dr. Campbell sent Steven home with pain killers and muscle relaxant pills in case the pain was due to a spasm in the intestine. The doctor said that if the pain was caused by a pulled muscle the medication should begin to help soon. July 25/97 Steven laid on the sofa all day. The medication didn't seem to do anthing. The pain killers barely touched the pain. July 26/97 We took Steven back to the doctor. The doctor examined Steven, took a look at his blood test results and immediately scheduled Steven for surgery. The blood test reported that Steven's white blood cell count was very high. It was his appendix.
My presence shall go with you...(Exodus 33:14)
On the way to the hospital a car came from behind us. It began swerving, going from side to side. As it had just about passed us it began to cross back over onto our side of the road. That would have been alright except, it was going to come through us!
It was a narrow road and there was no where for us to go. The only option open was to swerve up onto the curb. In doing that we would most surely hit a power pole.
My husband Ron sounded the horn of the car. After what seemed like an eternity (but was only a split second) the driver of the other car finally looked over his shoulder. He jerked back into his own lane. Undaunted, the driver continued to dodge his way on down the road reclessly dodging in and out of traffic.

He shall give His angels charge over you...(Psalm91:11)br>
Finally we arrived at the hospital where Steven was taken up to the operating room. Two hours later we were able to talk to Dr. Hardy, the surgeon who had operated on our son.
Dr. Hardy told us:
"This is the strangest case of appendicitice I have ever seen. The reason your doctor couldn't feel the swelling that accompanies appendicitis is because the appendix had curled backwards and had tucked it's self in behind the large intestine. All the swelling was in the back instead of in front. The appendix had indeed ruptured and had been leaking poison into Stevens body for many days. Not much longer and it would have burst. The really odd thing about that" Dr. Hardy said, "is that appendicitis takes only 2 to 3 days to manifest it's self to the point that the patient is in extreme pain. Steven however, has had appendicitis for 10 days maybe longer. For a good deal of that time it has been leaking poison into Steven's body. To have appendicitis for that long is just unheard of."
Most people recouperate from appendicitis and are able to go home ater surgery in about 3 days. Steven however, will be at least 7 days in the hospital"
Nine days later we were able to bring Steven home. He had lost 15 pounds. The clothes that he wore into the hospital that day now hung on him like they were 2 sizes to big.

The thief come to steal, to kill and to destroy..(John10:10)

It is obvious that satan tried to kill Steven. It was a sneaky tactic the way he caused the appendix to curl backwards and "hide" in behind the intestine so that it went undected, all the while causing it to leak poison into Steven's body.
Steven is going to be a mighty warrior for God and I guess satan wanted him out of the way.
As I thought on all these things that had happened, some scriptures came to my mind.
If God is for you, who can be against you? (Romans 8:31)

Satan goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour...(1Peter5:8)
but Jesus is
the Lion of the Tribe of Judah...(Revelation 5:5)
It is because the Lion of the Tribe of Judah whipped satans butt 2000 years ago that ..no weapn formed against you shall prosper...
and
if God is for us, therefore who can be against us
and Who can seperate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword?
As it is written, For your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
No, in all these things we are more that conquerors through Him that loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to deperated us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord
No where in the Bible are we promised a "rose garden" life. But we do have a risen Saviour, a Mighty God Who loves us, see's what we are going threw and is always with us. I don't know why God allowed (NOT CAUSED) Steven to go through that thing. All I know is that we say God move on Steven's behalf many times in those days. We also saw that the Scriptures are Mighty in God to the pulling down of strongholds.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds....(2Cor10:4)
All things work together for good...(Romans8:28)
and
By Jesus stripes Steven is healed...(1Peter2:24)

Thank you Lord!
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