Healed from AIDS. New life from Jesus.

 A boy in South America was the eldest child in his family. He had no brothers, only a younger sister. His mother died.

His father had to work hard and always came home tired. The boy had to take over his mother's work and he fulfilled the role of a capable housewife and mother.

As a teenager, he felt no male instincts. His identity was more feminine. He looked beautiful and for gay men he was very desirable. He became involved with men as a feminine homosexual and then he became a homosexual prostitute.

Then he was infected with AIDS. It got worse and worse until he was hospitalised. He was dying, but he experienced no human compassion. Cruel people visited the AIDS ward, not to comfort but to laugh at the dying gay men.

But then a very different kind of  woman came to him. She went to the boy and spoke with God's love.

‘Jesus loves you. You will soon get your last blood transfusion. Jesus will heal you and forgive everything.’

The boy believed and was healed and saved.

His healing astonished patients, nurses and doctors. Many were converted to Jesus and the newly converted Christians in the clinic became a new church.

I heard this testimony from the young man himself about twenty years ago on a cassette tape.

He told how he became strong in his faith, how his testimony had awakened new hope, faith and healing in many homosexuals and prostitutes.

He told how he had come to realise that God had gradually changed his feelings and his identity. He began to see himself as a man, and he fell in love with a Christian woman and they got married.

His voice was still sweet and gentle and not at all masculine, but gender stereotypes are not important to God. God loves you just as you are, not as others understand or misunderstand you.

Here are some Bible passages that might encourage you.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Ps 147:3 NIV

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; Is 61:1 NKJV

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Cor 5:17 NKJV