Miracle Testimony
God Did What No Doctor Could Do!
By Terry Somers
A mine accident changed my
life in 1977 and our little dream world fell apart!
I had a home, family and a little baby girl 5 months old, a new car,
good job and everything we needed, until it all collapsed one day!
I worked in the mines. And we had a lot of
trouble with the pipes pumping water from underground to surface. As I began my shift one morning, I was told,
“The pumps have stopped pumping again.
You’ll have to do a clean-out”!
Sometimes we had
to use dynamite to get them going, but they didn’t want us to use dynamite
because it was too dangerous and could do a lot of damage.
I got under the pipe and began working on it when
everything let loose. When it let go, I
was standing on the wet greasy platform.
The water pressure hit my chest and threw me backwards. I fell off the platform and landed on my
back, on a set of railroad tracks below!
I was taken to
the hospital and they tried different things.
Nothing helped. Finally they
decided to operate - the first of many - and took out a disk!
I was told by the
doctor before the operation the chances were 50-50. After the operation, I was no better. They tried other things. I went to doctors in Fredericton, St. John, Halifax and Toronto. I saw a lot of them. No one could help me! A doctor in Fredericton said, “Let’s
try another operation”. So I
went back on the operating table. This
time he told me “there is no guarantee”.
I said, “Well,
I look at it this way - we have to try something”. Soon after the second operation, I started
going to a chiropractor and I continued going there for 13 ½ years. Eventually I did get back to work, but I
never had a pain free day for 17 years - NOT ONE MINUTE WITHOUT PAIN!
I learned to live
with the pain. Most of the time, I could
live with it. When it got too bad and I
couldn’t stand it, I would go home, park my tractor trailer (18 - wheeler) and stay in bed for a
week or two and just get out of bed to get treatment. When I got the pain under control, I would go
back to work again!
THE DOCTORS AND
CHIROPRACTORS KEPT TELLING ME “THIS IS NOT GOOD - YOU ARE DOING MORE
DAMAGE. EACH TIME YOU’RE DOING THIS,
YOU’RE DOING MORE DAMAGE TO YOUR BODY”!
Eventually, it
got so bad I started losing all feeling from the waist down. I’d be driving, when suddenly all feeling
would go from my waist down. There was
nothing! I would pull myself over with
my arms into a different position, and the feeling would come back and I’d keep
on going.
THEN
ONE DAY I BEGAN GETTING OUT OF THE TRUCK, TURNED AROUND, STEPPED OUT AND THERE
WAS NOTHING THERE. I LANDED ON MY FACE
ON THE GROUND, COMPLETELY PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN!
I laid there for quite a while. Then I pulled myself over a little bit with
my arms by the step of the fuel tank. I
tried to get myself in position to stand up when the feeling would return,
which it eventually did.
I went to see the
doctor and told him what had happened.
He said, “You are going to have
to stop working. One of these days the
feeling will not come back and you’ll be in a wheelchair for the rest of your
life”.
So I headed down
to ‘Compensation’ again. They tried
various procedures which they had not used before - like hooking up different
machines one after the other on me, BUT NOTHING HELPED!
All the time I
was going through this pain and yet in the back of my mind I believed that
someday a doctor would come up with a cure.
I would somehow meet a doctor who would help me!
Well, for the
last 2 ½ years before my miracle, I worked 6 months and I had a hard time to
work those 6 months, on and off!
ONE DAY THEY ‘SAT ME
DOWN’ ON THE BED AND TOLD ME, “THERE WILL NEVER BE A CURE. YOU WILL EVENTUALLY BE IN A WHEELCHAIR. YOU WILL NEVER WORK AGAIN!”
At that time, I faced reality - there was
no hope. I’d had people praying for me
for 17 years. I had prayed for myself. And when I finally gave up on the doctors and
the people around me and put my trust totally in the Lord, I got my miracle!
I was taking 3
times the amount of prescribed medicines and yet I couldn’t stand the pain. I
was praying every night that God would take me home. That I would die! Many days, I couldn’t sleep at all - day or
night. My wife would hear me crying and
asking God to let me die.
I was allowed one
pill every 4 hours, another one every 12 hours and another one at night. I got so bad that I would open up the bottle
and take 2 or 3 at a time. I couldn’t wait
the four hours. The pills I was to take
one every 12 hours, I would take 2 or 3 every 3 or 4 hours.
PASTOR MAX CAME TO LYTTLETON
I was born and
raised in a Christian home and went to the Baptist
Church in Lyttleton. My daughter
Tasha started attending the Pentecostal Church.
She said, “Dad, there is a man coming who preaches the gospel and prays
for the sick and many get healed. Will
you come?”
I said, “Tasha, I’d love to go but with the pain
I’m in and the suffering I’m going through - I wouldn’t be able to sit through
the service”.
At that time I
still believed that there was a doctor coming - I still had that in the back of
my mind - I would be cured through medical science.
