Testimonies of the Lord's Goodness



My wife Evelyn was baptized in the Catholic faith. I was born and raised a Jew and converted to Catholicism in 1982. From 1982 to our coming to the renewal in September of 1997, at best, we were both lukewarm Catholics. The Lord called both of us through a diagnosis of cancer in my left kidney. The same day I was told of the diagnosis, we went to our first healing mass celebrated by Father Mike Barry. Shortly after that healing mass, we attended our second one at St. Robert Bellarmine, at which time we met Bro. Frederick. Frederick invited us to our very first prayer group which was Heart of Jesus. The cancer was surgically removed. Praise God it did not spread. We have now been in the renewal and members of HOJ since then. We praise and thank the Lord for bringing and calling both us; for the love, the fellowship, prayers, and support from our HOJ brothers and sisters. We praise and thank God for our ever deepening walk with Him and our return to Him, by His grace.
-Mike K.


It was December 1992 when I received a call informing me that my youngest brother died in the Philippines. I sobbed and I felt like the heavens caved in on me because this brother was the center of all our love and we gave him everything that he wanted being the youngest in the family. Months before he died, I felt a deep longing for the childhood years that we had together because I have not seen him for 15 years. There was so much pain in my heart because of his loss.
It was then that I started to search my soul. As a nurse, I have witnessed death of patients firsthand but it was just a job. Death didn�t become real to me until it affected me. When I was viewing my brother in his coffin, I was adoring him and I asked GOD why did HE take him away from us so soon. I carried the pain and grief in my heart in my daily life and I felt like I was going into depression. At that time, I didn�t care about anything anymore, not even my husband, my children, and my parents.
But truly GOD is love. One day at work, I needed to call one of the visiting nuns in the hospital because of a dying patient. The nun came and she asked me, "How are you feeling these days, Cindy?" I told her that my grief seems like it�s getting worse. She came back that day and gave me a book, NEW TESTAMENT, and said "Read it and the LORD will comfort you". At home, I read the whole book in two days. I felt a prompting to read it over and over again. I never realized before how much GOD loves me and for the first time I felt the pain of Jesus and Mary during His Crucifixion just so that my brother and I and the rest of the world can have salvation. It was then that the Word of GOD reassured me that my brother is alive with HIM! My mind started to shift focus from my grief to love and gratitude for what Jesus has done for me. My healing started when God gave me a dream of my brother sitting on a big rock while looking at the calm ocean. That started my conversion, which I will always treasure. The Bible is truly divine in origin because it pierced the part of my being that no one could reach except the touch of the HOLY SPIRIT.
-Cindy J.

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