The straight line from appendicitis to healing is not occurring--it is twisting and hazy at best. The blood clot--the piece that broke off into my lung--the lingering abdominal infection and diagnostic suggestion that my gall bladder is none functional. We are no longer on track for a quick return to the normal assumption of life and health. So trust, step 1. What else is God speaking?
A trusted friend in Hong Kong called and said she had a reoccurring prophetic word that the illness I was experiencing was a spiritual attack stirred up by my ministry trip in Europe, Wales specifically where I was when I started to fall ill. The attack was still underway indicated by the confusion surrounding my treatment and lack of apparent progress in healing.
The call came to June late in the evening. June wondered should I go charging back to the hospital ignore the closed doors and after hours notices and simply say: My husband is under spiritual attack I must get to him? Well, maybe not, I was also in God's safe keeping. So she called me, we committed it to the Lord and agreed to deal with it the next day.
But then June said, how was she to fall asleep in the wake of this word that her husband's very life was under spiritual threat?
As June lay in bed she had a vision of me in my hospital bed. But I was not alone. Surrounding the bed were 12 husky men facing outward guarding my bed against spiritual harm. And in that revelation June slept peacefully.
The next morning June came in; we prayed together and spoke out breaking the curse in the name of Jesus, recommitted ourselves to the Lordship of Jesus alone, and shared communion together as a symbolic act demonstrating that the curse would be broken upon me. It was an intimate and moving time bringing June and me onto he same page believing the Lord for healing and resting in confidence that his strength and love were mightily active.
Why the protection as seen in the vision? Because the global body of Christ was unleashed in prayer. The word was getting out that Glenn had more at stake than a simple appendicitis surgery and the body was responding. Throughout our network of churches here in this region, our family and friends and notably the international connections I had gained from ministry travel over the years were praying and letting us know of their prayers.
June and I had a ring side seat to watch and experience how the Lord works in the face of his people's prayers.
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