This has nothing to do with favourite love songs, but when something wonderful happens, it feels only right to share it with others in case they are struggling with the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a\nterrible thing to hear the doctor say that you have cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our doctor\nwanted me to go to a far away city to have the top part of my ear cut off. I\ndidn\u2019t want to do that. I wanted God to heal me. I had this problem for a\ncouple of years, but couldn\u2019t seem to get healed. I prayed and prayed, but\nnothing worked. I prayed for other people too, in the hope that I could get\nhealed. Still, nothing helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then our\ndoctor sent me to a specialist. He also said I had cancer, and wanted me to go\nto the far away city for radiation and chemotherapy. I didn\u2019t want to do that\neither. Then our doctor called in another doctor, and he too said I had cancer,\nand wanted the top of my ear cut off in the far away city hospital. I didn\u2019t\nfeel like having part of my ear cut off. I would look like a real dork!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When our\ndoctor first checked me she also felt under my ears to see if it had gone into\nmy lymph glands. I had read a book by Esther Williams some years earlier about\nhow her husband had a problem that went into his lymph glands, and he died\nabout two weeks later. So it could be serious. Still, I wanted God to heal me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some years\nearlier, I had a comb with a metal clip on it so that it would be able to clip\non my top pocket. I don\u2019t know where I got the comb, but one time when I combed\nmy ear it must have cut my skin. The cut didn\u2019t seem to heal up. I used to love\ngoing to the swimming pool, but I saw a sign saying that you are not allowed in\nthe pool if you have an open sore. So I had to quit going to the pool. That was\nvery disappointing, as I loved diving off the spring board and cooling off in\nthe summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This ear\nproblem went on for a number of years. I didn\u2019t know what to do about my\nproblem, but kept hoping God would heal me. I have had a few healings before,\nso I knew God could heal me, if He wanted to. When I was young, I had a cracked\nspine, and I got healed. Then I had eczema in my feet, and got healed of that\nbig problem too. My cracked spine got healed six years after the car accident by\nclaiming that \u201cWith the stripes of Jesus I am healed.\u201d Instantly the pain left\nmy spine. When I had the eczema problem I kept making the same claim, but it\ndidn\u2019t work. After six months, I made a promise to pray for the sick in my\nmeetings, and then I got healed on the very first night that I prayed for the\nsick people. I tried both these things on my cancer, but still, I couldn\u2019t get\nhealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then one\nmorning in church, the lady leading the song service said something like this:\n\u201cInstead of praying for healing all the time, let\u2019s just thank the Lord for\nhealing.\u201d The Holy Spirit seemed to take those words and burn them on my heart.\nWhen I got home, I went to the Bible Gateway program on my computer and typed\nin the word \u201cthank\u201d in the King James Version of the Bible, to find all the verses\non the subject. I think I found 132 verses about giving thanks. One verse in\nparticular, seemed to stand out to me: \u201cGiving thanks always for all things\nunto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d (Ephesians 5,\n20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have to\nuse tricks to help me memorize the verse: Giving thanks always = GTA = Greater\nToronto Area. So I think of it as \u2018Toronto FAT\u2019 to help me to remember. When I\ncount on my fingers, E is the fifth letter in the alphabet, which reminds me of\nEphesians chapter five, and I have twenty finger and toes, to remind me of the\nverse twenty. So I will never forget where it is found! It felt like the Holy\nSpirit kept working on me with the words \u201cALL THINGS.\u201d Now that I am old, I keep\nlooking back over my life, with so much regret over all the mistakes I have made,\nand all the things that have gone wrong in my life. The idea of giving thanks\nfor \u2018ALL THINGS\u2019 seemed crazy! What about all the bad things? All the bad\nthings that have happened to me, all the times people have been so bad to me,\nand tried to kill me and hurt me, and so forth? So I had a problem with this\nidea of giving thanks for all the bad things. I had no problem with giving\nthanks for all the good things! Lots of good things have happened to me too! I\nstruggled with this. It just wasn\u2019t logical to thank God for all the bad\nthings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes\n\u2018forgiving\u2019 can be a problem. I have tried so many times to overcome this\nproblem by praying and forgiving all the people that have been horrible to me.\nSometimes sins and weaknesses can be a problem too. I have been down that road\nso many times, and asked the Lord to forgive me. Still, I wasn\u2019t healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have a\npark near where we live, and I love going for a walk to the park. I take it as\na \u2018prayer walk.\u2019 I talk to the Lord all the way there and back. If there is no\none around, I love to just swing on the swing for a few minutes. It takes me\nback to my childhood, and makes me happy. One day, after my swing, I got to\nthinking about saying a prayer of thanks. I got to thinking, it is not like\ngambling \u2013 I won\u2019t lose any money! So, as I walked through the parking lot, I\nsaid a little prayer, and thanked God for ALL the things that had happened in\nmy life! Boom! Something happened in the spirit realm! I could feel that\nsomething had happened! When we were kids we used to sing a chorus that went\nsomething like this: \u2018Jesus took my burdens, and He rolled them in the sea,\nrolled them in the sea, rolled them in the sea, and now I am so happy, as happy\nas can be, For Jesus took my burdens, and He rolled, and He rolled, and He\nrolled, and He rolled, and He rolled them in the sea.