One of the highlights of our visit to Singapore from
26th to 30th November, 2008, was the healing of my mother. She was
complaining about pain in one of her ankles. As usual, Grace and
I offered to heal her in the name of Jesus. Mother was a little hesitant
but we insisted. As we laid hands on the affected ankle and commanded
firmly, the pain went off immediately. We then asked her to test
her healed ankle. Mother walked around the living room and turned
her ankle this way and that way. She smiled and said that she had
no more pain. She then told us of her upcoming operation on one of
her eyes. Apparently, something was wrong with her retinas or maculas.
Both eyes were affected and only one could be surgically repaired.
The nature of her vision problem was such that the objects seemed
distorted. Straight lines appeared to be wavy or bent. It was something
known as Metamorphopsia.
Once again, Grace and I offered, by the authority
of Jesus Christ, to heal the eyes too. My mother was a little sceptical
and wanted
us to understand how complicating the problem was. This was not just
a simple pain in the joint. It had to do with a long-termed damage
of the eyes. However, we told her that if she would have faith, she
would be healed. She relented and we tested her frail eye condition.
I asked her to look at me and she confirmed that my image was wavy.
She covered one eye and then the other. Both eye had the same problem – distorted
vision. I had to stand very near, like about one foot from her face,
for her to have a clear image. We wanted mother to remember clearly
her condition before we took command for healing.
The reason we had to be so drastic was because mother had been delinquent.
There were a number of occasions when the Lord had healed her but
her faith was shaken by doubts. My unbelieving elder sister became
the catalyst of such doubts. Richard, my younger brother revealed
a more tragic offence that my mother had committed. She had followed
my sister to a Chinese temple in Muar, Malaysia. There, she was encouraged
to burn incense sticks to the idols. After my mother did that, some
of her physical pains returned. In her heart, she knew that she had
done wrong and felt very uneasy. However, she did not know how to
repent and struggled with the guilt.
Grace and I did not confront mother about her sin
but told her to trust Jesus as we laid hands on her eyes. We took
turns to command
the eyes to be healed. That was exactly what happened – instantly,
my mother’s eyes could see objects without distortion. This
time, we asked her to tell us whether the vision was still producing
wavy images. She stared at me and then covered one eye. Then she
did the same to the other. She said the wavy image had disappeared.
To confirm the healing, I moved further to the end of the living
room and asked her to look at me. Her vision held - my image was
not wavy like that before the command of healing. Praise the Lord.
In fact, during the four days that we were in Singapore, we continued
to check on her vision. It had remained healed and she did not see
any wavy images.
After she was thoroughly convinced that she had just
experienced a miracle, we addressed the problem of her visit to
the temple. She
was repentant and showed great remorse. Fifteen minutes into the
explanation why it was important to remain faithful to the Living
God and for her to worship only one God, we asked her if she wanted
to confess her sin. She was most willing and instead of leading her
in prayer, we asked her to talk to God in her own way. Using our
dialect which is Hainanese, my mother sought forgiveness from the
Lord. She used the humblest expression in Hainanese when addressing
herself before God. She called herself, “kia thun” which
literally means “child and grandchild” and that implies “descendent”.
In the past, she only used this term when she prayed to our deceased
ancestors. As she closed her eyes and bowed her head, she told the
Lord that “your descendent had done wrong because of her foolishness
and ignorance”. She humbly begged ‘Tu Jay Tol’ (Lord
Jesus) to forgive her for the transgression and promised that she
would never do that again. She then asked the Lord to protect her
from evil and also to bless her and all in our family. After that,
Grace and I laid hands and prayed for her. We also gave her the assurance
of God’s forgiveness from God’s Word: “If we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
It was a good visit – two miracles and one
repentance. We thank God for making our trip to Singapore a fruitful
and blessed
one.
Pastor Albert Kang
Coordinator
Elijah Challenge Asia
Luke 10:9 "Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God
is near you.’"