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  This is a true report of a trip that my beloved wife, Eileen and I took in August and September of 1999. The reason for this report is to give glory to our great God for all that He did for and through us on this trip. I am only going to report the facts of what happened and you do with it as you feel in your heart. Sometimes in the first half of August while lying in bed in our home in Laramie, Wyoming, our Lord laid it on my heart to go to the gulf coast of Mississippi and give them this Word from Him, "I am now ready to begin bringing Salvation to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi;. I was given this text to speak from. Revelation Chapter 12:1-6; 13-17. 12:1 "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3: And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4: And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5: And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 13: And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14: And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15: And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16: And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17: And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. At this time my wife and I were planning a trip to begin September 3rd to the State of Washington and Oregon and then to return home about the 23rd. After receiving this word, I told my wife that since we had several days before our trip was to begin, we had time to go to Mississippi and deliver the word from our Lord, get back home, see the doctor., and then take our trip which we had planned. I want to stop right here and say something that might help someone as this is where many mistakes are made. Even though our Lord had given me the text and the place where this Message was to be given, He had not given me the time when it was to be delivered. I did not pray and ask our Lord if there was a special time that He would have this word given, but rather supposed that any time would be OK. See, many times people will plan their day and then say, "Now Lord, if You want me to do anything, just let me know". Well, the only way that He can have His Will is that in some way He must have our plans disrupted. I have found that it is much better to pray and then plan our day around that rather than the other way around. At any rate, we left Laramie on August 19th going to Mississippi. Arriving in Mississippi early Saturday morning, we spend the day resting and visiting our good friends, The O'Keefes, where I was to deliver the Message on Sunday. Early Sunday morning when Janie got up she found Eileen sitting on the floor beside the bed with her head propped up on the bed. She got her up and into the wheelchair and took her to her bathroom and then into the kitchen. She then called me and said that "Mommie", was not acting right. Going to her I could see that there was something wrong so we got her into the car and headed to the hospital. Getting there we found that her "blood sugar" was 380. She was put into the "Surgical Intensive Care Unit where she remained for twenty two days hovering between life and death. For seventeen days of this time she was on life support. During this time the days run together so I am not to sure of some of the dates but will try and give them as close as I can. After putting Mommie in ICU and not being able to stay right with her, I spend most of my time walking up and down the hallways praying, and I must say that I didn't care who heard me. As I was walking those hallways, the first word that came to me from our Lord was this Scripture. Isaiah 43: 2. "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. I do not remember just what day this came to me but I do know that by this time, it had been pointed out that my wife would most likely pass beyond the vail. I had told this person that there was no way that I could live without my wife as I believed that she would have to be with me in my Ministry as had been promised by my Lord several years before. You see, I had been on the field several years before and my wife was not able to be with me. Our Lord had told me that there would come a time when I would be taken from the field for a time and then thrust back out again and that when this happened, my wife would be with me. This trip was the first time in several years that our Lord had sent me any where and as promised, my wife was with me. I could not see Him taking her from me just as we was getting started. Also in my heart, I know that this is not the end of my Ministry so how could He take her from me. Many times during this time, this was the only thing that I had to hold to, but hold to it I did. Another thing, my wife's health has not been good for years and one day while we were speaking years ago, our Lord spoke and said that He was going to "restore her" and as yet this had not happened. My wife has often spoken to different people telling them that she believed that our Lord would bring her to the lowest point before He restored her. Another time while she and I were speaking, she said that it must be real hard on me being on the field as I was and gone so much of the time. Without thinking I said, "Honey, when this next Ministry starts, it will be so much harder than this that it will make this seem like a picnic, and this trip sure was. After receiving this Scripture and sharing it with this Brother, he told me that it was a promise that even if our Lord did take my wife, that He would hold me up. I tried to receive it as he said for there did not seem much hope for my wife to recover, yet my heart just would not accept it that way. I continued to walk those hallways praying and waiting on our Lord when all at once these words came to me: "Make the devil fly". I have heard those words before but can not recall where I heard them. Needless to say, when those words came to me, I did not catch them. The next day those same words came again as I was walking and waiting on our Lord. This