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Dear Ian and Family,
I thought that I would like to testify to the goodness of God and the tremendous healing process that I have been through in the last two and a half years, especially as you had a major part to play in the process. As you know I jumped off a runaway tractor in March 2006, I did a lot of damage to myself including a number of broken bones, the worst of which were skull, neck and back. The skull fracture and resulting head injury were the two that you had a lot to do with. Before I go any further though I would like to testify to the extent of God's healing with the head injury. There are four local doctors who are prepared to sign a medical for me to get my pilots license back.
Ian your part in this was many fold and they won't necessarily be in the order that you ministered in because there was a lot of overlap as God was working on many things at the same time.
A few months after the accident God started bringing CDs across our path, with these we learned that there was so much more than what we had so far in God. When we heard about your conference through mutual friends we were determined to be there.The first night was hard going as my attention span was quite short and I usually had a head ache at that stage of the healing process. I still got a lot out of the sessions but being able to go over them again has been a great help.
The next morning was "bad" a real blistering head ache from lack of sleep but part way through the morning it all changed. You invited us to do an exercise to demonstrate what you were teaching, I opted out to stop and take a "brain brake", so sat down with my head in my hands and just started to quiet myself. I then started to feel a warmth on the back of my neck, like the sun was shining on it, it felt "real good" and was starting to suppress the headache. The next thing I am having an argument with myself "you're standing up, no I am sitting down" I then started to smell ripening wheat, then the noise in the room seemed to be somewhere way off in the distance, I could hardly hear it, so I opened my eyes and yes I was standing in the middle of a wheat field. A bit surprised, I started to look around and realized there was somebody standing just off to my left, the moment I saw Him I knew who it was it was, Yeshua, my response was I had to say something, He just put his finger to his lips and just slightly shook His head, so I new I was to be quiet. Together we walked across the wheat field, nothing was said between us, but it was so pleasant, so peaceful, like walking with a very close friend. Part way across I had to turn and look at the sun that was so warm on my back and neck. "There is no sun in Heaven", so I turned back to the way we were walking, as I did I caught a glimpse of His face and He had that wonderful knowing smile on it. We crossed the field and started up a track which went up through bush. Now every thing changed the warmth turned cool and now the smells all changed to the fragrances of the trees and plants around. Many of them I have never seen on earth or in pictures of plants here on earth. We walked on for about 200 Mtrs, then clearly I heard Ian call "Come back to the class room", I turned to Yeshua and asked "Do I have to" His reply was"Yes but I will see you again very soon". Feeling a little reassured I bowed and slowly withdrew. That was the last time I have had one of those brain damage headaches.
One of the teachings you did at that time was on the "Brain and Mind", With out doubt this was very significant in my healing process. Understanding how it all works really helped me to partner with God and cooperate with Him through the healing process. With frontal lobe injury I knew, I knew the answer but couldn't call it to mind. I felt that I was to watch the program on TV "Who wants to be a millionaire", to start with it was frustrating and depressing because I couldn't bring to mind the answers to the most basic of questions but very quickly they started to be there and I got better and better at the answers. My recall is better now that it was before the accident.
Many many miraculous healings have taken place in this body over the last 2 1/2 years, in a time of worship while on the floor, others in the room saw a hand and scapule come into the room enter me at the crown of my head and exit at my tail bone. When we asked Yahweh what He had done, He said He had removed the scar tissue from my spinal cord and removed the vertigo from your inner ear. I can confirm that both of these things happened at that time. At around this time I was healed from dyslexia, I still have a little problem with spelling but nothing like it used to be, and numbers are fine.
I have kept the good of dyslexia,a near photographic memory, the little tricks that you learn to cover dyslexia, but the greatest thing, I have been delivered from being a workaholic and no longer have to prove myself to myself and every body around me.
One of the biggest difficulties during the healing process was learning to shut down the new brain pathways as they were restored. I would be just dropping off to sleep and all of a sudden one of these would open up and I would be wide awake again. Part of brain injury healing is long periods of uninterrupted sleep anything up to 12 to 15 hrs aday. The trick Yahweh taught me was to call on Him and Go into the Throne Room, and go to sleep there or where ever He took me in Heaven. I could have as little as 2Hrs sleep here but I always felt as if I had had 12 to15 Hrs sleep, and usually I found that He had touched some other part at the same time. This of course is a very thumb nail sketch of the process, there has been some great "Highs" but also some very deep "Lows", but through it all I can say without any shadow that Yahweh has always been there, sometimes not answering the way I think He should or the way I expected, but when this happened something needed sorting out first, He never makes mistakes.
In conclusion I wouldn't wish this pathway on my worst enemy, but I would not change any of it. I have seen His LOVE for me, I have felt His arms around me, He has whispered things to me that I wont share with anybody, He is showing me things that are to come, but without doubt, the greatest of all things is that I know that He is my friend and I am His friend and He actually enjoys my company and my thoughts on things.
May the Lord Bless you Ian and Family and cause His face to shine upon you.