DEATH BED EXPERIENCE

My testimony, of God's great love and power.
Oh how I praise my Lord and I am not ashamed to lift up my hands, and let the world see, how I adore Him for all, he has done for me. He has preserved my life for a purpose, & I yearn after him, I can't get enough of his sweet spirit. Out of our bellies shall indeed flow rivers of living waters.
I Pray father that you will anoint this testimony, and let it pierce the hearts of each person that reads, it. Show them how very special they are and that, you make no difference in your children.

DEATH BED EXPERIENCE
To make the story short and get to the story itself. I'll began by saying at the age of fourteen I gave my heart to the Lord, in a little baptist church. I wasn't brought up, in a christian home, but I always wanted to know the Lord . I was young and didn't know much about the Lord or his word, so I could be persuaded easily, not knowing the scriptures.
One day I meet this old Christian lady, who began to tell me, where she went to church, And that in Mark 16:17 in the Bible it said they shall take up serpents. well if that is what it said I believed it. But little did I know, that God meant, if we were to take them up like Paul in the book of acts, which it was in the fire when he gathered some fire wood. As everyone knows the story I'm sure. He took it up by accident, which I certainly believe God will take care of you, if you belong to him. LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT I WAS IN FOR THE MOST HORRIBLE TIMES IN MY LIFE. I WENT FROM A LIFE FILLED WITH JOY AND PEACE, IN LOVE WITH JESUS TO: A LIFE FILLED WITH HATE, LONELINESS, ISOLATION, FOUGHT SUICIDE SPIRITS, LOST TRUST IN EVERYONE. BITTER AGAINST THE CHURCH AND BLAME THEM FOR WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ME.
ALL THIS WAS CAUSED FROM ONE THING, (TAKING MY EYES OFF JESUS). Now I can't blame no one, but myself. The good news is that He is a great mender, He only can place all our broken pieces and put them back together again and make you a more beautiful vessel the next time. filling you with his love and compassion, for those who are hurting, the same way that you was, and let them know that there is hope and help.
YOU NEVER APPRECIATE HIM FOR, WHO AND WHAT HE CAN DO, UNTIL HE DELIVERS AND HEALS, YOU FROM THE THINGS, THAT NO DOCTOR, NO HUMAN MEANS AT ALL CAN TOUCH, OR THE MOST UP TO DATE TECHNOLOGY CAN FIND. DOCTORS CANNOT HEAL THE THE INNER MAN, AND HEAL ALL THE WOUNDS, OF THE HEART AND SOUL. HE THEN TRULY BECOMES YOUR LIFE, AND YOUR DEAREST FRIEND, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN YOUR LIFE. YOU KNOW AND DON'T WANT TO LIVE ONE DAY WITHOUT HIM. I have handled a truck load full of serpents I guess. The Sunday I was bit, we were having a regular Sunday meeting. A lot of people was there they love watching me handle serpents, because I guess there wasn't very many women that did it. The Music began, they began to handle the serpents. I walked up front where they had the snakes and the preacher handed me one it was "A BLACK TIMBER RATTLER", one of the most deadlyest serpents in the state of Kentucky. It was laying across my two hands, I had a feeling to give it back but I wouldn't, I turned around to keep it a little longer, when I did it raised its head and bit me on the hand. It started to bite me again and the preacher grabbed it . He said later he would never forget how I looked at him, IT WAS TO SAY, YOU SAID IT WOULDN'T BITE ME ,IF I BELIEVED, "WHAT NOW". This same snake in another church service bit, a young brother, he got scared his faith failed him, so they rushed him to the hospital. They did everything they could for him. They give his the anti-venom and everything and they thought he would be fine. He was setting up in bed laughing and he suddenly fell over dead. I attended his funeral later. That was the most horrible thing I had ever saw..He was swelled so big that his body look like it was about to burst. They had a black veil pulled down over his casket lid, when they opened him..cause he was swelled so big.
