Testimonies, Witnessing
Catholic faith, Prayers answered |
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Testimonies, Witnessing
Catholic faith, Prayers answered |
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 Liesl Alexander
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United Kingdom IP:213.122.9.80 |
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I was an atheist, brought up in a "haunted house" filled with fear. I
was reared with an alcoholic mother, a very distant angry father, and an
alcoholic grandfather. A blind grandmother and a neurotic great aunt
aided in rounding out this dysfunctional family along with a twin sister
and other siblings at least 12 years our senior.
After leaving home for school, i was told my boyfriend (age 13) had
committed suicide. This was when i began to dwell on
death...what did it
mean...what is it..
The rest of my schooling seemed to be a waste of time...because
i could not think of work, only of death. Because of surgery, i had to leave school early. For one year i
went home to live with a drunken mother i hated, with a fear filled
household and , in the end...decided to go into nursing.
i pondered.....death....but received no answers...It was at
this time i got into the occult. and things went downhill from there.
Inside i wanted to die...I was a black hole i could not get out of.
I took an overdose of drugs stolen from the hospital ward,
cut arteries in my wrists and waved goodby to the world I awoke in pain
and with stitches. i was not sure if i was really alive.
They placed me in a room about 6x4 and i stayed there for several years.
With 36 plus drugs a day, strapped in a straight jacket on occasion No
window, no visitors, no furniture. just a mattress on the floor. no
clothes on me...where was I. I did not know it then i was in a padded
cell. After 17 months they moved me for short periods, to have
treatments. they did not work. I hated life, feared everything, felt
alone. There was no God...
The doctors advised therapy that meant outside the grounds in a
hospital.
High security wing of a psychiatric hospital In other words..an
asylum.
On one occasion i managed to escape but was captured and returned. the
consultant told me "Liesl Stop running away,you are here for
life, the quicker you accept this the easier for us and the easier for
you. This is now your home for life."
I wanted to die Another time i escaped and got ;
into the black market drug scene.
became an addict ..My plan was to die from all these drugs.
I escaped again to die, on the way went into a hall Heard a man say,
*God can do anything absolutely anything
He can heal the sick, Heal the mentally sick and set the drug addict free!
I went to leave the *God* bit made me angry,,,
a lady at the door said *Jesus loves you! He knows what a mess you are in,
he really cares, a new record was in my mind,I returned to the hospital.
After many escape attempts those that succeed, and those that
failed...some Christian visitors came to see me in hospital..
They laid hands on me and i was healed....
It was after that that i accepted jesus into my life...
accepted him as Lord and Savior...
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
These are not mere words but reality.
"Im My name they will drive out demons"
mark 16, 15
Many don't accept this but Jesus would never tell us to do that
if they did not exist. Jesus drove the demons from me. Jesus is the
Victor. We have all power in Jesus and He does heal the sick today and set
the captives free. he is wanting His people to believe His words.
You are his people. You are the ones He calls. He demonstrates his
power with the lost and the sick, the bound.
Praise Him for the faith of those who came into my cell
and simply asked Jesus to touch this girls mind.
Praise Him..Amen.
Copyright: Liesl Alexander
Book Video CD Title FREE TO LIVE
http://www.freetolive.org.uk/ 3/12/2002 10:52:37 PM |
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MATT HEIMAN
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USA IP:205.188.200.29 |
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my wife's clots on the knee have been dissolved, and i thank all for their prayers! 1/10/2002 9:53:47 PM |
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mt
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usa IP:128.143.65.216 |
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Encouragement to those with prayer needs and for intercessors...
Praise our one and only true living God who answers prayers ...
I became a Christian in June of 1998, 1st one in our big family. My family situation was truly a mess at that time and even more trials came. But God is faithful ...
