This is a testimony of an amazing miracle God worked for my wife and myself. It began in 2017 and continues to this day!
My dear wife Becky was born with a condition called PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease). Her kidneys began to fail about 10 years ago, and by 2016, she was on dialysis. After about one year of this, her surgeon told me, “Your wife’s body is not built to live through long-term dialysis. Try to get her a new kidney ASAP!”
Now I was frightened. Our church began to ask the lord to give Becky a second chance at life. In desperation, I emailed the hundreds of people on my contact list to appeal to them for a kidney donation. Several offered but were disqualified because they were not a match. We waited and prayed…nothing. We prayed and waited some more…nothing!
Finally, some 3 to 4 months later, I received a reply from a 44-year-old woman named Lisa (not her real name). Lisa had been looking through her old e-mail and found my urgent appeal. She wanted to help! She wrote that this was the least she could do for me for what I had done for her 34 years before!
I was stunned and thrilled! Lisa had been a skinny, angry, antisocial young girl in my 6th-grade class in 1984. She was bright enough to earn good grades, but beyond that, her daily behavior gave evidence that there was something terribly wrong happening in her life. Back then, we did not know as much about child abuse in the home, but the Lord’s Spirit within me urged me to reach out to bring her to the only One who could heal her inside.
After receiving permission from Lisa’s mother, I began to take her with me to church and to a Children’s Bible Club. When Lisa understood that God wanted to be for her the loving, caring father she never had, she threw her arms around Him and never let go!
I lost track of her over the years, but now, here she was, leaping back into our lives like Wonder Woman to rescue Becky from an early death!
She came to town carrying a bouquet of pink roses (which she did not know were my wife’s favorite!) Lisa was now a happy, well-adjusted, athletic woman who sang in her church choir and counseled young girls who had been abused like she had. God had truly made her into a “new creation”! She was tested and found to be a perfect match! Surgery was successful! Lisa returned home full of the joy that ministry brings, and my wife was filled with the joy of having a new lease on life!
Truly, the Bible says, “Ask and it shall be given to you…” (Mt. 7:7-8).
Truly, the Bible says, “For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever;
his faithfulness extends to all generations” (Ps. 100:5).
Truly, the Bible says, “Cast thy bread upon the waters…thou shalt find it after many days” (Ecclesiastes 11:1).
Now, every year at this time, we rejoice again in the miracle God did for us and encourage others to believe for their own miracle too. We cannot oblige God to do such things for us in any way, but that does not mean He is not willing sometimes to intervene in our lives in supernatural ways. For more evidence of the Lord’s willingness to do miracles, I invite you to visit the website for the new Christian movie “The Case for Miracles” by well-known Christian author Lee Strobel. The film should be coming out 12/15/25 to a theater near you. May God bless you with a life-changing testimony of your own to share at Thanksgiving!
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