Hi, My name is Rachel Owen and I want to give testimony to a wonderful work of healing that the LORD has done for me. He has healed and set me free from what has probably been the greatest fear I have known and I praise and thank him for it.
My husband and I already had one child and we wanted another. I was diagnosed with type one diabetes when I was four and due to this my pregnancy with my first child was not pleasant at times. I had quite a lot of particularly bad hypos (low blood sugar levels) some leading to fits, they would happen very suddenly leaving me no time to get myself something to eat. I have always been extremely fearful of having fits because I can be semi conscious as they begin, and it seemed that when I was pregnant it took longer for the sugar given to get into my blood stream as the baby took it first! Not that I minded that of course but it meant that the frightening part went on for longer. Praise God our first child was born perfectly healthy and a perfect size, so I didn’t fear for the safety of another baby but even on our initial visit to hospital to discuss me becoming pregnant I found myself overwhelmed and frightened to face another pregnancy. I realized I had to cut out all negative thinking and asked the LORD to heal me and enable me to proceed. The LORD spoke to me, with confirmation and said that I could be healed before we had another child. So I waited, and waited and waited! I misunderstood the LORDS word at first, I thought he meant I could see the complete outworking of my physical healing before our second child, but God knew what he was doing. After a couple of years I was getting very broody and asking when LORD? The answer I heard was, there will be a time for the Father’s Love and then it will be time for children. Over the next year or so God showed me his love as a protective Father in a way that ministered so deeply to my heart it was life changing. I can share some. I saw a picture of myself being born and the second I came out of my mother I saw God come into the room like a red heart shaped fleecy blanket! He wrapped around me tightly and as I saw that, he spoke to my adult heart and said “Rachel I have never left you since.” I now know that his love, his arms are as tightly and securely around me every moment. Another time while worshipping I saw a vision of God’s wing over me. It was a huge orangey firey wing. I was the size of a grain of sand in comparison to it. My heart knew the truth of the scripture which says that God protects us under his wing. Nothing could get at me, or take me from that place of safety.
I hadn’t cottoned on yet that this was the time of knowing the Fathers love, all I knew was that I was getting more and more broody, people were giving me pictures with babies on and I felt like I just couldn’t wait any longer. I asked is it time LORD? and he opened my eyes to the fact that he had shown me his protective love so we went ahead! It wasn’t until a good way through my pregnancy however that I realized the total healing I had had in this area. Throughout the pregnancy my blood sugar levels were excellent, I had far fewer visits to the hospital, no doctors worrying over me and whenever my blood sugar level did dip I had plenty of warning so I could get food before anything drastic happened. I only had one incident and a couple of weeks after it happened I looked back on it and laughed at the funny side, then laughed some more and praised God as I realized that the fear that I previously would have felt during, and even remembering a bad hypo was not there!  I had bought some fish and chips for our tea, but because the shop I went to first had closed down it took longer than I anticipated. I knew as I walked into the house I was low and so quickly sat down and started eating. My head jerked back suddenly and did this a few more times as I tried to eat chips quickly. My husband came into the room and saw me jerking. He quickly got a glass of milk with sugar in and held it to my lips for me to drink. He had filled the glass very full and I remember looking at it and my stomach turning, I just wanted to eat my chips! So I said “I’ll hold it”, which was not a good idea. As I took it my hand did a massive jerk and I thrust the full lot all over my face and front. Of course it ran down, soaked my fish and chips and started running down the sides of our setee. My husband dashed to get some more, I jumped up to wipe the setee. Looking back I realized what a change this was, I was actually beginning to gave a fit but was more bothered about getting  the milk off the setee so it wouldn’t stink for months. I realized that although obviously I didn’t want to have a fit I hadn’t been frightened. My heart had known without me even thinking about it that my Father was wrapped tightly around me and his protective wing covered me! I was still safe!
Anyway on the day, the jerking stopped, I had the second lot of milk and we eventually sat down again to our teatime treat! My husband to his cold fish and chips and myself to a fish that was surprisingly swimming again!