Chiari malformation & Brain Stem Lesion

I was diagnosed with a Chiari malformation and they also found a lesion in my brain stem which had caused considerable scarring in 2018 when I was 60. But I first went to the doctor with headaches when I was 11 years old, always very healthy just living with headaches and sleeplessness as a normal part of life. I followed up with doctor’s consults, not having any success, until around 2000 it didn’t really seriously affect me.

I am a Christian and one of my areas of ministry was as a prophetic artist and a leader in the arts in Christian ministry, but as my health failed I did less and less.

By 2019 it was evident I was going to need brain surgery to decompress the brain stem and cerebellum. I had surgery around Easter and it went well at first, but I ended up back in hospital with some inexplicable complications that left me in a traumatised state that have taken a long time to recover - physically, spiritually and psychologically I was still very unwell. I found it hard to step out. Reading the Bible was not easy and praying was hard. I had slowly been healing layer upon layer but I was not painting and life has been unpredictable as one day I may be fine, the next I may not be able to do much due to pain and other symptoms.

I was asked to consider painting at the 20 Year Celebrate Jesus Conference here in Canberra. It took me a long time to say yes. I would go to say yes, then have a check. I felt I was not in a good enough space with the Lord to be up there painting. However, in the end I felt it was what He wanted me to do. The Holy Spirit was over the two paintings I did and confirmed this in many ways.

There were so many opportunities for me to receive prayer in response to words of knowledge and so many ways to be blessed over the weekend!!!! I took each one I could and layer upon layer, little by little I felt things moving. Until the final prayer in response to a word of knowledge where I believe I was delivered of a spirit of infirmity.

In the first few speaking sessions I was still feeling unwell, I had to keep my head covered and couldn’t keep my eyes open because of the air conditioner. By the end on Saturday night my scarf was in the bag and I was bright eyed right through the night. The same on Sunday morning, to the point that someone at Church who had not been at the conference came from across the auditorium to ask me what had happened to me as my face was glowing.

Today, Monday, the temperature has dropped by 16 deg. and just last fortnight a smaller, sudden change in temperature had me so sick. No fuzzy head, brain fog, dizziness, burning skin, chills, falling over to the side, headaches, eye pain, back and neck pain, shoulder popping or any other of the enemy’s nonsense. There are still some symptoms to go so I will press into see them removed as well, but is is so much better in every aspect! Thank you Jesus!!

Sue 21/3/20