Faith Matters for April 26, 2008
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Medicines and miracles didn’t provide instant healing for Lynn Morrison’s failing liver.
However, Morrison did get his healing in a relatively short amount of time, undergoing a successful liver transplant only two months after getting on the waiting list.
“I just thank God for my healing,” said Morrison, the pastor of All Faiths Christian Center. “I left the channel up to him.”
About 6,500 liver transplants are performed each year in the United States, and there are more than 17,000 people on the waiting list, according to the Liver Foundation.
Before the six-hour surgery in December at Tulane Medical Center, Morrison said, his defective liver was causing him a myriad of complications, including intense pain, bloating, itching and weight loss. The ailment caused him to miss church service.
But dying never entered his mind or his spirit, Morrison said.
“I was confessing the word, declaring I’m healed,” he said. “I didn’t make any funeral arrangements. I spoke no death.”
Morrison said his wife, Joann, was by his side all the way, urging him to trust God.
“I know God was going to bring him through, either with supernatural healing or through the doctor,” Joann Morrison said.
Morrison had his first experience with liver problems about five years ago. His condition was seen as serious enough for a transplant.
“That time God turned things around,” he said. “My liver count and everything changed.”
Last summer, the problems returned and worsened rapidly.
“I got to the point where I had to do something,” he said.
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