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Malissa is a
member of the St. James Church of the Nazarene. She is now the
Chairperson of the NYI Fundraising Committee and is also a very
vibrant worship leader.
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God has granted me the opportunity to continue living on this earth. To some this may seem like a simple statement, but for someone who has been through what I have, another day on earth is priceless.
At the age of fifteen doctors informed me that I had a 20cm cyst attached to my left ovary. Apparently it had been growing there for months and I simply did not know this.
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Let me give some background to my testimony. One night while I was asleep,
someone or something told me that I should try to turn or wake up. Normally I do not even move in my sleep. But that night
I listened to the voice in my head and I tried to turn. Thank God I did, because
I would never have known that there was something was seriously wrong with
my health.
Then as I tried to turn, I was stopped short by a stabbing pain in my lower abdomen. It felt as though there was a knife there. The pain was so intense that I actually had to call my sleeping mother to help me to get up. Shortly after
that, the pain left me and I went back to sleep.
However I heard the voice again and I tried to turn to lie on my side. The pain returned with such force that I could only slide off the bed very slowly. My mother heard me and came to my rescue again. Just as before the pain left after a short while and I went back to sleep once more.
The next day I went to school but before the end of the day I had to
be warded at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
Honestly, although my family was in tears now because I was in so much pain, I was quite calm and without fear because I realized that since God never left me before that He would not leave me now.
I knew that I had to have surgery. But instead of having to wait forever for a doctor in the hospital, I was blessed with five very experienced doctors, who got everything done quickly and safely. The operation was a success. The cyst was
removed, tested and found to be
non-cancerous.
I truly believe that it was God's soft still voice that woke me up on that late night so that I would be able to have the situation
rectified. God took care of me in that experience. I know that regardless of the storms that toss me and shipwreck me, He is always by my side. I am never alone.
Akia's Testimony
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