Thomas Rice – God met me on my death bed & started my healing journey
God found me on my death bed
My life had been a mess of rejection and loss. Devastation had caused me to be a hard man, who never trusted anyone. Everyone I had ever loved had let me down, and I would never be hurt again by anyone!
Then about twenty years ago whilst dying of malaria I called upon the name of the Lord Jesus! God saved me and healed me.
The Lord was led to America and invited to an FGBMFI Convention. There I was set free and was baptised in the Holy Spirit. I was given encouragement by God, that I had been equipped with some supernatural giftings! It felt like claws or talons released from my heart.
For the first time I felt really free!
Jesus had dealt with all my fear and unforgiveness. He covered me in a sweet perfume. I remember a voice saying well then? Well then?
I then said “I love you Father!”
It was the first time in my life I let anyone into that place that no one could touch.
Trusting in God in the most difficult circumstances
Twenty years on now and I have just received the Father’s love in a supernatural encounter with God! It was looking like I was going to need a heart bypass, with two arteries blocked. But in September 2007, I asked the Lord if there was another way?
The surgeon then saw me and said that he had reconsidered and thought that stents might be the answer? I was very thankful and had two stents put in one artery. However, it took that long I suffered a allergic reaction. I was in a right state.
Whilst at an FGBMFI convention in Penkridge, I asked for prayer. There I was overcome by God, and laid on the floor for quite a time. Lying there I thought that no operation would have been needed. I received confirmation from God in my calling, and thought it was all over bar the praising and thanking God.
Here I am now facing a third operation and the wire up into the heart?
This made me start to question God. But I knew with all my heart, I had not doubted for a moment. Through it I had kept smiling all the time. I looked upward and asked the Lord, what I had done? As I had not doubted and had trusted in Him completely?
No answer came and I felt I could not have had more faith in the situation.
Freedom after Forgiveness
On the weekend I was going to a God Encounter, and was teamed up with someone who asked me if I had forgiven my Father?
I had, and even loved him so much now as the Holy Spirit revealed to me the good things about my Dad! He asked me again. Suddenly I saw myself in a situation where I had been beaten, and embarrassed in front of my Mom. It was here deep within and such was the embarrassment, that I had buried it with the hatred of my Dad. And all the pain he had caused!
I confessed my sin, and asked Dad to understand why I had felt so bad. He forgive me and that I forgave him completely.
Later that day, I felt the Spirit of God enter me. All I could say was Father, Father, Father over and over and over again!
I then went to a dinner and was touched by God so deeply. The speaker said someone has just been healed of Angina and that someone was me!
I still had to have that third operation. Which resulted in the surgeon saying, after another three stents were fitted, I had the equivalent of a 100% bypass. Without all the trauma! It was after this last operation that I finally saw the end of my fear of death. It removed all doubt, faith and trust in God will always come through.
I am now free from an anger, that I had been fighting all my life. In love with the Father, in a much deeper love relationship with Him!
“Honour your father and mother that all may be well with you and that you live long in the land.”