Victorious Faith Thursday, October 02, 2008

Testimony from a young sister in Romania:

This is one of the most wonderful things that the Lord Jesus Christ has done in my life. I pray that this testimony to be an encouragement and a blessing for everyone who will read it. God is still working today. He never fails and always keeps His Word (Promise). God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen. May God bless you richly.

I am happy to share with you about what God did in my life. I testify for the Glory of God. I will never give enough thanks to God for what He done in my life.

I am a sister from Romania. I was raised in the Message of the hour, but I received Jesus Christ in my heart and I was baptized in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ 8 years ago.

Before sharing my testimony, I want to tell something. I don’t want to show my faith, because God did it all, owing to Him that now I am healed. It is not my worth; it’s God that is worthy of praises, because He has done everything. I want only to show you the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, that miracles pass not away and God Keeps His Promises.

I made mistakes in my life even after I got baptized, which I regret very much. But God in His mercy and love forgave me and filled me with the Holy Ghost. But you know, even with the Holy Ghost baptism we still make mistakes, because we are humans and it is impossible to not make mistakes. We are not like Our Lord Jesus, yet someday we will be like our Redeemer. I do not pretend to be better than the others because God did something marvelous in my life. I never pretend this, because I know from where He took me from. Many times I wonder why God chose me to be His child and to do some marvelous work in my life, because I didn't deserve it. What did He see in me? I have nothing good and beautiful; I was the worst sinner of the world.

He could have chosen someone else better than me, but I know one thing, God chose me because He loved me so much that He died for me on Calvary and took and washed my sins away in His Blood. I don’t understand why, but I thank Him for His precious Blood and for the chance He gave me to be with my lovely Savior forever.

I don’t want people to know me, but I want to tell everyone what He has done for me. I want people to know Jesus Christ as the same Yesterday, Today and Forever. His power has not diminished. God is still God. I want my testimony to be a blessing and an encouragement for everyone who will read it, to get new strength in the Promise of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"I was a prematurely born child and with one leg shorter than the other. When I was seven months old, my mother went with me by train to a special doctor. The doctor said to my mother that I have nothing. From that day, I’ve been to many doctors, and they said the same thing, that I don’t have one leg shorter. My parents couldn't accept that I didn’t have one leg shorter than the other, because they observed that I couldn't walk normally and wasn’t stable in my walk. As I grew up, every year my situation was getting worse. At the age of 10, my back began to be deformed. I went to my doctors, and they said to my mother that it was because I suddenly grew up that my back began to be deformed, but they didn’t say anything about my leg. The doctors gave me prosthesis to wear that would help my back to be straightened, but it didn't help me at all. I’ve even been to some doctors who have used bio-energy, but that did not help me either. When I was 18 years old, my mother and aunt heard about one doctor. The doctor said to my mother, "I see that your daughter has one leg shorter than the other, and this is the real reason that her back is deformed." The doctor gave me a special prosthesis and a special support to wear in my shoes. The prosthesis was made specifically for my back and for my leg, to push my left leg to be the same like the other. From that day, my problems began and I searched God. I wore it for three months; I couldn't wear it any longer because I had tremendous pains in my back and in the legs. Every night I was crying to God to heal me, and I said to Him that I believe He is the Only Healer.

When my family saw that I wasn’t wearing the prosthesis anymore, they told me that was my only chance that my back and leg to be straightened and to not make surgery, but I didn't listen to them. I didn’t tell them, and even today they don’t know, that I had pains in my body and the nights I couldn't sleep. They don’t know the real reason why I began to be nervous and screaming at them was because I couldn't support the pains of my body.

One day as I was in my room and praying, I heard a voice who said, "I will do something big in your life." First I thought that was my thoughts, but down in my heart I knew that was much more than my thoughts. I knew that was God. In 2005, when I finished school, my mother was concerned about me. She talked on the phone with a sister. This sister gave a prophecy that sounded like this: "God will do something big in your family" (it was the same words that I heard in my room when I prayed). My mother did not tell me about the prophecy until just a while after God healed me. She said to me, "Did you know when I talked on the phone with the sister, that she gave a prophecy that God will do something powerful, and maybe it's about you?"

