One time, I had a service at Ulsan and I was driving back up to Seoul. It takes about four and a half hours to come back up to Seoul. We had left at ten pm so it would be past 2:00 am by the time we arrived. We wanted to spend the night somewhere before we went. In Korea, we have many of our churches throughout the country and they would let us spend the night there. The church we wanted to spend the night in was the Daegu church but while we were talking on the freeway, we missed the exit and we couldn't go back. The next exit was Gumi so I called the Gumi church pastor. I said, "Pastor, I'm sorry. But could I spend the night at your church tonight?" But the Gumi church they had plenty of room, so it was okay for us to spend the night.
We woke up very early in the morning and secretly we wanted to leave for Seoul. We got dressed, picked up our bags, and opened the door. We were shocked. In front of the door, the pastor was there waiting for me. I think he knew that we were going to try to leave secretly early in the morning. He had caught me. He said, "Pastor, there is an early morning prayer service. Could you preach the word?"
At the early morning prayer service, I preached and during the sermon, I could see that in the back of the chapel, a girl was sitting in a wheelchair. After the service was over, I approached her. I said, "Everybody else is sitting in chairs; why are you sitting in a wheelchair?" I smiled and joked with her, "Is it more fun to sit in a wheelchair?"
The girl replied to me, "Pastor, I'm 19 years old. I'm a senior in high school. My name is Choi Suhyun." Then she told me what had happened. Recently, she began to lose feeling at the tip of her foot. Her nerves began to die and the rise of feeling, the loss of feeling rose all the way to her knees and up to her belly. Her nerves were beginning to all die, she could not even pick up a cup of water to drink. She became unable to urinate nor defecate. She was in so much suffering. The doctors had told her, "Your gonna be bedridden for the rest of your life and you will die soon. You have an infection in your spine. All the nerves in your spine have rotted."
She's a young girl with a pretty face and she was at such a flowering young age but to see her dying like this broke my heart. I spoke to Suhyun, "Suhyun, listen carefully to what I am saying. "As long as electrical lines are connected, electricity will reach your home. You don't have to do any of the work. The electricity can run your fridge, can run your AC, and run your washer. To bring in the electricity, you have to connect the electrical line. If you want to bring in running water, you got to bring in the pipelines. Do you know how you can be connected with Jesus? Suhyun, this is what I want to tell you. When electrical lines connect, you'll have electricity, and when you have pipelines connected, you'll have running water. Likewise, when your heart is connected with the heart of Jesus, do you know what's gonna happen? Your disease is no problem at all."
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