Freed from epilepsy, I am now as cheerful as I can be!
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July 23, 2007 |
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 ~ Da-som Kim (Senior, Young-sang High School, Seoul)
Tormented by epilepsy
I had been suffering from epilepsy from since my first year in middle school. Each time I collapsed, I suffered from such severe brain cell damage that my memory began to fade. Concentration decreased and my grades were not that impressive. Continuous drug treatment caused a handful of my hair to fall out. I always felt pressed down and faint, and lived a lethargic life always wanting to sleep. I detested taking medication more than anything so I tried to stop the treatment, but the symptoms never failed to reappear. I cannot describe the five years of torment with words.
Grace from my mother's beseeching
I had joined Manmin Joong-ang Church during my sophomore year in high school but I have had lukewarm faith. When I witnessed my mother Deaconess Myung-geum Park receiving complete healing of rather serious disk in October 2006 by the prayer of Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Jaerock Lee, all I thought was, 'Ah, my mother's faith must be great,' but not for a moment that I could or should be healed myself.
When I had a dream of a circular rainbow encircling and then wrapping my body last December, my heart began to change. I wanted to overcome this sense of helplessness and realized that I could not live the rest of my life this way.
As my mother devoted herself to me through prayer and fasting even though she was working full time, God had given me grace and faith. I also desperately wanted my father, who was not attending church at the time, to join with my mother and me on Sundays by receiving God's healing.
Pleasing God with faith
"Yes! Let me show my faith to Him. Let me prepare with prayer, go before the Senior Pastor, and receive his prayer." Committing everything to God with a desperate desire to receive His healing, and attended the nightly "Daniel Prayer Meeting" after vowing to participate for a month. About three four days later, my mother asked me, "Da-som, are you still on medication?" I offered her a confession of faith, "Nope, I haven't been. You know it's not faith when you rely on the world. If I am to believe in God, I must do it the right way."
As I repented of hatred, temper, envy, jealousy, untruths, and having failed to keep promises I had made with God and strive to take after the heart of the Lord, God increased in my heart faith by which I believed even more greatly that He would heal me of epilepsy.
Receiving the fire of the Holy Spirit during the Divine Healing Meeting
 ~ Da-som, with her mother Deaconess Myung-geum Park to her right, testifying to her healing during Friday All-night Service Divine Healing Meeting on February 23, 2007
After three days of fasting, I went to the Senior Pastor's residence but many people had already gathered there and all I could do was to shake his hands and attend the Friday All-night Service. During the praise of the choir, I heard a voice in my heart saying, "I have been healed!" My heart began to tremble and was filled with joy, and tears began streaming down my cheeks.
After the service and the 30-minute break, the second part of the All-night Service, the divine healing meeting began. When the Senior Pastor prayed for the sick from the pulpit and I received his prayer by faith with my hands on my head, the trembling did not cease and I wanted to jump in joy from the certainty of healing. I was like a birthday girl, anxiously waiting to open her presents.
After the Senior Pastor finished praying for the sick, I felt a wall that had been surrounding my head come crashing down and a cool stream of water running down my back.
I've been completely healed!
 ~ Diagnosis (No convulsions attack; everything appears normal according to electroencephalography taken on March 23, 2007)
About a month later, an examination at the hospital revealed that everything was normal. Hallelujah! The doctor was evidently puzzled, noting that drug treatment for epilepsy only controls the attack of the disease and that epilepsy is not something that is cured.
I found out later that about a week after I had told my mother I stopped taking the medication, my mother saw in a dream how a dark smoke exiting from my head.
After become whole and well again as all the symptoms of epilepsy that had tormented me for so long disappeared, my memory has since been restored and my grades improved, and I am as cheerful and full of life as ever.
I give all thanks and glory to God and I would also like to express my gratitude to Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Jaerock Lee for his heartfelt prayer.
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