BACK TO ME! I began to feel numb around my eyes, nose and mouth, as the poison began to go through my body. In about one minute and I passed out. They carried me out of the church house and took me to a house, by the church house, and lay ed me on a bed, two or three went with me, the rest stayed at church and continued on with the service. I KNEW I WAS DYING, I COULD FEEL MY SPIRIT LEAVING MY BODY. I felt like I was sinking down into a dark hole. Down, down, I was sinking, I was fallling into the pit of darkness, which is hell. Then all a sudden my spirit, come back into my body. I began to hear a sister praying as I came back. I later ask if I had died would I have went to heaven, cause all I was seeing was darkness, not realizing that, I had taken my eyes off Jesus, and had made a God out of our preacher. THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME, which will send you to hell. How easily we can do that not realizing it. My arm began to swell so big that, they had to cut my blouse off me. Blood came from around my teeth, that I had to spit up, ever so often. I threw up a pan full of poison. My arm swelled so big, it look like it belonged on a four hundred pound woman and it turned black as coal, with
big purple blood, blisters all over it. The poison destroys the tissue in your skin. As the days went by it began to smell like rotten meat, my skin was rottening. I was going into shock & my nerves was about to break down, due to so much pain..I was in so much pain for weeks on end, that my nerves began to give way on me. I slept for about 5 or 10 minutes a night, and had to set on the side of the bed to do that. My sister said my lips and gums were white, no color at all. My stool was purple, so much posion in my body. I couldn't stand or raise my head with out passsing out. My arm burned like it was in a oven, and pain on top of it. I never went to the hospital or took any kind of medicene. I was in the hands of the Lord, live or die.
THEY PRAYED AROUND THE CLOCK FOR ME. I had so much company, you couldn't believe it. Some just wanted to see what I look like, and some really cared. I never worried at all about it, I knew the Lord would take care of me, I had a child like trust in God and his people.
I became a faith warrior to many. They began to make a god out of me. Jesus is the one that is the great healer, I'm just as Job said "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" I am nothing but dust and ashes in the MASTERS HANDS. GOD WAS BEGINNING TO SHOW ME HOW FRAIL AND WEAK MAN WAS. A lesson I needed to learn. And to learn to keep my eyes on him. "Thou shall have no other gods before me, we do this when we confident man to highly. God will let man fell us, to show us our help and trust must be in him. We are to respect and confident our leader, but know that it is God in him doing the work. We must look beyond man and look to Jesus.. No matter how much man fails, this does not change Gods faithfulness toward us. He will never leave us or forsake us, we are the ones that walk away from him.
SOMEONE HAD TO STAY BY MY BED NIGHT AND DAY. They took turns setting with me. When it was the ministers turn, the one I had the most confidence in, set by my bedside and prayed. When I was in so much pain that I couldn't bare it, they would began to pray and the lord would take the pain away so I could bare it. It never stopped but it would ease up to where I could bare it. The minister began to say things to me that broke my heart. He began to get lust in his eyes, and he was yielding to a lusting spirit. My mind could not cope with this. Here I was on my death bed, and all he had on his mind, was seducing me. My mind could not handle this, and I dare not tell no one. My dear saintly mother that never stopped praying for me, I believe is the only thing that saved me. My sister came in from Indiana and went to the police station, to try to get them to get me out of that house, where they had me. They said lady she's been in there to long, she is in the hands of a higher power. You only have aprox. forty five minutes to get to the hospital after the snake bites you. And I had been in there for days. AFTER THE NIGHTMARE WAS OVER, and the Lord began to allow me to recover. I went back to church and began to hear the man preach that had said horrible things to me. My mind became so confused, that I finally quiet going to church. I let this cause me to get in such a state of mind, that I began to want to kill myself. I stopped praying and lost my relationship with God. Because I was young in the Lord and couldn't understand. I stopped playing music and singing, which I loved so much. I just kept going down hill, until I lost everything. I got to where I couldn't go to church no where, cause when I did I would have flash backs of that preacher, and wanted to run out of the church house.
I was like a crazy man that would have to be chained. I began to get hate in my heart for all churches. And couldn't stand to see a person that looked like a saint. My hair was all long and every time I would look in the mirror, I would see them holiness women. I looked just like them, so I cut my hair on top and left the back long, so I wouldn't look like the people that I thought had drove me almost crazy.
YEARS WENT BY. I went through a horrible divorce. And it like to have finished me off. No words could ever describe the offel shape I was getting in. I began to hate everyone, the church, men, especially men. I began to put a wall around me to where no one could get to my heart again. I never wanted to love again, so I wouldn't ever get hurt again.
