Part 1- A BIRTHDAY MIRACLE
In my Kingdom journey, there were times that I was not in tune with God's voice or instructions given, depending on when it was given and my mindset at the time. I didn't understand as much of the prophetic word(instructions) given to guide me and improve my life. In 2004, something was happening health-wise, with sharp pains in my knees but I did not realize how bad they were becoming until 2008. I was just looking to doctors and taking medicines. Proverbs 3:5(KJV) "Trust in the Lord, with all thine heart and lean not to your own understanding". I did not understand what was happening or what to do(I didn't have people around me to encourage or explain things to me).
Let me give you a little back story as to how things began and you will understand the following Story:
One morning in 2008, I woke up and went to work and shortly after I got there to take care of my patient I was not feeling my normal self, and she noticed that I hardly was saying anything to her and responded very little" to what she was saying. She was very concerned, so near to the end of the day she asked what was wrong? It's then I told her that I was not feeling so well, but I did not want her to be scared, by now I was feeling worse I was going to be heading straight to the hospital.
I was in serious pain as I made my way to the hospital, then later found out that I had a Hital Hernia.
After that, I had another abdominal pain which was hitting in a different spot and I found out that the pain was from my gallbladder not functioning, as a matter of fact it took me till one year later to realize that I already got the diagnosis and that my gallbladder was no longer functioning, it quit on me. So I was walking around in serious pain for a whole year and a little bit over a year of not being able to eat any irregular meals and I was already eating only dinner so now dinner was not a thing anymore. I had stopped eating most of the selective items that I was eating and now having crackers and salad and I found it hard to even drink water. I had to have a gallbladder removal Surgery and that went well and I was told that I would be back to my normal self, or so I thought.
You see, between the hernia and the gallbladder issue the devil was planning and scheming against me. I was already having struggles on the job with a new nursing agency coordinator which was not mine but she came intending to fire me by any means necessary, so she was already nitpicking at the one day that I could not work, but by me getting sick while she couldn't find a reason, and my patient now needing round the clock care, She refused to add 4 more hours and shift me to night, she wanted to just fill the day I couldn't work and she didn't care that I was available 6 days. I had to be home for a while while waiting to be placed with other patients to take care of. So this coordinator decided that she was going to try to dupe me out of my unemployment, but I am meticulous in keeping notes so I got my unemployment while trying to take care of my medical health to get back to work.
During all this time something else popped up, and this was before the gallbladder removal surgery. I started having swelling of my big toe on the right foot and also on the bottom of both feet, so I was now limping. Just before the swelling of the big toe, I had to walk on it because I couldn't walk on the bottom of my foot because of the swelling there, so I started getting treatments of my foot being wrapped every two weeks (which was no fun and the smell was not nice, let alone the itching). The swelling of my left foot went down, which helped to bring some relief and saved me some taxi fares.
Then the toe swelling began because I was walking on it most of the time( my weight gain didn't make things any better), but the cane a got from previous knee problems helped and caused new problems (elbow pains from not being instructed of which hand to use to stay balanced).
While all of this was going on, I found myself kept going back to the hospital every week with chest pains which was from bronchitis(diagnosed as a child), and it would get more and more intense until the medicines were no longer working for me. My Primary Care doctor suggested that I should go and get it checked out by a specialist because it seemed like I was having more than just a bronchial attack, so I went and while I was there I was having an asthma attack and the doctor diagnosed it right away as such. I got my first inhaler right then and there. Now the podiatrist figured that what was going on with my right foot had got to be serious because the same thing had started with my left foot, but the right foot wouldn't heal, so he then sent me to see a specialist to take some tests. What he was thinking he didn't want to diagnose until I took these tests. These tests were nerve tests and some others, the diagnosis came back as Rheumatoid Arthritis, so I had to be treated by a specialist in that field who also diagnosed me with Psoriatic arthritis.
Not to worry you with the minute details of my day-to-day life, but I had to start taking monthly infusions which was so worrisome, seeing that I had to go to the hospital and lay there with needles in my veins and oxygen tubes for 4 hours each visit, and my health was not getting any better. My life was now not my own and I felt like I was imprisoned by my weekly activities, which included going to physical therapy multiple times every week And also multiple doctor appointments. I was so exhausted daily from the journey and activities in the different clinics and hospitals. I was having terrible Chronic back pains ( caused by a childhood injury), aggravated by the strain of lifting patients, the task of the job, the constant asthmatic attacks, and the regular housekeeping routine. I was now wearing an uncomfortable back brace.
Things just seem to be going downhill and happening so fast. I had an injury to the disc in my neck (Herniated disc- diagnosed in 2014, which prevented me from being able to turn my head to one side )that was going on for ages and now it was worse, so I was getting multiple shots for different parts of my body some every three months some every two months. I had shots in my hands and braces for both hands that were no longer working the way they should(Carpal tunnel) and (Trigger Finger or Stenosing Tenosynovitis), shots for my back which was always hurting to the extreme, a shot and boot for my right foot.
I was trying to figure out what was going on with my health, it was getting worse and it got really bad. Through it all, I learned over time to build my faith and how to trust the almighty. The enemy tried to isolate me in sickness, temporarily taking away my ability to be mobile and touching my sight (Cataracts). I became a walking pharmacy and more crippled even inside, but my commitment to my kingdom faith made me too stubborn to quit, to lay down and fade away, so I started listening more, reading for clear understanding, and worshiping differently. God moved mightily in my life and the healings and the deliverance came the breakthrough hit, and I experienced a big miracle that I didn't think of. Won't he do it?😄
Hebrews 11:1(NIV) "Now faith as the confidence in what we hope for, the assurance about what we do not see".
On August 22 of 2020(which was my birthday) my faith went to another level, you might say, a deeper level. I was supposed to see the surgeon that coming week about having surgery done to correct the problem with the disc in my neck and so I asked for the brethren(church members) to lay hands on me and to pray for me, but before they prayed for me I also asked that everyone believe with their whole heart that I would receive a complete healing, that when I went to see the surgeon there would be no evidence of the Herniated disc in my neck and there would be no evidence of it on the MRI or ultrasound that was sent to him, he would find nothing on examining me. The brethren laid their hand on my shoulder near my neck(it was hurting too much for them to touch my neck). By faith, minutes after, the pain started going away and I started turning my head. With every turn of my head, not my body, I felt less pain until there was no pain. I went for my appointment with the surgeon and just as I prayed, everything went as I requested. I was out of his office in minutes to return home, he could not figure out what happened, nor did he find my ultrasound and MRI results that were sent to him. Until the present day, I have not had any pain, I didn't have any surgery, therapy, or anything related to having a herniated disc in my neck.
I'm still rejoicing in the miracle of the Lord in my life. Proverbs 16:20(AMP) "Whoever gives heed to instruction prosper, and blessed is one who trust in the Lord".
Stay tuned for Part 2- MY UNEXPECTED MIRACLE
PRACTICING TO SERVE IN THE MINISTRY 
