Wellington and Tatiane Barros: Unexpected surgery! Praise the Lord!!

Wenesday, July 13th I read Pslams 130 and verse 7 called out my attention: srael, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption”. God’s love never fails, it is faithful. it was about 8 pm when I was going to meet my friend Emily (who has been to Brazil couple times) , I was having stomach pain so I decided to stop by Walgreens to get medicine, in the way I felt strong pain really low in my stomach area, when I got to the drugstore I couldn’t barely walk or breath, I called Emily and she came to me cause I couldnt drive at all. Emily is nurse, and she adviced me to go to the hospital, but I didn’t want to go cause I thought it was the stomach pain that I usually get from my gastrites, when I got home the pain was worse and she said to me I was having apendicites syntoms and she took me to the hospital. I haven’t had a chance to see much Emily while I’m uphere and that’s why we were going to hang out that evening. God’s love is faithful, in that day I was going to hang out with a friend who is a nurse!

In the way to the hospital the pain was getting worse, I never felt such a pain like this, when I got the the hopsital lobby I couldn’t stand that pain anymore and I was crying and shouting: Jesus resuce me! (in Português, probably nobody understood...). After 26 minutes I was seen by the doctor and the procedures started, doctor, exams, pain medication...when they gave me ‘morfine” I asked “Am I dying?” Everyone laughed! I said that in Brazil the yonly use morfine when someone is about to die! The ytold me taht in USA americans don’t like to be in pain!

After couple hours the doctor came back and said: you have apendicites and you will have sirurgery tomorrow morning. Very calm I asked 2 questions: why do I have it and how bad is it? He told me it is unluckyness and they would only find out how bad when they opened it. The peace that surpasses all the understanding came upon me, the reason I was claiming Jesus in the lobby, was because I could feel in the bottom of my heart the Holy Spirit warning me about the sirurgy, so all I could do was cry out Jesus name!

It was amazing how I handled in the Holy Spirit strengh with all that, I didn’t panicany moment and all the times I cryed I was reconizing tht I’m nothing and God has blessed me with so much!

I had 20 visits in the hospital, five of them didn’t leave the hospital until I had the surgery. Many people praying for me in Brrazil and in USA, I got many encouraging facebook messages through my cel phone. Every time I looked to all my friends at the hospital with me I thanked them and cryed, cause with the Lord is unfailing love. He prepars everything, we only have to cry out to Him.

One of the times i went to the bathroom I needed help of two people, I was so dizzy and I cryed, cryed because we are nothing, we are doing well and all of the sudden we can be taken out of this Earth in couple secconds. But God is everything, above all and He loves us. The reason I was crying didn’t have to do with me and with my wekness but it had to do with Him and His love!

On Thrusday evening (July 15), before the sirurgery I was calm, no crying and ready, cause I knew that the Lord Jesus already had rescued me. Who knnows me would never expect I would be so calm in such a situation like that, but when we gave space to Jesus, we live out that verse: I no longer live but Christ lives in me, also the other one: when I am weak then I am strong!

I witnessed to the nurses in the post op room (I don’t even know how cause I was was so loope). Received more God’s love through my brother and sisters who kept visiting me and I was discharged on Friday afternoon. I left the hospital with my debts mostly like forgave, as my insurance expired and I was unable to renew cause the insurance denayed since I’m not in Brazil, I would have to pay the bill but Jesus took care of it and because I’m a missionary and a doctor friend of us talekd wit hthe hospital they might covered it by the charity department.

This testimony it’s for God’s glory, cause when I cryed out, He answered me;, He greatly emboldened me. This was the pslam I read in the morning after the surgery, 138. His loves endures forever, He does not abandon the works of His hands...

God bless you,

Thanks for all your prayers!

Tati

Judi Lee, Diane Slusher and Cathy Sanchez - They stayed with me all day long on Thrusday. Diane spent the 2 nights with me at the hospital!

Colene Isaacs and Amy Middleton (my hosting mom!), they also stayed all day long in the hospital, Colene drove 3 hours all way from Morgan Hill to Folsom!