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The Lord’s my shepherd" (Psalm 23) means a lot to me

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'The Lord’s my shepherd" (Psalm 23) means a lot to me. While I was living in Lagos in the '70s I became very sick. My platelet levels dropped. It was a type of leukaemia. My skin would cut and bruise and I would start bleeding. I could quite literally feel death walking alongside me.

A friend came to see me in hospital. It must have taken her three or four hours to get there because it was raining heavily. She said, “I want you to read this Psalm”. I thought, “I’m not going to die yet”. V

erse four of Psalm 23 says, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me." I knew that because I am a child of Christ and if he could die for me he was — and still is — beside me in life and in death.

There was no need to be afraid of dying because He was there waiting to welcome me. Finally, after treatment my hospital consultant said, “I don’t know what to do about you. I can’t give you any more steroids. You shouldn’t really be alive.” After the hospital discharged me, the bishop asked people in the diocese to pray for me. Today I am a very healthy 81-year-old.'

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