time they came with such power that there was no way that I could miss them. This gave me great hope. Let me stop here and tell you some what of the way my wife was when we got her to the hospital. Sometimes she seems to know you and would make some responds and maybe ten minutes later, you could get no respond at all. She would do nothing but stare all around as though she was seeing things that no one else could see. At times she would seems to be speaking out of her head and at other times she would say things that seemed to have meaning. Here is one example that I want to give you. As our friends, the O'Keefes and I walked into her room, one of the doctors was there as was several nurses. My friends waited at the door near the doctor. as I went to her side. As I walked up, she said, "It is time for the baby to be born". I asked her what baby and she pointed forward our friends and the doctor and said 'Well there is the Daddy. (Our friends has been waiting several years for their ministry to start and he feels that the Message I brought was the beginning of it.) I thought that she was speaking of the doctor so I pointed at him and ask if that was the daddy and she said, ' No, that is the doctor'. I did not have time to question her any more as they were working on her and afterward she did not remember it. I believe that she had been in there about two or three days when all at once when I got to her along with our friends, she was sitting up in bed and she talked with us as though nothing at all was wrong. I begin to think that she would be getting out by the next day. Oh God, how I wish that had been the case!!! When visiting time was about over, my friends said they would wait in the waiting room while we spend some time together. During this time she told me about a place that she said we had been and ask if I remembered it and I told her that I didn't. She said, "Oh no, don't tell me that I imagined that. It was so vivid. By this time they were rushing me out as I had overstayed the time I was allowed so I never did get the straight of it. At any rate, those words, "make the devil fly" gave me great hope and I began praying that way. I do not remember if this was before or after the following incident. While walking the halls, one of the nurses came and told me that Mommie had taken a turn for the worse and that her blood pressure had shot way up and her oxygen level had dropped real low. They were rushing her to do a scan to see if there was any bleeding in the brains. When she told me that I lost it and begin to scream with all my might. I was banging my head against the wall and crying so hard that several people came to try and help. Along with them was one of the hospital Ministers names "Jesus". This was the second time that he had come to me when I had broken down. I know he was just a man, but I was looking at that name "Jesus". I know that it is a Mexican name but I was not looking at it as that but rather as the name of my Lord. It was as if at the time I needed Him most, He was telling me that He was there. While this Brother was trying to give me comfort, my friends came in and I also received as call from the "Scan room" telling me that Mommie seemed to be having a major stroke that would require "life support" and asking what Mommie would want them to do. I told them to do whatever it took to save her and they did. They did put her on life support and she was on it for seventeen long days. As I said, I don't remember if this was before or after receiving the words, "Make the devil fly". At any rate, I begin to pray with everything within me to make him fly away from my beloved wife. At times Mommie would go for two days or more with nothing breathing for her but the machine. Sometimes during this time my daughter, Dreama was trying to get money to come to us. About this same time Mommie's Dad came down from Memphis and after seeing Mommie, he told me that there was no "real life" in her. I asked him not to say that. In the meantime, my friend also told me the same thing and said that we was going to have to take this thing in a logical way and that I should begin to make arrangements on getting Mommie's body shipped home. He also told me that his mother had done the same thing that Mommie had done before she passed away which was to revive and sit and talk with the family and had then went out of it just as Mommie had done. This was my lowest point during this time. He had also given me several Scriptures which he had received from our Lord before we had gotten down there which follows: I began being challenged on 7/14/99 after staying up and praying all night. The only thing that came to me was a song, "When You Walk Through The Storm Hold Your Head Up High, and don't be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm is a silver cloud." The song went something like that, and that basically I would be going through a dark time but that at the end of that tough time great light would come. William's Note: Jim didn't share this with me when he gave me the Scriptures: Then on 8/6/99 William called early in the morning and we spoke for about 1 1/2 hours. His call was in the middle of the night. After I hung up Janie said she had a dream and in the dream she had had a stroke while driving and I was with her. She wanted to tell me what was happening but could not because of the stroke. William's Note: This was the first Scripture that Jim gave me. All this is from his dairy for those days: As you can see, it spoke of a "Stroke" and that is what Mommie had: Then as I got up to read and pray I felt to read 24:16. Not sure of which book. So I looked throughout the Bible to see what would stand out. Then I saw Ez. 24:16 Behold I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet neither shalt thou mourn or weep neither shalt thy tears run down. On 8/7/99 Another All nighter in prayer. I got the word treacherous meaning corrupt foundation. William's Note: Up till the time of this illness, Mommie did not believe that she was worthy of me because she has