tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62039134414514878942024-02-28T18:42:31.145-05:00The DiMartino ChroniclesRicky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comBlogger929125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-40675935134355004522023-12-24T16:02:00.005-05:002023-12-24T16:11:23.320-05:00Merry CHRISTmas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJk594naaWp8nAjL6JT8D83pO4g4p-m4fWHqTASz_9XFOt5Ke-inIVlK_dnDaCd7mTR7OsqG6JDst4Q-GZ3FiNGLSD_MydV7ZFkaCWZOrVQsoCfEfzkUZ9siu3Re_s3ObAJKSMt9i5VKUFqIqU9tN6EwN8owY4wUyjEBq14lT_ovEYPHjo61E8_WUPHKL/s3035/IMG_8209.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2801" data-original-width="3035" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJk594naaWp8nAjL6JT8D83pO4g4p-m4fWHqTASz_9XFOt5Ke-inIVlK_dnDaCd7mTR7OsqG6JDst4Q-GZ3FiNGLSD_MydV7ZFkaCWZOrVQsoCfEfzkUZ9siu3Re_s3ObAJKSMt9i5VKUFqIqU9tN6EwN8owY4wUyjEBq14lT_ovEYPHjo61E8_WUPHKL/s320/IMG_8209.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">“And you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”</em></div><div><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colossians 2:10</em></div></em><div style="text-align: right;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">We are so thankful for:</span></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Where God has us right now,</div></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">That we have been made complete in Christ,</div></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">& You!!!</div></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(36, 28, 21); color: #241c15; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Ricky, Aidan, Aolani (almost 14), Micaiah (12), Raphael (6), & Morgan (3)</div></span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-15904148111007662902023-10-20T21:50:00.008-04:002023-10-20T21:50:55.802-04:00Big Kids Reciting the Love Chapter (1 Corinthians 13)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNquOdnyrNPabT__VGBgiEXWRkOonK_iH56s-JicN9_Wnuy9u3u2XEZtQXiUDBFc36SnpzigLthC0-0R2GT4MpWBbDzlIj-yXUUimB3s0pVVXkWXqyyLuBQflCzxufSVwpuZ80sZN9t4QIdVo6oII-dD2nAxEeEaAgxMu-OdayamaBm5kjGeftbGOvDV2a/s300/Mosaic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="300" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNquOdnyrNPabT__VGBgiEXWRkOonK_iH56s-JicN9_Wnuy9u3u2XEZtQXiUDBFc36SnpzigLthC0-0R2GT4MpWBbDzlIj-yXUUimB3s0pVVXkWXqyyLuBQflCzxufSVwpuZ80sZN9t4QIdVo6oII-dD2nAxEeEaAgxMu-OdayamaBm5kjGeftbGOvDV2a/w200-h100/Mosaic.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>There may be human error in both the reciting and recording, but it is still beautiful and endearing!<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UNQ6Wt-BtDg" width="320" youtube-src-id="UNQ6Wt-BtDg"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Micaiah</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j7CkDxTAE6A" width="320" youtube-src-id="j7CkDxTAE6A"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aolani </div><br /><div><br /></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-2087113939825642462023-09-26T10:39:00.001-04:002023-09-26T10:46:39.265-04:00Healing Journey Update 16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Soon after I posted in May, I got sick again for over a month, with a gradual decline and a slow recovery. Both improvements I had mentioned from early May—sleep and questioning—revert back. </span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #454545; font-family: georgia;">6/17 Had another short-clip vision of an egg beginning to hatch. Then, it stops cracking for several days. (While it seems dormant on the outside, the chick keeps growing inside the shell.) Suddenly the egg begins to crack again and the chick quickly hatches. (This was supposed to be reflective of my healing.)<br /></span><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I use to always connect myself with the sick when I thought I was one of the sick and would read the Gospels — wanting Jesus to touch me or to touch Him. But then my eyes were opened. They were all sick unbelievers. Even the disciples didn’t yet have the Spirit of God in them making them new creations and giving them new hearts (that didn’t happen until Pentecost). That only leaves Jesus. I must see myself as Jesus and no one else when reading the Gospels. Duh. Jesus and I are one. We are His Body. As He is, so am we. We are God’s ambassadors. We are believers filled with the same Spirit of God and dunamis power! Just this one change of thought made a huge impact on me, opening my eyes and revolutionizing my way of thinking. <br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We left for a month on a road-trip in mid-July. Holy Spirit revealed a lot to me…</span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As you know, I had been plagued with why questions. Soon after we left, Holy Spirit told me that even the questions are lies. This has drastically changed my thought life and outlook! Now, I can take those thoughts captive and throw them out instead of having them steal my peace and upset me!!</span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This pertains to the <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/2022/05/buildrior-vision.html?m=1">Buildrior vision</a> I had last Spring (2022)… If you remember, the stones that comprised the temple walls represented New Testament commands. Holy Spirit told me that the stones are love. I asked Him to explain. Even though each stone may be a different kind or size or shape or color or name, it is still a stone. In the same way, each stone symbolized a different New Testament directive, but the stones were and are love (meaning their purpose, motive, and goal is love). Just as there are many different kinds of animals, but they are all still animals. </span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/17 Holy Spirit whispered to me, "As you mount My heart, you will get stronger. It is in the depths of My love that you will find your healing, so go deeper." I remember that it felt romantic 💘 About a week later, He told me, "We’re going to get it," talking about my healing. It made me smile (and cry happy tears) because He didn’t say, "You’re going to get it." He was emphasizing our intimacy and union! He is so tender and loving 🥰 </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the trip, I started getting these little visions of people a lot (I would get them sporadically before but nothing like now). I call them prophetic visions as they are meant to encourage/exhort/edify/comfort but usually don’t pertain to the future. I can control them in the sense that I can just focus on the person, and voila! Holy Spirit shows me (not because of me but because He loves the person!) I know that they're not from me because I couldn't come up with them if I tried, as I really struggle to be imaginative. <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">While they are usually for other people, Holy Spirit has shown me a few for myself so far (and several for my family). I am thankful!<br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We got to visit the International House of Prayer in Kansas City for a day during the trip. While in prayer room, I was asking Holy Spirit how to minister to God, and He revealed to me that I should worship the Lord, receive from Him, and then I give what I have received. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">8/10 "The clock will be rewound." (Tongues interpretation)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="text Jas-4-7" id="en-ESV-30328" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #454545;">James 5:7 </span></span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">How do you resist the devil? Submit to God. </span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">How do I submit to God? Present your body parts as living sacrifices!