Almighty God is My Only Salvation

Yang Lan

I was born in a peasant family, and am the eldest one among three sisters. After getting married, I got many diseases because of hard work day and night over the years.

In 2010, I, who was 52 years old, lost my voice and went to the hospital for an examination. The doctor told me that I got polyp of vocal cord and needed an operation. He also said: “The examination shows that your blood pressure is up to 220/180 and my platelet count is far below normal. Once the skin is broken, it will bleed profusely, and you will be in danger of death. So you can’t have an operation now, but can only take some medicine first to increase the number of the blood platelet.” Then the doctor prescribed Prednisone and some other medicines for me. The doctor also said that I had other diseases such as rheumatism, bronchitis, myocardial infarction, cirrhosis, Hepatitis C, gallstone, kidney stone, pancreatitis, insufficient blood supply to the heart, etc., of which several were very dangerous and threatened my life at any time. The doctor’s words were like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. I couldn’t help looking up to heaven and sighing deeply: Good Heavens! Why my life is so difficult? Heaven, please save me!

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In order to get healed, I followed the doctor’s advice to take medicine. However, after taking the medicine for a period of time, I kept gaining weight, and black hair grew on my body. Then I went to consult a local doctor with the medicines. He said with a serious expression: “These medicines can improve the blood platelet, but the hormone in Prednisone has powerful effect. Taking it for a long time will damage your immunity. Besides, you will have black hair on your body, your head will become bigger, the upper part of your body will get fatter, and the lower part of the body will become thinner, which will make you look like a monster. You must stop taking it.” What the doctor said was exactly the symptoms I had, so I felt even more scared and uneasy. Then I hastened to see the doctor in charge of my case. The doctor said that the side effect of Prednisone was indeed serious, but because my illness was too dangerous, I had to take this medicine. The doctor also said that my liver and spleen were in a more dangerous condition and I must have an operation right now. However, the medical facilities in the city hospital were quite limited and they couldn’t perform the operation. After I discussed with my family, we decided that I should go to the provincial hospital to have an operation. The doctor used three needles which were 35 cm to pierce into my spleen from the thigh, burning 70% of the spleen. When I came to life, I found that my hands and feet were all bound to the bed, and there were many tubes in my body. I felt like I were being pierced by countless arrows. After the operation, not only did I not get any better, but my belly kept aching unbearably. Realizing that my condition worsened and was very serious, the doctor advised me to have further operation in another hospital. With the instinct for life, I then went to several other hospitals to seek doctors. After many inquiries, I finally found a hospital and continued the treatment there. Several days later after operation, while doing his ward round, the doctor who performed the operation on me said: “I’ve performed operations for thirty or forty years, but never seen such a patient like you. Your internal organs were all swollen, the spleen and gallbladder were all black, and they were rotten like bean dregs. So I had to remove your spleen and gallbladder. I risked performing the operation this time. If you undergo another surgery in the future, you will probably go in operating room alive but come out dead.” Hearing these words, I felt even more worried and fearful about my situation.

My family had spent more than 30,000 yuan for the treatment of my illness, and was heavily in debt. However, there wasn’t any improvement in my condition. I was unable to take care of myself, and had to eat, drink, defecate, and urinate on the bed. As time went on, I really felt worse than death. Because my diseases were so complicated and serious, the doctor also felt powerless. At last, the doctor secretly told my family to prepare for my funeral, but that was overheard by me. I felt as if the sky fell and the earth crumbled at the moment. I cried out in my heart: “Good Heavens! Will my life really come to an end? I don’t want to die!” I was in great agony and knew that the hope of being cured through treatment was completely shattered. Due to liver ascites, my abdomen was swollen and painful, so I couldn’t eat or drink well in the daytime or fall asleep at night. Gradually, I was all skin and bone. Being tormented every day in helplessness and agony, I wanted to take sleeping pills or jump off the building to free myself from such unbearable suffering. However, I then thought that my husband and children had spent a lot of money on my treatment, and if I ended my life in this way, didn’t I wound their heart too much? I couldn’t bear to do it, so I had to spend every day in suffering.

In April 2013, just when I was in extreme pain and despair, Almighty God’s salvation of the last days came upon me. I thanked God for stretching out His saving hand to me who was at the brink of death due to the affliction of illness. My brothers and sisters read God’s words to me and fellowshiped with me in meetings, from which I learnt that men were created by God. I also knew that when God first created mankind, they didn’t experience birth, death, illness and old age. It was only after men were corrupted by Satan that they began to have such suffering. After accepting Almighty God’s work, I often sang this song of God’s word taught by my brothers and sisters when I was afflicted with illness: “After Satan corrupted man, they became more and more degenerate, their illnesses were deepened, their suffering became more and more severe, and they felt more and more the emptiness, the tragedy and the inability to go on living of the world. Man felt less and less hope for the world. This suffering was brought on man by Satan. In order to bring the wonderful destination that awaits man away from Satan’s grasp, God must experience this suffering Himself and pay this price Himself so that man will completely turn to God. Now God has suffered all on man’s behalf, and paid this price Himself, so He has a powerful testimony. Mankind afterward will never again experience the sorrows and joys of the world, the grief and troubles of the flesh, or the birth, death, illness, and old age of the world, and man will wholly belong to God and enter into the beautiful destination.” God has been personally incarnated to experience the suffering of the world just for the sake of saving us who live under the domain of Satan from the abyss of misery, freeing us from the troubles of birth, death, illness and old age, and finally bringing us into the wonderful destination. Thinking of this, I was moved to tears by God’s deep love toward man, and so I had the courage in my heart to fight against the diseases and also had the confidence and courage to live on. With that, my mood turned better gradually and the pain and sorrow on my face also dissolved away.

