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Together with my husband Hugo and our family, we are going through the darkest valley of our
lifetime. Hugo and I fought together side by side. We all have our own stories. This is the story of a
mother whom, after years of battling and praying for her son to have a life worth living, could not
imagine ever taking leave from her son.

Given up by the medical doctors in Belgium, but not by God

HEAL THE SICK Luke 10:9

This is one of the assignments with which Jesus commissioned his disciples to go out into the cities of Israel. It is still valid for us who are His disciples today. Ela took this up and sent us some of her testimonies (for which we are grateful!):

I have an acquaintance. She was given up. She is 43 and had a cerebral aneurysm. It started bleeding twice. As a result she was paralysed on one side and nearly blind in one eye. No one in Belgium dared to perform surgery.

I prayed for her for a long time. After many months I went back to visit her. When she answered the door, I could hardly believe what I saw:

Spectacular recovery after unanimous prayer

12th March we received an urgent prayer request from Hans and Gerda Eijsackers, co-workers with Gods Ambassade Netherlands). They asked prayer for Leeuwke, the 1,5 year old grandson of Gerda’s brother. He was on a respirator in the Intensive Care unit. The doctors did not know just what exactly went wrong.

On Sunday 9th March, his parents were in church when the nursery leader called his mother out of the service because Leeuwke wasn’t well. She was shocked when she saw him, she had never seen him this drowsy, he lay sprawled in the stroller, his complexion was fiery red and he was barely moving. He was prayed for right away in the service en then his parents took him home.

At home Leeuwke started vomiting, and that continued through the night. On Monday morning his mother took him to the family doctor, but he reassured her there was no fear for dehydration. By six o’clock her husband called the GP as Leeuwke was getting worse. They could come right away and were immediately sent to the pediatrician. Leeuwke was admitted to the hospital and they launched rehydration (the diagnosis was dehydration). In the Netherlands the protocol prescribes to first try to administer fluids via a probe in the intestines twice (usually this works very well with children) before starting intravenous rehydration.

The probe in the intestines did not work and by the morning they started with IV. Leeuwke got worse and worse, he was nearly unconscious. The pediatrician was all shaky, it seemed to go completely wrong. She needed to insert the IV, but it worked nowhere, so finally she inserted it in his little forehead.

His blood pressure dropped dramatically, his heart rate was consistently above 200, subcutaneous bruises showed up, an ambulance –the sirens screaming- brought Leeuwke to the University Hospital in Amsterdam. It took the doctors two hours to stabilize Leeuwke’s condition. He had a septic shock.

When the parents asked the doctor if Leeuwke could die, he answered that their son was very ill and that he couldn’t guarantee he would survive.

We joined in prayer right away and put him in our prayer box at church. After 5 days of intensively administering fluids and vasopressors, Leeuwke’s blood pressure was still very low.

Then in the night of Saturday to Sunday 16-17 march both Gerda’s brother and Hans prayed powerfully – they didn’t know this from each other. The next morning the parents were told that Leeuwke’s body suddenly spontaneously recovered. The doctors were utterly amazed! Two days later Leeuwke left the intensive care unit. It still took a while to get off the heavy medication he had received, but he recovered completely! In June the parents had a chat with doctor of the intensive care unit. He was still perplexed at the sudden recovery of Leeuwke and also that it was utterly complete, not a trace of the terrible condition remained!

Thank You Father for Your life in Leeuwke!