KIEV, UKRAINE (ANS) -- It was quite a gathering recently in Kiev when 400 doctors and medical professionals from 30 different countries came to the Ukrainian capital city for the 6th International Christian Medical Conference held on October 30-31, 2009, to explore whether miracles still happen today and, if they do, to provide medical data to prove them.

Dr. Lamech S. Lumala

Organized by the World Christian Doctors Network, this “Spirituality and Medicine” conference attracted doctors and medical professional from countries as diverse as Nigeria, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo to all over the former Soviet Union and even the tiny Faroe Islands, who all believe in praying for their sick patients – with their permission of course.

However, they also believe that miracles should be provable and so several of them brought their medical data which was printed out in a book and also shown on a screen and then took questions from their peers.

During my stay in Kiev, I was able to meet with some of the extraordinary medics who attended including Bishop Dr. Lamech S. Lumala, former dental surgeon, who is now pastor of Showers of Blessing Church in Kampala, Uganda, and practices divine healing wherever he goes.

Cover of Uganda Holocaust

Having co-authored the book, Uganda Holocaust with Ray Barnett, I was fascinated to learn more about Dr. Lumala’s time under the vicious dictator, Idi Amin and he explained how he once escaped Amin’s killing machine that left 300,000 Ugandan Christians dead after his eight years of vicious misrule.

“Yes, it is true that during that Idi Amin era, which was a terrible time my life, I just escaped from being killed,” he told me. “One Amin sent soldiers to the clinic where I was working, but fortunately my secretary acted quickly when she saw them and told them that I was ‘not in.’ She then told me that the soldiers were after me and so I escaped and I was in hiding for two weeks. Fortunately, some negotiations took place and the local governor said he would give me protection and that I wouldn’t be killed.”

I asked him why the soldiers were after him and he said, “Idi Amin was after all those people who were educated and, being a doctor, I was one of those who were to be persecuted and killed.”

Fortunately for the Uganda people, Idi Amin overreached his power and dissent within Uganda and Amin's attempt to annex the Kagera province of Tanzania in 1978, led to the Uganda-Tanzania War, and the demise of his regime. Amin fled to Libya, before moving to Saudi Arabia in 1981, where he died in 2003.

Dr. Lumala said that at that time of his near death experience, he wasn’t a believer, but then his eldest daughter and then he wife “got saved” and they prayed for him.

“It was back in 1986 and they took me to a meeting and, during that gathering, the salvation of God came on me just came like it did to Paul on his way to Damascus,” he recalled. “At that moment, the Lord told me, ‘Lamech, your ways are not my ways.’ It was then that I raised up my hands and I cried out to God and I gave my life to the Lord.

“I had worked for the government for 10 years and then I set up my own private practice that I had for nine more years,” he said. “During that time, I was very thirsty for the Word of God and I studied, went to conferences and Bible schools, and the Word of God just sunk in me and I got into the presence of God.

“Then one day I had a visitation from the Lord. He came to me with so many angels singing wonderful Handel’s Messiah type of music and I had never heard that type of music in this world anywhere and they were singing that ‘the king is coming, the king is coming.’

“So God then lifted me up and took out my spirit like a little kid in his hands and spoke things to me and called me into ministry and then pushed my soul back into my body. And, from that time, I've been trying to see what God has for my life. Then one day, God told me ‘I want to show you My spiritual divine healing power. I've been using your head to heal people but now I want to show you My healing power.

“One day I was invited onto the BBC to give a talk about spiritual divine healing power. I talked about it with another pastors and I know that some of them remained skeptical and then the Lord said that because of this people need to see the documented proof of these healings and then people will know it is for real.”

So Dr. Lumala said he then felt inspired to set up a hospital which is to be called Compassion Faith Medical Center.

“We have been given the land to the Lord to build that hospital when He's ready -- and we want assistance with that so that we can build that hospital. Once it is open, we will take the documentation of the patient to see his condition before prayer and then after our prayer of faith, we shall document the healing with x-rays or CT scans and other medical proofs.

“The Lord has told us that He's going to heal these people and so after we have prayed, we plan take a comparative analysis of that and then we shall be showing it to the people.”

He went on to say, “Today, the Lord is working many miracles. I've seen so many people being healed spiritually. I've seen the lame walk and have got the documentation of that. On one occasion there was a boy who had paralyzed legs. I prayed for him and immediately he got up and walked.

Dr. Lamech S. Lumala with his wife who was healed of breast cancer

“Then my wife contracted breast cancer and while we were in America, they analyzed it and did a mammogram and we discovered that the cancer was real. During the night, we had a visitation from the Lord who woke me up at 3:00 AM to start praying for my wife. As I did, I immediately saw a vision. It was something like a yellow light moving from her body. She then testified that she was feeling something enjoyable moving in her breast. And then she woke up and said, ‘What is happening Lord?’ She felt that still voice of the Lord telling her, ‘I'm operating you. You are now being healed from now on go and pray for other people so they too will be healed and she has prayed for so many people.”

So now, the former medical professional and his wife are seeing God’s healing power at work in Uganda and he is grateful that his life was spared during the horror years of Idi Amin so he can help bring life to others.

Note: I would like to thank Robin Frost for transcribing this interview.

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