He still raises the dead
This year end, 2009, the Voice of God library visited the coastal city of Walvisbay, where the Namibian portion of the bride of Christ gathered for the annual Christmas convention to worship the Lord like the wise men of old did it at the birth of Christ.
We had good reason to be here, as the good people of Voice of God America, had recently translated the C.O.D and the book of Hebrews into Afrikaans, and also some exciting new color pictures of Pillar of Fire God and His prophet. We ourselves were so eager to show the people the latest gifts send to the Namibian believers.
While we showed the people these latest precious gifts, I had the opportunity to listen to a striking testimony. It was so tremendous that I thought to share it with the rest of the Body of Christ.
On the 20th of May 2009 Brother Kallie Klaazen a gentle but firm believer of God’s Message for this age, was at his home recovering from a recent surgery. At home with him and his wife, was his grandson, little Alexander James or “Zander” as they call him. Like his granddad, Zander too wasn’t feeling all that well, being bothered with a little fever. They did not think much of it, but hidden in that fever was a devil of destruction that had taken the lives of many a child.
What Brother Kallie and his wife, Sister Lollie, did not know and could not see, was that Zander's body temperature had risen to life threatening levels. By the time Brother Kallie went to the room to check on Zander, he saw the boy laid lifeless on the bed with foam coming from his mouth. His eyes had turned over till only the white part could be seen.
He grabbed the lifeless boy and ran out of the room, and when Sister Lollie saw his condition, she became hysterical. But the brother kept calm and ran to the garage. There he did the best thing a believer could do. He prayed for the boy, then got into the car and drove to the nearest hospital.
At the small town hospital, he handed the lifeless body over to the nurse on duty, and when she laid him down, his stomach went out. She remarked that was a clear sign that it was over. Then she frantically rushed to the phone to call the doctor on standby.
He then began to give her emergency instruction of tests she must do. She measured his body temperature and reported back that it stood on 39,9 degrees Celsius (103.8F). Next she took the stethoscope placed it on his heart and telephonically reported to the doctor: “No reaction!”
Then she tested his pulse and reported: “No reaction!”
As Brother Kallie heard these reports he again turned to the Great Physician in prayer crying for help: "Lord! This is not my child! I don’t know what happened to him! We don’t know how we are going to explain this to my son!”
Oh! How good it is to know the Lord. How good it is to know your God and His awesome power. “...the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” Daniel said. How good to know that He is a very present help in a time of trouble. Brother Kallie had been listening to countless tapes where God had healed the sick in the ministry of his beloved prophet William Branham. And now he desperately needed that God of William Branham on the scene. “Lord please don’t let him die! Don’t let him die!”
Again another instruction from the doctor came over the phone to the nurse. She was to do one more test. The brother noticed her taking a little electronic device and put it to the fingertip of Zander. “If this light flickers, it means he still has life in him” the nurse remarked. “But if it doesn’t then its over.”
By this time Sister Lollie couldn’t stand it no more, and the nurse too was getting upset. Now Brother Kallie had to calm down both of them. When the little red light on the electronic device did not flicker, Brother Kallie, in one last effort, turned towards the wall like Hezekiah and called out to Jesus.
“Lord don’t let him die!” He then decided to lay hands on the boy, but God is always on time. As He was about to touch Zander, the child let out a scream. They all, including the nurse, knew this was the hand of the Lord. The doctor then still on the phone instructed the sister to take the boy to the nearest children’s specialist, who had a private practice nearby.
When they arrived at the doctor’s place, she said they will have to perform some further tests on Zander to see if he had any brain damage from him being in that condition that long. When the test results came out it showed that he was in perfect condition. He had been fully restored without any damage. "The people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits." That's a promise, and our God is delivering on it. And then the doctor testified for the Lord as she told them, “It is nothing that we did. This is God’s work. A child with that high a body temperature should have died.”
Three days later Brother and Sister Klaazen traveled to Grootfontein, and Sister Lollie told this testimony to a couple of women. While telling the story, she noticed one woman crying. When she asked the woman why she cried, the woman told her. “I lost my baby that way. My child had the exact body temperature-39.9 degrees Celsius, and died.”
How privileged we are to know the miracle working God. He came and demonstrated Himself in a mighty way in the life of Brother Branham. In fact, our God had His Pillar of Fire picture taken with His prophet. The God that showed Himself to Moses that way and said: “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob...” again showed Himself to us like that, and had His picture taken. And because of that, we know Him and know He is still the same yesterday, today, and forever.