Miracle
Testimony
of
Terry
Somers
New Castle, New Brunswick, Canada I
HAVE SUFFERED FOR 17 YEARS
WITH BACK PROBLEMS An
accident in a mine changed by life in 1977 and our little dream
world fell apart. I had a home, a family and a little baby
girl 5 months old. We had a new car, good jobs and
everything we needed, until it all collapsed one day! I
WORKED IN THE MINES I
worked in the mines and we had a lot of trouble with pipes
pumping water from underground to the 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 and get the pumps going, but they didn't
want us to use dynamite because it was too dangerous and could
do a lot of damage. I
WAS THROWN ON A PLATFORM AND
LANDED ON MY BACK 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 of the platform and landed on my back,
on a set of railroad tracks below. THE
DOCTORS OPERATED ON MY BACK AND
REMOVED
A DISK I
was taken to the hospital and they tried different things.
Nothing helped. Finally they decided to operate - the
first of many - and took a disk out of my back. THE
OPERATION ON MY BACK DIDN"T HELP - I
HAD CONSTANT BACK PAIN I
was told by the doctor before the operation that 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 & Toronto. I saw a lot of
doctors. No one could help me! A doctor in
Fredericton said, "Lets try another operation on your
back." 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 - have have to try
something." Soon after the second operation, I still
had constant back pain and I started going to a chiropractor and
I continued going there for 13 1/2 years. Eventually
I did get back to work, but I never had a pain free day for 17
years - NOT ONE MINUTE WITHOUT PAIN". My back pain
was constant and the back pain made my life miserable. I
LEARNED TO LIVE WITH THE BACK PAIN I
learned to live with the back pain. Most of the time I
could live with it. When it got too back 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 back pain under control I would
go back to work again. The
doctors and chiropractors kept telling me, "This is not
good - each time you do this, you are doing more damage to your
back and body!" Eventually
the back pain 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. I
WAS PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN Then
one day, I began getting out of the truck, I turned around,
stepped out and there was nothing. 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 airms using the step of the fuel tank.
I tried to get myself in a position to stand up when the feeling
would return, which it eventually did. I
went to 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 another - but nothing helped. All
the time I was going through this horrible back pain I still
believed in the back of my mind that someday a doctor would come
up with a cure for me. I thought I would somehow meet a
doctor who would help me. Well, for the last 2 1/2 years
before my miracle, I worked 6 months and I had a hard time doing
so. THE
DOCTOR SAID - THERE IS NO CURE FOR YOU One
day they 'sat me down' on a 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 had to face reality - there was no hope.
People had been praying for me for 17 years. I had prayed
for myself. Now I was giving up on the doctors and the
people around me and putting my trust totally in the Lord! I
was taking 3 times the amount of prescribed medicines and yet I
could not 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 to the point that I would
open up the bottle and take 2 or 3 pills at one time. I
couldn't wait for the 4 hours. The pills I was to take one
every 12 hours - I was taking 2-3 every 3-4 hours. PASTOR
MAX SOLBREKKEN CAME TO LYTTLETON
FOR A CRUSADE I
was born and raised in a Christian home and went to the Baptist
Church in Lytleton. My daughter Tasha started attending
the Pentecostal Church. She said, "Dad, there is a
man coming you preaches the gospel and prays for the sick and
many people are getting healed. Will you come?" I
said, "Tasha, I'd love to go but with all the pain I'm in
and the suffering I am 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 the thought in the back of my mind - I would be cured
through medical science. Anyway,
Pastor Max Solbrekken came and Tasha asked him to pray for
me. Pastor Solbrekken gave her an anointed prayer cloth
for me to use. I carried that cloth until Pastor
Solbrekken cam 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
BROUGHT DOWN THE BETTY BAXTER STORY
OF GOD'S MIRACLE IN HER LIFE I
finally got to see to see most of it (sitting, standing and
lying down) - in starts and stops - and saw what God for done
for her. Mervin asked, "Will you come to the Max
Solbrekken Crusade?" I
answered, "I promised my daughter and i am going to promise
you that I will go to the meeting even though I do not know how
I am going to 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 go to church tonight?"