<br /></span></div><div style="color: #454545;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We don’t have to obey Scripture, have it all together and do everything right in order to get healed, but we must be very careful watching our words and keeping the whole counsel of His Word (2 Tim 3:16-17) in order to keep the Enemy out of our bodies and souls (mind, emotions…) and from wreaking havoc. We cannot expect healing in our bodies take root if we are…</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">cursing other people (I’m not referring to cuss words, but speaking to or of a person about their behavior [typically something they did that you don’t like] usually using superlatives or sarcasm which just destines that behavior to repeat itself and is ultimately cursing the person.)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">thinking negatively or with pessimism</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">angry or bitter, which just gives satan footholds</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">complaining (there are so many ways we adults have tried to explain this away and call it different names in order to make it acceptable)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">giving into your emotions (your spirit has been born again and made new, not your soul/emotions which need to be crucified and renewed daily)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">any sin really, because you’re just welcoming the Enemy and giving him permission to land in your heart and bring all the destruction he wants </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">issuing threats (stemming from anger and a lack of faith and selfishness)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">lying (intentionally not keeping your word)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">not doing what you say you’re going to do (not letting your yes be yes and your no be no, more unintentional) </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">actually anything not spoken in faith and love just releases deadly poison (James 3:8) into your body, think acid slowly eating away metal or those experiments showing the effects of words on water and rice (tons of YouTube videos of both)</span></li></ul></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">You cannot speak haphazardly or emotionally-driven and expect your words to carry weight, especially in the spiritual realm (mountains to move and your commands to be obeyed). Our speech is to be honest, accurate, and full of love… seasoned with salt and full of grace (Colossians 4:6).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let me reiterate this because this right here is HUGE (and what Holy Spirit has been trying to show me since the beginning of this journey): You do not have to do anything to get God to heal you (you don’t have to ask or beg Him because it’s already done and He already gave it.) We do the Word of God to protect ourselves and keep our defenses strong from the Destroyer!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(My mentor wrote this to me back in February 2021. I didn’t really grasp the truth and importance of this as much as I do now—</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I'll tell you what helped me and [my husband], especially as I was working through my healing. We made a rule that we didn't speak about pain or discouragement or anything else literally only Ephesians 4:29 and only Philippians 4:8. There was no venting even between us. We only vent in tongues together or apart. The only time we acknowledge pain levels etc. like I've encouraged you is to write it for your notes. Not even speaking it. So if you're going to speak it you only say I'm in less pain today, in other words only in the positive. And only with praises to God.. Does that make sense? So, if you've been in so much pain or discouragement because of whatever, you would only ever say it and phrase it in a way that indicated victory or that indicated the strategy to get victory. For example, if you've been in pain or hurt more lately than before, you would say something like I believe I'm supposed to pray in tongues a lot more today or I need to have a praise session. Without saying it, Ricky would understand that you've been in more pain, so would your family. You're basically using code but by doing so you're watching your mouth, you were giving your body direction (praise and speaking in tongues) and you're also giving your faith steps to take, all the while you are not giving in to complaining or giving life to what Satan wants you to give life to. Does that make sense? You have to do this with everything you've got because everything you say will reproduce.”)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Grace is NOT overlooking sin, which ends up being nothing but an excuse to keep on sinning (staying stuck because it’s too hard to stop and Jesus paid for it and God understands and has more grace anyway?!). That is what I learned my whole Christian life, and it’s WRONG! It is not a permission slip to just try harder. The correct definition of grace is an empowering strength, which enables us not to sin in the first place! This comes from the Spirit of God, which every believer has but has to learn to hear and heed (this takes practice).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am just now moving into all of this and stumble quite a bit, but whenever I do I am able to smile and thank God that His Spirit is working in me and speaking to me and helping me and guiding me into all truth, that He has not created me to sin but called me to newness and life, that He loves me and does not give up on me, that I am growing in faith and love and knowledge, that I am becoming more sensitive to Holy Spirit, that I am getting up and persevering and moving forward and drawing near to Him! Hallelujah!! (This is how I turn a stumbling into sin that used to lead me into self-pity, discouragement, depression and despair, woe-is-me self-centeredness, and sorrowful attitude into now being able to immediately praise Him with a pure heart [1 John 1:9]… simply put, do not focus on the falling down but on the getting up!)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Before I get out of bed every morning, I declare:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am strong. I am healed. I am free. I have faith. I have love. I have life. </span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I realize this post sounds heavy on the Spirit, but I was in the Word ditch too long. It’s so thrilling to be on the road between the ditches where the two are in perfect balance keeping you on the path!</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/17 I was asking the Lord what book of the Bible I should read next, and I looked up. A long strip of paper like a banner stretched across the sky, and the Word of God was written on it. These large drops of water started coming from it and falling on me like rain. I immediately knew that I was being washed with the water of the Word, and I heard, "It won’t stop." And I knew that He was telling me that no matter what I read in the Book, He is always going to bring fresh revelation (there is no end; it won’t stop). Then, Holy Spirit impressed upon me exactly what to read next. <br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/18 I tell Ricky that I am the happiest I have ever been. And it’s definitely not because my circumstances have changed or gotten better. It’s because I’m getting to know the Helper, my Best Friend, within me — and He gives incredible joy! And just this week, I am sleeping better!</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There’s so much more I could and want to write, but it’ll have to wait… <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/2023/07/dan-mohler-videos.html?m=1">Dan Mohler</a> has the most biblically accurate theology I have ever come across. </span></div></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-89611597657032618542023-09-18T23:08:00.003-04:002023-09-18T23:08:59.092-04:00Eeek!I’m working on a bigger healing journey timeline update to cover the past several months— sorry it’s been awhile and stuff kept arising!Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-59105079902360247722023-07-03T22:43:00.002-04:002023-09-18T23:25:43.551-04:00Dan Mohler {videos}<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHnVRMUgmDGrXw6MI5Z8eTuZAXyR9ZYCeyrVP8dUgINb5Kb0s-qMv4dGua9yuC4_EANlzEZ0O_z0lTQ8Czjr1XIu19ISfif1TrC6_f-0Th2KQ6B9g0VguSEr5suy5n4HsOVcsanmENHVYDc9s_geJWFUaRjI_A-1bKsrSweajJvLZx0P2XChSLo3OpbatD/s300/Pondering.