always felt in her heart that I had a "Special Ministry" and said more than once that maybe God would take her and give me someone who was worthy of me. I could never get it to her that this was not true: I then asked the Lord when and the word "fortnight" came to me. As I looked it up it said 14 nights or fortnight. Then on 8/8/99 Gen. 25:1 came to me. Then again Abraham took a wife and her name was Keturah. William's Note: Jim felt that God was saying that a "new wife would be given" and this is true in many ways but not a "new Woman". My wife is now a "New Wife" She NOW believes that she is worthy of what our Lord has given her. This has all been so strange, then the word Popeyed came to me. Looked it up, it meant Filled with astonishment and amazement. William's Note: This was sure the case with us. Then on 8/20/99 I received the word out of Lamentations 3:48 Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not, without any intermission. William's note: This surely happened because for days I walked the halls crying and praying to our Lord. Then the same morning I said in my sleep 33:33 The only one which made sense was. And when this cometh to pass (lo it will come) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. William's Note: Jim felt that the people that I had Ministered to in the past would by this believe me to be a "Prophet" I told him that if Mommie did go home that then they would believe me to be a "Prophet", not a real one but rather a "FALSE" one which I also would have believed since our Lord had in the past given me promises about my wife which had not yet come to past. From the day I received fortnight till the day after William and Eileen arrived was exactly 14 nights. She had the stroke on the 14th night. A couple of days after the initial stroke I shared these words with William. William's note: Because of these Scriptures I was in great distress for several days till our Lord came to me and told me that they were in a Spiritual sense and not to be taken as losing my beloved wife but rather that it was the beginning of her restoration and this has been the case. With my heart so heavy that I could hardly breath, I called my daughter and told her that there was no need for her to come as I didn't think she could make it in time. She was only able to raise money to get the bus. I sat all that night in the waiting room filled with dread and waiting for the doctor to come in the following morning. I did not want to see Mommie just lie there with that machine pumping her stomach up and down. I had to know if there was any real life or not. When the doctor did finally come in I told him that the question I was going to ask was killing me but that I had to know. He told me that she did have real life and it was at this point that I said "I will not listen to any more negative words, and I didn't. I also called my children and found that my daughter was already on the road down. Somewhere along the way while sitting in the waiting room, this Scripture came to me: II Corinthians 5- 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:). This also was a great help to me. Shortly after receiving this Scripture, they tried to take Mommie off the like support and was not able to do so. The Nurse came to get me and told me what was happening and asked that I not get carried away as Mommie needed me at this time. I told her that I was now, by the grace of our God, "Walking by faith and not by sight. Now I want to say this. Most of our walk is not by faith but rather by sight. Faith does not waver and sight does not bother faith but it will greatly upset our emotions as it had been doing to me all this time. Every time I looked at Mommie and she seemed to be doing better, my emotions would soar and each time she seemed to be worse, my emotions would sink. But when our Lord gave me that Scripture, I said that I would take His Word and not my sight and by His grace, I did. One other time also they tried to take her off that machine and failed. Now here is something that I want to say and I know that perhaps many will think me to be a fanatic but this I can not help. One day while walking the halls, these words came to me: Matthew 16: 19 "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." This is the Scripture that the words came from but all I received was "What ever you bind on earth, I will bind in heaven". I then spoke these words, "You angel of death, I bind you so that you can not get to Mommie nor can you get anywhere back there. I am not sure just when this came to me but I do know that not one person died in all this time while Mommie was back there. I want to tell you that there was some bad cases in there. One was a young woman who had her head split with a boat propeller and who they were looking to die at any time. She did not die while in that unit, and I think she even recovered but am not sure of this. After they moved her out, they moved in a young man who had been shot in the head and to whom they said would not live for twelve hours. He lived for something like a week or more in that unit and they even took all the support off him and he still lived. Finally they moved him off that floor and sometimes later he did pass away. Also there was an eighty year old black gentleman in there who had been there for about a week longer than Mommie and his wife was sixty five. After praying for this man many times the wife told me that she believed that it was time for him to go home. This broke my heart as I knew that the death angel was bound from that place and there was no way that I wanted to loose him for any reason. Also realizing that we have to be very careful about how we pray and the words we say as we can give those spirits more room than we want to give them. After praying for sometimes about what to do, I prayed in this way: "Death Angel, you are loosed to go to that one man and him along. You are forbidden to get to any one else at all". After praying this way, I watched to see what would happen. They had taken him off all support several