I answered, "I don't know. I am in an awful lot
of pain." She said, "You promised." I
asked her if she was going and she said she wasn't I
said, "I think I will go", and as soon as I said those
words, the pain got worse. I am sure it was the devil
trying to keep me away from the crusade. I
took a bunch of pills before going. I also put extra pills
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 Pastor Max prays for the sick, you'll be right
there." I said, "No, I will be in so much, I'll
have to go in and out and I don't want to disturb the service so
I will 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 alter 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 have been praying for you for a long time. After
Pastor Max is finished praying with this person, I am going to
tell him that you are here." Pastor
Max asked me to sit down on a chair, he 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
PASTOR MAX SOLBREKKEN PRAYED
I WAS INSTANTLY HEALED As
he prayed, I was instantly healed. The pain left - there
was no 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 total
shock! I
stayed after the service and picked up Pastor A.W. Rowe - who
weighed 230 pounds - and a few other people. As I was
leaving the church I thought I'd go and tell Mom and Dad who
lived about 1 1/2 miles from the church but decided to go
straight home (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. I
GOT DOWN ON MY KNEES AND THANKED GOD.
RAISE 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 has been with me
now for 22 years. For 17 years I was crippled up. I
have a daughter and a son who will be 17 and 20 this summer. I
couldn't do anything with them for 17 years. I wouldn't
pick them up or play with them. 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 skidooing. The
back 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. Its a very hard thing for a grown
man to lie in bed, night after night, crying and praying that
God would take me home. FOR
3 YEARS I HAVE BEEN PAIN FREE
NO PILLS & NO PAIN 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 it anymore but now for nearly 3 years I have
been PAIN FREE - NO PILLS & NO PAIN. I
have been working since my miracle from God. I work in the
woods and I have been trucking every day - hauling logs. I
have 12 stakes which I have to change 2-3 times a day.
Each stake weighs 200 pounds. 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
that 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
am doing all the things I've never done in my life! And my
wife says she has a new husband and the children say that they
have a new Dad. INTERVIEW
DONE AT LYTTLETON
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH on May 25, 1997 Cathy
Somers: I've got a new husband in every
way. And I thank God for it! Pastor
Max Solbrekken: Pastor A.W. Rowe faxed me 17
pages from the Workers Compensation Board's doctors and
specialists regarding Terry Somers. Terry
Somers: Exactly one month after the miracle
happened, I went back to the specialists 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 never
operated on. Your back is the same as before you had the
accident." Cathy
Somers: 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 Labor 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 2 back 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 tell him as 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 him if he had a VCR and I took Betty Baxter's testimony
tape of how God healed her from several incurable
diseases." TERRY
HAD HOPE WAS WHEN HE SAW THE BETTY BAXTER VIDEO AND PROMISED HE
WOULD ATTEND THE MAX SOLBREKKEN CRUSADE He
didn't come to the meeting on Friday and on Saturday his wife
Cathy and her 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 terrific pain, leaning against the wall. I
said, "Terry, come and sit with me near the
front". But he said he needed to sit near the back so
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 terrible pain." I
said, "Alright, after Max Solbrekken finished preaching and
calls for the sick, you come up." After the message,
people became coming forward for prayer but I saw Terry still at
the back leaning against the wall. I went to the back to
get him. I said, "Terry, come on up, you've got
nothing to lose." Pastor
Max Solbrekken sat Terry 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 pounds and that kind of scared
me, but Terry did it with no ill effects. I
thought, "A man that could not lift anything just a few
minutes earlier, but now can lift a man weighing 230
pounds. That is the work of God Almighty." God
is no respecter of persons and what He has done for Terry - He
can do for anyone else." Terry
came to me Monday and asked if he could use one of my trucks
because he wanted to go back to work right away. I told
Pastor Solbrekken and was a bit worried that he could over do it
- but Pastor Solbrekken said, "These miracles usually
stand. They hold good." TERRY
WORKED FOR A FULL WEEK AND ON THE
FRIDAY WAS AS FRESH AS ANY OTHER HEALTHY PERSON. Praise
God! Pastor
Max Solbrekken: Tasha, what do you think about
all this? Tasha:
Great. I love it. I have a new Dad. Pastor
Max Solbrekken: How do you feel Terrance?
How do you feel about your Dad's miracle? Terrance:
Il love it. My Dad's a new man, and we have got a new
family.
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