In July, 2005 I went in a youth camp, and there I heard a testimony which changed my life. A brother from U.S.A testified about how God gave back his daughter; how God healed his daughter from paralysis and blindness. When I heard that testimony, something moved in my heart and I said to myself, "If God healed this brother's daughter, God will heal me too." The presence of the Lord Jesus Christ was in the room. After the predication was finished, there was an altar call, and I went to the altar. The brother came to me, and he wanted to pray for me because I was sick in the camp. I told him to not pray for that thing, and I said that I have one leg shorter than the other and my back was deformed and that my family wants to take me to surgery. He looked at me and asked me, "Do you believe with all your heart?" I answered "Yes!" He said, "You are Healed in the Name of Jesus Christ." He asked me again: "Will you testify like John Ryan did, the man Brother Branham talked about. Will you testify even when you are not healed?" I answered "Yes!"

The brother told me to "Give thanks to God in every morning and night for your healing and don’t ask anymore, just thank Him." The brother prayed for me, and after he finished the prayer, he reminded me to believe with all my heart and to testify and to thank God in every morning and night for my healing. The brother gave me a handkerchief and told me to send it back to him when God will heal me. After the camp was finished and I went home, I began to testify to the people who I never met before in my life. I testified at my school, in the stores, and in the bus stations. I testified to everyone I could meet, and I told them that I had one leg shorter than the other and my back was deformed but God has healed me. Afterwards, I never met again those people whom I testified to. I began to testify to my family. I told them that a brother prayed for me and God has healed me. They told me about some famous doctor who made many surgeries to the young people who had the same problems, and after surgery they felt good and did not have problems anymore. I told them that I will not make surgery because God has healed me. I couldn't accept that I, a creation and child of the Mighty God, had strange things in my body. I did not trust in the doctors. I believed God as my Only Healer and Savior.

My family always told me that God uses the doctors and works through them. I told them that I know, but the doctors are not for me because God has healed me. No one stood beside me, and everyone who I was expecting to was against me. When I saw that no one stood by me, I began to get very closer to God and to have a special fellowship with my Savior. He gave me a sister from church who is my best friend to encourage me. She always stood beside me and said to not give up; to press on the battle and to not let the devil to put me down and trust in God's Promise.

I never doubted, and I believed with all my heart that God would heal me, and I gave thanks to God for my healing. The devil came, of course, in my mind and made me to look in the mirror, and he said to me: "See! Your back and leg are still the same. God did not heal you!” I said: "No, God healed me! Satan, get behind! You can not steal my healing, because God healed me!” After I prayed for God to forgive me, because I listened to the devil's words, I gave God thanks for my healing. In August 2006, a brother from U.S.A came in Romania and I went to the convention. When I arrived, I told to my friend that my family planned to take me to surgery when the youth camp was going to be held, and I didn’t want to go to the doctor. I lost the first sermons in the morning and my friend told me to not be discouraged, that God will speak to my heart in the evening. She was right. The brother preached about “Victorious Faith.” I asked the brother: "What shall I do?" and he said that if God revealed to me that He is my Only Healer, to not listen to anything else because it is the Devil.

When I returned back home, I began to pray that God to give me the Victorious Faith and to open the eyes of those who are against me to see that God healed me. My family didn’t tell me anything about the surgery and neither did I. After a week, God sent two brothers from U.S.A to my church. They came on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006. God touched many hearts in that night, including mine. I was happy about what God did in that night, and when I came back home I felt that the devil would do something to take my joy away. I was right. My mother talked on the phone with my aunt that on August 31st at 8 o’clock, I was scheduled to the doctor. My mother told my aunt that I will not go because it is the youth camp, and I didn’t want to miss the camp, but she would talk with me to convince me to go. When I heard that, I went in my room and I cried like a baby and I prayed. As I was down on my knees and prayed, I heard a Voice who told me, "You will not go into surgery. I will make something for My Glory." And It repeated again the same words and the Voice left. I prayed God to speak through the brothers the next day. I asked God to give me what I needed most spiritually (the Holy Ghost), and after, for my bodily needs. The next day, Wednesday August 23rd, I went to church in the other town. All day I felt in my heart that God would be doing something powerful, but I didn't know that it would be for me. So strong was the feeling in my heart that I couldn't be calm. I went to church with my friend's family, and I always told to my friend that God will be doing something powerful. She answered me that she had the same feeling.