SO I BEGAN TO ISOLATE MYSELF. No one could reach me. I wouldn't even love a animal, cause when I did they would get killed or something. So I began to live a very lonely life. I even took on another personality. I cut up and laughed and acted the fool a lot to hid the pain, pain that I could not bare or cope with. I couldn't get it sorted out in my head, all that had happened to me. I just couldn't deal with all the things that I was going through, so I just pretended it didn't exist. I became the most miserable person in the whole world. I GOT ME A GOOD JOB AFTER THE DIVORCE. Everyone thought I was fine, I really could pretend good I had learned how to do that. I worked until I was able to have me a home built, had a conversion van, a pocket full of credit cards and could get anything that I wanted. Everyone thought I had it made, and I was so miserable I could never tell how horribly, miserable I was.
Later I began to try to go back to church. I never took off my dresses, everyone still thought I was still an angel. I began to go to church, I wanted to see how many hypocrites there was in them. You see in my heart I was really crying out for God to help me. But I had got in such a shape, I would never be worth anything in the church. I had so many problems. My nerves would get so bad when I would go to church, I would break out all over. I could never be able to function in church again. I had so much hate against the church. I would go and just see if anyone knew the condition that I was in. Most of them didn't know a thing they thought I was a angel, cause I had a dress on. Years went by I finally had to quit my job, my nerves go so bad, when I would drive. I would have to pull off the road and set for a while, until my nerves would calm down. Especially if, I was trying to go to church.
THE LORD WAS STILL WITH ME WHETHER I KNEW IT OR NOT. I was learning a great lesson from all this. If you could of only seen the inside of me, you would know beyond a doubt that God would have to, perform a miracle for me, before I could ever do anything for him. It seem hopeless. My life was over I would never be happy again. Years and years like this.
UNTIL ONE DAY I HEARD OF A PROPHET THAT WAS HOLDING A TENT REVIVAL!
David Terrell World Wide Revivals,
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Dallas, Texas 75208
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Acts 3:12
Ye men of Israel, why marvel yea at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? His name through faith IN HIS NAME HATH MADE THIS MAN STRONG, WHOM YE SEE AND KNOW.



They said he was an end time prophet and apostle. I wondered if he was a hypocrite like all the rest was. Was he for real. Was the miracles that I was seeing real or just a put on..Well I was about to find out. If anyone could find out I could. I was brave I took a front row seat. I thought before the service started that I was getting out of here, these people are weird, all they do is walk around and pray. This is probably a cult. WELL I DECIDED TO STAY AND SEE IT THROUGH, I HAD DROVE A LONG, WAY SO I'D SEE IT THROUGH. The preacher finally came out, he fell down on his knee's and began to pray, man I had never heard anybody pray like that, it was really getting to me, my brick wall I had up was beginning to melt. when he got through he stood and begin to talk, then he began to walk toward me, I froze I couldn't move. I was scared but I knew I wasn't going anywhere, cause I couldn't move. He prayed and prayed for me, my wall slowly started melting. He told me how I was fighting suicide spirits, how I had been abused, tormented, mistreated, how I had isolated myself for so many years and told me how many years it had been and he was right. He told me how I lived and conducted my self where I lived, and a whole lot more I cannot remember and he also told me that I was a 'CHOSEN VESSEL ORDAINED BY GOD AND CHOSEN FOR THE GOSPEL',"yes me".
How could I be chosen for anything the shape I was in. This man knew what he was talking about, God used him to reach way down inside me where no one "but God could reach. My wall was like iron no one could reach me. "ONLY GOD COULD DO THIS". I had been so wounded that no one could reach me, I wouldn't listen to no one. No one was going to deceive me again. The man of God, told me things that I had never told anyone only God knew. So how could I doubt it. I also, felt so much, of the love of God, it flowed through my inner being.

Set totally free! From the chains of religion. "I am now honored to be a prisoner of Jesus Christ".
