Elizabeth, Mary and Jesus all agree
‘With GOD nothing shall be impossible’
Remember Sarah and how she gave birth aged 80? Well, this was not a one-off event. A similar thing happened with Elizabeth, the cousin of Jesus’ mother Mary, as described in the Gospels. Elizabeth had no children either. Even though both Elizabeth and her husband Zachariah were good people; they were childless. 
Zachariah prayed to the LORD and was promised joy and gladness and a child, despite the fact that they were both quite old.
Mary was visited by an angel who told her that, ‘With GOD nothing shall be impossible,’ and she would receive a, ‘Holy thing … called the Son of God’.
Jesus told his disciples that faith the size of a mustard seed is enough to move mountains and in combination with prayer and fasting can even rebuke devils and cure lunacy. Jesus said that, ‘If ye have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.’
Prayer works miracles
After prayer, Elizabeth received a baby when she was well advanced in age. Mary said, ‘Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.’ This is when she found out that both she and her cousin were pregnant and would give birth. Mary was promised a virgin birth.
Jesus said that faith moves mountains and with faith, ‘Nothing shall be impossible to you.’
Those words are worth holding onto. If I had not believed in those words I possibly would not have expected to live. But these words are what kept me going. GOD’s promises, Jesus’ and Jeremiah’s prophesies, Sarah and Abraham, Elizabeth and Zachariah, and Mary’s victories is what kept me going. Because all of them told me that, ‘With God nothing shall be impossible.’ And I believed them then, and I believe them now.
Another excerpt
Following is another excerpt from My Story of Survival. Looking back, my heart fills with gratitude because of the kindness that has been shown to me by everyone around me, and especially My Creator, Our Father in Heaven.
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The scans showed that my appendix had gone into hiding and all that could be seen were adhesions. Adhesions are like a type of scar tissue, or rather bands of fibrous tissue that can form between abdominal tissues and organs as a result of trauma such as surgery, infection, and for instance, a ruptured appendix. Abdominal adhesions can cause tissues and organs in the abdominal cavity to stick together.
Before I came to hospital I had experienced many adverse reactions to antibiotics and my body vehemently protested against the antibiotics, which were administered to me through a drip. Everything got continuously expelled from both ends. As soon as it came in, it went out.
*** USEFUL FACT *** Side effects, allergies and reactions to antibiotics are not that unusual. Common side effects are rashes, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting, hypersensitivity, dizziness. See NOTES.
After one sleepless night in the hospital, my eldest daughter phoned around during the next night to find appropriate help for me, because she could see that the treatment I received was not necessarily doing me a lot of good. This drew the attention of some other doctors, and I ended up with a team around my bed discussing what would be the best way to go.
For a little while morphine became my best friend, but just the same it took days for my tummy to stop resembling a plank, and the relentless heaving and nonstop emptying of my bowels was taking its toll. I had to get outta here.
We prayed
My girls prayed and I prayed. I had asked for the drip to be taken out, and it was agreed that the drip would be taken out to see how I would cope, and if it were possible for me to go home to recover further so that eventually I could be operated on and my appendix removed.
Raise me up please
I was desperate to get out of the hospital and back home and prayed with all my might. In some church leaflet a little while ago I had read about the Lord lifting people up and raising them higher. To be truthful, I didn’t quite know what that meant, but I liked the sound of it, so I went, “Father, if you could raise me up and lift me higher and higher, please. High enough to get out of here and back home with my girls. Not beyond the clouds as yet, but high enough to get out of here, please.”
I quite liked the way that sounded and repeated this a few times, and then fell asleep. The next morning my drip was taken out, and, relishing my new-found freedom, I was waving my arms up and down beside the bed when I abruptly knocked some knob.
Curiosity got the better of me, and as I pressed the knob, the bed started to move up. I giggled and pressed again. Up it went. And again and again, in no time my bed was up so high that my hands touched the ceiling. My giggles became an unstoppable laugh.
Mary, the cleaning lady, came in without me noticing. All of a sudden I realised that she was cleaning beneath the bed. When she was finished she looked up at me and said, ‘You can come down again.’
I giggled a bit more and asked her, “Did you know that these beds go up so high?” She smiled at me and said, “Yep, we use it all the time. Although most of the new beds don’t go up as high as yours; you have one of the last of the older models.” And out she went to continue her round of cleaning.
Within a minute I was back touching the ceiling, and I was still there when my medical team came in a little while later. The Registrar, surrounded by nurses and a couple of other doctors, looked up and asked, “How are you feeling today?”
I grinned back at him, “On top of the world, high as a kite, I’ve never been better.”
I was back home the next day.
END EXCERPT OF MY STORY OF SURVIVAL
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Are you doubting that GOD will deliver?
Are you in a bit of a pickle and you doubt that GOD will deliver? Don’t doubt. You know what Jesus had to say to doubting Thomas, don’t you? He said, ‘Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.’
James said, ‘Ask GOD and don’t waver.
Prophet Jeremiah showed his trust in the LORD when he bought a parcel of land in enemy territory whilst he was prison! Jeremiah handed over seventeen shekels of silver and demonstrated his faith and obedience when he said, ‘For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.’ Who knows if he doubted or not .. but he did as he was told. Jeremiah showed strength and loyalty.
And he prayed, Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee!’
Jeremiah recognised that his people had mucked up and were in trouble because they had not done the right things by each other nor GOD. Yet he hath faith and knew that GOD would restore their land and health back to them.
Jeremiah found himself in a pretty desperate situation in prison during war, yet he remained faithful and obedient and most importantly, he continued to pray.
