BACKGROUND INFORMATION

My message of 100% Faith! has been severely tried and tested since she began sharing.

In 1996, just my husband  and Iwere embarking on ministry throughout the Asia region,

our son Asher, who was then 2, was diagnosed with Autism.  This was without doubt the most grievous time in our lives, as we also had a 9 month old daughter Grace. 

"I really felt God was testing me to now live up to the message of 100% Faith! in him that I was preaching". We made a decision to cease our travelling ministry and pour all out efforts into our son with an early intervention program.

 I considered the next 5 years to be without a doubt the most challenging and difficult experience I had ever endured, surpassing my ordeal at sea. This pervasive and all consuming disability taught me a very different definition of 100% Faith!  

This message I can now share with all those Mum's and Dad's suffering with the enormous frustration and sense of absolute powerlessness that is Autism, and for that matter anything which renders you powerless to help or save your child. Only our Lord has the power to save and heal.

 I am absolutely candid in my testimony and share with people how I lost my faith in God, despite all I had seen and heard.  I was so utterly devastated by having a disabled child, that I could no longer live up to my promise of having 100% Faith! in God. 

Just like the girl out in the ocean, I was intent on saving myself through my own determination,willpower and perseverance.  However I discovered that God created us to need Him, and struggle as we may, we cannot save ourselves. Even though I did not ask God for help throughout this period of time He continued to help me. 

His favour was on me still, especially regarding all the wonderful people that came to assist my son Asher.  He was always blessed with the most wonderful teachers and school aides, carers and assistants.  I was always aware that God was watching over me and I sensed His presence during these years.

When I got lost at sea and I heard the audible voice of God, saw angels and had the most amazing spiritual experience with Him, all the people that heard my testimony marvelled at how mighty God was. However they didn't think I would be capable to understand what they were going through and in all honesty I couldn't.  How could I be empathetic for what I hadn't experienced. 

However now, my ability to empathize with people from every walk of life is immeasurable, because I have experienced torment, grief, hopelessness, depression, anxiety, financially challenged and loosing faith in God.  NOW I CAN TOTALLY RELATE!

It's been 19 years since I gave my life to God I will share this, that I discovered it is not always possible for us to have 100% Faith! in God but he will never stop having 100% Faith! in us.  We may turn away from Him, but He never turns His face away from us.  We may retract our hand from holding God's, but His hand remains outstretched to us always.  His mercy and grace astounds me and it is this part of my message that I also share in my testimony briefly.

Regarding Asher, we sowed the seed and God gives the increase. With our efforts and the Lord's abundant loving kindness our son was restored to us. He is now a 15 year old boy who attends a mainstream Chrisitian college in grade 10, who is also an overcomer.  His fascination is with rockets and he literally wants to be a rocket scientist!   Actually Asher was recently featured on the Channel 9 News representing the Queensland Rocket Society, for whom he is a member and who the media was doing a story about the growing interest of pyrotechnic rockets as a hobby.  For more informatioin about this, go to the Autism section of this website, under the heading of Rocket Man.   

I incorporate this message into my ordeal at sea to show that nothing is impossible with God for

 those that believe. 

The End times are undoubtedly upon us and the necessity for God's people to undergird themselves with the faith that goes beyond all understanding will be imperative in the days ahead. This message of 100% Faith in the midst of the storms of life , I pray will greatly motivate and inspire you to trust GOD!