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="300" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHnVRMUgmDGrXw6MI5Z8eTuZAXyR9ZYCeyrVP8dUgINb5Kb0s-qMv4dGua9yuC4_EANlzEZ0O_z0lTQ8Czjr1XIu19ISfif1TrC6_f-0Th2KQ6B9g0VguSEr5suy5n4HsOVcsanmENHVYDc9s_geJWFUaRjI_A-1bKsrSweajJvLZx0P2XChSLo3OpbatD/w200-h100/Pondering.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Hands down, my favorite speaker/ preacher is Dan Mohler. I have never been more spurred on in my relationship with God, knowing God, becoming love and letting my light shine!<div><br /></div><div>Here’s my favorite series:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdXryYg_LvYygE4ftbWJZ4Xv03vcOubK9">School of Kingdom Living</a></div><div><br /></div><div>And here are some of my favorite sermons by him (if you want more of an introduction to him and his style):</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/YWr7n7Os3c8">How to put on Christ and put off the flesh </a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/G0u2XMn0n9o">Intimacy is where you are changed </a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/oCQAab9FaVo">Pursue to know Him</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/DvKucICXEuo?si=4yD20SlqL4zJJF7R">A brand new lif</a>e</div><div><br /></div><div>Actually, I have a playlist of my favorite sermons by him (that I am constantly adding to): <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ez_eDA1G9Eq6gOFPJUHRZcQHy5gqZPl&si=GImzTL-rSbQ73YIb">HERE</a></div><div><br /></div><div>My kids love listening to him and daily ask for more! This is time well spent. You won’t regret it!</div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-19394932536681700082023-06-13T21:12:00.000-04:002023-06-13T21:12:27.844-04:00Healing Dreams <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;">I don’t dream much. Nighttime dreams. </span><br /></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Because it’s a rare occurrence, it’s noteworthy and prayerworthy when it happens. I’ve only had two dreams regarding my physical healing that I remember — one occurred when I was pregnant with our third, Raphael (Fall 2017) and the other one happened a couple weeks ago over Memorial Day weekend (2023).</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">#1:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I awoke from a dream regarding my physical healing on 9/12/17. In the dream I was going through some sort of amusement park with one big roller coaster ride that had many parts with a giant gorilla sitting beside me (symbolic of natural health programs and therapies I’ve tried over the years). Each ride seemed to do something a little different, and I would see different faces (people I knew from different times in my lifetime) as I progressed along. Then, my cart came to a halt at a crossroads before the final part of the ride through a tropical forest. There was a sign that read, “If you want to be healed, you must go alone" and an arrow pointing right. I inherently knew that the gorilla had to get out. Right after the gorilla left, the roller coaster continued and I was healed. After exiting onto the platform, I twirled around for Ricky and asked him if my calves looked bigger! And then I woke. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">*I often think of this dream because, man alive, has it been like a roller coaster ride so far!</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">#2:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I awoke from a dream regarding my physical healing on 5/28/23. In the dream I was sitting in the wheelchair parallel to the left side of the table in Dallas. Theophilus (a friend) was calling to declare Scripture with me. I was fed up and shouted, “I have life!!!” I yelled so violently that I threw myself out of the wheelchair. I stumbled but didn’t care whether I fell or stood. Regaining my balance, I began to walk around the table several times, getting stronger with each loop. I wanted Ricky to be the first to know and secretly walked to his office to surprise him. He was on the phone but had a flabbergasted look of relief. And then I woke. </span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-43535741048433197472023-05-05T19:25:00.000-04:002023-05-05T19:25:55.284-04:00Healing Journey Update 15<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span>Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline. </span></i><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span face="-apple-system-body">*As I was thinking again about the seeming slowness of my recovery and how no one can see that I am getting better, I heard Holy Spirit softly whisper, “<i>It’s a lie</i>.” Whoa! And I instantly realized that I was once again letting the Enemy sidetrack me by sight, discourage me, and get my focus off Jesus and Truth and Reality. I went back over my improvements from last year and was so grateful and amazed. Rivers of Living Water are flowing through my veins and pushing out all decay. </span><span face="-apple-system-body">As long as I can keep my spiritual eyes off of what I see and feel in the physical realm, it is obvious to me that physical healing is happening. Carnality must die. <i>Thank You, Best Friend</i>! Forward, march!</span><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span face="-apple-system-body" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">*A few days later, I was told that I could stop having pretend faith because it’s either God or it’s not. While my immediate response was to receive the word as it felt good to my flesh (New Testament versus Old, keep pushing and enforcing because you’ve received instead of passively waiting to possibly receive), after praying and asking and testing and checking, I remembered what I wrote above. I can only laugh when I think about all the people I have met who have worked out their healing over time being told that! (I.e. A young lady friend had an autoimmune disorder that left her incapacitated in a hospital. after receiving prayer for four days in a row, her pinky finger moved a tad… that was the beginning of her full restoration.) I am reminded in Hebrews that <span face="-apple-system-body">real faith doesn’t mean that I will see it now but is persisting in believing despite sight (being certain regardless of what I see). </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span face="-apple-system-body" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span face="-apple-system-body" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am feeling extra victorious because the two biggest struggles I mentioned in February — sleep and time dilemma questions — have both dramatically improved!! Because of this, I feel strengthened and rejuvenated… Hallelujah! (Sorry I wasn’t able to keep a timeline for April, too hectic of a month!)</span></div></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-77033414241885333562023-03-27T23:42:00.002-04:002023-04-06T18:01:13.678-04:00Healing Journey Update 14<div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline. </span></i></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">2/24 Attend a dinner gathering and my stomach quickly becomes upset (intense cramps and nausea). After retreating to the bathroom to address this, I return to normal and pain flees within a few minutes </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3/14 My hips are getting noticeably stronger when exercising; my bladder strength has improved (don’t need to wear underwear at night); returned to the <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/2022/08/healing-journey-update-6.html?m=1">improvements I noted at the end of this past August</a> (plus being off the pharmaceutical drugs entirely!) