In 2014, I began to experience a weird pain in my abdomen. I visited the hospital at different times and the doctors kept telling me that it was due to ‘Hormonal Imbalance.’ The pain kept increasing in intensity till a time came when I would be bedridden for a day or two taking medications due to the pain. Alongside the pain, I began to experience constant headaches, and even fainting spells once in a while.
Two years later, I had an ectopic pregnancy which was not detected on time because of the location. I was rushed in for an emergency surgery in April 2016 after the pregnancy ruptured and had the affected fallopian tube cut out. That was my second ectopic pregnancy and third gynaecological surgery. In fact, the doctor asked me to pray that I will not come in for surgeries anymore because of the risk of complications.
Fast forward to 2020, the pains didn’t go away and my health didn’t get better either. In December of that year, my husband asked me to go for a test again which showed that there was a problem in my pelvic area. I was given some medications which I took till March 2021 when I was referred for a scan as the medications were not effective.
By now, the pain had intensified and I began to feel a hot sensation in my breast. The scan revealed a 4 cm malignant tumor on one of my ovaries and I was referred for further testing – CA-125 Test. The test showed that I had stage 3 ovarian cancer! My kidneys and breasts had been compromised. In fact people were amazed that I was still alive when they saw the test result.
By now, I had repeated dreams of death even before I found out that cancer was eating me up. The doctor hugged and sympathized with me, encouraging me to go for surgery as quickly as possible. I sought the opinion of another doctor in the church I was fellowshipping with at that time and after he calmed me down, he told me that medically, the best option was to remove my womb if it hadn’t affected other organs. Unfortunately, in my case, my kidneys and breasts had been affected so even chemotherapy was not a guarantee as we had seen many who still died after chemotherapy. And the few who survived had their cases detected early, not as late as mine. He advised me to seek the true God and find Him anyhow I could.
I met every man of God I knew and was prayed for by them, while hoping the cancer would disappear as soon as they laid ‘anointed’ hands on me but nothing happened. Day and night I wondered where I would meet the real God. I began to question why my mum died of an ailment while serving in church faithfully and concluded that to get a different result, I must do something my mum didn’t do to get God’s attention for such a magnitude of miracle.
After telling my husband, he answered me casually saying “Don’t worry babe, you won’t die, that’s all I know because I can’t handle these children alone.” When I told my siblings, one of them worriedly told my spiritualist uncle who quickly consulted the witches/wizards that asked me to quit church so they could help me but I didn’t agree.
I visited different churches and heard enough fearful prophecies to increase the dose of fear needed to quicken my death. Very few churches gave me hope. One day, Bro S, who is my inlaw and friend, visited me. He said he had a strong burden after a long time to visit me because all was not well. I lied to him and pretended I was fine initially. Later, I opened up to him and told him I was looking for the True God. Bro S told me I needed to repent, and get deeper with God to overcome. I got so offended at him because I felt he was still viewing me as an unbeliever. I never knew there were stages in relating with God.
I remember then I was attending a deliverance in a church where they used salt on our head, hands and feets for hours repeatedly on multiple days. The salt therapy almost killed me because of my high blood pressure so I ran away after three weeks.
Then Bro S. sent me the link to an interview session where Pastor Ita Udoh spoke on thanksgiving; I did and liked his teaching. It was different and intelligent. He invited me for the children’s meeting which is held every Saturday and I decided to honour the invitation in August 2021. I also decided to attend the Sunday Service the next day unknown to Bro S after what I had seen and experienced with my son during the children meeting. That Sunday, Pastor Ita was preaching on ‘The Last Days’ but he stopped and began to emphasize ‘cancer and forgiveness therapy.’ He asked a question, “Do you know forgiveness heals cancer?” Pastor spoke on and on till he stopped and said “There must be somebody here who is changing my message.” I sat there crying uncontrollably like a baby as he was hitting everything in my life spot on; from the people that had hurt me, to all I had been through because of cancer. After the meeting, Pastor Ita prayed for me, and the prophetic team also after him. The summary of the words they got was that God needed me to trust him and have faith, and that I needed to work on my family and make my marriage work as it will please the Lord.
The pains continued, I couldn’t sit or stand at some point without being very uncomfortable during church meetings. One day, I booked an appointment to see Pastor Ita to tell him what was troubling me. When I entered the office, he asked me what the doctor said, and when I told him, he asked me what the prophetic team told me too. Pastor expounded on the words and encouraged me, then he prayed for me. I began to come to church more consistently and I dedicated my Saturdays to the Lord in the children’s meeting. I had to agree to the disciple’s way of life, and start obeying all I was being taught. It wasn’t easy, but I tell you I began to see more good in my husband and the Lord began to open my eyes to the lies the devil was telling me. I saw my mistakes and became willing to correct them. I needed to do a lot of repenting, unlearning, relearning with humility.
As I continued attending meetings, I understood what it meant to have faith as the pains and hotness in my breast did not stop at once, they went away gradually. I was prayed for by my brethren many times when I came to church with pain. Pastor also prayed for me in his office one of those days and the chronic pains on my lower back and neck were gone.
I had to learn how to study God’s words for longer durations and deeper and even obey them. I knew that to become a disciple, I would have to sacrifice the love of the world for the true love of God. I spent my time listening to both the current and old messages.
