I barely survived my birth, being born with a severe life threatening disease called Maningi Varient, which originated from chemical poisoning. Diagnosed with multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic depression and severe chronic fatigue; I was too sick to go to school, was considered ‘disabled’ and grew up feeling sick, depressed and afraid. Doctors could not offer me a cure, I saw no way out and I attempted suicide at 18, then through a supernatural miracle I was healed, restored and set free from my messed-up life and forever changed. I found the cure!

This is my testimony, but it’s not my story, this is God’s story; it’s about what He has done in my life, because I don’t have the power to save myself.

What Life was Like

When I was born I had massive infections all over my body (in my eyes, umbilical chord, toe nails, mouth etc.) and the doctors thought I had meningitis, but I was soon diagnosed with bronchitis which I suffered from for 6 months. I caught the disease in utero as a result of my Mother being highly exposed to chemicals prior to my birth.

My parents were desperate to help me and asked some people at church to pray for me, after I was prayed for I improved but later I still got severely sick with many different diseases which would come and go and attack my body and mind in a terrible way.

I remember lots of strange and miraculous things happening, especially physical healing such as wounds, cuts and deformities that I had would suddenly disappear after they were prayed over, and many other supernatural things.

When I was 5 I became extremely sick and I couldn’t walk so my parents took me to a travelling pastor in Foorbes, he prophesied over me that I would be used by God when I grew up and would bless many people and he prayed that I would be healed, then my sickness left me and I became better.

I had a break from sickness but I suffered greatly from an intense fear of being sick and I struggled to control my mind and thoughts. I had a learning disability and started to get sick again and never went to school. I was disabled, and not capable of a normal life.

Then sickness took me again and my quality of life become very bad, I rarely left my house and I had to wear a facial mask that had a special filter in it whenever I left the house because I would badly react to the outside air and its fumes and chemicals which are everywhere. I was diagnosed with chemical sensitivity and I tried to go to school several times, but my sickness was too severe and I never received a formal education until I went to TAFE and completed years 9 and 10 at the age of 15½. And even though I’d never studied before I easily passed everything which was supernatural and I give the credit to God.

I experienced supernaturally great and powerful things, but I also felt an evil presence in my life. I wanted to reach out to God, I knew He was real, but I felt weighed down with suffering as I was still very sick.

At that time, as a teenager, I became very depressed and suicidal, feeling violently sick constantly and I lost my mind to severe anxiety and anti-depression medications and became totally ‘messed-up’. While this was happening my Mum was extremely sick, as she had the same disease I had, and she never left her bed and was always so close to death but instead of dying as we repeatedly expected she continued to suffer beyond what I thought human suffering could endure.

I was aware of God and had the smallest of hope that He could help us, but whenever I tried to know God I would be attacked by fear and I would feel darkness surrounding me and an evil presence around me. I knew this was the devil, but I would feel too scared to trust God.

I also got drunk and ran away from home a lot and I had various bad addictions and was regularly seeing psychologists and psychiatrists.

Delivered from despair – found hope for life

When I was 18 I tried to kill myself many times, usually by electrocuting myself; which I miraculously survived every time, but once I tried to hang myself and in the attempt I was stopped by the smallest of hope inside of me that told me there was a way out. Still being totally desperate for anything, I let a friend called Dan Liu take me along to a Friday night Youth Group service at a local church and I heard that I could know and be in a relationship with Jesus just by believing in him and to stop doing selfish things, and when I heard the preacher talk I remember feeling impacted by every word he said as if it was thunder coming from his mouth. So I prayed with one of the guys and committed my life to Jesus and repented (which meant to stop living for myself and start living for God). This filled me with such a massive hope and I believed that God would save me and transform my life and the more I believed this the more it really happened!

Gradually all the broken things in my life were repaired and I felt that God really loved me and had a purpose for me. The fear and anxiety gradually started to leave me as I let the negativity in my mind was replaced with hope. I had been rescued!

But I still felt more or less the same person, I still struggled with many of the same things, I still felt guilty for doing bad things and still felt distant from God at times. I felt it was hard to be disobedient to God.

Healed and given a new life in the Spirit

Soon after this I went down to Sydney to attend a Hillsong Church Conference (my friend Dan Liu gave me his mum’s (Jenny Gourlay) ticket) with Dan and his father Edward Gourlay. Dan, Jenny and Edward were praying and believing that I would be healed and my Mum and Dad and many others were also praying for me.

During one of the sessions at Conference, a pastor invited people to come up to the front to be healed so I instantly made my way to the front. I remember worshipping God and feeling Him inside me and feeling flooded by knowing revelations and truths about my life as if God was speaking to my spirit. Then I fell to the ground and cried uncontrollably for a long time. When I got up from a large pool of tears I saw a woman standing in front of me, she seemed to glow with an amazing beauty, she reached out her right hand and touched my left shoulder and said ‘he is gone now’ and I fell to the floor and began crying again. Later when I got up again there were several men surrounding me and everyone else had left the building, I asked where the woman I saw had gone and they all said they hadn’t seen anyone the whole time, so I knew it was supernatural experience. Edward was there, he said it was probably an angel.