days before and still he lived on. After this prayer, he lived two days and passed away. When he passed away, I prayed this prayer: Death Angel, you are bound from that place until Mommie is safely out of there. You are not allowed in there at all". After this prayer there was several more real bad cases which came in and not one of them passed away. There was also one other gentleman who had been in there one day less than the black gentleman which I will speak of later. Another prayer that I prayed at this time was this: "Every spirit that is against the full recovery of Mommie, I bind you and charge that you in no way hurt her". Every Spirit that is for Mommie full recovery and restoration back to me, I loose you to go to her and help her recover. While our daughter was down, she and I went to the Chapel to pray and I felt in my heart that something was not just right. Mommie was not getting any worse but neither was she getting any better. I began to walk the halls praying and this came to me. I will not say it was from our Lord or not. Never the less this is what it was: You have bound all those spirits and they can not get to her but neither can those spirits that has her bound leave. You see, I had bound those spirits where they were at and they were not able to leave. You must loose them so they can leave. I then told my daughter what I felt and we agreed together that we would loose them but not give them leave to tear her in any way as they were leaving. Even after doing this, she still did not seems to get any better. Another time while walking those halls, these words came to me: "The Lord is walking right by my side". Another time, it was this Scripture: James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. By this I believed that our Lord was telling me to let the doctors do their work, Mommie do hers and I was to do my which was to pray which I did. Another time while walking the halls these words came to me: Leviticus 21: 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, 20 Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. Those words gave me great comfort as I took them to mean that our Lord would fully recover Mommie since a husband and wife is one in our Lord. Another time while walking the halls, these words came to me: "Death, hell and the grave have been conquered and I began to give praise to our Lord for victory though it was something that you could not see with your eyes. Also while walking at that time, this also came to me. "The last enemy to be conquered is death". I thought "Well, You just said that 'death, hell and the grave was conquered but if that is the next battle, then give me strength to fight it. At this time I was walking down a hall that ran up and down with the hall leading to where Mommie was leading off from it. Just as I got to the hall which went to where Mommie was and started to turn down it, here came a Minister, I know not what kind, coming from the hall that lead to where Mommie was and he was dressed all in black except for that little white collar. Why any Minister would wear all black I do not know as black resents the darkness of hell and not the pureness of our great God. Nevertheless I took it as a sign that death was defeated and was leaving. As I said, I don't remember some of the dates but here is one date I do remember and that was September 9th. For it was on this date that our Lord spoke to me and said for me to be about the business that He had sent me there for. I called my friend and asked him to pick me up as I had to speak to him. He came and I told him what our Lord had said and ask him to get some open doors so I could give the Word. We went to two places and they did not receive us. Then on September 12th, I gave the word in my friend's church. He has his services in the morning and I left Mommie in what seemed a near death condition. After giving this word, I returned to the hospital to find Mommie wide awake and knowing who I was and being able to communicate with both me and the doctor. Now, before going on with this I want to tell you of some of the test that they gave Mommie. One of them as where they put dye in the blood stream and look at the brains. The person who gave this test called the doctor and told him that she had a calcium buildup in the main blood vessel to the brain. Dr. Smith then went to work to have Mommie transfers to Jackson where they could run a balloon into that vessel. He told me that it would either help her or kill her. But when this test was checked by the person that was suppose to read it, he was told that this was not the case so they did not ship her to Jackson. I was also told that the part of the brain that tells you to breath was dead and that it would take several weeks for it to began to wake up. Somewhere about that time this Scripture came to me: Psalms 107: 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. I began to speak like this; "Brain, you wake up and tell that body to breath the way it is suppose to do". Everything I could think of as being wrong, I would speak to in like manner. Every time they would think that maybe they had found the reason for Mommie's illness, it would not prove out. One day I told Dr. Smith that there is one thing which will not show up under any test and he asked what that was. I told him that it was spirits and he said that was my department and I said, "I know it and I am praying". Just before getting Mommie out of the hospital I saw this doctor and said, "Doctor, I want to thank you for all you did for Mommie. His words to me was, "We didn't do anything. It was your prayers in the hallways that did it. To this day, they still don't know what happened but by the grace of our Lord, I now know. I believe that our Lord allowed this to happen to hold us in Mississippi till the day that He wanted that word given which was September 12th. You see, if this had not happened, we would have been back in Laramie, Wyoming where we live. It was almost as if He was saying, "You have now done what I wanted you to do so I am