Heart Attack

[Michael4Jesus]

I seek the Wisdom of Many Counselors regarding sharing the Good News in Korea. I am trying to teach in a Korean school in Korea where I have been for 10 years. I do not know the language very well even after 9 years, yet I have seen fruit from the labor among older students who speaks English; however the most recent program is very disorganized. The director goes to church but I don’t see him any more.

I was born with a congenital heart problem that Jesus gave healing to after I started to eat the primary vegetarian diet here and do a lot of running. The contract I have is suppose to end in May 2009 at which time my prayer is to return to the US and serve the Lord’s desires in the States; but I doubt I will make it through this day.

Recently, the director left the school; after that all the other Koreans saw this as an advantage to give me their work; now I’m the first to arrive and the last to leave late at night. The stress is so intense that I’m beginning to have heart pains after so many years.

I have been on my knees constantly in prayer. The Scripture in Job 13:15 “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him” has been on my mind a lot these days.

My query for counsel is this: Should I stay here and die of an impending heart attack that can be avoided in a peaceful place or try and get back home and find an English Speaking fellowship where I can find help with a way to serve God in my own land where people understand English??

Finding a point of contact is tough after 10 years of serving the needs of children in Korea. My family are not believes and don’t want to see me. The few believing friends I have are missionaries in other parts of the world in countries not my own. The local Korean fellowship (that doesn’t speak English) has just come in contact with Jehovah’s Witnesses and is trying to find out what is the difference from the Christianity they learned form American TV and what these people bring to them.

Out of linguistic and cultural needs my Korean wife joined the Korean fellowhip of JWs and now finds it sport to try and confuse local Bible Church pastors who are trying to learn of American Christianity form reading their Bibles translations and watching evangelical (English) TV.

Korea needs a lot of help from Jesus but considering how I deal with the “talent” God gave me, I feel like I’m just burying it by staying here. However, an employment contract is a promise and they know I’m a Christian.

“Oh Lord Jesus if Your voice can be heard in the voice of many counselors, I send this prayer and counsel message now seeking to hear an affirmation of Your voice from Godly men with hearts that love Jesus and echo the voice within my failing heart. Amen”

 

[Chad]

I will pray that the Holy Spirit guides you in your steps. Just wait patiently on GOD for the next move and in the meanwhile, continuing praying for the people. Remember, GOD does everything on His timing not ours. Just because we do not see changes before our eyes does not mean GOD is not at work. For sure He is, He hears our prayers.

Psalm 46:10
"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth!"

 

[Coconut]

Greetings Michael

Does your contract have a clause in the event of health problems? It must have, because you would not be the first person to terminate a contract early for health reasons. If you feel it is time to go, then by all means do what you have to do to plan your next step, knowing God always makes a way where there is no way! If you email me, I can set up a contact here in Canada, if that would help.

Blessings

 

[TheWidowsOffering]

dear bro. michael

cool brother Michael.

I'm including you in my prayers.


Lord, i pray may our Brother receive your instruction teaching him the way where he should go. Thank you Lord for guiding his life and carrying him through as he seeks your will. Uphold him Lord in his decisions. Let alone your peace guards his heart. In Jesus name. Amen


I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Psalm 32:8


God bless you Brother Michael and your family..


Sister in Christ,


Reymielin

 

[Michael4Jesus]

Thankful for Hearts in Christ

Dear Chad, Coconut, Remielin,
I am so thankful to Jesus as I wake this morning to find I’m still alive. I am grateful for your counsel and prayers as I must confess that yesterday was the first day since I began teaching at the stressful school that I waited and prayed before each class.

Going into each class was similar to the Biblical account of the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant across the river at flood stage; the waters did not part until the soles of their feet touched that top of the raging waters.

The condition of my heart is at peace and the pain has gone for now. Yesterday I felt no pain as I was helped by the peace of Jesus. I’m not sure if He is giving me an opening to run or this is an ongoing miracle that could take me to the end of my contract. Again, another point for wise counsel.

I told the school director yesterday of my heart attack and he just said, “Well those things happen when we get older, you have health insurance”. I couldn’t get him and other Koreans to understand that having blond hair doesn’t mean one is old; and the heart condition has been with me since I was a child having my first encounter with heart issues when I was 24 years old when the Navy wanted to refuse me due to strange heart rhythm.

My desperate effort to see my family who never came to the airport to greet me last August 1st exhausted my financial resources. I continue to pray for them and my uncle who claims to be a believer but when I arrived from Korea and in a hotel they said, “It’s good your home but don’t come to my house go to some one else in the family. In the end I ran out of hotel money and had to fly back to Korea to keep working.

