All Saints‘ Day
On the last Sunday in October 2021, we were at my mum’s house. A friend of hers came to visit her with her daughter, whom she hadn’t seen for 7 years. Both visitors had meanwhile experienced divorce during the time they hadn’t seen each other. They were using some explicit words to describe unforgiveness and sins committed by their exes. Mum was listening to it and letting it under her skin.
The woman hadn’t been to my father’s funeral (2 years ago), so she came to say her farewells to him on the all-saints day. My mum doesn’t go to the cemetery at all; after my dad died, she said she would never set foot there. And she didn’t want to go there at all. But her friend didn’t know where the cemetery was, so mum had to go with her. I don’t know what happened at the cemetery, or whether she said goodbye out loud to him in front of mum.
The fact that the woman was spiritually stronger than my mum, in a bad way, could have affected my mum, and the evil took advantage of her weakness regarding my dad. Did she happen to believe that dad was alive and she could go see him? I don’t know. We know from the Bible that God does not advise us to talk to the dead or pray to them.
Mum got sick
We didn’t pay any attention to it, or we rather laughed at her about pretending illness after coming to us every once in a while. She would leave us saying she was cold and felt under the weather. On Thursday, her neighbour told me that she had been dizzy in the garden and she had not been looking well in her face. By Friday she already had a fever. On Saturday we told her she was sick from the visit she had last Sunday. But she would not admit it and claimed it all went over her head.
One night I couldn’t fall asleep, I woke up and was fighting spiritually for my mum. I prayed for her and Jesus showed me what the problem was and that we had made a mistake. We could see that mum was week, but we didn’t realize right away that it was spiritual in origin. The weakening may have come during mum’s visit to the cemetery. When walking home from an event on Saturday night, we saw a funeral home next to the building we were staying in. There were some guys smoking outside the building, employees, waiting for a call. When we got in the car, their cell phone just rang. They left to get somebody. On Sunday, my mum was telling me that she was feeling sick. I wanted to go to her, but she wouldn’t let me get sick, too. On Monday I decided to visit her. And as I was waiting for the bus at the bus stop, the car driving nearby caught my attention. A funeral car had just pulled up in front of me. I immediately thought of my mum. Personally, I could sense that Satan wanted to scare me, that she was going to die, to make me tremble. But I knew it was a spiritual battle. And I needed to tell my mum what Jesus had shown me so that she could settle it with Jesus and pray for that woman friend of hers, her daughter, and their ex-husbands…
And while fighting the night for her, I saw the funeral service again. It was like a warning. Either she gets deal with Jesus or…
My mum started acting like my dad. She stopped eating, then she was week, she would just lie there and stop drinking, stop washing … When I saw her, it wasn’t her… She had never been so apathic. I brought her a Covid-19 spit test. And I found out she was negative. My mum cheered up completely because her family kept calling her and worrying about her, saying she had to go to the doctor because she had covid, etc. She was already stressed out from all this. And I gave her a new hope by the negative test… She was glad that I was there with her.
She was so encouraged, she got out of bed twice. I felt cheered up too. I came to visit her two more times after that, but I could see that her condition was only getting worse. So, we decided we would visit her together, stay with her over the whole upcoming weekend and pray for her together. Before visiting her, we also wrote to our prayer group leader, Stano, to let him know what the situation was. He prayed for my mum from a distance, casting out evil and sickness from her in the name of Jesus Christ. And he also prayed for her during the group gathering through me. He also recommended us to go visit her again.
On Saturday, when we arrived, her oxygen saturation was at 75%. We noticed that when she cleared her throat, the oxygen went up. We started singing a song of praise to our Lord. Mum, although a singer, refused to sing along, but after a while she finally joined in, cheered up, and her oxygen went up as well. At that point, her sister called her and again urged her to go to the doctor because she might not live until Monday. And she kept talking about an acquaintance who ended up on a pulmonary ventilation because he kept refusing seeing a doctor. Mum was completely exhausted by the conversation, so we encouraged her again. An hour later, her brother called. She told him that she was doing great, the kids were there… (a completely different attitude).
