Call upon the Lord- Part 3
By Pastor Kiruba Stephen

Before God, and even scientifically, you have no 2 DNAs. God made you so unique. God loves you so much when He designed you, He said, “I made you so fearfully and wonderfully.”(Psalm 139:14).
And when we really look at the creation of God, it’s amazing, it’s so beautiful. I look at it, lot of times I think, Lord, how did You even, even I was like thinking last week. Even when God made Adam, that clay, you know the details that are in human body? How do you make those? We are humans, we cannot understand. Then I think, “God is so awesome, He is so powerful.” Even the little microchip, you know that, the little microchip that is in certain devices that has all the data in it, how did they make that? Oh, we have faith in that, right? We all have faith in that. We can know that just this iphone has basically everything you need. And just that little plastic card, you can take it anywhere and buy anything, that little black strip. How does that happen? How is it actually able to draw money from your bank account, how is it able to do that. It is happening and humans are doing it. Imagine how much bigger God is! He just designed every single neuron, every single cell, every single blood vessel, He really took so much care to create you and me. And God is such an amazing God.
So He just didn’t randomly say, “Ok, let humans populate the earth and everybody just popped out everywhere. No. God has a plan and in the book of Psalms it says, God actually takes notice when everybody is born. It’s recorded in the Bible that God takes notice when everybody is born. And there is a time to be born and God has His real time for as to when each person has to finish their race and enter into glory. So our focus on this earth has to be, “Lord, You are so great. You are so glorious. You are so good. But my focus is not here. I am sent here with a mission.”
Lot of times we may not even realize, we may live for today or for tomorrow but all our tomorrows will one day come to an end. Right? I am not eternal, You are not eternal. We all have a beginning point and we all have an ending point. But if we know that I am a stranger in this world, you are a stranger in this world, how will you live? How will you live when you know that you are going to go somewhere someday that is your home, and whatever you do now is going to count for eternity, how will you live? We have to just give ourselves a few minutes to think, how am I going to live? Lot of people they work so hard, you know, for their retirement home. 10 years, 20 years; after that what is going to happen? Somebody else is going to take that home.
But, our everlasting home; not too many people even think about. But that’s where we are going to be there forever and ever and ever. And God really put that deep inside my heart. Live for eternity. You live for eternity. Every minute that you spend, if you are wise, it’s like going into a piggy bank. This minute, the Lord takes note of, Oh! My daughter did this for me. It’s going into your savings bank. And you won’t even know; because you love Jesus, you keep serving Him. But, it keeps going into that piggy bank. One day when you reach glory, God will say, “Look what you have!” The reward will be great in heaven. Don’t you want an abundant entry into heaven? I want it. When I go, I want Jesus to welcome me into heaven. We just don’t want to just go like, “Oh, I just made it.” We really want to have that abundant entry into heaven. “My warrior is here”; that’s what we want to hear from the Lord. “My warrior is here, This child fought for Me by truth, saved millions for Me from the gates of hell. My warrior is here; look at the people that she has brought for the Lord.”
Isn’t that amazing thing? God of heaven and earth, even though He can bring everybody to Him Himself, He is giving us that privilege to fight for His kingdom. He is giving us this privilege to live for His kingdom. Isn’t that such a big privilege that He has given! The privilege that only God can give to us that He even accepts praises from our lips, that He even accepts the work of our hands. We have to think about that. We are not doing God any service. Actually, it’s a privilege to serve. Even when you worship Him, it’s a privilege to worship the Lord. It’s a privilege to serve the Lord, serve the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
I want to just tell you one short testimony what the Lord did for me in my life. When you are faithful to the Lord, God even counts the hairs of your head. You believe that? If you feel like, “Lord my hair is falling” and if you feel sad, “Lord, look at how much hair is coming on my hairbrush. Look at that.” Then you think, “Ok, let me just throw that way.” And you keep combing again, “Look, how much.” Then you go and tell somebody, the next person, your friend or somebody whom you know says, “Don’t worry about it, it will grow back.” But you see your hair keeps falling. You know what; you can tell God even that. Because, not a single hair from your head falls without the knowledge of the Father. That means, to that extent, He cares for you. What somebody can say, Ok, this is nothing, don’t even bother with it because it doesn’t matter to them that much. It’s not their hair that is falling, it’s your hair. You know, but God really takes it to heart. He says, “My child, if your hair is falling, let me know. I know it, but let me know. Let me know so that I can actually make it grow again.” Do you believe that? God can do that. You can go to the Lord and tell the Lord, “Lord, I need more hair.” You can tell Him that? Yes. Yes, you can tell Him that. God is a faithful God. What concerns you concerns your Heavenly Father. What concerns you? When my child comes and tells me something, I never say, “Ok, this is trivial; don’t talk to me about it.” Every little thing does matter to God. And God is such a faithful God.
