Jonathan Bellamy spoke with Gail Kreason

Gail: Oh Jonathan, it's so blessed, it's so wonderful. Through the years, we kept, not personal touch with him, but I'd heard through my different family members where he'd been and what he was doing. At one point in his life he contracted cancer of the mouth and the throat and he was given a short time to live, so he called each one of us, the seven children that he had, and asked each one of us to forgive him. Of course we all gloriously forgave him and God gloriously filled him with His presence and His spirit. There was no restoration as far as remarrying my mother or anything like that, but the restoration was that there was forgiveness. We all forgave and we all loved him at the end of his life and he had given his heart to Christ. I know now that at the end of my life and when this world is over, I will see him again and we will be seated in Heaven together and I'll know him as my dad. So it's really a great story of redemption and of mercy, if God could save someone like my dad, who was vile, He could save anybody. I haven't even told you half, I mean not even a portion of what my dad did to us as children and to my mother, it's beyond words. He padlocked the refrigerator so we couldn't eat, he would burn our Christmas tree and all of our presents on Christmas Eve. It was terrible. He hunted us down like animals in the bushes of our yard with a rifle. But that God's mercy could save someone like him, He can save anybody, He loves us, and Jesus loves us.

Jonathan: I was going to ask you that question actually: when you look back on your life and all that Jesus has allowed to happen, how much do you believe Jesus loves you?

Gail: It's beyond words, Jonathan, it's immeasurable; His peace that He has left with me and that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He is alive, that He reigns, that He is totally aware of every circumstance in my life; He is aware of every circumstance in the world and every person intricately in the world: He cares and knows everything about them and that His love is so real. I know it beyond a shadow of a doubt because of what He's done to restore me. The peace, Jonathan: I shouldn't have peace and I am walking through stuff right now and I am sure that you don't even know about - but God has given me peace going through them and even recently, what I've walked through, that is amazing. If you can have God's peace, because He is the Prince of Peace, then you know that His love is abiding in you. So I'm thankful for that today!

Jonathan: Gail I'd like to ask you to pray to finish this off and to pray for people who might relate to your story in some way. Would you just pray some sort of a prayer of blessing on them or encouragement to them?

Gail: Sure. "Oh Father God I just thank you so much for this time together. I thank you Lord Jesus that you are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I thank you God that right now today, Father, you are so concerned about every person, about everyone who has read this testimony today, God. Your word says that you will perfect those things that concern us, God: you are so interested in what happens to each one of us; you are concerned about each person, God, individually and as a whole, as a nation, God, and as the world. God I thank you that your power is over every power and that your Name is above every name and that your blood flows freely: the blood that you shed at Calvary, God, it flows today to wash away every sin, to wash away every pain, to take away every hurt, to heal every disease, God, to comfort the comfortless, God, to love those that feel unloved, God, to put your arms around like a father. Your Word says that you are a father to the fatherless, you are a defender of widows, God; there are people that have been widowed, there are people that are fatherless, there are people that are motherless today, God, there are people that are going through a divorce, Father, there are people that need healing in their body, healing in their mind, their will and their emotion: their soul is tormented, God. But today, Lord, send your peace right now, Father. I send your blood that covers all sin, covers all shame, and covers all fear and your Name that is above every name, God, that tears down every wall that separates families, God, that separates relationships. God bring restoration today to relationships that have been torn by an offence - God we come against every offence in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ - and that forgiveness now, God, would flow. Lord that you would bring wholeness and healing and health to every person that's reading this. I thank you God. And bring your encouragement and your love now, God; bless them with your peace and thank you God for the sacrifice of Calvary that you made for us, though we were sinners, God, you died to love us, to save us - and I thank you so much for it, God, and I give you all the glory for what you're going to do and what you've already done, in Jesus' Name, amen.

Jonathan: Gail it's been a real privilege to hear your story and just to be able to track some of what Jesus has done in your life. If people want to know more about you or maybe even get in touch, do you have a website or something like that?

Gail: My website is under construction so they'll have to e-mail me, but I would be thrilled to hear from them and my e-mail address is gkreason@gmail.com.