The woman you see before you, may look a lot the same, I still ware the same old clothes, I still got the same old name, oh but you're looking on the outside, if you could see in side instead, You would see a brand new man, cause the old man is dead. My husband Bro. Lay is taking this picture of me, Bro. Terrell, and Bro. Ted a brother that works for Bro. Terrell. I tell of Bro. Lay later in this testimony.. Thank you Lord for healing my broken heart and spirit. And giving me a brand new life THE ENEMY THOUGHT HE HAD TOTALLY DESTROYED ONE OF GODS CHOSEN VESSELS:
He done a good job of destroying me but God turned it around for my good. Cause all the time I was wounded, I was learning how it felt to walk a lonely road, no one to help. A broken and a contrite spirit which was unbearable at times. I learned what it was like to seek help in the churches and could not find any. I learned of all the sin that was in the pulpits. How people were so cold and didn't live what they preached. All these things I needed to learn, cause you see you want make it far serving God, if you don't get your feeling dead, by allowing the Holy Ghost to crusify them. You must learn to put God first no matter what. No matter what others do, it don't effect your walk with the Lord. The Lord will give you victory over these things, when He sees that you are going on, no matter what others do. It will cause you to want, to be real and honest before the Lord, cause you don't want to be like the people that has destroyed you and they can't effect you no more. You want to be a real Christan, one that God can use to help others, that is in the same shape that you were in. WITH OUT HIM WE CAN DO NOTHING: but through him and his Divine love we can do all things.we must come through it with love and pray for the ones that done us wrong and God only can restore and put the love there.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A REAL CHRISTAN they will have the love of God. Not put on love but a love that you can feel flow from them, that reaches the inner part of you. Not mouth love. FOR GOD IS LOVE. If you don't have the flowing spirit of love you don't have God no matter what you say or do. They can do miracles, give their body to be burned, they can shout and talk in tongues, prophecy and all the works of Christ but the BIBLE, says without Charity it profits nothing. THAT IS HOW YOU CAN TELL IF ANYONE HAS GOD, they flow with the love of God, that you can feel go, into your inner soul. Not just hearing them saying it, but feeling it, LOVE BREAKS THE HARD SPIRIT IN YOU and touches the inner heart of man and brings the hurts and wounds out of him. His love makes you began to feel all the hurts inside you, and it will cause you to want to fall at his feet. He will totally heal you too, and all the hurt will be gone, as if you have never been hurt, it will all be gone and you can work in the church and on the streets, helping people again, with a heart full of Gods love. Your hurt is totally gone you are filled with his peace and love.

A SPIRIT OR CHRISTIAN WITH OUT LOVE WILL CAUSE YOU TO REBEL AND HATE THE CHURCH. You will except, the correction of God, and will listen, if it is presented by love. But hate in a suppose to be christian will cause you to rebel. There is nothing wrong with you when you feel this way, it is the spirit of the devil in that person that is wanting to down you, and make you feel like you are, and will never be worth anything, in the Lords service. Nothing you do is good enough, there is no hope for you and the one that is talking to you, thinks they are holy and righteous and they are full of the devil, CAUSE GOD MAKES US FEEL LOVED, SPECIAL AND CAN BE ALL THINGS IN HIM. Because he died for us and we cannot comprehend his great love for us. When you really find God and set your heart and mind to serve him, you will be rejected by most Christians so call Christians. When you make up your mind to serve him no matter what others say or do, or no matter if no one wants to live right it doesn't matter no more cause you are going to please Him, and not worry about man any more, you will be REJECTED IN MOST CHURCHES: I plan to serve him the right way, if no church welcomes me. You see we can't live right, it takes his spirit in us, We just yield to his spirit and he puts, his self, in us and he lives it for us. All we do is yield and obey his WORD NOT MANS WORD.
I HAVE SET MY HEART AND MIND TO SEEK HIM AND KNOW HIM FOR MY SELF. I seek him early in the mornings before anyone gets out of the bed. Day after day doing this sometimes it seems like you are getting no where. But the instant the devil comes again you, Gods spirit raises up in you so strong that you didn't even know it was there. You see God said if you draw nigh to me, I will draw nigh to you. And we must believe what he said, not go by what we feel but what he said in his word. We walk by faith no feelings. AND WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT HE WILL let you feel his divine spirit of love flowing through you, loving you. He wants us to love him more than anything and oh how he rewards us for our faithfulness to him. Words cannot describe his love when he begins to pour his love through us. I WILL NEVER LISTEN TO MAN AGAIN OR PUT HIM ON A PEDESTAL. Man is but dust and ashes of the earth that God breathed into and gave life, they don't deserve his praise and honor. He alone is great and the great deliver, When you go down so low there is no way out and he delivers you, you will learn who it is that loves, and helps you.