I have a child, my eldest child who had very very bad, severe food allergies. So if you have any allergies, you can claim God to heal all of them, the purpose of why I am telling you the testimony is: my son had very severe food allergies, so he was not able to eat anything other than chicken, cauliflower and rice. So 3 times either he has to eat cauliflower, chicken or rice, everyday, 365 days; for I don’t know 5, 6 years or something. So 3 years ago what happened, one day the Lord spoke to me. Because it used to be like because he was not able to eat anything else, you know what happened; his body was really not taking anything in, so he had to be on supplements. He was taking like 90 something supplements a day. He has to that many, so every bite I have to put like 3-4 capsules in there, then I have to round it up and I have to say, “Swallow.” How can he swallow? Even, I cannot do that. But he was doing that every day and lot of times he throws up because he is not able to take it. So when he used to throw up, I used to just put the plate on the table and I used to cry. I used to say, “Lord, even I cannot eat this. I cannot eat this. My child has to eat this, Lord.” Never questioned the Lord. Though I asked the Lord, “Lord, please heal. Lord, You can heal. You can touch him and heal him.” And it took 4 years; over 4 years because it was 3 years ago when the Lord healed him. Day after day after day, I used to go to Shoprite, different stores, grocery shopping. He has severe environmental allergies too. So he cannot take carpet, no paint, no perfume, no dyes or anything. So, if anybody has any perfume, right there he will pull our hair, bite us, scream; he cannot take it in. So we never went to church, we couldn’t go to any grocery shopping. We couldn’t do anything. You know what the Lord did, God is a powerful God. Even though it took some time, the Lord clearly led us through a very difficult path, so that we can pray and encourage other people and show that He is still alive. The Lord one day morning, the Lord spoke to me. We took him to all the specialists, you name, everyone. Top specialists, spent thousands of dollars on him for his recovery.
He was not born that way; he got it after his vaccination. So, from 15 months the food that he was able to eat, he started throwing up. He lost his sleep, so he was not sleeping. So, we were going through a nightmare. So, he will be 2 days continuously up, then nap for 45 minutes, then up straight. And he was not able to talk, he lost his speech also. So, day after day, we were going through nightmare. And I had 3 children back to back. And God was really with us, you can say, like a living person who will be with you, talk to you; that’s how God was with me. The Lord led me through that path. God was so faithful. One morning the Lord said, “None of these treatments, they are going to take my glory.” The Lord led me to go through the treatments, you know why? So I can tell people I went through A to Z and nothing helped but Jesus Christ. And God was so faithful.
When the Lord said, I said, “Ok, Lord.” And then the next morning, when I am getting up, the Lord spoke to me. I heard this audible voice, the audible voice of God that said, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.” So even though you are not able to see anything, the Lord says, “Believe Me.” And when He said that because He spoke to me the previous night, I knew in my spirit, the Lord has healed him. And I took him off all his supplements because even to eat those 3 types of food, that is just plain rice, cauliflower and chicken, he had to take enzymes every time before that. So I used to open the capsule, put into water, mix it and make him drink. After that, he would eat with capsules inside the food. And I threw, dumped them all. So now our kitchen cabinet used to be like a pharmacy with all the supplements, enzymes and everything and locks on the fridge, locks over there. Because he was so restricted on his diet; my other children, they were not able to eat that much either. And we used to hide everything, lock everything because it used to affect him so bad. But God healed him; praise the Lord, God healed him! When that morning when the Lord spoke, you know what Jesus did, He completely took his food allergies away.          
I told my husband, “The Lord healed him. He is going to now eat everything. He said, “Are you sure because he will just tear the house down? You know he cannot take it.” He was very surprised, the Lord spoke. “Take him.” He was so happy, he took him to McDonalds, got him ice cream. He took the ice cream, he looked at it and he was looking at my husband. “Are you really telling me to eat it? Are you really telling me?” He was like what. He is now 13, so it was 3 years before, so he was like 9 something. He was looking at it, “Are you really telling me?” He cannot speak so he is just looking at it, “Really, really, really?” “Yes Samuel, you can eat, you can eat.” Then he started just gulping it down so fast because he has not eaten that in years. Then after that he took him to KFC and he got chicken and then after that he brought pizza for him. So he ate all of those. You know what, God is so faithful, he had no reaction. Ever since then, he is being partying. My parents, every time they used to come, they used to bring everything, all the foods that were not allowed; he was just eating, so happily.
We never had a thanksgiving celebration. Nothing! Because he couldn’t have. Even the gluten free stuff used to be like cardboard, so bad, you know because he was not able to eat anything. And now past 3 years God has helped us to celebrate birthdays, thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Easter really to the glory of God. It shows the power of God. So, if you have any allergies or any intolerance to gluten, casein or to any soy whatever or even to carpet, whatever it is; Jesus can heal because only when you have it, you know how hard it is. Because I removed all the carpet from my house myself, carpet and the padding from 1500 square feet house, all by myself, brought the tiles, the backer board from Home Depot and got the manual. Just the tiles everything was over $6,000. And I tiled the house myself. 3 babies back to back. Because he was so allergic to it. And my husband was working; he had to work, so we had to buy all these things. God really was so faithful. The Lord healed him and when He healed him I found out, God not only healed his food allergies, you know what? What did I tell you, when you ask the Lord for a pen, he doesn’t give you any pen. He gives you a golden pen. You know what the Lord did, He healed him of his environmental allergies, all the allergies!

            Well, bless the Lord. How wonderful and marvelous is our loving, Heavenly Father who does all kinds of wonders for those who look to Him for deliverance!
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