One day, I felt a little better. So I walked with the help of a stick, halting from time to time, to the field to help my husband pick up the vegetable seeds. After going back home and finishing lunch, I took a rest. At about three o’clock in the afternoon, I suddenly had a cramp in the legs. It was so painful that I couldn’t move, and after a short while, beads of sweat fell from my forehead. I felt I was weak all over. In pain, I could only pray to God: “O God, my legs ached badly, and I’m almost unable to overcome it. I don’t know what to do. May you keep my heart.” After the prayer, I remembered God’s words: “The environment around us as well as the people, matters and objects, all are permitted by His throne. Do not have a complaining heart, or God will not bestow His grace upon you. When sickness happens it is due to God’s love and His good intentions are surely behind it. Even when your body endures suffering, take no ideas from Satan. Praise God in the midst of illness and enjoy God in the midst of your praise. Do not lose heart in the face of illness, keep seeking and never give up, and God shall shine His light to you.” God’s words made me understand: I shouldn’t complain and can’t fall prey to Satan’s tricks when I had a cramp in my legs today. God will surely guide me as long as I rely on and pray to Him more. After understanding God’s will, I made a resolution inwardly: I am willing to rely on God to overcome the affliction of the illness coming upon me today. When I resolved to cooperate with God, gradually I no longer felt the pain.

One day in March 2014, I had an attack of bronchitis. With difficulty in breathing, my heart throbbed, which made me very painful. Suddenly, I remembered my last experience as well as the words my brothers and sisters often said to me: “Pray to God whenever sickness comes upon you.” Then I came before God and prayed: “O God, I can hardly breathe now, and I feel as if I’m dying. God, I was so scared. May You give me faith to overcome it.” A short while later, I felt better, and then I went to read God’s word. I saw: “Almighty God is an all-powerful physician! To dwell in sickness is to be sick, but to dwell in the spirit is to be well. If you have but one breath, God will not let you die.” God’s words reassured me, making my heart calm down. I couldn’t help giving thanks and praises to God. I saw that Almighty God is an all-powerful physician, and that in God there’s nothing that cannot be accomplished. So I was more determined to follow God.

Under God’s care and protection, the affliction of the illness gradually lessened and I felt relaxed a lot all over. Half a year later, I went to the hospital for a check. Upon seeing me, the doctor who was once in charge of my case said in surprise: “I didn’t think you could still be alive. You look so well, and don’t look like a patient with a serious illness. It’s really a miracle that a person like you with so many diseases can live so well. It seems that Heaven is helping you!” After the tests, he told me happily: “The result shows that your Alanine transaminase (ALT) and glutamine-oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT) (two norms of Hepatitis C) have decreased in half, the blood pressure has returned to normality, the myocardial infarction was cured, and the other diseases all get better. …” Hearing the words of the doctor, I was so excited that tears welled up in my eyes. I knew clearly in my heart that it was Almighty God who protected me. At that moment, I didn’t know how to thank God for His salvation, but could only pray to Him silently in my heart: O Almighty God! I thank You for Your love and salvation of me. I got such complicated and weird diseases and was sentenced to death by the doctor, but now I have got better. This is truly Your grace and mercy. It is You who have been caring and protecting me, and it is You who have given me a second life. At that moment, I thought of these words of God: “My word is good medicine, and it cures all kinds of illnesses. As long as you are willing to come before Me, I will cure you and let you see how almighty I am and how wonderful My deeds are….” Through my personal experience, I saw that God’s word is really remedy for all illnesses, and that as long as I sincerely believe in and rely on God, I can see His almightiness. From then on, my faith in God became ever stronger and I resolved that I would testify to God’s wondrous deeds in me to others to repay His love.

Later, I often fellowshiped God’s words together with my brothers and sisters, and also preached gospel to others and testified God in my spare time. I was getting better and better in my mental state and the color was returning to my face. While preaching the gospel, people who knew me all asked in surprise: “Where did you find a skillful doctor to heal you?” I told them: “No matter how skillful a doctor is, he can’t save my life. It was Almighty God who saved me. Almighty God is an all-powerful physician. He not only can cure our illness but also supply what we need, and moreover, He can bestow upon us the life…” Hearing my testimony, they all praised God’s almightiness and sovereignty and some of them accepted Almighty God’s work.

Just as God’s words say: “God has the authority to have a person die, to have his soul leave his body and return to Hades, or wherever it should go. When someone dies, and where they go after death—these are determined by God. He can do this anytime and anywhere. He is not constrained by humans, events, objects, space, or place. If He wants to do it He can do it, because all things and living beings are under His rule, and all things live and die by His word, His authority. He can resurrect a dead man—this is also something He can do anytime, anywhere. This is the authority that only the Creator possesses.” From God’s words, I saw that God has authority and power, and that He controls and decides the life and death of all things and living beings. He can give life to men, and can also have men die. This is the unique authority of the Creator. In retrospect, in the beginning the doctors of several large hospitals all sentenced me to death. After believing in Almighty God I came to know that no matter how superb a doctor’s medical skill is, it cannot bring a dying man back to life. Only God has the authority to deliver a man from the threat of death and let him continue to live. From this, I have seen that only when we come before God and accept God’s salvation can we have the hope of survival when disasters came upon us. Now I only wish that on my future journey of believing in God, I will do my best to perform my duty of a created being to repay God for giving me a second life.

All the glory be to Almighty God!

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