giving your wife back to you. Remember when I returned from giving the word that our Lord sent me to give, I found Mommie wide awake and responding both to me and also the doctor. On Monday they were to do surgery and put in a "tracheotomy" for the life support and also a feeding tube. The doctor explained why this had to be done. This Message was given that morning and as I said my text was in Revelation chapter twelve. Unknown to both myself and also the Pastor where I gave the Message, there was a great thing that taken place in the heavens. My Message was about the "Woman" who brought forth the "Manchild" , and the dragon standing there to devour it as soon as it was born, and about our God preparing a place for this woman to flee from the wrath of the devil. This was the Message that our Lord sent me to deliver to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. You see our Lord had told me that He was now ready to begin to bring Salvation to the Coast and that He would there prepare a place for that woman to flee too. Now I know that most times we always look back to what our God has done and look forward to what He will do but fail to see what He is right now doing. But I wish to say this. At some point in time, the future becomes the present and the present passes into the past. What I am saying is this. At some point, these Scriptures will not be in the future but rather in the present and I believe according to the words I was given that this is the time for it to happen. But be this as it will. I can only say what happened. On Monday, we received all this information by e-mail and I do have this saved and will be happy to forward it to any who would like to have it. I am here posting part of that e-mail: From: Doug Fortune To: Trumpet Call Bulletin Subject: BIRTH OF THE 'MAN-CHILD' Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 12:09 AM The Lord had been speaking to me concerning the 'woman' and the 'Man-child' in Revelation chapter 12, and a day or so later I received this article by Pastor Bill Burns... I submit them for your edification and discernment. We are indeed living in remarkable times... let us not miss the hour of our visitation and habitation. God is indeed speaking to His people in this hour! keep listening for His voice! Excerpted from The Prophetic Bulletin by Pastor Bill Burns Faith Tabernacle, Kremmling, CO. SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS On the day of Pentecost when the church was birthed, the Apostle Peter quoted the Prophet Joel: Acts 2:19, "I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke." Joel said that these signs would be given prior to the Day of the Lord (day of His return). Now read the following article published by Greg Killian: "From 1996 to 1999, precisely at the time of the Feast of Trumpets in Israel (September 11-12, 1999) there will be a sign in the heavens that has never occurred before and will never occur again. The new moon will be 'born' in the constellation of Bethulah (the Virgin) on this date during each of these four years, and will then move directly to the feet of the Virgin within 24 hours. The Sun is just below the horizon, so that Bethulah is 'clothed' with the Sun. Positioned over the Virgin's head is the constellation known as 'Bernice's Hair' -- this is the crown of twelve stars! And higher, above her legs, we find Draco, the Dragon, poised to devour her child when it is born." Greg Killian believes that the three-year period of this sign may represent the 'birth pangs' of the woman. In 1996 and also in 1999, this sign occurs on the Sabbath. His thought is that these birth pangs may have begun in 1996, with the actual birth taking place in 1999 (?). Please remember that this particular positioning of the constellation Bethulah (the Virgin) about to give 'birth' to Lavanah (the moon), has never occurred before, and will never occur again due to the procession of the equinoxes." Please notice that this sign in the heavenlies is being given after the birth of Christ, in our generation, so it must be relevant for the church in 1999. In fact, this great sign being given in the heavenlies is also found in the scriptures. Revelation 12:1-5, "Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne." (end of e-mail) What does this mean? Well, it is not for me to say. I am only telling you what happened. We received this e-mail on Monday and on that day they did the surgery on Mommie. This was suppose to have taken over an hour. It took some where around thirty minutes and when they got her back in the room shortly after, she was already awake and knew who I was and even pucker her lips for a kiss. I had been told that morning that she would remain in ICU for several more days. However shortly after she got back, they wrote orders to move her to another room which they did. It was room # 414 which is also our home address here in Laramie. Remember the other gentleman who was in ICU with her. They had taken the support off him the day before and being told that Mommie would be several more days in that unit, I had hopes that he would recover but this was not the case. Just about twenty-four hour after they moved Mommie, this gentleman passed away, but not while she was in there. Tuesday morning I was told that the life support would be long term and that they were not even going to try and get Mommie off it till we had gotten a medical flight back to Wyoming. On Wednesday morning at 9: o clock, they had her breathing on her own and by that night, they had the machine off her. By Thursday night they had her off the oxygen although they did put it back on her for the moisture at the lowest setting which is 28%. After putting her in a room, they gave her an eating test which she failed. Two or three days later they gave her a video test about eating which she also failed. They then said that they would wait for six weeks before doing another one and that in the mean time she was not to eat or drink. On September 23rd which was Thursday they discharged Mommie from the hospital and we