Shalom!

I received the Message through a friend. I had always had this unquenched thirst about the Gospel, and I so longed to find a church that would fill up that hunger. I had known all my college friends going to the End Time Ministries, but was never interested because I never seemed to understand what they believed.

They invited me to a Youth Easter Camp Meeting. I just attended for their sake, because I actually thought my holiday would be put to better use than spending it at home alone.

The first day that I got to the meeting I was rather tired, but I was in anticipation and was really looking forward to seeing any exciting things; since my friends had promised that I would enjoy myself.

I really enjoyed the song service, and somehow I just felt at home and so comfortable. I was overwhelmed by the large number of youths all dressed modest, with long hair and really showing passion in singing for their Lord. That alone made me break down in tears as my mind lingered back on my worldly friends I had left back home. I kept wondering how such a great number of that age could actually be proud and stand for the Word, rather than being somewhere in the world enjoying braais and parties with their peers.

When the Word came, my heart was already prepared and it seemed like the pastor was talking about my life and how only the Lord could save me. I couldn't hold my tears the whole service, and I could tell that my friends had seen something happening. I vowed to change my life and my dressing as soon as I returned home.

When I got home, the first thing that gave me the assurance that God had forgiven me of all my sins, was a small miracle, but GREAT to me. I had gone to church and got baptized, and I had started getting rid of my trousers and these weaves I had been putting in my hair. I just started maintaining my God given hair. One day I decided I wanted to listen to Brother Branham's tape, but the CD player at our house was not working. It had not been working for a long time and nobody seemed interested in fixing it. I remembered how at the Youth Meeting, the pastor had spoken about leadership and that we had the power within us to make things happen, because "Greater works than these shall you do..." was a Scripture and was thus saith the Lord! I laid my hands upon the CD player and made a short prayer. I told God that I was going to put the CD in, sit down and start listening to a tape. After the short prayer, I put the CD in and I heard the shuttle moving... Within a few second, I heard "Good Evening friends..." and the tape went on!!!

I had a few challenges of rejection from my former friends, but I was happy anyhow because I still had my church friends, and I knew that above everything else, I met a Man who had turned on the lights in my life and was more than willing to be my friend forever. Since I got baptized, my life changed. All the little sicknesses I had disappeared and I felt so much relieved. There was that inward peace deep inside that was so sweet and calm. Oh how beautiful it was. My family could really tell that something had happened, because I changed friends, my hangouts, my dressing, and they couldn't figure out what it was, but they knew I HAD MET A TRUE GOD.

All the questions of the things that had happened to me before I repented, were answered in the form of dreams. I would just dream of me and a man, walking in a mist, a place I can never describe, talking about my life and why certain things happened, and what I had to do then. He would eventually disappear like a mist.

In my family, there is Hereditary TB. My dad and three of my brothers had it. Before it came to me, I had a dream. I was kneeling down at the cliff/edge of a mountain when a voice said to me, "you are healed of your disease." At that time I was not sick, but it went on for a long time in my mind trying to figure out what it meant. I simply just prayed about it, such that when the symptoms of the disease were finally diagnosed, I was not afraid because I knew I had been healed already. I was on medication for a month, and it required for me to have a specific time to eat, which was 1pm. But then ONE DAY when I was at a wedding, I panicked when the food delayed to 2pm. I remembered I had to take medication, BUT SOMETHING inside said to me "..Where is your faith?..." A certain statement kept coming to me; "these signs shall follow them that believe..." I felt some happiness just bubbling deep inside, and said to myself I was never going to take those pills again, because I have the faith that by His stripes I was healed...

Even though the devil tried to tell me that it was only going to be worse, I kept the faith and remembered how Brother Branham kept eating that corn bread anyhow, trying and forcing it back in, just going on. I was helped more when I read DEMONOLOGY, when Brother Branham was talking about how a dead dog dies, then after some days its belly swells and finally bursts. I knew then that the TB demon at this stage had died and now it had swelled, getting ready to burst and be washed away from my blood stream with Divine Power!

Brethren, I went for an X-ray a few weeks later and my chest was as clean as ever. My chest which was supposed to take me EIGHT MONTHS to clear, had been cleared within a month. I sing at church, and I tell you I'm one of the best ever, and I never had any chest problems ever since!

So I just want to tell my fellow sisters and brothers that "...ARISE AND SHINE..." we ought to do greater works than what our Lord Jesus Christ did according to the Word. We are the Bride, let us take a stand and remember who we are whenever the devil comes to attack. He said He would restore, and to me He has restored everything. My life has been a book written for the heathens who do not believe to see that He is alive and He lives within His Bride. I'm just going to be waiting for Him, with my white gown of righteousness, to meet Him in the air so that He takes me Home.

May God Richly Bless You

A Sister in Christ

Harare, Zimbabwe