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Testimony of Harry Hogan
Harry Hogan
On January 11, 2001, I had simply gone to the doctor for a medication for sinuses. For some reason the nurse insisted I take a PSA test. About a week later I went back to see the doctor and it turned out that I had cancer, prostate cancer, with a PSA count of 248.9, which means I should not be alive today. Of course, something like that is devastating for anyone to hear. I began to grasp at straws just like anyone in my shoes would. I began to search God with all my heart more than I ever had in my life. I did not believe that it was my time to go. The Word of God declares that, why should we leave this earth before our time? I knew I had more time to serve God. The Word of God says that, "I shalt not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord," Psalm 118:17.
After seeing my family doctor, I was referred to a radiologist and a biopsy was done. He confirmed that it was definitely cancer. I had also gone to the V.A. Hospital and, I will be honest with you, while there I was bluntly told that I should go home and die. I thank God that He began to lead us in the way we should go and direct our footsteps.
We have a health food store in town and my wife began to talk with them. We set up an appointment with Dr. Nancy McEndree and she gave me Brother Shelem and Sister Diane's name and number. I talked with Brother Shelem and, even over the phone, I felt the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
We had decided to go to Times of Refreshing. As we went down there, we had no idea what we were walking into. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, again we felt the anointing of the Holy Ghost. That was just a confirmation that we were doing the right thing. We were in a beautiful place. As we walked in we met several people who, at that time were strangers to us and I am sure they were strangers to Brother Shelem and Sister Diane. But, as the days went by, we all became friends. We all began to pray for one another, we began to see each other's problems. We all knew that God's Plan was the way to go.
I must admit there were a lot of embarrassing things that we had to do down there: the colonics, the fever baths. The different things that we did: the steams, the juicing, the eating raw, the flushing itself. But through it all, as time went on, we began to feel better.
We began to see people down there as a very loving group of people. We love and appreciate Brother Shelem and Sister Diane. We have never met two more loving people in our entire ministry, and we have been ministering over 28 years. We must also mention the staff. We truly appreciate them. We know they worked their hearts out to see God fulfill His plan.
As the 10 days went by, we kept working with God and stayed determined, knowing that God was going to touch us. God kept His children in health for many years as they came out of Egypt. That same healing is available to us today but we need to sacrifice. The Word of God declares in Romans 12:1-2: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
Even though the people, including myself, may have been embarrassed at different times, we knew that the staff never felt that way. We knew they were there for only one reason, and that was to see people healed. It made us feel good and it made us more comfortable.
As I said once before, if the doctors had told you to go home and simply die, it would ware on your nerves and even bring doubt and fear into your life. But the Word of God says He has not given the spirit of fear. Each day we had Bible study in the Word of God, morning and evening. It is all based on the Word of God. It's not just something we do. We just want to say we appreciate that so much because we, once again, have never seen such loving people in our lives.
When we came back home, I was truly surprised. We set up another PSA test immediately with a lab technician who knew my wife, June. Without the doctor knowing of course she gave us the PSA test. It had come down from 248.9 to 5.8, and it is still dropping. I must say we have a doctor up here right now, who I have just come back from seeing, who is totally in the air because he does not understand what is going on. I had taken one Zoladex shot. According to him, it should not have taken the PSA down this low. We have told him we are not going to deal with him any longer. We are going to continue to do it God's way because we truly believe it is God's Plan.
We continue to take fever baths every night. We are still juicing. We are still eating raw. We do not eat meats. We are doing what we were taught at Time of Refreshing and it is working in our lives. God has also blessed in many areas of our life with a new job and different things going on in our lives. We owe this to God Almighty and we thank God for the friends we made at Times of Refreshing. We fully intend to get back as often as we possibly can.
We want to emphasize that anyone who may be reading this testimony right now with any type of disease, whether it be cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes that you need to get in touch with Brother Shelem and Sister Diane because they can, through the leading of the hand of God, help you receive healing that you never thought you could receive. Orthodox medicine right now is killing more people than it is helping! I dare anyone to die doing things God's way. You cannot do it. God will simply heal your body. That is the kind of God we serve.
Once again, we want to thank Brother Shelem and Sister Diane for the invitation to come and share their home. For the beautiful things we did, the walks we had, the fellowship we had. I thank God for them. I thank God for all the staff and I pray God will keep our footsteps coming together once again as often as is possible. We love you in Jesus' name and we thank you and may God bless you.
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