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3/26 My arm goes numb (but hurts), but pain leaves and feeling returns after attacking it for half an hour </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3/27 The body of my youngest child is beginning to respond to my commands and authority </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">*<span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">As He is, so am I (1 John 4:17)! Resurrected to new life! I am more than a conqueror, an overcomer, triumphant and victorious! It is written!!</span><br /></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-31658942427024886262023-03-02T21:29:00.000-05:002023-03-02T21:29:09.292-05:00Healing Journey Update 13<div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline. </span></i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: georgia;">January turned out to be a horrible month in many ways. In the past two months sickness ran through the kids three times! I succumbed the first time for three weeks, believing lies that I deserved it and thus accepted it, not fighting without doubt and fear. I had even lost my voice during that time and was usually in bed. I spent February playing catch-up and my vigor returns with my voice and sporadic attempts to stretch and establish routine. However, we both still feel like we’re under spiritual attack and have been since moving here… The Enemy is resisting!</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">*Why isn’t my recovery instantaneous or quicker? I have ideas, even though no one really knows. People who have worked out their own healings have told me that wondering why just slowed down the process. So, I want to resolve to stop focusing on wondering what’s wrong or what I need to change. However, my focus right now is on enforcing victory on my sleep. <br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">*The recovery time for people I know who have worked out their own healings has differed from being around a year for recent problems to 4-10 years for muscular dystrophies. Not that it should or will take that long (I am not believing for that nor in agreement with that), but it does help me not to get discouraged during seemingly slow times or when facing pushback. </div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"> </div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">*I remember a story about a woman who had a large tumor bulging out of her neck. Every Sunday when people in the congregation would share praise reports, she would stand and thank God for healing her. After doing this weekly for five years, the pastor angrily interrupted her when she rose and publicly told her to sit back down because everyone there could still see the tumor in her neck. The tumor suddenly shrunk and disappeared! To God be the glory!</div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">*Bottom line: I’m healed. It’s done. I sow and will continue sowing, for I will reap!!</div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-37667195674841090472023-01-01T23:32:00.000-05:002023-01-01T23:32:09.468-05:00 Healing Journey Update 12<div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline. </span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">*December has been a crazy intense month with all that moving entails, and my routines are currently sporadic and not routine! I’m really looking forward to slowing down some. </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><span face="-apple-system-body">*When I first began to renew my mind, there was something that incredibly bothered me and eventually became the main motivation for me to pursue doing something: Since Jesus already paid for it (it’s already done and it’s for me, for now!), then isn’t it an insult to Jesus not to fully receive, work out, and walk in what He did for me?! ("Don’t settle for anything less than the fullness that Jesus paid for me to walk in.”)</span></div><div><span face="-apple-system-body"><br /></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system-body">12/15 </span><span face="-apple-system-body" style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Join a LifeTeam (like a small group that is a part of our church and ministry)</span></div></div></div><div><div><div><br /></div><div>12/20 We throw away the shower chair and wash me standing up and holding onto Ricky. </div><div><br /></div><div>12/27 Transfer to booth at restaurant, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well I managed. </div><div><br /></div><div>12/31 “Come. My Son has unlocked the gates. You may have to push. But it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that you come." (Tongues interpretation) I’m learning that God is not responsible for how much or how hard I have to push. It’s up to me: how many roadblocks are in my heart, how many obstacles are in my mind, are my words working for me or against me, how many footholds have I given the Enemy… There are no requirements to receive healing (it’s a free gift!), but these things will determine how fast or slow, easy or difficult the journey is. God has provided the healing, given us access, and put His Spirit in us to help us receive and stand and persevere to see victory! I’m coming! </div></div><div><br /></div><div>1/1 My knees are lifting higher (despite December’s hiatus)! So excited to reap this year all that I’ve been sowing!</div><div><br /></div><div><div>*One of my daily battle cries—</div><div>I lack nothing… I lack no good thing… </div><div>I am complete, unconditionally loved, healed…</div><div>I have fullness and wholeness, every spiritual blessing, all things pertaining to life and godliness, </div><div>resurrection life, abundant life,</div><div>all freedom, all victory, all authority, unlimited power, perfect peace, everlasting strength, the joy of the LORD,</div><div>the fullness of the Spirit, rivers of living water, the blood of Jesus,</div><div>the Word of God and all of the promises of God. </div><div>I HAVE EVERYTHING!!!</div></div></div></span></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-12097667522306062032022-12-31T22:18:00.000-05:002022-12-31T22:18:24.368-05:00Resolutions for 2023<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsc-Jeh1RNzQGKam2NDydtLvbhi8sJVnEqu2y8w0t-XWrDYlra-_ZiH1F1k1hi_bFDDHbN2WlVxmHy9JBLBbAS5R3C8lmWEAtl92-eA_jv_cT19TOvybiZqGac15PQNwUX7npXVFEOIl6riSERJx74Xe-e_EZBL0jNR1dokkvJ7CJRGaO-yAigpZgWpQ/s300/Pondering.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="300" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsc-Jeh1RNzQGKam2NDydtLvbhi8sJVnEqu2y8w0t-XWrDYlra-_ZiH1F1k1hi_bFDDHbN2WlVxmHy9JBLBbAS5R3C8lmWEAtl92-eA_jv_cT19TOvybiZqGac15PQNwUX7npXVFEOIl6riSERJx74Xe-e_EZBL0jNR1dokkvJ7CJRGaO-yAigpZgWpQ/w200-h100/Pondering.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>I forgot how intense and hardcore moving is! Advent was a crazy month, Christmas wasn’t my normal, boxes are still threatening, the walls are barren, no meal plans yet… I am not complaining! Everyone is well and cheery. But, there will be no annual Advent post or cute resolutions post. My main goal is to return my pre-December physical and spiritual diets (routines), as I was actually happy with them!Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-51474297348719975062022-12-24T20:37:00.001-05:002022-12-24T20:37:42.224-05:00Merry CHRISTmas!<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SRTj3ZbywzOmamPkUyjWN0tCdXIqdHchmL0tyozjyf31jU8JB-occ0yl7vSqa9QQi60-02GudFTCtzwx1psYR7Q9sSYUfm3GmSijJCJPt4Z8DhWbmcwoznI7nIOh85g4B_tSqIrgnUMXn-2sWTOrkws-yFaJh6kS747ciB9DjZlMAMEhOnyK7zsJeg/s3644/7F0E64FF-095E-41BB-93BF-1153E16D9B82.