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Delores' Double Portion
CBN.com – “Help me out of this room… I want to work,” 68-year-old Dolores Abis pleaded with the visiting Operation Blessing team.
The OB team was at her house in Barangay Wawa, Lumban, Laguna last April to check on her. The left side of her body was paralyzed. She moved by crawling on the floor, waiting for someone to assist her.
“I don’t want to stay (this way) for a long time,” Delores said.
She was diagnosed with a cerebrovascular condition in 2007 after she experienced a stroke while attending a senior citizens’ ball. She was quickly rushed to the hospital for evaluation.
The doctor advised Dolores to undergo a series of examinations, but the lack of finances cut short her treatment. She was unable to run her small store. Her daughter Susan was left to provide for her needs. Like Delores, her daughter Susan is a widow. She works at a sewing factory all day and doesn't earn enough to support her children and provide for her mom's food and medication.
"Everything is so difficult," Delores said. "I often call on God and ask Him to take me and end my suffering. "
That's why Operation Blessing invited Delores and Susan to a medical mission in their community where Delores went for a free check-up. She also heard the good news of salvation and prayed to receive Christ into her heart.
"I felt like my pain was being washed away, and I felt lighter," Delores said.
That day, the OB team answered her prayers with a wheelchair and a livelihood opportunity. She can now start a new sari-sari store business with her pack of groceries, thanks to OB donors and supporters.
“Now I can already go outside to feel the breeze,” Dolores said. “I thank God because he has used people for me to have a wheelchair and a livelihood.”
But the story doesn’t end there. When an OB team laid their hands on her for prayer, God touched her with healing as well! She was able to stand, move her legs, and walk – something she had not done in over a year. With this, her heart leapt up and she began to dance.
"I was so surprised. How is that possible?" Delores wondered. "They said, 'Just trust God,' so even though I was afraid of falling I walked. They asked if I was tired, and I said, 'No, I want to walk some more. I had never felt that way before."
When Delores got home from the medical mission, she set up her small general store outside and welcomed her first customer.
She said, "If I had died sooner, I wouldn't have met Operation Blessing and found out that God hasn't abandoned me. I felt like everything was against me, but now I know there are people like you who love me and have brought me closer to God. It's a beautiful thing that this happened to me today. Thank you very much. My daughter and I cannot thank you enough."
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