Sickness is a bad thing.
Worse still, incurable diseases are nightmares. I don’t understand it, but one time in my life I was terribly sick. All medication proved to be abortive. I had doctors on my case; several tests were run on me just to find out what the root cause of the sickness was. But nothing was discovered by the doctors. When there’s no diagnosis, how do you give a prescription? That was my case and what was the problem? It was a severe stomach ache.
It looked like something was inside my stomach, the moment the thing stands up, I will be twisting and turning, crying and wailing. If I was weighing 150 pounds the morning before the pains came, by the evening of that day, I would have reduced to 120 pounds. It was excruciating, antagonizing, and agonizing pain. I remember I was living with my grandmother at the time. I know the many times she would ask God to take the sickness from me and put it on her. She would rather that she is the one in pain and not me. But it just did not happen as she thought and prayed.
Plus, the pain made me lose out on so many good things in life. I remember missing a final exam due to sickness. But the school headmaster thought wise to promote me to the next class since I have never failed a class before. I also missed out on so many recreational activities and sports in school because the school authority was afraid I may be hit with something or get hurt in the stomach. Don’t forget that I have been rushed out of school to hospitals several times when the pain hit me in the middle of a class lesson. So the authority knew about it and was trying to protect me.
At one time, I even told God to kill me. I told Him that I cannot take it anymore. And that I was too young for such sufferings. But God won’t. First, my grandparents took me to government hospitals in a neighboring town but doctors could not help, so they resolve to natural, herbal and organic means. Of course, this was not a problem since I grew up and was living in a village country with my grandparents at the time. Yet, all the natural medication I was given proved abortive too, they did not work.
Then my mother who was then living in the city with my dad came to take me to the city for treatment, but my grandparent resistant to move, thinking that my parents will never allow me to come back to live with them again (I think that was real wickedness on the part of my grandparents).
My deliverance
About that time when there was nothing else to do to help me, I came to know the Lord. I got born again through the ministry of a dear man of God who was one of my uncle’s buddies. But being born again did not automatically cure me of the sickness. But something happened; it was like a light was turned on inside of me. Apart from the stomach dilemma, I also had issues with a high fever. I remember how I ran out of the house on two occasions under the influence of fever not knowing where I was going. But as soon as I got born again, that fever stopped on its own, never to return again.
But what about the stomach trauma, you may ask? It took more than just being born again to deal with it. God allowed me to grow my faith through His word. I came to find out from Scripture that healing is part of redemption and that God wants me well. He didn’t want me to suffer in pain and sickness. Plus, He had even given Jesus as a substitute who died to save me from both sin and sicknesses.
Then I also found out that most sicknesses have spirits behind them; that is they were the direct cause of an evil spirit. That doesn’t mean that I was evil, it just only mean that there was an evil spirit who was on assignment from Satan to destroy me through pain, suffering. The Bible calls them, spirits of sicknesses (Psalm 41:8, TPT, Lk.13:11). Truth is, most incurable diseases are actually the result or the presence of these spirits in the sufferer.
Doctors can’t diagnose evil spirits; it is only the Holy Spirit that can tell if they are present in a person causing pain and sicknesses. And that was my case. The Holy Spirit showed me the cause of the sickness and through prayer, the evil spirit was driven out and I was healed. It is more than 20 years now, I have been healed ever since and I remain healed.