My mother had three children, the youngest was Karissa Ruth, the middle child was Michael Elsworth and I just happened to be the oldest. Dad was shipped off to World War II shortly after I was born, so I really did not know him until he came home from war. I remember going to the train depot in Ft. Worth, Texas when I was almost 4 years old. I can remember it like it was yesterday. My mother had been sent to Fordyce, Arkansas when I was about 2 to work in a munitions plant. Many women had been put to work building the war machine of the United States and it prove to be very important to the success of the conflict. This led to me being taken care of by my grandmother and aunts and uncles. They spoiled me rotten, to hear them tell it. I guess you can say I was spoiled rotten by all of the love they gave me. Life was different then.
My mother gave birth to me when she was twenty. My brother Michael was born when my dad came home from his deployment in Burma (now Miramar), which is located on the Indian Ocean. My sister Karissa was born fifteen years later. After my sister was born, my mother developed a serious female problem. It lasted almost 12 years and my mother suffered intolerably for all that time. It would be so bad she would take my brother and I in the middle of the night and just drive for hours doing everything she could to deal with the pain. She would pray for hours as she drove through the night, returning home in the early morning. I know what suffering is, and we would pray often. It was a night mare for her while she was wide awake and Mike and I would fall asleep as she drove.
I know that I developed a deep emotional sympathy for ladies who have suffered as Mom did. Then one day she could not take it anymore and went to see another doctor for a second opinion. He was Dr. Roy Fisher, who founded the Texas Hospital of Osteopathy in Ft. Worth, Texas. I was with her when she went to her appointment. I was 15 years old and I probably drove because she was so tormented by her pain. She literally wore her Bible out through those years seeking God for her healing.
She was like the woman we find in the Bible who has suffered 12 years with an issue of blood, Mark's Gospel 5:27-30.
When she walked out of his office, with what I would call hope on her face, I saw it, Dr. Fisher had offered her hope.
Doctor Fisher diagnosed that the issue began when my brother was born, eleven and one half years before. He told my mother that her fallopian tubes had become twisted during the birth and it caused her to suffer all these years. Please believe me when I say, the misery was at times maddening. I can still feel the painful tears and the anguish as well as the deep guttural groans she suffered monthly. On top of this she suffered many things of physicians and the cost was great. He put her in the hospital immediately and operated on her and she lived happily ever after.
Her story reminds me of the woman Jesus healed in the story of Mark 5. I thought it would be good today to visit her story, for there are many lessons to be learned.
Mom was strong in the Word of the Lord. I learned a lot as a child watching her fight the good fight of faith. I maintain what I was taught by her trusting God was, don't ever give up. I believe God led her to Doctor Fisher. Many people don't believe in the need for medical professionals, but before the year 2000, I was told that there were only 2 new diseases a year that were discovered. Today, with the discovery of D.N.A. and other rereplace, that as many as 2000 new disease discoveries are being made. This fits in to the prophetic word that at the end of time, "knowledge shall increase" and we are certainly seeing this take place in our day.
Do you feel like this woman?
Do you feel as though you are hopeless? Do you feel, Oh, Woe is me?
Do you feel like God has given up on you?
Do you feel, all these years and nothing has changed? Do you have a pulse? THEN YOU HAVE A PURPOSE.
GOD IS WITH YOU NOW! GOD IS WITH YOU RIGHT NOW!
HE SAID, "I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU."
SAY THIS OUT LOUD, OR MAYBE EVEN SHOUT IT OUT LOUD: "HOLDING I AM HELD!"
I LOVE YOU ALL,
Pastor Cleddie
My mother gave birth to me when she was twenty. My brother Michael was born when my dad came home from his deployment in Burma (now Miramar), which is located on the Indian Ocean. My sister Karissa was born fifteen years later. After my sister was born, my mother developed a serious female problem. It lasted almost 12 years and my mother suffered intolerably for all that time. It would be so bad she would take my brother and I in the middle of the night and just drive for hours doing everything she could to deal with the pain. She would pray for hours as she drove through the night, returning home in the early morning. I know what suffering is, and we would pray often. It was a night mare for her while she was wide awake and Mike and I would fall asleep as she drove.
I know that I developed a deep emotional sympathy for ladies who have suffered as Mom did. Then one day she could not take it anymore and went to see another doctor for a second opinion. He was Dr. Roy Fisher, who founded the Texas Hospital of Osteopathy in Ft. Worth, Texas. I was with her when she went to her appointment. I was 15 years old and I probably drove because she was so tormented by her pain. She literally wore her Bible out through those years seeking God for her healing.
She was like the woman we find in the Bible who has suffered 12 years with an issue of blood, Mark's Gospel 5:27-30.
When she walked out of his office, with what I would call hope on her face, I saw it, Dr. Fisher had offered her hope.
Doctor Fisher diagnosed that the issue began when my brother was born, eleven and one half years before. He told my mother that her fallopian tubes had become twisted during the birth and it caused her to suffer all these years. Please believe me when I say, the misery was at times maddening. I can still feel the painful tears and the anguish as well as the deep guttural groans she suffered monthly. On top of this she suffered many things of physicians and the cost was great. He put her in the hospital immediately and operated on her and she lived happily ever after.
Her story reminds me of the woman Jesus healed in the story of Mark 5. I thought it would be good today to visit her story, for there are many lessons to be learned.
Mom was strong in the Word of the Lord. I learned a lot as a child watching her fight the good fight of faith. I maintain what I was taught by her trusting God was, don't ever give up. I believe God led her to Doctor Fisher. Many people don't believe in the need for medical professionals, but before the year 2000, I was told that there were only 2 new diseases a year that were discovered. Today, with the discovery of D.N.A. and other rereplace, that as many as 2000 new disease discoveries are being made. This fits in to the prophetic word that at the end of time, "knowledge shall increase" and we are certainly seeing this take place in our day.
Do you feel like this woman?
Do you feel as though you are hopeless? Do you feel, Oh, Woe is me?
Do you feel like God has given up on you?
Do you feel, all these years and nothing has changed? Do you have a pulse? THEN YOU HAVE A PURPOSE.
GOD IS WITH YOU NOW! GOD IS WITH YOU RIGHT NOW!
HE SAID, "I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU."
SAY THIS OUT LOUD, OR MAYBE EVEN SHOUT IT OUT LOUD: "HOLDING I AM HELD!"
I LOVE YOU ALL,
Pastor Cleddie