4 prodigal children came home, 3 more to go...,
3 restored marriages and and 2 more marriages to go...,
4 deliverance from alcohol (over 30 yrs.), drugs (over 10 years), adultery and countless more to go...,
20+ got saved and 8 more to go...,
2 went back to school...,
2 stop living immorally, 1 got married and 2 more in adultery to go...,
God used all things (bad, too) for our good. In the last 2 years- my father died, my mother had multiple illnesses that took months to get healed, 4 car accidents and 1 injured + expenses, multiple hospitalization (2 with tumor, 4 diagnosed with heart disease (2 warned to require open heart surgery), 1 stayed icu from cva stroke, 3 surgeries + 3 required stitches and overnight observation after beaten up and stabbed by group of drug addicts, court hearing and expenses against these group and more...
God used each one to break walls that the enemy put up for years, drove us to God and to each other. My mother said after over 10 years, we had our best Christmas ever last year 2000...more love, peace and joy. God restored better than before and God removed or changed those who caused strife and division and God is still working. Many nights I doubted God (shame on me now:-)) and cried why things just seem to get worse and if prayer matters. Last time that my brother had cva stroke, I had so much peace I told my sister I felt guilty. God increased my faith that when bad thing happen, I just know something good is about to come. The last time I talked to my brother, he was praising God for God used the time he was in icu to completely deliver him from alcohol ( he was on drugs and adultery too)and also to restore his relationship with his children...
Few weeks ago, God led me to just praise Him while waiting for His answers. And my prayer partner received the same message. During times I am going low on my faith,God lead me to give it to those who need encouragement, and God is so faithful He fills me up I just wished I knew His secret long time ago. Yes, there is power in prayer because we have a God who knows all thing, can do all things and who loves us and in His power will give us what is according to His will because His will is also His best for us. He answered all these prayers while He's still at work changing my deadly 5 C's- criticizing, complaining, condemning, controlling and comparing to encouraging others thru 5 P's- provision, prayer, praise, presence and patience. I learned that I did not earn His answers but He is full of mercy and His desire is a pure and willing heart who seek Him. Isaiah 65:26, Jeremiah 33:3 and Ephesians 3:20... I will praise God each morning for He is so good and He will do for you what He had done for us...For intercessors, God knows every good work you've done for His sake... Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!" Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes--who are they, and where did they come from?" I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, "they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." Revelation 7:13-17
1/9/2002 4:32:38 PM |
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Ana
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Portugal IP:62.48.171.97 |
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My name is Ana and day 24 of November, this year, i took the worst decision in my whole life. I decided to send away my little baby. I never wanted to send him away, but everyone was agaisnt me having that precious child that was growing inside of me.
I went to a clinic, i fell asleep crying for my baby and i woke up, still crying for the litle baby, wich i keep dreaming at nigth being a little girl, Nadia...
At first i felt releifed, although feeling weird, like something was missing. Something that i realize was the preciost thing i would have in my entire life. That wonderfull thing that i sent away, without no returning.
If only i could make time go back...
That's a thougth that keeps bumping in to my head, along with the lovely sound of my baby's heart.
I was 7 weeks pregnant and i went to do an ultrasound and it was the lovelyest sound i've ever heard in my life. I would do anything to get my baby back inside of me.
To help me in my healing, wich is being such a dificcult journey, i have a net friend, that went and continuous going through the same pain.
For everyone who's pregnant and is thinking of terminating the magical thing happening inside a women's body, please think twice because you'll probably die inside with so much pain and missing your little child that you, fortunately, still have inside. Let your child live, if God didn´t want him to be born, he wouldn't put the baby in your body in vain.
For those who, unfortunately, did sent away their precious little childs, hold on to these two precious thoughts, that reaaly are helping me in healing:
"If you think your child is dead, he's not! He's lying gracefully and peacefully in our Holly Father's arms and he's saying in unison with our Holly Father: I forgive you and i want you to forgive yourself"
"God is keeping your precious little child in a shell, so when your ready to have him, he'll send it back for you..."
That's what i believe in and i force myself dreaming with my baby at nigth in order to feel him again inside of me. I feel closer to him and i really feel as if i was with him and helps me going by...
Thank you for listening...
12/3/2001 7:17:25 AM |
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