It's All About The Push

I'm going to be very open and share something today that I have not shared with many. Not even my family knows the full extent of what has been going on in my life. So today is MY day of testimony!

4 years ago I received a diagnose of bone degeneration and severe arthritis. I was raised playing sports and played them until I was in my late 40's. That's when I started having problems. After seeking medical advice and a MRI, I received a phone call later that night telling me that I needed to go to the emergency room immediately. I was concerned, but not worried because I knew about the power of my God.

When I got there all these doctors kept coming into the room and asking me to do strength tests. One group would leave and then another would come asking me to do the same things. This went on for a couple of hours before I had finally had enough and asked them what was going on.

Well it turned out that from looking at my MRI, what they saw said I was supposed to be paralyzed. What they were witnessing was strength and I remember all the doctors commenting on how strong I was.

I was not paralyzed, in fact, I was walking, grabbing, lifting and doing pretty much whatever I needed or wanted to do.

Spent a night of observation which was pretty much the same routine all night, since I guess I was a walking miracle to them.

Prior to this I was running a food program, serving my community and playing tennis, just all around active. Did I have pain? Yes! But I refused to look at my pain and kept my vision on the horizon to the place where I was healed.

So here I am 2 surgeries and 5 years later and I have to be honest, it hasn't been easy. I have many days of pain. Days when I shouldn't even want to wake up because I know what it will entail.

But I wake up sometimes with a shout of praise!

I look forward to the morning because I know that one day I will wake up free from all pain. And so I press on giving glory to God throughout the whole day.

Do you know why?

After the 1st surgery I was unable to walk for 5 days. Then I was able to walk with a walker and with a lot of pain. 2 months after the 2nd surgery I was no better and my doctor had the nerve to tell me that I would never get any better. That this was now my life.

What he didn't know was that I had heard my God say that He was going to heal me. And so I felt no fear when I told him that I didn't believe or receive what he was saying.

Today I am walker-free. I can even run on a good day. An although some days are still painful, I arise with a smile on my face ready to do the will of my Father.

Anyone that meets me would never see the trial that I was going through because that is not what life is all about. All through our lives there will be trials, but life is really about the push.

Are you going to give up or are you going to push to get to that next level?

I may not be healed yet, but guess what? I can really see it! Yes I really can! And I am living in it every time I head out my door. Because I can see my healing, others cannot see my infirmities. Because I see it, they have to see too!

I can say yes, I understand walking by faith and not by sight, because faith has the power to not only change your sight but to change the sight of everyone around you and everyone that you come into contact with.

Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (NKJ)

And this is what I say and this my testimony. I have become the evidence! Witness today what God, the Father, the Omnipotent, the Beginning and the End, can do through faith! Hallelujah!

God is good!!!!!

Be blessed!

Evangelist Cheryl Davies

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