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Warren remembers, “I felt it immediately and it was like a burning sensation that started right off. I thought that I was gonna die.”

In December 2023, Warren Yuill started his day as usual with breakfast and a dose of vitamins. He was taking his vitamin C when it went down the wrong way. Warren shares, “I could feel it going down into my lung and it was like having acid in your lungs. It moved over across into my throat. I immediately started coughing and hacking. I'm grabbing my throat, I'm trying to get this outta me. And it wasn't working.”

Warren’s wife, Pam, drove him to the hospital. By the time they got there Warren’s condition had worsened. Warren recalls, “The breathing was really difficult at that point. It was like trying to catch a breath. You just could not breathe.”

After giving Warren an examination, his doctor told him his lung had started filling with fluid and prescribed steroids and a week of light antibiotics. He was told that if the tablet didn’t dissolve he would need surgery to remove it. However, Warren had spent most of 2023 in the hospital on heavy antibiotics for cellulitis. Taking more would put him at risk for other severe complications.  

Warren says, “I would get intestinal problems and they would have to be removing parts of your intestine. At that point to have surgery from the pulmonary surgeon to remove this would be possibly very possibly a death sentence.”

Warren decided to take medication as prescribed, praying it wouldn’t cause problems. While it provided some relief the tablet was still lodged in his right lung. Over the next two and a half weeks, Warren’s normal daily routine came to a halt.

Warren remembers, “I tried to eat and I couldn't take anything solid. My throat hurt too bad. It was all burned up from the ascorbic acid out of the vitamin C. And all I could drink was a little water.”

Friends and family prayed for healing. As CBN partners, Warren and Pam also watched  the 700 Club for encouragement. Then, on New Year’s day, 2024, they were watching the program when Terry had a word of knowledge.

Terry Meeuwsen shares, "...This is also a lung issue. I don’t believe it is the same person. But you have aspirated some stuff into your lungs more than one time. And now you are having issues with your breathing, with your lungs, with infection. God’s healing that for you right now. It will be as though it  never happened. In Jesus’ name."

Warren shares, “She described my symptoms almost to the “T” and I couldn't believe it. I said, ‘Pam, do you hear this? Listen to what she's saying. She might as well say my name.’ Pam and I just jumped up and said, ‘I claim that one right there.’ And within just a few minutes, I'm starting to breathe easier. I just opened right up. Within five minutes I said, ‘Pam, I can breathe. Look at this.’ Now we just, we rejoiced.”

A few weeks later, Warren returned to his primary care doctor for a follow-up appointment who gave him a clean bill of health!

Warren remembers, “He said, ‘You're in perfect condition. Your lungs are clean. I don't hear a thing in there. There's no crackling. They're not full.’ And I was breathing deeply. The oxygen sensor on my finger read 98. So, he said, ‘You're healed, it's done.’”

Warren hopes his story will strengthen the faith of those who are still believing God for healing. Warren says, “We believe that Jesus is still in the healing business. If you just believe in Him and pray and ask Him to heal you and have no doubts in your heart that it's gonna happen, I truly believe it will happen to you. Jesus Christ will heal you.”
 

Ask Josh Wildman how a simple family laundry business in Indiana started turning 100 million dollars a year in revenue, and he’ll tell you, “We are very intentional that we are, as a family, we're Christians. As a business, we are running our business based on biblical values.”

That includes tithing. As a third generation CEO of Wildman Business Group, Josh and his wife, Leslie, have seen how tithing and giving, personally and from the business, pays off. Leslie explains, “It was a no brainer for us. We always gave. I think both of us felt like we wanted to serve the Lord and we wanted God to bless our marriage and our family.”

Josh remembers when his father first modeled giving sacrificially from the business. Josh’s dad committed to giving $250,000 to a church building fund. “We didn't have it. The math didn't work,” Josh admitted. “But from there, we just saw that God says, ‘You know, it's all mine anyways. You just, you just have the opportunity to steward it for me.’ I think before that I understood tithing and that this is what the Bible says, this is what the Lord commands and asks. But it became, you know, from the understanding in the head to an understanding in the heart.”

After that, the business took off, expanding into five divisions, and Josh took over as CEO. He shared, “That’s just, God said it. We were faithful in it, and He's just showed up like He said He would. You know, it's so obvious, God's hand is on it.”

Today, the couple wants to make more so they can help more people. “We give off the gross 10% to tithe, and if we feel convicted or called that this is something we need to get behind that is going be a little more sacrificial in the family budget, we give above and beyond that,” Josh said. “It is a lot of fun when somebody has a need, and they ask, to be able to say, ‘You know what, we can help you with that.’”

They give over 20% from the business and support over 50 organizations. Leslie said, “It's human nature to think, ‘Oh my gosh, are we going to run out of money if we give too much?’ You know? But it's amazing how God just blesses you exceedingly abundantly above and beyond every time.”

Meanwhile, Josh and Leslie regularly take mission trips to the Dominican Republic. They invite their employees to go with them. Josh explained, “God really worked on my heart, broke my heart for what breaks His, which is the poor, and the sick, and the widowed, and the orphaned.” Leslie added, “To come face to face with true, true poverty is life changing. And then just given the opportunity to do something about it is so life giving.”