So anyway, Pastor
Max came and she asked him to pray for me.
And he gave her an anointed prayer cloth for me to use. I carried that cloth until he came back in
September. When Tasha told me that he
was returning, she asked, “Dad, will you come”?
I said, “Tasha, I don’t know how
I can do it but, I will go. I promise
you I will”.
I have a good
friend, Mervin Mutch, whom I work with.
He called me on Thursday and said, “What are you doing?” I said, “Nothing”. He asked, “How’s your back?” I answered, “Terrible”.
He said, “I’m
coming down to see you”. I said, “Yeah,
come on down.” He said, “I’ve got
something I want to show you”.
HE
BROUGHT DOWN THE BETTY BAXTER STORY
OF
GOD’S MIRACLE IN HER LIFE!
I finally got to
see most of it (sitting, standing and lying down) - in starts and stops - and
saw what God had done for her.
Mervin asked, “Will you come to the Max Solbrekken
Crusade?”
I answered, “I
promised my daughter and I’m going to promise you that I will go to the meeting
even though I do not know how I can stand the pain”.
On Friday night I
didn’t go because the pain was too great .
Saturday, the pain was as bad as the night before. Cathy asked, “Are you going to church tonight”?
I answered, “I don’t know. I’m in an awful lot of pain”. She said, “You promised!” I asked her if she was going, and she said she
was not.
I said, “I think
I’ll go”, and as soon as I said those words, the pain got worse. I’m sure it was the devil trying to keep me
away from the crusade.
I took a bunch of
pills before going. I took 3 of the ones
I was to take one every 4 hours. The
pills I was to take every 12 hours, I put 2 in my pocket and I went to the
church and sat on the back seat.
Mervin came to me and said, “Come sit with me at the front and when Max prays for the sick, you’ll
be right there.” I said, “No, I’ll be in so much pain, I’ll have to
go in and out and I don’t want to disturb the service so I’ll stay at the
back”.
After Brother Max was through preaching he asked if
anyone wanted prayer. A lot of people
went for prayer so I thought, “I’ll stay here until they are finished”.
Mervin started to bring me to the altar area
when Pastor A.W. Rowe approached
me. I was in bad shape. He asked, “What is your name”? I told him.
He said, “We’ve been praying for you for a long time. After Pastor Max is finished praying with
this person, I’m going to tell him you’re here”.
Pastor Max asked me to sit down on a chair, took my feet
in his hands and tried to raise my legs but the pain was so bad I couldn’t lift
them very high.
AS HE PRAYED, I WAS INSTANTLY HEALED. THE PAIN ALL LEFT. NO MORE PAIN.
I COULDN’T BEND OVER ENOUGH TO GET MY FINGER TIPS BELOW MY KNEE CAPS BUT
INSTANTLY I COULD TOUCH MY TOES AND JUMP UP AND DOWN AND LIFT HEAVY
THINGS! I WAS IN SHOCK!
I stayed after the service and picked up Pastor A.W. Rowe - who weighed 230 lbs. - and a few other people. As I was leaving the church I thought I’ll go
and tell Mom and Dad who lived about 1 ½ miles from the church, but decided to
go right home (about 15-20 miles) so that my wife would be the first to know
about my miracle.
I thought, “I’ve
had this for 17 years and I’ve got a wife and 2 children who have been with me
through everything”.
When I got home, the house was empty. My wife had gone to visit her sister and the
kids were with their friends. I got wild
and I ran up and down the stairs, did push-ups and sit-ups with no pain
whatsoever
THEN I GOT DOWN ON MY KNEES AND THANKED GOD! PRAISE THE LORD!
When my wife got home, she was at the sink and I came up
behind her and said, “Guess what?” She said, “You got healed”! I said, “Yes I got healed”. She turned around and looked at me. And she knew that the pain was gone!
I love my children and I love my wife. She’s been with me now for 22 years. For 17 of those years, I was crippled
up. I have a daughter and a son who’ll
be 17 and 20 this summer.
I COULDN’T DO ANYTHING
WITH THEM FOR 17 YEARS. I COULDN’T PICK
THEM UP FOR 17 YEARS. ANYTIME I WAS
WORKING, WHEN I WOULD COME HOME I DIDN’T TRY TO DO ANYTHING WITH THEM SO AS NOT
TO HURT MY BACK. I WASN’T ALLOWED TO
PICK UP ANYTHING AND COULDN’T! BUT I’VE
BEEN DOING STUFF WITH THEM IN THE LAST 3 YEARS LIKE WATER-SKIING AND SKI-DOOING!
The pain used to
be so terrible that I, as a grown man, would lie in bed at night and cry and
couldn’t sleep for days because of the terrible pain. It’s hard when a grown man would lie in bed,
night after night, and cry and pray that God would take me home. That I could die!
My wife heard me pray this prayer
night after night. I didn’t want to
leave my family, but I couldn’t stand the pain.
