We had already known each other for several years, but on this trip we got to know each other better. We are always together. He knows my heart, and I am getting to know HIM better everyday.
My partner Josh Roads and I had left France where I had gotten sick with tonsillitis in 1976, while living with The Family in Brest on the Atlantic Coast. That time my shepherds were Rainbow and Harvest. We were staying at a nurse's home when I got very sick and weak, so much so that the nurse thought I might die, so they took me to the Brest Hospital. There I stayed for 5 days, with all the treatments you would expect, like tonsil cleansing gauze, and antibiotic shots. But I left feeling weak for another two months. Thankfully Rainbow & Harvest were able to get French Socialized Medical to pay the bill.
Later after stays in Homes at Fougeres and Caen, Josh and I had gone onto Athens, Greece for only 5 weeks, and then headed over to Italy, continuing to litness the good news publications that we always pass out everywhere. One morning at our Bari Home, during the summer of 1977, I woke up very sick again with tonsillitis! I got ready to go on my next trip by train with Josh to give out the literature in various Italian towns. We were walking towards the train station, when I stopped and told Josh I was sick and needed to go back Home. Just then, our undershepherd Jotham came up to us on his errands. I told him how sick I was. He then encouraged me about healing, praying for me, and quoting the scripture: "As they went, they were healed (cleansed)" (Lk17:14b). Jotham further encouraged me to go on the trip, stop at our first destination, sit down to read the Bible, and wait for the Lord to speak. That's just what happened. When reading the Bible, a Voice said to me: "Tho' He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust HIM". It was the verse from Job 13:15. I got up, knowing the Lord would heal me, and I started to litness, giving out Gospel literature to the hungry sheepy Italians.
I still had pain in my tonsils and headaches for three days and nights, but at the end of those 3 days, I was perfectly and completely healed, and I felt better than I ever had after such a sickness. This time without the aid of hospitals, doctors, or medicines! What a miracle!
Later, in confirmation of the Lord's true healing for me from tonsillitis while on the job for Him, ha, using Job 13:15 to give me the faith to be healed, our Dearest Shepherds in the Lord, David and Maria sent me a letter saying they received the scripture Psalm 107:20 for me from the Lord, saying "He sent HIS Word and healed him, and delivered him from his destructions"! How very true, and how true of the Lord to show that to HIS Prophets of the End Time. It also confirms that the Lord has appointed and anointed them to be His Voice for all of God's sheep.
You may have noticed that it was because I followed the counsel of Jotham that I received the Lord's healing. It sure shows you that believing your elders in the Lord, and obeying their suggestions, as well as believing and obeying HIS still small Voice pays off.
Now just to let you know what I mean, if I overeat or drink too much, especially sugary foods or drinks, I still have reoccurrences of tonsillitis to warn me of poisons in my body, and to stop polluting my body, which is HIS Temple, with sugar! So I have to repent and pray for healing, again, and obey His Commands, even what I eat, in order to keep His Body (mine) strong and healthy and ready to do His Will everyday! Jesus needs good strong healthy bodies to be able to stay on earth long enough to save billions of souls before He comes again soon! He wants to save all mankind for eternity, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a knowledge of the Truth! He needs you, your saved spirit in a healthy body to witness His love and Good News of Eternal Life to the poor and lost sheep! Do you?
Very recently when I have been somewhat weak, and sick, yes, with some touch of tonsillitis, the Lord has been telling me the scripture: "I Am The Lord That Healeth Thee"! It is from Exodus 15:26 in that marvelous Book about the escape of the Hebrew slaves from the bondage of Egypt. He doesn't want me to start depending on the system medicines that I have been able to get by doctor's prescriptions. Jesus wants to not only save our immortal spirits, but He wants to save and heal our earthly fleshly bodies here and now to be able to serve Him til Kingdom come on earth, as it is in Heaven! We didn't just get saved to go straight up to Space City, the Heavenly New Jerusalem of Revelation 21-22. He also wants us to let HIM use our bodies to save others by showing them HIS Love and healing. He wants to set everybody free from the bondage of this present evil, materialistic, ungodly, Antichrist System that is controlling the world today, and which is called Babylon and the Beast in the Book of Revelation! See the Poster readings on these and related subjects at my home page links. I love you!