God’s grace carried me in total peace as I prayed for them on the flight back. However, my desire to see my family was not understood by my Korean employer and they terminated my contract even after I had said I needed to visit my family and ailing brother.

Getting back into the work force here in Korea is not easy as US citizens must have a visa. I could not get a legal job for 2 months. I did not want to break the law so I waited in prayer. Later a man who owned a school and attended church offered me a job but it wasn’t long before I realize that his school was over run with a spirit of confusion and thus the reason my employment sent my heart that has our God who is a God of order not confusion into a cardiac death trap.

I had my first heart attack when I was 39 years old due to stress not clogged arteries. The doctors put me on the same medicine my father had been taking to control this life long problem. To the praise of Jesus I never had a problem again and even went of to win some marathon races in the early 2000s.

I must go to my doctor this morning and tell him what is going on. My director thinks a quick visit to the hospital with take care of things yet I have been in that hospital and watched young men die of heart attacks right before my eyes because Korean hospitals are too full and too busy to help people.

“Lord Jesus I thank you the hymn “Rise Up Oh Men of God” and thank you for your family members who have taken time to respond and pray for this matter of heart life or death which I know You hold. I pray most of all for my heart that it would stay strong for You and that these precious members of Your family would be blessed by a testimony of your powerful victory as I once again walk into this day’s “Fiery Furnace” and stand with the Son of God amid the flames.” Amen

 

[TheWidowsOffering]

"I lie down and sleep;
I wake again, because the Lord sustains me." Psalm 3:5

I am so thankful to Jesus as I wake this morning to find I’m still alive.

Amen. The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever.

Still keeping you in prayer Brother. May the Lord guide you and protect you always. I pray He will continue to fill you with His love and peace. In Jesus name. Amen

Sister in Christ,

Reymielin

 

[Michael4Jesus]

Heart Ache -> Christmas Prayer

"I thank you Dear Jesus that You have found me worthy to suffer these heart pains alone in a distant foreign country. I lift my aching heart to You and ask that if You want me to try and remain in Korea that You will make this clear to my heart and mind. I long so much to go back to America after being here in Korea for 10 years. Dear Jesus if You would be so gracious to bestow this wonderful opportunity, I beg that You would please make a way quickly for a way to escape to a place of welcome in my own country; and in so doing may I post and shout your praise for showing such mercy to this one isolate sinner saved and delivered out of the hands of a people who have given their hearts over to idols of stone and money. Heavenly Father you know they seek diligently to end my life in their dark world. You know Oh Heavenly Father that I have done all I can by Your grace. You know You have seen victories and I know You have seen me fall to the desire to see my earthly family who in the end didn't want to see me. You Oh Lord know how that pains my heart and I pray You forgive them. Please even so come quickly Lord Jesus!! I long for fellowship with other believers who Love You for as You have seen, it has been 10 years without having fellowship in English with people who truly know You. Even so if Your will is for me to die in this land that doesn’t want to know You, then help me to continue to trust in an praise You. Amen and Amen!”

 

[Michael4Jesus]

Greetings Michael

Does your contract have a clause in the event of health problems? It must have, because you would not be the first person to terminate a contract early for health reasons. If you feel it is time to go, then by all means do what you have to do to plan your next step, knowing God always makes a way where there is no way! If you email me, I can set up a contact here in Canada, if that would help.

Blessings

My contract has a clause for health related issues but Koreans prefer to deal with health issue in their very poor hospitals. I have served here for 10 years and have watched young men die of heart attacks right in front of me in the emergency room of the largest hospital in the city. It is rather frightening to watch a man writhing on a bed as his young wife is crying over him. Please don’t go! Please don’t go!” Then to see his body go still and turn blue.

It was an unnecessary death as the cardiac resuscitation machine was only 4 feet away but the hospital is busy and under staffed, (as with all but those designed for the president of the country) My heart matter is rare and only related to stress. Oh how I pray.

 

[Fragrant Grace]

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22

Dear Brother Michael

You are very much in my prayers dear brother...and I praise the Lord for your testimony of service to Him.

I thank the Lord that through it all...He is accomplishing His will through and for you. His timings are absolutely perfect. He guides you with His tender unerring hand...even if the way may not yet be clear to you.

Dear brother I am praying that you will be richly blessed with the beauty of His divine love and peace..that He will strengthen you to endure any pain...as you wait on the Lord for His will to be revealed.