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3644" data-original-width="2582" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SRTj3ZbywzOmamPkUyjWN0tCdXIqdHchmL0tyozjyf31jU8JB-occ0yl7vSqa9QQi60-02GudFTCtzwx1psYR7Q9sSYUfm3GmSijJCJPt4Z8DhWbmcwoznI7nIOh85g4B_tSqIrgnUMXn-2sWTOrkws-yFaJh6kS747ciB9DjZlMAMEhOnyK7zsJeg/w284-h400/7F0E64FF-095E-41BB-93BF-1153E16D9B82.jpeg" width="284" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><em data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1rem; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">“But Messiah having appeared upon the scene, a High Priest of good things realized,”</span></em></div><em data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1rem; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1rem;">Hebrews 9:11</em></div></em><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1rem; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Praise God that our Messiah and High Priest has come</span></div></span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1rem; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Ricky, Aidan, Aolani (almost 13), Micaiah (11), Raphael (5), & Morgan (2)</span></div></span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-50074000030829655822022-12-02T17:37:00.000-05:002022-12-02T17:37:24.090-05:00 Healing Journey Update 11<div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline. </span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/14 I was praying and when I thought about moving to Dallas, I was suddenly overwhelmed by God’s love. Surprised, I opened my eyes and the navy blue wall decal in front of me started g</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">lowing hot pink — beautiful! (It’s of 1 John 4:18, Perfect love casts out fear.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/16 Move left ankle sitting up more</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/17 <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;">My first out-of-town car ride where my legs didn’t twitch at all! (I sorta knew this was coming because my legs twitched very little in the car during our last trip to Dallas a few weeks ago.)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/18 I don’t know when this happened exactly, but I suddenly realized that I was no longer waking up in lots of pain! I had been all year, but it must have lessening over the past month or two. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/20 Whenever I nap now, my legs remain calm!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/21 The muscles in my sides are finally growing and helping me stay upright more and fall over sideways less</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/22 <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/2022/11/mulans-encouragement-for-me.html?m=1">Mulan's Encouragement for Me</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/24 Regarding our move Dallas in a couple weeks, it <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;">seriously has been almost unbelievable how everything (down to the littlest detail!) has worked out perfectly and quickly. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">11/23&27 My second out-of-town car ride where my legs didn’t twitch at all!</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">12/2 After three months of not sleeping well (it had improved before the deliverance in September but became a battleground once again, so I’ve been fighting to get back this ground), it’s finally getting better (it wasn’t pain or twitching, just couldn’t get comfortable or fall asleep)</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; word-spacing: 1.395349px;">*</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">When we are saved, the incorruptible seed is planted in us (His life and nature; </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">1 Peter 1:23</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">). </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">We water it with the Word and rivers</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;"> of living water, Holy Spirit (Jn </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">6:30</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">). It doesn’t just happen (get watered and grow). It’s our job to study, know, and do the Word. It’s our job to </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">stir up the gift (reference to </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">Holy Spirit, not one of the many spiritual gifts listed in Corinthians). Then, the incorruptible seed </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545;">grows until fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) is produced! Fruit is grown over time, while gifts are given in a moment. </span></span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-39956270542758784402022-11-22T18:54:00.002-05:002022-11-22T18:54:19.042-05:00Mulan’s Encouragement for Me <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Uu2zl26e8uHaocBEu3DAZ8gkNMI9NUScofnH8h9mYtM4teNiaJCFT3hZYn7DwhNhUyRTWBZPav4EB9yoWtm6xG6kkM6XJPrFEUvXMjU5nNvFTwE2CNnvw98_w_sW_Ep7sntsli2Z-nicD4EFSSpP0GWA4fBhZagLffc1dZedIqjMFk3NRkwpHnhg6A/s300/Pondering.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="300" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Uu2zl26e8uHaocBEu3DAZ8gkNMI9NUScofnH8h9mYtM4teNiaJCFT3hZYn7DwhNhUyRTWBZPav4EB9yoWtm6xG6kkM6XJPrFEUvXMjU5nNvFTwE2CNnvw98_w_sW_Ep7sntsli2Z-nicD4EFSSpP0GWA4fBhZagLffc1dZedIqjMFk3NRkwpHnhg6A/w200-h100/Pondering.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">In December 2020, I watched the live action film of Mulan and am deeply struck by a specific scene where Mulan and her comrades come face-to-face with the enemy forces. Mulan's team turns around and flees the opposite direction, and t</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">he enemy turns around and rides their own way</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">. Mulan hesitates and then hotly pursues the enemy by herself. And I knew. I had to stop waiting… waiting to be healed, to be set free, for someone to lay their hands on me and presto… I had to stop waiting for Jesus to do what He had already done! He already purchased my healing and freedom and defeated the enemy. I needed to take a stand and take action! Even if that meant going after the enemy alone (thankfully I’m not alone</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;">!) to inform him that I am no longer deceived, I know who I am, I know what I have, I know that he is a defeated foe, and I am here to enforce and take back what he’s stolen! Not really sure of what to do at that time, I tucked this away in my heart to ponder. </span>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-58263507418928998702022-10-30T05:58:00.000-04:002022-10-30T05:58:13.475-04:00 Healing Journey Update 10<span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline. </span></i></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">—Not to make excuses, but I apologize for the delay in updating! Adding in buying and selling a home to our normal schedule has been 😳😅</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/28 Meet a Brazilian woman who was instantaneously healed of an extremely rare and serious, genetic, neurological disease earlier this year and is still being progressively healed (incredible story) </span></div></span><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">10/3 I have not taken any drugs in a month! There has been struggle this past month; I don’t feel free to write about it yet as it continues and I refuse to give the enemy any footholds using my words! Still learning how to keep the ground I’ve taken back! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*Saying something that isn't yet visible in the physical might look like a lie, but to say something that's a fact in the physical realm but not true in the spiritual is the real lie. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">10/5 The painting of the vision from 3/22 is complete! And beautiful! <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihKLOr3VRiPocn7BdVaQBnQIxpr-YSRn/view?usp=drivesdk">Here is the pdf of the actual 18"x24” acrylic painting.</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">10/9 Ricky and I both realize that Holy Spirit has been sharing foreknowledge with us! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">10/14-27 Embark on first road-trip without prescription drugs and make it two weeks; nerves in legs feel stronger </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">10/15 No more seatbelt in wheelchair! