Photo by Kay Rowe
Poem By Sherry Long
I really feel compelled to share this because
I believe we have been in spiritual warfare
for years over this book. Many of you know
that my marriage fell apart, four out of five
of my children walked away from God,
and my physical body turned against me
and started rejecting me.
In the ministry as we left locations we
had made an agreement not to go back
as many times when pastor's keep
close ties with their congregations the
new pastor's are not able to get their
new ministry in place for the people
still contacting the old pastor for
ministry needs. Due to all of this
as my marriage fell apart and
children left home I found
myself with nobody to connect to
and the Lord knows we could never
share what was happening in
our marriage with others so
we find ourselves isolated from
everyone and then we find ourselves
isolated from what feels like God himself.
As I felt I was in a hopeless, helpless
state Satan stepped in and also
tried to physically destroy my life.
I found myself at the point of death
and watched the hand of God reach
down and deliver me from the
evil plan Satan had for my life.
As my children began to stray from
God they began to experiment with
drugs and other entertainments that
Satan put before their eyes. As this
happened the Lord has pressed on
my heart that I am not to step in and
scream at them that they know God and
should be ashamed of living their lives
contrary to His word. Instead each day
I am to earnestly pray for their souls as
they belong to the Heavenly Father and
he knows when the timing is correct for
them to realize where they need to be
and to return to Christ.
If I were to step in and try to draw them
back they might falsely return to Jesus
Christ only to please me or their father.
When my children return to Jesus Christ
I want everyone around to know they
returned because God showed them the
Power of the Almighty God in such a
way they knew they couldn't stay
where they are but they are drawn
back into the family of God.
Driving to work about twenty eight days
ago I was earnestly seeking the
Lord to claim the souls of my children
that are not serving and the Lord pressed
on my heart that the prayers needed to change.
I questioned the Lord on this because I
feel I always need to earnestly plead with
him for the souls of my children.
Again the Lord pressed on my heart, "I
got this one, you need to pray but now
you need to get your eyes on something
different, you still need to pray but start praying
in faith instead of earnestly pleading because
baby girl I got this one."
This is so hard for me because I feel if I go
out and witness to the world and hundreds
are saved but the children that I was a stay
at home mom and tried every way to cultivate
their lives don't ever see Jesus in me than I
would still be so empty.
So as I began to step out on faith and let God
have this one, some mighty, mighty,
things began to unfold before my eyes.
As many of my Facebook followers,
co-workers and church family knows my
body was in great turmoil with itself. I had
co-workers and church family knows my
body was in great turmoil with itself. I had
gone to doctors and allergist trying to
find out what was happening inside my
body. I couldn't eat food for eleven months
without my body going into an extreme
histamine attach. As the breakdown started
we tried searching for anything that I could eat
We finally discovered that I could eat potatoes
and squash. So for three weeks I ate potatoes
and squash. We would introduce another food
and my body would flip out. As time passed I was
able to add shrimp at which time we were able to
discover that if the food had no flavor then I could
tolerate it. Needless to say by this time my
vitamins were depleted and I couldn't hardly
walk down the hall at the office because I had no
energy, my HR director told me to leave one day
and go see the doctor, so I called my doctor
and she began giving me vitamin shots
and wisely asked me to try baby gummy
vitamins and see how my body responded.
Dr Andrea McKnight, not only a doctor but a
Godly woman was able to get me back on my
feet and we were able to go on a search for
food that had no flavor.
In my search I remembered a root that my
father feed us as little children so I contacted
him and he explained it was the Jicama Root.
We added this root to my diet and the next time
I went for my vitamin shot, my vitamins were
perfect, thus I started eating a portion of the
Jicama Root everyday and found my energy
was being restored daily.
As my body was also rejecting food it was
also screaming in pain. There were days
I could hardly walk the pain was so bad.
My friends would say, Go take a pain pill
or ibuprofen", but what they didn't understand
is my body wouldn't tolerate medication.
I did finally learn that I could use liquid
ibuprofen and get some relief from the pain.
During this time I screamed out to Satan one
day and I have had several people say, "Girl
I would have never in my life said that to Satan."
But I was angry, hurting and knowing that
he was behind this so I did I called his name and
I said, "Satan I don't care what you take away
from me or what you destroy, you can take me
to the point I am crawling on the ground but you
will find that as you take me deeper into pain
and deeper into loosing my family I will only
become stronger in the Name of Jesus Christ."
So if you choose to destroy my body then go
ahead and if you choose to take all my earthly
goods then go ahead but one thing you better
know, I am getting stronger in Jesus Christ with
every boulder you throw at me.
My husband, sister in law and a pastor was
driving down the streets in Lubbock discussing
the fact that I had talked to Satan this way and
I said, "Well maybe I shouldn't have talked to him
that way, knowing he can release the demons of hell
on to me, but it's too late, as I can't go back
and retract the screaming of those words to him."
About twenty days ago we found that a pill I take for
my thyroid gland has an emulsifier in it that was
destroying my body slowly but surely. God's timing
is so perfect. As I called my pharmacy who had made the
mistake in giving me the generic brand of medication
instead of the name brand like my doctor had plainly
written onto my prescription they explained due to some
changes in my medical insurance they would no longer
pay for the name brand drug so they had switched me
to the generic drug without telling me.
I started taking the name brand drug and my body
started healing. I was able to tolerate one meal and
a few days later I was able to tolerate another meal.
After weeks now I can eat every meal and snacks
between if I want them.
Yesterday I was able to RUN up the stairs at
the office and my energy level is restored. My
bones are not screaming in pain and my organs
are happy and functioning properly once again.
I say all this for you to see that had the Lord
opened the doors of my ministry during that
eleven months there is no possible way I
could have carried the load.
Twenty days after eating food again, the Lord
opened the doors of the Digging A Well
ministry to the point that anyone looking
close or by far can see the hand of God moving
in ways that are absolutely impossible. There are
things happening all at the same time that could
never happen on this earth at the same time if I
tried to make it happen with all my might.
The one thing I learned through all of these
trials is that Satan was doing all he could do to
destroy the ministry and my body because
he knew what God could do with it even if
I couldn't see the whole picture.
So as you pray I need people to start praying
that the gates of hell are bound from
this ministry and as we go forth,
we go forth in the name of Jesus Christ,
the author, the finisher, the beginning and the end,
the first and the last, the rock, the deliverer,
the shepherd, the Holy one of Israel,
the redeemer, the great shepherd,
the cornerstone, the rock of
my salvation, the lily of the valley, the
bright and morning star, the hope of
my salvation, the way, the truth
and the life, the King of Kings, Messiah,
the bread of life, the eternal savior,
the designer, the inspector, the supplier,
the protector. He is the everything we
need to take his word into a dark
and dying world.
need to take his word into a dark
and dying world.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain cometh down,
and the snow from heaven, and returneth
not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower,
and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace:
the mountains and the hills shall break
forth before you into singing, and all the trees
of the field shall clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:8-12