Night attacks by the evil one
The first night (Saturday – Sunday, 13-14 November 2021) that we were sleeping at her’s, Jesus woke my husband up to pray for my mum. In the morning, he learned that at the time he was praying at about 3 a.m., mum had survived an attack by Satan. He attacked her, and kept bringing thoughts of dying. This repeated several times. And mum couldn’t breathe anymore, she was struggling for her life, and she was asking Jesus for help. Then Jesus showed her his pierced hands and said: „I have engraved you in my palms, you are mine now“. The whole experience lasted for 45 minutes. In the morning she had a lot of energy, she was strengthened by Jesus. She experienced a deliverance of her soul, which was reflected also in her body. Her oxygen was 72-92% during the day. Mum was sending us home saying she was already feeling better. However, we decided to stay with her and commute every day to work and school (40-70km). Stano repeatedly expelled the illness from my mum from afar. We also asked people from our spiritual community to pray for her healing.
The next night there was another attack at 3 o’clock which lasted 30 minutes and she was weaker again. We were asleep, not knowing anything. But Jesus woke up my friend Slávka at that time, who felt that she should pray for my mother.
The next day mum’s friends called to see how she was. During the phone call we measured her oxygen saturation. As she was speaking to people about Jesus, her saturation was visibly rising. Thus, the words of Jesus were confirmed: “So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32). When we acknowledge before people how Jesus helps us in our daily lives, we become closer to him. We get closer to God, under God’s protection, and we allow God to show Himself even more in our lives.
When I found out that my mum had had another attack, I felt dizzy… I realized how fragile I was and that I was taking the worst of it. Throughout the day we confessed our sins to Jesus, and to each other, and questioned our relationship with each other and with mum. The Bible also reminded us of the worship of images. We realised that Mum likes to watch soap operas and that the influence of media, internet on our lives was strong. These are the modern images of today. Oxygen saturation was 80-93% throughout the day.
Mum was afraid that another attack would come that night. That’s why we decided to pray for her from 2-4 a.m. as the attacks were coming at about 3 a.m. People from our prayer group also prayed for my mum’s record form the past which Satan was claiming to be erased. During the prayer, mum was sleeping peacefully, nothing happened. So, at 4 o’clock we went to bed. The attack started at 4.15. Every day it was a little bit better, although she still felt weak. Her oxygen saturation was over 85% during the day.
The next night we said we would not set a time to pray at night. We will leave that up to Jesus to wake us up. The attack came at 4.30 a.m., but it lasted only 15 minutes. Mum was then so full of energy again that she went to chop wood .-) Her saturation was at 93%.
Mum was cured
On Friday morning, 19 November 2021, she kept asking us to leave .-) And she managed to cook finally…
Then mum had a problem with her blood pressure. It was high. But after experiencing how praises and prayers affect a person, her blood pressure adjusted to normal after praying 🙂
We have learned a lot through this experience. If Jesus hadn’t helped us, Mum would probably not be with us anymore. Her sister was the only one from her family who came to visit her during those tough days. When she saw her, she was worried she was going to die and returned only after we left and my mum was able to take care of herself again. Other family members were afraid she had covid and would get infected. We have learned that when we are with Jesus, we are not in danger of getting infected. We slept with her for 6 nights and Jesus protected us, nothing happened to any of the three of us.
I would like to thank Jesus that even through such unpleasant situations, He gives us opportunities to get to know Him and ourselves more. I thank Him for saving my mum and giving her the opportunity to witness about Him because He saw her desire to tell people about Him. She also sees him differently now because Jesus has made a personal confession to her. She has experienced Him and no one can take that away from her.
Lidia (April 2023)
Testimony in English – Svedectvo v slovenčine https://zivyjezisvpraxi.sk/uzdravenie-mamy-vdaka-jezisovi/