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Mrs. Ada Balderstone, |
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Last November,
while nursing a dear sister in the Lord, I fell from the top to the bottom of
the stairs. When I got to the bottom I banged the top of my head into the
wall. I felt a queer sensation in my neck and shoulder, and my arms went
quite dead. I thought, “There, I have killed myself and broken my arms.” A
deadly faintness was creeping over me, when something impressed me to look at
my arms. I lifted my head to look, and suddenly the life came back into them,
but the awful prickling sensation was terrible, and I could not bear them
touching for weeks. The doctor wanted to take me to the infirmary, but I said
‘‘No,” so they made me a bed in the same room as the other sick one. |
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The doctor
gave very little hopes of me, and said if I lived I should have to lie on my
back for 18 months at least, and he did not think I should ever be able to
move my head about as usual. Twice in a fortnight I was at the very gates of
death. The first night I was so ill I thought I was going to live with Jesus,
but I had a lovely vision of Him and He said, “This sickness is not unto
death, but for My glory, and that My name might be glorified throughout all
the country.” The second time I nearly passed away my dear husband gave
himself to the Lord. The doctor said I had fractured and dislocated the
spine, and when I lifted my head up the bone had slipped partly on again and
liberated the spinal cord; but I felt it was the Lord doing His own work. |
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For 15
weeks I lay on my back without being able to move, then the Lord permitted my
nurse to leave me. A dear friend took me to her home, a Pentecostal Divine
Healing Home, and I was there only a few days when we were at prayer one
morning. I was sitting up in a chair, my daughter was sitting at my knee,
when all at once it seemed as though someone lifted me up and put me on my
feet in the centre of the room, and from that day I could walk from one room
to the other, but with great pain in my back, and I could only move my head a
little. It hurt me very much to try to lift up my head |
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On
Saturday, April 3rd, I said to my husband, “I should Iike to go to Bradford
Convention,” and he said, “I shall not take you; people would think I was mad
to take a woman in your condition.” However, I prayed to God to take all opposition
out of him, and on Monday morning he seemed as eager as I was, and I said, “I
believe that is where I have to go to get healed, so that God may be
glorified.” So my husband got a cab to the station, also when we arrived at |
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Bro.
Wigglesworth took us into a small room. My husband then went downstairs to
have some refreshment, and Bro. Wigglesworth and two sisters came to me. Bro.
Wigglesworth anointed me with oil in the name of the Lord, and in five
minutes I could walk about the room and move my head any way. (I felt the
bone slip into place.) I climbed to a bedroom four stories high to sleep, and
walked over two miles next day, and have not had any pain in my back, neck or
arms since. Praise the Lord! Nothing is too hard for Him. |
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I may say
the doctor has often said he could not understand how it was I did not die.
He said, “From what you had done to yourself, by all the natural laws of
medicine you ought to be a dead woman.” He has repeated many times, “It is
marvellous; I cannot understand it.’’ But God understands. I do not think
that I ever murmured at the suffering after He said it would glorify Him. It
is glorious to know He is with us in pain helping us to bear it. I do praise
Him for keeping me patient through it all. |
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I
sincerely hope this testimony will be the means of helping others to trust
the Lord with their bodies, as He bore our sicknesses as well as our sins on |
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Anyone
wishing to write to me may have the names of several people who heard what
the doctor said, and saw me throughout all the illness. I may also say I was
healed of cancer in the body 4 years last November. I had not very long to
live when Bro. Wigglesworth came over to Doncaster and laid hands on me, and
I was instantly healed, and have had no more pain nor haemorrhage since.
Wonderful Jesus! Five months after I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
with the Sign of Tongues. And all my desire is that He will use me for His
glory, as I am a living testimony of His wonderful power. |
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From: Confidence, Vol. XIII, No. 4,
Oct.-Dec. 1920, pag. 57, 58, |