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    Rise Up & Walk
    Rise Up & Walk
    Rise Up & Walk
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    Rise Up & Walk

    By Kwaku Agyeman

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    Rise Up & Walk provides insight into the liberty from sickness and the healing grace Christ has made available to believers. The believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ should not be sick. Sickness is an enemy that has been conquered by Christ. Consequently sickness should no longer have dominion over the believer in Christ Jesus.
    Rise Up & Walk provides Scriptural proofs why a believer cannot and should not be sick. One major reason why you can’t be sick is because you have the exact nature of God. If God cannot be sick then neither can you. What cannot happen to Him, cannot happen to you. Good health has been procured for you with the precious Blood of Jesus. The price for you to experience good health has been paid in full. Nothing and no one should be able to get you sick

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKwaku Agyeman
    Release dateDec 8, 2018
    ISBN9780463420669
    Rise Up & Walk
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    Kwaku Agyeman

    Kwaku Agyeman is a teacher of the Word of God by grace and calling. He is also a Family and Life counsellor and a graduate of Central University's School of Theology & Missions. He has a real passion for teaching and motivating people through the Word of God. He describes his heart's desire as seeing people overcome poverty and sickness through the knowledge of God's Word.

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      Rise Up & Walk - Kwaku Agyeman

      Chapter 1

      My Brush With Death

      Sometime in the year 2012 I had a dream in which I appeared to be seated before a doctor. The doctor wrote something on a piece of paper, which he then pushed over to my side of the table. When I looked down on the piece of paper, I saw he had written the word STROKE.

      I woke up the following morning and discovered to my horror I could not lift my left arm, which had gone numb. I screamed for my wife who had woken up earlier and left our bedroom. When she came in I described what happened and we prayed together.

      After praying for a while the numbness left my arm and I was able to feel my arm again. But later on I began to suffer from bouts of dizziness, heart palpitations, chest pains and severe neck pains on occasion. For a while I thought the pain I felt in the back of my neck was as a result of my gym workouts, so I stopped exercising with weights. However, I realized I still suffered from the neck pains even after I had stopped exercising.

      I also experienced headaches and strange sensations from different parts of my head. Sometimes it would feel like something crawling through my head. At other times the sensation was like something moving around in my brain. Occasionally I would experience numbness on the left half of my body and a burning sensation in the sole of my left foot.

      All the symptoms pointed to a serious cardiovascular situation and it was quite a challenging period to put it mildly. The devil enjoyed himself immensely at my expense with taunts and oppressive thoughts. I must admit the fear of dying constantly played on my mind. Death was a stark reality and not an imaginary one at that point. 

      Close Call

      One morning I woke up from sleep and it appeared to me as if I was rising up out of my physical body. However about half way out I seemed to get back into my body. That was close!! ‘Did I almost die I asked myself?

      This was beginning to get a little scary. I was not scared of death because of any uncertainty about my ultimate destination - heaven or hell. I was sure I would make it to heaven. I had no fears pertaining to that. I believe I was scared because I didn’t quite feel ready to check out and leave my loved ones behind.

      I suffered through alarming heart related symptoms for a period of time. To compound things I was constantly inundated with a barrage of depressive thoughts from the devil. The thought of dying and how my death would cause so many people pain, especially my wife occupied my mind during this trying period.

      I could not imagine my wife becoming a widow at such a young age and wondered how she would cope. My parents were still alive, as were all my siblings, whom I believe looked up to me as a ‘spiritual pillar’ in the family. How could this be happening to me?

      I was quite active in church and had become a Bible study teacher for some time before facing this health challenge. I kept thinking how my Bible class students would be affected if I were to die prematurely due to illness. This is because I had somehow established myself as a ‘faith preacher’ in my Bible study classes. Therefore dying under the circumstances I found myself I believe could have affected the faith of some.

      I didn't share all the details of my health issues with my wife or anybody else. My wife was witness only to my initial experience of numbness. But sometime later she also witnessed some episodes of dizziness and profuse sweating. I didn't share the really scary symptoms with her so as not to alarm her.

