A story I need to tell...

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: 4/9/99 : Dear friends, : I have a story to tell. Some of you know it already, but most haven't heard it yet. : I will begin my story about three weeks ago... : I had been chronically for months, and had been getting sicker and sicker. I was coughing up blood everyday, blacking out, and I could not lay down without suffocating from the fluid in my lungs. I also had severe food allergies. Many foods threw me into violent coughing fits and respiratory distress. I could not breath at all sometimes. I actually broke open capsules of Bendryl and snorted them to keep from dying on more than one occasion. : I really believed I was going to die soon. I prayed and thought in depth about what I could get done in a hurry, in my weakened state, to make Cari's life more bearable after I was gone. I didn't want to tell her. She knew that I was very ill, but I didn't know how to tell her that I had been coughing up blood, that I knew I was dying. : I started preaching a lot about the beauty of dying in faith, and the wonder of eternity, and the supernatural certainty God imparts to us that we are His children and His heirs. I cried when I preached about the privilege of standing at the doorway and gazing into eternity, and longing to see Jesus in His glory and splendor. I was ready to die. I was happy to die. I considered it such an honor and privilege to be God's child, and I had such joy. : I announced that I was starting a study and worship group for the other terminally ill people in my church, who I felt such a special bond with. I invited everyone to come, because I knew they would gain so much from seeing the assurance and the power and the supernatural vision that God had given these special and wonderful people who were dying. I knew that together we could teach others not to fear death. : Two and a half weeks ago God healed me. : I had extensive allergy testing the next week which confirmed it. The results were amazing - I have NO FOOD ALLERGIES of any kind. Not even slight allergies. : I now eat anything, with no adverse reactions of any kind. : I have no more difficulty breathing, no more coughing fits, and no problem lying down and sleeping all night comfortably. : This is unexplainable. Wonderfully unexplainable. A miracle. : I pray that I will never lose the sense of wonder God has shown me in my affliction, nor let the moment of my journey into eternity cease to be before my eyes. If this ever happens, I have prayed that He will afflict me again in His love. : I love you all. Thank you for your prayers. God has heard them. : : Steven Meigs : : ************************************************************** : O how wise and happy is he that now labors to be such a one : in his life as he wishes to be found at the hour of his death! : - Thomas Á Kempis - : **************************************************************

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