Pastor Hagee shares a very personal testimony of how God healed him, that will encourage and inspire you. To God be the glory for the great things He has done.
I want to give you a personal testimony
of a savage storm that I went through I
have debated for months whether to tell
this personal story of crisis to my
church and the national television
audience and until today it has been top
secret in this ministry but I share it
with you now to give God Almighty the
glory for bringing me through a crisis
that threatened to end my ministry in a
day you know that last year I had a
right knee replacement and a second
surgery on my left knee you saw me give
several sermons sitting down most
thought it was because I had knee
surgery not so the truth was I was too
sick to stand up for 40 minutes the
crisis began in Maui Hawaii where I was
preaching a missionary conference for
dr. Morocco at the Kingsway Cathedral
the building was packed 90 plus churches
were represented it was a wonderful
gathering as I started to speak on that
first Friday night after about five
minutes from one sentence to another my
tongue instantly became as thick as a
board
it simply sounded like I was drunk my
tongue stopped working my first thought
was I’m having a stroke
then logic dictated your conscious your
alert my brain was now going 120 miles
an hour it must be the pain medication
I’m taking for my knee surgery I
apologize to the audience Donna
god bless ER came racing up the aisle to
the platform with a huge jug of Gatorade
the lubricating oil for all athletes
thank God we were not on national
television I continued speaking very
slowly straining to pronounce
word that audience listened with an
intensity that was divinely anointed
God’s presence filled that building in a
very special way as it took minutes to
get done with what could have done in
seconds I was in a storm a severe storm
after the service Donna and the ministry
team went back to the hotel I took no
medications on Saturday because I was
convinced it may have been the pain
medication that caused that I was the
speak on Sunday morning at 7:00 in the
morning at 9:00 in the morning and at
7:00 that night Saturday night was the
longest night in the history of the
world
Sunday morning I stood to speak and for
five minutes there was no problem just
as I was beginning to feel confident in
one second between one sentence and
another my tongue simply refused to
function it happened in the nine o’clock
service it happened in the 7 p.m.
service the Prince of Darkness whispered
in my ear you have preached your last
sermon on television people will believe
you really drunk or your own drugs
you’ll never be able to explain this not
ever we call dr. Schnitzler who has been
my position and shepherded me through a
number of physical problems and as soon
as our plane landed in San Antonio we
went straight to his office to do blood
work to be distributed to every
specialist in town for two weeks Don and
I stayed out of the city because I
couldn’t talk and there was no way to
explain what I was going through because
I didn’t know but you can be sure that
every waking hour the Prince of Darkness
was dancing on my shoulder saying this
television ministry is over
you’re out of Christians United for
Israel all that you are is over the
medical reports came in we came back to
San Antonio and went to the office of
dr. Jackson down and I went to her
office and she said you have my Salinas
gravis it’s an autoimmune system failure
where the messages from your brain being
sent to your tongue are garbled your
body is attacking your body and it’s
caused by stress I asked the doctor will
I ever be able to preach again she
responded very honestly I don’t know
maybe not if she would have hit me in
the head with a hammer it wouldn’t have
heard anymore I said will I ever be able
to play my saxophone she hit the save
safe button again I can’t tell you that
maybe not your body is under attack I
went home I tried to play my saxophone
I couldn’t make it make a squeak not a
sound I got out on the back porch and I
put my hands on the anchor of my soul
the Word of God
the winds of adversity were howling the
waves were pounding the whole of my ship
it was a sudden and unseen storm my life
was hanging in the balance
I prayed father you and I have been in
battles for many years this affliction
has taken me totally by surprise but it
didn’t take you by surprise my future is
in your hands I will be done the doctor
told me I would have to go through the
atomic bomb treatment 80 hours of IV
therapy in Trevanian therapy June the
1st for the first 4 days of June Monday
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 5 hours each
day 20 hours of wheat on the IV July 20
more hours August 20 more hours
September 20 more hours 80 hours after
each series of treatments I was so weak
and sick I couldn’t walk across the room
I vomited I had severe side effects that
are too obnoxious to describe that’s
when I sat down to preach because I was
too weak to stand during the IV
treatments my speech started coming back
I could start playing my saxophone not
for long but just for one verse and then
it came back more and came back more and
came back more and gradually my strength
has returned on my last visit the doctor
he said you’re doing fine your Chi said
you’re doing fine
you’re going to be okay when I played
the saxophone last Sunday night you were
watching a miracle in progress
you