Blessings and love in our Lord Jesus Christ

Julia

Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Corinthians 4:17

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.
Psalm 139: 9-10

 

[Br. Bear]

Dear Brother Michael,

this morning I felt a twang in my heart... not sure how else to describe it... well I think it was heart or close-by lung or something.... and it got me thinking how faithful the old ticker is...
since before I was born, it began pumping away.... and continues to and hasn't ever stopped and rested..... just faithfully pumping life into me... through me.... no matter if I think of it or not.... and quite miraculously even though, many times I have had far too much of the wrong substances going through my blood....

can you see where this is going?

Jesus is faithful... in all He does.....

He never stops loving and caring for you, brother...

and although your heart may alarm you sometimes, Jesus is the keeper of your heart and life... and you, a branch in Him, the Vine, have His life flowing through you.


I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in His love.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John 15:1-11


Bless you brother ....><>


Br. Bear

 

[mackem lady]

I will try to pray for your heart everyday and that you will know the right thing to do. i am not vey good at praying but am trying to pray for people especially good people who serve God like you.

ML

 

[TheWidowsOffering]

"I thank you Dear Jesus that You have found me worthy to suffer these heart pains alone in a distant foreign country. I lift my aching heart to You and ask that if You want me to try and remain in Korea that You will make this clear to my heart and mind. I long so much to go back to America after being here in Korea for 10 years. Dear Jesus if You would be so gracious to bestow this wonderful opportunity, I beg that You would please make a way quickly for a way to escape to a place of welcome in my own country; and in so doing may I post and shout your praise for showing such mercy to this one isolate sinner saved and delivered out of the hands of a people who have given their hearts over to idols of stone and money. Heavenly Father you know they seek diligently to end my life in their dark world. You know Oh Heavenly Father that I have done all I can by Your grace. You know You have seen victories and I know You have seen me fall to the desire to see my earthly family who in the end didn't want to see me. You Oh Lord know how that pains my heart and I pray You forgive them. Please even so come quickly Lord Jesus!! I long for fellowship with other believers who Love You for as You have seen, it has been 10 years without having fellowship in English with people who truly know You. Even so if Your will is for me to die in this land that doesn’t want to know You, then help me to continue to trust in an praise You. Amen and Amen!”

i can't help my heart to cry while reading this post two days ago while on travel to the missions. I got a little bit encouraged with your life and commitment.. The Lord bless you Bro. Michael..

As i'm reading a song came to my mind and i just prayed this for you..


Show me Your Ways..
Music by Hillsong Australia

Show me Your ways..
That I may walk with You
Show me Your ways
I put my trust in You

The cry of my heart
Is to love You more
To live in the touch
of Your hand
Stronger each day
Show me Your way...

Lord God, I agree with this song for our Brother in your name. Bless his heart always Lord and lead him. In Jesus name. Amen


God bless you Bro. Michael



Sister in Christ,



Reymielin

 

[Etienne Marais]

I will pray that you will find the right counselier. If not I will pray that God will help you.

 

[Michael4Jesus]

Mighty Mysterious God

It was last January that I was at the verge of a heart attack. Through faithful prayers I'm back in the USA for a time. I ran a 10 km race and the doctor proclaimed' "NO HEART PROBLEM!" Praise Jesus!!

After living 11 years away from western culture in Korea, I have returned to a world that is so twisted by Satan that my mind is not able to understand the English people are speaking. It's not that I have forgotten English BUT the ideas that people in the west just take for "normal" everyday language is too full of dark ideas that I can't understand or God is blocking my understanding.

People are telling me that I should write a book to help western people understand the deep mind of North Korea’s nuclear tests; this is something I know well as I’m an American who holds Korean citizenship. God has blessed me with understanding that Korean culture is “pure” compared to western culture and North Korea sees the corruption of western love of money, drugs and immorality a threat worth dying to avoid.

North Korea would rather die in a sudden flash of radiation than to enter the living dead of the US influence on South Korea. If God is willing I pray that I may die with them; this is my firm and final request of service for my Lord and Savior. I came back to the west to find a world of “living dead” people and the most shocking is I have not found a church that has experienced revival here in my homeland. Time is short for me. I pray that I might lay down my life for my Korean family.

 

[TheWidowsOffering]

praise the Lord dear Brother for the praise report...

i've been thinking of this request lately and now just the update?? :shade:

May the Lord continue to grant your desires.... Amen


sister in Christ,


Reymielin


"The Lord is my light and my salvation" Psalm 27

 

[Boanerges]

Praise God!!!

 

[happy58]

Oh i feel so greatful to my lord i keep singing PRAISES to