When I arrived in Baia Mare and entered in the room, I felt the Presence of the Lord Jesus and immediately I entered into another dimension. The Power of the Lord Jesus was so strong; it was a pressing in the room that I couldn't resist. My family came with my uncle's car. I saw all my family, but I didn't see my mother (she was in the room but stood in the back). The pastor of the church took me, my friend, and my friend's sister to sing a song for the Glory of God.

We sang the song, and some brothers and my mother told me, after God healed me, that my face was full of light, that I was like an angel. They never saw something so beautiful and told me that a light stood above me. I sang the song with all my heart as I never sung before. I believed the words of the song (the song was "The Answer Is To God Even Though It’s Hard). One of the two brothers began to preach about the Holy Ghost. I believed the Word of God with all my heart as I never believed till then. I always was in that dimension, and something in me made me to believe every Word of God spoken, even though I cannot explain. When the brother finished to talk, the second brother came and said a few words; that every one must be sealed with the Holy Ghost. After he said those words (he didn't know anything about my problems, just the translator), he said, "I feel that you have a suffering in your heart. Stand up if you believe!" When I heard these words, I felt like Jesus ordered me to get up, and I suddenly stood up from my chair and gave praise to God. As I stood on my feet, I felt a Power in my body, and I felt like my leg grew up but I didn't realize it. I just gave praises to God.

The brother began to pray for brothers and sisters, but for my mother he didn't pray. He wanted to return to his place and my mother prayed: "Lord if it is Your healing, make this brother to return back and to pray for me." The brother returned back and he put his hands on my mother and prayed for her (she told me this back home). After the sermon was finished, the translator said: "I believe that young sister was healed, and I said "Amen," but I didn't realize that God healed me. I was yet in another dimension. Just after a while, my friend said to me: "You are healed!" And then, like my eyes were opened, I told to her: "Yes, God healed me."

We were very happy. I didn't sleep at home that night; I slept at my friend's home. The next day, I went home and my mother said to me: "I can’t believe that God healed you." I told her to look at me, that my back was straightened and my leg is the same as the other. She told me again: "I can't believe that God healed you." Then I went down on my knees and cried and told her: "Even on my knees, my back is straightened. Before, I couldn't stay like this, you know it.” And I said to her: “God will help me to testify to everyone what God did in my life. Then my mother's eyes were opened, and she was happy for me. The neighbors, my aunts, the grand parents, the brothers and sisters, everyone knew me. When they saw me, they were amazed about what God has done in my body.

This is my testimony. I hope that you will enjoy and that it will be a blessing and encouragement for you. I don’t judge or condemn anybody who was against me, because I know that they were not, it was the devil that wanted to see me destroyed and to not trust in God’s promises. I couldn’t have it if God had not given me everything through Jesus. I did nothing, God did everything. God gave me strength and faith. God was fighting for me. He was with me when no one stood beside me. I know that God lets us to be sick to show His Power. I know that’s why I suffered to have the best Friend I ever know, Jesus Christ. He’s still my best friend. He is the best thing and most precious in my life.

I wondered many times why God chose me to make such a wonderful thing in my body, but now I know the answer. My healing wasn't for me. I was just a vessel. I had a leg shorter than the other for 20 years and my back was deformed for 9 years. It has been 2 years since God healed me, and I am still perfectly healed. He healed me and gave me the baptism of the Holy Ghost in the same day. God has been so good for me, and I don’t deserve His Goodness and Love. I can never thank Him enough. I just want to serve God with all my heart, that’s everything to me. God is all for me. I can't live without Him.

I know that God's Healing wasn't for me, it was for you, my dear brothers and sisters. I didn't expect that God could bless so many souls with what He has done in my life. This makes me to tell everyone to know God in His power and promise. I hope that God will bless your souls. God bless every soul and may I meet you at the meeting in the air.

In Christ’ Love

Your sister in Christ