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*My confidence first began when I had become convinced that this was Truth and I wasn’t going to budge, yet I was hesitant that I would be able to get rid of all unbelief and therefore access my healing in the physical realm. Even though I was sure physical healing was accomplished at the whipping post, I was constantly unsure if changes were really happening in my body. Despite doubting myself, I moved forward because Truth must be acted on. Then, my confidence shifted slightly. I knew that if I could persevere in believing and doing my routine, His faithfulness to His Word and promise would bring it to pass. But a couple months ago, my confidence shifted again. The more buddy-buddy I become with Holy Spirit and the closer we grow and unite, the more I can distinguish His voice and see His intimate involvement in me. Holy Spirit really is my Helper! I don’t have to worry about possible unbelief lurking somewhere or hoping that I can persevere and not grow weary, I can trust Him to help me (not to do it for me but to reveal, strengthen, and fill in the gaps)!</span></div></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-52704571488708172462022-10-02T13:43:00.001-04:002022-10-02T13:43:37.042-04:00Prison Vision (from 20 years ago)<span style="font-family: georgia;">Twenty years ago, I was a senior in high school and participated in an event where you walk through the downtown area of your city, quiet and prayerful, but waving Jesus-banners. As the group of people gathered together beforehand, we all got in a circle and some leaders went around the circle, one-by-one, to pray with each individual (so, every person received prayer). I want to bring up one of those prayers I received.<br /><br />In this specific prayer, God gave this man a vision of/for me. I know -- <i>how do you remember this? </i>Well, I've never understood what it meant and would oft recall it to ponder it over the past couple decades.<br /><i><br /></i><b>The vision</b>: I am crouching in the corner of a dark, underground prison cell. Someone comes in (not sure of his position or who he is) and says to me, "Jesus has purchased your freedom. What are you still doing in here? Your cell door is unlocked, but <b>you </b>have to get up and walk out."<br /><br />I was so confused for the first few years because I was free in Christ from the first day of my salvation. I knew I was free. I felt free. I walked in the freedom He gave me. Yeah... so I was perplexed. Eventually, I trusted that He would illuminate it. <br /><br />Within the past year, the vision popped into my head, and the Holy Spirit revealed its meaning to me. <i>Hallelujah</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">!</i><div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The interpretation</b>: It applies to <a href="http://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/2013/10/gods-promise-to-heal-me.html">my physical healing</a>! Jesus is the One who has allowed for my healing, but I have to do my part to work it out and make it happen -- to get up and walk out. Even back then soon after I fell in love with Jesus, He was revealing to me the need to take <i>action</i>!</span></div></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-3016129286169611652022-09-25T19:50:00.000-04:002022-09-25T19:50:18.202-04:00 Healing Journey Update 9<div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/15 PT noticed that I have more muscular control and looser hips; remove both side rests on wheelchair (for trunk stability) — “The disassembly of the wheelchair begins!” </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/16 I got a massage today (from the lady who gave me one back in February). Half way through, she comments to Ricky, “She is so much better! Do you know why??"
<i>Music to my ears</i>. Glory to God! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*I have NO cares (1 Peter 5:7) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> NO worries (Matthew 6:25) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> NO fears (1 John 4:18) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> NO needs (Philippians 4:19) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> & NO wants (Psalm 23:1)! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have NO lack (Psalm 34:10) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">for God has given me </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b>EVERYTHING</b> (Romans 8:32, 2 Peter 1:3)!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/25 I wrote a <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/2022/09/salvation-involves-action.html?m=1">blog post</a> looking back and recognizing the importance of taking action in all parts of salvation.</span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-60939449929400170322022-09-25T19:42:00.002-04:002022-09-25T19:42:51.261-04:00Salvation Involves Action <span style="font-family: georgia;">I don’t know why I never put two and two together. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">As I have mentioned before, any healing requires faith (hope in <b>action</b>), a result of obedience. Same goes for salvation. My own testimony bears witness! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">For at least a year before I came to Jesus with surrender and for newness, I would pray every single night, begging God to please forgive my wretched behavior that day and proceed to do the same sins the next day. No Jesus, no peace, no Holy Spirit, no power. I felt desperate and stuck, which led to several failed suicidal attempts. (I believed in God and knew <i>about</i> Jesus.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I met Jesus at a hockey game! It was the beginning of a radical transformation— "I returned home to change my books, music, entertainment, friends, clothes, etc. Suddenly, I could see God face to face, and I felt like I finally got rid of the wall of sin I had put up that was separating me from God. Finally, I could see Him clearly, see His love, and hear His voice. I could understand so much more.” (From a description I wrote about it soon after my salvation experience.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whenever I would pray and plead everyday, I was just hoping that He would do it all. But that’s just hope and not faith. Faith is putting your hope into ACTION. Yet, when I did something (purged) to outwardly demonstrate my inward belief, SKADOOSH. The world changed, and He was right there (always was; I had erected the wall of sin between us, and I had to knock it down). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Basically, I should have known. From the very beginning of my salvation, action has been dire and foundational. Just as action was the necessary and final step for salvation*, so it is for healing. Holy Spirit had shown me this truth over 21 years ago, and I’m just now getting it! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*Not a good works, trying to earn salvation kind of action, but demonstrating that you believe you have received kind of action. By grace (Him) through faith (me)! [<i>Ephesians 2:8-9</i>]</span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-30758951348606778872022-09-14T21:27:00.003-04:002022-09-16T11:24:49.052-04:00 Healing Journey Update 8<i style="font-family: georgia;">Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</i><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*A right understanding of our triune being is foundational to bodily healing (and all growth!) I’ll try to put it in a nutshell. We are spirit, soul (mind, emotions, will), and body. When we are saved and become new creations, it’s our spirits that are made new, complete, and perfect! Not our bodies (we still look and likely feel the same) and not our souls (we usually still have the same habits, thoughts, and memories, leading us to wrongly believe that we still have the sin nature). It is our job to tell our souls to shut up, take a backseat, and learn to constantly submit to the spirit! The spirit realm must become the dominant realm we function in. This is why we must be in the Word all the time, renewing and retraining our minds to Truth! Now, the body is neutral (like money or computers or the internet). It will follow the path that it’s already on and do what it’s told. If your new spirit is telling the body one thing and your soul another, then your body is going to keep on its current course (double-mindedness), but if you can renew your mind and bring your soul into submission, then it’s two against one (spirit and soul unite and agree) the body must listen (this may take time for it to change course). Majority wins! One more thing. When we are saved, we receive God’s Holy Spirit into our spirit, but we can let Him out into our whole triune being through faith (and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit). He can help our souls (revealing mysteries, sharing wisdom, and quickening the Logos to us, leading us to act on that specific Word, so it can become Rhema) and our bodies (rest, rejuvenation, strengthening, healing) — Hallelujah! </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/9 It’s been a whole week of freedom from drugs! Although my sleep is not as restful as I would like for it to be yet and my legs vibrate some during the day, I would become suicidal whenever I went over 72 hours without drugs in the past. I have tried three times over the last five years. (For all those who are skeptical, this is <b><i>huge</i></b>!) