Linda's Lawsuit

Alan Lam

I am very happy to share a testimony about my daughter's lawsuit.

This has been one of the prayer requests in our church and the Towaco church for quite some time. God is truly faithful and merciful. He does things in His time and His grace is always sufficient. Thanks to the prayers of the brothers and sisters. God truly listens to our prayers.

As some of you know, my oldest daughter, Linda who is a doctor in Philadelphia, was being sued for malpractice about 3 years ago. She was trying to help a drug addict and the patient took the whole bottle of medicine and died of over-dose. So the family tries to sue all the doctors and pharmacist involved in this case.

To make the long story short, they lawyer representing the patient's family was trying to schedule a deposition before deciding whether to go to court or settle out of court. The procedure was rescheduled several times. Even Linda didn't tell us how she felt but we can feel her anxiousness and agitation. The last postponement was by her lawyer because he was trying to stop them from video taping the session. He was concerned that if she said the wrong thing, it could be used against her in court and she could lose her medical license. He was unsuccessful at the end so the deposition was scheduled for June 21.

Our family has been praying for this over the years. We again sent the prayer request to our family as well as our pastors. On June 21, the morning of the deposition, Trini and I knelt down to pray for God's grace and guidance for Linda, as well as His protection.

In the past, we would pray and still be worried. We would think of the worst. What would happen if she lost her license? She would have no money and would have to move back home and so on and so on. We tended to drill on the negatives. In the recent years, as we grew in our faith, every time after we pray, we just give our burdens and worries to God, knowing God is all powerful and is in charge. If He doesn't allow, no one can hurt us.

Linda told me after the deposition, which went for 6 hours straight, the laywer tried to grill and intimidate her the whole time. Linda wrote an email to me summarizing the whole process: "Thank you all for your prayers. The deposition went better than I could dream of. I felt there were angels that filled the room. My lawyer said he could not be more pleased with the day. God gave me the words to say, quietness in my heart, a great lawyer, and a decent lawyer deposing me. Thank God it is over. I have been tormented with this for over 3 years and for the first time today I feel a tremendous weight lifted. Now I just have to wait and see what happens."

Even though this lawsuit is not finished, we know God has His plan for Linda. These three Bible verses continue to give us the assurance and encouragement:

--Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;(Philippians 4:6)

--My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, (James 1:2)

--In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1:6-7)

Thank God for the trials so that we can continue to grow in Christ. All the glory to God!

Roweena

    Our God is an amazing God. Every act of obedience to God is followed by a blessing. It never fails. If you have not yet experienced it, I strongly urge you to give it a try.

Looking back at how much I had missed God's best, because I foolishly followed the world, resisted and suppressed the Truth, I thank God daily for His mercy and love to turn me around.

    Walking in His path suddenly takes on new meaning in my life because the Truch has set me free. No longer am I burdened with worldly desires and thoughts, I have experienced tremendous blessings from my heavenly Father. Whether my next business deal will fall through or not, whether he/she likes me or not are no more my concern. My greatest concern is whether my ways are pleasing to God or not. Just as Psalms 32:8 says, "I know that God will continue to teach me, counsel me and watch over me."

Even though I haven't been with this church for ten years, in the short four, five years that I have been here, our evangelists, the godly brothers and sisters have instilled a lot of scriptural truths in my heart. I thank them and will unceasingly pray for our church.