Rikki's Story: From Certain Surgery to Healing Celebration!
/When I read the text, my jaw hit the floor and tears started streaming down my face. One of my friends, Liz, had given my new book, “Healed Overnight,” to her co-worker, Rikki. Her story was almost unbelievable. Here's the text I received from Liz about Rikki's doctor's appointment, one day before her surgery:
For many years, Rikki had suffered severe fibroid tumors. She had already had one procedure to shrink them, but they just came back, this time even larger. In the words of her doctor, "It is impossible for fibroid tumors to go away on their own." The tumors were causing all manner of discomfort, symptoms, and embarrassment, as her abdomen protruded noticeably. Her doctor insisted on scheduling her for surgery to remove the two fruit-sized tumors.
It was then that Rikki received my book, "Healed Overnight," which tells of my own dramatic healing from a growth in my abdomen. As Rikki read my book, took my prescribed "thirty-day challenge," and spoke God's Word over her body, she felt assurance rise up inside of her. She did NOT want to have this surgery. She wanted these tumors removed by God!
One morning, several weeks before the scheduled surgery, Rikki woke up and felt something different in her body. Looking in the mirror, she saw what her faith had already seen—those tumors were gone! She had been completely healed overnight! Those two hard masses that used to stick out from her abdomen had simply disappeared.
She called her doctor to tell him the good news, but his office refused to schedule a check up before surgery. “It’s impossible for those to go away on their own,” she was told again. “We will see you at your pre-operation appointment the day before your surgery.” Rikki hung up the phone in shock. Fine, she would wait till her pre-op appointment to show her doctor the miracle.
Meanwhile I got a text from Liz telling me Rikki came to work and showed Liz the miracle. I was so excited, and I could not WAIT for Rikki to have her doctor confirm what we already knew—she had been healed overnight.
Sure enough, Rikki went to her pre-op appointment and her doctor was baffled. “I’ll see you in six months to make sure they haven’t come back,” he told Rikki, seeming somewhat confused and even agitated.
After seeing her brand new body, the doctor sent her home!
Rikki’s daughter and mother had bought plane tickets to come in town and help her recover from surgery —the surgery she didn't have to have! So the three of them had a week of celebration instead of surgery recovery!
She showed me the picture of her little journal entry she had written into her copy of my book the day she started reading it. It says, "Today I scheduled my surgery for 9 Aug. 2016...BUT GOD." By the end of the book, she knew that God had already chosen to heal her body, and she received it, like a confident child. It was Rikki’s tenacious belief in God’s ability and her stubborn refusal to pay attention to the fearful thoughts that kept trying to come. When she focused all of her attention on God’s Word, it completely eliminated the problem! She was healed overnight, just as I was.
When I got the text from Liz saying that Rikki’s doctor had cancelled the surgery because the tumors were gone, I had my own church service with my husband in our bedroom, praising Jesus for His goodness. I know that feeling, the feeling Rikki experienced when she awoke to a pain-free, tumor-free body. It is a feeling of overwhelming gratitude. And it is also an assurance that God IS real. God IS able. God IS willing. God IS here.
Folks, God wants to do a miracle in your life...and in fact, He wants miracles to be an everyday occurrence in your life!
If you haven't read my book, “Healed Overnight,” I would love for you to give me the opportunity to share my story. In it I give you the five keys to healing that God showed me during my journey, along with thirty healing scriptures that changed my life. It’s an easy, quick read that you can pull out anytime you are facing a mountain that needs to move out of your way. For you it might not be a tumor, it may be a financial hardship, a broken heart, a lack of confidence, a loss of dreams. Whatever YOUR mountain is today, Jesus said that you have the power to speak to it and watch it move. I didn’t say that, God Himself did.
It’s hard to argue with God.
Celebrating Life,
Amy
PS- If you know someone like Rikki who is struggling with an illness, please do what Liz did and share a copy with them! You never know when it may mean the difference of surgery or celebration, life or death, pain or peace. Let me hear from you, too, if you have comments, questions, or celebrations!