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/10 I began to notice that my legs were helping my arms lift up my body in the wheelchair about a month ago, and suddenly I noticed that my legs were doing the majority of the work just using my arms more for motivation and guidance in pushing my body up :)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/12 My right leg hasn’t locked up in over a month!
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">9/13 My ears had always been allergic to the metal in earrings. I had to massage them with Vaseline every night if I wanted to wear earrings the following day (and it didn’t always work). But, I haven’t had to use any Vaseline in over a month, and no allergic reactions :) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*For over 20 years, I would boast that I didn’t really fear anything… except pain and torture. Looking back over the past year, I realize that I was reaping what I had sown! </span></div></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-31325182000088081852022-09-08T19:45:00.000-04:002022-09-08T19:45:52.530-04:00 Healing Journey Update 7<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</i><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>9/1-4 Ricky and I, along with the two bigger kids, attend a church conference a few hours from here in the mountains of North Carolina. Within a day and a half, several things happen to our family </span><span face="-apple-system-body">making it apparent that Satan was attempting to keep me from the conference. I was under intense spiritual attack on the middle day (terrible UTI and uncontrollable urinating, chills and convulsions, vomiting and unable to eat, had a hard time even sitting up or opening eyes). I received much intercession and deliverance that evening. Despite feeling exhausted and depleted, my legs felt fine and didn’t twitch like they usually did at this point. So, I didn’t take either drug. I slept without taking them for the first time since I started using them over five years ago!! I was back to 100% Sunday (actually, WAY better!) [I intend to write a detailed account of our weekend and will link to it here, not to create a demons and deliverance theology but just to have a thorough documentation of my personal experience.]</span></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system-body" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system-body" style="font-family: georgia;">9/6 Flush remaining drugs — I am NOT going back! Unlike the 1/23 experience when the spirit of affliction had fled and I didn’t take any drugs at first but ended up taking a little bit in the middle of the night because my legs were vibrating, I know what’s going on this time (whereas it took me a couple days to figure out what was happening back in January). Not only do I know what happened, but I also now know how to resist the Enemy and how to stand firm in the freedom of Jesus (Galatians 5:1) which I was not prepared to do before. </span></div><div><span face="-apple-system-body" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="-apple-system-body">*In thinking about why I hadn’t given up by now… While there are many things I could mention, it came down to Truth. </span><span face="-apple-system-body" style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">You have to get to the point when you realize that pain does not determine whether you are healed or not. Only His Word is Truth and Reality. What you see and feel may be fact for now (facts change, truths don’t). If you can persist in believing and clinging to truth despite what you see and feel, what is true in the spiritual will (and must) come into the natural and physical realm!</span></span></div></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-27283907433765142152022-08-25T12:54:00.002-04:002022-09-08T19:41:49.312-04:00 Healing Journey Update 6<span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</i></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">8/19 For over a week, my left ear felt great inner pain (I could not touch anywhere near it or sleep on that side of my body, and it had begun shooting down my face into my jaw, making it hard to chew). I just kept resisting, attacking, and refusing to accept it. I didn’t care what it was, it had to leave this temple! I wasn’t going to tolerate it. After getting worse, it suddenly got better yesterday and is completely gone today - hallelujah!</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">8/20 Bladder strength is measurably improving; Twitching in legs has noticeably reduced (nerves in entire body are strengthening)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*I was recently thinking about all of my physical improvements and reading through this timeline, and I was so encouraged! While the visible improvements are debatable by skeptics as to their cause or origin, the plethora of inner ones is remarkable and unexplainable (I have not increased or added new pharmaceutical or vitamins, nor have I altered my diet, nor have I added on any new therapies or anything). I will list (recap) some of them: </span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Scalp stopped itching</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Ear wax has decreased a lot</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Mouth sores have mostly stopped appearing</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I can sleep on others’ pillows</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I don’t get sick (I used to get every single thing the kids got!) </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Bladder and bowel strength have both improved </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The marble-sized lump on my back right love handle has disappeared </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> No indigestion, acid reflux, or upset stomach ever </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> No more demonic attacks </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Reduced daily pharmaceutical drug dosage of both prescriptions (now taking 1/5&1/3 of the original daily amounts)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">Both legs have stopped locking up in the hip (really painful)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Body temperature regulating and blood circulation (and color) have improved; I rarely sweat now </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Legs are twitching much less </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Sleep is getting better </span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">While I notice them all and Ricky recognizes several, I look forward to when outsiders can see what’s happening. I don’t want to judge the state of things with my eyes or feelings (carnally), yet I can’t help but be super excited for the imminent future! </span></div></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-24574416576010860542022-08-14T14:41:00.002-04:002022-08-14T14:48:14.519-04:00 Healing Journey Update 5<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</i> </span></p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span>8/4 I slept longer than normal, only woke once each of the past two nights briefly to turn over, and didn’t wake in any pain!! </span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>8/7 I use to have 2-3 mouth sores (on the inside) everyday, and now it’s only one every few days! </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>8/8 I begin reducing one drug by a quarter the amount
