This was written by the man who contacted me about this story when I had it in my blog. He wanted me to know that for 50 years he has been free of illness through the Word he lives by in Christ! It is for us too!
The photo is my husband, Ron after his car accident when paramedics told him he should have been dead!
My testimony is based upon Romans 8:2 and Romans 8:11:
· “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”
· “If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”
(We will have new bodies, not our mortal bodies, in the age to come. Therefore, this verse is speaking of giving life to our present bodies.)
I believe that it was in 1971 or 72 that I first read the testimony of John G. Lake about his experience during the bubonic plague that resurfaced in 1908 – 1913. He was a Missionary to South Africa during that outbreak. God spoke to my heart through the above scriptures and His testimony:
In 1910 in the midst of a worldwide pandemic known as the bubonic plague, the government was offering large sums of money for anyone who could help. So many were dying and there were not enough people to remove the bodies of the dead. Of the few that were well enough, most were too fearful to enter people’s homes.
John G Lake found himself in this highly contagious region and he offered to help, but asked for no payment. He would go into houses where the stench of sickness hung in the air, and carried out the bodies, often having to bury them in mass graves, there were so many. But he had no fear of catching the disease.
A doctor sent for Lake and asked, “What have you been doing to protect yourself? Lake replied, “I believe that as long as I keep my soul in contact with the living God so that His Spirit is flowing into my soul and body, that no germ will ever attach itself to me, for the Spirit of God will kill it”.
Amazingly, Lake asked the doctor to experiment by taking the foam from the lungs of a dead plague victim and putting it under a microscope. The doctor did that and found masses of living germs. At Lake’s insistence, the doctor spread the deadly foam on Lake’s hand and observing the results under the microscope, he was astonished to discover that all the germs died instantly. Lake told him, “That is the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus… When a man’s spirit and body are filled with the presence of God, it oozes out of the flesh and the pores and it kills the germs.”
I was pastoring in that season; and, within days, I visited a men in our congregation who was in the hospital with heart issues. The other patient in the room was delirious, tossing and moaning and groaning. I went to his side and laid my hands on him. And, as I prayed, he soon relaxed and fell into a peaceful sleep.
I received a phone call a few hours later, urging me to return to the hospital to be inoculated so that I would be protected from the just-diagnosed disease of the man I had prayed for (with the laying on of my hands).
I refused, said it was not necessary. Since those days, I have successfully resisted symptoms such as the common cold, sore throat, headache, fever, flue, etc. And they depart from me!
“Submit therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7).”
“And the Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not inflict upon you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt [unbelievers] which you have known (Deuteronomy 7:15).”
“Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers (3John2).”
I love you!
Papa Don
P.S. I fully know and understand that it is appointed for men to die (Hebrews 9:27). For, to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain (Philippians 1:27). In the meantime, I live in Christ Who lives in me, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27).
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