Dr. Art Mathias shared his testimony about how the doctors told him he had 2 years to live. But after hearing his sister’s testimony, he was compelled to forgive those who hurt him.
2 Years to Live
Art Mathias had a terrible accident on his snowmobile near his home in Alaska in 1997. It hurt his right shoulder and arm severely. During the next few months, the pain got a lot worse. His brain doctor sent him for an MRI.
“The MRI on the neck showed that I had three vertebrae the discs in three different levels broken and shattered. And there was so much pressure on my spinal cord. I should have been dead,” Art recalled.
Four of his vertebrae were fused during surgery, which helped ease some of the pain. but soon after, new troubles showed up.
He also got hundreds of allergies to things in his environment and was finally told he had peripheral neuropathy. A disease like MS destroys body nerves until it gets to the heart and kills the person. The doctors told him that in two years, he would probably be dead. Art got scared and angry.
Forgiveness
“I had personal resentment against God. I said, ‘God, why are you doing this to me? Why do I have all these neuropathies? I only have two years left to live, all I’ve ever wanted to do is serve you,’” Art recalled.
His sister told him that the lumps in her breasts had gone away. Through the process of forgiving people, she was angry and bitter toward them.
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Art looked through his memories to find painful events. He forgot that his dad had left the family when Art was 12 years old and forgave him. He also let go of his anger at God for making him sick and his fear of death. As he started living a healthy, busy life again, word got around that he was getting better. And he truly did.
2 Years to Live, But Healed Because He Forgave
“Forgiving from our heart is a choice, that’s what that means. I purpose and I choose to forgive from my heart and the tormentors are the anger, the resentment, the bitterness, the fears, the worries. All these heavy negative emotions torment us,” he said.
He went back to school and got his Ph.D. in therapy. Then he started Wellspring Ministries. Art helps other people heal in the same way that he did through his books and therapy work.
Art says that he was healed more than fifteen years ago and that all the other thousands of healings he has seen since then have come from people following the teachings and example that Jesus gave us in the Bible.
Reference: The 700 Club
Header image: Art Mathias [The 700 Club]. YouTube, 3 August 2015, https://youtu.be/fIoObdOaAdM
