Ian's Testimony

Prior to attending the GMRI conference in Switzerland in September 2007 I had been diagnosed with diabetes which I always refused to accept because I believe in divine healing. While at the conference we met our sister in the Lord; Doctor Elizabeth Grimshaw, who persuaded me to attend my doctor on my return home for further check up's as I had been having shaky hands.

I went to the doctor who referred me for regular blood tests. In September 2008 I received a telephone call from a brother in the Lord living in England, telling me he had heard from the Lord that I was to receive a bad report from the doctors, but to remember that God is in charge and He has the last word. A few days later I did recei
ve an urgent report from the doctor with bad news that they had discovered that I had cancer of the liver with three tumors and also cirrhosis of the liver. This was confirmed by the ultrasound, CT scan and MRI which they had sent me for.

In October 2008 I attended an outpatient appointment at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with Specialist consultant, Mr. E. L Hidalgo. Mr. E. L. Hidalgo told me that it was very serious and time was urgent. The situation was bleak as I would not be able to go through surgery, because of the condition of my liver. But he would like to try a new treatment called chemo-embolisation. This is a procedure that isolates the arterial blood supply to the area of the liver cancer or tumor. The drugs are then injected into the isolated area (three types in all) directly to the tumor/s.

This would require at least 5 treatments, as they could not do it all at once.

In November 2008 I was admitted for my first treatment. I was in theatre from 3pm to 6pm. I was given a local anesthetic for the procedure and was able to speak to the doctors while the procedure was going on. While receiving the local anesthetic, the doctors asked me if I had ever been in this position before, I told them years earlier I had an operation for a double hernia.

When asked how that went, I replied that I believed the surgeon had done one side and his apprentice had done the other. When asked who had done the best job, I replied the apprentice! I then told them that, not to worry that whoever the good Lord had prepared to carry out the procedure that I would be alright as He would direct them and guide them, and that I had no fear and I was in safe hands. When you return to the ward you must lie flat on your back for 5 hours not even to lift your head during that time, then 24 hours bed rest for fear internal bleeding.

About midnight while the local anesthetic was wearing off I really felt ill, I felt I had been slipping down the mountainside into this deep abyss. While lying on my back I looked out of my left eye and I could see the darkness and death creeping on me, blackness came right up to my mouth and I felt that the next breath would be my last. As I struggled to keep alive I turned and looked out my right eye and saw a bright light. I immediately called on my savior Jesus to help me, in an instant I heard his voice saying that it was alright , that He had me.

It was then that He told me that we don't get because we are too proud to ask. He reminded me of the scripture "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you". At the same time, when we come to the end of self, when the rubber meets the road (as we say here) we have to submit completely to the Lord, it is then that we see the miracles, signs and wonders take place.

This was the time when I immediately felt His presence and him touch me. As the song says....." Shackeled by a heavy burden, .... in grief and pain, then the hand of Jesus touched me and I am no longer the same, Oh yes He touched me , and Oh the joy that fills my soul, something happened and now I know, He touched me and made me whole. "

I believe that the words of this song really came alive in my life and body at that time. All this appeared to be happening at the same time, at once.

When it says in the song" turn your eyes onto Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the ways of this world grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace."

The main thing was when the Lord touched me and spoke to me I experienced a power and anointing, that words cannot fully describe as we say in Scotland." It is better felt than telt" meaning it is far better to feel the anointing and presence than to talk about it.

I felt Him take me by the right hand in vice - like grip and pull me up out of the darkness. He told me that He would never leave me nor forsake me. As I felt Him pulling me up I felt as though I was being raised on eagles wings and appeared to be above the world. I asked the Lord where he was taking me and He said that was the world below and He had conquered the world and although I was in the world I was not of the world.

I was now seated with Him in heavenly places at the right hand of the father, I was now an ambassador passing through the world. He told me that he had paid the price at Calvary by the shedding of his blood for me, he told me how his blood cleansed me. At this time I could feel the cleansing power in the blood, it wasn't just idle words, I could feel the power in the blood as he was talking to me. He then told me that he wanted me to place my feet on the solid rock (the rock of ages), He asked me to open my mouth and to drink from the rock, which I did, I then felt the resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead fill my body.

