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Then Came the Glory
A typhoid epidemic strack my village and so many
people died; not enough people remained alive to bury the dead. The wild animals ate the dead. In our house only one
child died, but we all looked like skeletons. After I
recovered, I went for a walk one night and a hyena ran between my legs and took me to the bush. I fell off and sat
on the ground face to face with the hyena. Then the Lord
gave me wisdom and still looking at the hyena, I started
sliding backward on my buttocks; he slid the same way toward me. When I reached home I yelled "Help!" loudly
and the hyena backed up a little giving me a chance to jump
up and run in the house. This made him so mad he dug up the ground all around the house with his paws before he
finally left.
One day, I climbed a tree over forty-five feet tall,
and stepped on a rotten limb causing me to fall to the
ground. God not only saved my life, but I had no broken bones.
I cracked my whip with all my strength once on a
hillside. It curled around a tree stump and a dead branch
pierced my stomach. They carried me home, thinking I could not live with such a big stick in my belly, but when they
pulled it out, God's healing power let me live.
Even before we came to life-giving faith, Jesus
relieved Erkenesh of dental problems and healed her of cerebral malaria.
Through the testimony of a young boy, God healed me of a severe intestinal disease that caused me much pain
for twelve years.
Led by the Lord, I left Awassa just before a
population of six thousand people came to slaughter me. Hoping to prevent my escape they set up check points and