COGIC History Year 1955
**A Healing Testimony **
Sister Versie Lee Garrett
I thank the Lord for sanctifying and baptizing me with the Precious Holy Ghost, with fire and a mind to walk upright before my unseen God. I know the Lord to be a healer. In the year 1945, I had Tuberculosis, and through the teachings of Sister Florence Rosbon, the Lord saved me I had an operation.
The doctor removed seven ribs from my right side. After my operation, the doctor told me, you can go home, but don't do any work. I had an X-RAY made every six weeks. I weighed one hundred six (106) pounds, so I went to work, and in two months, I broke down and returned to the Tuberculosis Hospital for the second time, just as the doctor said.
The doctor said they had to go back to that side again after the left side healed up. I told the Lord I didn't want the doctor to operate on me again, and I wanted Him to "heal" my body.
I wanted the Lord to heal me, and I asked Him to. I told the Lord, Lord, I have heard about you being a healer and have seen some people healed, but you had never done that work for me.
In 1949, when the National Holy Convocation was in session here in Memphis, Tennessee, at Mason Temple, I was lying in bed with my radio on, listening to the broadcast and Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr. narrating.
He told the people in radio land if you are near your radio, just lay your hands on the radio. Bishop Mason is here to offer prayer for the sick. I laid my left hand on the radio and my right hand on my left side, which had been hurting me for three months.
When Bishop Mason began to pray, he said, "WOMAN. THE LORD. HEAL YOU' THE POWER OF GOD CAME INTO MY RIGHT HAND, AND I COULDN'T CONTROL IT. PRAISE the LORD!
I knew it was the Lord working with me, but THE DEVIL tried to keep me from claiming my healing. Just about that time, Bishop Mason said, "SATAN, THE LORD, REBUKE YOU, COME OUT OF THE MIND, YOU TORMENTOR. WOMAN! GET UP OUT OF THAT BED." THE LORD QUICKENED ME OUT OF BED AND HEALED MY BODY INSTANTLY THAT NIGHT. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS!
I was discharged by the doctor and nurse that next morning without an X-RAY. I was at home three months before the doctor said for me to have a check-up. So, as the Scripture has said, "obey them that have ruler over you, according to the flesh."
I went and had an X-RAY made. It came right back and said, your chest X-RAY shows to be satisfactory. GLORY! THANK GOD! The doctor only exempts Tuberculosis Patients for three years.
Since then, I have been working nine and ten hours daily on a public job for over a year, lifting IRON like a man. It has been six years since the Lord healed me. Since that time, the Lord has healed me of cancer, healed my eyes so that I don't have to wear eyeglasses and many other afflictions.
THANK GOD! He has doubled my time according to the prediction of the doctors. SAINTS AND FRIENDS: LOOK TO THE LORD FOR YOUR HELP AND STRENGTH. I know Him to be all of this to me.
SAINTS: "LET US EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO US! Bishop Mason is my pastor; Mother Martha Stinson is my Church Mother. FOR ME, I WILL FOREVER STAY IN THE WILL OF THE LORD! Yours in Christ,
Sister Versie Lee Garrett
CREDIT THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY
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COGIC History Year 1955
**A Healing Testimony **
Sister Versie Lee Garrett
I thank the Lord for sanctifying and baptizing me with the Precious Holy Ghost, with fire and a mind to walk upright before my unseen God. I know the Lord to be a healer. In the year 1945, I had Tuberculosis, and through the teachings of Sister Florence Rosbon, the Lord saved me I had an operation.
The doctor removed seven ribs from my right side. After my operation, the doctor told me, you can go home, but don't do any work. I had an X-RAY made every six weeks. I weighed one hundred six (106) pounds, so I went to work, and in two months, I broke down and returned to the Tuberculosis Hospital for the second time, just as the doctor said.
The doctor said they had to go back to that side again after the left side healed up. I told the Lord I didn't want the doctor to operate on me again, and I wanted Him to "heal" my body.
I wanted the Lord to heal me, and I asked Him to. I told the Lord, Lord, I have heard about you being a healer and have seen some people healed, but you had never done that work for me.
In 1949, when the National Holy Convocation was in session here in Memphis, Tennessee, at Mason Temple, I was lying in bed with my radio on, listening to the broadcast and Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr. narrating.
He told the people in radio land if you are near your radio, just lay your hands on the radio. Bishop Mason is here to offer prayer for the sick. I laid my left hand on the radio and my right hand on my left side, which had been hurting me for three months.
When Bishop Mason began to pray, he said, "WOMAN. THE LORD. HEAL YOU' THE POWER OF GOD CAME INTO MY RIGHT HAND, AND I COULDN'T CONTROL IT. PRAISE the LORD!
I knew it was the Lord working with me, but THE DEVIL tried to keep me from claiming my healing. Just about that time, Bishop Mason said, "SATAN, THE LORD, REBUKE YOU, COME OUT OF THE MIND, YOU TORMENTOR. WOMAN! GET UP OUT OF THAT BED." THE LORD QUICKENED ME OUT OF BED AND HEALED MY BODY INSTANTLY THAT NIGHT. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS!
I was discharged by the doctor and nurse that next morning without an X-RAY. I was at home three months before the doctor said for me to have a check-up. So, as the Scripture has said, "obey them that have ruler over you, according to the flesh."
I went and had an X-RAY made. It came right back and said, your chest X-RAY shows to be satisfactory. GLORY! THANK GOD! The doctor only exempts Tuberculosis Patients for three years.
Since then, I have been working nine and ten hours daily on a public job for over a year, lifting IRON like a man. It has been six years since the Lord healed me. Since that time, the Lord has healed me of cancer, healed my eyes so that I don't have to wear eyeglasses and many other afflictions.
THANK GOD! He has doubled my time according to the prediction of the doctors. SAINTS AND FRIENDS: LOOK TO THE LORD FOR YOUR HELP AND STRENGTH. I know Him to be all of this to me.
SAINTS: "LET US EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO US! Bishop Mason is my pastor; Mother Martha Stinson is my Church Mother. FOR ME, I WILL FOREVER STAY IN THE WILL OF THE LORD! Yours in Christ,
Sister Versie Lee Garrett
CREDIT THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY
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