It was then that I really felt I had received my healing. After this He took me to this crystal clear river, I asked him what was this river he told me it was the river of life and death could not enter it and he placed me in the river. As the water flowed over me I could see and feel the cleansing of my body from my head to my toes, I could see and feel the muck and sin and filth being cleaned out of my body once and for all. I felt I was a new creation!

I am not sure how long this lasted by it all happened through the night. I really felt at peace and safe. In the morning the patient in the other bed asked me how I was feeling, I told him that I felt good at that time but through the night I had really been bad, I thought I would never see the morning. He was angry at me for not asking for painkillers. He also informed the night sister and she was also angry at me for not asking for painkillers. I replied that they were too busy that the Lord had seen me through, I just asked them to give me painkillers to please them. The night sister gave me two paracetamols and two morphine tablets which I took right away, as soon as the tablets hit my stomach I was violently sick. At that moment I told them I did not want any painkillers. At the same instant I heard a voice in my ear telling me that it was Him that healed me, not the doctors nor the tablets.

I improved all that day and was discharged the next day. I went back to the hospital for a scan in the beginning of January and they were pleased with the results and felt that they were on top of the situation. I was asked to come in the following week for further treatment on the other tumors. When I went in the following week I really felt good and that I had been healed. While in theater for treatment to the other tumors the radiographer told me that he could not find anything to treat after about ten minutes I was returned to the ward and discharged the following morning.

In March 2009 I returned for a scan and they told me that they were still very pleased with it and felt they were still on top of things. I told them I was going to Wales for a Christian Retreat and they said to go ahead with that. They felt that there was nothing there to stop me attending the retreat. They asked me to come back in July for another scan.

During this time I had been driving for miles going to different churches giving my testimony walking in the hills and really felt good within myself. I felt healthier than I had for a long time.

In June 2009 Friday 12th I received a telephone call from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary that they wanted to re-admit me on Tuesday 16th to go through further treatment on Wednesday 17th. I went through on Tuesday and was admitted and they prepared me for treatment on the Wednesday. On speaking to the medical staff they informed me that they were so pleased with the results of the previous treatment that they had decided that they would keep on top of it by giving me a repeat dose. I objected to this and told them that I was healed by the Lord and I felt good within myself. I would go for a scan or an X-Ray to see if I needed further treatment and if so I was prepared to go ahead with it.

On the Wednesday morning they prepared me for theatre and again I asked for a scan or an X-Ray. The Professor and surgeons came round the ward, I spoke to the professor and told him that I believed I was healed by the Lord, and that they had informed me that the chemo-embolisation would kill whatever it touched and if I was healed, the only thing it could kill would be me and I was not prepared to go ahead with it.

So they finally decided to send me for a scan. They put me in a wheelchair and left me sitting three-quarters of an hour in the cold corridor. While sitting in the corridor instead of being angry I prayed to the Lord to forgive them and that as the medical staff would not listen to me about my healing, that he, the Lord, would show them that I had been healed.

I was then taken in for the scan and returned to the ward. Waiting to go to the theatre. A short time later Mr. Hidalgo came into the ward and asked me to forgive him for how they had treated me as he and the professor on seeing the results of the scan had found that the cancer and the tumors were all dead and that the treatment had been canceled and I was free to go home immediately and that they would send for me to come back in December for a further scan.

Praise the Lord!!!

These are notes from the discharge forms Ian received when he was discharged from hospital each time.

On examination in November the diagnosis was Hepatobiliary Carcinoma. Liver cirrhosis due to metabolic syndrome the treatment was chemo-embolisation admitted for elective chemo-embolisation of 2 lesions on right lobe liver.

January admitted for elective chemo-embolisation of lesions on right lobe liver nothing found to treat.

June admitted for elective chemo-embolisation canceled scan proved that stable when doctor looked at scan proved that Ian was healed nothing there to treat!

We want to take this opportunity to thank you and your church for your prayers and love during this time. We really felt the closeness of you all in our spirits here!

Ian and Yvonne Robertson