As the business’s revenue continues to grow, the couple gives all the credit to God. “God's faithfulness in this, He says it in Malachi 3:10, ‘Test me in this and see if I don't pour out more blessing. And so much so that your storehouses won't be able to contain it.’”

“Just try it out,” Leslie concluded. “See what happens. He is a miracle working God.”
 

Lilian is a single mother raising three children in Iquitos, Peru. A few years ago, a strong storm destroyed part of the roof and walls of her home. “One of my goals has been to fix my house,” she told us. “But I cannot make repairs AND provide food for my children. As it is they only eat twice a day, sometimes only once a day.” 

During the rainy season the family struggled to stay dry, especially when they slept. 

Lilian’s son Luciano always worried what the next storm would bring. “When the wind and rains come, our beds and clothes get soaked. And I worry that one of the main beams will break and fall on us when we’re sleeping,” said Luciano. 

“We only live in one part of the house covered by half a roof,” added Lilian. “And we have no security. I can’t leave the children when I have to go out.”  

Then, thanks to YOU, Operation Blessing came and built Lilian a new house with sturdy walls and roof. We also provided beds, a kitchen and furniture.   

“In my new house, we are protected,” said the grateful mom. “Now I am calm. I know my children are safe and comfortable in in their beds. I can’t say thank you enough for everything you did for my family!”

“We married at 19. We'd grown up together. He was my best friend. Our provider. My security, my go-to on a lot of things.”

Heather sometimes worried about the danger her husband, Brian Faulkner, faced as an agent for the Alabama Bureau of Investigation. But it wasn’t a bullet that would land him in the hospital fighting for his life; it was a motorcycle accident. His injuries were many, and Brian’s doctor told Heather and their son, Blake, that Brian had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving.

“I couldn't quit crying. I couldn't breathe,” Heather remembers. “Felt like a ton of bricks, had been set on my shoulders, and I went to this chapel--I was just drawn. I just needed to pray, to just surrender the fear, the pain, the anxiety. I just remember praying to God, telling Him I need His help because I couldn't do it by myself. So that was where I felt a peace, you know, that peace they talk about, that surpasses all understanding. I experienced that.”

Heather would need that peace. Ten days after the accident, Brian was pronounced brain-dead and needed to be taken off life support. Since he was an organ donor, the process would be prolonged.

“I was really at a loss. There was really nothing I could do except just cry and, you know, trust. We were able to go in and say our goodbyes, but they had to start that process of the organ donation and the match. That day was probably about the hardest day of my entire life. I don't think I have ever felt pain quite like that in my life. I've lost people close to me. I've lost grandparents. I've lost friends, but losing your person, it was hard. It was really hard.”

Heather was also concerned about Blake, who was fifteen.

“What I was most scared of is being alone, raising Blake by myself. He loved his dad, and he was so close to his dad, and I was so scared that he was going to just fall off the deep end and turn completely away from God.”

Later, on the ride home…

"It was just a roller coaster of emotions. It really was. I was just terrified, really. It was the scariest, most lonely time I'd ever gone through in my entire life. So, I went back to my bedroom, and I sat down on the bed, and I just cried out to Jesus, ‘Take the pain. I need the comfort and the peace that I felt that night in the hospital.’ I knew I couldn't do it alone. And I just cried out that God would provide for us. I just asked Him to give me comfort and to show me that He will be there, that He's gonna take care of us. And I don't know how long I was back there, but I had that overwhelming peace again. When I left my room that afternoon, I could breathe."

Over the coming days and months, the grief continued to resurface.

“It would come in waves. Some days I was great and then some days it was unbearable. Like, you don't wanna get out of bed, kind of grief. It was very, very lonely, coming home and not venting. I had no one to talk to, you know. Nights were really, really hard, because it was just me. But God showed me, through that time that even though when I was experiencing the severe grief and the sadness, he would always show me a glimmer of hope. And I chose to dwell on the good, because every time I'd start focusing on what God is doing in my life, He would continue to show me blessing after blessing.”

Heather began writing those blessings down. She also joined a bible study and started building relationships with other Christians.

"That was my saving grace, my church group, and my small group. I started running with a friend and I would run and pray to God and cry. God would put people in my life through a text, a call, in person, in the mail. It was like reminders, ‘Heather, it's okay. I'm still here.’ He used people to show me that He is in full control, and He is here with me. He's never gonna leave me, and He's gonna get me through those hard times."

Heather had her share of tough times that included raising a rebellious teenager, but she says God pulled them both through.

“I have never prayed so hard. And that God would just put a hedge of protection around him and only bring people that are good into his life. I wanted Blake to experience and find what I found, but he has to do it in his own time.”

And he did. Blake fully committed his life to Christ and later married. The healing Heather found through Christ also helped her carry on, and she married her husband, Sammy, in 2019. She wants others to know that God can heal the pain of loss.

"Prayer and my focus on Jesus is what brought me through my grief. I've experienced His goodness because I've experienced horrible pain. And I saw Him through every stage of that grief and that pain. He brought me through every stage. But my focus was on Him. It wasn't on what I dreaded, what I was dealing with. It was, ‘Okay, God, get me through. I need you to show out. I need you to show up.’ And He did. What I found is God is my provider. He's all I need, and when you learn that's all you need, that's what you depend on."