A Testimony and witness of the Power, Love of the Lord
The Lord has blessed me with many things and even what seem small should be recognized by people. This testimony however is a great one to me and saving of my child's life. It might help to have some background about me. I was raised a Christian with parents that followed the Lord. When younger and married you tend to get busy with things in your life and the Lord sometimes gets put on the back burner so to speak. My parents would always have the Lord in conversations, I knew the Lord and had quite a bit of knowledge in things from my rearing.
I had asked my neighbor to watch my sons while I quick ran to the store. I had 2 children, sons, one 6 and one 3 years of age. When I got back my neighbor was upset came running, said my youngest son and her son were jumping on her couch and my son Joshua fell off it and hit the table seemed fine but the side of his neck got very very swollen. Now, my mother- in-law, was the supervisor of surgery at the hospital, so I called her. She instructed me to bring her Joshua up to surgery. I did so and she had one of the surgens look at him a Dr. Cohen. Dr. Cohen wanted him admitted to the hospital and tests were run on Joshua. He kept swelling and come to find out he had a staff infection in the blood. Dr Cohen did emergency surgery on him and put a drainage tube in the side of his neck.
Joshua continued to swell, they had started antibiotics right away IV on him. The next day as I spent the night his full face was swollen you couldn't recognize the child and he wasn't talking. I stayed all day till my husband got there to sit with him so I could go eat and get cleaned up and come back to the hospital to spend the night.
Upon getting home I noticed the house cleaned for me and knew my husband didn't do it. It was my best friend who was also watching our eldest son while I was at the hospital. I called my parents to inform them knowing they would pray. All the sudden a knock on the door and enters my girl friend, I think I thanked her for the cleaning but don't remember. She came to tell me what had happened while she was cleaning. She had brought over and sent to Josh's room to play, her youngest son, Cody who was 2 1/2 years old. She said all the sudden Cody yelled for her and said: "there's a devil man in Josh's closet". My girl friend said she didn't even know he knew the word devil so couldn't believe it. Cody stayed by her, she quick finished and went home. She knew my family relationship with the Lord, felt she needed to let me know. I thanked her told her I was going to get a shower and go back to the hospital and my husband would be back home, I would be spending the night again.
After she left I jumped up and grabbed my Bible and went yelling through my house binding Satan casting him out of my house and away from my family. I put my Bible on the kitchen counter with my purse to take it with me and went got my shower and ate something and headed back to the hospital. When I arrived I asked my husband if Josh spoke to him anything and he said no. He looked even more swollen... I brought the Bible to the hospital and set it at the table and my husband left to go take care of our eldest son.
It was like I heard my mom, she often would say "there is life in the word" so I sat down and dropped open my Bible, it ended up in Matthew somewhere I don't remember but I just started reading out loud. Dr Cohen stopped by to check on him before leaving the hospital for the night and said he would see me in the morning. I started reading out loud until I fell asleep myself. All the sudden I heard Josh say "mom why did you stop reading!!" Shocked I was and a miracle had happened my son spoke, but it was dark so didn't notice the swelling. I continued reading out loud till I fell asleep again.
Dr Cohen showed up very early woke me turning lights on and was shocked to see my Joshua and said to me: "I thought we would loose him" That was really when I knew it was life and death. I was shocked also all the swelling was gone. Praise the Lord. Life was truly in the word and I received a miracle from the Lord. I just Love Him. His blood tests were good and I was able to take him home.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matthew 22:37 (KJV)