Message From Bruce Brown – Armstrong BC
The following account was shared with myself and some fellow pastors by Pastor Bruce Brown from Armstrong. B.C. This just happened in the last few weeks...and last Sunday...
God is still doing some interesting things around people. Need a Miracle...why not ask for one?
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
Hi All
I think I shared with you about my latest God-setup.
I’ll recap a little. I was called to the hospital 3 weeks ago by a family whose Mom was dying. I only knew Joyce because she is one of the Citizens on Patrol who holds the Radar Gun. They were set up on the church parking lot one day – our church is in a School Zone. I went out to meet them, took them coffee etc and briefly met Joyce and her husband. I saw them on occasion at various Community events over the past 6 years.
Anyway, Joyce contracted a viral infection that caused all of her internal organs to shut down… thus when I got the call the Dr’s had given her a matter of hours to live, they were told to get their affairs in order and given I was the only Pastor whom they knew, because of our mutual community involvement, I got the call to come plan a funeral. Joyce was lucid during our visit so I pushed the issue about salvation with her and she accepted the Lord then and there – with that taken care of we proceeded to plan her funeral.
That was Saturday… I saw her again on Sunday and thought it won’t be long now. I prayed for Jesus to have His way with her. She didn’t die but started to recover…she developed really bad sores on her mouth both inside and out thus preventing her from eating, to me it looked like skin cancer – black and ugly. The Dr’s did not have a clue what this was or how to treat it. So, I just prayed that Jesus would do something with the sores…
I saw her March 2nd, she has recovered so much that she was out of ICU and on the 3rd floor with everyone else. The sores on her mouth had receded, but on Sunday March 2nd– like 5 days ago, I visited her – she still had a huge sore that went from the centre of her nose to half way of her cheek. It looked gross, so before leaving her I prayed “Jesus would you cause this sore to fall off tonight” I left, and headed for the Coast on Monday morning.
Joyce knew that I would not be home until yesterday and the earliest she could reach me was today… I just got off the phone with her, she is home…but she said, On Sunday night, when her nurse came to do vitals, her nurse kept saying, oh Joyce, oh Joyce…which startled Joyce as to what was wrong now… the big black sore was gone, they got a flashlight and a mirror for Joyce to see her “CLEAN” face and attempted to look for the thing, found it on the edge of her pillow, it had fallen off sometime between midnight and 4 am.
Before I left Joyce I told her about when I was kid I had heard about someone who had skin cancer on their face, they went for prayer and when they woke up the next morning the cancer was on their pillow - Joyce said, “Oh that would be so nice” and that is exactly what God did in the early morning hours of March 3, 2008. Joyce of course wasted no time to tell this nurse why and how the thing had fallen off.
Anyway Joyce is home, and telling me that her and her husband hopes to be in Church on Sunday, given she had her gall bladder removed on Tuesday March 4. I told her I think she needs to give herself some time to recover from the operation, but she is so anxious to get to church that she is willing to come weak …but get this Joyce (dropped into GT once for a short time, the music was too loud for her so she left early and vowed she’d never come back again) and her husband have not been to Glad Tidings together before…if they come this Sunday or next Sunday it will be their first time in church together.
I just said to her, “But Joyce you don’t like our music”. She said – “If God can do this miracle in my body, He can make me like your music, see you on Sunday.”
Wow eh?
Bruce Brown
Having a day in Armstrong!
PS from Pastor BB…from last Sunday…March 16, 2008
For those who have been wondering. Joyce and her husband came to church today! Actually we had a full house today which was nice to say the least.
Anyway, about Joyce... she most willingly shared her story about the miracle of God in her life. When I looked at her this morning I literally looked into the face of a miracle... I had not seen her as up close as I did today, that big sore that fell off her upper lip did not even leave a scar. I did not know this particular detail until Joyce told the church about it today... when they called me that Saturday now four weeks ago, I had been told that she was given hours to live, I did not know how many hours, but Joyce told us today that she had been given "four" hours to live, but here she stood today in church giving praise to God that His timing certainly is not subject to our timing. Joyce stood before us today a testimony to the awesome power of God - a miracle!
But it has not stopped there... if some of you recall I mentioned that I have a board member in the hospital with pancreas problems he is a diabetic, but he contracted a virus that has caused his pancreas to become like ground beef. Hooked up to lots of tubes, when I was with him yesterday was quite sight. Morphine was not even dulling the pain, he was bleeding inside...we prayed for him at church today, by 2 pm the call came that he was being taken off all the stuff that he was hooked up to, something took place in his body between 8 this morning and noon today, the pain left and he is doing well.
