I Saw The Light       

Jimmy Fraser                 Arnprior, Ontario

     Jimmy Fraser was devastated.

     It was October of 2008, and the doctor had just told him that he was 100% sure that the growth on his tongue WAS cancer; and not only that, but it had likely spread to his tonsils, adenoids and lymph glands. Radical surgery was needed, which involved removing a large part of his tongue, plastic surgery to reconstruct it with a muscle from his leg, radiation and possibly even chemotherapy. His speech would be greatly affected and he would need months of speech therapy before people would be able to understand what he was saying. Life had just reached its lowest point for him. How would he ever get through this?

     Paul, a friend who heard about his diagnosis, stopped in at Jimmy’s garage, and invited him to some healing meetings. Jimmy just kept putting him off. After urging Jimmy many times to “come to the healing meetings on Friday night,” Jimmy finally told his wife, Linda, about it.

     “What have you got to lose?” she asked him.

     Upon arriving at the meetings, Jimmy looked around at the strange sight. People were waving flags, stomping on the floor, singing with their hands in the air, and one lady was lying on the floor at the front of the church.

     “These people are NUTS!” Jimmy thought to himself. He just wanted to leave, but something made him stay. The longer he and Linda sat there, the better they felt.

     When the time came for people to go up for prayer, Jimmy’s friend urged him forward.

     One of the leaders, Pastor Darren, asked if he could anoint Jimmy with oil and pray for him. Taking a little bottle, he rubbed oil onto his forehead. As Pastor Darren raised his hand and started to pray for him—BANG— down he fell to the floor, even though the person praying for him wasn’t even touching him.

     As he lay on the floor, he tried and tried to open his eyes, but just couldn’t. “They must have glued my eyes shut with that oil,” he thought to himself. Then a huge light, far brighter and more beautiful than anything he had ever seen before, lit up his vision. “They are shining a spotlight on me now,” he thought. As he lay there he felt SO calm, SO peaceful. Somehow, he knew everything was going to be okay. He wasn’t worried anymore about his cancer or his treatments.

     When the light faded and he was able to do so, he sat up.

     Linda had been prayed for and she, too, was lying on the church floor. When she got up and came over to Jimmy, she was crying so hard that she soaked the front of Jimmy’s shirt with her tears. Neither Jimmy, nor his wife knew what was happening, or that it was the Spirit of God they felt, but they both remarked that they felt so light.

      When they got home, Jimmy felt compelled to find a Bible. After searching for quite some time, he located an old Bible that had been in a house fire several years previously. It still smelled of smoke and the edges of the pages were blackened, but readable. He started to read it every day with his wife and to pray with her, and he noticed that his fear of death and the upcoming surgery was completely gone.

     Jimmy went into his garage and tried to duplicate the light he’d seen. Even with a five-million-candlelight spotlight, he couldn’t reproduce the brilliance, colour, or texture of the light he’d seen; nothing could even come close.

     After his surgery, the doctor came into the recovery room to let him know how the surgery had gone, and Jimmy said, “Hi Doctor!” The doctor whipped around, astounded that Jimmy was talking at all, and was stunned that he was able to understand Jimmy so well.

     “I don’t understand it,” the doctor stated. “We had to take 40% of your tongue, and you shouldn’t even be able to talk, let alone be understood at this stage. Also, there is no evidence that the cancer has spread, so we think we got it all.”

      When the lab results came back, it showed that all the cancer had, indeed, been removed and following several tests, the doctor declared Jimmy “cancer-free.”

     Jimmy started to tell his family, friends, and anyone who would listen, what had happened to him. He and his wife started attending church immediately and brought all the family and friends with them, that would go.

     More than thirty of his acquaintances have given their lives to God so far, and others have been filled with the Spirit of God, baptized or healed.

     Now, everyone in town is talking about what had happened to Jimmy Fraser and he tells everyone how everything has changed SINCE HE SAW THE LIGHT.