Lloyd's
Testimony
Lloyd
Jeffers
April 27,2001
I feel like I need to give my testimony
about how great God has been to me and still is. After my
surgery, I am so emotional I can't talk about it. So I thought
I would write it.
I was brought up in a God loving home.
Went to church every time we could. And I knew a lot about
the Bible. After I got married, Wanda (my wife) tried to get
me to go to church, and I did go a few times. One day the
Sunday school teacher asked me to pray and I didn't go back.
The
Holy Spirit kept after me for many years, so hard until one
night when we were working at the boys ranch in Summerdale
we were at church and the Lord said this is enough. I didn't
even remember leaving my seat. I was going down the isle and
looked back and Wanda was trying to catch up with me.
When the Lord tells you
to do something you better do it.
I
gave my life to Christ that night. I was baptized at Green
Acres Baptist church after we left the boys ranch. Wanda and
I both believe we were led to the boys ranch and Green Acres
Baptist church.
One time when I was in the hospital
I had been put to sleep several times and this time I think
they gave me too much of whatever it is they give you to put
you asleep, Anyway I thought I went to Heaven, and it was
so peaceful you can't explain it. I saw another place in Heaven
I wanted to go but the Lord said you are not ready yet. Jesus
was showing me how beautiful Haven is and a place I would
not get to go to if I didn't accept him as my personal savior.
Well thank God I am
ready now.
About a year and a half ago I had chest
pains, and Wanda carried me to the emergency room. They said
it was an acid reflux, This past February I had the same thing,
I was not going to make a fool of myself again, and was not
going to the emergency room. I had taken everything I could
and it didn't help. So I had to go. The entire test they ran
showed I was all right. Dr Patterson was not satisfied, because
of my family's history of heart attacks. She sent me to Mobile
Providence Hospital, I had 100% blockage in one artery, ninety%
in one, and sixty% in another. With this lung disease (COPD)
I had a rough time, and the Lord brought me through it. The
Doctor said I had another heart attack before this one. I
think that was the first time I had chest pains.
Again,
I know the Lord was watching over me then.
This past December I had a Dr. appointment
in Mobile,(about 35 miles from home) and didn't think I could
drive and Wanda couldn't drive in Mobile, so I asked my daughter
to take me. She was going a different way than I would have
and I asked her why? she said it was closer. Anyway we had
exited the causeway and I was at the point that I could barely
breathe, She asked me if I wanted to go to the emergency room,
I said yes. She didn't take the entrance ramp to the interstate
hwy. and was going thru downtown Mobile. She was going to
the Mobile Infirmary but made a wrong turn and by the grace
of God we were at the Women's and Children's Clinic. Which
was a lot closer.
I
know now that God had planed her route.
After
they got me stabilized I was transported to Providence
Hospital. The first night I was there, I almost didn't make
it. The Dr. told me to call in my family and discuss putting
me on life support. I prayed and said "Jesus, you said
if you are a true child of God, ask and you will receive".
And
I thought I saw Jesus standing at the foot of my bed, and
He said:
"Just trust me."
I told Wanda about it and we prayed.
I was not sure if what I saw was real. I thought it might
have been my imagination. The next day our Pastor Bro. Randy
Byrd came to see me. I told him what I had experienced. He
said that was very possible.
Believe and God will
take care of you.
The next day my brother, sister, daughter
and niece were in my room and a lady came in. I thought she
was a nurse. She told me she was a lab technician and she
was up there to see someone else. She took my hand and said
I don't know what to say, I was led to your room, can I have
a prayer with you? She prayed and we had a long talk about
Jesus. And she told me sometimes the Lord has to take you
down to build you up and all I had to do was just trust him
Then I knew what I
saw the night before was real.
God
has his way to get you to believe.
I
told her she was a God sent angel.
She came back to see me 3 or 4 times after that. She has called
since I have been home. We will still be in touch with each
other.
I thank God I am able to
go to church and serve Him. And I thank Him for my loving,
caring, wonderful wife who has stood by me all the way. God
has been good to her to; we have so much to thank Him for.
We have surely been Blessed.
I
think the Lord has spared my life for a reason, Maybe this
testimony is it. To let people know that I have been proven
to that there is a True living God. He will prove it to you
if there is a doubt in your mind. And He will take care of
you if you will live for Him and just trust Him.
May God bless you as He has me,
Lloyd Jeffers
