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Bishop Fester Ken was in February told that he had leukemia and that he probably would live only 30 days at best. He did receive chemotherapy and was also anointed and prayed for the Lord answered by letting Fo's body respond to the therapy. All symptoms of the

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illness left the blood and the leukemia went into remission. However, doctors warned that the illness may reoccur here is Fo's own recollection of the moment when the doctors told him that he was given more time on this earth. Then suddenly last week, the doctors, doctor calls

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me and my wife, my daughter and her daughter and says to us, you know, I've got some news to tell you in his office. Uh but he said to me rather jokingly, it is not only good, it is good news and bad news, which of the

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two should I tell you first? So I said, oh, well, we you tell us whatever you choose, we are ready for anything. And so he told us I am I want to announce to you that the leukemia in your blood has disappeared. I mean, I could

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hardly believe it, but I could believe it because so much prayer had gone to the Lord. The, the one you mentioned was one large group led by reading judgment among hundreds of groups of praying pe people in Nairobi, in Kari, in Kari, South Africa, Malawi, all

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over Europe, Switzerland, you know, in Britain and America. So in a sense, it was not surprising. So we praised God and then he said, but I still have to, to treat some areas of your blood which were affected by this uh uh leukemia. Was that the

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bad news? And was the bad news? She said, well, I didn't think that was very bad because uh if you treat the remaining so that I may be fully aware, that is also good news otherwise, because the disease was untreatable. Now, if I if some parts

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of it, the remaining parts of it are treatable, that's not bad news at all. Uh So here we are. Now you entered into this room, I've been here two days and there, there were suspicions that perhaps those remaining areas may cause trouble. So I was here,

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I was given more blood. I was examined carefully. Um The doctor was here this morning, in fact, when he came because he was on a weekend when I came in the hospital, he he he was surprised. He said to my wife to me, Bishop, why, why

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are you here? What are you doing here? Your disease was finished and gone. Well, I said, they found that I, I wasn't aware enough and there were signs of, of the disease in my blood anyway. Now, as you entered the room, the doctor from that team

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came and said, we cannot see anything in your blood. So it means the Lord Jesus Christ has done a tremendous work. And um it is something that they, we can only say God has answered God his own people's prayer. What is your thought? That is our

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my thoughts of at this hour. And as before have been thoughts of praise first, I praised for smaller things. The fact that I was, that I was spared that dying in the coma in December was to me in itself the beginning of a miracle because I

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would have died without a word to a brother, to my wife, to friends, to anyone. So despairing of that one when my blood count was two point uh 2.4 was quite almost uh a reassurance that God was busy and was in control now where I am

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now, I've just been praying and praising my wife. And I have been spending time uh in our time of worship. Reading some 100. Remember, don't forget that you are God's God's people that you are God's flock and that you are His people, which means He cares.

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He looks after you. He cares when you are sick as he promised in the world. My wife, and I have never had this kind of experience. This has been very tough and I don't believe that both of us and her daughters could be, could have handled

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it. But whenever it was announced, our daughters were all together, uh my wife and I, we found the road comforting us and then our team working together, praying, encouraging, uh then students sort of a Nairobi praying and then back home, they've been wanting to, to know

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how the progress is. We are looking forward but uh forward looking, we don't like forward looking to spoil the feast of the present. You mentioned that you are looking to the future. What do you see there for yourself? Uh I believe that the future as the

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Lord now has worked on it. Uh First of k, I'm looking forward to him who healed the body to give it strength. And when he gives his strength, what is the purpose of the body, the purpose of the body? When God gives his strength, he told

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us this morning, go and land that the son of man did not come to be ministered, but to minister and to give his life a propitiation, a ration. For many, of course, ours cannot be a ration that is special for Jesus, but ours can be um

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a sacrifice of praise. And uh so we are looking forward to giving our testimony whenever he will give us opportunity, that will depend on how he open, how he strengthens these bodies. And there's no question about that. If he has dealt with this thing, you know,

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this second li uh little current hospital was also a test when you've been told you you've been healed and then you are brought in hospital. But you know, you, the devil begins to say, were you really healed? Can the Lord heal? But you know, we had

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the answer that even Lazarus whom he raised personally in Bethany the other day when we were preaching in Cyprus, they took us to a church where they have buried his bones and they laughed and they said, poor Lazarus, he had to drive twice, but he, he

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raised him for one purpose that the Jews may believe. In fact, the Jews wanted to kill Lazarus because of his testimony after he ra he was raised by the rule. So I'm looking for to a great, great ministry, not only in East Africa now, but world

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over for this kind of experience is not provincial. It is an experience for the whole community, of course, people. And so I'm just praising God for that today. The 16th of March 1988 seems and it, and it is indeed a great day for Mera, me and

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the rest of the family and the A ee family for it is the day that we are now getting out of hospital having been there for uh since um February or rather since January. And therefore, we want to express our fragrant attitude to your prayers. All

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of our wonderful family have got Children, those small and big mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, ministers and congregations who knelt and stormed the throne of grace and presented us when we were desperately in need. Not that we were actually not excited to meet law. I

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was very much excited to meet law because to be with him says Saint Paul is much better, but to be here and serve is also profitable. And as I had said in some of my statements, when the sick, when sickness struck to me to live, is

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Christ and to die is to gain influence into the presence. Now, what can better a believer desire than that? But you prayed and we allowed him to make his choice and the choice is he has allowed uh allowed me to stay on with you or brother.

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So this is our praise to Jesus, our thanksgiving sacrifice, join with us in singing that hallelujah of praise that he has taken my little weak body, given the sustain it's needed against the killer disease. And there must be a reason. Will you pray, please pray and

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encourage that reason to be. He has left me on for so that I may also go forward with the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ in this tired world of ours. God bless you. Keep on praying. Hallelujah. Yeah.