Vertigo Man Rides On!
The purpose of my writing this is for continued prayer and information which hopefully will provide encouragement for others with any reoccurring illness. (Not just for those who may have similar symptoms.) It is certainly not a celebration of the anniversary of my malady now twelve years ago, now entering my 13th year.
Vertigo for me began April 9, 1998, when I collapsed on my office floor at CBN. Subsequent diagnosis revealed it to be Menier’s Disease for which there is no medical (natural) cure. The effects of this have not stopped since its onset. It is perpetual and continuous, not periodical. Or to put it in the words of two singer/songwriters from the Sixties, Carole King and Tommy Roe: "I feel the earth move under my feet," and "Dizzy."
The vertigo came upon me following a trip to India some months before that had involved a lot of spiritual warfare. My ear shut down just before a meeting of a few thousand people that resulted in a deaf girl being healed when I ministered to her. She was healed but I became temporarily deaf! Also we were involved in spiritual warfare near the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.
I have been prayed for by many people, including well known spiritual leaders around the world. To date God has not pressed the “heal button.” However, here are some words I live by:
The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them.— My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.—I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.—“In him we live and move and have our being.”—He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength.—“The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms.”
In the meantime I get on my motorcycle and ride on!
Ps. 41:3; Isa. 63:9; 2 Cor. 12:9; Phil. 4:13; 2 Cor. 4:16; Acts 17:28; Isa. 40:29-31; Deut. 33:27
Scott Ross