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Stricken with heart disease from 1984
Tito Cagang is the head of Christ Ministries Samaritan
Bible School near
the city of Alabel in the capital of Sarangani province, and suffered
from a serious heart condition. His son had sent out the following
prayer request to Canadian
Missionary Jim Hathaway
for his father:
"I am the son of Pastor Tito Cagang, the one who talked
to you when you visited the Bible School if you could still remember
me. I am writing to inform you that I temporarily take the responsibility
of my father just for this week because he experienced heart failure
just this day and he is still recuperating. I am asking for your
prayers for the fastest recovery of my father for I may not be able
to perform the rest of his responsibilities."
Later, Pastor Tito's son added the following details about his
father's condition:
"I wish to express my infinite thanks to you and to all your friends
who will be praying for my dad's recovery. We have been so melancholic
from the the time my father had been diagnosed of having heart
failure in 1984. There was even a time in the year 2000 when my
father was given only four months to live and we were very sad
that time for we expected that he would be passing away after the
4 months had been allotted to him by Dr. De Castro and Dr. Adarna,
who are heart specialists. We prayed a lot for the long time and
we are blessed that until now he is still with us.
It was his doctor in Davao City, Dr. Faustino Acosta told him
of the good news that he will still be living if he will be medicated
constantly, but it is a struggle for us because we don't have enough
money to sustain my father's medicines and even his regular medical
check-ups. That is why until now he suffers heart failure every
time he cannot take his medicines.
With this, I am encouraged to email you to help us in prayers
that God may give my father a complete healing so that he can continue
his duty to man and to God especially.
Your prayers will be much valued and gratified. Thank you for
sharing it to friends. I appreciate the concern and love you have
for the father. At this time I am taking his position so that the
bible school can still function well in his absence."
Healing-at-a-distance over the telephone
Brother
Bill, who was teaching in Australia that week, learned about the
situation from Jim Hathaway in Canada who has ministered with Pastor
Tito on mission trips to the Philippines. Brother Bill called
Pastor Tito on the telephone via Skype to minister healing to
him using
the Lord's authority in the name of Jesus Christ. This is what
Pastor Tito wrote on the next day describing what happened:
"Thank
you so much for the special prayer extended for me and I’m
really so blessed and healed. You are not accidentally used
by the Lord to pray over me…
Yesterday
[June 14] while you were praying over me [over the phone] I experienced
something inside my heart ---there was a finger like the finger
of a baby touching my heart. I knew that it was the finger
of God working in my heart as a proof of His miracle power. After
the prayer the pain in my heart was gone and the difficulty in
breathing was also gone. [As he was talking to Brother Bill
over the phone he was jumping up and down---something he apparently
could not do
before
with
his
heart
condition.]
And
now I am happy because I feel so good and I have now started
to teach in the Bible School."
(The
above testimony was edited for grammar)
Follow-up report received on September 5, 2010
"Greetings
in Jesus Name!
This
is a big opportunity for me to email to you despite that I am so
busy in the ministry, but I have given the time to talk to you.
Thank
you so much for your prayer that you had done for me the last time
more than a month ago. I was really blessed and was healed by the
Lord through
the prayer you had done for me. God
bless you and more power."