GOD hears prayer
I know that GOD hears prayer because he has answered plenty of mine and I can show you many examples from the Bible. But today I will share a little bit more from my book, ‘My Story of Survival‘ of how GOD answered my prayers.
BEGINNING EXCERPT MY STORY OF SURVIVAL
Michael’s life-saving call
When the ambulance came to our house, I was in so much pain that I was not able to walk and pretty much had to slip my way down the staircase with my bum, one step at a time. I think at the bottom of the stairs the guys got me on a stretcher, but I cannot really remember. When we got to the hospital, the ambulance officers were told to wait with me on the stretcher at the emergency check-in area, which was chockers on a weekend night. In fact, as we found out later, it had been one of the most horrendous nights at the local hospital, with casualties and deceased being brought in from a car crash only a little while after I checked in on the night of July 18 in the year 2008.
It could have gone wrong when I experienced hideous pain and my girls phoned around but weren’t able to secure a doctor’s home visit for me.
But what happened instead was that between their frantic phone calls, a friend of the family phoned to check in with us and asked how the house move was going. Did we arrive safely and all that? My daughters told Michael about their mum near enough passing out from the pain in her gut, and he implored them to phone an ambulance.
Michael was a friend we had met through my brother, and Michael prayed for us. Chances are that if Michael had not phoned, prayed for us, and encouraged my girls to get an ambulance, it could have gone wrong. But it didn’t and I stayed alive. Have you ever heard of Michael the archangel? He truly exists and made a lifesaving call on July 18 in the year 2008. Don’t tell me that angels don’t exist.
As I said, it was one of the most horrendous nights in the history of our local hospital, the nurses kept telling me that this was one of, if not their worst, ‘full moon nights.’ As a result of this being an extremely busy night at the hospital, I was not paid much attention and placed on the stretcher right next to the glistening, noisily-vibrating fridges filled with drinks. The noise was more than I could handle and the girls asked if I could please be moved elsewhere. This was refused by the ambulance officers.
Both the pain and the noise, as well as the light, were unbearable to me, and my eldest daughter continued to make attempts to have me moved to a more quiet location. Her attempts were noted in the report as her being obnoxious and uncooperative. The kid was trying to save her mum’s life, for crying out loud!
Oh Sing Unto The Lord
As I could feel my life ebbing away, I’m not sure who started it, but all of a sudden the three of us were singing the Scripture Songs which I had created a few months prior to help us with our house move. It went something like this,
Oh Sing unto the Lord a new song,
O sing unto the Lord a new song,
O sing unto the Lord
All the earthIt came even to pass when the singers were as one
To make one sound to be heard on praising
And thanking the Lord
And when they lifted up their voice
The glory of the Lord had filled the housePraise the Lord all ye nations
Praise him all ye people
For his merciful kindness is great toward us;
And the truth of the Lord
Endureth forever
Oh praise ye the Lord
Praise YahBy the word of the Lord were the heavens made
And all the host of them
By the breath of his mouth
Let all the earth fear the Lord
And all the inhabitants be in aweFor he spake and it was done
He commanded and it stood fast
Please forsake not the work of thine own hands
God’s word shall not return voidWe waited patiently for the Lord
He lifted us out of the miry clay
And set our feet upon a rock
And established our goingsMany shall see and trust in the Lord
Many shall see and trust in the Lord
Oh many shall see and trust in the Lord
AmenWe walk with God like Enoch did
And we wanna be no more like Enoch did
For God took him and we wanna be like him
But thy will be doneIn earth as in heaven
In earth as in heaven
In earth as in heaven
Thy will be done.I really cannot remember if we got as far as this or if we sang even more than this. But what I can remember is that in no time at all, after we started singing, I was wheeled out of the emergency admission room into a nearby emergency treatment private room. This is where we spent most the night, and I was closely monitored by machines and doctors as the diseased and casualties of an accident were brought in and treated all around me.
END OF EXCERPT MY STORY OF SURVIVAL
We sang in a similar fashion to Jeremiah’s prayer. Prasing GOD, recognising HIM as the Creator of Heaven and Earth, remembering his goodness towards us, even though we’re not worthy and asking that in all GOD’s will be done.
Our song and prayer moved me quick smart out of an overcrowded emergency intake area into a private treatment room where I was closely monitored. Praise the LORD.
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The thing I really LOVE about this book, that is sorely lacking in sooooo many others like it, is that the author is extremely careful to remind the reader repeatedly that this worked for HER, and that she is not claiming that it’s any sort of cure-all for EVERYONE. And by doing so, and sharing the research that she’d done in this area, her experiences with this diet, it encourages the reader to experiment to find out what works for their own body. Because we’re all different, after all!
She says, “Is my diet a cure for all? I doubt it very much. I do believe, however, that many people who are struggling with their diet may be inspired by the possibilities I present here in this book. And it is my hope and prayer that together with their health provider, people will be able to come up with alternatives instead of struggling on a daily basis with their diet.”
She comes across as very sincere, and I am grateful that she was brave enough to share her story.
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ABOUT THE CONTENT – All content on this website is copyrighted and you can read more about this here. Please also read the disclaimer about my authority and qualifications.
ABOUT THIS BLOG – We’re researching the truth of living forever according to GOD’s Holy Word; Sola Scripture. Popular opinion tells us that everyone who ‘believes’ and has ‘faith’ will go to heaven. Is this true? I decided to ask the prophets about the truth of it all.
ABOUT SCRIPTURE CARDS – If you want to send free Scripture Cards to your friends click here and you want to buy hard copies of Scripture Cards you can click here. To download a free copy of my Story of Survival click here.