</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>8/11 Sleep has definitely improved, waking much less and tossing/turning much less and waking in much less pain </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>8/13 Legs are helping to push body up in wheelchair </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>*When you speak or declare truth and nothing seems to happen right away, here’s what you don’t do. You don’t think or say in your heart,”Oh, nothing happened,” which is only heaping dirt on that seed just planted, making it take longer to surface. You just revealed unbelief (double-mindedness).. AND, you certainly don’t reinterpret Scripture to make it line up with your experience (thinking that since the Word is true and I need to protect its validity, I need to figure out what it must have really meant.) I did this every time I was prayed for over twenty years. Not realizing that some things take time, like when Jesus cursed the fig tree. It didn’t shrivel up right away but took a day to die (although, it probably stopped getting nutrients right when Jesus spoke). God set up the law of sowing and reaping. Normally, you don’t plant a seed one day and expect to see the harvest the next day (and exclaim, “Oh, it didn’t work!")</span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-48786787404215413652022-07-31T23:11:00.003-04:002022-08-05T12:17:36.733-04:00 Healing Journey Update 4<span style="font-family: georgia;"><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"><i>Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</i> </span></p>7/23 I got no sleep last night (exhausted!!) and my legs twitched all day. Despite that, I never felt under attack. I did fight most of the day to keep my guard up and not give the enemy an inroad to turn the exhaustion into affliction or torture. It was an unusual experience for me, but I think it’s significant. </span><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;">7/24 Cleaning ears less (once every 3-4 months now instead of monthly); I can do kegels now (I’ve been trying to for years but could only squeeze my butt); My scalp has stopped itching (after eight years!)</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;">7/29 Right leg has been locking up less and less the past couple months and rarely does so now </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;">7/30 My legs are twitching less overall (both during the day and at night) </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;">*Jesus said believe that you have received and it will be yours (Mk 11:24, receive—>believe—>see/feel), not receive—>see/feel—>believe (carnal way of thinking; have to physically experience something using the five senses). Jesus encountered this over and over during His ministry— you get what you can believe for!</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;">7/31 No attacks in two months now!</div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-28292003203480757382022-07-23T07:58:00.001-04:002022-08-05T12:16:46.188-04:00 Healing Journey Update 3<span style="font-family: georgia;"><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"><i>Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</i> </span></p>7/12 Sickness runs through the household this week, but not me </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/13 Begin alternating legs when marching in wheelchair</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/14 PT says that I didn’t regress this time (after a trip); turning head to the right and left without falling over while sitting on bededge </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/15 Although my handwriting doesn’t look vastly different from May and June (because it’s so loopy and swirly; that’s how it’s always been!), I’m able to connect 3-4 letters at a time versus two (cursive)! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/16 Able to unbuckle seatbelt in car </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/18 I began to feel horrible pain inside the lower left part of my back (tender and excruciating to touch, nothing visible, did not feel like a sore or strained muscle) two days ago. After just two days of attacking it and blasting it with Truth, it’s completely gone!! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/19 Able to pull core back to center when torso sways a little to the right or left; Able to ease torso down from upright position to lying on knees, instead of flopping down, for crunches </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/20 I weighed for the first time in eight months and lost over 20 pounds, which is irrelevant but still makes me happy </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*Most of my physical improvements thus far are only noticeable to me, while most of the changes have been internal work (which of course makes sense and is necessary). When you have been plagued by a chronic illness that you live with every moment of every day, the sickness becomes part of your identity— you live sick, you think sick, you are sick through and through… So, the first step has been to destroy all effects of sickness on my soul (mind, emotions, will). [Similar to how bamboo grows— sprouting some the first few years and getting set up before shooting up exponentially.]</span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203913441451487894.post-78461338326731722442022-07-11T12:06:00.004-04:002022-08-05T12:16:19.447-04:00 Healing Journey Update 2<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;"><i>Click <a href="https://dimartinochronicles.blogspot.com/p/timeline-of-healing-journey.html?m=1">here</a> to see the entire timeline.</i> </span></p><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/4 Buckled the seatbelt in the car for the first time in years; can now consistently do my four different arm/torso stretches without being locked under a table (to prevent me from falling forward)</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/6 I used to be really hot-natured (liked it in the 60s at night in order to sleep and sweated very easily) and always kept it cool in our house all day long, but I now get cold at those same temperatures and can tolerate it much warmer (without sweating and for sleeping!); better blood flow?!</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/7 Met with a woman who had a similar muscular dystrophy as I had and worked out her full healing over two years about a decade ago (heard about her last summer)</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/9 Able to twist spine using one arm to help pull (versus two)</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7/10 My love for God (Abba, Jesus, Holy Spirit) only keeps increasing every day! This tops every good result and brings me ever-increasing, constant joy that doesn’t change depending on feeling or circumstance!</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">*Watering the soil (feeding the seeds/harvest with truth) causes both the grass and weeds to grow. The grass grows steady and the weeds shoot up. The more you are feeding on truth, the easier it becomes to separate the grass from the weeds and pull up the lies! The truth doesn’t get rid of the lies but makes them stand out, so they’re easier for YOU to pull out… not His job, but our own work. (God doesn’t renew our minds for us! See <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13KwfgAsHs7a-cp9wR18AWMd4RcfhYItGnt2INAahVD8/edit">Romans 12:1-2</a>, Wuest translation)</span></div>Ricky and Aidan DiMartinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908850347810801764noreply@blogger.com