Going in the water, to be buried with my Saviour.
It's an honor to take his name in marriage.
HE TOUCH ME AND NOW I AM NO LONGER THE SAME..acts2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. AND THEY CAST HIM OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE ! John 9:34. This is what you can expect when you really serve Him and refuse to bow to man and come under their doctrines.Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said,
LORD I BELIEVE AND HE WORSHIPED HIM.
Isn't that wonderful to have Him all for your self. When men reject you, when they cast you out of the churches, when no one believes in you, the preachers and prophets turn again you and cast you out as evil. Isn't it worth it just to know him. He will be there for you when no one else is, he will protect your children, he will bless you and be your dearest friend, when all have turned their backs on you, he will love you in your darkest hours, comfort you through all your sorrows. Man this is worth more to me than the praise of man. I WANT HIS HONOR NOT MANS HONOR that when I pray I know he honors it and answers me. When we serve him and love him above everything else. Sometimes it takes everyone failing us to bring us to this place in Him. He was there all the time waiting to comfort us when everything else failed us. ARE YOU TIRED OF CHASING RAINBOWS going no where. Why not work on the most important thing in life. OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. nothing else will last.
I AM WAKEING UP AND SERVING HIM WITH ALL MY HEART AND PUTTING HIM FIRST AND LETTING EVERYTHING ELSE COME IN SECOND. Seek him with all your heart and you will find him. you may not get it back over night, but isn't it worth working for, day by day giving him time in our prayer closet and reading his word.

This is Bro. Lay, one of Bro. Terrells ministers, that worked and traveled with him. Which later would become my husband.
HE HAD A GIFT OF LOVE WAITING FOR ME:
HE HAD A HUSBAND WAITING FOR ME, ONE THAT WOULD LOVE ME, AND STAND BY ME, SOMETHING I HAD NEVER HAD BEFORE...ONE THAT WOULD TEACH ME THE WORD, AND WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SERVE THE LORD TOGETHER, AND TRAVEL WORLD WIDE AND CARRY THE GOSPEL FOR JESUS. I HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO SEE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HEALED AND SET FREE BY THE POWER OF GOD. THE CRIPLE WALK, THE BLIND TO SEE, AND THE CAPTIVE SET FREE, WHEN I THOUGHT ALL HOPE WAS GONE, NOW GOD HAS TURNED IT AROUND, AND IS USING ME TO SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL, AS I TRAVEL WITH MY HUSBAND AND SHARE MY TESTIMONY. SO WHEN ALL HOPE IS GONE. JUST LOOK TO JESUS, IT AIN'T OVER TILL ITS OVER, AND IT AIN'T OVER YET. SATEN HAS FOUGHT US IN EVERY WAY TO STOP THIS. BUT GOD IS GOING TO PREVAIL, GOD CAN TAKE A IMPOSSIBLITY, AND MAKE IT POSSIBLE.
My confidence don't lie in my husband or no other minister, my confidence is in Jesus Christ. Man can fall, I have learned the hard way, but Jesus will never fail us, He will give us the best if we put him first. We confident, the spirit of Jesus in the man. They can fall just like anyone else. If we are built upon the rock, we can stand no matter who fails us.
JESUS THE GREAT DELIVER!
He will dry your tears and fill your life with joy and peace. He was there all the time waiting patiently in line.

My beloved mother, Verlena Reed Hurley. Thank you mom for all the prayers & all the times, you have set up at night & prayed until, God healed me. Jesus said to honor & obey our parents.
My precious little mother! Mother went home to be with the Lord February 18, 2009. She is so missed, but we know she is with the one she loved so dearly. If anyone had the joy of the Lord she did. You could hear her shouting in the early morning hours, when we were in bed.
And a Very special "Thank You," to my daughter
Melissa and grandchildren Bradley and Chasity Owens. For all your support, for your constant encouragement. For all your help, for always being there for me. And for BELIEVING IN ME.