headed for home. On Saturday, Mommie wanted a piece of chicken and I told her that if she felt that it would be OK, I would back her up in prayer and faith. She said OK so I got her the chicken which she ate with no trouble and again on Monday she wanted a diet Dr. Pepper and more chicken which I also gave her and again, no trouble. Ever since we have been home Mommie keeps getting better each day. We are taking things one day at a time as we feel that we can and to this time everything has been fine. Her doctors here at home were really shocked to see how great she is doing after getting the report from the doctors in Mississippi. We still desire your prayers and support as we still have a long ways to go but by the grace of our God, we will see a full recover for Mommie. We will soon be able to get into the Ministry full time and would love to come Minister in your church if our Lord leads. While lying in bed after getting home our Lord spoke these words to me: "Call Lot out of Sodom". As we go forth again this is what we will be doing by the great grace of our Lord. UPDATE JUNE 29, 2000 I want to add this update for those who continually ask about Mommie. In early December, I began to get sick at work on a Wednesday night. By Thursday I was so sick that I was unable to get to work. This continued for several days and in the meantime Mommie began to catch whatever it was that I had. I believe it was about the 5th of December, she was sitting in the living room eating some "Grits and eggs", yes, we are both from the south and thanks be to our God for it. At any rate, she began to caught and got some of the food down the wrong way. During the time we were in Mississippi, we had missed a payment on one of the medical bills here in Wyoming and they were taking us to court. We had to be there on December 7th. We were both so sick that day that we could hardly get out of bed and the weather was real bad, cold and with lots of snow. Never the less, we did get to the court and back home again. After getting back home Mommie just was not able to be still in any position. Finally, I noticed her fingers nails and noticed that they were blue. I called my son to help me get her to the hospital as I was for the first time in my life, unable to do it alone. By the time we got her to the hospital, her oxygen level was down to 50. They got her going and then came out and got me thought I have not planed to see the doctor. We both landed in the hospital, I for about 3 days and Mommie for over ten days. The day after I was sent home, the Dr. called me and said that Mommie had taken a turn for the worse and ask me to come which I did. When I got there they were getting her ready to go on "Life Support" and she remained on this for seven LONG days in which time I never left the hospital but sat by her bed, sleeping in a chair they gave me. During this time even my children got upset with me seeing I also was sick but refused to leave the side of Mommie. I just could not bring myself to leave her. Let me say this: All during this time, I had no fear of losing Mommie as I had while in Mississippi yet I never felt so alone as I did even with my children near. After seven days on support, her was able to come off of it again and moved into a private room where she remained till just after Christmas. She then went home. After this she did real well till the Sunday after Easter of 2000. What happened at this time is as follows: We have an albino granddaughter who was born Easter morning in 1999, so on Sunday after Easter they was giving her a First birthday party and Mommie wanted to be able to eat some of the cake and ice cream. Before leaving home she taken some extra insulin. When we got to our daughter's, I sat down and dozed off and when I woke up, I noticed that Mommie wasn't holding our granddaughter which was real strange. Even more strange was the fact that she was lying down. I walked over to check on her and right away I saw something was wrong. My son said it was just that she is always groggy when she is waking up but I knew that was not it. I finally got my son to help me get her in the car which he didn't think was necessary. By the time we got her in the car, even he could see that something was wrong. Driving just as fast as I could, I rushed her to the hospital and by the time we got her there, her tongue was hanging out and she looked worse than we had ever seen her, even worse than she did in Mississippi. They got her in the ER, they really went to work and fast. The Dr. said that we only had about five minutes to spare when we got her there. Her blood sugar had dropped to 20. They had a real hard time getting a line in but at last they did and just in time. They began to give her something to bring her sugar up and in just a little bit she was sitting up talking with me and the nurses. After they put her in a room for the night, she and I was talking about how many times Satan has tried to take her life and I told her, "But he can't do it, I won't let him". Since she was doing fine at this time, I went home and when I went to bed, I was thinking about what we were speaking of, Satan trying to take her life, when (PRAISE BE TO OUR GOD) I heard THAT Voice I had longed to hear. He said "Bind those demons that are trying to take her life" and Brother, Sister, I did, and then THAT Voice said, "She will NEVER have another life threatening situation" and to this day she has not NOR WILL SHE EVER HAVE ANOTHER ONE. On June 28th, she went to her doctor and this is what she was told by him: "I am pleased by the progress you have made from the way you were last August to the way you are today. You are a strong woman. You are ready for the surgeries ahead for knee replacement and I will OK that anytime you are ready for it. Your liver and sugar studies are fine, probably are better than mine." This was told her by her doctor. Today as I look at her I know I am looking at "THE GREAT GRACE OF OUR GOD!!!!! God bless.

God bless  The Whatleys

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