{"id":425,"date":"2012-11-13T18:55:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2014-07-06T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:11:12","slug":"encounter-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Encounter with death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Encounter with death.<br \/>\nFor some months I was getting short of breath till it got to the place where I was gasping for breath.<br \/>\nThere was o pain, just no energy especially when walking up hill or biking or mowing the lawn.<br \/>\nA visit to the Dr on Wednesday the 12th September revealed I had fluid around my right lung.<br \/>\nI visited the local hospital and then drove to Rotorua Hospital 80km away and was admitted where a tube was inserted into the lung cavity and over the next few days out poured 4 litres of fluid that caused the lung to collapse. <\/p>\n<p>After one week in the Rotorua hospital I was taken for a ride in an ambulance for 1 1\/2 hours to Hamilton hospital where they put 3 tubes in me using key hole surgery and some sort of powder glue to stick the lung back in place, which took a week and then they sent me home none the wiser as to why this happened.<\/p>\n<p>I have been on no medication, just rest, lots of it.<br \/>\nSpiritually I know what it was all about; the enemy of my soul wanted me silenced by suffocating the breath of life in me that has set so many free.<\/p>\n<p>Back in September last year I went to get a yellow fever injection so that I could enter Uganda.<br \/>\nThe Dr said at my age of 74 it could kill me.<br \/>\nI knew it would not and went on my way.<br \/>\nFrom that day till Sunday the 7th October 2012 I felt something had entered my body and I was not operating as well as I did and thought age was catching me up.<\/p>\n<p>While in hospital the week of the 19th of September during one night the thought came \u201care you prepared to accept death\u201d?<br \/>\nMy response was \u201cYes\u201d.<br \/>\nI believed I would go through death and live.<\/p>\n<p>On the 7th October when I woke I felt lifeless. Desperate measures were needed. I call spiritual for spiritual men and women to come and anoint me with oil.  Nine came and did so according to James 5.<br \/>\nIn the late afternoon a fellow believer who has been praying for me phoned to say that he had a bad witness about what I had done regarding death.<br \/>\nHe phoned another believer who said he had run into that same spirit and it was not of God.<br \/>\nWhile on the Phone I repented of making a covenant with the spirit of death. The person I was speaking with bound the spirit\u2019s power and it left.<br \/>\nI felt life walk back into my body.<\/p>\n<p>The Word says choose life.<br \/>\nDe 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:<\/p>\n<p>Another encouraging verse.<br \/>\nIsa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.<\/p>\n<p>16th October 1012.<br \/>\nAfter spending half an hour with the Dr, the outcome was totally inconclusive.<br \/>\nI shared with the Dr a little of where I am at and he replied, \u201ckeep praying and doing what you are doing\u201d. The Dr said he would make further inquiries.<br \/>\nThe pain I had that day was to do with the bottom rib on the right side.<br \/>\nIt was though it was bruised. The Drs understanding was that when the tube went from my back to the lung cavity it tore the back of the rib.<br \/>\nThis discomfort is getting better day by day.<\/p>\n<p>The blood tests have revealing that the kidneys, liver and all other organs are normal. White blood cells a little high but nothing to be concerned about.<br \/>\nThe x-rays were inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Jesus if there was any cancer in my body I heard a clear \u201cno my son\u201d. The \u201cmy son\u201d is always a clear sign it is Father answering, not me thinking my own thoughts.<br \/>\nThe latest outcome is it has been arranged that I have another cat scan on the 7th January to make sure all is OK which we know it will be. <\/p>\n<p>All in all it has been an interesting adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encounter with death. For some months I was getting short of breath till it got to the place where I was gasping for breath. 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