I couldn’t deal with the pain anymore, but for nearly 3 years now I have
been pain free. NO PAIN and NO PILLS!
I’ve been working ever since my miracle from God. I work in the woods and I’ve been trucking
everyday - hauling logs - I have twelve stakes which I have to change 2 or 3
times a day. EACH STAKE WEIGHS 200
LBS.
While driving - before my miracle - others had to change
my stakes for me. Since the miracle I
change all my own stakes!
On the night of my miracle, my daughter and son came
home. Tasha’s boyfriend’s family has a
motorboat and I said, “You know what, next summer I’m going to go
water-skiing”!
And the following summer they got me in the boat and I
went water-skiing. People say to me, “You went water-skiing?” And I say, “I’ve got a problem. I’m 40
years old and I’ve got a 20 year old mind”.
I’m doing all those things now I couldn’t do for 17 years. I’ve done stuff I’ve never done in my
life! And my wife says that she’s got a
new husband and the children say that they have a new Dad.
And we all praise God together for it!
Note: Terry Somers testifying Sept 3, 1994 - The night of the miracle! –
INTERVIEW DONE AT LYTTLETON
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH: (May 25, 1997)
Cathy
Somers: I’ve got a new husband in
every way. And I thank God for it!
Pastor
Max: Pastor A.W. Rowe faxed me 17
pages from the Workman’s Compensation Board’s doctors and specialists regarding
Terry Somers.
Terry: Exactly one month after the miracle happened,
I went back to the specialist and after x-rays and a thorough examination he
said:
“IF YOU DID NOT HAVE THE
SCARS ON YOUR BACK OR THE MONOGRAMS AND ALL THE EXTENSIVE MEDICAL REPORTS, ANY
DOCTOR EXAMINING YOU OR X-RAYING YOUR SPINE WOULD SAY THAT YOU NEVER HAD THE
ACCIDENT OR WERE EVER OPERATED ON. YOUR
BACK IS THE SAME AS BEFORE YOU HAD THE ACCIDENT”.
Cathy: It’s like having a new life. Now we can do a lot of things together as a
family!
Mervin
Mutch: Well, I phoned Terry the day
before Max Solbrekken was coming to Lyttleton for a Labour Day Rally in
1994. I asked Terry how he was. He said, “Not good. My back is in bad shape. I can’t do anything”. He said that he had two operations where they
removed a disc and the nerves were damaged.
He told me about all the hospitals he had spent time in and that the
doctors report was always “There is nothing
we can do. There is no hope. Your case is incurable”.
He said that he was just a young man but he would just as
soon die. I said, “Terry you don’t need
to believe that. God Almighty can heal
your back. Max Solbrekken is coming here
Friday and you come on up”. I asked if
he had a VCR and I took Betty Baxter’s testimony tape of how God healed her
from several incurable diseases.
TERRY’S HOPE WAS BUILT UP WHEN HE SAW THE VIDEO AND HE
PROMISED ME HE WOULD ATTEND THE CRUSADE!
He didn’t come on Friday and on Saturday his wife Cathy and daughter Tasha got after him to go.
On Saturday night when I came here, he was standing at the door and I
noticed he was in pain, leaning against the wall.
I said, “Terry come and sit with me near the front”, but
he said that he needed to sit near the back so that he could get up and move
around because of the pain.
He didn’t know whether he could even stay for the service
because of the terrible pain he was experiencing.
I said, “Alright,
after Max finishes preaching and calls for the sick, you come up”. After his message, people began coming
forward for prayer but I saw Terry still at the back leaning against the wall
so I went back to get him. I said, “TERRY COME ON UP, YOU’VE
GOT NOTHING TO LOSE”.
Pastor Max sat him down on a chair
and prayed and then in a minute or two Terry was jumping up and down saying
that all the pain was gone. Then Pastor
Max asked him to lift Pastor A.W.
Rowe who weighed 230 lbs. and that kinda scared me, but he did it with no ill
effects.
I thought - “A man who could not lift anything just a
few minutes earlier can now lift a man weighing 230 lbs. That’s the work of God Almighty”. He is no respecter of persons and what He has
done for Terry, He can do for anyone else!
Terry came to me
on Monday, and asked if he could use one of my trucks because he wanted to go
back to work right away. I told Pastor
Max and was a bit worried that he could overdo it but he said, “These miracles usually stand. They hold good”.
TERRY WORKED FOR
A FULL WEEK AND ON THE FRIDAY HE WAS AS FRESH AS ANY OTHER HEALTHY PERSON! Praise God!
Pastor Max: Tasha, what do you think about all this?
Tasha: Great.
I love it. I’ve got a new Dad!
Pastor Max: How about you Terrence? How do you feel about your Dad’s miracle?
Terrence: I love it! My Dad’s a new man, and we’ve got a new
family!
Terry Somers returns Sept. 5, 1994 and testifies by
lifting Pastor A.W. Rowe