Later at the conference on Thursday the 7^th July 2004, Edward and I attended an elective called Moving in the Spirit, during the session I felt the presence of God again and something very special and very profound happened; God’s Spirit was moving through the people around me and like a charge of electricity the Spirit of God entered me as someone laid their hands on me. I could feel the powerful presence of God in my body and in my mind; I felt like I was flying and I started speaking in tongues (which I had never done before and it was like talking to God in another language).

I believe now that it was that moment that I received the Holy Spirit. Because ever after that moment I have felt that I have had God inside of me and there has never been a time when I have felt away from Him and there’s no way I can hide from Him or escape Him, because I believe at that moment I was raised from being spiritually dead and separated from God to being alive in Jesus (being given the life that Jesus purchased for me when He rose from the dead after having died for my sin.

I felt different and changed and I felt healed and on that day I made a firm decision to really repent (to live life God’s way) and I was released from my addictions (sin had lost its power), I instantly stopped my anti-depression medication and other meds and I totally surrendered my life to God realising that I can do nothing without Him!

I remain healed to this day (although there are still some reminders of my past condition) and I continue to experience many amazing supernatural things because I continue to follow Jesus.

I left my old life behind and God has set me free and I am so thankful because I know I don’t deserve this freedom.

The ongoing fight

Mself and my wife, Jade Aysom

Before I was saved I had no hope of ever achieving anything; I had no education, learning disabilities, health issues, mental problems, relationship problems, addictions, couldn’t drive a car, couldn’t live a normal life. But then God offered me a new life, a much better life and all my disability, issues, and problems were taken away.

Now I enjoy every day, I work full-time in Information Technology, married to a wonderful wife and I focus my life on loving and serving God and sharing my blessing to others.

I take serving God (ministry) seriously (because serving God is the main reason I exist), but I try not to take myself too seriously (because Jesus is my righteousness, health, strength… and I have nothing apart from Him).

But I’m still human; I make mistakes and stuff up like everyone, but I always go back to God.

One big mistake I’ve made was to get distracted and I started to take for granted the healing and power that I had received. I became focused on ministry (helping others, and serving others), and on people and programs and plans and I did too much out of my own strength and understanding and it failed.

God recently reminded me that if I try to live and minister without ‘continuing’ to receive power from the Holy Spirit I will fail. By myself I am a failure, but THROUGH God I will succeed in what He wants me to do!

So now when I do ministry I try to make sure I’m doing it to please and serve God, not other people, and that I do it because it’s what God wants me to do, not because of the agenda of people or even myself. In doing this I’ve learnt the hard way that I have to rely on God to direct me (and not use my own understanding), because everyone (myself included) all have their own agenda, but if Jesus is my motive then He will direct.

I’m not perfect, I still falling away from the right path and have problems, but I am not ruled or controlled by them because I live in the victory that Jesus has over me.

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At this point Bill Johnson asked the crowd to point their hands toward me and agree in prayer for God to deliver me from the infirmity in my body and be healed. Once again Jack Taylor and Randy Clark lay their hands on me and softly begin to pray. Jack prays for healing and an increase in God’s Spirit in me and for increase of His Kingdom in my whole being. Simultaneously, Randy Clark places his hands on my head and begins to command in the name of Jesus a spirit of infirmity to leave my body. Then he prays for God to regenerate the cells in my brain and restore my entire neurological system. Then suddenly I felt heat in my head that began to burn. Then the burning sensation proceeded to move through my head down my neck through my body and down my legs. As it proceeded through me it intensified into a hot fire burning inside of me. I felt as if my entire body was on fire but at the same time it was peaceful and soothing. Again the presence of the Holy Spirit came over me just as before and then a great peaceful heaviness fell on me. I was unable to stand up any longer and fell back into my seat. Randy, Jack and my Pastor continued to pray for me. After a few moments the burning sensation subsided. My cloths were saturated
with sweat although the building was crisp and cool.

Then I realized that I was holding my head straight up. I was no longer looking at the floor! My whole body felt as light as a feather. I immediately stood up to my feet and felt a steadiness that I had not felt in years. Was this it? Did I get it? Oh my God! Yes! Yes! It happened! Pastor Mark then stated that I was taller by at least 3 inches. Again the crowd praised God for what he had done. As everyone was still standing Bill Johnson continued to talk. After a few moments he asks the people to be seated so he can continue.

Then I looked down at the cane still clinched in my right hand. I said to myself: “but I still have my cane”. Then suddenly as I spoke those words to myself, it was if God hit me in the chest with a sledge hammer and His voice rang through me: “Lee…THAT IS NOT YOUR CANE! Get rid of it!” I realized at that point that I had taken ownership not only in my cane but also in the Parkinson’s disease and all the sickness I had suffered over the years. Oh…I get it! I’m a child of God. God did not give me that stuff. I was not to have ownership in anything that was not of God. I immediately pushed my pastor out of the way and told him I had to get rid of this cane. As people were sitting I walked upright as I had not been able to do before to the front and center of the worship center. I threw the cane down as hard as I could in front of the podium where Bill Johnson was standing, then turned and proceeded back to my seat. Upon seeing this, yet another interruption by God in the service, Bill pointed to me as I walked away and declared: “It is finished! It is over! It is done!”

Lee McDougald

700 Club report on Lee’s story…

“Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.”  John 16:24

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Praise our beloved king Jesus! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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