      Some of the days, I would be able to generate some amount of faith and get by. But on other days the symptoms of stroke would reappear strongly and any faith that I had left would almost desert me.

      The devil would then remind me of people I knew who had died after being attacked with sickness. Unfortunately some of these people who had died were born again believers, so the devil was really in his element as you can imagine. He constantly reminded me how this attack would lead to my death like it happened to my Christian friends.

      A Christian brother who had become a very good friend of mine died from breast cancer a few years before my brush with sickness. This tragic event turned out to be one of the devil’s favourite reference points regarding his evil intentions for my life. He never failed to remind me that the same thing would happen to me too. Until my friend’s unfortunate demise, I had never even heard of a man dying from breast cancer.

      Jude's death was a huge disappointment and a big blow because we had invested so much time in prayer together. We really believed he would survive and overcome the cancer. After his death, I asked another Christian brother if God had ‘failed’ us. How could God have allowed my brother to die in spite of our prayers? I couldn't understand why and it left me very upset and disillusioned.

      An uncle of mine also lost his wife from cancer just about the same time. This dear woman was a Christian who had actually beaten cancer the first time it attacked her body. Sadly, she experienced a relapse after appearing to have overcome the sickness and died shortly after. Yet another Christian friend and member of my church who I had come to know also lost her fight against cancer not too long after and died.

      Now these people were Christians, all of whom initially appeared to have overcome the sickness that ultimately claimed their lives. So you can envisage that I had quite a fight on my hands. It was a fight of faith trying to stay positive and calm in the face of the ‘apparent’ danger’ confronting me. Occasionally I would try to convince myself these friends of mine probably only appeared to be strong believers. Perhaps they did not really ‘believe’ in the Word of God like they let on. These were desperate times for me and I tried hard to find something convincing to hold on to.

      A Challenge To Overcome

      In the middle of my health challenge my father was admitted to hospital. The doctors determined after his examination that he needed to be operated upon to correct what was wrong. Before the operation the family was informed we had to donate blood to replace whatever my father might need during surgery. This was the practice at the time to help address shortages in the hospital’s blood bank.

      As a ‘healthy looking’ member of the family it was naturally assumed I would be among the first to donate blood. However considering the apparent health situation in which I found myself, this presented a big challenge to me.

      How could I donate blood in the face of the heart related symptoms I was experiencing? Was I medically fit to donate blood? I literally found myself between a rock and a hard place. This is because I had not shared the health issues I had been experiencing with anybody, not even with my wife. My wife was only privy to what happened to me the morning after the dream. The only times she could have suspected something were on the occasions I couldn’t drive because I was experiencing dizziness.

      I remember an uncle calling from London to remind me of my obligation to donate blood before my father’s operation. I suspect my mother must have spoken to him about my seeming ‘uneasiness’ with the blood donation. After all I ‘appeared’ to be in good physical shape so it was reasonable for anybody to find it unthinkable for me not to donate blood for my father's surgery.

      I may have looked physically fit, but the symptoms I was experiencing told an entirely different story about the state of my being. I didn't think I was in any condition to donate blood and yet I could not reveal this to anybody.

      Having to keep quiet about my ‘medical situation’ was extremely tough, especially when I had to keep my family in the dark. Due to the situation in which I found myself I also worried about what the mandatory medical check-up before the blood donation would reveal. I was afraid it would ‘confirm’ something about my medical condition both to myself and to everybody else. This I definitely didn't want to happen. 

      The medical check-up had I gone through with it, would have ‘confirmed’ in my mind what I was rejecting by faith. I was engaged in a fight of faith and the last thing I needed were ‘medical facts’ to weaken my already fragile faith. I also didn't want to create fear and panic among the members of my family. I imagined the kind of shock and anguish a revelation of my symptoms would have generated. 

      Thankfully, in the end, I didn't have to go through with the donation because there were other people available to make the donation. That

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