Weekly update: 23/11/2010 A testimony of a brave small lady

Hi brothers and sisters, 

Welcome back. Today WWU is not about me. It’s about a "small" brave lady whom I met during my 1st week in Cambodia. I want to share her life testimony with you and at the end of this I will help you help to say a little prayer for her. 

 

What is impossible with men is possible with God! 

(Miracle through her) 

15 years ago, this young lady from Vietnam has gotten a very rare disease called the "Takayashu disease" which made her arota (main blood vessel that distributes blood from the heart) very narrow. Time to time, patient with this disease will experience painful, cool or blanched extremities, dizziness, headaches, chest pain...etc and can lead to strokes in brain or paralysis in spinal cord. Walking up a flight of stair will be like asking an elderly to carry a commando's baggage and climb the Mount Everest. And she had just turned into a teenage. 

That year, the doctor tried to do a surgery on her by cutting the narrow arota and replaced it by a man-made one. In order to perform that operation, she will need to take a medicine that 1 out of 5000 patients will be allergic to it. In order for her to become better, they decided to take the risk as there isn't any other option. Unfortunately,  she was allergic to the medicine. Her heart stopped beating. The doctors came and they can't do anything to revive her heart other than using machines to sustain her heart-beating temporary. She left only a few days to live. It’s was then a miracle happened. 

In time of despair, her family sent out prayer request to all their relatives, friends and churches to pray for her. Above that, her parents made a very brave decision. They decided to sell away their business and offered theirs and her daughter's life to serve God if God would to save her life. It was then, the doctor heard a little heartbeat from her heart. From a small heart beat, God saved her. And she lived. 

15 years had passed since that incident. Now this girl had grown up and became a woman after God's own heart. She climbs mountain, cross-oceans and served God diligently in ministry as if there is nothing wrong with her heart. On 2008, she married to a fine young man who loves her very much even though he knew about for her sickness. God had proved to the world that "what is impossible with men is possible with God." 

Mount Nebo (Jordan of Israel) 

What is impossible with men is possible with God... Again! 

(Miracle through her baby)

Today, God is using her again to show the world another miracle. And this time is through her baby. This year April, God sent them good news that she is pregnant. But to the doctor this is a bad news. Knowing that she has Takayashu and her heart used to stop beating, the doctor asked her to go for check up. Result came and show that her situation is not suitable for having baby as her arota is less than half of a normal one which means there maybe not enough blood for both the mother and the baby to survive. 

(This brought her back to the time her parents prayed to God to save her 15 years ago. So she prayed the same thing, to ask God to give them peace and protect her baby’s life. And as her parents have prayed to offer her life to God to serve Him, she prayed the same thing that this baby will be His.)

The kind doctor tried to persuade her many times about giving up the child as it was only the 12 weeks of her pregnancy in order to save her life. 


Below is their conversation.

Knowing that the doctor cannot persuaded her anymore, he told her that she will have to be hospitalized till the day of her delivery for the doctor to keep track of her health. But she didn't do so. God has strengthening her from the beginning until now. She continue staying at home and doing the ministry. From that day onwards, she never stop praying for her baby. And now she is on her 36th weeks. Both baby and the mother are growing healthily in God's grace. The doctors were amazed.

God had been faithful and listened to her prayer. Next week, week 37th, the doctor will be performing the surgery on them to bring the baby into this beautiful world of God creation.

Before I close this WWU. Here is what she had been praying: 

"Dear God, we pray that she will be blessed and You will be with her and anoint her. The Spirit of the Most High will be upon her and she will serve the Lord fruitfully, faithfully and make You known and glorified in her life. Amen."

Let us say a little prayer for her and her baby

So brothers and sisters let us all not forget to say a little prayer for her baby and her too. Please uphold them in prayer that God will keep protecting them and strengthening them and that the surgery next week will go well. 

Thank you and God bless.

Her name is  Karis

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"When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action. 

And when two or three of you are together because of Me, you can be sure that I'll be there."

Matthew 18:20 (The message)

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Your brother in Christ,

William Ngoo