From death bed to the gym
I’m a businessman dealing with the auto industry, I was a dealer for Skoda cars and am the owner of Kent Cars, my wife Sheryl since many years has been a born again Christian and used to always talk about Jesus and going to Church which I was least interested in but she never lost hope and kept praying for me, and she used to say, God speaks through whispers and for those who do not listen to His whispering voice then He uses the Microphone and I guess I was the Microphone lot, in the year 2007, when I was in my office, I suddenly was caught with fever, still I tarried in the office thinking it’s just a flu but in the evening when I went home the situation worsened, I started vomiting, I couldn’t recognize anyone, I even couldn’t frame proper sentences, my wife initially thought I was playing a prank but soon understood the gravity of the situation and called for an ambulance but I became very aggressive and they had to tie me down and admitted me to an hospital nearby, but seeing my state the doctors there advised my wife to shift me to Bombay Hospital under the supervision of India’s No. 1 Neurologist, as I was diagnosed with Encephalitis of the brain and the infection was very severe, Dr. Singhal. Told my wife that there is no guarantee of life and even if the patient survives he will be a vegetable for life, but my wife knew whom to trust and prayed to Lord Jesus Christ to have mercy and heal me so did the Church members, everyone was praying, my wife called up Ps. Octavio who was in Sri Lanka for a crusade and appraised him of the situation, Ps. Octavio prayed on the phone and said don’t worry this sickness will not result in death but it will bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ, but my condition deteriorated and I slipped in to coma, now it had been 14 days I was in hospital and no sign of recovery and all the more the doctors were demoralizing and shredding every hope my wife had, but with the support of Church members every day in prayer she would renew her faith, on the 14th day when Ps. Octavio landed at the airport at 11 p.m., he directly came to the hospital from the airport and was escorted to the ICU, he laid his hands on me and prayed, broke the powers of darkness and said tomorrow discharge him and take him home, the doctors, nurses and my relatives were shocked with such a statement, how can a man who is in coma and brain dead, not responding to treatment become normal the next day and can be discharged and taken home, infact my brother who is an unbeliever ( I come from a Sindhi religious background) was so infuriated with this statement that pastor made and said, “are you insane ???, how can he become normal the next day ??? to which Bishop Octavio Very politely said, “why are you getting annoyed now, tomorrow I am here, you are here and he is also here, we will see tomorrow, then you say what you want”, after which Bishop Octavio left, the next morning at 5 in the morning I woke up and asked for water, everyone was shocked. When my wife came to the hospital she couldn’t believe her eyes, and she asked do you recognize me and I nodded my head, and by afternoon all my support system was off, all the tubes were removed, the Lord Jesus had done a marvellous miracle, everyone was astounded especially the doctors but were not ready to discharge me, they did all their tests again and I was the only patient in the ICU who was walking and talking and first time in the history of the Hospital, a patient had been discharged and gone home directly from the ICU, either the patient goes to the grave or the ward from the ICU but God had different plans now God has made me fit, I go swimming and also started the gym with renewed vigour, once again Lord Jesus Christ displayed His awesome power and every one was left stunned, now my life is for our Lord Jesus, He is my Lord and Saviour and pray that people be more willing to listen to His voice and surrender their lives to Him, or He might have to speak to them through the microphone, but all glory to our Lord Jesus Christ and special thanks to my dearest wife Sheryl, my Church members and not forgetting our dearest Bishop. Octavio Nevis.