Jesus is up to something over here and it is good good good.
BB
God is still doing some interesting things around people. Need a Miracle...why not ask for one?
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
Hi All
I think I shared with you about my latest God-setup.
I’ll recap a little. I was called to the hospital 3 weeks ago by a family whose Mom was dying. I only knew Joyce because she is one of the Citizens on Patrol who holds the Radar Gun. They were set up on the church parking lot one day – our church is in a School Zone. I went out to meet them, took them coffee etc and briefly met Joyce and her husband. I saw them on occasion at various Community events over the past 6 years.
Anyway, Joyce contracted a viral infection that caused all of her internal organs to shut down… thus when I got the call the Dr’s had given her a matter of hours to live, they were told to get their affairs in order and given I was the only Pastor whom they knew, because of our mutual community involvement, I got the call to come plan a funeral. Joyce was lucid during our visit so I pushed the issue about salvation with her and she accepted the Lord then and there – with that taken care of we proceeded to plan her funeral.
That was Saturday… I saw her again on Sunday and thought it won’t be long now. I prayed for Jesus to have His way with her. She didn’t die but started to recover…she developed really bad sores on her mouth both inside and out thus preventing her from eating, to me it looked like skin cancer – black and ugly. The Dr’s did not have a clue what this was or how to treat it. So, I just prayed that Jesus would do something with the sores…
I saw her March 2nd, she has recovered so much that she was out of ICU and on the 3rd floor with everyone else. The sores on her mouth had receded, but on Sunday March 2nd– like 5 days ago, I visited her – she still had a huge sore that went from the centre of her nose to half way of her cheek. It looked gross, so before leaving her I prayed “Jesus would you cause this sore to fall off tonight” I left, and headed for the Coast on Monday morning.
Joyce knew that I would not be home until yesterday and the earliest she could reach me was today… I just got off the phone with her, she is home…but she said, On Sunday night, when her nurse came to do vitals, her nurse kept saying, oh Joyce, oh Joyce…which startled Joyce as to what was wrong now… the big black sore was gone, they got a flashlight and a mirror for Joyce to see her “CLEAN” face and attempted to look for the thing, found it on the edge of her pillow, it had fallen off sometime between midnight and 4 am.
Before I left Joyce I told her about when I was kid I had heard about someone who had skin cancer on their face, they went for prayer and when they woke up the next morning the cancer was on their pillow - Joyce said, “Oh that would be so nice” and that is exactly what God did in the early morning hours of March 3, 2008. Joyce of course wasted no time to tell this nurse why and how the thing had fallen off.
Anyway Joyce is home, and telling me that her and her husband hopes to be in Church on Sunday, given she had her gall bladder removed on Tuesday March 4. I told her I think she needs to give herself some time to recover from the operation, but she is so anxious to get to church that she is willing to come weak …but get this Joyce (dropped into GT once for a short time, the music was too loud for her so she left early and vowed she’d never come back again) and her husband have not been to Glad Tidings together before…if they come this Sunday or next Sunday it will be their first time in church together.
I just said to her, “But Joyce you don’t like our music”. She said – “If God can do this miracle in my body, He can make me like your music, see you on Sunday.”
Wow eh?
Bruce Brown
Having a day in Armstrong!
PS from Pastor BB…from last Sunday…March 16, 2008
For those who have been wondering. Joyce and her husband came to church today! Actually we had a full house today which was nice to say the least.
Anyway, about Joyce... she most willingly shared her story about the miracle of God in her life. When I looked at her this morning I literally looked into the face of a miracle... I had not seen her as up close as I did today, that big sore that fell off her upper lip did not even leave a scar. I did not know this particular detail until Joyce told the church about it today... when they called me that Saturday now four weeks ago, I had been told that she was given hours to live, I did not know how many hours, but Joyce told us today that she had been given "four" hours to live, but here she stood today in church giving praise to God that His timing certainly is not subject to our timing. Joyce stood before us today a testimony to the awesome power of God - a miracle!
But it has not stopped there... if some of you recall I mentioned that I have a board member in the hospital with pancreas problems he is a diabetic, but he contracted a virus that has caused his pancreas to become like ground beef. Hooked up to lots of tubes, when I was with him yesterday was quite sight. Morphine was not even dulling the pain, he was bleeding inside...we prayed for him at church today, by 2 pm the call came that he was being taken off all the stuff that he was hooked up to, something took place in his body between 8 this morning and noon today, the pain left and he is doing well.
Jesus is up to something over here and it is good good good.
BB
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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