I had numerous encounters during this season as I kept trusting the Lord; and so many dreams which I was taught to write down as I began to understand how the Lord spoke to me. At home, my children and I also began to intercede for people. One day, my son whom God gave the gift of visions saw an ancient scroll fall from heaven into a river of blood and he dived in to catch it. But as he went deeper, he saw layers of clean water. Then he saw written “Dear Fidelia, trust and obey, have faith.” When he told me, I was so excited that the Lord knew my name! His vision reminded me of the same words I got the first day I came to GLH – that same night I had an encounter where Angels appeared to me in my dream and told me “Be still and know that I Am your God”. Another day, I was having severe pains at home and my daughter who was lying beside me and praying told me “Mum, I saw God give you a new liver”
I’ve had a dove visit me from heaven and shine light so bright on my face and go back into heaven. My children have seen Angels examining, massaging and doing surgeries on my body parts many times. This wouldn’t have been possible if I didn’t bring my children here and God began to use them to encourage and speak to me
The pastor’s wife also prayed for me when I began to pee on the bed because my bladder had become affected and it stopped! Then during the communion service one day, Pastor Ita prayed for new body parts, and he specifically mentioned new ovaries! The following day, I experienced signs that were confirmatory that I was ovulating! This was a miracle because I had stopped ovulating since my diagnosis. It’s funny, but the truth is over time, I kept experiencing lightness in the intensity of the pains.
I started evangelising and learnt not to dwell on my problems but love God truly. At a point, I ignored the pains because while coming here, I discovered my calling. I found myself in the children’s department jumping with pains and being run after by the children in excitement.
The healing testimonies I heard in church including Mrs E’s on breast tumor/growth/cancer disappearance greatly increased my faith level. I fell under the power of the Holy Spirit severally in multiple meetings and God was cutting off several ropes and attachments from me as I sat under the power of His words while in church. Despite the recurring pains, I never gave up on God because I found peace in Him, and fear was leaving me as I continued to consume his words in the years that followed .
Many times also, my children would get natural recipes for me in visions which I would consume and my health began to improve tremendously.
I loved God’s words; and enjoyed making music from them to help me memorize better and teach the children I had under my care. The multiple encounters reassured me that it was going to be a gradual healing and I had to be still and know He is God.
The big deliverance came two years later in June of 2023 during the series of teaching on healing and deliverance handled by Pastor Ita that went on for three days. The night before the last day of the program, I had a dream in which my husband told me we were moving to a new house. I was a bit confused because we had just renewed the rent of our current accommodation but he insisted that we were moving into a new house. It was around that time that my husband woke me up in reality to remind me to go for the church meeting that morning which I had told him about. I wanted to sleep back but he didnt let me go back to bed. Íhis insistence played a major role in my healing and God had to bring us to a place where we were united. This made me understand why I was asked to work on my home and marriage.
During the deliverance session of the program, Pastor Ita began to call out demons that were tormenting God’s children. I had violent reactions when he mentioned occultic bondages, inherited family issues, and the spirit of hate. When he called out ‘Infirmity’, I felt the spirit of cancer become very angry inside me. I remember in one of those sessions, the demon kept asking me why I came for the church meeting. For a moment, I couldn’t see anything, I was like a blind woman. After a while, Pastor Ita came to where I was and laid his hands on me as he rebuked and cast out the demons that were oppressing me.
After that day, I noticed that I didn’t feel pain anymore. I had to watch myself very closely and still felt no pain even when I shook my body or jumped up and down deliberately. Around this time as well, I recalled that Pastor had been asking me to go for a test I was due for but hadn’t done due to funds amongst other things and also because I didn’t think it was time yet. When it was brought back to my mind, I began to consider that it was time for the test. I told my Husband and God provided the funds through him so I went for the tests which included an Abdominal Ultrasound scan and a CA-125 test for cancer markers.
When the result of the scan which I did came out, I showed it to my brother who is a doctor. It showed that the 4cm ovarian tumor had disappeared! I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears! I was in shock and didn’t want to get my hopes up so I decided not to conclude until the CA-125 test for cancer markers was out. I had done this test in April 2021 and the value was 71.1. The repeat scan in July 2023 showed CA-125 levels of 16.2.
I don’t know a lot, but in my medical doctor brother’s voice, he said “Cancer reversed! I’ve never seen this before! Cancer reversed!
I am grateful to God for the deliverance from wrong mindsets and goals, as I wanted to be very rich and popular. I’ve seen goodness hidden inside poverty because most likely if I had money when my diagnosis was made, I would have gone for Chemotherapy almost immediately but I didn’t have money. In this same journey, I have lost three friends to cancer right under my nose. I cried a lot for them because I couldn’t help them, but at least I could help them repent before they passed away.
Lessons Learnt during this season:
I learnt true faith towards God, the finisher of my faith.
I learnt to be an obedient wife and a good mother.
I learnt humility as I was discipled by many young people.
I learnt perseverance. I had to wait without knowing when my healing would come, yet it came.
I learnt how to pray properly and not complain in the name of prayer.
I learnt to know God’s voice
I learnt to know my purpose/calling and how to walk right in it.
I have been given a Godly family I feel safe with.
I am very grateful to God Almighty for giving me the wisdom to discern Him here and stay put to love Him and receive healing from Him.
I thank my husband for his love and support all through the journey – I saw one of my friends in the same condition suffer hatred from her husband and die in the journey, but God showed me mercy and gave me a good man and great children who never got tired of interceding for me.
I am grateful for meeting Pastor Ita Udoh and his wife in my lifetime. I have seen a family worth emulating.
May the name of the Lord be glorified now and forever.
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