HOW I SURVIVED ICU

Part One

The purpose of this website is to encourage you to have faith in God and His Word, the Holy Bible, in the trials of life. Maybe you are going through a very serious situation in your home or family. Maybe it is a health or medical problem; or some other difficult issue.

If you are saved, I would like to encourage you to trust in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Pray and ask Him for His will to be done and then trust him totally for the outcome. Faith can make a positive difference. This is not the power of positive thinking, it is all about faith in God, His Word, and His will.

God has delivered me from death on several occasions. I have a vascular disease. In 2009, this caused an aortic dissection which destroyed my ascending aorta and the aortic valve. I had to be flown to a hospital over a hundred miles from our home. I was in surgery for fourteen hours and was not expected to live!

Eight years later this same disease caused me to have several hepatic artery aneurysms. This led to a number of other complications and over a sixteen-week stay in ICU. During this time my husband was told on more than seven occasions that I would not survive and that death was imminent. In both of the times that I have gone through the very serious medical crisis that I have faced, the doctors involved expected me to die and confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that something beyond their control saved my life. I know that it was God! To him be all the glory!

There were many people praying for me! I know that God’s will was accomplished; he honored the prayers of his people, and preserved my life during those difficult times! Our life on earth is short when compared to eternity. My prayer is for God to: remove your fear, increase your faith, and give you strength, peace & comfort. Trust Him totally.
~~Wanda F.

If you are saved, please consider the following verses for help and encouragement:

FEAR

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
~ Lamentations 3:57

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
~ Psalms 56:3

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
~ Psalms 34:7

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
~ Psalms 91:11

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
~ Psalms 50:15

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
~ Joshua 1:9

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
~ Psalms 27:1

FAITH & TRUST

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
~ Proverbs 3:5-6

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
~ Hebrews 11:1

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
~ 1 Corinthians 2:5

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
~ Psalms 112:7

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
~ Nahum 1:7

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
~ Psalms 16:1

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
~ Psalms 108:12

STRENGTH

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
~ Psalms 46:1

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
~ Isaiah 40:28-29

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore, my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
~ Psalms 28:7-8

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
~ Psalms 55:22

Peace & Comfort

Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
~ Philippians 4:6-8

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
~ Isaiah 26:3

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
~ John 16:33

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
~ Psalms 42:5

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
~ 2 Corinthians 1:3-5

My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
~ Psalms 121:2

Part Two

PEACE & COMFORT

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
~ 1 Peter 4:19

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
~ Romans 8:18

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
~ Romans 8:31

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
~ Romans 8:28

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
~ Psalms 34:18-19

I will praise thee, 0 Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
~ Psalms 86:12-13

As you read this, if you are someone who is not sure that you are saved; if you are not sure where you will spend eternity, then, please consider the following verses from the Word of God:

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
~ Acts 17:27

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
~ I John 5:11-13

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
~ John 3:16

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
~ Ephesians 2:8-9

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.
~ Romans 3:10

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
~ Romans 3:23

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
~ Romans 5:8

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
~ Romans 6:23

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
~ Romans 10:9-10

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
~ Romans 10:13

Since you don’t have the promise of tomorrow, please ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save your soul today. From your heart, trust Him and pray,

“Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner, deserving of Hell. Please forgive me of my sins, come into my heart and give me eternal life. I completely trust You as my Saviour. Thank You for saving me. Amen”

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