\u2019 That is what it felt\nlike in my spirit. It was as if I had a big sack of burdens had rolled off my\nback! I remember seeing a Pilgrim\u2019s Progress book once, with a picture of\nPilgrim with a big sack on his back that rolled off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From that\nmoment on, my ear started healing up. After about two weeks, my ear was healed.\nMy skin had grown over the place where the sore was. Every night when I lie in\nbed, I raise my hands and thank my Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,\nfor healing my ear. I am so grateful to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is so\nwonderful to be healed. There are so many sicknesses and diseases in the world,\nand I don\u2019t know the answers to all the problems, but from my experiences, I\nthink the answer is to ask God what you must do to get healed. Many times in\nthe Bible, people had to do things to get healed. For example, Naaman had to\ndip in the River Jordan seven times to get healed of his leprosy. Jesus told a man to stretch out his hand, and\nhe got healed. Jesus put mud on a guy\u2019s eyes and told him to wash his eyes, and\nhe was healed of his blindness. There are many such stories in the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since my ear\ngot healed I have had other problems, and each time there was a different\nsolution. So I will share with you some of these others problems that I have\nhad, and maybe it can give you ideas of how you can get healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One day I\nhad a terrible toothache in the top right hand side on my jaw. I prayed, and\nthe pain went away! It was so simple, that I took it for granted. A few months\nlater I had a toothache in the bottom right side of my jaw. I prayed, but the\npain didn\u2019t go away. The pain was so terrible, and wouldn\u2019t go away, that I started\ntaking pain tablets. When I took the pain tablets, it would take about an hour\nand a quarter before the pain would subside. One day my wife saw me popping the\npills into my mouth, and warned me it could damage my stomach and kidneys. That\nscared me, so I stopped taking the pills. Afterwards, I was driving to the\nsupermarket to get groceries, and a chorus popped into my head that I had heard\nmany years before. It went something like this: \u2018And the blood will never lose\nit\u2019s power, no never, no never. Jesus\u2019 blood avails for me forever, it will\nnever lose it\u2019s power.\u2019 So I sang it over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That night we were having family time, and the tooth pain started again. So I sang the chorus, and after a few minutes, the pain went away. That night when I went to bed, the pain came back, so I sang the chorus again, and in a few minutes the pain went away. Every time the pain started, I would sing a whole lot of songs about the blood of Jesus, and the pain would go away. The blood of Jesus is more effective than the extra strength pain tablets, and it works much faster! Glory to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One day, I\ngot off my computer chair, and it felt like my right leg popped out of my hip.\nI could hardly walk. I spent the rest of the day lying down. The next morning,\nI still had the problem. I kept praying for the Lord to help me and show me\nwhat I must do to get healed. I felt I needed to sing a bit. I took my guitar\nand hobbled down to the basement. I was struggling to stand up, but I felt I\nmust sing and praise the Lord. A song came to my mind about the blood of Jesus\nthat I had written many years before. It was a communion type song, and it started\nlike this: \u2018I remember You, as I take this piece of bread, I remember how Your\nbody, was broken in my stead, I remember how, they placed a crown of thorns on\nYour head, and that spear went through your side, and your precious blood you\nshed.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I couldn\u2019t\nremember all the words, but I felt in my spirit, that I must put the song on\nthe YouTube. So I hobbled back upstairs to my room, found the tape that I had\nrecorded many years earlier, and transferred it onto my computer. I took a few\nhours of putting together pictures for the video, but eventually it was on\nYouTube. When I stood up from the computer chair, I was healed! Hallelujah.\nWhat a relief! Glory to God! I am so grateful for all the times that the Lord\nhas healed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beloved, I hope these stories have helped you a bit to get some ideas about how you could possibly get healed. There is only one healer, and that is the Lord. In the Bible it says: \u2018I am the LORD that heals you.\u2019 Beloved, please read the Bible, and draw close to the Lord, and I am sure the Lord will show you how you too can receive your healing. In heaven there is no sickness, and no pain. Pray for God\u2019s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. God bless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also have a gospel website. If you would like to check it out, go to: country gospel and bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This has nothing to do with favourite love songs, but when something wonderful happens, it feels only right to share it with others in case they are struggling with the same thing. It is a terrible thing to hear the … Continue reading